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D'Arcy: A Radical-Left Perspective on the 'Gun Control' Debate
Znet Article, December, 15 2012
Steve D'Arcy
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Only democratic regulation of firearms by the people, in workplace and neighbourhood assemblies, can be relied upon to put the public interest ahead of the interests of elites in maximizing the unchecked power of the police and insulating far-Righ...
D'Arcy: How (Not) to Respond to Police Infiltration of the Occupy Movement
Znet Article, March, 04 2012
Steve D'Arcy
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Undercover police often spend months building trust and close personal connections with activists. A suspicious and mistrustful attitude toward newcomers is, therefore, more likely to inhibit movement growth than protect against infiltration. Poli...
D'Arcy: Could the Occupy Movement’s General Assemblies Replace Today’s Parliaments and Legislatures?
Znet Article, October, 22 2011
Steve D'Arcy
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Why have so many fallen in love with this struggle and its forms?
D'Arcy: A Civil Society Strategy for Revitalizing the Left
Znet Article, September, 15 2011
Steve D'Arcy
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The Left must turn its attention back toward civil society: union locals, cooperatives, social movement organizations, mutual aid projects, popular assemblies
D'Arcy: A Civil Society Strategy for Revitalizing the Left
Znet Article, August, 07 2011
Steve D'Arcy
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Why is it that when capitalism seems so obviously unappealing, unsustainable and unfair, the Left cannot mount a more serious challenge to the Right or its grim austerity agenda?
D'Arcy: What Do We Mean by "Militancy"?
Znet Article, May, 11 2011
Steve D'Arcy
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What can today's radical activists learn from engaging with Martin Luther King's conception of "militant" protest?
D'Arcy: The Fire This Time: Burning Bridges
Znet Article, May, 25 2010
Steve D'Arcy
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Across Canada, activists have been reacting to the May 18 arson attack on a bank in Ottawa by a group claiming to be politically motivated. The group �??�?�¢?? calling itself FFFC �??�?�¢?? set off a fire bomb inside a Royal Bank of Canada...
D'arcy: Social Empowerment and Community-Based Socialism
Znet Article, August, 20 2009
Steve D'arcy
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A reply to "Taking the 'Social' in Socialism Seriously," by Erik Olin Wright.
D'arcy: Environmentalism as if Winning Mattered
Znet Article, August, 12 2009
Steve D'arcy
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Proposes a strategy for the environmental movement, which actually aims at winning, based on the self-organization of grassroots activism and community-based counter-capitalist alternatives.
D'arcy: Between Two Reefs: What is Radicalism?
Znet Article, June, 07 2009
Steve D'arcy
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The radical project, Rosa Luxemburg wrote, “must successfully negotiate a course between two reefs: abandonment of its mass character or abandonment of the final aim."
D'arcy: The Renewal of Radical Politics
Znet Article, March, 16 2009
Steve D'arcy
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Can the principle of participatory democracy be the basis for a self-reinvention of the radical Left?
D'arcy: The Politics of Self-Emancipation
Znet Article, January, 29 2009
Steve D'arcy
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Marx and Bakunin didn't agree about much. One exception is the principle that "the emancipation of the working class must be the act of workers themselves."
D'arcy: Thinking About Protest Tactics
Znet Article, December, 17 2008
Steve D'arcy
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This article discusses how to develop a winning strategy by carefully choosing effective tactics. Discussion about strategy and tactics can sometimes seem like a waste of time, delaying 'action.' But what is really a waste of time is embarking on ...
D'arcy: The Financial Crisis
Znet Article, October, 27 2008
Steve D'arcy
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Not everyone takes an interest in economics, obviously. Nor do they need to, in general. But anti-capitalist activists do have a special responsibility to be well-informed about what is happening in the capitalist system, especially in times of ex...
D'arcy: "War of Position": Anti-Capitalist Attrition as a Revolutionary Strategy for Non-Revolutionary Times
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Steve D'arcy
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In non-revolutionary times, a revolutionary strategy has to acknowledge the distance that separates the preparatory phase from the crisis phase of anti-capitalist struggle. In a preparatory period, that is, when revolution is not yet a foreseeable...
