The Platform and public education

By Anonymous (not verified), 3 September, 2005
Author
Robbie Sinnott

mp3 29 min 32kbps

An interview with Robyn Banks, an anarchist from San Francisco Ca., and Nestor McNab - an anarchist with the WSM in Dublin who spent many years in Italy.

Nestor gives an outline of the Platform debate between Makhno and Malatesta in the 1920s and what relevance it has for movements today. The Platform asks questions about the degrees of organistaion in anarchist action. (first ten minutes).

Robyn then speaks about government attacks on the public education system in California, and the best strategies she and her comrades have found in trying to prevent this. (9 minutes).

Nestor then comments on similar government attacks on education in italy (last 10 minutes).

Recorded on August 8th, 2005, and first broadcast on September 1st 2005 on 'Majority World' - Near FM (a Dublin community radio station).

Some links

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71489&search_text=Nestor%…

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71568&search_text=Robyn%2…

www.nearfm.ie

Location
Dublin, Ireland