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I know nothing about Green Anarchism but can see that it's a form of sectarian politics. I wonder if such splinter political groups are important enough for inclusion, and if so, whether an article about them could be written from a more neutral point of view. Philb
Hi, Wikipedia,
I am an editor of the 'original and best' (non-Steve Booth) GA now and just want to suggest a few updates and amendments:
1) Paul Rogers is not 'Paul Rodgers' and has never had anything to do with Free. Check out his pamphlet, 'Green Anarchism: It's Origins & Influences', your prime source for stuff on GA, for biographical info.
2) You should give a little more context about the GAndALF trial other than just through links. You need say litle more extra than that it was an attempt to the police to suppress reporting of direct action by the alternative media so thy could monopolise its representation. You might also mention this was in parallel with their attempts to misrepresent DA in the mainstream media and their infiltration of provocateurs like Tim Hepple / Matthews into the movement, but the links cover that.
3) You link only Steve's side of the 2000 split, which is disingenuous to say the least. You should at least run it alongside the 'original and best' GA64-65 editorial statement or link in comment from primitivism.com on thios available through any key word search. The fact is, Steve's 'GA' is only produced as a spoiler at best, is weak in terms of content and presentation (e.g. virtually zero DA coverage, liberal / reformist analysis, etc), and dwindles issue by issue.
4) Elsewhere you refer to GA as unrepresentative of green anarchism, confuting it even with electoral currents. We bagged the term in 1984. I suggest you refer to these others as 'anarchist Greens' - those that ARE anarchists, that is.
5) Your referencing of Stewart Home reads like an uncritial reproduction of his own self-publicity material. He was attacking GA as an agent of convergence, a far-Right tactic for coopting other perspectives, particularly Green ones currently. Home's relationship with the far-Right was principly through Sol Invictus's Tony Wakeford, who Home has given totally inconsistent dates for his supposed 'disassociation' with. His baseless anti-GA accusations need to be seen in the context of Trans-Europa and Troy Southgate's capture of ex-GA editor Richard Hunt's 'Alternative Green' as their front. This culminated in a series of so-called 'Anarchist Heretic Fairs' they organised and which we thwarted 1999-2000 - after which, we've heard not a word from Home.... Exter AFA (or whatever thet're calling themselves now) are pretty useful background-wise on this complex.
John Connor
- Copied this to Green Anarchist talk page as it's more likely to be seen there.quercus robur 10:53, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
