Rebel Alliances
Subtitle: The Means And Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms
By: Benjamin Franks
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Oakland, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781904859406
Subjects: Anarchism; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; British Isles; General; Political Science / General; Government - International; United States - 20th Century
Description: **Rebel Alliances** offers an applied philosophical perspective on contemporary class-struggle anarchism in Britain. It identifies the main principles distinguishing this tradition from competing Leninist, liberal, and social-democratic groupings. From these key characteristics, Franks constructs a consistent anarchism, which both shares characteristics with politically-engaged post-structuralisms and has a distinctive ethic.

The theory and practice of contemporary groups are then assessed against this "ideal-type" of anarchism. Many of the central themes of anarchism are consequently subject to original scrutiny: the nature of the revolutionary subject; workplace and community organizing; violence and pacifism; the meaning of direct action; and propaganda by the word and deed.

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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 8; title: Introduction
pagenum: 10; title: Chapter One: Histories of British Anarchism; title: Foreword
pagenum: 25; label: 1.
title: Problems in Writing Anarchist Histories
pagenum: 26; label: 2.
title: Origins
pagenum: 29; label: 3.
title: The Heroic Period: A history of British anarchism up to 1914
pagenum: 30; label: 4.
title: Anarchism During the First World War, 1914–1918
pagenum: 45; label: 5.
title: The Decline of Anarchism and the Rise of the Leninist Model, 1918–1936
pagenum: 46; label: 6.
title: Decay of Working Class Organisations: The Spanih Civil War to the Hungarian Revolution, 1936–1956
pagenum: 49; label: 7.
title: Spring and Fall of the New Left, 1956–1976
pagenum: 54; label: 8.
title: Punk and DiY Culture, 1976–1984
pagenum: 71; label: 9.
title: The Revival of Class struggle Anarchism: The Miners’ Strike to anti-capitalism, 1984–2004
pagenum: 76; title: Chapter Two: The Anarchist Ethic
pagenum: 93; title: Part I: The Anarchist Ethical Framework; title: Introduction
pagenum: 94; label: 1.
title: Against Ethics
pagenum: 95; label: 2.
title: The Prefigurative Method
pagenum: 97; label: 3.
title: Ends-based Approaches
pagenum: 101; label: 4.
title: Means-Centred Approaches
pagenum: 106; title: Part II: Direct Action; title: Introduction
pagenum: 115; label: 5.
title: Direct Action: Means and Ends
pagenum: 116; label: 6.
title: Constitutional Proceedings Versus Direct Action
pagenum: 122; label: 7.
title: Symbolic Action and Direct Action
pagenum: 133; label: 8.
title: Direct Action and Violence
pagenum: 139; title: Chapter Three: Agents of Change; title: Introduction
pagenum: 153; label: 1.
title: The Anarchist Ideal: A concept of class agents
pagenum: 154; label: 2.
title: Leninist Model of Class
pagenum: 165; label: 3.
title: Gorz and the Non-Class
pagenum: 172; label: 4.
title: The Processed World
pagenum: 175; label: 5.
title: Extension of Class: The social factory
pagenum: 177; label: 6.
title: Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality
pagenum: 182; label: 7.
title: Antagonisms and Solidarity
pagenum: 192; title: Chapter Four: Organisation; title: Introduction
pagenum: 196; label: 1.
title: Anti-Organisation
pagenum: 200; label: 2.
title: Formal Structures: Leninist organisation
pagenum: 212; label: 3.
title: Contemporary Anarchist Structures
pagenum: 219; label: 4.
title: Workplace Organisation
pagenum: 234; label: 5.
title: Community Organisation
pagenum: 247; label: 6.
title: Summation
pagenum: 258; title: Chapter Five: Anarchist Tactics; title: Introduction
pagenum: 260; label: 1.
title: Revolution
pagenum: 262; label: 2.
title: Industrial Activity
pagenum: 275; label: 3.
title: Methods of Propaganda
pagenum: 296; label: 4.
title: Community Sabotage and Criminality
pagenum: 321; label: 5.
title: Atypical Anarchist Tactics
pagenum: 338; label: 6.
title: Summation
pagenum: 346; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 348; title: Endnotes
pagenum: 354; title: Appendix One – Abbreviations and Acronyms
pagenum: 415; title: Appendix Two – Groups by Organisational Structure 1985–2002
pagenum: 417; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 418; title: Index
pagenum: 462; title: Contacts List
pagenum: 475