Subterranean War: The Battlefield for Raw Materials
Book presentation & discussion
12th April
Pay What You Can vegan dinner 6pm Discussion 7pm

The latest pocketbook in the anarchist series Hourriya, now available in English translation.

What does this work of anarchist analysis offer us now, in the south west and beyond?

“To see how power gets and uses its most basic physical resources and the devastating processes involved is instructive in itself. This is power, raw and material. But it also profoundly reveals the social relations that the great march of progress relies.”

Through wars and emergencies, or under conditions of pacified 'normality', power is advancing everywhere under the same principles: manufacturing 'demand' and scarcity, spreading dependency on its destructive and invasive  technologies, eradciating autonomy and freedom so they become unthinkable ideals.

The roots of this process starts underground, in wells and mines... Warring nations, competing commercial empires, radically opposed myths and ideologies have all contributed to perfecting techniques of extraction.  Now under the guise of 'saving the planet' a whole range of minerals are in exponentially high demand.  The bottom line is plumder, toxcitiy, waste..all for the advancement of discipline and order (now with digital and AI characteristics).

Here in the south west (and nearby in Wales), the class of managers are announcing a new frontier. From board rooms to university campuses and colleges, a new restructuring is envisaged, with military, tech, nuclear and extractive interests ready to reshape territory.

We can reject the bases of power utterly, starting from the bedrock up. Nodes and vectors of their 'progress' can be vulnerable targets.. Made unstable by the unleashing of passions and heretical thoughts.

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