Iain McKay on Kropotkin 21 June

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Iain McKay will be speaking at Freedom bookshop to mark the publication of Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology:

Kropotkin's message for the 21st Century
3pm
Saturday, 21st of June, 2014
Freedom Bookshop
Angel Alley
84b Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX

There will be a short talk followed by a discussion of Kropotkin's ideas and their relevance today.

The talk which will concentrate on Kropotkin as the practical revolutionary, the class struggle anarchist, and why reading the texts in Direct Struggle Against Capital will be benefical for today's anarchists. As Kropotkin put it in the early 1880s:

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We have to organise the workers’ forces – not to make them into a fourth party in Parliament, but in order to make them a formidable MACHINE OF STRUGGLE AGAINST CAPITAL. We have to group workers of all trades under this single purpose: “War on capitalist exploitation!” And we must prosecute that war relentlessly, day by day, by the strike, by agitation, by every revolutionary means. ("Enemies of the People")

As with the new anthology, the meeting aims to dispel the myths that Kropotkin was the gentle "Prince of co-operation" who wore rose-tinted glasses and present his actual revolutionary, class struggle anarchist ideas.

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