In a world dominated by Capitalism, three intrepid Anarchist friends from the North Atlantic Archipelago (Ireland, Scotland and begrudgingly England) journey to find truth, socialism and a Zoom handle that doesn't involve poop.
The Anomie co-hosts met a decade ago as student activists in the UK and have graduated to unemployed armchair academics in Dublin. Each week they (and a rotating third host) discuss a different topic from both a historical and ideological perspective and try and relate it to the current dystopia of Corporate Feudalism.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language): Óglaigh na hÉireann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93glaigh_na_h%C3%89ireann)), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republican (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_republicanism) paramilitary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramilitary) organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland), facilitate Irish reunification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ireland) and bring about an independent, socialist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist) republic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic) encompassing all of Ireland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland). It was the most active republican paramilitary group during the Troubles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles). It saw itself as the army of the all-island Irish Republic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republic) and as the sole legitimate successor to the original IRA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_(1919%E2%80%931922)) from the Irish War of Independence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence). It was designated a terrorist organisation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups) in the United Kingdom and an illegal organisation in the Republic of Ireland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland), both of whose authority it rejected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3scz1KD9eE&t=1s
20 Jun 2022
The PKK (Kurdish Workers Party)
The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK (Kurdish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_language): پارتی کرێکارانی کوردستان / Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan) is a Kurdish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds) militant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant) political organization and armed guerrilla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare) movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guerrilla_movements), which historically operated throughout Kurdistan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan), but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Kurdistan) and northern Iraq (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan). Since 1984, the PKK has utilized asymmetric warfare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare) in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish%E2%80%93Turkish_conflict_(1978%E2%80%93present)) (with several ceasefires between 1993 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party_ceasefire) and 2013–2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%932015_PKK%E2%80%93Turkey_peace_process)). Although the PKK once sought an independent Kurdish state, in the 1990s its aims shifted toward autonomy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomy) and increased rights for Kurds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_of_Kurdish_people_in_Turkey) within Turkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey).
6 Jun 2022
The Red Brigades
Formed in 1970, the Red Brigades sought to create a revolutionary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary) state through armed struggle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_struggle), and to remove Italy from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization) (NATO). The organization attained notoriety in the 1970s and early 1980s with their violent acts of sabotage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage), bank robberies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_robbery), the kneecapping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecapping) of certain industrialists, factory owners, bankers, and politicians deemed to be exploitative; and the kidnappings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping) and/or murders of industrialists, prominent capitalists, politicians, law enforcement officials, and other perceived “enemies” of the working-class revolution. Nearly fifty people were killed in its attacks between 1974 and 1988.
Models for the BR included the Latin American (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America) urban guerrilla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_guerrilla_warfare) movements and the World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) Italian partisan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_partisan) movement, which was itself a mostly leftist, anti-fascist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascist) revolutionary movement that the BR saw itself as a continuation of, an example of a youthful anti-fascist minority using violent means for just ends. The group was also influenced by volumes on the Tupamaros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupamaros) published by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giangiacomo_Feltrinelli), "a sort of do-it-yourself manual for the early Red Brigades".
In the 1980s, the group was broken up by Italian investigators, with the aid of several leaders under arrest who turned pentito (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentito) and assisted the authorities in capturing the other members.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBruqMpk5-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTmFgGOlqTM&ab_channel=Reddebrek
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