WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE UK United-Kingdom - news journal UPDATE - (en) UK, ACG: Printed Matters (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 "Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It's the little

pocket pamphlets that are to be feared."- Voltaire. ---- The Anarchist
Communist Group publishes a range of books, pamphlets, an in-depth
theory and history magazine, a free news sheet reporting current class
struggles and stickers that always state a clear libertarian communist
message. ---- The ACG's magazine Stormy Petrel is the only specifically
anarchist communist magazine published in the UK. The intriguing name of
the magazine is inspired by the association that the Stormy Petrel bird
has with revolution.

"We are the birds of the coming storm."

- August Spies, anarchist militant and Haymarket martyr, executed by the
US government in 1887.
The Stormy Petrel bird was seen as a herald of coming storms. The
Russian poet Maxim Gorki wrote The Song of the Stormy Petrel in 1901 it
was a coded call for revolution, coded because of the repression meted
out by the Tsarist tyranny. That poem proved very popular in Russia and
was translated into many languages. Gorki himself became known as the
Stormy Petrel of the Revolution.

The poem was popular in anarchist circles. the German-American anarchist
communist Claus Timmermann edited Der Sturmvogel (Stormy Petrel) between
1897 and 1899 and the paper Burevestnik (Stormy Petrel) was published by
Russian anarchist communists in exile in Paris and then Geneva between
1906 and 1910. Burevestnik was later the title of the daily paper
brought out by the Petrograd Federation of Anarchist Groups in
1917-1918. The name has also been applied to anarchist militants like
the Russian sailor Anatoli Zhelezniakov, the Spanish militant
Buenaventura Durruti and the Scottish anarchist Ethel MacDonald.

The ACG also publishes a printed regular free anarchist news sheet
called Jackdaw which reports on current aspects of the class struggle
focusing on workplace resistance, housing and environmental campaigns.

Why the name Jackdaw? The ACG decided to publish a regular news sheet
and the name Jackdaw was suggested because of the characteristics often
associated with this intelligent bird, characteristics which are an
important part of a revolutionary anarchist movement for a new society:
resilience and a fighting spirit, as well as being social and
co-operative. 'Jack' means 'rogue' and 'daw' means 'call.' Anarchists
are rogues in the current society and the ACG free paper aims to call
for a working class revolution and the creation of an anarchist
communist society.The ACG has published many pamphlets including the
controversial Manifesto of Libertarian Communism by Georges Fontenis,
Against Nationalism, The Organisational Platform of the Libertarian
Communists, The Politics of Division: An Engagement with Identity
Politics and The Truth About Trotsky.

The ACG publishes pamphlets to further the development and understanding
of what anarchist communism is, both through theoretical writing and by
describing historical examples of anarchist communism.The ACG has also
published Compendium of Karl Marx's Capital by Carlo Cafiero..Capital,
Marx's epic work, describes in detail the capitalist system and how it
functions. But Capital is a notoriously hard read. Cafiero's Compendium
is an essential book to read as it offers a gateway to understanding the
contents of Marx's Capital.

The Anarchist Communist Group is committed to consistently producing
printed material as we consider that print still matters.ACG
publications are available from the Anarchist Communist Group's online shop.

www.anarchistcommunism.org/shop/

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2024/10/09/printed-matters/
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