Part 1: What's wrong with the American Anarchist movement? Ramsey Kanaan (AK Press) Talk : Melbourne Indymedia

"What's wrong with the American Anarchist movement?"

A talk given by Ramsey Kanaan at Jura Books
On Friday (6:30pm) 18th Feb 2005.

Touches on class (or lack thereof), punk rock, culture, primitivism, the need for a core definition of anarchism, and to define what is not anarchism, yet more class, and probably a little more... enough to antagonize everyone in a relatively short time.

Ramsey Kanaan has been involved in anarchist organizing for over twenty years. Before migrating to the United States he lived in Scotland, where the group he was involved in -- Community Resistance -- played a key role in their five-year anti-poll tax organizing campaign. Ramsey Kanaan is currently one of eight full-time members of the AK Press workers’ cooperative San Francisco. AK Press is one of the largest distributors and publishers of Anarchist and left-wing books in the world. Founded in 1994, and distributing over 100,000 books annually, AK Press is an enormously successful project. He gave a 1 hour talk (first audio file) and then took 1 hour 10 minutes of questions and discussion around the topic of the talk..

NOTE: Look out for the audio of Ramsey's first talk at Jura Books, given on the Wednesday. This has already been published on Indymedia. The title of the talk was "Anarchist Workers' Cooperatives And Revolutionary Propaganda: The experience of AK Press and Bound Together Books (San Francisco)"

Second Part of: "What's wrong with the American Anarchist movement?" Ramsey Kanaan speaks at Jura Books.
This is the audio of a 2 hour 10 min talk and discussion by Ramsey Kanaan from AK Press in the US, given at Jura Books (Anarchist Bookstore) on Friday 18th Feb 2005.