(en) An overview of anarchism in Jordan today – theory and activites by hamza – jordanian anarchists

non serviam — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:06:15 +0000

Finally after more than 50 years of communist activism in Jordan the anarchists started to
gather? Most Jordanian anarchists are artists who work in music, film-making, and graphic
design, one of our comrades is finishing his master’s in gender studies? some comrades are
Jordanian and others are Palestinian refugees living in Jordan. —- Most of us come from
a Marxist background so theory has great importance for us?Two comrades finally found an
Arabic book that talks about anarchism? actually we found three more books but with
different Arabic words for ?anarchism? —- 1. Fawdawiya, which literally means kenotic
2. La soltawiya, which literally means anti-authoritarianism —- 3. Taharoriya, which
literally means libertarianism —- 4. Anarkeya, which literally means anarchism.

We also found Egyptian and Lebanese anarchist websites which were extremely helpful.

Until now we are about 20 comrades. I believe that there more anarchists in the country
but it is hard to find them!

Lately, we became part of a bigger movement called the social left, which consists of
Marxists, feminists and others. Despite the fact that the movement has more than 1,000
members, we anarchists have, relatively, a very strong influence and effect in/on the
group. We meet in an Anti-globalization office in Jordan.

When we started reading, we looked for any form of anarchy in our own history and local
culture. After reading a book called ?Sufi tropics? written by an Iraqi writer (Hadi al
Alawi), we found that Sufism is ALL ABOUT anarchism. Actually we found a website on the
internet that talks about Sufi-anarchism? now most of us label themselves as Sufi
anarchists. We even found Sufi anarchist movements and groups from the 8-16th centuries.
So, after reading what we were able to find from Bakunin?s, Proudhon?s and Kropotkin?s
books, and after studying the history of anarchy in Spain, Ukraine, Paris, Mexico? and
after studying Sufism, we started to have our own understanding of anarchism.

others r messed up comrade of us even worked on his own understanding of sufi-anarchism in
a way compatible with his own understanding of post-modernism and the fall of ideology or
what he called nihilist Sufi anarchism (plz don?t ask me to explain!!!)

We heard about other groups in Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon and Palestine, but never met any of
them.

Last week, a very important columnist wrote about us ? anarchists ? in the most popular
newspaper in the country, after he saw our flag for the first time in a protest.

All political movements and parties in Jordan have a problem with numbers. Recruiting more
people can be very difficult because most people are too afraid to participate.

In Jordan we still suffer expulsion from universities because of any political activities.
Laws that are extremely hard to understand and interpret and which are used against
political activists, like:

* disturbing civil harmony!
* bashing higher status!
* long tongue!!!
* copying without permission!
* Unauthorized gatherings!
* Human Rights Watch talks about torture, kidnappings?there is also 3 years in prison
because of founding unauthorized groups.

So, anarchism in Jordan still has a long way to go but it is expected to grow in the
coming years?From ur brothers/sisters ? comrades

Anarchists of Jordan

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(en) Ireland, Anarchist Workers Solidarity #112 – Thinking About Anarchism: Workers Have the Power by Ray Cunningham

non serviam — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:53:07 +0000

In the WSM we’re often asked why we spend so much time talking about the working class.
Even the title of our paper, Workers Solidarity, seems a bit odd to some – why are we
talking so much about workers? Isn’t anarchism for everybody? And aren’t we all middle
class now? —- Questions like these are based on a misunderstanding of what class
actually means. Being working class doesn’t mean being poor, working down a mine, or
keeping pigeons, any more than going to college or working in an office makes you middle
class. The working class is, basically, everyone who has to work for a living, and the
ruling class is the people that we work for. The middle class is a small group somewhere
in between the two – not rich enough to live off the work of others, but still not
entirely dependent on their own wages.

The working class is important because of the society we live in today. Capitalism is
based on an unequal distribution of wealth and power. A small minority of people control
most of the world’s wealth, which means that they own the farms and the factories that
produce all of the necessities of life. The rest of us have to work for them – and this,
not the clothes we wear or the books we read, is what makes us working class. (Obviously,
the working class includes the unemployed, and the partners and children of workers)

At the heart of the capitalist system is profit, the difference between what we get paid
for our work, and what our work is worth. In every profitable business, by definition,
workers are being paid less than their work is worth. What’s left over is your boss’s
profit, money that they’ve earned from your work. And this is why the system continues –
for all those that are exploited by capitalism, and suffer because of it, the rich and
powerful continue to benefit from it.

Working class power

The working class are those with the most to gain from the abolition of capitalism, and
we’re also the ones with the power to change society, because capitalism depends on our
continuing to support it. Whenever we take action to improve our wages or working
conditions, we realise that we are stronger when we stand together, and we cut into the
profits of our bosses. And the more successes we have in campaigns like this, the more we
realise that we don’t have to stop there, with small gains and reforms, but that we’re
able to fundamentally change society so that it serves all of our interests.

And that’s our ultimate goal – not to improve the position of the working class, or even
put the working class in charge, but to abolish the property system that creates classes.
When every workplace is run by the people who work there and production is for need alone
then there can be no profit, and so no working class or ruling class. That’s the basis of
an anarchist society, a society where everyone is truly equal, and so everyone can be
truly free.

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