CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT/ANARCHIST MAGAZINES:

LINCHPIN NUMBER FIVE OUT NOW:

Linchpin is the journal of the Ontario Common Cause organization, an up and coming platformist group that takes organizing seriously. Issue # 5 is now available for free distribution and as a pdf download at their website. This issue is reduced in size, 4 pages rather than 8, something that may be more appropriate for an increased publication schedule- which is what I hope this means. There is also a much better use of colour photographs in this issue, a move that brightens up the look of the paper considerably. The articles this time around...

A. 'Nothing to Lose': A report on the plight of autoworkers in Ontario in the face of plant closures. What the workers have achieved and what more they will have to do.

B. 'Residential School Apology:An Anarchist View': On the Conservative government's recent apology for the scandal of Indian residential schools in Canada. If "talk is cheap", government apologies are getting even more so.

C.'It's the Stupid Economy': The irrationalities of our present economic system.

D. 'Against the State and Capital on the High Seas': a new look at the old time phenomenon of piracy.

E.'Practicing Anarchism: Norwegian Anarchists Talk in Hamilton': New ideas on organization from a visiting anarchist from Norway.

Plus many shorts, addresses, contacts, etc. Overall very interesting and to be commended for its regular publishing schedule. drop on over to Linchpin and have a look.

STUDENT MOVEMENT

ISSUE NUMBER TWO OF THE SDS NEWS BULLETIN IS OUT NOW:

The reborn Students for a Democratic Society have brought out issue number 2 of their news bulletin. It is available in a pdf format for downloading, printing and local distribution at the website highlighted above. Their press release follows:

"SDS News Bulletin, Issue 2: The SDS News Bulletin working group is proud to bring you our second issue, much improved over the first in our humble opinion. We amped up the articles, poetry, art and layout from Issue 1, and you made it all possible by sending in your work, thoughts, ideas and love.

Issue #2 of the SDS News Bulletin is Here !!!

PRINT AND DISTRIBUTE TO YOUR CHAPTER, CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY:

PUBLICATIONS:

KATE SHARPLEY LIBRARY:

NEW PAMPHLET: EMILIO CANZI: AN ANARCHIST PARTISAN IN ITALY AND SPAIN:

Just published by the Kate Sharpley Library, a collection of articles devoted to Emilio Canzi, Italian anarchist, who was a key figure in the partisan struggle against fascism in the Piacenza region. Canzi was born on march 14 1893, fought in the First World War and joined the Italian anarchist movement in the 1920s. He helped train the Arditti del Popolo (Peoples' Commandos) who fought against Mussolini's blackshirts. In exile he agitated against fascism and fought it in the Spanish Civil War. Captured by the Germans in 1940, interned in Italy, he escaped to play a major role in the partisan struggle in his native Piacenza. He became head of the partisans of the XIIIth Zone, but was 'removed' by the Communist Party. After escaping them he returned to fight as "just another partisan". Just after liberation he died after being hit by a British Army truck.

As Finzi says, Canzi always fought on the side of freedom, and his story sheds a little more light on the role of anarchists in the resistance to fascism. Originally published as 'Dossier Emilio Canzi' in a supplement to A Rivista Anarchica. See the Kate Sharpley website for more details on this and their other publications.

ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW (WINTER 2007) NOW AVAILABLE:

Through decades and now 45 issues the publication 'Anarcho-Syndicalist Review' (Formerly Libertarian Labour Review) has produced year in and out the very best of intelligent, interesting and insightful comment from an anarchosyndicalist viewpoint. The quality of the writing is worthy of the highest academic standards without the academic failings of jargon and obscurity. Always a delight to read. The latest issue to come out includes:

*A report on the recent AIT/IWA Congress in Manchester that gives far more information on what actually happened than anything available on the internet from either the friends or opponents of the AIT. It quotes the USI-AIT's (the "official" branch of the Italian section of the AIT) international secretary on the problems of the present International. This criticism is more potent for coming from within the AIT than any outside criticism could be. The article is also post-scripted by letters sent to the Congress from both the ASR and other Wobblies in the USA.

*An article 'Venezuela 2007' from Venezuelan anarchists opposed to the moves of the Chavez government to suppress actual "from below" social initiatives in that country.

*An article, 'The "Science" of Class Warfare", about the abuse of economics to serve ruling class interests.

*Another article, 'Success and Failure in Solidarity Unionism', discusses the new wave of direct action unionism in the USA.

*'The Spanish Revolution 70 Years on' is an historical analysis of the Spanish Revolution on its 70th anniversary. This is followed by Part 2 of 'Wobblies in the Spanish Revolution' documenting IWW members who found on the side of the Spanish people against Franco.

*An article 'Red Emma and the Reds' on the falsification of the career of Emma Goldman by various Leninist sources.

There are, of course numerous other book reviews and short items about various class struggles throughout the world.

ASR maintains a consistent non-sectarian stance towards the various branches of international syndicalism, and while its basic commitment to the IWW is obvious it sees benefit in many other members of this often quarreling family. The writing is lucid and the tone non-strident and intelligent. ASR is an invaluable source of honestly as well. It doesn't engage in the all too frequent triumphalism so common amongst some anarchists.

ASR's website is at http://www.syndicalist.org , its mailing address is Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, Box 42531, Philadelphia PA 19101, USA and its email is syndicalist@iww.org . Subscriptions are $15 US for 4 issues and $17 for international subs.

truly one of the best anarchist publications around today.

Molly