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eastern asia / imperialism / war Friday March 28, 2008 14:45 by Laure Akai
The struggle to be free is one that is commendable and deserves our sympathy. At this time when the state is committing brutal violence against a people, solidarity and action is needed and in fact, around the world well-wishers have expressed their outrage at the situation in Tibet. Protest movements have been calling for "an end to cultural imperalism", "freedom", even for "crushing the oppressor" and are united in such slogans and demands. Yet what if Tibet were to gain independence from China?
The question of national liberation is a complicated one. Discrimination, destruction of culture and community are forms of repression which are often seen in the contest of nation against nation instead of in the context of the ruling classes against the subjugated. Thus national liberation movements of all kinds tend to create the illusion of a mass common interest against an oppressor which is always external. "Self-determination" is too often a slogan which really means establishing the right of the elites of a given nation to exert power and influence, both economic and political, over those who would be subjects of a new nation state.
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eastern asia / history of anarchism Friday March 11, 2005 17:58 by Not given
TODAY JAPAN BRINGS to mind high tech corporations, stressed out primary school students and a gruelling work ethic that demands loyalty to the company. One hundred and thirty years ago it was a very different place,
eastern asia / history of anarchism Thursday March 10, 2005 15:34 by Alan
Under Korea's tvåtusenåriga historia har det uppkommit
rörelser kämpandes för bonderättigheter och för
nationellt oberoende. Inom dessa rörelser har det funnits tendenser som
kan ses som föregångarna till den moderna anarkismen, på
samma sätt som man kan se det i "the Diggers" under den engelska
revolutionen.
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