“Direct Action is a notion of such clarity, of such self-evident transparency, that merely to speak the words defines and explains them. It means that the working class, in constant rebellion against the existing state of affairs, expects nothing from outside people, powers or forces, but rather creates its own conditions of struggle and looks to itself for its means of action. It means that, against the existing society which recognises only the citizen, rises the producer. And that that producer, having grasped that any social grouping models itself upon its system of production, intends to attack directly the capitalist mode of production in order to transform it, by eliminating the employer and thereby achieving sovereignty in the workshop – the essential condition for the enjoyment of real freedom.”
Emile Pouget
Yo, Louis here. From the great city of London. I like me some films and some music.
I’m also an Anarcho Syndicalist.
What does that mean? Well it means I’m opposed to the hierarchical nature of capitalism and seek a classless society, self managed by the producers of wealth, us: the working class. How can we get there? Through solidarity and direct action, meaning we as a class fight for ourselves, through our own organisations, controlled by the rank and file, not union officials. As an Anarcho-Syndicalist, I believe in the primacy of workplace struggle, it is through this process that we become radicalised against our bosses and realise that society works in their favour not ours.
Links for reading on Anarcho Syndicalism:
On Anarcho-Syndicalist Strategy
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/rocker/sp001495/rocker_as1.html
On the society we envisage:
http://membres.multimania.fr/anarchives/site/syndic/aftertherevolution.htm
“Dont Smoke Dont Smoke Nicotine Nicotine No No dont smoke the official Dope Smoke Dope Dope”
Allen Ginsberg
Favourite Directors
Yasujiro Ozu
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
Robert Altman
Luis Buñuel
Roman Polanski
Andrei Tarkovsky
Michelangelo Antonioni
John Cassavetes
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Jim Jarmusch
Kenji Mizoguchi
Woody Allen
Jacques Tati
Aki Kaurismaki
Roberto Rossellini
Alfred Hitchcock
Terrence Malick
Ingmar Bergman
Abbas Kiarostami
