Rags and Bones

Jun 23 2008 ∞
“ In the great tide of nationalism in the nineteenth century, there was a handful of prophetic and dissenting voices, urging a different style of federalism. It is interesting, at the least, that the ones whose names survive were the three best known anarchist thinkers of that century: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michael Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin. The actual evolution of the political left in the twentieth century has dismissed their legacy as irrelevant. So much the worse for the left, since the road has been emptied in favour of the political right, which has been able to set out its own agenda for both federalism and regionalism.
— Colin Ward, The Anarchist Sociology of Federalism
Jun 05 2008 ∞

Warrior Clothing

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“ Provocation, when it becomes so widely extended, becomes a danger even to the regime it serves, and above all to those at the head of this regime.
— Victor Serge, What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression
May 28 2008 ∞
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Officers of the Security Service, MI5, are being accused of “outsourcing” the torture of British citizens to a notorious Pakistani intelligence agency in an attempt to obtain information about terrorist plots and to secure convictions against al-Qaida suspects.

A number of British terrorism suspects who have been arrested in Pakistan at the request of UK authorities say their interrogation by Security Service officers, shortly after brutal torture at the hands of agents of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), has convinced them that MI5 colluded in the mistreatment.
— Ian Cobain, MI5 accused of colluding in torture of terror suspects (The Guardian, April 29 2008)
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“ Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe.
— Owen Bowcott, CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, says police (The Guardian, May 6 2008)
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In September a national children’s database is due to be set up containing the details of every child in England and Wales. Ministers say that details on all families are needed so that children’s services can contact one another. Details held will include names, addresses, schools, GP details, and other services involving each child.

Town hall officials, charity workers and even careers advisers will have access to the database, along with doctors, social workers and teachers.
— Richard Ford, New database increases power of surveillance over citizens (The Times, February 13 2008)
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Living off the grid – how to escape the spies all around us

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“ Is it not astonishing, horrifying and, worst of all, deeply un-British that, when Heathrow Terminal 5 opens for business next week, every one of its passengers will be compulsorily fingerprinted? Yes, even if you are merely flying from London to Manchester, you will be required to place four little pinkies on an electronic pad, just as if you had been charged with robbery with violence. You will also be photographed. And that’s just at check-in. When you reach the departure gate, the whole process will happen again.
— Richard Morrison, Beware: Big Brother has got you fingered (The Times, May 20 2008)
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“ A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials. […] Police and the security services can access the records with a warrant issued by the courts. Rather than individual companies holding the information, Home Office officials are suggesting the records be handed over to the Government and stored on a huge database.
— Richard Ford, ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and emails (The Times, May 20 2008)
May 25 2008 ∞
“ When a man knows that he is to have all the fruits of his labour, he labours with more zeal, skill, and physical energy, than when he knows — as in the case of one labouring for wages — that a portion of the fruits of his labour are going to another… In order that each man may have the fruits of his own labour, it is important, as a general rule, that each man should be his own employer, or work directly for himself, and not for another for wages; because, in the latter case, a part of the fruits of his labour go to his employer, instead of coming to himself… That each man may be his own employer, it is necessary that he have materials, or capital, upon which to bestow his labour.
— Lysander Spooner, Poverty: Its Illegal Causes and Legal Cure
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“ They are few, we are many: and yet, O our Mother,
Many years were we wordless and nought was our deed,
But now the word flitteth from brother to brother:
We have furrowed the acres and scattered the seed.
— William Morris, The Workers
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“ Nature bids all men to work in order to live, and that command can only be evaded by a man or a class forcing others to work for it in its stead; and, as a matter of fact, it is the few that compel and the many that are compelled; as indeed the most must work, or the work of the world couldn’t go on.
— William Morris, Monopoly; or, How Labour is Robbed
May 21 2008 ∞
“ …the revolution will be absolute and irrevocable, because it will place the forces of production in the hands of free men, i.e. of men who will be capable of running the workshop created by capitalism without any need of masters.
— Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence
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