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OUT NOW ON METAMUTE.ORG:


Imagined Affinities? Benedict Anderson's Pre-History of Globalisation

By Esther Leslie

In his latest book, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial 
Imagination, Benedict Anderson advances his longstanding ambition to 
rehabilitate the image of nationalism. Through a collaged history of the 
late 19th century, Anderson forges uncanny connections between anarchism 
and anti-colonial bourgeois nationalism. The interconnections between 
these autonomous forces, and not Marxism's internationalism, supposedly 
provide today's alter-globalisation movement with its pre-history. But, 
asks Esther Leslie, how many get to share in this 'globalised sensibility'?

http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/Imagined-Affinities

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AND RECENTLY ON OUR OPEN PUBLISHING PLATFORM, NEWS & ANALYSIS:


People's History of Iraq

By Stephen "Flint" Arthur (Baltimore NEFAC)

This review (posted by the author to the Aut-op-sy mailing list) of 
People's History of Iraq: The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers' Movements, 
and the Left 1924-2004 by Ilario Salucci, constitutes the beginnings of 
an account of what has happened in Iraq in the past century in terms of 
left-wing political organising. Both the review and the book are 
intended to blow off the orientalism-tinted glasses most adopt when they 
turn their attention towards the Middle East. Revealing the holes in the 
book's analysis, the reviewer is ultimately interested not with the 
extremely dodgy history and allegiances of the Iraqi Communist Party, 
but rather those events, groups and forms of organising at its fringes 
and therefore unfortunately also at the fringes of the review object - 
these include the feminist and women's rights movement in Iraq, the 
'shora' or workers' councils uprisings in 1991, the Iraqi unemployed 
workers union, but also might include many other moments, of which, we 
in the West will hopefully not remain ignorant much longer

http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/node/8280

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Chto delat - #13: Culture and Protest

By Chto delat

Timed to coincide with the G8 Summit in St Petersberg last month, Chto 
delat have published a new issue of their newspaper. Members of the 
group will hopefully be participating later this year in an online 
Metamute discussion on protest culture and the politics of activism.
The workgroup Chto delat is happy to announce that there has been a 
major update of its site. Please visit us at www.chtodelat.org

http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/node/8279

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