Autonomy in the US

"We in the Black Panther Party, because of our dedication and understanding, went into the valley knowing that the people are in the valley, knowing that our plight is the same plight as the people in the valley, knowing that our enemies are on the mountain, to our friends are in the valley, and even though its nice to be on the mountaintop, we're going back to the valley. Because we understand that there's work to be done in the valley, and when we get through with this work in the valley, then we got to go to the mountaintop. We're going to the mountaintop because there's a motherfucker on the mountaintop that's playing King, and he's been bullshitting us. And weve got to go up on the mountain top not for the purpose of living his life style and living like he lives. We've got to go up on the mountain top to make this m***erf***er understand, goddamnit, that we are coming from the valley!"
--Fred Hampton, Power Anywhere Where There's People. Speech delivered at Olivet Church, 1969




IWW and PLM

Industrial Workers of the World: www.iww.org
See IWW history at Wikipedia

 
Lucy E. Parsons:
The Principles of Anarchism

Lucy Parsons was a African, Native and Mexican-American anarchist labor activist in the United States in the second half of the 19th century.Known for her fiery oratory and ability to mobilize masses, the Chicago police labeled Parsons "more dangerous than a thousand rioters." See the Lucy Parsons Project for her biography.
     

Partido Liberal Mexicano and the Experience of Magonismo

Ricardo Flores Magon: ¿Gobierno? (Government?); Sin Jefes (Without Bosses)

Johnson-Forrest Tendency

"In one department of a certain plant in the U.S. there is a worker who is physically incapable of carrying out his duties. . . . The workers in that
department have organized their work so that for nearly ten years he has had practically nothing to do. . . . this is the socialist society." (CLR James 1958)

C.L.R. James: 1956.Every Cook Can Govern: A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece, Its Meaning for Today

C.L.R James: 1939. The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas

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C.L.R James: 1948. The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA

[See entire C.L.R. James Archive]

Raya Dunayevskaya: 1954. Socialism or Barbarism

Martin Glaberman: 1975. The Working Class and Social Change

League of Revolutionary Black Workers

A. Muhammad Ahmad: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (A Historical Study)

Martin Glaberman: Black Cats, White Cats, Wildcats: Auto Workers in Detroit

Black Panther Party

Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program

Fred Hampton: Power Anywhere Where There's People. Speech delivered at Olivet Church, 1969

Harry Cleaver and Autonomist Marxism in the United States

Reading Capital Politically: Introduction
Interview with Massimo de Angelis, 1993
See Harry Cleaver's webpage for more texts and links

Recommended Texts and Fellow Travelers:

Ivan Illich

Noel Ignatiev: Introduction to the United States, An Autonomist Political History

Paolo Carpignano: "U.S. Class Composition in the Sixties," Zerowork, #1, December 1975.

Harry Cleaver: Paths of Autonomy December, 2006.

         
 
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