User:Ausmisterfrank
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"Strange women lying on their backs in ponds handing out swords.......that's no basis for a system of government."
Dennis in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".(See Revolting Peasants link below.)
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External Links - Anarcha-feminism:
Anarcha.org (Source of some images).
Anarcha-feminism Anarcha-feminism page with lots of good articles.
ausmisterfrank - about me:
Born and educated in the United Kingdom. (BA. Literature, Essex University). Anarcho-communist. Influenced by Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the anarchist collectives in the Spanish revolution, Undercurrents magazine and by Stephen Housego, B.A., M.A., I am a member of the Niederkaufungen commune in Germany, one of the Kommuja network of communities, where I have lived and worked on our organic dairy farm since 1998. For the last few months of 2007 and the start of 2008 I worked part-time in our farm dairy, making cheese, and part-time in our commune kitchen, cooking for the over 70 people who live here.
From mid-March 2008 until mid-May, I toured Italy (where I lived in the 1980s) with my partner, Martina, working on organic farms in Liguria and on the Isle of Elba at Teams 4 Nature (WWOOFing), and visiting the intentional community of Bagnaia near Siena, Tuscany. (See Bagnaia - Core Principles). I am now back in the commune here and Martina is helping to start the new community at Augendobl (Neues Gemeinschaftsprojekt[1]) in Austria.
I am editor of our entries in the directories here at ic.org and GEN Europe, as well as author of "Somewhere over the rainbow....1986 - 2006. Twenty years of commune life, Kommune Niederkaufungen." I am also an occasional contributor to CALL. Over the years I have been a contributor to a variety of other periodicals, mostly in Great Britain, Italy and Germany. In addition, I write poetry and lyrics, and sing and play drums in our commune band, "Menschliches Versagen" (Human Error).
Up to now, I have posted articles about historical communities in Germany, especially where little or no english language material is available, as well as on other communal themes, such as anarchist communities, which I think I have the experience and competence to write about. I would be very happy if other users could improve and add to the "stub" texts that I have posted. I will be adding new articles in the coming months.
I am also now in the process of improving the format of my articles so that they are closer to the usual Wikipedia format. (8.7.2008)
For the last 25 years I have been a member of various anarcho-syndicalist organisations, mostly sections of the International Workers' Association. At present I am a member of the ASN - Allgemeines Syndikat Nordhessen (anarcho-syndicalist "General Union of North-Hessen"). I am also a member of "Freies Radio Kassel", Kassel's free radio station, where, with other anarchists, we have broadcast the programme "LILI", (Libertarian Information, Local Initiatives) for the last ten years.
Frank.
External Links - Organisations:
Kommune Niederkaufungen My commune's german language homepage with one English text about the commune.
Network of German Political Communes Kommuja german language homepage with one English text about the core principles of the network.
German Anarcho-syndicalist homepage German language homepage of ASN and educat.
International Workers Association homepage IWA homepage in English and Spanish.
Freies Radio Kassel Kassel's Free Radio station homepage (German)
Co-op Ritorno alla Terra Cooperative "Return to the Earth" homepage (Italian).
Teams 4 Nature association - Elba (Italian + German)
Freegan Info Strategies for Sustainable Living Beyond Capitalism.
External Links - Resources:
Anarchopedia Over 4,000 articles about anarchy.
@narchy @rchives Biographies and Texts.
"Tags" at libcom. org Lots of articles about libertarian history and politics.
Infoshop org - Online resource of news, opinion and information. Infos in English, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, German and French.
Major Attempts at Utopias in History (Trivia Library.com) Some of the more famous historical communities. A couple more "Utopian" articles can be found at the main Trivia Library home page, and, of course, lots and lots of Trivia.
3 Monkeys Net new international digital anarchy pages could be good if you contribute!!!
Etexts:
- Design your own Utopia A pamphlet by Chaz Bufe with Libby Hubbard, See Sharp Press.
- List of anarchist communities in Wikipedia Rather more information than the @narchopedia article.
- Utopian socialism in French Wikipedia More detailed than the English Wikipedia article, with information about libertarian socialist communities. An english language article which appears to be based on the french Wikipedia article can be found at [2], however, it reads like a text which has been put through "Babelfish" and then typed backwards by an absinthe drinker!!!!
- Collectives in Spain by Gaston Leval Published by Freedom Press in 1945, this is an an abridged version of the first part of "Social Reconstruction in Spain", Leval's pamphlet from 1938.
- Italian Partisan Republics (Italian) Just as anti-fascists and anarchists in Spain organised autonomous structures after Franco's coup, so the italian anti-fascist movement organised autonomous republics in 1944.
- Science with a Human Face The "Undercurrents" magazine manifesto.
- News from Nowhere by William Morris The complete text of this great Utopian Romance.
- Revolting Peasants (Monty Python) at infoshop.org The anarcho-syndicalist commune in the Holy Grail film showing the violence inherent in the system !
