From: pmargin-AT-froggy.com.au
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:07:26 +1100
Subject: Re: AUT: Cobas/SUD




asc wrote:

> 
> Does autonomism have meaning in australia? Very few

that's a good question! What do others on the list think? Certainly some
leaders of leninist groups think it has a meaning here ;-)

A few years ago, I was of the opinion that there was a certain space for
people here to define autonomist politics as best suited them. But I
don't know that many comrades feel that strongly about it. A few of us
in Melbourne talked about starting a web zine after the anti-WEF
blockade, but so far nothing has come of it. I still think a 'tendency'
journal would be a good idea here - but probably more important at
present, is the need for a space for reflection on current issues in
class composition, something like an Australian Collegamenti ...

In Melbourne at least, I think it is most common for a number of
comrades to say that they are influenced by autonomist marxism, amongst
other things. Some of the Morning Star social centre crew in Sydney seem
to label themselves autonomists, as have some in the local group Love &
Rage there.

> activists are familiar with the term in the U.S. or
> the principles of autonomist marxism (at least on the
> east coast), and 'autonomism' certainly would not
> appear in the u.s. iww paper (interesting considering
> i think cleaver actually coined the term)

again, I know quite a few people in the IWW who would say that they were
influenced by autonomist marxism. But then there are a wide range of
currents of opinion in the IWW, from libertarian marxists to anarchists
to Quakers to members of various sorts of labor parties to who knows
what else ...


> thanks for the tips i'll have to look into those iww
> chapters more myself...

More info on the Portland branches can be found at http://www.iwwpdx.org/index.html


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