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The mud wizard strikes again in #Sainte-Soline, France
"This Land Is Your Land"Thoughts on the Woody Guthrie classic. It's been called a settlers anthem by some on the left, and is constantly misused by the right. I personally love it, and view it as a celebration of the beauty of the untouched American landscape. How it is above private ownership and should be respected. It pains me to see it played at every US president's inauguration, and the irony is always lost on the masses. Guthrie himself was a known communist. And wrote "This machine kills fascists" on his guitar (which I'm definitely getting tattooed one day). I don't believe he would intentionally write a pro-colonial song, maybe he could have done so out of ignorance. As a non-American leftist, I think the song is great. Both as a piece of art and in terms of its philosophy. I think the song has been stolen by the right, which has tainted its reputation, but we should reclaim it. I would love to hear opinions from some the American left, who are obviously closer to the potential issues with the song.
ADULTHOOD IS A TRAP: Anti-Natalism, Youth Liberation and a Refusal to Surrender
Short little video I did about the shocking Iran-Iraq war, with some jokes and credible defense takes mixed in. Thoughts?
Anarchist parentingCan yall vibe check a parenting hunch I have.
I’ve noticed my relationship with my child (amab) has changed a lot over the kindergarten year. Way more than other years. I couldn’t really say exactly how but I can just see a little streak of something that gives me some feeling. With that in mind I was watching some his friends play the other day at the school pick up and the boys, not my child in this instance, were busy stomping a small shrub into the dirt pretty forcefully. It occurs to me that I am starting to see my child encountering some forms of masculinity that are possibly more stereotypical and maybe more aggressive then he is used to. Like, I might not want to start this young talking to him about toxic masculinity but maybe I need to be, because these kids all have older brothers, dads whatever and they are acting out what they see as gender typical behaviors and without another narrative it might be easy for my child to feel a little lost or maybe it’s just a lot to navigate for a child. Am I way over thinking this. And how do I or should I even, talk about masculinity or gender with a 6 yo. Maybe this is way off the mark idk what do you think. If anyone has any books recs i’m all ears.
My child self indentifies as a boy and i’m perfectly happy to let him express himself as he sees fit, in our house it is always clear that we each have autonomy over our own bodies. We live in the southern US…so a lot toxic dude bro dads and I don’t want my child to feel like he is navigating that alone. At the same time i’m always careful to bring up big things like that and bring hard topics into his life that maybe don’t need to be there yet.
Also all the radical/anarchist parenting subs seem pretty dead, any parents out there looking to start somethin.
"'Anarchy is the highest expression of order' -Élisée Reclus". JJ.LL. (Libertarian Youth) poster. Unknown author, 1936-1939
From Durruti: Shadow of the People #2 by Autonomous Collective
“We are Not in the Least Afraid of Ruins”: Food Autonomy in the Weelaunee Forest
Anarchist direct action in response to the invasion of Iraq
Anarchists at the 1993 queer march on Washington. Chants: “We’re fucking anarchists, we’ll fuck whoever we want!” & “We’re here, we’re Queer, and we hate the government!”
Today's Empire is Tomorrow's ashes. Solidarity with the people of France fighting for their worker's rights. VIVE LA COMMUNE
POLL: How Many Vegan Anarchists Exist in this Sub?Debates on whether supporting the commodification and death of others for consumption is anarchist or not is not necessary here. These debates are already active in other threads. This thread only serves to show how many vegan anarchists are in the anarchism subreddit.
Élisée Reclus: Veganarchism, Violence, and Colonialism
Louise Michel Square, at the foot of the hill of Montmartre, where Louise Michel participated in the events that catalyzed the Paris Commune on March 18, 1871. The sign for the park displays our classic "Community Watch Area: Police not Welcome" sticker.
This Is America #183: Report from Atlanta During ‘Week of Action’ Against Cop City
Link between libre software, degrowth?Oh, well. I do not know what others do, but it seems there is little intersection between libre (GPL, other licenses) software, degrowth as philosophy and anarchy as practical, everyday activity.
I for example quite dislike when seemingly small, minimalist software project suddenly require few gigabytes for toolchain downloading/compiling (precompiled toolchain just for mainstream x86_64). Or when new, exiting 1 Gb dependency on fast-moving LLVM introduced. I still can compile all this on my desktop or even laptop, but I dislike generic direction it travels. But is anything can be done?
I like Skackware because I can rebuild package easily here, just for removing dependency, adding dependency, general patching. But even Slackware does not live in vacuum. If kernel/gcc/glibc break (with glee) support for older hardware or software - there is little community can do ...
So, I thought may be "retro" but libre/open source/free software actually can be used for some kind of alternative history enacting, when you take software to different route compared to reality, and try to keep various components reasonably small and within reach even for not very hardcore/pro programmers with their latest hardware.
Also, I though "retro" libre software (as opposed to period-correct proprietary software) also might be useful even outside of retro hardware - for example only way to have virtual root on unrooted Android tablet is to use virtual machine like qemu in termux or Limbo as "app". So I can have virtual Slackware i486, or even SMP "pentium". As long as qemu keep itself buildable for termux. But they plan to drop support for 32-bit hosts. I currently use tablet on aarch64, but 32-bit tablets still around.
Guess I should at least try and raise this on qemu-devel ....
TIL 5 young anarchists were mysteriously killed in Italy in 1970Trying to look this up in English just leads to information on the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe\_Pinelli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pinelli) (or more specifically, a play written about him) - who I recommend all anarchists learn about.
Basically, 5 young anarchists in Italy died in a car crash on 26 September, 1970. They were:
* Gianni Arico, 22
* Annelise Borth, 18
* Angelo Casile, 20
* Franco Scordo, 18
* Luigi Lo Celso, 26
They were driving to Rome to deliver material to an anti-fascist lawyer around neo-fascism in Italy, notably claiming that they were responsible for derailing a train in Gioia Tauro, killing 6 and injuring 66. Apparently Gianni Arico had told his mother that he had discovered things that "will make Italy tremble". (Some context: Italy had a wave of political tensions and fascist bombings from 1969 to 1980 that killed hundreds, and it was revealed that the fascists were working with Italian and US intelligence agencies - I also believe that they killed the Italian PM but that's getting a bit more conspiratorial).
Their car was hit by a truck, killing Angelo, Franco and Luigi instantly. Annelise and Franco went into a coma and died shortly after. Over the coming months, it was generally accepted to be a car accident. However, anarchists began to notice inconsistencies in the police reports, and it was noted that the documents the anarchists were carrying had vanished, as had their diaries. It also came out that Luigi's father had recieved a phone call from a friend in the "political police" of Rome who told him "It is better that you don't let your son leave".
Anarchists began to investigate the driver and owner of the truck, who were employees of a company run by far-right conspiracy man Junio Borghese ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junio\_Valerio\_Borghese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junio_Valerio_Borghese)) (who had tried to overthrow the Italian government to bring back fascism in December 1970).
With all this information, it began to be believed by some that the anarchists were murdered to stop them blowing the whistle on the link between neo-fascism and the Italian state. Some also argued it was connected to the far-right Greek dictatorship who was supporting the Italian far-right.
Scary stuff.
The article I got this information from: [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchici\_della\_Baracca](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchici_della_Baracca) I used google translate.
Fully Automated Psychedelic Anarchism with Tony Dreher
Thoughts on spreading satirical and fake news about politicians?I've been thinking about this lately. My targets are far-right and shitty politicians. And, my objectives are to undermine or ruin their reputation.
Also, I have already done this in the past. However, I don't think it was successful because I made a lot of mistakes that got the attention of the police. I was too careless as I didn't care about my privacy, and so on. OpSec was also unknown to me before. Heck, my post got even broadcasted in a local TV network (I was laughing so hard while watching them report me to the police).
Perhaps, in the future, I'd improve my skills and methods to create shits about them. I'll try to learn how to write news, poems and such.
Does anyone have any advice on what to do if I become homeless?Don't worry I'm not going to become homeless yet but I worry that that's going to happen if my mom dies or something. I rely on her for extra money and I need that money to survive. I would also be kicked out of my apartment because she's a cosigner.
I don't have enough money to be on the lease by myself.
It's one of the things that makes me panic.
Does anyone just have any advice or if you have been homeless/unsheltered previously What was your experience like? Is it as bad as they say?
By the way I live in Arizona and the city I live in has made it so that homeless encampments are illegal now and can be reported on.
I am also part of a anarchist collective so I would be able to use some of the resources from that.
There's also a local food not bombs and they also do food share distribution too.
I asked a self-identified anarchist if he thinks the hierarchy of humans being over animals is unjust.
Anarchist/Communist hangouts and orgs in Irvine CAI'm looking to possibly move to Irvine, and I was curious if anyone knew of any good hangouts or orgs near the area.
Are there any Adelaide Anarchists on here?Hi all. Please let me know if there is a more appropriate place for this post.
I am trying to track down people practicing anarchism in Adelaide, Australia. I’m currently part of a mutual aid group but they are predominantly Marxists. I’m all for solidarity on the left but some of them grate on me for obvious ideological reasons. I’d love to organise a similar group with anarchist members.
If there are none of you on here then what do people think about leftist solidarity, particularly with Marxists?
Sincere thanks and solidarity to you all.
London Anarchist GroupsTrying to meet some people with similar thought to chat. Etc. I am new to this but extremely interested
Looking for fellow anarchists in Israel/PalestineLately, I've been doing a lot of reading and have realized that I am 100% an anarchist. I think I have finally found a political "ideology" that I can get behind and I would like to take direction actions to support it.
I've been looking around the web and Facebook trying to find like-minded people and so far have not found anything, so I'm writing here to see if anyone can possibly connect me to any group operating in Israel.
If you are Israeli and an Anarchist but don't know of any groups contact me anyway and maybe we can start something together.
Autopsy reveals anti-'Cop City' activist's hands were raised when shot and killed
we are anti israel/zionism: a discussionas a jew i stand for palestine. why don't i stand with my people in this instance? "isn't that antisemitism?", you might ask.
although widely claimed by jews here and abroad that denouncing zionism is antisemetic; which, doing so is in itself gaslighting. standing with a state is not siding with anyone. choosing to support a state regardless of what it's goals or intentions are, good or bad, is still choosing to stand against the people.
"so why don't you support israel exactly?"
because israel is a relatively new territory placed on millennia old Palestinian land, which is therefore colonialism. they take from the Palestinian people and in doing so empower/enrich themselves.
countless videos show israeli officials laughing as they take land from families who have owned it for generations.
"but both sides are wrong"
israel is well-funded. they are funded to maintain domination to ensure the will of america is carried out. one of the reasons for this ensures capitalist domination in the area.
having said that, Palestine has little in terms of resources to wage a war with the interlopers. Palestinians aren't allowed to be armed, among other things... (right to travel, right to freedom of speech, etc)
ironically israel took the idea of these ghettos from nazi germany.
with that, the IDF (israeli "Defense" Force) is the armed arm of the israeli state. anti-Palestinian propaganda runs so thick in the country that new conscripts (serving in the IDF as an israeli is mandatory. to rebel is to commit a crime punishable by jail) are not only hateful to the Palestinians but many can't wait for their first kill.
IDF shoots at unarmed Palestinians and hamas responds. this tit for tat has been going on for decades but hamas still doesn't have the resources to wage a full frontal war against the interlopers.
to summarize, i stand with Palestine because palestine is fighting for their homes and lives against a well-funded aggressor. the Palestinian struggle is the struggle of the people against colonialism. solidarity with Palestine.
About ancaps, fake news and educationHey all! I'm new in this subreddit, this is my first post here, so I apologize in advance for bringing up such an upsetting topic or if my question is too silly... I hope this is a good place to have this discussion and I appreciate the patience.
I have long given up expecting that anyone is consistent in their views and basically ignored ancaps for many years. But as I watch the pipeline of radicalization into the far-right operate stronger and stronger, this topic has started to bug me again. I've been thinking a lot about the topics of education and formation of critical consciousness lately.
I'm from Brazil, and even though we had a massive win against fascism recently when Lula won the 2022 elections against Bolsonaro, it was a very short call, and the far-right keeps winning the digital misinformation battle. Sadly, I don't think the issue is about access to correct information, but rather, what kind of information seduces some people. I believe that, just as we have some sort of inherent thing against authority, some people have a thing *for* it. And the information we all consume is determined by things like that, the fact they are factual or not being of little relevance.
So starting from that hypothesis, I'm trying to find out what are the things that me and people whose views I usually despise can converge. And then, give up trying to educate people on the topics that we disagree, and just use those convergences in order to seduce them, basically. Then, any education is left for a moment after I'm already considered a trusted agent. My hope is to get less people seduced by far-right agents. For the record, my observation is that this is the method that the far-right currently uses, and, very unfortunately, I find it brilliant. They are very good at getting people who are very different from each other to converge on their shitty views.
What is your general view on this topic? And taking ancaps as example, do you think that everything that seduces them comes from capitalism? Or is there anything at all about actual anarchism that does appeal to them?
Capitalism tried to kill me.I spent 6 years without a home. Sometimes people let me stay with them, sometimes I had nowhere, sometimes I stayed in shelters. It was the roughest time in my life thus far, and I developed pretty bad PTSD because of it. I was having a panic attack the other day so I called my mom so I would have someone to mentally anchor myself to, and I started talking about how awful my treatment was while I was homeless, and I realized that Capitalism as a system would have gladly killed me had I remained homeless. I knew many people on the streets that are now dead or missing. God, so many people just go missing and no one ever asks any questions. They just vanish. I have friends where you can go on their Facebook accounts and it's just friends and family posting asking if anyone knows where they are. Some of them have been missing for years.
Once you have no wealth, you are no longer an asset to the Capitalist system, and it will grind you into a paste by means of deprivation and alienation. I may still be alive physically, but mentally I died a long time ago and I don't see myself ever being able to find peace again. That doesn't mean I won't still try.
Anyway, that's all I wanted to say here. We all have our own reasons for being Anarchists. This is one of mine. I believe a better world is possible and I want to do what I can to steer the world in that direction.
**Edit**: I felt like I should add something for those of you that have never experienced homelessness: it is probably a lot worse than you realize, for one. Secondly, you may become homeless one day. You could die homeless. It doesn't matter what your wealth is. I met people that had been multimillionaires and owned companies and land and then lost it all. I met people from all walks of life on the streets, living in the dirt like me. Most people are one or two missed paychecks away from homelessness, some people are a few bad months away, some people are on their way and they don't even know it. So I do hope you'll have humility in recognizing that homelessness is a problem that threatens pretty much everyone.
Anarchy is for Anarchists
Georges Seurat appreciation post
Happy International Women's day!
Defend the Tampa 4!
List of books banned by governmentsFor my fellow literature enthusiasts, here is a list of books banned by governments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments
I think it's pretty interesting to see what was banned and when. It may offer you some valuable insights. Or even a new novel to consider.
Reoccupying Weelaunee Forest
Anarchist/Communist hangouts and orgs in Irvine CAI'm looking to possibly move to Irvine, and I was curious if anyone knew of any good hangouts or orgs near the area.
"When we reached the police, they scattered."
Any advice on confidentiality in regards to the Atlanta Forest defense and my therapy?Sorry for the word title. I'm not really sure how to properly title this. Anyway so I'm going to be going to therapy tomorrow. It's the first time in a long time and it's the first time with this new one.
Anyway part of what distresses me is about the Atlanta Forest situation. I get worried for the people there. I worry that I'll lose someone.
I don't really know what I should and shouldn't say during the session. Does anyone have any advice?
How much should I share? What if she tells me that I should stop hanging out with those people because it's so intense? What if she thinks that I'm over exaggerating with my fear of police?
What if I make a mistake and tell her something I shouldn't tell her?
What if she demands to know more?
Of course I wouldn't say the names of my friends anyway. That's not relevant information and I would want to protect them.
But what else? Am I putting myself in danger by even mentioning the Atlanta forest situation?
Paul Signac appreciation post
“The Amount of Solidarity is Incredible Here”: Voices on the Frontlines of the Fight to Stop Cop City
The Nation-State Should Become Obsolete: New Video by "The Elements of Mutual Aid" Docuseries
Anarchists need to be ready to physically protect the trans/LGBT community.If you live in the United States, particularly but not exclusively the south, you need to be ready for action. CPAC speaker Michael Knowles last night said that transgender people need to be "eradicated from society", to cheers and applause. State legislatures are passing laws allowing them to take custody of trans children, or the children of trans parents. Tennessee will require trans people to "detransition" by 2024. The imagination of hate is immeasurable, and this will get worse. The conservative/embryonic fascist movement is learning that they can do these things, and the so-called democrats are incapable of stopping them.
If you are an anarchist, you should be ready to do three things. First, you should prepare to shelter a trans person in your home as they attempt to escape their state. I'm not talking about letting them move in with you, just providing a safe harbour on their journey to a safe place. You must make the space you are in control of a place of safety and respite. Second, you should go to situations where gender non-conforming people are being harassed, and counter-protest. I am talking about drag shows, gay bars, anywhere that is under threat. We need to show the hateful that they will be opposed at every pass.
Third, if you are able, join the local JBGC, or the SRA. Community self defense requires training and education to be successful. Learn now, so you don't have to learn later.
We must refuse to allow this destructive and hateful trend any air or respite. We must be active, energetic, and thoughtful. We are facing an evil machine of gigantic proportions. I, personally, will jam the gears with my body if I can. I invite you to join me.
Alfredo Cospito's letter from prisonSome days ago Cospito, the Italian anarchist placed into 41bis regime and in an ongoing Hunger Strike (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Cospito for some basic info), published the following letter. I tried to translate it for non-Italian speakers:
My fight against 41bis is an individual fight as anarchist, i don't blackmail [anyone] nor get blackmailed [by anyone]. I simply cannot live in an inhuman regime like the 41bis, in which I can't freely read what I want, books, newspapers, anarchist periodicals, scientific and art and literature and history magazines. My only possibility to get out is to deny my anarchy and sell somebody to put in my place. A regime in which I can't have any human contact, I can't see or caress a blade of grass, or hug a loved person. A regime in which your parents' pictures get seized. Buried alive in a grave, in a place of death. I'll keep on with my fight to the extreme consequences, not for a "blackmail" but because this isn't life. If the aim of the Italian State is to make me "disassociate" from the actions of anarchists [ed: anarchici/e; C. always refers to both genders] outside [of jail], know that I don't undergo any blackmail, as a good anarchist I believe everyone is responsible of one's own actions, and as member of the anti-organizer current ["corrente anti-organizzatrice"] I've never "associated" myself with anyone and therefore I can't "disassociate" from anyone, Affinity is something else. A coherent anarchist doesn't take distance from other anarchists just for oportunism and convenience. I've always and proudly claimed my own actions (in tribunals/courts as well, and that's why I'm here) and I've never criticized those of other comrades, let alone [doing it] in the situation in which I am now. The biggest insult for an anarchist is that of being accused to give or receive orders. When I was in the high-surveillance regime I was censored anyway, and I've never sent any "pizzini" [Sicilian word for small pieces of paper; in Mafia's context they contain orders from bosses in jail] but only newspaper articles and anarchist magazines. And above all, I was free to receive books and magazines and to write books, to read whatever I wanted, in short I was allowed to evolve, to live.
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Today I'm ready to die to let the world know what 41bis really is, that 750 people undergo it without whispering a single word, [as they are] continuously monsterified/monstered by mass media. Now it's my turn, first you monsterified me as the bloodthirsty terrorist, then you sanctified me as the martyr anarchist who sacrifices for others, now [you] monsterified [me] again as leader of the terrible ?? [unreadable]. When it will all be over, I have no doubts that [I will be] sanctified to the martyrdom altars. No thanks, I don't play your dirty political games.
In reality, the Italian State's true problem/concern is that nobody comes to know of all the human rights violated in this regime, the 41bis, in the name of a "security" to which everything is sacrificed. Ah! You had to think of it before putting an anarchist in this jammer; I don't know the real motivations behind it, the reason for someone to use me as a "poisoned meatball" [ed: like the ones thieves throw to kill people's dogs] in this regime. It was quite hard to not foresee what my reactions would have been in front of this "non-life". A State, the Italian one, [is] a worthy representative of the hypocrisy of a West which gives continuous lessons of "morality" to the rest of the world. The 41bis gave repressive lessons/tutorials well received by "democratic" States such as the Turkish (Kurdish comrades know something [of this]) and the Polish ones.
I am convinced that my death will put a setback [/hiccup] to this regime and that the 750 people who have undergone it for decades can [/will be able to] live a life worthy of being lived, whatever [/no matter what] they did. I love life, I am a happy man, I wouldn't change my life with that of someone else. And exactly since I love it, I can't accept this non-life without hope.
Thanks comrades [compagni/e] for your love
Always for Anarchy
Never bent
Alfredo Cospito
Anti-Authoritarian Mutual Aid DocumentaryHey all!
My partner and I are in production of a **4-part documentary series,** [The Elements of Mutual Aid](https://theelementsofmutualaid.com/), that uses the elements - fire, earth, water, and air - to explore **the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of mutual aid-based organizing.** Check us out on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/the.elements.of.mutual.aid/), [Peertube](https://kolektiva.media/c/elementsofmutualaid/videos), and [Mastodon](https://kolektiva.social/@Elememts_of_MA) if this peaks your interest. Solidarity!
Let’s Talk About Speciesism With Some NuanceI really wish I could have continued this on the other thread, because it seems like some people on the same side as I am seriously misunderstood my view that humans could be able to eat animal flesh and fluid without being exploitative (the same way that other animals do) once species hierarchy is thoroughly destroyed and power relations can be called even again. As a disclaimer: I don’t think this is a prediction, I think this is an interesting argument against some rigid, moralistic thinking I’ve found from some militant vegans.
Specifically, I’m responding to the argument that humans are “moral agents” and other animals aren’t, and that consuming other animals is inherently exploitative. This is something I used to argue on this sub, but recently I’ve been questioning whether or not this is an argument with actual weight to it when it comes to reestablishing equal relations between us and other animals.
First, if consuming other animals is inherently exploitative, does that mean that cultures that sustainably fished and hunted out of necessity due to climate restrictions on plant life were exploiting the animals around them? If so, then I guess northern indigenous tribes better pack up and abandon ancestral lands, big parts of their culture, etc. so that we can accept a rigid interpretation of what exploitation actually is. Are people lost in the wilderness who decide to consume animals exploiting them? Maybe they should realize their moral agency and starve to death? Why are we only separating this between humans and other non-human animals when we could also apply it to all kinds of life? Plants have been shown to exhibit signs of pain, and they even release chemicals to tell animals and other plants that they are in trouble. Fungi are more similar to animals than they are to plants. Doesn’t this justify us respecting that we are also exploiting those forms of life around us?
We also have to ask ourselves: when did it become exploitative to consume animal products? If it’s always been inherently exploitative, does that mean that prehistoric humans who hunted and gathered were being exploitative? If it became exploitative, that means that there are contexts where humans can be just like other animals and consume them.
Instead of this rigid concept of exploitation, that separates humans from the rest of nature as beings with special knowledge of morals, I think we should recognize that consuming animals isn’t inherently exploitative, but with the current power relations maintained we cannot consume animal products without supporting the continued rape and murder of billions of animals in our industrial farms. This idea that humans are special moral agents essentializes hierarchy. It implies morals are baked into our beings and falsely asserts that animal exploitation is a result of poor morals and not human society. It upholds false concepts like “humanity”, “morality”, and “society” as useful in our understanding of the world. However, abandoning these might be the key to humans finding their place in the food chain, abandoning our currently exploitative relations, and being able to be like all the other animals again.
We can recognize that keeping animals as pets is exploitative and paternalistic, but recognizing that if an animal were to be left to fend for themselves they would likely not survive well in a suburb or they would do too well and disrupt the local ecosystem or they could be at risk for violence from humans, and so we integrate animals into our family and work to make that relationship constructive and loving.
The only thing I’ve seen that is inherently exploitative is using other animals for their labor, like riding horses or using livestock to pull a plough.
I’d like to be explicit about my belief that we should be doing as much as we can to transition our diets over to plant-based alternatives that are ALSO separate from our industrial farms, animal liberation is just as important as the liberation of the working class, femmes, gay people, etc. But this specific argument about inherent exploitation upholds the idea that humans are separate from other animals when that really not true.
video on the aftermath of police killing tortuguita + interview with its comrades
When 30.000 anarchist stormed Copenhagen stock exchange. [Storm on the Stock Exchange - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_on_the_Stock_Exchange)
A funny little story many properly havent heard from Denmark.
This was also one of the reasons Denmark got so good conditions because we took down anything that stood in our way of succeding with good union conditions.
Anti-Authoritarian Mutual Aid DocumentaryHey all!
My partner and I are in production of a **4-part documentary series,** [The Elements of Mutual Aid](https://theelementsofmutualaid.com/), that uses the elements - fire, earth, water, and air - to explore **the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of mutual aid-based organizing.** Check us out on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/the.elements.of.mutual.aid/), [Peertube](https://kolektiva.media/c/elementsofmutualaid/videos), and [Mastodon](https://kolektiva.social/@Elememts_of_MA) if this peaks your interest. Solidarity!
Phone and Laptop Seizures at Airports and Borders - Privacy Travel Guide
Organized Anarchism in MinecraftMyself and a few friends like to meet up in the aftermarket version of 2b2t (bedrock edition) and establish little mutual aid hubs to support new players on the server.
We’re looking for others who wanna get organized and start taking on more strategic projects. The highways, for instance, are large, communal builds that benefit the whole community. What if that kind of activity was more common and politicized?
We don’t think we’ll abolish, griefing culture, but we do think we can spread some real Anarchism and help divert new players from the griefer-to-red-pill-fascist pipeline.
Hit me up if you’re interested in linking!
Real talk, what are your thoughts on the weird domestic violence jokes in ACAB circles?I see this a lot on like leftist/anarchist meme subreddits. It's kind of this sort of thing of like, haha police go home and beat their wives and stuff.
There is this one I just saw today where it was a depiction of a young man having two black eyes and the text reads that he has his mother's eyes implying that his father punched him.
I don't really find these funny. And oftentimes people don't really put trigger warnings on them. Domestic violence is domestic violence And I don't really find in jokes that often depict victims to be very funny.
I feel like these jokes are just like in poor taste and again they don't even put a trigger warning.
it's Bandcamp Friday and I keep %100 of album sales and can keep buying my bus pass every month. 🥹
Does anyone got any good books on Christian Anarchism?Hey everyone! I wanted to reach out to this subreddit, as I was interested in learning more about socialism or leftism and seeing as that I am a Christian, I was curious if there were any good books to read more on Christian Anarchism (if they exist)?
Thanks in advance!
When cooking with anarchists, animals must be off the menuWhen we see a person kicking a dog, we all have the intuition that the dog kicking shouldn’t be done. And yet the treatment of the vast majority of animals that we eat—99% of which come from factory farms—is far crueler than a person kicking a dog. It’s far crueler than a person who beats a dog to death with a shovel—at least the dog’s suffering is short, while the animals we abuse have their suffering drawn out across weeks.
Imagine someone was paying for pigs to be put in gas chambers because they liked the way their squeals sounded. We would be outraged—animal abuse isn’t worth enjoying particular sounds. What if they were gassed because we liked the way they smelled? A cry of outrage would erupt throughout the public—surely a pleasant smell wouldn’t be worth horrific torture. What about one who enjoyed the way that tortured corpses of animals looked? We’d be outraged—looks don’t justify horrific torture. How about taste. We’d be similarly outraged.
We pay for animals to be brutally tortured and killed because we like the taste of their tortured corpse. Surely there’s no morally relevant difference between a pleasant smell and a pleasant taste.
Lützerath bleibt!
Solidarity to those affected by this preventable tragedy. OC
Is Burlington, VT a good place to move to?I'm planning on moving at the end of 2024 or midlle of 2025 after finishing my master's degree and saving up some money. I'm currently in Greensboro, NC but trying to move near a good source of freshwater for when global warming gets even worse. I don't know if my politics and morals have a name but I definitely relate the most with anarchism/anarchists. Would you consider Burlington a good place for an anarchist to move and have a social life?
"No to US/USSR imperialism. Mayday! Anarchist Contingent" (1988)
The War on Disease: a Discussion
When cooking with anarchists, animals must be off the menuWhen we see a person kicking a dog, we all have the intuition that the dog kicking shouldn’t be done. And yet the treatment of the vast majority of animals that we eat—99% of which come from factory farms—is far crueler than a person kicking a dog. It’s far crueler than a person who beats a dog to death with a shovel—at least the dog’s suffering is short, while the animals we abuse have their suffering drawn out across weeks.
Imagine someone was paying for pigs to be put in gas chambers because they liked the way their squeals sounded. We would be outraged—animal abuse isn’t worth enjoying particular sounds. What if they were gassed because we liked the way they smelled? A cry of outrage would erupt throughout the public—surely a pleasant smell wouldn’t be worth horrific torture. What about one who enjoyed the way that tortured corpses of animals looked? We’d be outraged—looks don’t justify horrific torture. How about taste. We’d be similarly outraged.
We pay for animals to be brutally tortured and killed because we like the taste of their tortured corpse. Surely there’s no morally relevant difference between a pleasant smell and a pleasant taste.
Diego Rivera
actions across the u.s. imperial core against cop city
Balance Sheet: Two Years against Cop City
Marxists Betray AnarchistsI put together this list some time ago as a response to a question about marxists betraying anarchists. somehow i'm not aware of a succinct compilation of this phenomenon. Hopefully comrades will add things i've missed, criticize my sources, or do better summaries than i've produced here, etc. ideally this can be a resource going forward for us. Marxists need to acknowledge the mistakes of their predecessors if they want us to cooperate.
**russia**: [the black raids](https://katesharpleylibrary.net/brv25k). [a timeline here](https://crimethinc.com/2017/11/07/one-hundred-years-after-the-bolshevik-counterrevolution-a-timeline-charting-the-destruction-of-popular-movements). longer discussion [here](https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/append4.html), particularly of the kronstadt rebellion and the betrayal of the ukranian anarchists. the bolsheviks also betrayed [the Left SRs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_SR_uprising).
**germany**: the ruling democratic socialists put down [spartacist uprising](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%931919) of 1919. (libertarian marxist, not anarchist). There were several [socialist republics](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrew-flood-the-german-revolution) formed at the same time, notably in [Bavaria](https://files.libcom.org/files/Allpower%20to%20the%20councils.pdf), which were also put down. anarchists and libertarian communists were repressed later in [47](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jean-barrue-anarchism-in-east-germany-1945-1955)\-the uprising of [53](https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/c867pz) in east germany.
**shinmin**: the marxists [literally assassinated](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/min-shinmin-prefecture-summary) the anarchist leaders
**china**: [Chinese Anarchism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_China#Anarchism_in_the_Xinhai_Revolution) is [fascinating](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utG8JQBBdbA). one of the few (only?) instances of an anarchist repression of marxists (before the KMT went fascist), they were eventually just out-organized. later, in the cultural revolution, people actually believed mao, and [there was a swift move to crush the anarchists of the shanghai commune and elsewhere](http://62.182.86.140/main/2816000/75780a8cce950e7d62b4c4074453bd6a/Simon%20Leys%20-%20The%20Chairman%27s%20new%20clothes%20_%20Mao%20and%20the%20cultural%20revolution-Allison%20%26%20Busby_%20Schocken%20Books%20%5Bdistributor%5D%20%281981%29.pdf). the current repression of the CPC is obvious.
**spain**: i'm somehow not aware of a snappy timeline of marxist betrayal of the anarchists in spain. basically the ussr contributed resources to the revolution, but on strict conditions which were against the anarchists. they \*did\* organize the international brigades, but they constantly spread lies about the anarchists and undermined them at every turn, and finally betrayed them during the [may days of 37](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Days). their demand that the war be prioritized over the revolution i.e. "the revolution can wait" (where have we heard this before?) disrupted the success of the anarchist militias and navy, they literally attacked and disbanded CNT aligned collectives in the countryside. much is written about it [here](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/diego-abad-de-santillan-why-we-lost-the-war) and a shorter, more broad summary [here](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/noam-chomsky-objectivity-and-liberal-scholarship).
**hungary**: the reds abandoned them after 1919 to the first fascist dictatorship, then when they invaded in 44, [they rubberstamped horthy](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andy-anderson-hungary-56). colin ward writes about hungary 56 and czech 68 [here](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/colin-ward-anarchy-in-action), but there is a lot more on libcom.
**greece**: the greek communist party (KKE) murdered [hundreds](https://libcom.org/article/massacre-internationalist-communists-greece-december-1944) of anarchists and internationalist communists in 1944
**vietnam**: ho chi minh [massacred](https://libcom.org/article/moscow-trial-ho-chi-minhs-guerrilla-movement-ngo-van-xuyet) the libertarian socialist movement after the victory of 45
**cuba**: actual assassinations were rare, but exiles were enforced [and repression](https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Dolgoff/cuba/10/) was explicit. che personally [oversaw](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mlb-the-myth-of-che-guevara) the ejection of anarchists from prominent positions in the unions, which they were [very popular](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/frank-fernandez-cuban-anarchism-the-history-of-a-movement) in.
**france**: anarchists and libertarian marxists generated [a strike wave](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-porter-french-anarchists-and-the-continuing-power-of-may-1968) that led to 2/3 of all firms in france being occupied. the marxist led CGT union eventually joined in after criticizing it and authorized millions of their members to strike. then they [called off the revolution](https://libcom.org/article/situationists-and-may-1968-miguel-amoros) after the president fled. the french communist party only suggested new elections (lol).
anarchists pretty much disappeared as a force of consequence from the global stage after the international conference in 68. our story picks back up in greek riots of december 08 and the anti-austerity movement, where the KKE [attacked](https://raddle.me/f/Anarchism/132526/communists-in-greece-work-with-the-police-to-block) anarchists and anarchist squats with the police, defended the parliament at syntagma square from the anarchists with the police, and generally disrupted any popular revolutionary upsurge.
they denounced the general strike and catalan independence movement in 2017 as "bourgeois nationalism".
"anti-imperialist" marxists have reliably supported anarchist-killing dictators in the revolutionary foment of syria, and currently in russia's attempted genocide of ukraine. they've done all they can to disrupt international solidarity around rojava, tho a section of the anarchist movement also actively discredits the ypg. many marxists actively vilified anarchists during the 2020 summer movement, generating talking points used by liberals to co-opt and marginalize militancy.
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i wonder what the marxists were doing during the argentinian revolution of 02-05., or if there was anything notable in the japanese anarchist movement, or during the early 20th century revolutionary wave in mexico. i also have a notable blind spot to the global south in general.
Anarchist solidarity with Ukraine in Finland. "Burn Putinists"
With gangs reportedly controlling large territories in Haiti, what’s the anarchist view on how or whether to help?I remember the hellscape that was [Tonton Macoute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonton_Macoute) who committed some of the worst atrocities I can think of in modern times during their control of Haiti. That ended when the US and UN ultimately intervened after FRAPH (a later off-shoot of TM) tried and succeeded in overthrowing Aristide. I guess my question is what stance to do anarchists take on what US foreign policy should be toward Haiti in this situation? They’ve cause so much instability in Haiti like a lot of LatAm, especially through debt instruments and tolerance of dictatorships, but if the Haitian people don’t have the means to stop these gangs themselves, what should the US do?
How can I support Ukraine from Russia?I live in a small town in Siberia and there are no protests going on or anything like that. I am also underage (16) so I don't have any money to donate. I want to help, but I don't really know how, and I feel really guilty about not doing anything.
Sorry if there are any mistakes, English isn't my first language.
Friday 3th of March I am leaving my life behind to travel Europe with just over a 1200 euros in cash in my boot. GIVE ME TIPS TO MAKE MONEY WHILE TRAVELLING PLS!I'm asking here because every other community wouldn't get why I'm doing it.
Does anyone know if Workaway is a legit program?
I also have one time found undocumented work as a waiter while visiting the Carribean for a month and a half, just by going to ask them if they could use me. I'm hoping to repeat this on my upcoming travels.
I also am bringing my (slightly cracked) acoustic guitar and some charcoal pencils to do portraits (im reallly good at drawing faces) for money.
PLEASE JUST GIVE ANY TIPS YOU HAVE
and if you just wanna ask questions about how/why that's fine too, talking about it makes me less nervous about it
Friday 3th of March I am leaving my life behind to travel Europe with just over a 1200 euros in cash in my boot. GIVE ME TIPS TO MAKE MONEY WHILE TRAVELLING PLS!I'm asking here because every other community wouldn't get why I'm doing it.
Does anyone know if Workaway is a legit program?
I also have one time found undocumented work as a waiter while visiting the Carribean for a month and a half, just by going to ask them if they could use me. I'm hoping to repeat this on my upcoming travels.
I also am bringing my (slightly cracked) acoustic guitar and some charcoal pencils to do portraits (im reallly good at drawing faces) for money.
PLEASE JUST GIVE ANY TIPS YOU HAVE
and if you just wanna ask questions about how/why that's fine too, talking about it makes me less nervous about it
"KEEP SABOTAGING SHIT:" Relating to the words of Winston “Boogie” Smith - Killed by Minneapolis Police
On the Looming RICO Case in Atlanta
Tortuguita said if police razed the camp, arrested and killed any who resisted — that days later the forest would be full of defenders. — The cops did it. Now it's "days later" — This is for the climate, for abolition, for the right to protest. For Tortuguita. — Atlanta. March 4-11. Bring a tent.
Any literature or writing against Christian Anarchism/Anarcho-Christians?Simply looking for pieces covering why Christian Anarchism/Anarcho-Christianity is bad, wrong, a contradiction in terms, impossible, etc.
There Are Three Anarchist JurisdictionsThe three anarchist jurisdictions that exist in the U.S are New York City; Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. These three places could be places where anarchists could start gathering and form either anarchist communist or anarchist syndicalism society's. This could be our chance comrades to start proving to the government that it can be done.
Here are my thoughts, while I don't live close to either of these places I'm still having hope that something like this could take place. These things very well could be and I'd love to here updates on it if it is. My thoughts are anarchists moving in and setting up these systems.
What I recommend:
- Gardens everywhere, lots of lots of food availability
- officials get rotated for taking votes and helping set the plans every 2 to 3 months or like so just like the Zapatistas do.
- free education focused on what matters such as gardening/agriculture, veterinary practice, electricity/electronics/solar, mechanics, construction, math, reading, and writing. As well as additional education that can be pursued such as job training like food distribution for example.
- rules that keep violence down and security like watchmen state.
These are Just my thoughts and I like to be open and hear others. Has anyone started something like this in these Anarchist Jurisdictions? Also if anyone reading this likes this idea and does pursue something like this please be careful in doing so as these areas may also be dangerous and may be why this hasn't been started yet.
Here's a video of Seattle's autonomous zone
https://youtu.be/ay5h5dq14mM
Anarchy & Animal Liberation: A Journal of Wild Attack
TIL the first modern Algerian flag was sewn by an anarcho-syndicalist>While there is some dispute over who exactly designed the green and white with red star and crescent symbol, Émilie Busquant, wife of the Algerian nationalist leader Messali Hadj, is generally credited as having sewed the first version of the flag in 1934.
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>Émilie Busquant ... a French feminist, anarcho-syndicalist and anti-colonial activist who was married to the Algerian nationalist leader Messali Hadj.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag\_of\_Algeria#History](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Algeria#History)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émilie\_Busquant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émilie_Busquant)
hypocritical to take youth allowance?My country has youth allowance for those 22 and over. Im not working rn. Normally I do.
I'm studying rn and until work starts back up I'm thinking about maybe using youth allowance.
I wouldnt consider it hypocritical as an anarchist. Like I also don't wanna shoot myself in the foot. By not taking free money and helping myself move out n all
Thoughts?
The back cover of the first edition of Periodico Libertária. “300+ murdered under democracy (2003-2020), thanks to politicians and police. Eternal fire to the murderous tomberìa [police] and their symbols!”
The Uprising in Peru
If someone floated hobby balloons plainly labeled "The Ohio Situation", "Aging Tar Sands Pipeline", "Useless EPA", "Impoverished Elderly and Disabled", or maybe just "Homelessness and Poverty" in general, and government had to shoot the balloons down with missiles, would that push the issues?People are saying that government shoots anything flown in the air space down now, so we could use balloons to raise awareness of the things that it is not handling while focusing on balloons.
Anarchists/Antifascists based in Red States?I've been living in Oregon for as long as I can remember, and I have gotten myself beaten several times, and arrested once for fighting the State and its systemic inequalities. Today though, my homestate has neen cracking down on gun ownership a little too much, and I'm considering moving house for work anyway.
The best opportunities I can find, however, are unfortunately based in Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Alaska. These are some of the places that I personally designated as _"Kill Box States"_ and I seriously detest having to move to any one of them.
Does anybody know of any Leftist safe zones or at least know of any groups/movements in any of these States? If so, I'd really appreciate the help of getting to stay close to them and possibly NOT get attacked by any Righties.
Non-vegan leftists, why not?EDIT 2: Recommend watching the documentary Dominion (2018)
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>*Anarchism is a social movement that seeks liberation from oppressive systems of control including but not limited to the state, capitalism, racism, sexism, ableism, speciesism, and religion. Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment.* \-- [**r/Anarchism**](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/) **subreddit description**
People in developed countries that buy their animal products from supermarkets and grocery stores - What is your excuse for supporting injustice on your plate? Why are you a speciesist??
Reasons to be vegan -
* Farm animals are one of the most oppressed groups on this planet. They are subjected to an endless amount abuse and exploitation. We confine them, rape them, and murder them. Such inhumane acts can not be justified solely because they are not human.
* [Animal agriculture creates more than 15% (cows alone) of greenhouse emissions.](https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/making-cattle-more-sustainable)
* Animal farming is way more resource and energy intensive. [100 times as much land to produce a kilocalorie of beef or lamb versus plant-based alternatives\]](https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets). We are gambling the world's future by choosing to oppress animals.
* Factory farms are breeding ground for diseases. Very self explanatory, thousands of animals situated in close proximity allows disease spread. Think Mad cow and the many bird flus. [Diseases and bacterium are developing antibiotic resistance](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6017557/) due to factory farms using antibiotics in order to compensate for the horrendous living conditions that make animals sick
* Human rights violations is highly prevalent in animal agriculture. Very common for slaughterhouse workers to have PTSD and develop a tendency to violence later in life. And I'm sure you've all heard about the recent child slave labour scandal as well. A few videos to watch if you'd like to learn more. These videos [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMWh0mh6xwk) and [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWPsvHeGo9I) may help you learn more.
* Before anyone mentions, health is not a problem. [A properly planned vegan diet is perfectly healthy](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6742661/))
* And lastly, [veganism is not at all expensive, it's in many cases much cheaper.](https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-and-healthier-oxford-study) Beans, rice, lentils, etc are not more expensive than animals. What you think is expensive is plant based capitalism (such as plant based meats), something you don't need and are already in opposition of.
[**https://speciesjustice.org/**](https://speciesjustice.org/) **IF you're interested in doing some further reading on SPECIESISM.**
EDIT:
* NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION UNDER CAPITALISM IS THE WORST EXCUSE. THERE IS EVIL AND THERE IS LESSER EVIL. WHEN THEY ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS AVAILABLE, YOU ARE OBLIGATED TO CHOOSE THE LESSER EVIL
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Radical BIPOC ThursdayWeekly Discussion Thread for Black, Indigenous, People of Color
*Radical bipoc can talk about whatever they want in here. Suggestions; chill & relax, radical people of color, Black/Indigenous/POC anarchism, news and current events, books, entertainment*
Non BIPOC people are asked not to post in Radical BIPOC Thursday threads.
Non-vegan leftists, why not?EDIT 2: Recommend watching the documentary Dominion (2018)
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>*Anarchism is a social movement that seeks liberation from oppressive systems of control including but not limited to the state, capitalism, racism, sexism, ableism, speciesism, and religion. Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment.* \-- [**r/Anarchism**](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/) **subreddit description**
People in developed countries that buy their animal products from supermarkets and grocery stores - What is your excuse for supporting injustice on your plate? Why are you a speciesist??
Reasons to be vegan -
* Farm animals are one of the most oppressed groups on this planet. They are subjected to an endless amount abuse and exploitation. We confine them, rape them, and murder them. Such inhumane acts can not be justified solely because they are not human.
* [Animal agriculture creates more than 15% (cows alone) of greenhouse emissions.](https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/making-cattle-more-sustainable)
* Animal farming is way more resource and energy intensive. [100 times as much land to produce a kilocalorie of beef or lamb versus plant-based alternatives\]](https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets). We are gambling the world's future by choosing to oppress animals.
* Factory farms are breeding ground for diseases. Very self explanatory, thousands of animals situated in close proximity allows disease spread. Think Mad cow and the many bird flus. [Diseases and bacterium are developing antibiotic resistance](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6017557/) due to factory farms using antibiotics in order to compensate for the horrendous living conditions that make animals sick
* Human rights violations is highly prevalent in animal agriculture. Very common for slaughterhouse workers to have PTSD and develop a tendency to violence later in life. And I'm sure you've all heard about the recent child slave labour scandal as well. A few videos to watch if you'd like to learn more. These videos [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMWh0mh6xwk) and [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWPsvHeGo9I) may help you learn more.
* Before anyone mentions, health is not a problem. [A properly planned vegan diet is perfectly healthy](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6742661/))
* And lastly, [veganism is not at all expensive, it's in many cases much cheaper.](https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-and-healthier-oxford-study) Beans, rice, lentils, etc are not more expensive than animals. What you think is expensive is plant based capitalism (such as plant based meats), something you don't need and are already in opposition of.
[**https://speciesjustice.org/**](https://speciesjustice.org/) **IF you're interested in doing some further reading on SPECIESISM.**
EDIT:
* NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION UNDER CAPITALISM IS THE WORST EXCUSE. THERE IS EVIL AND THERE IS LESSER EVIL. WHEN THEY ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS AVAILABLE, YOU ARE OBLIGATED TO CHOOSE THE LESSER EVIL
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Non-vegan leftists, why not?EDIT 2: Recommend watching the documentary Dominion (2018)
​
>*Anarchism is a social movement that seeks liberation from oppressive systems of control including but not limited to the state, capitalism, racism, sexism, ableism, speciesism, and religion. Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment.* \-- [**r/Anarchism**](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/) **subreddit description**
People in developed countries that buy their animal products from supermarkets and grocery stores - What is your excuse for supporting injustice on your plate? Why are you a speciesist??
Reasons to be vegan -
* Farm animals are one of the most oppressed groups on this planet. They are subjected to an endless amount abuse and exploitation. We confine them, rape them, and murder them. Such inhumane acts can not be justified solely because they are not human.
* [Animal agriculture creates more than 15% (cows alone) of greenhouse emissions.](https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/making-cattle-more-sustainable)
* Animal farming is way more resource and energy intensive. [100 times as much land to produce a kilocalorie of beef or lamb versus plant-based alternatives\]](https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets). We are gambling the world's future by choosing to oppress animals.
* Factory farms are breeding ground for diseases. Very self explanatory, thousands of animals situated in close proximity allows disease spread. Think Mad cow and the many bird flus. [Diseases and bacterium are developing antibiotic resistance](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6017557/) due to factory farms using antibiotics in order to compensate for the horrendous living conditions that make animals sick
* Human rights violations is highly prevalent in animal agriculture. Very common for slaughterhouse workers to have PTSD and develop a tendency to violence later in life. And I'm sure you've all heard about the recent child slave labour scandal as well. A few videos to watch if you'd like to learn more. These videos [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMWh0mh6xwk) and [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWPsvHeGo9I) may help you learn more.
* Before anyone mentions, health is not a problem. [A properly planned vegan diet is perfectly healthy](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6742661/))
* And lastly, [veganism is not at all expensive, it's in many cases much cheaper.](https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-and-healthier-oxford-study) Beans, rice, lentils, etc are not more expensive than animals. What you think is expensive is plant based capitalism (such as plant based meats), something you don't need and are already in opposition of.
[**https://speciesjustice.org/**](https://speciesjustice.org/) **IF you're interested in doing some further reading on SPECIESISM.**
EDIT:
* NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION UNDER CAPITALISM IS THE WORST EXCUSE. THERE IS EVIL AND THERE IS LESSER EVIL. WHEN THEY ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS AVAILABLE, YOU ARE OBLIGATED TO CHOOSE THE LESSER EVIL
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PoV: You're a female anarchistSo you consider yourself an anarchist and you're a woman. So you want to organise with comrades
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To your right you have someone who calls himself leftist. Except he likes male hegemony, authoritarianism, finds imperialism, genocide and slavery not too bad and has a weird fetish for male dictators with moustaches.
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To your other right you have someone who calls himself leftist. Except he finds capitalism not that bad, surely all we need are slight reforms, after all, he profits from the exploitation it brings. He also is likely upper middle class and white. He believes in "personal responsibility", which is how he got rich, after all (and totally not by the social, economic and cultural capital inherited from his parents).
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What unites them both is that they believe women are property and not human, except the first one sees them as private property, and the second one as public property.
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One of them offers misogyny and believes women are public property. The other offers misogyny and believes women are private property. Both of them will call you a cunt/hoe/bitch, both of them believe you exist to sexually serve them. In fact, one of them will actively encourage you to compete with other women who is more abusable/humiliatable by men, brag about seeing you as a commodity he can buy consent from and call it being "sex-positive" and "empowering" (if you're lucky; if not, he will just "take what is rightfully his"). The other will tell you to go make him a sandwich and dreams about imprisoning "unruly, hysterical" women.
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Choose.
If you feel guilty about stealing from a big business just remember corporations are not people but under our corrupt laws are legally recognized as such
If you feel guilty about stealing from a big business just remember corporations are not people but under our corrupt laws are legally recognized as such
The connection between Norfolk Southern, East Palestine, and Cop City
Freedom for the revolutionist Dimitris Koufontinas [GREECE]
PoV: You're a female anarchistSo you consider yourself an anarchist and you're a woman. So you want to organise with comrades
​
To your right you have someone who calls himself leftist. Except he likes male hegemony, authoritarianism, finds imperialism, genocide and slavery not too bad and has a weird fetish for male dictators with moustaches.
​
To your other right you have someone who calls himself leftist. Except he finds capitalism not that bad, surely all we need are slight reforms, after all, he profits from the exploitation it brings. He also is likely upper middle class and white. He believes in "personal responsibility", which is how he got rich, after all (and totally not by the social, economic and cultural capital inherited from his parents).
​
What unites them both is that they believe women are property and not human, except the first one sees them as private property, and the second one as public property.
​
One of them offers misogyny and believes women are public property. The other offers misogyny and believes women are private property. Both of them will call you a cunt/hoe/bitch, both of them believe you exist to sexually serve them. In fact, one of them will actively encourage you to compete with other women who is more abusable/humiliatable by men, brag about seeing you as a commodity he can buy consent from and call it being "sex-positive" and "empowering" (if you're lucky; if not, he will just "take what is rightfully his"). The other will tell you to go make him a sandwich and dreams about imprisoning "unruly, hysterical" women.
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Choose.
To Change Everything
This Is America #181: Resistance News and Anarchist AnalysisDon't miss the latest episode of This Is America, as It's Going Down speaks with antifascist journalist Vishal Singh from Southern California about escalating far-Right street activity coupled with growing GOP attacks on LGBTQ people.
We also roundup ongoing #StopCopCity resistance, housing struggles, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) kicking off a new union drive in Berkeley, CA, people taking to streets against the police murder of Tyre Nichols, the ecological disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, and much, much more!
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List of 120 murdered anarchists, wobblies and zapatistasNot counted in this list are anarchists who died in combat or were executed for crimes like murder that they *weren't* framed for. Articles are all Wikipedia and are in English unless said otherwise.
* 1887: [Haymarket affair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair) \- 4 anarchists, USA
* 1907: [Miguel Pepe](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Pepe), Argentina
* 1909: [Francisco Ferrer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ferrer), Spain
* 1915: [Joe Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_(activist)), USA
* 1917: [Frank Little](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Little_(unionist)), USA
* 1919: [Gustav Landauer](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Landauer), Germany (German source)
* 1919: [Pau Sabater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pau_Sabater), Spain
* 1920: [Andrea Salsedo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Salsedo), USA
* 1921: [Fanya Baron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanya_Baron) and [Lev Chernyi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Chernyi), Russia
* 1921: [Alberto Acquacalda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Acquacalda), Italy
* 1922: [Pietro Ferrero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Ferrero_(anarchist)), Italy
* 1922: [Ricardo Cipolla](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Cipolla), Brazil (Portuguese source)
* 1923: [Itō Noe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itō_Noe) and [Ōsugi Sakae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ōsugi_Sakae), Japan
* 1923: [Kurt Gustav Wilckens](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gustav_Wilckens), Argentina (Spanish source)
* 1927: [Sacco and Vanzetti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti), USA
* 1930: [Joaquin Penina](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Penina), Argentina
* 1930: [Kim Chwa-chin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Chwa-chin), China
* 1932: [Lee Hoe-yeong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hoe-yeong), Japan
* 1934: [Erich Mühsam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Mühsam), Germany
* 1936: [Ramón Acin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramón_Ac%C3%ADn), Spain
* 1936: [Félix Morga](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félix_Morga), Spain (Spanish source)
* 1937: [Aron Baron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Baron) and [Peter Arshinov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Arshinov), Soviet Union
* 1937: [Camillo Berneri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo_Berneri), Spain
* 1938: [Olga Taratuta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Taratuta), Soviet Union
* 1942: [Joan Peiró](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Peiró), Spain
* 1942: [Agustin Remiro](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn_Remiro), Spain (Spanish source)
* 1943: [Carlo Tresca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Tresca), USA
* 1943: [Oreste Ristori](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreste_Ristori), Italy (Italian source)
* 1944: [Francisco Ponzán](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ponzán), France (Spanish source)
* 1958: [Kim Won-bong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Won-bong), North Korea
* 1969: [Giuseppe Pinelli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pinelli), Italy
* 1972: [Franco Serantini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Serantini), Italy
* 1973: [Frank Teruggi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Teruggi), Chile
* 1978: [Scala case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_case) \- 4 CNT members dead, Spain
* 1978: [Agustin Rueda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn_Rueda), Spain
* 1985: [MOVE Bombing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing) \- 11 MOVE members dead, USA
* 1990: [Pyotr Suda](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сиуда,_Пётр_Петрович), Soviet Union (Russian source)
* 1997: [Acteal Massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acteal_massacre) \- 45 Zapatista supporters, Mexico
* 1998: [David Chain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_David_Chain), USA
* 1998: [Claudia López Benaiges](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_López_Benaiges), Chile
* 1999: [Björn Söderberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Björn_Söderberg), Sweden
* 2001: [Digna Ochoa](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digna_Ochoa), Mexico (Spanish source)
* 2001: [Carlo Giuliani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Carlo_Giuliani), Italy
* 2004: [Pável González](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pável_González), Mexico (Spanish source)
* 2005: [Timur Kacharava](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur_Kacharava), Russia
* 2006: [Brad Will](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Will), USA
* 2006: [Igor Podshivalov](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Подшивалов,_Игорь_Юрьевич), Russia (Russian source)
* 2008: [Aléxandros Grigorópulos](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aléxandros_Grigorópulos), Greece (Portuguese source)
* 2009: [Anastasia Baburova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_Baburova) and [Ivan Khutorskoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Khutorskoy), Russia
* 2020: [Alexey Sutuga](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сутуга,_Алексей_Владимирович), Russia (Russian source)
Öcalan as Thinker - David Graeber
How does Anarchism deal with the hierarchy of popularity?I know for a fact that certain people are more likely to become popular as a sheer matter of genetic/aesthetic appeal, as well as specific social conditioning that allows for some people to be more charismatic/charming than others. This necessarily forms social hierarchies between those who are "popular" and those who are not. How does Anarchism conceptually deal with these hierarchies?
In a more material sense, I've recently been looking into the Russian Revolution in the early 20th century and how people like Lenin and Stalin were essentially able to, via charisma and charm, rise above their fellow revolutionaries, take an inordinate amount of control within the revolution, and establish hierarchies between themselves and their comrades. Obviously, we know how that turned out for anarchists and even the other revolutionaries.
Essentially my question is, in an Anarchist revolution, how would we deal with this possibility? Would we reject the mere concept of figureheads, people to look up to, etc. or would we establish guardrails for any outspoken persons in the movement?
Biblioteca Anarhistă - The Romanian language anarchist library
How does Anarchism deal with the hierarchy of popularity?I know for a fact that certain people are more likely to become popular as a sheer matter of genetic/aesthetic appeal, as well as specific social conditioning that allows for some people to be more charismatic/charming than others. This necessarily forms social hierarchies between those who are "popular" and those who are not. How does Anarchism conceptually deal with these hierarchies?
In a more material sense, I've recently been looking into the Russian Revolution in the early 20th century and how people like Lenin and Stalin were essentially able to, via charisma and charm, rise above their fellow revolutionaries, take an inordinate amount of control within the revolution, and establish hierarchies between themselves and their comrades. Obviously, we know how that turned out for anarchists and even the other revolutionaries.
Essentially my question is, in an Anarchist revolution, how would we deal with this possibility? Would we reject the mere concept of figureheads, people to look up to, etc. or would we establish guardrails for any outspoken persons in the movement?
I just realised I was an anarchist since i was 9When I was 9 years old I was sitting on a bench in a park in my home town in Tunisia. Until a police car stopped in front of me like 50 cm away. I didn't care and I was too young to recognize the threat and appearently the cops can go anywhere and you MUST fuck off when they stop close to you. After maybe 5 minutes, 2 of them walked out of the car. I tried to run away but I couldn't, one of them slaped me on the face and the other kicked me away not to mention the insults. I told my father about it and He said it was pointless to report it ( he was right ). That's it, a little traumatic story. Now I'm trying to use my hatred in a smart way to resist the system although I'm strugling. ACAB and peace to everyone
Two of the biggest historical mistakes by anarchistsShort version: The [Eichenfeld massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichenfeld_massacre) by Makhnovists and [House of the World Workers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_del_Obrero_Mundial) attacking the Zapatistas.
Long version: I'm going through a big "reading about anarchist history" phase right now. And in doing so I've accidentally stumbled upon information about two of the biggest mistakes I think have been made in anarchist history.
Firstly, the Eichenfeld massacre refers to one of many massacres committed by the Makhnovists against the German Mennonite community in Ukraine. Although the Mennonites were largely landowners and the Makhnovists were justified in putting said lands into common ownership, the killing of them and sexual abuse of their female family members is a bit too excessive. I could point out that Makhno seemed to be against this, but we do not want to establish hero worship nor fall into whataboutism by pointing out how the reds and whites were worse in that war.
Secondly, the House of the World Worker was an anarcho-syndicalist union active in Mexico around the time of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). At the same time, there was also a force known as the Zapatistas (who are the precursors to the ones you probably know today, who would probably be better described as Neo-Zapatistas) who ran on a sort of indigenous libertarian socialism (someone with more knowledge feel free to correct me). For some reason, the anarcho-syndicalists formed armed units to fight them on behalf of Mexico's capitalist government. WTF.
These are just two of the worst things I think I've found that have been carried out by organised anarchist movements and I think it's worth reflecting on the historical mistakes made by anarchists rather than denying, downplaying or apologising for them.
Multibillion dollar company threatening to fire me over $5A poor dude came into the store today and I made his sandwich for him. I knew he was poor cuz we have talked before (he’s a regular). He asked if he could maybe have a discount on his sandwich and I said sure. About 15 minutes later the store manager pulls me aside and basically tells me that they r talking to corporate about it as we speak and that “it’s not looking good” for my job. I pleaded with him and even offered to pay the extra money if he would just leave corporate out of it and he wouldn’t have it. I live with extremely conservative parents who r most likely gonna kick me out of the house if I lose my job and I don’t know what to do. I’ve been applying to other jobs for weeks and no one will even call me back.
Sorry for the rant but I just didn’t know where else to turn. I fuckin hate capitalism. That is all.
Update: they just asked me to write a statement about “the incident” as they r calling it so I used it as an opportunity. Wrote a fuckin paragraph basically telling them that I don’t regret a thing and that if they fire me for showing compassion to another human being so be it.
The internet alternative with no hiarchies
It's been a shit three years, but there have been some good things, too
An introduction to libertarian class analysis, in contrast to Marxist class analysisNo war but class war.
The Comte-Dunoyer view held the inherent class struggle to focus on which classes managed to gain control of the state apparatus. The ruling class is whichever group has managed to seize state power; the ruled are those groups who are taxed and regulated by those in command. Class interest, then, is defined as a group's relation to the state. State rule, with its taxation and exercise of power, controls, and conferring of subsidies and privileges, is the instrument that creates conflicts between the rulers and the ruled. What we have, then, is a "two-class" theory of class conflict, based on whether a group rules or is ruled by the state. On the free market, on the other hand, there is no class conflict, but a harmony of interest between all individuals in society cooperating in and through production and exchange.
James Mill developed a similar theory in the 1820s and 1830s. It is not known whether he arrived at it independently or was influenced by the French libertarians; it is clear, however, that Mill's analysis was devoid of the rich applications to the history of western Europe that Comte, Dunoyer, and their young associate, the historian Augustin Thierry, had worked out. All government, Mill pointed out, was run by the ruling class, the few who dominated and exploited the ruled, the many. Since all groups tend to act for their selfish interests, he noted, it is absurd to expect the ruling clique to act altruistically for the "public good." Like everyone else, they will use their opportunities for their own gain, which means to loot the many, and to favor their own or allied special interests as against those of the public. Hence Mill's habitual use of the term "sinister" interests as against the good of the public. For Mill and the radicals, we should note, the public good meant specifically laissez-faire government confined to the minimal functions of police, defense and the administration of justice.
An introduction to libertarian class analysis, in contrast to Marxist class analysisNo war but class war.
The Comte-Dunoyer view held the inherent class struggle to focus on which classes managed to gain control of the state apparatus. The ruling class is whichever group has managed to seize state power; the ruled are those groups who are taxed and regulated by those in command. Class interest, then, is defined as a group's relation to the state. State rule, with its taxation and exercise of power, controls, and conferring of subsidies and privileges, is the instrument that creates conflicts between the rulers and the ruled. What we have, then, is a "two-class" theory of class conflict, based on whether a group rules or is ruled by the state. On the free market, on the other hand, there is no class conflict, but a harmony of interest between all individuals in society cooperating in and through production and exchange.
James Mill developed a similar theory in the 1820s and 1830s. It is not known whether he arrived at it independently or was influenced by the French libertarians; it is clear, however, that Mill's analysis was devoid of the rich applications to the history of western Europe that Comte, Dunoyer, and their young associate, the historian Augustin Thierry, had worked out. All government, Mill pointed out, was run by the ruling class, the few who dominated and exploited the ruled, the many. Since all groups tend to act for their selfish interests, he noted, it is absurd to expect the ruling clique to act altruistically for the "public good." Like everyone else, they will use their opportunities for their own gain, which means to loot the many, and to favor their own or allied special interests as against those of the public. Hence Mill's habitual use of the term "sinister" interests as against the good of the public. For Mill and the radicals, we should note, the public good meant specifically laissez-faire government confined to the minimal functions of police, defense and the administration of justice.
Newly-Released Body Camera Footage from Atlanta Reveal Officers Saying "Man...You Fucked Your Own Officer Up?" Suggesting that the GSP Trooper Shot was Injured by Friendly Fire and not by the Forest Defender Tortuguita
So, I’d like thoughts on beginning an anarchist safe haven/ community. I’m starting my own farm, and would love to have like minded people around me. Homesteading minded. Self reliant people. Is it possible?
looking for a quote from someone relating their anarchism to negationmy memory is...not what it used to be, i remember someone associating their anarchism with negation, it was a word they used frequently, and i cant remember the quote itself exactly.
i know it's probably vague as fucking asking for this quote but i figured i'd give it a shot
Community stuff?this is not a promise or an ask for volunteers or a proposal. this is a vibes check.
but like what if we sometimes planned community events? documentary watch parties or book club chats or amas with idk who but someone?
Community stuff?this is not a promise or an ask for volunteers or a proposal. this is a vibes check.
but like what if we sometimes planned community events? documentary watch parties or book club chats or amas with idk who but someone?
Асуджаны быць свабодным - "Condemned to be free" - a film about Ihar Alinevich:
Online Learning Opportunity for Self-Reliance
Why do people get so pissed off about shoplifting?Even supposed anti-capitalists. Not had this problem with anarchists though.
They may share the sentiment that homeless people stealing for food isn't bad. But unless you're desperate, apparently you should just succumb to capitalism and resisting it by shoplifting is 'bad'. It's a 'chronically online' take to be pro-shoplifting and this and that. Like why do they even care?
Why do people get so pissed off about shoplifting?Even supposed anti-capitalists. Not had this problem with anarchists though.
They may share the sentiment that homeless people stealing for food isn't bad. But unless you're desperate, apparently you should just succumb to capitalism and resisting it by shoplifting is 'bad'. It's a 'chronically online' take to be pro-shoplifting and this and that. Like why do they even care?
Anarchism in BulgariaI've noticed there tends to be little information out there about the Bulgarian anarchist movement relative to the movement in places like Spain or France or the USA. As such, I thought I'd cite some examples.
The article [Base syndicalism at the back of beyond](https://libcom.org/article/base-syndicalism-back-beyond-0) is about a group of anarcho-syndicalists doing organising in Bulgaria in the 2010s. I also thought the document [Bulgaria the New Spain - The Communist Terror in Bulgaria](https://libcom.org/article/bulgaria-new-spain-communist-terror-bulgaria) was interesting.
**Biographies of Individual Anarchists**
* [Alexander Nakov, 1919 - 2018](https://libcom.org/article/obituary-alexander-nakov-1919-2018)
* [Angelov Dzekov, Todor aka Bozhana, aka The Labourer (1900-1943)](https://libcom.org/article/angelov-dzekov-todor-aka-bozhana-aka-labourer-1900-1943)
* [Balev, Ivan Tsvetkov (1900-1981)](https://libcom.org/article/balev-ivan-tsvetkov-1900-1981)
* [Cheitanov, Gueorgui, 1896-1925](https://libcom.org/article/cheitanov-gueorgui-1896-1925)
* [Grigoriev, Georgi, 1906-1996](https://libcom.org/article/grigoriev-georgi-1906-1996)
* [Mitev, Todor 'Tocho', 1926-2002](https://libcom.org/article/mitev-todor-tocho-1926-2002)
* [Nicolov, Ivan, 1900-1925](https://libcom.org/article/nicolov-ivan-1900-1925)
* [Panov, Dimitar (1906-1948) aka Aristarchus](https://libcom.org/article/panov-dimitar-1906-1948-aka-aristarchus)
* [Popova, Nadezhda (Nadia) (1906-1932)](https://libcom.org/article/popova-nadezhda-nadia-1906-1932)
* [Simov, Tinko (1887-1935)](https://libcom.org/article/simov-tinko-1887-1935)
* [Sirakova, Mariola, 1904-1925](https://libcom.org/article/sirakova-mariola-1904-1925)
* [Vassev, Manol, 1898-1958](https://libcom.org/article/vassev-manol-1898-1958)
* [Vassilev, Pano, 1901-1933](https://libcom.org/history/pano-vassilev-1901-1933)
Quotes from [Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michael-schmidt-cartography-of-revolutionary-anarchism)
>The most powerful anarchist movement in Eastern Europe was the Bulgarian movement, which rose in the 1870s, blooded itself with its valiant defence of Macedonian freedom from the Ottoman Empire in 1903 \[see [Strandzha Commune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strandzha_Commune) \- AH\], and which established its first trade unions in 1910. The Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB) which was founded in 1919 had branches across the country with youth groups in every large school and was a multifaceted armed force to be reckoned with—the third-largest organisation on the left after the agrarians then the Marxists— by the time it resisted the 1923 fascist coup, an extermination campaign in which perhaps 35,000 leftists were slaughtered. By 1931, the rural syndicalist Vlassovden Confederation had 130 sections nationwide, and the urban Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR) embraced 40 unions (excluding the IWA-affiliated Bulgarian Confederation of Autonomous Unions). The movement fought against the 1934 fascist coup, then as an underground force against the Nazi and later the Soviet invasions, and by liberation in 1945, the FAKB newspaper *Rabotnicheska Misal* (*Workers’ Thought*) had a circulation of 60,000 (at a time when the communist Bulgarian Worker’s Party had only 15,000 members)—before being suppressed by a cynical Marxist-fascist-agrarian alliance.
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>In 1945, the Bulgarian platformist FAKB, founded in 1919, called a congress at Knegevo, in the capital city of Sofia, to discuss the repression of the anarchist/syndicalist movement by the Fatherland Front government. This government had been installed by the Red Army and consisted of Communist Party and Agrarian Union members and fascist *Zveno* officers, involved in the 1934 fascist putsch. However, all 90 delegates were arrested by Communist militia and put into forced labour camps. Anarchist locals were forcibly shut down and the revived FAKB newspaper *Rabotnicheska Misal* (*Workers’ Thought*) was forced to suspend publication after only eight issues. It reappeared briefly during Fatherland Front-rigged elections, held in 1945 under American and British pressure, surging from a circulation of 7,000 to 60,000, before being banned again. More than 1,000 FAKB militants were sent to concentration camps and the next annual congress of the FAKB had to take place clandestinely in 1946.
Neo-Nazi Couple Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Power Grid and ‘Destroy Whole City’
Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê: urgent appeal for help for earthquake victims
[tw] struggling with s*icide ideation as an anarchist\[major trigger warning about s\*icide, major!! i hope this is ok to post about!\]
hey everyone,
for the past many, many, many.. months, i have been experiencing suicidal ideation on almost an every-single-fcking-second basis. i am more specifically an eco/green-anarchist; i care so much for the earth that it makes me feel physically sick and dizzy. it makes me feel sick, guilty, powerless, and hopeless to be alive and contribute towards the current society that we live in. a society that disregards and monetises everything that is innate and beautiful, and it tears me apart. the water i drink, the food i eat, the clothing i wear, the hobbies i love, everything i do - all of them are in some form damaging my home, the thing that brought me to life. i feel as though i am betraying the earth with my every action. even having a shower, brushing my teeth, turning on a light, buying food, purchasing the necessities for my hobbies - all of it makes me feel immense guilt that i continue to carry, my chest is so heavy always. i try to use such minimal power, water, food, everything - but it still does not feel like enough, it feels like it simply does not balance or outweigh everything else. fuck, man. i do not know how people can live like this for so long. i cannot imagine it
i know that if i die, my body will go towards growing a tree, flowers, feeding decomposers; contributing towards something that works to keep the earth going, not towards killing everything.
i wish i could go and live out in the woods, grow my own food, contribute to my community, learn to live off solely the land, but i do not even know if that is realistic or possible, it feels like fantasy and out of reach due to legalities (that i wish i did not need to even consider) and everything else.
perhaps it sounds so irrational, but it makes sense to me. my existence contributes towards damaging the earth. does anyone else struggle with these thoughts and feelings that you cannot shake because you know they make sense? i do not have a community around me physically that i can talk to, so if you guys could perhaps lend me the time to tell me your thoughts and methods of coping, i would be so much beyond appreciative. i am really struggling, my comrades. i hope you see where i am coming from, i would appreciate some understanding and acknowledgement from you guys. i sometimes feel like i am crazy for having these thoughts. thank you
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edit: i think this post is really bringing together a lot of people, and i think that is so important! i already feel so much better and so seen. thank you guys. i really hope you are well and i am so happy we can come together like this!
Why this sub does not have an online group?I believe that, to create an anarchist society, we need to organize and spread libertarian socialist ideas to those who dont understand what anarchism is. Then, shouldn't we begin that by being together, ourselves? I understand that we need to organize in real life, of course. But that does not mean we don't have a good opportunity of knowing other anarchists online. This subreddit, for example, can unite anarchists from the whole world, can be a good way of mixing different ideas together and then thinking about ways to spread them. What is the point of all these posts, on this subreddit, if we end our days separated from each other? Could not we share, i don't know, a discord server? Any online app that we can talk in real time? Could not we talk more, planning things together and learning with each other? We have an opportunity here to know other anarchists, to make good connections with amazing people and discover how to make people realize how good society can be!
But there is not any option of doing so on the sub bar, no groups, no ways to get together. We need to do so, don't we? Why are we separated? I have seen some people say "it's not safe to do so, it will be seen by cops", well, fuck them? Why do you even care? What are you so scared of? Will you deny your own ideas because someone will try to stop you from having them? We should stop being scared of what bad things can happen and start making good things happen instead
Can we just vote to dissolve the United States in exchange for local community organizing and mutual aid?Why do we need the presidents permission to do what we need as a civilization? We already know what we want and we can get workers who are willing to build more housing (but can’t) to do so. We can literally get people together and do what we need.
This is literally what brought me out of my tankie phase, we really don’t need a strong leader, just each other.
We just need to abolish authority wherever we can. Ffs it’s so simple how didn’t I come up with it sooner.
Money is fake, they plant make trees only, they make it illegal to garden in some places, let me do what I want ffs. Any harm I do is nothing compared to what the government does.
We can have literal doctor unions (but why would doctors want to work for free?) people would still want to study medicine either way so-
Omg holy shit thanks for anarchism yall.
Our comrades at Municipal Adhesives have produced a run of beautiful stickers as a gesture supporting us in the wake of corporate social media bans.
Anyone listen to the Everyday Anarchism podcast? opinions?I've been trying to branch out in my socio-political educational journey, and I stumbled across Everyday Anarchism. It looks interesting but I'm trying to be careful not to fall into the AnCap pipeline or end up 20 podcasts into something with bad theory or method. Anyone listen to it and have opinions? If it is bad, does anyone have good podcast recommendations?
Step 1) be rich. Step 2) the government wont care if we all run for the woods
Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito
Is Anarchism a "White" Phenomenon?The heyday of American anarchism around the turn of the twentieth century was dominated by European immigrants who, although racialized by mainstream society, were predominantly ‘white’ by later twentieth-century standards. The number of self-identified Black anarchists was vanishingly small; even the most prominent Black anarchist in US history, Lucy Parsons, denied her own racial ancestry. The reason for Parsons’s repudiation of her Blackness was complex, but it took place in the context of what we would today criticize as the colorblindness of classical anarchism.
Anarchists rejected all forms of racism on principle and the anarchist-influenced Industrial Workers of the World was one of the first unions to organize across racial lines. Most anarchists, however, felt that addressing race directly only served to reify it and divide the working class. This produced a familiar result: in their dedication to universality, anarchists offered little to the particular problems of African Americans. This contributed to the decline of American anarchism and the corresponding rise of competing leftist tendencies that supported revolutionary forms of Black Nationalism, including the Communist Party in the 1930s. Although anarchists contributed to both the post-World War Two Civil Rights Movement and the social movements of the 1960s, anarchism as such remained marginal.
As Love and Rager Joel Olson later reflected, most white anarchists in the late twentieth century – including leading theorists like Murray Bookchin, Bob Black, and Hakim Bey – inherited the racial blindness of their predecessors.
This account of anarchism’s whiteness and its historical decline has become common sense among activists and historians alike. Yet the extent of US anarchism’s whiteness has been overstated – indeed, we can trace an alternative trajectory of anarchists of color who theorized and practiced anarchism in the face of white supremacy.
In the 1910s, for instance, Mexican and US anarchists worked together in the southern border region to aid and spread the Mexican revolution. Latino anarchists in Los Angeles supported Ricardo Flores Magón’s anarchist Partido Liberal Mexicano and helped organize a radical multi-racial workers’ movement that included the Industrial Workers of the World. In the 1930s, Civil Rights leader Ella Baker helped lead an anarchist-inspired organization of Black cooperatives and taught Peter Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid in her classes on cooperative economics.
Recent work on African American history has also emphasized the anarchistic qualities of Black life and revolt, from Saidiya Hartman’s *Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments* (2019) to William C. Anderson’s *The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition* (2021). Insisting on anarchism’s whiteness can contribute to the marginalization of anarchists of color. Yet despite this alternative tradition of US anarchism, race as such was not central to anarchist praxis until the late twentieth century.
Anarchist racial politics were transformed with the theorization of Black Anarchism as a distinct tendency in the 1980s. Ex-Black Panthers who were imprisoned for revolutionary activity – most notably Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, Ashanti Alston, and Kuwasi Balagoon – theorized what they variously called Black Anarchism or New Afrikan Anarchism. While they upheld the Black Panthers as the leading organization of the 1960s, they critiqued the party’s authoritarian and patriarchal tendencies.
Black anarchists synthesized anarchism with Black Nationalism and advocated national self-determination through non-hierarchical federations of Black communes rather than nation-states. This analysis inspired the birth of a generation of Black and people of color anarchist organizations, including the Federation of Black Community Partisans and Anarchist People of Color. Despite the profound contributions of these revolutionaries, however, they remained little known outside of a small number of activists.
This is excerpted from a forthcoming chapter of mine called “Smashing Whiteness: Race, Class, and Punk Subculture in the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (1989-98)” in the Anarchism and Punk book project: [https://anarchismandpunk.noblogs.org](https://anarchismandpunk.noblogs.org/)
Timeline: The first known instances of explictily anarchist groups forming in each countryLet me know if I've made any errors
* 1845: Spain (The Future newspaper)
* 1858: Le Libertaire (United States)
* 186?: Rhodakanaty's group (Mexico)
* 1871: Switzerland ([Jura Federation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jura_Federation))
* 187?: Belgium (Unnamed group)
* 1872: Poland (Polish Social-Revolutionary Party)
* 1875: Uruguay (Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay)
* 1876: Argentina (Center for Workers Propaganda)
* 1876: Egypt (Alexandria section of St Imier International)
* 1876: Greece (Democratic Club of Patras)
* 1876: Italy (Italian section of the IWA)
* 1877: Norway (Fedraheimen)
* 1877: Britain ([Rose Street Club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Street_Club))
* 1881: Hungary (Unnamed group)
* 1882: Cuba (Centro de Instrucción y Recreo de Santiago de Las Vegas)
* 1884: Dominican Republic (La Alianza Cibaeña)
* 1884: Romania (Human Rights Social Studies Circle)
* 1886: Australia ([Melbourne Anarchist Club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chummy_Fleming#Melbourne_Anarchist_Club))
* 1886: Portugal (Cenáculo)
* 1887: Algeria (Revolutionary Action)
* 1887: Croatia (Radnik newspaper)
* 1887: Tunisia (The Worker newspaper)
* 1892: Brazil (Gli Schiavi Bianchi)
* 1892: Paraguay (Los Hijos del Chaco)
* 1893: Chile (El Oprimido newspaper)
* 1894: Armenia (Hamayankh newspaper)
* 1899: Ecuador (Unnamed group)
* 190?: Costa Rica (Unnamed Newspaper)
* 190?: Mozambique (Revolutionary League)
* 1903: Belarus (Unnamed group)
* 1904: Austria (Generalstreik)
* 1904: Czech Republic (Czech Anarchist Federation)
* 1904: Peru (Star of Peru)
* 1905: Azerbaijan (Anarkhiya)
* 1905: Latvia ([Riga International](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Group_(Riga)))
* 1906: Georgia (Golos)
* 1906: China (World Society)
* 1906: Bolivia (Unión Obrera Primero de Mayo)
* 1908: El Salvador (Ritos newspaper)
* 1909: Hong Kong ([Chinese Assassination Corps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Assassination_Corps))
* 1909: Sweden ([Central Organisation of the Workers in Sweden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAC_Syndikalisterna))
* 1911: Panama (El Unico newspaper)
* 1913: New Zealand (Freedom Group)
* 1917: Estonia ([Anarchist Communist Youth Association of Narva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_Communist_Youth_Association_of_Narva))
* 1917: Finland (Anarchist Club)
* 1918: South Africa (Industrial Socialist League)
* 1919: Bulgaria (Federation of Anarcho-Communists in Bulgaria)
* 1919: Malaysia (Society of Truth)
* 1919: Singapore (Unnamed)
* 1919: Taiwan (New Taiwanese Anarchist Society)
* 1923: Vietnam (Society of Like Hearts)
* 1927: Eastern Anarchist Federation (Korea)
* 1928: Guatemala (Comité Pro Acción Sindical)
* 1932: East Timor (Timor Libertarian Alliance)
* 1933: Andorra (Andorran Union)
* 197?: Ireland (Dublin Anarchist Group)
* 1971: Denmark (Freetown Christinia)
* 1973: Iraq (Workers Liberation Group)
* 1978: Iran (Scream of the People)
* 1981: Senegal (Anarchist Party for Individual Liberties in the Republic)
* 1986: Turkey (Kara newspaper)
* 1990: Nigeria ([Awareness League](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Nigeria))
* 1998: Zambia (Anarchist Workers’ Solidarity Movement)
* 2000: Uganda (Ugandan Anarchist Democratic Forces)
* 2004: French Guiana (Libertarian Alternative)
* 2004: Kenya (Wiyathi Collective)
* 2004: Morocco (Ici et Maintenant)
* 2014: Bangladesh (Bangladeshi Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation)
* 2018: Afghanistan (Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran)
* 2020: Ethiopia (Horn Anarchists)
* 2020: Sudan (Sudanese Anarchists Gathering)
Sources: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_anarchist\_movements\_by\_region](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_movements_by_region) and [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michael-schmidt-cartography-of-revolutionary-anarchism](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michael-schmidt-cartography-of-revolutionary-anarchism)
While researching this, I found that there have been anarchist groups with conflicting or unclear start dates in: Albania, Colombia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Libya, Mongolia, Monaco, Netherlands, Nicaragua the Philippines, Russia, Serbia and Syria.
As far as I know, there has never been an anarchist group in many other countries, so please let me know if there have been any anarchist groups in countries not mentioned!
Exhaustion to anarchism pipeline?anyone else feel themselves sliding towards more anarchist ideals the more tired they get?
I used to be political, I used to campaign, I used to door knock and volunteer. I used to work hard to educate others, critique bad ideas and push good ones. I used to be spunky and aggressive.
Now, I wander the commune doing simple repairs and planning out the warm season to make sure the big jobs get done before next fall. I offer rides, cash, and food to folks I meet on the street. I try to remember their names. I start a first aid clinic in the commune. I purposefully ignore the news. I sleep, and rest, and nap.
Not that I've been broken by the system, but I find in my exhaustion my heart and soul craves the small, local impacts I can make. It wants collaboration and community and kindness. I am still angry, I just put what energy I do have towards making this corner of the world a little nicer while I'm here.
Not sure if this is even anarchist so to speak. I just thought some might relate to the feeling.
How to start/how to get involvedI've been a leftist for about 3 years so far and I've recently turned 18, but I want to know how to start getting involved with Anarchism. In particular I want to know what revolutionary strategies/personal goals I need to learn before getting involved with local Anarchists and anarchism online. I need to know resources/websites to connect with local Anarchists and allies as well as where are the best online spaces to discuss and learn with those who know more than me. Also what would be the best actions for me to take as a newcomer to the movement or what's most needed from Anarchists right now? Thanks!
Interesting Berkman/Goldman letters I found debating anarchism!A friend of mine recently got me a copy of [*Life of an Anarchism - The Alexander Berkman Reader*](https://files.libcom.org/files/Berkman%20-%20Life%20of%20An%20Anarchist%20-%20The%20Alexander%20Berkman%20Reader.pdf). I'm a big fan of Berkman's [*Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism*](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-what-is-communist-anarchism), and hadn't been aware this reader existed, so I'm pretty excited.
One of the most interesting things I've found so far is a series of letters between Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman while he was writing *The ABC of Anarchism* discussing how he was wrestling with certain problems and trying to come up with answers. This is especially interesting because he clearly *does* come to better answers in the final book, which he presents far more confidently than he seems in these letters
I thought I'd quote some of the relevant passages from the letters here.
Alexander Berkman:
>At this side, I have come to problems that cannot be solved satisfactorily. For instance:
>(1) Has the revolution a right to defend itself? Then what is to be done to active enemies and counter-revolutionists? It leads logically to prison or [concentration] camp.
>(2) If there is some trouble somewhere - a murderer or raper, etc.. has been caught by the crowd - will you let the mob spirit prevail? Or is it not better to create opportunity for a hearing for the accused? That means tribunes and courts and police. And what should the courts do? It is no use having them if they cannot restrain the further activities of the guilty man. It means again prison.
>(3) Given an example-what is likely to happen: People starting to make a pogrom in Russia; or whites trying to lynch a Negro in America (this during the revolutionary epoch) - shall we let it go at that? Is not active interference necessary? By whom? By "the people"? But suppose those present are afraid to interfere. It means again that armed force is necessary in such cases, even against the mob. And the leaders of the mob who persist in exciting race or other hatred - should they be permitted to go on?
>I fear there is no answer to these questions, except the organization of house and street guards etc.-in fact, of police, under whatever name they might be known. But that again brings us to courts and prisons, for you can't allow the police to settle matters. If anyone is arrested, he must have a chance of a hearing. But if there is a court, when and what are its powers? Can it restrain the offender and how? It comes to prison again.
>But once we begin with prisons, there is no end to it.
>Yet how avoid it? If I write the second part of my book logically, as it should be written, then it won't square with anarchistic views. To avoid these questions is impossible. That means then a *transitory period* with punishments, prisons, etc. , which is sure to develop the bolshevik ways and methods.
Emma Goldman:
>However, a few of the questions puzzling you I think could and should be answered. First, "Has the revolution a right to defend itself?" Certainly, if you believe that no fundamental change can take place without a revolution, you must also believe in its right of defense. It is only Tolstoy's or Gandhi's position which would make it inconsistent to take up arms in defense of the revolution. I wish I could take their position. Emotionally I really do, I feel violence in whatever form never has and probably never will bring constructive results. But my mind and my knowledge of life tell me that changes will always be violent. At least I want to eliminate as much as possible the need for violence. I want the revolution to be understood as a process of reconstruction rather than what we believed it to be until now, a process of destruction. But no matter how much we will try, the change is bound to be violent and [we] will need to be ready for defense. The question is, defense against what and of what? This brings me to your second question, " active enemies? " What do you mean by " active": opposition by means of opinion, theoretic activities, writing, speaking? If you mean that, then I insist that you must come out unreservedly for the unlimited right of free speech, press, and assembly. Anything else will create all the evils you want the revolution to fight. Surely we have learned enough of the effect of suppression in America, then in Russia, to continue to believe for one moment that the revolution can ever gain anything by gagging people. All it succeeds in doing is to drive thought into secret channels which means the utmost danger to the revolution. Fact is, very few people who can express themselves through the word make good conspirators. I know that from myself. And if you will look up the lives of nearly every one of the terrorists of the past, you will find invariably that they either never had a chance to speak out, or that they were not ready [or capable] of expression by means of the word. After all the dominant motive of any act or word is the need to express oneself and what one feels deepest. I say, therefore, that unlimited free speech even in the revolutionary period is a thousand times less harmful than thoughts driven to secrecy. If however you mean by active opposition, armed attack on the revolution, then I say the defense must be armed. Naturally if you are attacked by a robber and you have a weapon, you will use it. I see no inconsistency in that at all. But while armed defense is inevitable and justifiable, prisons are not, whatever the offense. Granted that rape or robbery may happen, they are after all isolated cases. I do not think they need to happen even in the most critical period of the revolution, so long as everyone is given a chance to participate in the rebuilding of society, so long as each can be made to feel a personal interest in the process of building. Why should there be robbery ? Why should the meaning even be used? If a man holds up someone now, it is considered robbery - how can it be that when no one has more wealth than another, when he receives out of the common stock as much as anyone else, or rather as much as there is to go around? You can't begin to solve problems that have changed their very nature and meaning . . . . That seems ridiculous.
>Rape is another matter, I grant you, that may happen since sexual hunger or aberrations will continue for all times. But because of an occasional rape, should society set aside special places and a special class, a complete and expensive machinery to restrain a n occasional rapist, when we know from centuries of experience that prisons do not restrain, or even lynchings, or capital punishment of any sort? I therefore say that you must set your face sternly against the very idea of prisons: the whole revolution would be utterly futile, if such terrible institutions as prisons, institutions which have proven a failure in the system we want to get rid of, are again established.
>"Mob treatment": No certainly not. Anyone caught in a violent act against his fellow should be given all the chances to be heard in his own defense. He should have the feeling that he is not being tried, [but] that he is being heard to get at the cause or motive of his act. That if he cannot explain it himself, he should be studied by eminent men to whom the human soul is not a means to wealth, station, and prestige, but a terribly vital and interesting phenomenon that needs careful treatment and care. I can only say what I have so often said in reply to the very question you find difficult to answer. What we need is to revalue our conception of human acts. For instance, no one suggests that we should lock up a tubercular person; why then should he be locked up for something conditioned in his being for which he is even less responsible than tuberculosis ? I think the sympathetic treatment of such an offender in a sane society would act as a better cure, stronger deterrent, than prison or punishment of any sort. Pogroms, lynchings, any mob action is of the same nature as armed attack on the revolution: one has the right to fight it back with arms, to defend oneself or the person attacked.
And here's some relevant parts of the *ABC of Anarchism* that seem directly influenced by this:
>“Suppose your system is tried, would you have any means of defending the revolution?” you ask.
>Certainly.
>“Even by armed force?”
>Yes, if necessary.
>“But armed force is organized violence. Didn’t you say Anarchism was against it?”
>Anarchism is opposed to any interference with your liberty, be it by force and violence or by any other means. It is against all invasion and compulsion. But if any one attacks you, then it is he who is invading you, he who is employing violence against you. You have a right to defend yourself. More than that, it is your duty, as an Anarchist, to protect your liberty, to resist coercion and compulsion. Otherwise you are a slave, not a free man. In other words, the social revolution will attack no one, but it will defend itself against invasion from any quarter.
>Besides, you must not confuse the social revolution with Anarchy. Revolution, in some of its stages, is a violent upheaval; Anarchy is a social condition of freedom and peace. The revolution is the means of bringing Anarchy about but it is not Anarchy itself. It is to pave the road for Anarchy, to establish conditions which will make a life of liberty possible.
>But to achieve its purpose the revolution must be imbued with and directed by the Anarchist spirit and ideas. The end shapes the means, just as the tool you use must be fit to do the work you want to accomplish. That is to say, the social revolution must be Anarchistic in method as in aim.
>Revolutionary defense must be in consonance with this spirit. Self-defense excludes all acts of coercion, of persecution or revenge. It is concerned only with repelling attack and depriving the enemy of opportunity to invade you.
>...
>“How would you repel foreign invasion?”
>By the strength of the revolution. In what does that strength consist? First and foremost, in the support of the people, in the devotion of the industrial and agricultural masses. If they feel that they themselves are making the revolution, that they have become the masters of their lives, that they have gained freedom and are building up their welfare, then in that very sentiment you have the greatest strength of the revolution. The masses fight to-day for king, capitalist, or president because they believe them worth fighting for. Let them believe in the revolution, and they will defend it to the death.
>They will fight for the revolution with heart and soul, as the half-starved working men, women, and even children of Petrograd defended their city, almost with bare hands, against the White army of General Yudenitch. Take that faith away, deprive the people of power by setting up some authority over them, be it a political party or military organization, and you have dealt a fatal blow to the revolution. You will have robbed it of its main source of strength, the masses. You will have made it defenseless.
>The armed workers and peasants are the only effective defense of the revolution. By means of their unions and syndicates they must always be on guard against counter-revolutionary attack. The worker in factory and mill, in mine and field, is the soldier of the revolution. He is at his bench and plow or on the battlefield, according to need. But in his factory as in his regiment he is the soul of the revolution, and it is his will that decides its fate. In industry the shop committees, in the barracks the soldiers’ committees — these are the fountain-head of all revolutionary strength and activity.
>...
>“But would you let counter-revolutionists incite the people if they tried to?”
>By all means. Lee them talk all they like. To restrain them would serve only to create a persecuted class and thereby enlist popular sympathy for them and their cause. To suppress speech and press is not only a theoretic offense against liberty: it is a direct blow at the very foundations of the revolution. It would, first of all, raise problems where none had existed before. It would introduce methods which must lead to discontent and opposition, to bitterness and strife, to prison, Tcheka, and civil war. It would generate fear and distrust, would hatch conspiracies, and culminate in a reign of terror which has always killed revolutions in the past.
>The social revolution must from the very start be based on entirely different principles, on a new conception and attitude. Full freedom is the very breath of its existence; and be it never forgotten that the cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression. Suppression leads only to violence and destruction.
>...
>“How will you treat counter-revolutionists taken prisoners during an engagement?”
>The revolution must find new ways, some sensible method of dealing with them. The old method is to imprison them, support them in idleness, and employ numerous men to guard and punish them. And while the culprit remains in prison, incarceration and brutal treatment still further embitter him against the revolution, strengthen his opposition, and nurse thoughts of vengeance and new conspiracies. The revolution will regard such methods as s***** and detrimental to its best interests. It will try instead by humane treatment to convince the defeated enemy of the error and uselessness of his resistance. It will apply liberty instead of revenge. It will take into consideration that most of the counter-revolutionists are dupes rather than enemies, deluded victims of some individuals seeking power and authority. It will know that they need enlightenment rather than punishment, and that the former will accomplish more than the latter. Even to-day this perception is gaining ground. The Bolsheviki defeated the Allied armies in Russia more effectively by revolutionary propaganda among the enemy soldiers than by the strength of their artillery. These new methods have been recognized as practical even by the United States Government which is making use of them now in its Nicaraguan campaign. American aëroplanes scatter proclamations and appeals to the Nicaraguan people to persuade them to desert Sandino and his cause, and the American army chiefs expect the best results from these tactics. But the Sandino patriots are fighting for home and country against a foreign invader, while counter-revolutionists wage war against their own people. The work of their enlightenment is much simpler and promises better results.
Police infiltrated strongest mutual aid group in the area.Title. The police (illegally*) infiltrated the biggest mutual aid and housing support group in Barcelona (Catalonia). You can read the main article [here (original, catalan)](https://directa.cat/dani-el-segon-talp-destat-per-espiar-lactivisme/), or [here (google tranlate)](https://directa-cat.translate.goog/dani-el-segon-talp-destat-per-espiar-lactivisme/?_x_tr_sl=ca&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ca&_x_tr_pto=wapp), there are some more in the same site.
Incoming rant warning.
I'm feeling sick and angry. It is easier for me to think about this as the state using its repression power. This is part of a bigger campaign with other moles around Spain but in Catalonia in particular, brought by the infamous infamous minister of interior affairs who is also responsible for torture cases in the Basque Country. However, I struggle thinking about the person themselves. This guy literally saw children, disabled people and old people getting evicted by riot police. He actively participated in the spaces like community kitchens, cinema, gardens, gyms, housing unions and others. Dozens of demonstrations and actions. Had face to face encounters with an eviction mafia (other than the police). He was inside a very lively and strong community with amazing transformative projects. Yet he used around ten women to gain connections and info, emotionally and sexually. Probably harmed people who were fighting for housing with insider info as well.
Like most of us, I often think about how to handle justice in a stateless society. What do you do with someone who has seen the struggle, the injustice, and the change we can bring? just what a bastard. fuck this. The community is keeping it together tho. They are in contact with a human rights group and will be taking this to the courts as others did in the UK. But man. If the state sees fit to invest these many resources to spy us... Then maybe we're more powerful than we realize. I used to believe that we were too tiny, that our actions did only matter locally and that that was the best we could to. But I guess we're more dangerous than that, and it's good to know.
La Cinètika is an occupied cinema, and the main affected group. In their walls, there is a quote that has always inspired me:
> "Making the fight a continuous breaking with others is not something so radical, what is truly radical and subversive is to build something collective in a world specifically designed for isolation, loneliness and disillusion."
> (Original: "Hacer de la lucha un continuo romper con los demás no es algo tan radical, lo radical y lo subversivo es construir algo colectivo en un munde diseñado específicamente para el aislamiento, la soledad y el desencanto.").
Be safe everyone.
*obviously, as has happened here before and the UK, these infiltration are illegal, but who cares about the law anyway. In theory, this kind of infiltration can only be done under a court order in cases of terrorism, drug trafficking or organized crime. Whatever.
Realities of Ukrainian draft dodgersMaybe Ukraine is going to win this war, but it has already lost the war for freedom of its citizens(as it's using now the conscription laws that are in common with russia(USSR's legacy)). The draft system is as corrupt as russian(you can bribe a doctor, who decides whether you will be drafted or not). In fact the situation is even worse, because unlike russians - we can't leave the country.
A month ago, Ukrainian government with the help of the regulation №1487 has announced the digitalization of draft processes: it says, that men will not be able to work without a work permission(you get one, when you're registered as a "potential" conscript), and obliges UA male citizens abroad to be registered there(so potentially UA will start asking other countries for extraditions of UA conscripts).
And after that - ТЦК(Територіальний Центр Комплектування, a.k.a. військомат) have created new draft patrols(bounty hunters), who issue draft summons to men on the streets, after asking them for an ID(illegal) and sometimes kidnap([https://youtu.be/3ZXoUb9285I?t=418](https://youtu.be/3ZXoUb9285I?t=418)) and deliver them to enlistment offices for a physical.
If you don't believe me, you can search for "ТЦК", on youtube. The whole country is frightened, while most Ukrainian law channels speak openly against this. There are groups in Telegram that literally track down the bounty hunters. A couple of them has more than 50k subscribers.
There are rumors, that they need conscripts to replace ZSU, while those will be used in a siege of Crimea/Donbass. All that while Reznikov(who is basically a minister of corruption) remains silent.
P.S. The folks who will tell me that my country needs me can f\*ck off, this country needed professional soldiers or an adequate draft system for 9 years. And nobody cared, cares and will care, because it's their business now.
GPT knows what’s up
Some anarchist news from the month of December in 2022 and January in 2023Combining info from December last year and January this year, as I was very busy with my personal life around NYE.
This post will just be taken from various anarchist and left websites and I've basically just skipped over everything that isn't breaking news.
Please note that some of these news article discuss violence. This post is not an attempt to encourage violence; it is merely to report on what anarchists are doing across the world.
**December 2022**
* 01: [Anarchist Black Cross Moscow update on anti-war prisoners](https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-black-cross-moscow-update-anti-war-prisoners) (Russia)
* 01: [Solidarity with the Susaron 4](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/solidarity-susaron-4) (Chile)
* 01: [New Anarchist Library in Valencia, Spain](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/new-anarchist-library-valencia-spain) (Spain)
* 02: [Exarcheia, the subway station, and public space](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/exarcheia-subway-station-and-public-space) (Greece)
* 02: [Eviction of CSO La Astilla - Barcelona](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/eviction-cso-la-astilla-barcelona) (Spain)
* 02: [Antifascists Given Long Sentences for Self-Defense; Mutulu Shakur Granted Parole](https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-23/) (USA)
* 02: [Ivan Alocco & Juan Sorroche End Hunger Strike](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/ivan-alocco-juan-sorroche-end-hunger-strike) (France)
* 04: [People from Myanmar stand in Solidarity with Chinese Democracy protests](https://libcom.org/article/people-myanmar-stand-solidarity-chinese-democracy-protests) (Burma)
* 04: [A political and personal statement as well as a review of our solidarity work around the war in Ukraine so far.](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/political-and-personal-statement-well-review-our-solidarity-work-around-war-ukraine-so-far) (Germany)
* 05: [New Zealand: 2023 Tāmaki Anarchist Bookfair, March 17-18](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/new-zealand-2023-t%C4%81maki-anarchist-bookfair-march-17-18) (New Zealand)
* 05: [The Struggle Against CGL, Policing in BC, Queer Community Defense](https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-49/) (Canada)
* 05: [MARR Vehicles & Warehouse Burnt in Solidarity w/ Hunger Striking Anarchists](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/marr-vehicles-warehouse-burnt-solidarity-w-hunger-striking-anarchists) (Italy)
* 06: [Solidarity from Madrid w/ Alfredo Cospito & Anarchist Prisoners](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/solidarity-madrid-alfredo-cospito-anarchist-prisoners) (Spain)
* 06: [Statement by Anna Beniamino](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-anna-beniamino) (Italy)
* 06: [Protests Along Arizona Border Halts Construction of Governor’s Wall of Shipping Containers](https://itsgoingdown.org/protests-halt-contruction-shipping-container-wall/) (USA)
* 06: [Intervention & Propaganda at the Italian Embassy](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/intervention-propaganda-italian-embassy) (Uruguay)
* 06: [Counter-Protesters Defend Ft. Lauderdale from Anti-Trans Hate Rally and Proud Boys](https://itsgoingdown.org/counter-protesters-defend-ft-lauderdale-from-anti-trans-hate-rally-and-proud-boys/) (USA)
* 06: [Statement from Tortu, about the death of Tony](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-tortu-about-death-tony) (Chile)
* 06: [Montreal: Tenants Escalate Against Cromwell Renoviction](https://itsgoingdown.org/montreal-tenants-escalate-against-cromwell-renoviction/) (Canada)
* 06: [Announcement of political-military anarchist organization](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/announcement-political-military-anarchist-organization) (Iran)
* 07: [Report from 5th Anarchist General Forum, Cariacica, Espírito Santo, Brazil, Sept 8-11, 2022](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/report-5th-anarchist-general-forum-cariacica-esp%C3%ADrito-santo-brazil-sept-8-11-2022) (Brazil)
* 08: [Václav Tomek has left](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/v%C3%A1clav-tomek-has-left) (Czech Republic)
* 08: [Anarchists in the CNT Congress](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchists-cnt-congress) (Spain)
* 08: [A Communiqué from the Liberated Dining Halls of so-called Santa Cruz](https://itsgoingdown.org/a-communique-from-the-liberated-dining-halls-of-so-called-santa-cruz/) (USA)
* 09: [Mundo Nuevo Squat Evicted in Thessaloniki](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/mundo-nuevo-squat-evicted-thessaloniki) (Greece)
* 09: [Workers in Dallas, Texas at Alamo Drafthouse Stage Walkout](https://itsgoingdown.org/workers-in-dallas-texas-at-alamo-drafthouse-stage-walkout-donations-requested/) (USA)
* 14: [Final Straw: Stop Evictions at Winnemucca Indian Colony](https://itsgoingdown.org/final-straw-stop-evictions-at-winnemucca-indian-colony/) (USA)
* 15: [Attack on Italian Embassy in Bolivia](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/attack-italian-embassy-bolivia) (Bolivia)
* 15: [Attack on the First Counsellor of the Italian Embassy](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/responsibility-claim-explosive-attack-house-first-counsellor-italian-embassy) (Greece)
* 16: [Community Defends LGBTQ+ Event in Lakeland, Florida in the Face of Threats from Neo-Nazis](https://itsgoingdown.org/lankland-mobilization-florida-nazis/) (USA)
* 16: [CEL Offices Attacked in Solidarity with the Atlanta Weelaunee Forest](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/cel-offices-attacked-solidarity-atlanta-weelaunee-forest) (USA)
* 17: [Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Action to Block the Port of Montreal](https://itsgoingdown.org/wetsuweten-solidarity-action-to-block-the-port-of-montreal/) (Canada)
* 18: [Jacksonville, FL: Community Pushes Back Against Proud Boys](https://itsgoingdown.org/jacksonville-pushes-back-proud-boys/) (USA)
* 20: [A microphone found in an anarchist space in Foligno](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/microphone-found-anarchist-space-foligno-italy) (Italy)
* 21: [Resistance to COP 15 in Montreal, Winnipeg Landfill Blockaded for #MMIWG](https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-50/) (Canada)
* 21: [Proud Boys No Shows as Aurora, Illinois Community Mobilizes in Opposition](https://itsgoingdown.org/proud-boys-no-shows-as-aurora-illinois-community-mobilizes-in-opposition/) (USA)
* 21: [Community Defense Groups Defend Drag Event from Far-Right in Kansas City](https://itsgoingdown.org/community-defense-groups-defend-drag-event-from-far-right-in-kansas-city/) (USA)
* 22: [Seattle Solidarity Movement Helps Force Landlord to Move Family Suffering from Mold](https://itsgoingdown.org/seattle-solidarity-movement-helps-force-landlord-to-move-family-suffering-from-mold/) (USA)
* 26: [Raids and Arrests of Comrades for Explosive Attack on Gendarmerie](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/chile-raids-and-arrests-comrades-explosive-attack-gendarmerie) (Chile)
* 27: [Some initial notes on the investigation file against Ivan](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/some-initial-notes-investigation-file-against-ivan) (France)
* 27: [Solidarity w/ Anarchist Comrade Kostas Dimalexis](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/solidarity-w-anarchist-comrade-kostas-dimalexis) (Greece)
* 28: [Proud Boys Fail to Turn out Against Counter-Protest in Ft. Lauderdale, FL](https://itsgoingdown.org/proud-boys-ft-lauderdale-protest/) (USA)
* 29: [Orlando Community Defends Event Targeted With Far-Right Threats](https://itsgoingdown.org/orlando-defends-event-targeted-threats/) (USA)
* 30: [Mumia Pushes for New Trial, Updates on Antifascist Prisoners, Support #StopCopCity Arrestees](https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-24/) (USA)
* 31: [Update on the health condition of Thanos Chatzianggelou](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-health-condition-thanos-chatzianggelou) (Greece)
* 31: [Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-about-health-condition-alfredo-cospito) (Italy)
* 31: [Ivan Alocco begins a new hunger strike](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/ivan-alocco-begins-new-hunger-strike) (France)
* 31: [Hundreds Mobilize in NYC to Defend Community Event from Proud Boys and Anti-LGBTQ Bigots](https://itsgoingdown.org/nyc-hundreds-mobilize-defend-proud-boys/) (USA)
**January 2022**
* 03: [Bank of America set on fire in Portland](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/bank-america-set-fire-portland-0) (USA)
* 03: [Anarchists Loot Supermarket in Greece](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchists-loot-supermarket-greece) (Greece)
* 03: [Community Defends Library Event in New York Against Violent Police, Proud Boys and Neo-Nazis](https://itsgoingdown.org/december-29-drag-story-hour-defense-in-jackson-heights/) (USA)
* 04: [Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2023](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/balkan-anarchist-bookfair-2023) (Slovenia)
* 04: [Tisha Volkova, RIP](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/tisha-volkova-rip) (Ukraine)
* 05: [2023 Worldwide Anarchist Gatherings](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/2023-worldwide-anarchist-gatherings) (Specifically Finland, Chile, Ireland, UK, USA, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Slovenia, Switzerland and Poland)
* 05: [News from Belarusian prisons, December 2022](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/news-belarusian-prisons-december-2022) (Belarus)
* 05: [Berlin: Attack with fire for Thanos Chatziangelou](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/berlin-attack-fire-thanos-chatziangelou) (Germany)
* 05: [Blackbird Infoshop & Cafe Opens in Kingston, NY](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/blackbird-infoshop-cafe-opens-kingston-ny) (USA)
* 06: [Inside the Wood Street Commons Fight Against Displacement](https://itsgoingdown.org/inside-the-wood-street-commons-fight-against-displacement/) (USA)
* 08: [(A-Radio) A village to be evicted for coal - the defense of Luezerath in Germany](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/radio-village-be-evicted-coal-defense-luezerath-germany) (Germany)
* 09: [Attack On Metro Construction Sites](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/attack-metro-construction-sites) (Greece)
* 09: [Mutual Aid Groups Mobilize in Face of Asheville Water Crisis](https://itsgoingdown.org/final-straw-asheville-wate-crisis/) (USA)
* 09: [Alex Stokes Should Not Be in Prison](https://itsgoingdown.org/alex-stokes-should-not-be-in-prison/) (USA)
* 10: [Florida: Anarchists strike Cop City Contractor Brasfield and Gorrie](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/florida-anarchists-strike-cop-city-contractor-brasfield-and-gorrie) (USA)
* 10: [Defending Encampments and Fighting Evictions in Minneapolis: An Interview](https://itsgoingdown.org/defending-encampments-and-fighting-evictions-in-minneapolis-an-interview/) (USA)
* 11: [Residents in Chicago, Illinois are Reclaiming Vacant Properties](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/residents-chicago-illinois-are-reclaiming-vacant-properties) (USA)
* 11: [Thoughts after the first round of NHS strikes](https://libcom.org/article/thoughts-after-first-round-nhs-strikes) (UK)
* 13: [Anarchist groups claimed two new combative acts on Russian military objects](https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-groups-claimed-two-new-combative-acts-russian-military-objects) (Russia)
* 13: [Italian Consulate Attacked with Oil in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/brazil-italian-consulate-attacked-oil-solidarity-alfredo-cospito) (Brazil)
* 13: [Statement by the Anarchist Lucas Hernández](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-anarchist-lucas-hern%C3%A1ndez) (Chile)
* 13: [Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-about-health-condition-alfredo-cospito-1) (Italy)
* 13: [The trial of Revolutionary Self-Defence has ended](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/trial-revolutionary-self-defence-has-ended) (Greece)
* 13: [Updates concerning anarchist prisoner Toby Shone](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/updates-concerning-anarchist-prisoner-toby-shone) (UK)
* 14: [The Rebellion is built on Hope (An Interview with Leisa - a female rebel from Burma)](https://libcom.org/article/rebellion-built-hope-interview-leisa-female-rebel-burma) (Burma)
* 14: [THE FIGHT FOR LÜTZERATH AGAINST RWE](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/fight-l%C3%BCtzerath-against-rwe) (Germany)
* 14: [Fire for Alfredo Cospito and Lützerath in Hamburg, Germany](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/fire-alfredo-cospito-and-l%C3%BCtzerath-hamburg-germany) (Germany)
* 14: [Statement by the Anarchist Aldo Hernández](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-anarchist-aldo-hern%C3%A1ndez) (Chile)
* 15: [2023 begins with new rise of anti-war struggle](https://libcom.org/article/2023-begins-new-rise-anti-war-struggle) (Russia)
* 16: [Pepe Cuevas (1951–2022)](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/pepe-cuevas-1951%E2%80%932022) (Spain)
* 16: [Savannah, GA Residents Rally at Brasfield & Gorrie site to Stop Cop City!](https://itsgoingdown.org/savannah-ga-residents-rally-at-brasfield-gorrie-site-to-stop-cop-city/) (USA)
* 16: [Serial Catfisher Posed as Anarchist Sex Worker to Tweet About 15-Year-Olds](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/serial-catfisher-posed-anarchist-sex-worker-tweet-about-15-year-olds-0) (Internet)
* 16: [Anarchist Days Leipzig, Apr 23 - May 1](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchist-days-leipzig-apr-23-may-1) (Germany)
* 17: [Organizing under a military dictatorship. An interview with Sudanese Anarchist Gathering](https://libcom.org/article/organizing-under-military-dictatorship-interview-sudanese-anarchist-gathering) (Sudan)
* 17: [Arson of Amazon Vehicles](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/berlin-arson-amazon-vehicles) (Germany)
* 17: [Communities Continue to Mobilize Against Anti-LGBTQ Attacks as New Fascist Formations Emerge](https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-133/) (USA)
* 18: [Police Murder ‘Cop City’ Protestor in Atlanta Forest](https://itsgoingdown.org/police-murder-cop-city-protestor-in-atlanta-forest/) (USA)
* 19: [Anarchists attack Hertz fleet in solidarity](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/germany-anarchists-attack-hertz-fleet-solidarity) (Germany)
* 19: [Mobilization Against ‘Cop City’ Hits Offices of Atlas Technical Consultants in Minnesota](https://itsgoingdown.org/mobilization-against-cop-city-hits-offices-minnesota/) (USA)
* 20: [Eric King due for release this year, please support him!](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/eric-king-due-release-year-please-support-him) (USA)
* 21: [Carlos Pimpão has Died](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/carlos-pimp%C3%A3o-has-died) (Portugal)
* 21: [Seattle, WA: Mourners Arrested at Vigil for Tort](https://itsgoingdown.org/seattle-vigil-arrests-for-tort/) (USA)
* 22: [Bank Backing ‘Cop City’ Targeted as Hundreds Take to Streets of Atlanta Following Police Killing](https://itsgoingdown.org/atlanta-bank-targeted-march-following-tort-death/) (USA)
* 23: [The fight for labour unions: Myanmar Pou Chen workers](https://libcom.org/article/fight-labour-unions-myanmar-pou-chen-workers) (Burma)
* 23: [Tucson Group Mourns Protester Killed by Police in the Atlanta Forest](https://itsgoingdown.org/tucson-group-mourns-protester-killed-by-police-in-the-atlanta-forest/) (USA)
* 23: [Alfredo Cospito, Italian Anarchist on Hunger Strike for 99 Days](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/alfredo-cospito-italian-anarchist-hunger-strike-99-days) (Italy)
* 24: [Drag Defenders Won 4-0 At Weekend Protests](https://itsgoingdown.org/drag-defenders-won-4-0-at-weekend-protests/) (USA)
* 25: [May the Earth be Light to You! Serge Livrozet, The Anarchist](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/may-earth-be-light-you-serge-livrozet-anarchist) (France)
* 25: [¡Viva Tortuguita!](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/%C2%A1viva-tortuguita) (USA)
* 25: [Revolutionary prisoners Ruslan Abasov and Lev Skoryakin managed to leave Russia](https://libcom.org/article/revolutionary-prisoners-ruslan-abasov-and-lev-skoryakin-managed-leave-russia) (Russia)
* 25: [Far-Right Doxxings and Consequences, New Prisons, and Queer Community Defence](https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-52/) (Canada)
* 26: [Portland: Attack on UPS Shipping Center](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/portland-attack-ups-shipping-center) (USA)
* 27: [Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-about-health-condition-alfredo-cospito-99th-day-hunger-strike-italy-january-26-2023) (Italy)
* 29: [Masses of Minneapolis Police Swarm Tyre Nichols Protest Before it Starts](https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/masses-of-minneapolis-police-swarm-tyre-nichols-protest-before-it-starts/) (USA)
* 30: [Mass Protests by Climate Activists Follow Eviction of Occupied German Village](https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/mass-protests-by-climate-activists-follow-eviction-of-occupied-german-village/) (Germany)
**Previous Posts**
* [August 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/xbzxkg/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_august_in/)
* [September 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/xsyq0e/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_september/)
* [October 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/yksxqu/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_october_in/)
* [November 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/zce7if/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_november_in/)
Some anarchist news from the month of December in 2022 and January in 2023Combining info from December last year and January this year, as I was very busy with my personal life around NYE.
This post will just be taken from various anarchist and left websites and I've basically just skipped over everything that isn't breaking news.
Please note that some of these news article discuss violence. This post is not an attempt to encourage violence; it is merely to report on what anarchists are doing across the world.
**December 2022**
* 01: [Anarchist Black Cross Moscow update on anti-war prisoners](https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-black-cross-moscow-update-anti-war-prisoners) (Russia)
* 01: [Solidarity with the Susaron 4](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/solidarity-susaron-4) (Chile)
* 01: [New Anarchist Library in Valencia, Spain](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/new-anarchist-library-valencia-spain) (Spain)
* 02: [Exarcheia, the subway station, and public space](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/exarcheia-subway-station-and-public-space) (Greece)
* 02: [Eviction of CSO La Astilla - Barcelona](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/eviction-cso-la-astilla-barcelona) (Spain)
* 02: [Antifascists Given Long Sentences for Self-Defense; Mutulu Shakur Granted Parole](https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-23/) (USA)
* 02: [Ivan Alocco & Juan Sorroche End Hunger Strike](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/ivan-alocco-juan-sorroche-end-hunger-strike) (France)
* 04: [People from Myanmar stand in Solidarity with Chinese Democracy protests](https://libcom.org/article/people-myanmar-stand-solidarity-chinese-democracy-protests) (Burma)
* 04: [A political and personal statement as well as a review of our solidarity work around the war in Ukraine so far.](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/political-and-personal-statement-well-review-our-solidarity-work-around-war-ukraine-so-far) (Germany)
* 05: [New Zealand: 2023 Tāmaki Anarchist Bookfair, March 17-18](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/new-zealand-2023-t%C4%81maki-anarchist-bookfair-march-17-18) (New Zealand)
* 05: [The Struggle Against CGL, Policing in BC, Queer Community Defense](https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-49/) (Canada)
* 05: [MARR Vehicles & Warehouse Burnt in Solidarity w/ Hunger Striking Anarchists](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/marr-vehicles-warehouse-burnt-solidarity-w-hunger-striking-anarchists) (Italy)
* 06: [Solidarity from Madrid w/ Alfredo Cospito & Anarchist Prisoners](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/solidarity-madrid-alfredo-cospito-anarchist-prisoners) (Spain)
* 06: [Statement by Anna Beniamino](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-anna-beniamino) (Italy)
* 06: [Protests Along Arizona Border Halts Construction of Governor’s Wall of Shipping Containers](https://itsgoingdown.org/protests-halt-contruction-shipping-container-wall/) (USA)
* 06: [Intervention & Propaganda at the Italian Embassy](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/intervention-propaganda-italian-embassy) (Uruguay)
* 06: [Counter-Protesters Defend Ft. Lauderdale from Anti-Trans Hate Rally and Proud Boys](https://itsgoingdown.org/counter-protesters-defend-ft-lauderdale-from-anti-trans-hate-rally-and-proud-boys/) (USA)
* 06: [Statement from Tortu, about the death of Tony](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-tortu-about-death-tony) (Chile)
* 06: [Montreal: Tenants Escalate Against Cromwell Renoviction](https://itsgoingdown.org/montreal-tenants-escalate-against-cromwell-renoviction/) (Canada)
* 06: [Announcement of political-military anarchist organization](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/announcement-political-military-anarchist-organization) (Iran)
* 07: [Report from 5th Anarchist General Forum, Cariacica, Espírito Santo, Brazil, Sept 8-11, 2022](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/report-5th-anarchist-general-forum-cariacica-esp%C3%ADrito-santo-brazil-sept-8-11-2022) (Brazil)
* 08: [Václav Tomek has left](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/v%C3%A1clav-tomek-has-left) (Czech Republic)
* 08: [Anarchists in the CNT Congress](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchists-cnt-congress) (Spain)
* 08: [A Communiqué from the Liberated Dining Halls of so-called Santa Cruz](https://itsgoingdown.org/a-communique-from-the-liberated-dining-halls-of-so-called-santa-cruz/) (USA)
* 09: [Mundo Nuevo Squat Evicted in Thessaloniki](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/mundo-nuevo-squat-evicted-thessaloniki) (Greece)
* 09: [Workers in Dallas, Texas at Alamo Drafthouse Stage Walkout](https://itsgoingdown.org/workers-in-dallas-texas-at-alamo-drafthouse-stage-walkout-donations-requested/) (USA)
* 14: [Final Straw: Stop Evictions at Winnemucca Indian Colony](https://itsgoingdown.org/final-straw-stop-evictions-at-winnemucca-indian-colony/) (USA)
* 15: [Attack on Italian Embassy in Bolivia](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/attack-italian-embassy-bolivia) (Bolivia)
* 15: [Attack on the First Counsellor of the Italian Embassy](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/responsibility-claim-explosive-attack-house-first-counsellor-italian-embassy) (Greece)
* 16: [Community Defends LGBTQ+ Event in Lakeland, Florida in the Face of Threats from Neo-Nazis](https://itsgoingdown.org/lankland-mobilization-florida-nazis/) (USA)
* 16: [CEL Offices Attacked in Solidarity with the Atlanta Weelaunee Forest](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/cel-offices-attacked-solidarity-atlanta-weelaunee-forest) (USA)
* 17: [Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Action to Block the Port of Montreal](https://itsgoingdown.org/wetsuweten-solidarity-action-to-block-the-port-of-montreal/) (Canada)
* 18: [Jacksonville, FL: Community Pushes Back Against Proud Boys](https://itsgoingdown.org/jacksonville-pushes-back-proud-boys/) (USA)
* 20: [A microphone found in an anarchist space in Foligno](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/microphone-found-anarchist-space-foligno-italy) (Italy)
* 21: [Resistance to COP 15 in Montreal, Winnipeg Landfill Blockaded for #MMIWG](https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-50/) (Canada)
* 21: [Proud Boys No Shows as Aurora, Illinois Community Mobilizes in Opposition](https://itsgoingdown.org/proud-boys-no-shows-as-aurora-illinois-community-mobilizes-in-opposition/) (USA)
* 21: [Community Defense Groups Defend Drag Event from Far-Right in Kansas City](https://itsgoingdown.org/community-defense-groups-defend-drag-event-from-far-right-in-kansas-city/) (USA)
* 22: [Seattle Solidarity Movement Helps Force Landlord to Move Family Suffering from Mold](https://itsgoingdown.org/seattle-solidarity-movement-helps-force-landlord-to-move-family-suffering-from-mold/) (USA)
* 26: [Raids and Arrests of Comrades for Explosive Attack on Gendarmerie](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/chile-raids-and-arrests-comrades-explosive-attack-gendarmerie) (Chile)
* 27: [Some initial notes on the investigation file against Ivan](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/some-initial-notes-investigation-file-against-ivan) (France)
* 27: [Solidarity w/ Anarchist Comrade Kostas Dimalexis](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/solidarity-w-anarchist-comrade-kostas-dimalexis) (Greece)
* 28: [Proud Boys Fail to Turn out Against Counter-Protest in Ft. Lauderdale, FL](https://itsgoingdown.org/proud-boys-ft-lauderdale-protest/) (USA)
* 29: [Orlando Community Defends Event Targeted With Far-Right Threats](https://itsgoingdown.org/orlando-defends-event-targeted-threats/) (USA)
* 30: [Mumia Pushes for New Trial, Updates on Antifascist Prisoners, Support #StopCopCity Arrestees](https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-24/) (USA)
* 31: [Update on the health condition of Thanos Chatzianggelou](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-health-condition-thanos-chatzianggelou) (Greece)
* 31: [Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-about-health-condition-alfredo-cospito) (Italy)
* 31: [Ivan Alocco begins a new hunger strike](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/ivan-alocco-begins-new-hunger-strike) (France)
* 31: [Hundreds Mobilize in NYC to Defend Community Event from Proud Boys and Anti-LGBTQ Bigots](https://itsgoingdown.org/nyc-hundreds-mobilize-defend-proud-boys/) (USA)
**January 2022**
* 03: [Bank of America set on fire in Portland](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/bank-america-set-fire-portland-0) (USA)
* 03: [Anarchists Loot Supermarket in Greece](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchists-loot-supermarket-greece) (Greece)
* 03: [Community Defends Library Event in New York Against Violent Police, Proud Boys and Neo-Nazis](https://itsgoingdown.org/december-29-drag-story-hour-defense-in-jackson-heights/) (USA)
* 04: [Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2023](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/balkan-anarchist-bookfair-2023) (Slovenia)
* 04: [Tisha Volkova, RIP](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/tisha-volkova-rip) (Ukraine)
* 05: [2023 Worldwide Anarchist Gatherings](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/2023-worldwide-anarchist-gatherings) (Specifically Finland, Chile, Ireland, UK, USA, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Slovenia, Switzerland and Poland)
* 05: [News from Belarusian prisons, December 2022](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/news-belarusian-prisons-december-2022) (Belarus)
* 05: [Berlin: Attack with fire for Thanos Chatziangelou](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/berlin-attack-fire-thanos-chatziangelou) (Germany)
* 05: [Blackbird Infoshop & Cafe Opens in Kingston, NY](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/blackbird-infoshop-cafe-opens-kingston-ny) (USA)
* 06: [Inside the Wood Street Commons Fight Against Displacement](https://itsgoingdown.org/inside-the-wood-street-commons-fight-against-displacement/) (USA)
* 08: [(A-Radio) A village to be evicted for coal - the defense of Luezerath in Germany](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/radio-village-be-evicted-coal-defense-luezerath-germany) (Germany)
* 09: [Attack On Metro Construction Sites](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/attack-metro-construction-sites) (Greece)
* 09: [Mutual Aid Groups Mobilize in Face of Asheville Water Crisis](https://itsgoingdown.org/final-straw-asheville-wate-crisis/) (USA)
* 09: [Alex Stokes Should Not Be in Prison](https://itsgoingdown.org/alex-stokes-should-not-be-in-prison/) (USA)
* 10: [Florida: Anarchists strike Cop City Contractor Brasfield and Gorrie](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/florida-anarchists-strike-cop-city-contractor-brasfield-and-gorrie) (USA)
* 10: [Defending Encampments and Fighting Evictions in Minneapolis: An Interview](https://itsgoingdown.org/defending-encampments-and-fighting-evictions-in-minneapolis-an-interview/) (USA)
* 11: [Residents in Chicago, Illinois are Reclaiming Vacant Properties](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/residents-chicago-illinois-are-reclaiming-vacant-properties) (USA)
* 11: [Thoughts after the first round of NHS strikes](https://libcom.org/article/thoughts-after-first-round-nhs-strikes) (UK)
* 13: [Anarchist groups claimed two new combative acts on Russian military objects](https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-groups-claimed-two-new-combative-acts-russian-military-objects) (Russia)
* 13: [Italian Consulate Attacked with Oil in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/brazil-italian-consulate-attacked-oil-solidarity-alfredo-cospito) (Brazil)
* 13: [Statement by the Anarchist Lucas Hernández](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-anarchist-lucas-hern%C3%A1ndez) (Chile)
* 13: [Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-about-health-condition-alfredo-cospito-1) (Italy)
* 13: [The trial of Revolutionary Self-Defence has ended](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/trial-revolutionary-self-defence-has-ended) (Greece)
* 13: [Updates concerning anarchist prisoner Toby Shone](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/updates-concerning-anarchist-prisoner-toby-shone) (UK)
* 14: [The Rebellion is built on Hope (An Interview with Leisa - a female rebel from Burma)](https://libcom.org/article/rebellion-built-hope-interview-leisa-female-rebel-burma) (Burma)
* 14: [THE FIGHT FOR LÜTZERATH AGAINST RWE](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/fight-l%C3%BCtzerath-against-rwe) (Germany)
* 14: [Fire for Alfredo Cospito and Lützerath in Hamburg, Germany](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/fire-alfredo-cospito-and-l%C3%BCtzerath-hamburg-germany) (Germany)
* 14: [Statement by the Anarchist Aldo Hernández](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-anarchist-aldo-hern%C3%A1ndez) (Chile)
* 15: [2023 begins with new rise of anti-war struggle](https://libcom.org/article/2023-begins-new-rise-anti-war-struggle) (Russia)
* 16: [Pepe Cuevas (1951–2022)](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/pepe-cuevas-1951%E2%80%932022) (Spain)
* 16: [Savannah, GA Residents Rally at Brasfield & Gorrie site to Stop Cop City!](https://itsgoingdown.org/savannah-ga-residents-rally-at-brasfield-gorrie-site-to-stop-cop-city/) (USA)
* 16: [Serial Catfisher Posed as Anarchist Sex Worker to Tweet About 15-Year-Olds](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/serial-catfisher-posed-anarchist-sex-worker-tweet-about-15-year-olds-0) (Internet)
* 16: [Anarchist Days Leipzig, Apr 23 - May 1](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchist-days-leipzig-apr-23-may-1) (Germany)
* 17: [Organizing under a military dictatorship. An interview with Sudanese Anarchist Gathering](https://libcom.org/article/organizing-under-military-dictatorship-interview-sudanese-anarchist-gathering) (Sudan)
* 17: [Arson of Amazon Vehicles](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/berlin-arson-amazon-vehicles) (Germany)
* 17: [Communities Continue to Mobilize Against Anti-LGBTQ Attacks as New Fascist Formations Emerge](https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-133/) (USA)
* 18: [Police Murder ‘Cop City’ Protestor in Atlanta Forest](https://itsgoingdown.org/police-murder-cop-city-protestor-in-atlanta-forest/) (USA)
* 19: [Anarchists attack Hertz fleet in solidarity](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/germany-anarchists-attack-hertz-fleet-solidarity) (Germany)
* 19: [Mobilization Against ‘Cop City’ Hits Offices of Atlas Technical Consultants in Minnesota](https://itsgoingdown.org/mobilization-against-cop-city-hits-offices-minnesota/) (USA)
* 20: [Eric King due for release this year, please support him!](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/eric-king-due-release-year-please-support-him) (USA)
* 21: [Carlos Pimpão has Died](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/carlos-pimp%C3%A3o-has-died) (Portugal)
* 21: [Seattle, WA: Mourners Arrested at Vigil for Tort](https://itsgoingdown.org/seattle-vigil-arrests-for-tort/) (USA)
* 22: [Bank Backing ‘Cop City’ Targeted as Hundreds Take to Streets of Atlanta Following Police Killing](https://itsgoingdown.org/atlanta-bank-targeted-march-following-tort-death/) (USA)
* 23: [The fight for labour unions: Myanmar Pou Chen workers](https://libcom.org/article/fight-labour-unions-myanmar-pou-chen-workers) (Burma)
* 23: [Tucson Group Mourns Protester Killed by Police in the Atlanta Forest](https://itsgoingdown.org/tucson-group-mourns-protester-killed-by-police-in-the-atlanta-forest/) (USA)
* 23: [Alfredo Cospito, Italian Anarchist on Hunger Strike for 99 Days](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/alfredo-cospito-italian-anarchist-hunger-strike-99-days) (Italy)
* 24: [Drag Defenders Won 4-0 At Weekend Protests](https://itsgoingdown.org/drag-defenders-won-4-0-at-weekend-protests/) (USA)
* 25: [May the Earth be Light to You! Serge Livrozet, The Anarchist](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/may-earth-be-light-you-serge-livrozet-anarchist) (France)
* 25: [¡Viva Tortuguita!](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/%C2%A1viva-tortuguita) (USA)
* 25: [Revolutionary prisoners Ruslan Abasov and Lev Skoryakin managed to leave Russia](https://libcom.org/article/revolutionary-prisoners-ruslan-abasov-and-lev-skoryakin-managed-leave-russia) (Russia)
* 25: [Far-Right Doxxings and Consequences, New Prisons, and Queer Community Defence](https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-52/) (Canada)
* 26: [Portland: Attack on UPS Shipping Center](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/portland-attack-ups-shipping-center) (USA)
* 27: [Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-about-health-condition-alfredo-cospito-99th-day-hunger-strike-italy-january-26-2023) (Italy)
* 29: [Masses of Minneapolis Police Swarm Tyre Nichols Protest Before it Starts](https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/masses-of-minneapolis-police-swarm-tyre-nichols-protest-before-it-starts/) (USA)
* 30: [Mass Protests by Climate Activists Follow Eviction of Occupied German Village](https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/mass-protests-by-climate-activists-follow-eviction-of-occupied-german-village/) (Germany)
**Previous Posts**
* [August 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/xbzxkg/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_august_in/)
* [September 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/xsyq0e/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_september/)
* [October 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/yksxqu/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_october_in/)
* [November 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/zce7if/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_november_in/)
Some anarchist news from the month of December in 2022 and January in 2023Combining info from December last year and January this year, as I was very busy with my personal life around NYE.
This post will just be taken from various anarchist and left websites and I've basically just skipped over everything that isn't breaking news.
Please note that some of these news article discuss violence. This post is not an attempt to encourage violence; it is merely to report on what anarchists are doing across the world.
**December 2022**
* 01: [Anarchist Black Cross Moscow update on anti-war prisoners](https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-black-cross-moscow-update-anti-war-prisoners) (Russia)
* 01: [Solidarity with the Susaron 4](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/solidarity-susaron-4) (Chile)
* 01: [New Anarchist Library in Valencia, Spain](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/new-anarchist-library-valencia-spain) (Spain)
* 02: [Exarcheia, the subway station, and public space](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/exarcheia-subway-station-and-public-space) (Greece)
* 02: [Eviction of CSO La Astilla - Barcelona](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/eviction-cso-la-astilla-barcelona) (Spain)
* 02: [Antifascists Given Long Sentences for Self-Defense; Mutulu Shakur Granted Parole](https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-23/) (USA)
* 02: [Ivan Alocco & Juan Sorroche End Hunger Strike](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/ivan-alocco-juan-sorroche-end-hunger-strike) (France)
* 04: [People from Myanmar stand in Solidarity with Chinese Democracy protests](https://libcom.org/article/people-myanmar-stand-solidarity-chinese-democracy-protests) (Burma)
* 04: [A political and personal statement as well as a review of our solidarity work around the war in Ukraine so far.](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/political-and-personal-statement-well-review-our-solidarity-work-around-war-ukraine-so-far) (Germany)
* 05: [New Zealand: 2023 Tāmaki Anarchist Bookfair, March 17-18](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/new-zealand-2023-t%C4%81maki-anarchist-bookfair-march-17-18) (New Zealand)
* 05: [The Struggle Against CGL, Policing in BC, Queer Community Defense](https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-49/) (Canada)
* 05: [MARR Vehicles & Warehouse Burnt in Solidarity w/ Hunger Striking Anarchists](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/marr-vehicles-warehouse-burnt-solidarity-w-hunger-striking-anarchists) (Italy)
* 06: [Solidarity from Madrid w/ Alfredo Cospito & Anarchist Prisoners](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/solidarity-madrid-alfredo-cospito-anarchist-prisoners) (Spain)
* 06: [Statement by Anna Beniamino](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-anna-beniamino) (Italy)
* 06: [Protests Along Arizona Border Halts Construction of Governor’s Wall of Shipping Containers](https://itsgoingdown.org/protests-halt-contruction-shipping-container-wall/) (USA)
* 06: [Intervention & Propaganda at the Italian Embassy](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/intervention-propaganda-italian-embassy) (Uruguay)
* 06: [Counter-Protesters Defend Ft. Lauderdale from Anti-Trans Hate Rally and Proud Boys](https://itsgoingdown.org/counter-protesters-defend-ft-lauderdale-from-anti-trans-hate-rally-and-proud-boys/) (USA)
* 06: [Statement from Tortu, about the death of Tony](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-tortu-about-death-tony) (Chile)
* 06: [Montreal: Tenants Escalate Against Cromwell Renoviction](https://itsgoingdown.org/montreal-tenants-escalate-against-cromwell-renoviction/) (Canada)
* 06: [Announcement of political-military anarchist organization](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/announcement-political-military-anarchist-organization) (Iran)
* 07: [Report from 5th Anarchist General Forum, Cariacica, Espírito Santo, Brazil, Sept 8-11, 2022](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/report-5th-anarchist-general-forum-cariacica-esp%C3%ADrito-santo-brazil-sept-8-11-2022) (Brazil)
* 08: [Václav Tomek has left](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/v%C3%A1clav-tomek-has-left) (Czech Republic)
* 08: [Anarchists in the CNT Congress](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchists-cnt-congress) (Spain)
* 08: [A Communiqué from the Liberated Dining Halls of so-called Santa Cruz](https://itsgoingdown.org/a-communique-from-the-liberated-dining-halls-of-so-called-santa-cruz/) (USA)
* 09: [Mundo Nuevo Squat Evicted in Thessaloniki](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/mundo-nuevo-squat-evicted-thessaloniki) (Greece)
* 09: [Workers in Dallas, Texas at Alamo Drafthouse Stage Walkout](https://itsgoingdown.org/workers-in-dallas-texas-at-alamo-drafthouse-stage-walkout-donations-requested/) (USA)
* 14: [Final Straw: Stop Evictions at Winnemucca Indian Colony](https://itsgoingdown.org/final-straw-stop-evictions-at-winnemucca-indian-colony/) (USA)
* 15: [Attack on Italian Embassy in Bolivia](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/attack-italian-embassy-bolivia) (Bolivia)
* 15: [Attack on the First Counsellor of the Italian Embassy](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/responsibility-claim-explosive-attack-house-first-counsellor-italian-embassy) (Greece)
* 16: [Community Defends LGBTQ+ Event in Lakeland, Florida in the Face of Threats from Neo-Nazis](https://itsgoingdown.org/lankland-mobilization-florida-nazis/) (USA)
* 16: [CEL Offices Attacked in Solidarity with the Atlanta Weelaunee Forest](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/cel-offices-attacked-solidarity-atlanta-weelaunee-forest) (USA)
* 17: [Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Action to Block the Port of Montreal](https://itsgoingdown.org/wetsuweten-solidarity-action-to-block-the-port-of-montreal/) (Canada)
* 18: [Jacksonville, FL: Community Pushes Back Against Proud Boys](https://itsgoingdown.org/jacksonville-pushes-back-proud-boys/) (USA)
* 20: [A microphone found in an anarchist space in Foligno](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/microphone-found-anarchist-space-foligno-italy) (Italy)
* 21: [Resistance to COP 15 in Montreal, Winnipeg Landfill Blockaded for #MMIWG](https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-50/) (Canada)
* 21: [Proud Boys No Shows as Aurora, Illinois Community Mobilizes in Opposition](https://itsgoingdown.org/proud-boys-no-shows-as-aurora-illinois-community-mobilizes-in-opposition/) (USA)
* 21: [Community Defense Groups Defend Drag Event from Far-Right in Kansas City](https://itsgoingdown.org/community-defense-groups-defend-drag-event-from-far-right-in-kansas-city/) (USA)
* 22: [Seattle Solidarity Movement Helps Force Landlord to Move Family Suffering from Mold](https://itsgoingdown.org/seattle-solidarity-movement-helps-force-landlord-to-move-family-suffering-from-mold/) (USA)
* 26: [Raids and Arrests of Comrades for Explosive Attack on Gendarmerie](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/chile-raids-and-arrests-comrades-explosive-attack-gendarmerie) (Chile)
* 27: [Some initial notes on the investigation file against Ivan](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/some-initial-notes-investigation-file-against-ivan) (France)
* 27: [Solidarity w/ Anarchist Comrade Kostas Dimalexis](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/solidarity-w-anarchist-comrade-kostas-dimalexis) (Greece)
* 28: [Proud Boys Fail to Turn out Against Counter-Protest in Ft. Lauderdale, FL](https://itsgoingdown.org/proud-boys-ft-lauderdale-protest/) (USA)
* 29: [Orlando Community Defends Event Targeted With Far-Right Threats](https://itsgoingdown.org/orlando-defends-event-targeted-threats/) (USA)
* 30: [Mumia Pushes for New Trial, Updates on Antifascist Prisoners, Support #StopCopCity Arrestees](https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-24/) (USA)
* 31: [Update on the health condition of Thanos Chatzianggelou](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-health-condition-thanos-chatzianggelou) (Greece)
* 31: [Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-about-health-condition-alfredo-cospito) (Italy)
* 31: [Ivan Alocco begins a new hunger strike](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/ivan-alocco-begins-new-hunger-strike) (France)
* 31: [Hundreds Mobilize in NYC to Defend Community Event from Proud Boys and Anti-LGBTQ Bigots](https://itsgoingdown.org/nyc-hundreds-mobilize-defend-proud-boys/) (USA)
**January 2022**
* 03: [Bank of America set on fire in Portland](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/bank-america-set-fire-portland-0) (USA)
* 03: [Anarchists Loot Supermarket in Greece](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchists-loot-supermarket-greece) (Greece)
* 03: [Community Defends Library Event in New York Against Violent Police, Proud Boys and Neo-Nazis](https://itsgoingdown.org/december-29-drag-story-hour-defense-in-jackson-heights/) (USA)
* 04: [Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2023](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/balkan-anarchist-bookfair-2023) (Slovenia)
* 04: [Tisha Volkova, RIP](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/tisha-volkova-rip) (Ukraine)
* 05: [2023 Worldwide Anarchist Gatherings](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/2023-worldwide-anarchist-gatherings) (Specifically Finland, Chile, Ireland, UK, USA, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Slovenia, Switzerland and Poland)
* 05: [News from Belarusian prisons, December 2022](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/news-belarusian-prisons-december-2022) (Belarus)
* 05: [Berlin: Attack with fire for Thanos Chatziangelou](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/berlin-attack-fire-thanos-chatziangelou) (Germany)
* 05: [Blackbird Infoshop & Cafe Opens in Kingston, NY](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/blackbird-infoshop-cafe-opens-kingston-ny) (USA)
* 06: [Inside the Wood Street Commons Fight Against Displacement](https://itsgoingdown.org/inside-the-wood-street-commons-fight-against-displacement/) (USA)
* 08: [(A-Radio) A village to be evicted for coal - the defense of Luezerath in Germany](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/radio-village-be-evicted-coal-defense-luezerath-germany) (Germany)
* 09: [Attack On Metro Construction Sites](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/attack-metro-construction-sites) (Greece)
* 09: [Mutual Aid Groups Mobilize in Face of Asheville Water Crisis](https://itsgoingdown.org/final-straw-asheville-wate-crisis/) (USA)
* 09: [Alex Stokes Should Not Be in Prison](https://itsgoingdown.org/alex-stokes-should-not-be-in-prison/) (USA)
* 10: [Florida: Anarchists strike Cop City Contractor Brasfield and Gorrie](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/florida-anarchists-strike-cop-city-contractor-brasfield-and-gorrie) (USA)
* 10: [Defending Encampments and Fighting Evictions in Minneapolis: An Interview](https://itsgoingdown.org/defending-encampments-and-fighting-evictions-in-minneapolis-an-interview/) (USA)
* 11: [Residents in Chicago, Illinois are Reclaiming Vacant Properties](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/residents-chicago-illinois-are-reclaiming-vacant-properties) (USA)
* 11: [Thoughts after the first round of NHS strikes](https://libcom.org/article/thoughts-after-first-round-nhs-strikes) (UK)
* 13: [Anarchist groups claimed two new combative acts on Russian military objects](https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-groups-claimed-two-new-combative-acts-russian-military-objects) (Russia)
* 13: [Italian Consulate Attacked with Oil in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/brazil-italian-consulate-attacked-oil-solidarity-alfredo-cospito) (Brazil)
* 13: [Statement by the Anarchist Lucas Hernández](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-anarchist-lucas-hern%C3%A1ndez) (Chile)
* 13: [Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-about-health-condition-alfredo-cospito-1) (Italy)
* 13: [The trial of Revolutionary Self-Defence has ended](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/trial-revolutionary-self-defence-has-ended) (Greece)
* 13: [Updates concerning anarchist prisoner Toby Shone](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/updates-concerning-anarchist-prisoner-toby-shone) (UK)
* 14: [The Rebellion is built on Hope (An Interview with Leisa - a female rebel from Burma)](https://libcom.org/article/rebellion-built-hope-interview-leisa-female-rebel-burma) (Burma)
* 14: [THE FIGHT FOR LÜTZERATH AGAINST RWE](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/fight-l%C3%BCtzerath-against-rwe) (Germany)
* 14: [Fire for Alfredo Cospito and Lützerath in Hamburg, Germany](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/fire-alfredo-cospito-and-l%C3%BCtzerath-hamburg-germany) (Germany)
* 14: [Statement by the Anarchist Aldo Hernández](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/statement-anarchist-aldo-hern%C3%A1ndez) (Chile)
* 15: [2023 begins with new rise of anti-war struggle](https://libcom.org/article/2023-begins-new-rise-anti-war-struggle) (Russia)
* 16: [Pepe Cuevas (1951–2022)](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/pepe-cuevas-1951%E2%80%932022) (Spain)
* 16: [Savannah, GA Residents Rally at Brasfield & Gorrie site to Stop Cop City!](https://itsgoingdown.org/savannah-ga-residents-rally-at-brasfield-gorrie-site-to-stop-cop-city/) (USA)
* 16: [Serial Catfisher Posed as Anarchist Sex Worker to Tweet About 15-Year-Olds](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/serial-catfisher-posed-anarchist-sex-worker-tweet-about-15-year-olds-0) (Internet)
* 16: [Anarchist Days Leipzig, Apr 23 - May 1](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchist-days-leipzig-apr-23-may-1) (Germany)
* 17: [Organizing under a military dictatorship. An interview with Sudanese Anarchist Gathering](https://libcom.org/article/organizing-under-military-dictatorship-interview-sudanese-anarchist-gathering) (Sudan)
* 17: [Arson of Amazon Vehicles](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/berlin-arson-amazon-vehicles) (Germany)
* 17: [Communities Continue to Mobilize Against Anti-LGBTQ Attacks as New Fascist Formations Emerge](https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-133/) (USA)
* 18: [Police Murder ‘Cop City’ Protestor in Atlanta Forest](https://itsgoingdown.org/police-murder-cop-city-protestor-in-atlanta-forest/) (USA)
* 19: [Anarchists attack Hertz fleet in solidarity](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/germany-anarchists-attack-hertz-fleet-solidarity) (Germany)
* 19: [Mobilization Against ‘Cop City’ Hits Offices of Atlas Technical Consultants in Minnesota](https://itsgoingdown.org/mobilization-against-cop-city-hits-offices-minnesota/) (USA)
* 20: [Eric King due for release this year, please support him!](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/eric-king-due-release-year-please-support-him) (USA)
* 21: [Carlos Pimpão has Died](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/carlos-pimp%C3%A3o-has-died) (Portugal)
* 21: [Seattle, WA: Mourners Arrested at Vigil for Tort](https://itsgoingdown.org/seattle-vigil-arrests-for-tort/) (USA)
* 22: [Bank Backing ‘Cop City’ Targeted as Hundreds Take to Streets of Atlanta Following Police Killing](https://itsgoingdown.org/atlanta-bank-targeted-march-following-tort-death/) (USA)
* 23: [The fight for labour unions: Myanmar Pou Chen workers](https://libcom.org/article/fight-labour-unions-myanmar-pou-chen-workers) (Burma)
* 23: [Tucson Group Mourns Protester Killed by Police in the Atlanta Forest](https://itsgoingdown.org/tucson-group-mourns-protester-killed-by-police-in-the-atlanta-forest/) (USA)
* 23: [Alfredo Cospito, Italian Anarchist on Hunger Strike for 99 Days](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/alfredo-cospito-italian-anarchist-hunger-strike-99-days) (Italy)
* 24: [Drag Defenders Won 4-0 At Weekend Protests](https://itsgoingdown.org/drag-defenders-won-4-0-at-weekend-protests/) (USA)
* 25: [May the Earth be Light to You! Serge Livrozet, The Anarchist](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/may-earth-be-light-you-serge-livrozet-anarchist) (France)
* 25: [¡Viva Tortuguita!](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/%C2%A1viva-tortuguita) (USA)
* 25: [Revolutionary prisoners Ruslan Abasov and Lev Skoryakin managed to leave Russia](https://libcom.org/article/revolutionary-prisoners-ruslan-abasov-and-lev-skoryakin-managed-leave-russia) (Russia)
* 25: [Far-Right Doxxings and Consequences, New Prisons, and Queer Community Defence](https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-52/) (Canada)
* 26: [Portland: Attack on UPS Shipping Center](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/portland-attack-ups-shipping-center) (USA)
* 27: [Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito](https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/update-about-health-condition-alfredo-cospito-99th-day-hunger-strike-italy-january-26-2023) (Italy)
* 29: [Masses of Minneapolis Police Swarm Tyre Nichols Protest Before it Starts](https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/masses-of-minneapolis-police-swarm-tyre-nichols-protest-before-it-starts/) (USA)
* 30: [Mass Protests by Climate Activists Follow Eviction of Occupied German Village](https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/mass-protests-by-climate-activists-follow-eviction-of-occupied-german-village/) (Germany)
**Previous Posts**
* [August 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/xbzxkg/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_august_in/)
* [September 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/xsyq0e/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_september/)
* [October 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/yksxqu/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_october_in/)
* [November 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/zce7if/some_anarchist_news_from_the_month_of_november_in/)
I hate all bootsCops, soldiers, firefighters, paramedics, astronauts, construction workers ect. They are all entitled overpaid scumbags that demand your respect. I don’t care if you work hard and do a job that’s “dangerous”. No one is forcing you to do this job. I’m not impressed. Fuck your service.
Atlanta, Georgia - Now is the time to be educating people harder than ever about anarchism. Fuck this dystopian state
Between 70 million and 100 million—or as many as one in three Americans—have some type of criminal record
Corporations and governments pretend to care about marginalised groups for their own gain, not because they want to help them.I hope this is a good place to post about this. I'd considered the socialism sub, but it might fit in better here.
Everyday after work I spend about an hour talking to a woman a few years older than me. Recently she came out as trans, in the sense that she already transitioned years ago, started at like eleven or twelve, but was keeping it a secret for a long time.
We talk about a lot of things, it isn't just her transition, but one thing that annoys her is how big corporations put on a facade of pretending to care about the LGBTQ community as a whole, when really, it's all in the name of making more money, and it's begun happening in the government as well, where people like her still don't have a lot of real right, but politicians will try to speak on her behalf. She's also aware that she doesn't speak for all trans woman, but just feels angry and wants to see genuine improvements in trans rights and not half bakes attempts to capitalise of her community or get more votes.
She really hates the term "gender identity" because to her it feels very minimising, like it's just something you choose to identify as. She's said to me there's too much of an emphasis put on the difference between gender and sex, and while they are different, it's gotten to the point where people can pretend to accept her but still view her as male, but just identifying as a woman, when scientifically, her body is actually closer to that of a woman's after taking hormones anyway. She hates how the words "transsexual" has become somewhat of a slur now because she much prefers that word to transgender.
We've been talking about archaeology a lot. She's genuinely scared of having her body dug up one day for people to think of her as male. She talked about it online, hoping to have a serious discussion instead of people telling her she shouldn't care or should just get cremated. The only real bit of advice she got was from a woman studying archaeology, who wasn't trans herself, saying she should make sure she's buried in women's clothes and stuff that validates her identity so if her body ever is found, they'll see that she had a male body but presented as something else. It didn't provide her with any of the comfort it was intended to.
Basically, in short, she's been saying a lot that a lot of people in power have been speaking on her behalf while not really doing anything to help her or others like her, and the more words like "identity" are pushed, it'll just open the door to more attack helicopter jokes. You can see Mickey Mouse pins at Disneyland with rainbow flags on them but I doubt for one second that Disney are really doing any effort to make the lives of gay or trans people any better.
When my car has been running, and is warmed up, if it snows the engine heat melts snow for a little but in the shape of an A. two occasions I noticed it.
Made some propaganda with Midjourney.
Sources on Revolutionary Catalonia 1936–39?Hi, currently writing a paper on the autonomously governed anarchist Barcelona and Catalonia in general. Looking for sources/reports on this topic as well as any historical documentation
How to rate Black Guards
**Black Guards** ([Russian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language): Чёрная гвардия, *Chjornaya gvardiya*) were armed groups of workers formed after the [February Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution) and before the [final Bolshevik suppression of other leftwing groups](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_uprisings_against_the_Bolsheviks). They were the main strike force of the [anarchists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism). They were created in the Summer of 1917 in Ukraine by [Maria Nikiforova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Nikiforova), and expanded in January 1918 to Moscow, under the control of anarchists at industrial enterprises by Factory and Plant Committees and by [Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Federation_of_Anarchist_Groups) cells.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-ROSSPEN216-1)[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin93-2)
## History[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Guards&action=edit§ion=1)]
### Origin[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Guards&action=edit§ion=2)]
📷Black guards organizing during the start of the Russian Revolution against the Bolsheviks.
Russian anarchists opposed the creation of a regular [Red Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army) with the call "To arms!" and the widespread organization of rebel committees with the aim of [total arming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms) of the populace. The anarchist press of [Petrograd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrograd), [Moscow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow) and other large centers carried out massive agitation with the aim of creating free fighting squads of the "Black Guard". As the newspaper *Burevestnik*, the organ of the Petrograd Federation, wrote:
>“Those gentlemen are cruelly mistaken, thinking that the real revolution is already over, that now all that remains is to consolidate those disgusting gains that went to the working people. No! The real revolution, the social revolution, the liberator of the working people of all countries, is just beginning.”[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Azarov14-3)
[Maria Nikiforova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Nikiforova) organized the Black Guards' first unit. Nikiforova, often known by her nickname Marusya, was a Ukrainian anarchist organiser who put together the first Black Guards cell in the city of Alexandrovsk in Ukraine. Nikiforova started the first Black Guards cell in an attempt to force land reform and wealth redistribution to fruition. Nikiforova, a self-proclaimed terrorist, directed her unit of Black Guards to terrorize the Alexandrovsk local government in order to achieve the political change she desired. Later similar cells were established by [Nestor Makhno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno) throughout other portions of Ukraine. Makhno, during the revolution, seized land and distributed wealth among the peasants.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-4)
The strength of the Black Guard quickly grew, which was noted, in particular, by the Deputy Chairman of the Cheka [Jēkabs Peterss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%93kabs_Peterss).[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Azarov14-3) In addition, by [March 1918](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1918), anarchists controlled 25 mansions in Moscow,[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Azarov15-5) and some of them were located near strategically important points of the city.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin94-6) Since the relations between the allies in the revolutionary camp, the [Bolsheviks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks) and the [anarchists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Russia), were gradually aggravated, they prepared for future clashes.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin94-6) According to the [Cheka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka), an anarchist action against the Bolsheviks was scheduled for [April 18](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_18),[\[a\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Rumor-8) and therefore it was decided to launch a preemptive strike, disarming the Black Guard units.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin94-6)
### Suppression in Russia[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Guards&action=edit§ion=3)]
On the night of April 11, 1918, [Felix Dzerzhinsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky), director of the [Cheka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka), had a force of approximately 5,000 Soviet troops attack the anarchist headquarters in Moscow.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-9)[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Dubovik-10) Anarchists returned fire, with the help of artillery, but the Bolsheviks suppressed resistance on Donskaya Street and entered into a firefight on Povarskaya Street. The last stronghold of the Black Guard was the Zeitlin mansion, which was taken by 12 noon, and in general, the fighting between the forces of the Cheka and the anarchists stopped by 2 PM.[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Azarov15-5) As a result of this operation, the Bolsheviks killed 40 anarchists, some of whom were shot on the spot. In addition, 10 to 12 security officers and soldiers were killed in the fighting.[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin236-11)
Recalling these events, the Russian anarchist [Vsevolod Volin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vsevolod_Volin) wrote in his book *The Unknown Revolution*:
>\[O\]n the night of [April 12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12), under a false and absurd pretext, \[the quarters of\] all the Anarchist organizations in Moscow — and principally those of the Federation of Anarchist Groups in that city — were attacked and sacked by troops and the police force. For several hours the capital took on the appearance of a city in a state of siege. Even artillery took part in the “action”.
This operation served as a signal for the sacking of the libertarian organizations in nearly all the important cities of Russia. And as always the provincial authorities exceeded in zeal those in the capital.
[Leon Trotsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky), who for two weeks had prepared the blow, and who had carried out in person, among the regiments, an unbridled agitation against the “anarcho-bandits”, had the satisfaction of being able to make his famous declaration: “At last the Soviet government, with an iron broom, has rid Russia of Anarchism.”[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-12)
After the defeat of the Black Guard in Moscow, a search was carried out of the mansions seized from the anarchists, in some of which gold was found. The Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups was accused of having links with criminals and about 500 people were arrested.[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Dubovik-10)[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin96-13) At the same time, Dzerzhinsky, commenting on what happened, noted:
>We in no way had in mind and did not want to fight the ideological anarchists. And at the present time, we are releasing all the ideological anarchists who were detained on the night of April 12, and if, perhaps, some of them will be brought to justice, it will only be for covering up crimes committed by criminal elements that have infiltrated anarchist organizations. There are very few ideological anarchists among the people detained by us, and only a few among hundreds.”[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-14)[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin231-15)
The events in Moscow were the signal for the beginning of the struggle in the regions. On the morning of [April 12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12), in the town of [Gorodets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorodets,_Nizhny_Novgorod_Oblast), the anarchists, headed by the chairman of the city council, began a struggle against the Bolsheviks. With the support of [armored cars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_car_(military)), they captured [Novocherkassk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk) and began to hunt down the Bolsheviks. The center of the anarchists in the [Volga region](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_region) was [Samara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara),[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-16) where during the April “disarmament” the detachments managed to hide their weapons. At the end of April, the Samara Black Guard "flying" detachment of Smorodinov (made up of 600 militants with armored cars) captured the city of [Buguruslan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buguruslan). The struggle of the anarchists against the Bolsheviks in the Volga region lasted all [April](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1918) and [May](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1918). In [Kursk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk), the anarchists revolted and held the city on [April 10](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_10)\-[29](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_29), 1918. On [May 9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_9), the Commissariat of Internal Affairs sent a directive to all provincial Soviets: “The experience of Moscow, Petrograd and other cities has proved that hooligans, thieves, robbers and counter-revolutionaries are hiding behind the flag of anarchist organizations, they are secretly preparing the overthrow of Soviet power... Disarm all the squads and organizations of the anarchists. Anyone can have a weapon only with the permission of the local Soviets" (Izvestia No. 91, 05/10/18). However, on [May 17](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_17), the anarchists, in alliance with the [maximalists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Socialists-Revolutionaries_Maximalists), spearheaded a new uprising in Samara.[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Azarov15-5) The remaining presence of the Black Guards was significantly weakened by their own internal divisions and lack of organization. Russian revolutionary writer Victor Serge, who was initially part of anarchist movement, believed that much of the Black Guards real capacities was "wasted on small and chaotic struggles."[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-17)
### Militarization in Ukraine[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Guards&action=edit§ion=4)]
Ultimately the legacy of the Black Guards was its serving as a model for the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, otherwise known as the Black Army. Following the [Treaty of Brest-Litovsk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk), Nestor Makhno formed a Black Guards unit in Ukraine that would later grow into what was formally known as the [Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Insurgent_Army_of_Ukraine) (RIAU). The RIAU may have been considered a continuation of the Black Guards if it were not on a far larger, more organized, and unified scale.
## Characteristics of the Black Guard[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Guards&action=edit§ion=5)]
The anarchists understood that criminals, people who were not tested for reliability, would only harm them, especially since the situation was heating up. Therefore, the ranks of the Black Guard were purged from unreliable elements, and the admission into its ranks was tougher. On [April 4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_4), a request was received from the headquarters of the Black Guard to provide lists of all persons belonging to the Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups. Militants were only admitted to the Black Guard on the recommendation of either local groups; three members of the Federation; [Factory committees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_committees); or District Councils.
The Black Guard was created as an alternative to traditional army structures, and it set about training detachments that could operate in partisan conditions. Instead of a disciplined integral army, the anarchists created a number of disciplined squads, acting not in formation, not in open battle, not by military etiquette, but by guerrilla detachments of raiders and terrorists.These detachments were created with the aim of “securing the conquests already taken from the teeth of the bourgeoisie who had gone underground and from the raids of the international gold monopoly in the White Guard uniform. These units were supposed to replace the militant groups accustomed to operating in [tsarist Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire), whose usual practice was expropriation, terrorist acts against the police - "[propaganda by the deed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_by_the_deed)" - by forming permanent anarchist units. At the same time, the Black Guard was not supposed to participate in searches, arrests and other similar actions, since this was considered the prerogative of the Red Guard.
Testing Midjourney (AI), I took the opportunity to create images of Bakunin and Bakunin with Marx
Would it be easier to be an anarchist under socialism/communism?Obviously, there are some tensions between anarchists and communists.
Rn I'm talking about the part of the tension caused by anarchists disagreeing with the dictatorship of the proletariat element of socialist/communist thought. Anarchists obviously tend to point to the corrupting nature of hierarchy as a reason not to 'use the state'.
It strikes me though, as someone with years of affinity towards anarchism (I currently transcend labels 🙄), that all of the things anarchists want to do would be much easier in a communist/socialist society than they are today, under full liberalism.
It seems obvious that anarchism would be more popular and easier to practice in a society of socialists and communists, rather than a society of liberals and fascists, who are the majority of my neighbours today.
Am I too naive in believing that the wonderful modern communists I know wouldn't 'kill all the anarchists' like the old trope?
And isn't the communist 'withering of the state' the exact process described in anarchist 'dual power' theory?
Are anarchists and MLs soul mates they just don't realize it?? Haha. This thought came up on a post in this subreddit that was deleted earlier today, so I thought I'd just ask what people think
Ends and MeansDisclaimer 1: was struggling to come up with a succinct title, this is not a proper essay because I don’t have the time or energy for that, but I wanted to start a discussion. As usual my thoughts are probably a bit all over the place, so apologies for that.
Disclaimer 2: this conversation is pretty closely related to discussions of electoralism, but try not to spend too much time on that in the comments because of the rules against it. (The irony is not lost on me, but not the point of the post to complain about that rule)
I started thinking about this after seeing a post where a white nationalist in Denmark was punched in the face for burning a Quran, and in light of what’s happening in Memphis I think it’s especially relevant.
(For context on the first situation, there was a lot of whining in the comments about free speech and how violence is never the answer blah blah. For moderate leftists there’s an interesting discussion there about how they’d have a legal system that supports freedom of speech while avoiding the paradox of tolerance, but as someone who doesn’t support laws as a concept, i don’t need to have a ‘consistent’ view on them. if they happen to align with my values than good, if not then fuck them.)
As anarchists, how do you feel about using, or even ‘expanding’, the state to accomplish specific goals.
What I mean is, pretty much no one here supports prisons or punitive justice, but I’m not exactly losing sleep over the Jan. 6th crowd getting into legal trouble.
Though there is a discussion to be had about how right being extremism is used as a weapon against radicalism in general. FE: the nationalistic response to Jan. 6th by liberals, which reminds me a bit of the response to 9/11.
Something I find a bit more interesting (from a ‘theory’ standpoint) would be actually expanding the state’s influence with things like UBI and universal healthcare. For me personally, I don’t particularly care about ‘ideological purity’ or anything like that, so while it seems to be pretty objectively unanarchist to advocate for those things, I’ll do it anyway because at the end of the day the goal is to improve people’s lives.
And of course, there is no reason why you can’t support those systems (for a given definition of support, as I think we would all like to see them dismantled at some point) while also participating in Mutual Aid.
The obvious counter argument is the accelerationist one, that reform only perpetuates the systems other flaws because non radical activists will be placated, does have some merit imo, but from a more utilitarian viewpoint I think it’s worth it if people can live substantially better lives.
That’s the main counter that comes to mind for me, but I’m not saying it’s the only one or even a particularly good one. I’m interested to hear what you guys have to say about this.
How to rate Black Guards
**Black Guards** ([Russian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language): Чёрная гвардия, *Chjornaya gvardiya*) were armed groups of workers formed after the [February Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution) and before the [final Bolshevik suppression of other leftwing groups](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_uprisings_against_the_Bolsheviks). They were the main strike force of the [anarchists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism). They were created in the Summer of 1917 in Ukraine by [Maria Nikiforova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Nikiforova), and expanded in January 1918 to Moscow, under the control of anarchists at industrial enterprises by Factory and Plant Committees and by [Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Federation_of_Anarchist_Groups) cells.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-ROSSPEN216-1)[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin93-2)
## History[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Guards&action=edit§ion=1)]
### Origin[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Guards&action=edit§ion=2)]
📷Black guards organizing during the start of the Russian Revolution against the Bolsheviks.
Russian anarchists opposed the creation of a regular [Red Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army) with the call "To arms!" and the widespread organization of rebel committees with the aim of [total arming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms) of the populace. The anarchist press of [Petrograd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrograd), [Moscow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow) and other large centers carried out massive agitation with the aim of creating free fighting squads of the "Black Guard". As the newspaper *Burevestnik*, the organ of the Petrograd Federation, wrote:
>“Those gentlemen are cruelly mistaken, thinking that the real revolution is already over, that now all that remains is to consolidate those disgusting gains that went to the working people. No! The real revolution, the social revolution, the liberator of the working people of all countries, is just beginning.”[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Azarov14-3)
[Maria Nikiforova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Nikiforova) organized the Black Guards' first unit. Nikiforova, often known by her nickname Marusya, was a Ukrainian anarchist organiser who put together the first Black Guards cell in the city of Alexandrovsk in Ukraine. Nikiforova started the first Black Guards cell in an attempt to force land reform and wealth redistribution to fruition. Nikiforova, a self-proclaimed terrorist, directed her unit of Black Guards to terrorize the Alexandrovsk local government in order to achieve the political change she desired. Later similar cells were established by [Nestor Makhno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno) throughout other portions of Ukraine. Makhno, during the revolution, seized land and distributed wealth among the peasants.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-4)
The strength of the Black Guard quickly grew, which was noted, in particular, by the Deputy Chairman of the Cheka [Jēkabs Peterss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%93kabs_Peterss).[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Azarov14-3) In addition, by [March 1918](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1918), anarchists controlled 25 mansions in Moscow,[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Azarov15-5) and some of them were located near strategically important points of the city.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin94-6) Since the relations between the allies in the revolutionary camp, the [Bolsheviks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks) and the [anarchists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Russia), were gradually aggravated, they prepared for future clashes.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin94-6) According to the [Cheka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka), an anarchist action against the Bolsheviks was scheduled for [April 18](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_18),[\[a\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Rumor-8) and therefore it was decided to launch a preemptive strike, disarming the Black Guard units.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin94-6)
### Suppression in Russia[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Guards&action=edit§ion=3)]
On the night of April 11, 1918, [Felix Dzerzhinsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky), director of the [Cheka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka), had a force of approximately 5,000 Soviet troops attack the anarchist headquarters in Moscow.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-9)[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Dubovik-10) Anarchists returned fire, with the help of artillery, but the Bolsheviks suppressed resistance on Donskaya Street and entered into a firefight on Povarskaya Street. The last stronghold of the Black Guard was the Zeitlin mansion, which was taken by 12 noon, and in general, the fighting between the forces of the Cheka and the anarchists stopped by 2 PM.[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Azarov15-5) As a result of this operation, the Bolsheviks killed 40 anarchists, some of whom were shot on the spot. In addition, 10 to 12 security officers and soldiers were killed in the fighting.[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin236-11)
Recalling these events, the Russian anarchist [Vsevolod Volin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vsevolod_Volin) wrote in his book *The Unknown Revolution*:
>\[O\]n the night of [April 12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12), under a false and absurd pretext, \[the quarters of\] all the Anarchist organizations in Moscow — and principally those of the Federation of Anarchist Groups in that city — were attacked and sacked by troops and the police force. For several hours the capital took on the appearance of a city in a state of siege. Even artillery took part in the “action”.
This operation served as a signal for the sacking of the libertarian organizations in nearly all the important cities of Russia. And as always the provincial authorities exceeded in zeal those in the capital.
[Leon Trotsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky), who for two weeks had prepared the blow, and who had carried out in person, among the regiments, an unbridled agitation against the “anarcho-bandits”, had the satisfaction of being able to make his famous declaration: “At last the Soviet government, with an iron broom, has rid Russia of Anarchism.”[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-12)
After the defeat of the Black Guard in Moscow, a search was carried out of the mansions seized from the anarchists, in some of which gold was found. The Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups was accused of having links with criminals and about 500 people were arrested.[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Dubovik-10)[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin96-13) At the same time, Dzerzhinsky, commenting on what happened, noted:
>We in no way had in mind and did not want to fight the ideological anarchists. And at the present time, we are releasing all the ideological anarchists who were detained on the night of April 12, and if, perhaps, some of them will be brought to justice, it will only be for covering up crimes committed by criminal elements that have infiltrated anarchist organizations. There are very few ideological anarchists among the people detained by us, and only a few among hundreds.”[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-14)[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Shubin231-15)
The events in Moscow were the signal for the beginning of the struggle in the regions. On the morning of [April 12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12), in the town of [Gorodets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorodets,_Nizhny_Novgorod_Oblast), the anarchists, headed by the chairman of the city council, began a struggle against the Bolsheviks. With the support of [armored cars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_car_(military)), they captured [Novocherkassk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk) and began to hunt down the Bolsheviks. The center of the anarchists in the [Volga region](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_region) was [Samara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara),[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-16) where during the April “disarmament” the detachments managed to hide their weapons. At the end of April, the Samara Black Guard "flying" detachment of Smorodinov (made up of 600 militants with armored cars) captured the city of [Buguruslan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buguruslan). The struggle of the anarchists against the Bolsheviks in the Volga region lasted all [April](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1918) and [May](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1918). In [Kursk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk), the anarchists revolted and held the city on [April 10](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_10)\-[29](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_29), 1918. On [May 9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_9), the Commissariat of Internal Affairs sent a directive to all provincial Soviets: “The experience of Moscow, Petrograd and other cities has proved that hooligans, thieves, robbers and counter-revolutionaries are hiding behind the flag of anarchist organizations, they are secretly preparing the overthrow of Soviet power... Disarm all the squads and organizations of the anarchists. Anyone can have a weapon only with the permission of the local Soviets" (Izvestia No. 91, 05/10/18). However, on [May 17](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_17), the anarchists, in alliance with the [maximalists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Socialists-Revolutionaries_Maximalists), spearheaded a new uprising in Samara.[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-Azarov15-5) The remaining presence of the Black Guards was significantly weakened by their own internal divisions and lack of organization. Russian revolutionary writer Victor Serge, who was initially part of anarchist movement, believed that much of the Black Guards real capacities was "wasted on small and chaotic struggles."[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guards#cite_note-17)
### Militarization in Ukraine[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Guards&action=edit§ion=4)]
Ultimately the legacy of the Black Guards was its serving as a model for the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, otherwise known as the Black Army. Following the [Treaty of Brest-Litovsk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk), Nestor Makhno formed a Black Guards unit in Ukraine that would later grow into what was formally known as the [Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Insurgent_Army_of_Ukraine) (RIAU). The RIAU may have been considered a continuation of the Black Guards if it were not on a far larger, more organized, and unified scale.
## Characteristics of the Black Guard[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Guards&action=edit§ion=5)]
The anarchists understood that criminals, people who were not tested for reliability, would only harm them, especially since the situation was heating up. Therefore, the ranks of the Black Guard were purged from unreliable elements, and the admission into its ranks was tougher. On [April 4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_4), a request was received from the headquarters of the Black Guard to provide lists of all persons belonging to the Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups. Militants were only admitted to the Black Guard on the recommendation of either local groups; three members of the Federation; [Factory committees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_committees); or District Councils.
The Black Guard was created as an alternative to traditional army structures, and it set about training detachments that could operate in partisan conditions. Instead of a disciplined integral army, the anarchists created a number of disciplined squads, acting not in formation, not in open battle, not by military etiquette, but by guerrilla detachments of raiders and terrorists.These detachments were created with the aim of “securing the conquests already taken from the teeth of the bourgeoisie who had gone underground and from the raids of the international gold monopoly in the White Guard uniform. These units were supposed to replace the militant groups accustomed to operating in [tsarist Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire), whose usual practice was expropriation, terrorist acts against the police - "[propaganda by the deed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_by_the_deed)" - by forming permanent anarchist units. At the same time, the Black Guard was not supposed to participate in searches, arrests and other similar actions, since this was considered the prerogative of the Red Guard.
My own personal story of radicalization: My disillusion with liberalism and social democracy. Can anyone relate?As anyone who has read any of my more personal posts, I used to be a liberal. I've always been a particularly political person, and a deeply passionate one at that, so I was always passionate about liberalism,
I was actively anti-socialist as well. Partly because I thought socialism = WhEn ThE gOvErNmEnT controls everything and partially because it felt inherently authoritarian to me (obviously, my opinions on this have changed). What has been strong throughout all of my politics is a very strong distrust of centralized authority, my deepest political principle has always been anti-authoritarianism.
I was also an entrepreneurial type. Or at least I wanted to be anyways. My thinking was that, since the rich lobby politicians, if I could become rich then I would be able to lobby politicians and pass like pro-lgbtq+ stuff or civil rights programs, expanded welfare, etc. I always believed that if I had money, I would have power, and I would use that power wisely and fight the good fight. Please note, that it didn't occur to me how fundamentally elitist and anti-democratic this mindset was until much later. Fuck the rich.
Then, I started learning what the rich were actually like. I've always heard the phrase "money corrupts" but I had no idea how true that really was.
Here's some videos on the insane and abusive shit rich asshats get up to: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyzDxxQRSA&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyzDxxQRSA&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=10), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ce2HcQpZU&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ce2HcQpZU&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=13), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn548uALuYw&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn548uALuYw&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=16)
The rich are regularly able to abuse regular people cause they'll just buy their silence. And it costs nothing for them. The poor can sue, they can speak out, but the rich have PR teams, the best lawyers in the world. They will almost always get away with it.
And that's what struck me. I was right when I understood that money -> power. What really corrupts is power. The ability to get or get away with whatever you wanted.
And deep down, I don't trust myself with that power. And if I don't trust MYSELF with it, despite my constant moral handwringing, why the fuck should I trust some rich asshat with it?
That's what really broke liberalism for me. The notion that massive accumulation of personal wealth is ok so long as everyone gets basic necessities. That economic inequality, in and of itself, isn't the problem, poverty is. That idea was wrong. Economic inequality -> power inequality. No matter what system you implement this will always be true. Taxation doesn't fix it, campaign finance can't fix it long term (after all, what's the real difference between giving directly to a campaign to advertise, or running ads that express your "sincerely held political beliefs" or getting a bunch of employees who mysteriously get raises to do it).
What I failed to see as a liberal, but I do see now, is that control of resources grants power. And the only way to ensure an equality of power is to ensure equal access to resources. And the only way to do that is to ensure no one individual controls those resources (i.e. to ensure that private property is abolished).
Billionaires should not exist. The fact they do exist means that there is a tremendous difference in power between those who are and those who aren't. And power will always corrupt. Always. It would corrupt me, it would corrupt you, it has corrupted those at the top. It's just part of being human.
To prevent that corruption, and to prevent that abuse we must equalize power. This is where the soviet style states failed. They didn't equalize power, they just gave it to a new class of bureaucrats and politburo types who then went on to do the same shit the rich did. No, real equality comes from worker management of resources, i.e. direct worker management of the MOP.
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Anyone else in this boat? Disillusioned with liberalism and social democracy? Disillusioned with taxes fixing all our problems when the real problem is the power imbalance inherent to the system?
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Thoughts?
My own personal story of radicalization: My disillusion with liberalism and social democracy. Can anyone relate?As anyone who has read any of my more personal posts, I used to be a liberal. I've always been a particularly political person, and a deeply passionate one at that, so I was always passionate about liberalism,
I was actively anti-socialist as well. Partly because I thought socialism = WhEn ThE gOvErNmEnT controls everything and partially because it felt inherently authoritarian to me (obviously, my opinions on this have changed). What has been strong throughout all of my politics is a very strong distrust of centralized authority, my deepest political principle has always been anti-authoritarianism.
I was also an entrepreneurial type. Or at least I wanted to be anyways. My thinking was that, since the rich lobby politicians, if I could become rich then I would be able to lobby politicians and pass like pro-lgbtq+ stuff or civil rights programs, expanded welfare, etc. I always believed that if I had money, I would have power, and I would use that power wisely and fight the good fight. Please note, that it didn't occur to me how fundamentally elitist and anti-democratic this mindset was until much later. Fuck the rich.
Then, I started learning what the rich were actually like. I've always heard the phrase "money corrupts" but I had no idea how true that really was.
Here's some videos on the insane and abusive shit rich asshats get up to: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyzDxxQRSA&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyzDxxQRSA&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=10), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ce2HcQpZU&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ce2HcQpZU&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=13), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn548uALuYw&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn548uALuYw&list=PLDbSvEZka6GEojWq0xz2klOVp2r9iT4G5&index=16)
The rich are regularly able to abuse regular people cause they'll just buy their silence. And it costs nothing for them. The poor can sue, they can speak out, but the rich have PR teams, the best lawyers in the world. They will almost always get away with it.
And that's what struck me. I was right when I understood that money -> power. What really corrupts is power. The ability to get or get away with whatever you wanted.
And deep down, I don't trust myself with that power. And if I don't trust MYSELF with it, despite my constant moral handwringing, why the fuck should I trust some rich asshat with it?
That's what really broke liberalism for me. The notion that massive accumulation of personal wealth is ok so long as everyone gets basic necessities. That economic inequality, in and of itself, isn't the problem, poverty is. That idea was wrong. Economic inequality -> power inequality. No matter what system you implement this will always be true. Taxation doesn't fix it, campaign finance can't fix it long term (after all, what's the real difference between giving directly to a campaign to advertise, or running ads that express your "sincerely held political beliefs" or getting a bunch of employees who mysteriously get raises to do it).
What I failed to see as a liberal, but I do see now, is that control of resources grants power. And the only way to ensure an equality of power is to ensure equal access to resources. And the only way to do that is to ensure no one individual controls those resources (i.e. to ensure that private property is abolished).
Billionaires should not exist. The fact they do exist means that there is a tremendous difference in power between those who are and those who aren't. And power will always corrupt. Always. It would corrupt me, it would corrupt you, it has corrupted those at the top. It's just part of being human.
To prevent that corruption, and to prevent that abuse we must equalize power. This is where the soviet style states failed. They didn't equalize power, they just gave it to a new class of bureaucrats and politburo types who then went on to do the same shit the rich did. No, real equality comes from worker management of resources, i.e. direct worker management of the MOP.
​
Anyone else in this boat? Disillusioned with liberalism and social democracy? Disillusioned with taxes fixing all our problems when the real problem is the power imbalance inherent to the system?
​
Thoughts?
It's time to end the police. I hope this bodycam footage inspires the people to stand up and to make their rage heard. Every person murdered is one person too many, and its time for it all to stop.Every single fucking cop is a bastard. Every white cop, every black cop, every woman cop, every queer cop. They are all pigs and they are all bastards and enough is enough. They are all fucking state sanctiond terrorists and I dont need to see this bodycam footage to know that.
My eyes will bleed but I will watch this injustice. Fuck them, fuck every single pig. Even your friend, your dad, your brother, your mom, your sisters, your family, every single one. The problem is police exist at all. They should not exist. Not a single one. And ill watch the footage, because it deserves to be witnessed. It deserves to be heard. Anger is a gift. At what point does it become too much even to simply arrest and convict them, that isn't enough. It's not enough to allow this to continue in any form.
Black people being murdered by black cops is not new. Cops are not working class, they are not allies of the working class regardless of race or gender or identity. They are out here killing people of color in public executions that continously go unchallenged. This is only one small example of the many people they've murdered just this past month. It is a drop in the ocean of atrocity of just the last year. There is no room for talks or debate here. And I hope that the people see that. I hope that it fills them with unimaginable sorrow and rage and seething nausea at the horrific true nature of the pigs.
FUCK THE POLICEDetails including an interview with Tyre's mom [here](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/27/us/tyre-nichols-memphis-friday/index.html). Tyre called out for his mom in the video three times.
I won't post the video, but it is available now.
¿Hay alguien aquí que es de Cherán? Quiero aprender más de tu comunidad y la revolución en tu ciudadEspecíficamente, quiero aprender como luchas contra los carteles, y tu relación con el estado Mexicano.
Personalmente, no sé mucho se trata de Cherán, pero quiero aprender más. También, lo siento si hay errores en mi español, yo soy de los estados unidos y inglés es mi primera lengua.
Me aparece que México en particular tiene muchos movimientos anarquistas y que hay mucho que puedo aprender allí. También los zapatistas me interesan (también quiero aprender sobre la relación entre ustedes y los zapatistas (si hay algún)).
Básicamente tengo algunas preguntas para ustedes.
1. ¿Que tipo de relación tienen con el gobierno de México? En el Internet he leído que tu economía está basada en comercio con el resto de México, entonces, ¿como mantienen su independencia cuando necesitan apoyo del territorio bajo del gobierno mexicano? También, porque el gobierno mexicano no se ha atacado, porque no están bajos de su control ¿sí?
2. ¿Como luchan contra los carteles? ¿Hay un mercado de drogas en tu ciudad? Yo se que la mayoría de las drogas en México va aquí en los Estados Unidos, pero hay consumidores allí también ¿no?. ¿Como luchan contra adicción y los problemas económicos que sigan al mercado narco?
3. ¿Tienen algún relación con las zapatistas o movimientos de la izquierda en México? Sí no, ¿por que?
4. ¿A dentro de tu ciudad, como funciona la economía? ¿Hay muchos cooperativos trabajadores? ¿Como hacer negocios con las fuerzas afuera fe Cheràn? ¿Qué son tus industrias más importantes?
5. ¿Como funciona tus fuerzas de seguridad? ¿Entiendo que están compuesto de las ciudades de la ciudad, pero como funciona como una sistema? ¿Hay una fuerza oficial, o es más informal? Hay papeles oficiales o líderes o es más horizontal? ¿Como podemos copiarte en nuestras comunidades? Totalmente entiendo si no puedes responder a esta pregunta, por favor no te pones en peligroso. Ten cuidado compañero.
¡Gracias! Es posible que tendría más preguntas más tarde, pero ahora quiero aprender los básicos de como tu sociedad funciona y que podemos emular aquí
¡Solaridad con tu de los estados unidos!
Cambio:
Yo entiendo que en otras partes de Micoacán hay fuerzas de autodefensa pero ellos también están involucrado en el mercado de drogas y narcotrafficante. ¿Como previenes esto en tu comundad?
Fuente: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIFvY06_-1Q
The Playbook: How the authorities try to suppress unrest in response to police murders
Israeli military kills nine Palestinians for no reason at all
1/26 - Shane Burley and Daryle Lamont Jenkins present "¡No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis" in conversation w/Christa Daring by Red Emma's
My new rib tattoo that I am completely, utterly in love with.
The Thin Blue Line is Flammable – Scenes from Atlanta Protests after police murder Manuel Teran
What would an anarchistic justice framework do with figures like Donald Trump?Recently I was somewhat dismayed to see other socialists and anarchists within the Twitter sphere celebrating Andrew Tate's arrest at the hands of the Romanian police, with numerous suggestions he was "getting what he deserved" and wishes for him to "rot in prison for the rest of his life."
Make no mistake, Andrew Tate is a serial abuser and misogynist who has caused serious harm to others. The people he has traumatized deserve to hold him directly accountable. While the fact his bruised ego lashing back at a teenage girl made him give himself away will never not be hilarious, I don't believe incarceration can or will deliver any meaningful justice here.
Tying this back to Donald Trump, I've only either heard doomerish proclamations that Trump will escape any and all accountability (paired with passive prayers for his diet to kill him before he can cause much more damage) or expressions of the same bizarre fetishistic yearning for special counsel Jack Smith's presumably forthcoming criminal indictment as for Robert Mueller's.
I have yet to hear anyone propose or conceive of how a real, abolitionist model of justice would deal with figures like Trump, who hold so much sway over vast sections of society that it'd be difficult to say exactly which of his peers or victims would hold him accountable for what specific offense, or what resulting consequences that would mean for him.
Hell, even if Jack Smith *does* indict, prosecute, convict, and sentence Trump within the next 18 months (and precluding the Republican Party doesn't follow through with its threats of civil war should any of the above occur) there's still nothing stopping Trump from remaining a valid presidential candidate from prison - and even in the likelihood he loses again, whatever shockwaves Moore v. Harper might reap might fully legalize the same kind of election fraud scheme Trump attempted in 2020.
A convicted seditionist legally assuming the office of head of state would all but destroy the notion of the rule of law, of the modern "rules-based order."
Frankly I don't have that much faith that any state institution could possibly hold accountable a man who personifies perhaps the purest manifestation of coercive control, of the uninhibited solipsistic id, alive today - not that his incarceration would represent actual justice anyway.
Either way, whether he spends the rest of his days in prison or a free man, once the decision about which he will be is made, the United States as we know it seems on course to implode - and there doesn't seem to be much indication, even from the Left, that whatever is most likely to succeed it would be any healthier or more holistic a society,
I'm not even sure the gravity of the fact an irrational, vengeful fascist who was only kept from ***launching unprovoked false flag attacks with nuclear weapons*** by the brief instances of good judgment from his slightly more self-aware criminal accomplices, might very well be back in command of those same nuclear weapons this time two years from now is weighing on us the way it should be.
What costs are we willing to pay here?Hey guys. I’m new to this whole thing and I’d like to gather a sense of how much the people of this community would genuinely put on the line. How much pain and suffering would you be able to accept to bring anarchism to this fucked world? What is the price you are willing to pay?
I suppose what I’m trying to understand is how serious is everyone here. Is this stuff just a bunch of theory you use as another means of distraction, another fantasy that eases the pain of reality some - while doing nothing to being the dream into fruition?
What do these ideas really mean to you? Would you be willing to actually live and die for them?
On The Subject of American RevolutionSpeaking in terms blatant, as a question.
Painting a picture to grasp a better idea of, America is ripe in discourse and political corruption, peace is varied and never in full, not that a neighbor ever truly loved his neighbor but now more than ever do we find ourselves bitter and hateful.
Regardless of reasoning this resentment is a nail in our coffin.
And so my picture is painted, and my question following is, If a revolution occurs and factions fight. Would the anrchists choose a side? Or would the chaos in-between be the place you reap?
Any podcasts with anarchist perspectives on modern topics?Basically title, wanna get more insight on modern topics and study it better. Alternatively it could also be books. Thanks in advance and viva la anarkía.
Why bother living?About to turn 40 this year and this reality we live in is so depressing and exhausting. I have no hope for my personal journey now that I only see my career goals and passion(art) as capitalistic bullshit.
I am not in great health sadly, so I cannot be the activist I would like. The couple of friends I have are busy with their kids and surviving so they don't really want to hear about my worries for this poor planet. I don't have kids myself so maybe I spend too much time alone overthinking.
Therapy has helped, but at the end of the day "the world just is what it is" vibe just crushes me.
Anyways, I was wondering what other people do when they get to this nihilistic point of living in this backwards world. It's very draining to have hope and see it constantly stomped out whenever I read about protests or real news. Maybe my anxiety just makes it that way.
“Who Has To Do It?”
Chatbots are now banned from r/Anarchism. Please report them if you see them posting.The users in our decision-making subreddit r/metanarchism have passed a rule banning chatbots, meaning accounts that use ChatGPT or other machine-learning language models to simulate conversation.
Ordinary bot scripts that respond to specific keywords, transciber bots, automoderator, and other non-chatbots are still permitted by default. Content, screenshots, and discussion posted by actual users **about** chatbots will also be permitted by default. Only the chatbots themselves are banned.
A new rule has been added to our [rules page](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/about/rules/). Please report chatbots using the rule if you see them on r/Anarchism. Thanks!
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Check out the interview with "Molotov Now!" on Its Going Down, We will be talking about Radical Grassroots Projects within Aberdeen, Washington such as our own at Sabot Media.
Reportback from Lützerath
Rallies Happening in US Cities in Solidarity with 'Stop Cop City' After Anarchist Killed by PoliceRallies, vigils, and protests are happening across the US in various cities on Saturday, January 21st in solidarity with the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta and in memory of Tortuguita, a 26 year-old anarchist that was shot and killed by police on Wednesday, January 18th.
Cities included: Nashville, Philadelphia, Austin, Boston, Arcata, Santa Cruz, Lansing, Richmond, Madison, Minneapolis, Miami, Bridgeport, and Atlanta and beyond!
Check out the full list on itsgoingdown \[dot\] org.
The Reich-wing attack on Trans Rights is escalating rapidly in 2023CW Transphobia and worse
(Having written the following in a flurry, I'd like to note that fellow trans folks, You are Loved, Do not be afraid [even if you are just beginning your journey](https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/erins-tips-for-those-about-to-transition), We will persevere over these many injustices. With tears in my eyes I tell you this is not a new war on us, and yes it is growing dark in this battle, but we WILL not surrender and we CANNOT be extinguished, despite how much suffering those that hate us for no logical or sensible reason, may manage to inflict in their misguided but none-the-less murderous lashing out and violence against us. Solidarity, and do not forget that at the root of our pain are inextricably White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Capitalism. Reform nor Assimilation will not save us. We keep us Safe. ✌🏼♥️😊🌈♿️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌎💙🌊🌊🌊🌊 Love will Win. [Sing with Me ♫](https://badcopbadcop.bandcamp.com/track/sing-with-me))
Ok r/Anarchism Real Shit
More Trans-Hate Law (bills) have been proposed in the first 20 days of 2023 than all of the previous 12 months.
>I want everyone to remember that when they make arguments about how "none of these bills won't pass"
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>\- We just had 3 pass to the senate floor in Utah
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>\- We had 1 in North Dakota
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>\- We have nearly as many bills 18 days into 2023 as we did in the ENTIRETY of 2022.
\^ Since this [tweet](https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1615879832356651009), I have seen:[https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30432/mississippi-house-passes-ban-on-treatments-for-transgender-minors](https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30432/mississippi-house-passes-ban-on-treatments-for-transgender-minors)
\^ Bill became Law in Mississippi and the name is vomit inducing.
[https://le.utah.gov/\~2023/bills/static/SB0016.html](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0016.html)
\^ Bill became law in Utah (unclear if this is included in the 3 mentioned above.
Remember that Florida VERY likely will be passing yet more brash and dehumanizing, MURDEROUS law.
Don't think the Bible Belt or Idaho will want to be outdone.
Erin Reed's website is an [excellent resource](https://erininthemorn.substack.com/)
FUCKING SPARE ME the "Waaaaaah electoralism" Fuckers. We need all hands on deck, I don't care if you call my Emma Goldman inspired, hero-killing, woke-scoldilocks queer anarcha commie ass a "liberal" -- We need these bills to be rejected IN EVERY IMAGINABLE FORM.
We need funding. We need advocates. We need distribution of knowledge that keeps those most at risk, safe. We need a spectrum of mutual aid and direct action.
And yes, you're gonna have to read some fucking bills too.
I'm not happy about that, but if that really matters to you, with the VOLUME OF DEATH blaring adjacent to the topic, I don't know what the fuck to tell you.
This is not a drill. See what you can do in your local area, REGARDLESS of what state or other imaginary borders you find yourself in.
This IS an ongoing Genocide. This IS escalating rapidly
Last note: I'd prefer to revise this more, but my spoons are running low, and I've got a lot else to be doing. I certainly am not volunteering to be some kind of leader when there are so many more worthy and experienced voices who must be heard and who know what's needed most where they are. Seek out those voices, the Algo will not bring them to you. Unique circumstances require Unique solutions, and everyone has something they can bring to the movement.
Solidarity comrades, we will all need it, now more than ever.
Edit: added link to quoted tweet from the 18th
I’m Brett Murphy, a ProPublica reporter who just published a series on 911 CALL ANALYSIS, a new junk science that police and prosecutors have used against people who call for help. They decide people are lying based on their word choice, tone and even grammar — ASK (or tell) ME ANYTHING
To do: Inform Frantech Solutions aka. buyvm.net that they are hosting fascist websitesFranTech Media, also known as BuyVM is hosting fascist/Nazi/white supremacist websites that call for violence against minorities.
Make sure they know they are hosting this content. They might not know.
"DailyStormer.name" and "antipodean-resistance.info" are clear white supremacist content.
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Make sure they know they are hosting this content. They might not know.
"DailyStormer.name" and "antipodean-resistance.info" are clear white supremacist content.
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Solidarity with the Movement to Stop Cop City and Defend Weelaunee Forest
The Defense of Lützerath: A Photoessay
Some thoughts on alternatives to general strikesSo leftists love to use the general strike as their ultimate weapon. The nuclear option. General strikes are very powerful tools, they have toppled governments and forced major concessions.
But they are also very costly, hard to organize, and difficult to pull off.
I think there's a much better alternative.
The economy as a whole is fundamentally built on logistics infrastructure. The massive unified economy of a state like the United States isn't really possible without the major transportation infrastructure we have in place. The highway system, planes, trains, shipping, etc.
Infrastructure and logistics are the glue that hold capitalist infrastructure together.
What if, instead of a general strike, we instead had industry wide strikes. Say all pilots went on strike as the same time as all truckers, all rail workers, and maybe workers at places like the Suez or Panama canals. Hell you don't even need all of them to do it, just the majority.
This would basically cripple the world economy overnight. Like, remember when the Suez was blocked? That cost several billion dollars over the course of it. Imagine if planes, trucks, and rail were all stopped at the same time.
This way, you don't need to organize as large a scale strike. Mind you, this is still a huge task, but it is smaller than a nationwide general strike, and thus easier to organize.
Such a strike would be huge. I mean the ideal scenario is inherently international as it involves shutting down the Suez and Panama canal, but obviously that's difficult to pull off too.
Idk, this is the direction I'm leaning. So when focusing on unionization and strikes, I feel we ought to prioritize workers working infrastructure in the short term, as they have a greater leverage on the economy as a whole. To me, strategic prioritization of unionization efforts has a higher ROI long term. Of course, all unionization should be supported, but I do think the primary emphasis (at least for now) ought to be on infrastructure and logistics workers.
Thoughts?
A Bit More Info And Context On The Murder Of Protester In Atlanta (And Vigils Being Called For)This is the best article I've found so far. Good context and bringing the small amount of details we know about.
[https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/protester-shot-and-killed-by-officers-during-raid-on-atlanta-forest/](https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/protester-shot-and-killed-by-officers-during-raid-on-atlanta-forest/)
Vigil in Atlanta
[https://twitter.com/UR\_Ninja/status/1615873524761255936](https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1615873524761255936)
There have been a bunch of vigils or other responses called for but I haven't seen them collected in one spot. Here are couple happening tonight.
NYC
[https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1615834333956251664](https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1615834333956251664)
Portland
[https://twitter.com/defendATLforest/status/1615803010642284555](https://twitter.com/defendATLforest/status/1615803010642284555?cxt=HHwWlsC4xd-RvuwsAAAA)
There are more called for and more will be called for over the coming days. Keep your eyes peeled.
Announcement for the evacuation of Mundo Nuevo squat
We carry a new world in our hearts, but not only there!
The December uprising sounded the alarm in the elites of authority. The adaptation of the state strategy to times [SK1] of crisis but also militant popular resistance shaped the doctrine of total control and preventive counterinsurgency. The escalation of state terrorism included a number of processes: the rise of fascism/nazism, concentration camps for immigrants and their murder at the borders, the total devaluation of workers' lives, the dismantling of public health care, laws restricting demonstrations and strikes, the control of life in universities, and much more. At the cutting edge of the repressive action of the state is also the attack on occupied spaces and the anarchist movement. The current government, continuing and upgrading the work of all the previous ones, exposed its intentions initially with the ultimatum issued by former minister Chrysochoidis to attack all occupied spaces. When they realized that the strategy of a single attack produced much more resistance [SK2] than fear, they abandoned this plan, changed the head of the Ministry of Repression and engaged in gradual raids [SK3] throughout the country.
The political direction of the government is obvious and becomes even clearer when one realizes who it is addressing in the run-up to the elections - exclusively the far right and the most conservative sections of society, those who are far from any process of social mobilization and are informed exclusively by the controlled media. Part of this attack was the eviction [SK4] of our squat "Mundo Nuevo" at dawn on Monday 28 November, a few days after the 7 years of its creation and also a few days before the anniversary of the revolt of December 6.
It is often said that these attacks are done solely to tickle the ears of the far-right or to change the political agenda and draw attention away from the wiretapping, the scandals, the evictions, the off-shore companies of MPs, their involvement in pedophile networks and many other miraculous things that have surfaced again recently. Even if this is true to some extent, in our view these are only secondary consequences and not the cause of the persecutors' fury. The state attacks squats because they are structures of struggle that actively and dynamically support class and social resistance, shape [SK5] consciences, give space and a way for sections of youth and other social groups to express themselves, to socialize, to struggle. They are a huge political problem for any government, an open wound to the institution of property on which the state and the present capitalist world is based.
We often write about what squats are and we refer to libraries, theatre, cinema, events, concerts and much more. And of course they are indeed all of those things. After all, how could there be social activists without their songs, theatrical performances, speeches and books? As long as we have identified our daily lives with the struggle for a better world itself, all of the above is self-evident. As is the fact that Mundo Nuevo has also been literally the home of many of us who have lived in the house. Yet beyond all this, Mundo Nuevo is the great home of Organized Anarchism, it is the political home of our plans for organizing resistance, for our most effective intervention to overthrow the existing power structure. Within the occupied space we have shaped our conception of our struggle, our intervention in the social fields, organized our action in the universities, promoted student initiatives, supported the workers' resistances, decided to spread to the neighborhoods. That's how we contributed to the big outbursts like the students in the occupied deanery, that's how we organized the 3d libertarian festival that was such a big trouble for the government that it decided to disband it at the risk of killing people who attended its concerts. Because of the Coming together as comrades and with other comrades we made it possible that the black and red flags of Anarchy are never missing from any mobilization in recent years, while the libertarian blocs are becoming more and more dense, so much so that the numerous and reinforced forces of repression are unable to surround them, to eliminate [SK6] them.
Just as they can't eliminate us. What we sowed for so many years in Mundo Nuevo has already taken root. All the demonstrations say so, for Pavlos Fissas and Alexis, for 17 November and women's liberation, for the workers’ strikes, the students who are fighting. The state leaders and government apologists know very well all these things, they know that it is the radical and anarchist movement, the grassroots resistances that have put serious obstacles in their way in the process of destroying and plundering our lives, as no party, no opposition, official or otherwise, has done. Nea Smyrni, the occupied Dean’s Office of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the big demonstrations and the contact of thousands of people with radical politics and actions shook and frightened them again. And it is again the ghost of December that they have to exorcise. That is why they are striking us.
Yes, of course we have always had and still have a new world in our hearts, but it is not only there. It is [SK7] in what we have already made, in what has already been created and made its way into the vast river of raging freedom we call Anarchy. Young and old comrades continue the struggle unceasingly and that is what we will certainly continue to do. First and foremost by reclaiming Mundo Nuevo. The struggle for recovery has just begun and we call on the whole movement nationwide and abroad to support this cause, because it is not only about us but about the whole radical, anarchist and squatter movement. We warn at the same time the Municipality of Thermi not to be a carrier of the government of violence and authoritarianism and to put out of its mind thoughts of alleged "exploitation", which, apart from the rest, are also obvious lies, when the police authorities themselves have already done serious damage to the building, while they have completely isolated it with tons of sheet metal.
We call on all radical organizations, groups and collectives, women's initiatives, trade unions, student groups and associations, student associations to issue statements condemning the raid and eviction, we call on all progressive people of the city to stand with us against state terror and imposition. We never back down - Victory will be ours.
P.S. Forty-four (44) banners, according to the cops, were found inside Mundo Nuevo. That is nothing, not even one percent of what we have done to stand with the oppressed of this world.
Mundo Nuevo Squat |
Collective for Social Anarchism "Black & Red"
(member of the ANARCHIC POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
This Week in Fascism #133: Communities Continue to Mobilize Against Anti-LGBTQ Attacks as New Fascist Formations Emerge\#ThisWeekInFacsism returns for a roundup of antifascist action and analysis!
As far-Right and GOP attacks on the #LGBTQ community continue - new white supremacist and neo-fascist groups are forming out of the chaos of the post-J6 terrain.
We do a deep dive on these new groups - some of which are rejecting explicit calls for racial supremacy and embracing an authoritarian politics centered around religion - while others return to embracing the swastika - and some even are recuperating anarchist calls for 'mutual aid!'
Includes a roundup of recent antifascist resistance and much more!
Read Here: [https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-133/](https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-133/)
Escape of many demonstrators near Lützerath in Germany, the German police push them back with pepper spray and truncheons.
When protesting or doing any sort of activism, what's the likelihood of arrest? How long can they hold you? How expensive does it tend to be?Throwaway for obvious reasons.
See title for questions.
If I am protesting pig brutality, or if I am trying to help out the homeless or something by running a food drive, or hell even just picketing with unions as a show of solidarity, what's the probability of arrest.
I know serious change doesn't usually happen without arrests (abolitionists, civil rights crusaders, anarchists and socialists all have a long history of getting arrested). I'm just not sure how long that arrest will last and what long term legal consequences are.
I know some people here were involved in the 2020 George Floyd protests. Feds threw people in unmarked vans, arrested demonstrations, and the like.
For anyone who was arrested, what was that like? How long did they have you? Are you still dealing with any legal consequences?
What sort of legal consequences does activism (peaceful mind you, nothing ban worthy) entail?
If you do get arrested for activism, what should you do (other than shut the fuck up and get a lawyer, that's obvious)
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Us based
Hello fellow anarchists. I got a question. Since left rothbardism (anarcho communist-capitalism) is a thing, I’m wondering do they believe that money, capitalism is both force and consent?
Any anarchist communities in Greenvile, SC? My homeless friend needs helpi know that anarchists prefer to keep their low profile, but my friend from States, Greenvile SC, got kicked out of house and cant afford paying rent. Im myself from Poland so I cant help them personally, but i know that anarchists/squatters are very good people all around the world and i wanted to take a chance and ask here for help
If this post does not belong in this subreddit, please redirect me, ty
Converting up the TERF/Facist propaganda in my neighbourhood 🏳️🌈✊
Solidarity with the Kellogg's Strike
Let's Talk About Explaining Earh to Aliens....
From the ZAD to Lützerath: Tracking the Adventures of the Mud Wizard
Learning about anarchyI'm learning about anarchy and anarcho - communism to grow in my understanding and get guidance on how to kill capitalism. Anyone who can share links to informational and organizational websites or give suggestions on topics, vocabulary terms, and historical events, this would be much appreciated.
I would also like to share one that I found today and skim - read through: https://libcom.org/article/introduction-anarchist-communism-anarchist-federation
After reading this, I see that my approach that I have started off with can be described as individual and "lifestylism" or "prefiguration." To give context, I quit my job, left my apartment, and started living out of my vehicle, limiting my expenses and possessions.
My goal is to learn and gain knowledge and understanding so that I can make informed decisions on what I do next. I want to collaborate with other people who are against capitalism, see all humans as equal in value, and care about the planet. As someone who likes to read and learn and has decent reading comprehension and critical thinking, I want to also write informational pieces that are easy to digest, and explain things in a relatively simple way. I also want to connect with others and see what collaborative revolutionary work can be done.
In short, I want to do more to stop capitalism and aid in a revolution other than simply contributing to capitalism less than before.
Resources? Groups?
I made this post in another anarchy subreddit and I also want to share that I made my first subreddit r/howtokillcapitalism
Leftist videogamesI keep trying to play games like CSGO and TF2, and literally every single person I meet on there is extremely racist, horrible, neonazi, toxic monsters. Is there any games who's playerbase is not horrible.
Mercenaries Forcing the End of the World on Us
Lützerath, Germany
There’s No Such Thing as Cancel Culture
What Happened to Behind The Bastards Podcast? -Also, Please Recommend Some Decent Podcasts.Behind the Bastards as it plays right now for the first time since it started up and I was a somewhat regular listener, has a pretty self righteous, unlistenable host. The topics still seemed interesting so I gave it a try as it was one of my favorite podcasts years ago when it first came out.
If I remember correctly it had two male cohosts back then and was a great listen. Now it seems like this petty douche bags soap box. Idk maybe its just me.
Anyways, here are some great podcasts I listen to regularly. Because we all use different apps to play them ill just list the name of the podcast that you can search for to find.
David Harveys Anti Capitalist Chronicles
Revleft Radio (one or my favorites although Brett seems to have run out of material sometimes)
Guerilla History (A really great podcast in the Revleft universe with some great history on class warfare when the warfare part actually happens.)
All Things Co-op
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
These are just a few regulars I listen too. What do you listen too or recommend for podcasts?
It's Going Down Takes Over 'It Could Happen Here' for Two-Episode Dive into General Strikes
Solidarity with those who defend Lützerath! Against the destruction of the earth!
It's Going Down Takes Over 'It Could Happen Here' for two Episode Dive into General StrikesCalls for a general strike go viral all the time - but what would it take for one to actually get organized? It's Going Down takes over "It Could Happen Here" in a special two-episode dive into the history of general strikes in the United States - from the Civil War to modern day.
Part #1: [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/a-general-strike-might-be-closer-107150615/](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/a-general-strike-might-be-closer-107150615/)
Part #2: [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/a-general-strike-might-be-closer-107200018/](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/a-general-strike-might-be-closer-107200018/)
My frustration with the whole Maegan Hall situationFor those of you out of the loop:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/five-officers-fired-sex-scandal-roils-tennessee-police-department-rcna65121
>Five officers fired as sex scandal roils Tennessee police department
An investigation found the officers participated in "Girls Gone Wild"-type parties, heavy drinking and having sex while on duty; three others were suspended without pay.
Cops regularly get away with murder, rape, domestic violence, etc. They face no accountability for their actions and are left off basically Scott free to do it again.
But THIS! This is what actually gets some pigs fired? Fucking? Sure, Fucking on the job ain't the best use of our tax dollars, but I would rather they fuck each other than fuck over the poor and minorities.
I mean, seriously? This is where the "accountability" is? Where the red line was? Nor at murder or rape of detainees? Not abuse of power or police brutality? Consensual sex and sex parties? Really?
Man this system is just so fucked
Edit:
To be clear, they should have been fired. Not saying they shouldn't. But like, is this really the uncrossable line?
A new solarpunk course at the Institute for Social EcologySolarpunk Surf Club is excited to announce a new course we are teaching at the Institute for Social Ecology. *Solarpunk, Art, and Social Ecological Aesthetics* investigates the potential of solarpunk as an aesthetic complement to social ecology and of social ecology as a political-philosophical ground for solarpunk. Participants will explore the intersections of art, solarpunk, and social ecology alongside Solarpunk Surf Club through texts, images, objects, discussion, and project-based making. The full syllabus can be viewed here:[ shorturl.at/CJ136](https://shorturl.at/CJ136)
Registrations are now open on the ISE website:[ https://social-ecology.org/wp/courses/solarpunk-art-and-social-ecological-aesthetics/](https://social-ecology.org/wp/courses/solarpunk-art-and-social-ecological-aesthetics/)
The 10-week online course meets Wednesdays at 7pm EST and begins February 1. We hope you can join us! Please feel free to share the link and invite anyone you think might be interested.
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Radical Women Wednesday
Weekly Discussion Thread for Radical Women and Non-Binary People
*Radical women can talk about whatever they want in here. Suggestions; chill & relax, radical trans women, anarchafeminism, news and current events, books, entertainment*
Men are asked not to post in Radical Women Wednesday threads.
Thoughts on anarchist literature projectI've just finished the first draft of a short non-fiction book that aims to be an introduction to anarchism for the average person. It's a kind of 'anarchism for dummies' that doesn't require too much previous knowledge of politics, economics, or social philosophy. It attempts to share the core principles of anarchism in a non-confrontational and down to earth manner, whilst challenging popular misconceptions of anarchy, anarchists, and anarchism.
I had an idea of placing stickers with QR codes in public spaces in order to distribute the book, though my main issue with this idea is that I'm not sure exactly what those QR codes should link to.
My first thought was that I could simply upload the text to the Anarchist Library and link the QR code on the stickers to the URL. However, I'm worried this will be counterproductive to the purpose of the book. If the average person (in my town at least) opens the link up on their phone, I know there is a very strong chance they'll think "Anarchist library? Ugh... I don't know exactly what anarchy is (but I think it's bad/crazy/naïve/etc.) and I sure as shit don't like libraries, so I'm out". I think this is the reality I have to face while living in a remote city with many conservative thinkers.
My second thought was to create a website that would feature the key ideas of the book, however, this website could be built in a way that would reduce the likelihood of people immediately shutting off. Instead of people being immediately confronted with anarchism (or even worse, libraries!), the QR code could link to a page where they could be introduced to the central topic without being spooked by what they probably think is 'lefty propaganda'. This seems like the best approach to take in the circumstances.
The main issue that I have with the 'website option' is that, with my skillset as is, I might end up having to pay to use a website builder/hosting company. Money is not the issue here, I would simply prefer not to have to use a company like Wix or Weebly or similar.
I'd really appreciate any advice that the community may have for me based on my goals and circumstances.
Specifically, I'm wondering...
* What do people think of this approach to the distribution of anarchist literature?
* Is there something I've overlooked or haven't considered that might be helpful to know?
* Can anyone recommend an alternative to the online services I've mentioned above, or know of a better way to achieve the same goals?
Thanks in advance to all!
Radical BIPOC ThursdayWeekly Discussion Thread for Black, Indigenous, People of Color
*Radical bipoc can talk about whatever they want in here. Suggestions; chill & relax, radical people of color, Black/Indigenous/POC anarchism, news and current events, books, entertainment*
Non BIPOC people are asked not to post in Radical BIPOC Thursday threads.
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Some examples of history for anarchists from pre-1900I'm not necessarily saying these are anarchist, but I still think these are cool:
* 1170BCE \[Egypt\] [Deir el-Medina Strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina#Strikes) \- "the tomb laborers were so exasperated by delays in supplies that they threw down their tools and walked off the job in what may have been the first sit-down strike action in recorded history. They wrote a letter to the vizier complaining about lack of wheat rations. Village leaders attempted to reason with them but they refused to return to work until their grievances were addressed."
* 770-221BCE \[China\]: [Agriculturalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculturalism) \- "The Agriculturalists believed that Chinese society should be modeled around that of the early sage king Shennong, a folk hero who was portrayed in Chinese literature as working in the fields, along with everyone else, and consulting with everyone else when any decision had to be reached."
* 508-507BCE \[Greece\]: [Athenian Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_Revolution) \- "a revolt by the people of Athens that overthrew the ruling aristocratic oligarchy, establishing the almost century-long self-governance of Athens in the form of a participatory democracy – open to all free male citizens."
* 494-287BCE \[Italy\]: [Secessio plebis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessio_plebis) \- " an informal exercise of power by Rome's plebeian citizens, similar in concept to the general strike. During the *secessio plebis*, the plebs would abandon the city *en masse* in a protest emigration and leave the [patrician](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrician_(ancient_Rome)) order to themselves. Therefore, a *secessio* meant that all shops and workshops would shut down and commercial transactions would largely cease. Authors report different numbers for how many secessions there were. Cary & Scullard state there were five between 494 BC and 287 BC."
* 1381 \[UK\]: [Wat Tyler's Rebellion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt) \- "A wide spectrum of rural society, including many local artisans and village officials, rose up in protest, burning court records and opening the local gaols. The rebels sought a reduction in taxation, an end to serfdom, and the removal of King Richard II's senior officials and law courts."
* 1514 \[Hungary\]: [Gorgy Dozsa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_D%C3%B3zsa) \- "Dózsa and his co-elected senior fellows wanted to change the church and the political system fundamentally. They wanted to leave a single elected bishop for the whole country and to make all priests equal in rank, to abolish the nobility and to distribute their lands equally among the peasants. They decided that there should be only two orders: the city burgeroise (merchants and craftsmen) and the peasants, and they also wanted to abolish the kingdom as a form of government. Dózsa himself only wanted to be the warlord and representative of the people: subordinating himself in everything to the decisions of the people."
* 1524-1525 \[Germany\]: [German Peasant's War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War) \- Hundreds of thousands of peasants in central Europe rose up to fight for egalitarianism and were brutally slaughtered by the monarchs of the time.
* 1786-1787 \[USA\]: [Shays' Rebellion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion) \- "American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in a protest against economic and civil rights injustices. In 1787, Shays' rebels marched on the federal Springfield Armory in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government."
* 1838-1859 \[UK\]: [Chartism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartism) \- This was a working-class aligned movement in the UK that called for the removal of property qualifications in elections, equal representation and annual elections to prevent corruption.
* 1839-1845 \[USA\]: [Anti-Rent War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rent_War) \- "The Anti-Renters declared their independence from the manor (feudal) system run by patroons, resisting tax collectors and successfully demanding land reform."
* 1859 \[USA\]: [John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry) \- "an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia"
* 1871 \[France\]: [Paris Commune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune) \- "The Commune governed Paris for two months, establishing policies that tended toward a progressive, anti-religious system of social democracy, including the separation of church and state, self-policing, the remission of rent, the abolition of child labor, and the right of employees to take over an enterprise deserted by its owner. All the Roman Catholic churches and schools were closed. Feminist, socialist, communist and anarchist currents played important roles in the Commune."
* 1877 \[USA\]: [Great Railroad Strike of 1877](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1877) \- "An estimated 100 people were killed in the unrest across the country. In Martinsburg, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other cities, workers burned down and destroyed both physical facilities and the rolling stock of the railroads—engines and railroad cars. Local populations feared that workers were rising in revolution such as the Paris Commune of 1871."
* 1894-1897 \[Australia\]: [Jandamarra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandamarra) \- "He led a three-year campaign against police and European settlers, achieving legendary status for his hit and run tactics and his abilities to hide and disappear."
Feel free to suggest some more!
A Look at the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca-Ricardo Flores Magón (CIPO-RFM)
Distruptionism: How (i think) Surveillance Capitalism can change the labour theory of value and the falling rate of profit.Disruptionism is an anarchist ideology that centres around the implications of the analysis of Shoshana Zuboff in her book Surveillance Capitalism, on the shift from people functioning as workers in the process to produce profit, to people becoming resources in the production process.
For a TLDR for those who havent read Zuboff's book, people no longer are just workers in the production process. Traditionally people were workers as for a good to be produced and profit to be made, workers needed to produce those goods with their labour. This gives the workers leverage over the capitalists if they organize into worker councils and unions, as they can threaten to strike and stop producing goods.
Under surveillance capitalism, you are surveyed constantly so that your behviours and other personal data like demographics, personal interests, purchasing patterns, to even your spelling habits. Its all valuable under surveillance capitalism as advertisers will pay big money to make it so that they can more accurately market their products and target their ads and so on.
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This reduces you to a resource, in the modern age of the internet and with modern technologies like algorithms which can sort through these massive amounts of data faster than any group of human workers could ever possibly do, means that you are no longer more valuable as a worker than you are as a resource to be mined for behavioural data to be sorted through and produced by algorythms into behavioural data valued by advertisers.
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Advertisers and the system highlighted by zuboff that drives surveillance capitalism is largely the same system of filters on the media discussed by Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent. Though she doesnt epxlicitly say this, though its obvious if you have read Manufacturing Consent before hand.
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Its important to highlight, i dont personally conceive of a way this could possibly be the extent that all workers would be reduced to resources in the production process. It would need to be so that all physical goods were produced by fully automated factories and farms, etc. AS well as the main source of profit being from the advertisers of the world. This would probably only happen in the first world, where all people live with the third world producing goods to be sold to them. While the citizens are given UBI to spend on the goods, and then they are allowed to just be monitered for behavioural data. This would be a long in the future thing however.
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But consider it ever got to this point? what if all workers were to be stripped of their positions as workers. Then first of all youd no longer have the ability to strike, or form unions and workers councils because of you being more valuable to capitalists as resources. You no longer can threaten capitalists in any major way, thus collective bargaining and oraganizing becomes essentially impossible.
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So what are your options? Zuboff doesnt give us much in the way beyond relying on the state and parliamentary/congressional legeslation by the upper class. (while fantastic in her analysis, those who have read can identify certain liberal tendencies and ways of thinking zuboff hasnt dropped, TB to her weird language with native americans and primitivism, and how the only way for us to defeat surveillance capitalism is to just do what the eu did and hope to god your state will not side with capitalists)
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Well disruptionism says that you should disrupt this production process by any means neccessary. This is done in two main catagories of praxis.
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Passive praxis: This catagory includes things like opsec, using VPNs, anonymous browsers, and good privacy practices like these to prevent the collection of personal data in the first place. This also includes simply opting out of a terms of service condition (if its allowed, google for example does allow you limited control its just hidden)
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Offensive Praxis: This catagory is more on the ground stuff. This would mainly be destruction of data centres, hacking into a company's servers and deleting the behavioural data, and other things like these.
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oh and basically this all means that the labour theory of value is sort of upended because like your labour isnt the only way for capitalists to make profit. As well as the falling rate of profit because the automation no longer becomes a detriment to capitalists as they can no longer pay variable labour enough money for them to buy the goods they produce. Instead automation is what is producing the goods in the first place, so you could do something like UBI and increase the rate of profit that way. okay thats all thanks. Im high and wanted to share this cuz i made it up while i was a baby anarchist so dont kill me for simplifying very complex marxist ideas lmao, please gimme lots of criticisms.
On this day in 1933, forces of the Second Spanish Republic massacred suspected anarchists in the village of Casas Viejas, trapping families in their homes and setting them on fire. 21-24 people were killed.
Rest in power, Anarqxista Goldman (1996 -2023)
Pro-IRS “Anarchists”? lmao @ you liberals and commies in denial. Enjoy your pitiful livesLOL
Rest in power, Anarqxista Goldman (1996 -2023)
Rest in power, Anarqxista Goldman (1996 -2023)
What is the opinion on what the historian Fernand Braudel has to say about Capitalism?Do yall just disagree and prefer to stick to the Marxist view of Capitalism's development? Because to me it seems to perfectly suit the need for a truly anarchic critique.
Fighting Fascism from the Age of Reagan to the Present
Where is this quote by Bakunin from?"Le pouvoir ne doit pas être conquis, il doit être détruit." is a quote commonly attributed to Bakunin, but I can't find where and when it was said or written. Anybody knows where it is from?
Alex Stokes Should Not Be in Prison
January 8, the Brazilian January 6—Tracking the Rise of Fascism from the United States to Brazil
Has anyone else decided to go celibate?I don't know, I'm sort of weirdly torn about it. Like I just don't know if relationship is the right thing for me anyway. I mean for me, my politics is everything and I really like being politically active. I just don't know if I want to prioritize a relationship. I mean I thought I did but I have been through some rejection and I kind of have a weird hard abandoned issue thing so I guess so be scared that the person would want to leave me or something. I don't know.
I'm just curious what other people think. Are any of you guys this celibate or something?
And just to tell you when I say my politics, I am referring to my comrades in that as well. And yes, I do have real life friends.
ACAB storyHere is a personal story on why I am ACAB (although most of my life I was anti-cop, I didn't even knew what ACAB meant until a month ago, thanks reddit!).
This occurred \~30 years ago, so things probably changed since then. It happened that a friend at work invited me to lunch and also invited two of her friends which were cops. They came from work in their uniforms with their guns. After getting over my discomfort at sitting so close to guns (I really hate guns), I started to chat with them and the conversation turned to their training.
It seems the younger cop was in "training" that day. He was called to a room with a large projection TV (it was the 90's). There were two observers next to him, the room was darkened and he was told the scenario. He got a call that a perp, who just shot someone, had fled into a train yard with a gun. He had to go in and apprehend him.
He had his gun (not loaded of course), and they monitored his actions when the video played. He came around a train and saw a person in the distance, but it didn't look like he was carrying anything. He shouted "Hands up! Put your hands up!", and the person kept walking towards him. When the person started to reach into his jacket as if to pull something out, he fired. That was what he was trained to do. The video kept playing, he said that the person then took out a card that read "I am mute". He got a high score and passed.
He then said to us to make up for this vile sickness that wraps our society, "They are training us to be killers!". I replied yes of course, as all cops are killers. The conversation got a little cold after that. ACAB
Where is eco-anarchism? Is it the best way toward liberation?The reason I pose this question is that I noticed relatively low traffic on the various eco-anarchist subreddits, groups, and pages I've encountered here and on Facebook. This blows my mind. Is it because people automatically presume anarchism and eco-anarchism are one and the same and therefore come to this subreddit to discuss things? I did a quick search for eco-anarchism-related posts in this subreddit, and while there are some, I kinda felt it should be a helluva lot more.
Perhaps I'm way off base, but it seems to me that oppressive systems are built upon control of basic human needs such as food, shelter, and clothing, especially when controlled by a propertied class (thinking back to Jean Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men). I have always felt like the praxis of anarchism would (and perhaps *should*) come in the form of liberating ourselves by reconnecting with the natural systems to sustainably grow our own food (using biodynamic farming and permaculture), building our own ecologically designed shelters, making our own clothing (if it is necessary depending on the climate), and utilizing, but not exploiting, localized energy systems. I'm thinking of Transition Town stuff, sustainability initiatives, food co-ops, point-of-consumption energy systems, etc. I mean, seriously, solar punk the shit out of things.
This leads me to the next question... are we focusing too much on a revolution that is fought in the streets, or should we refocus it to be fought with community gardens, co-ops, etc. Part of me says it will be both, but a major emphasis should be placed on local food security. I know that this post may be somewhat naïve, and my apologies if so, but as fossil fuels continue fucking people over, and COVID scared the shit out of people with food shortages (so much so that rural America has undergone some serious housing and land inflation from people fleeing urban centers), wouldn't this be a prime time to rebuild a better, anarchist society by focusing on local food and energy systems?
Thoughts? Spotted in Cambridge MA
I don't feel like I belong in revolutionary activityI've found lately that I simply don't desire to be part of community frankly. I mean, it's not that I don't like people I want the best for everyone and that is why I'm an anarchist. I believe strongly in dismantaling the systems of oppression embedded within our world. But I don't want or feel the need for friends really.
I've tried recently to find my place within my local mutual-aid network and I feel so out of place and I just don't know where I fit. I want to be useful, and find some way in which I can help.
This may be an issue with my local group, but it's rlly hard for me to find my place without knowing what their needs rlly are. I want to help build a system apart from capitalism. But I simply don't know where to start there. I don't wanna just be doing charity raising funds for sleeping bags and tents constantly. But I just feel so powerless, unskilled, and distant.
And I could tell them "I think this group isn't doing enough to build an alternative", but like I feel like it's not my place to do that when I'm not even involved. Idek what I want anymore I want a better future but I don't want to work for it maybe. It all feels so pointless. Like we're just always locked in this same stupid battle all the time. I mean just looking at our current situation and the situations of the past, it's like few anarchist movements have moved very much at all. And I'm not saying this to be against anarchy, I feel strongly anarchist in my own personal relationship to the world. But when it comes to ending these systems, it all just feels like such a mess and I don't know where I belong.
"From the mountains to the sea - they shall not pass, we will be raising the black flag here." - Workers Solidarity Federation Pakistan (IWA)"From the mountains to the sea - They shall not pass, We will be raising the black flag here."
پہاڑوں سے سمندر تک - وہ نہیں گزریں گے،" "ہم یہاں سیاہ پرچم اٹھائیں گے۔
Eco-Anarchism anyone?How are people feeling about eco-anarchism?
Update: Sorry this was such a low-effort post. Thanks to the mods for pointing it out. I've decided to re-post with a new title and more explanation. Thanks to the folks who commented.
2nd Update: Here is a link to the new post. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/106ly2c/where\_is\_ecoanarchism\_is\_it\_the\_best\_way\_toward/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/106ly2c/where_is_ecoanarchism_is_it_the_best_way_toward/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Thanks for everyone's patience. I'm not all there these days!
Ramblings on what I do and don’t like about anprim and why I’m a confused baby anarchist.In theory, I like the idea of anarcho primitivism. What good would anarchy be if we continued to destroy our planet. I love the consent of solar punk but all that eco-friendly high tech stuff uses a ton of rare elements, the mining of which is also destroying our planet. We could focus on off world mining but getting into space isn’t much better for the environment and it would just export the exploited third world into space. A simple answer would be to transition back to primitivism with an anarchist structure. If we return to a life of hunter-gatherers and only kill and gather what we need then it should be alright. I’d love to live in a small society that viewed ourselves as part of nature instead of conquerors of it.
The biggest drawbacks would be the lack of modern medicine and the reluctance of most of society to return to such a state. Personally, I’m an animist hippy who views death as part of life, we’re here to experience the ups and downs of life and eventually there’ll come a time when you give your body back to nature. Experiencing death is just part of that cycle, it’s isn’t a sad thing or something, I view, should be artificially prolonged. I don’t want to be buried, I want my corpse to be picked apart by maggots and scavengers, then returned to the soil as feces to become the next generation of ferns and pine trees.
I also understand that the majority of society doesn’t agree with me and that it would be wrong to force them to live in that way. There’s nothing I or anyone can do to convince the world to put down there tech and return to the wild. Hell, even I have a hard time spending a week in the woods without my phone. They only way to make them do so would be by force, which is not an option for me. It’s the exact thing I’m fighting against as an anarchist.
At the end of the day, I’m not sure what exactly to push for. We have our capitalist society as it is now and we have our anarchist counterculture. I’ll continue to suport mutual aid efforts and I’ll join protests when possible. As for myself, I’m lucky that I was able to get a job that puts me higher on the capitalism leaderboard then most. Right now I’m saving that money but over the next few years I’d like to get a couple acres in the mountains payed off so I can live in the way I want to live and allow some likeminded friends to join me.
Ukrainian Fascist Symbols
How do you deal with the rage you feel?
Call for Solidarity Actions with Anti-war Activists in Russia, January 19-24
*This is a call for solidarity with Russian anti-war activists by Ilya Budraitskis on behalf of The Russian Socialist Movement.*
For over a decade, Russian antifascists have commemorated January 19 as their day of solidarity. This is the date when in 2009, in the center of Moscow, the human rights and leftist activist Stanislav Markelov and the journalist and anarchist Anastasia Baburova were gunned down by neo-Nazis.
The murder of Markelov and Baburova became the culmination of the ultra-right terror of the 2000s, which killed hundreds of migrants and dozens of anti-fascists. For many years, while it was still possible, Russian activists held antifascist demonstrations and rallies on January 19 under the slogan “To remember is to fight!”
***Full text:*** [*counterpunch.org/2023/01/05/call-for-solidarity-actions-with-anti-war-activists-in-russia/*](https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/05/call-for-solidarity-actions-with-anti-war-activists-in-russia/)
*No to Putin’s war, fascism and dictatorship!*
*Freedom to all Russian political prisoners!*
*Solidarity with to Russian antifascists!*
*To remember is to fight!*
We ask you to send us information about any solidarity actions during the week of January 19-24 – pickets, open meetings, online discussions, and even personal photos with posters – by e-mail at: rsdzoom@proton.me
Hey guys, I just made a new subreddit for anarchists living in the southeastern part of the USA so that people can find other anarchists in their state so if you’re interested please check it out r/Southeastern_anarchists
Where do I donate my Anarchist book collection so that I know they will continued to be appreciatedI have a collection of over 100 books many from LBC some from AK and various others
Lucio Urtubia was a Spanish anarchist known for his practice of expropriative anarchism through forgery
Sexuality AbolitionQueer anarchists talk about gender abolition but i do fear that would lead to just circle back to referring to people by the genitals they have. But i feel sexuality abolition is much more important but obviously plays well with gender abolition. Sexuality is not clear cut and almost no one will fall into clean cut boxes as gender is too complicated for that. And our current system of sexuality can force people into boxes that would not fully describe them.
Time to wake up! Canada is a murderous totalitarian police state operating a state-sanctioned eugenics program under the convenient cover of euthanasia
Where to start with Bookchin?Hello, y'all! I'm interested in throwing a book or two by Bookchin or about his thought on my book list, but I really have no idea where I should begin. I don't really have any exposure whatsoever to eco-anarchism or green anarchism or whatever you might call it specifically, but I do know a bit about Rojava and I understand Bookchin had some influence on Öcalan, which is why I'm interested in diving into Bookchin. Google suggests "The Ecology of Freedom", and I think I have access to a copy, would that be an alright starting point?
Thank you in advance!
Edit: Since I'm asking for suggestions anyway, anyone have any thoughts on how to best tackle Öcalan primary sources? I'm not interested in political pamphlets or "introductory texts", I'm sort of hoping for well-fleshed out stuff. Thanks again!
Edit #2: Thank you to everyone informing me, implicitly or explicitly, that's he's controversial. Hadn't been aware, I really know next-to-nothing about his work. Not trying to pick a fight, just looking to learn :)
Anarchy A Journal Of Desire Armed No Two : Spirit of Revolt. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Late Stage Capitalism Is...?
From a comrade with OCD, Thank You Anarchism for a wonderful yearHey everyone, as we venture into a new year, I just wanted to give a thank you to all the anarchists in the online community and to anarchism as a whole. While the year was far from perfect, anarchism has been one of the most important ideas to me in navigating life, and it has vastly improved my mental health and overall happiness.
For some context, I'm a university student whose had OCD their whole life -- sometimes mild, sometimes life threatening. I tend to overthink everything, and I'm often frozen by decisions as simple as what to wear for the day. I need to be 100% sure of everything I do, and it makes social interactions, writing essays, and even just following a routine super difficult. It's difficult to write down exactly what my thought spirals consist of, but they usually revolve around a fear of failing in the capitalist system or causing others to fail under capitalism. As a result, I've lived most of my life without much confidence in my actions or my voice, and I'm passive in almost every situation, waiting for orders or decisions made by others.
However, for the past year, I've been lurking on r/Anarchy101 and slowly learning about anarchism, and over the summer, I bought my first book and solidified myself as an anarchist. I was able to see how capitalism had completely warped my self-worth and how hierarchy destroys human initiative and passion. I could already feel a change in my mindset and happiness simply by browsing r/Anarchy101, but reading an actual book sped up my growth quite a bit.
I felt most of the impact of anarchism over the previous semester. I didn't do anything particularly anarchist or dramatic like start a reading group or mutual aid group (I don't think I'm ready for that haha,) but I did get a leadership position for one of my clubs, and I tried managing a team using anarchy as a basis. It didn't go exactly as planned since the club is not anarchist, but we were pretty successful. I was able to navigate a huge amount of uncertainty despite my OCD, because I had anarchism to prop up a newfound confidence in my decisions. No one has the right to rule me, and I have the right to rule no one, and that idea has helped me escape many obsessive thought spirals. Had I tried this a year ago, I probably would have broken down in the first few weeks.
I've had a lot of other small successes as well. I can feel my relationship with my partner improving, as I'm better at making decisions/setting boundaries without letting either of us being dominant/coercive. I've become more social, as I can really feel the anarchist dynamics in socializing and the role of initiating/organizing a group. I'm even starting to appreciate my OCD; without capitalism dictating what has value in my life, I can see that OCD gives me a unique perspective on the world and creative ways of navigating it, even if those ways don't directly produce commodities or monetary value.
My life isn't perfect now that I've found anarchism. I've got a ways to go in terms of organizing beyond myself and managing my mental health, and mental health is unfortunately a separate (though intertwined) topic from capitalism. But I've felt quite an improvement over this year and I feel like I have a direction towards greater anarchist organization in the future. I want to thank everyone here and over at r/Anarchy101 for being amazing. I don't think I would've found anarchism otherwise and I wouldn't be on this path without everyone's support, even if it's anonymous. It's changed my life for the better and I'm looking forward to whats to come, even in the face of capitalism, systemic oppression, and a seemingly inevitable climate catastrophe. We will continue fighting for a better world through it all.
Happy new year, comrades. I hope this post helped you start this one on a positive note.
"Black blocks colère noir" a french documentary. English subtitles available
Concerning Activity in Potentially "Radicalizable" Subs and ThreadsInterested in others' opinions on this. (Skip to the bottom for a TLDR if you don't want to read my long ramble).
I know everyone says that "debating online is pointless," but (1): I'm admittedly easy to bait when I see... just *terrible* arguments, and (2): You don't "debate" in the Greek context or to change the other person's mind but to prevent others from thinking they have a good point. Bad ideas in a vacuum or that go unchallenged allow themselves to be spread. A counterpoint MUST be provided so people don't assume them as fact.
(It is to he debated, however, whether a bad argument is worse than no argument, however... pick your battled, I guess.)
Regardless (and because of the above), I like to be active in leftist-adjacent or "centrist"-y subs and threads to, if not slowly radicalize others, then to at least challenge bad ideas and keep them from spreading. (Yes, I am terminally online, but I do this in real life too, and I hope others here would, too.)
My recent breaking point was in a special "pet-project" one of mine, if you will, on the Georgism subreddit. I have been disheartened by how deeply right-libertarians have infiltrated and adopted (bastardized) that sub and the associated ideology.
For a quick reference for those who don't know, Georgism is a late 1800s, early 1900s ideology developed by Henry George that argues all taxation systems should be replaced by a purely progressive "land-value tax" or LVT, which taxes total used space (and type/quality of base land) rather than quality/development level of used space to reduce sprawl and/or acquisition of large amounts of property. He also argues that all things of the common good, air, water, utilities, and transportation, should be "public goods" and nationalized for universal use. It's no qhere NEAR a perfect ideology, but I find it a useful stepping stone for those too afraid to make the direct jump to socialism/communism/anarchism.
Sadly, since one of the main selling points is a single-tax system, right-libertarians have slowly flocked to it and pushed out the other portions of the ideology, focusing only the tax, as rightwingers tend to do. A poll was done of the sub that asked what type of trade system was preferable to the user base, and "free market/free trade" won by a landslide. I (maybe pointlessly) argued against a bunch of ancaps who used typical Adam Smith, "muh econ 101," etc. arguments to justify their capitalist position while I sighted NUMEROUS amounts and sources as to how limited protectionism (for workers, national protection, etc) is good and allowed most developed countries to develop and how exploitative so-called "free-trade" is.
If anything, it's at least good practice for shooting down typical right-wing arguments.
My question is then, I guess, as we see so many spheres get swallowed up by the right wing and so many spaces infiltrated by their ideas, how do we (or is it worth it to) combat this on a larger scale? Are my selected battlegrounds (deradicalizing certain "gamer" spaces, my blue-collar workplace, my agricultural community where I live, and centrist/transitional spaces) worth it? I fell diving into full right-wing echochambers is just hell, but, then, where else?
I think we should counter "socialism is good in theory but not practice" with "capitalism is bad in both theory AND practice" and cite examples (which I did in the aforementioned incident), but even real-life examples seem to just get handwoven away with "Yeah, but economists/textbooks agree..."
Thanks for interesting ideas, tactics, and/or constructive criticism.
TLDR: The battle to limit the spread of bad right-wing ideas in neutral, centrist, and leftwing adjacent spaces seems constantly tiring and worthless. Is it? Are there specific places (outside of real life, which, obviously) time us worth spending, or "is the internet just not worth saving," as they say?
What do you guys think is the intersectionality between transphobia and racism?Okay so if you don't know there is a Facebook page called Binary. And as you can guess, it's transphobic and just says that gender is binary. I sometimes look at it to see what my enemies are talking about. Okay so sometimes they will post an image that says something like, only women can give birth, or womanhood is not a costume, and stuff like that. One of the things I've noticed though is that they don't really show any person of color or any woman that you could arguably label as "unattractive". It's always the most attractive white woman that they use for a picture.
What? Are black women not women too? Are ugly women not women too? By their definition they are women since they are cis women and they only think cis women are women.
But they don't show those people. Instead for some reason they are using transphobic rhetoric to also push what I believe is a white supremacist narrative.
The mindset of hierarchy: antagonistic dualitySomeone in a recent thread commented that underneath racism and transphobia is fear, and I'm realizing that it's the fear that inevitably gets generated from a hierarchical worldview.
When everyone in the world is "ranked" in a hierarchy that determines how you are treated by society and what kind of life you get to have, you become desperate to rise up it and not fall down it. And in any hierarchy, rising up requires pushing others down. That's why it's inherently antagonistic (an us vs them, good vs evil, me vs you mindset).
I truly believe this mindset is at the root of every single problem with human society ever. It creates wars, colonization, exploitation, and domination (power-over). It literally creates hell on earth.
While we all (here) understand very well the toxicity of white supremacy, it's easy to overlook the much deeper and more underlying ideology of human supremacy, because it's so deeply ingrained in the cultural worldview of all "civilized" peoples. That is the hierarchy of life that places humans at the top, and causes the profound fear of nature that leads to monocrop agriculture and environmental exploitation.
It's the supremacy that is ultimately killing the planet, and threatens to take us all with it. In this it reveals the true toxicity of the mindset of antagonistic duality in general, which is fundamentally anti-life because it goes against the very nature of the universe, and how life exists (which is complementary duality).
To clarify, complementary duality is Yin and Yang, flowing into each other in an eternal cycle that creates the balance needed for life to exist. Too much heat, and everything burns up. Too much cold, and everything freezes to death. Fire melts the ice, and water keeps fire in check.
The mindset of antagonistic duality divides the Yin and Yang duality into Good and Evil, where we always want one but never the other, which sets up a situation of inevitable deficiency and excess instead of balance. And as we all know, too much of a good thing is not healthy. The only thing that's truly "good" is balance, everything given its own time and place to exist.
Antagonistic duality is cancerous, endless growth of one thing causing endless death for everything else. And thus we end up with a death cult for a culture.
[CrimethInc.] Kill Your Heroes: A Filipino Anarchist Discussion about National Heroes
[CrimethInc.] Kill Your Heroes: A Filipino Anarchist Discussion about National Heroes
¿Hay algún anarquista de Jalisco por aquí?Busco conocer a alguna persona o agrupación anarquista en Jalisco, México.
Mayormente por qué no es muy común serlo por aca.
Serious Problems with Alexander Rubinstein's December 2022 Article on the ADL, Azov & Ihor HalushkaOriginally posted on /r/DebateAnarchism
https://old.reddit.com/r/DebateAnarchism/comments/zxw2hs/serious_problems_alexander_rubinsteins_december/
I decided to post this here, because I feel it is least likely to be censored here. For some background: I am anarchist, critical of both the Ukranian state and the Russian imperial state, and furthermore critical of NATO imperialism. I found this information inadvertantly in the course of writing an essay criticizing and compiling information about various actions taken by the government of UA under Zelenskyy. To summarize: my viewpoints are considered controversial by basically all parties involved, which in my experience, is how most genuinely anarchist views typically are received.
I post this here, not because I am debating *against* anarchism, like most other posts here do. Rather, I post this here because I feel it should become known to non-anarchists who may have consumed this propaganda without being aware of the factual inaccuracies of this article. I figured that probably, a lot of these people circulate in this space, and that some of you would be open-minded to consider an anarchist critique/fact-check of this article, and then share this info with your fellows and friends.
This article was recently published by Alexander Rubinstein about Jon Stewart allegedly giving a medal to a neo-nazi member of Azov Battalion at a United States Department of Defense event.
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/08/adl-ukraines-azov-battalion-far-right/
The article focuses on an alleged response by the ADL, to Alex's reporting of the event as a hate event to the ADL via the Anti-Defamation League's website.
However, it appears that this event did not happen. When I tried to find an independent source corroborating that Ihor actually participated in the event, and was awarded a medal by Jon Stewart, I found various sources stating the event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic's Delta wave. In addition, an archive of the official website confirms that the 2021 games were cancelled about a month prior.
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/08/20/warrior-games-2021-cancelled/
https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2021/08/18/DoD-Warrior-Games/8111629301705/
http://web.archive.org/web/20211204175211/https://www.dodwarriorgames.com/
Now, Jon Stewart *has* hosted these games since 2015. And it is possible, although not confirmed, that Ukranian neo-nazis have participated or been awarded medals at other years' Warrior Games events-- they do have a Ukranian team participating in some years. However, the event in question, reported in Alex's article, appears not to have happened, because the games were postponed to another year.
Additionally, Alex's article does not cite a public release by the ADL. Instead, it posts an alleged screenshot of an email reply sent privately to Alex's email account, from the ADL. It bears a "Grayzone" watermark, and does not include any header information from the email. It also does not directly address anything that was in the original report. Furthermore, the original report is not even confirmed to have been sent to the ADL; all that is provided, is a screenshot of the ADL web form, prior to a submission being sent. Finally, there is no indication on the ADL website of any public acknowledgment by the ADL of being sent this report, or any reply from them responding to it.
I also could not find any video of the 2021 Warrior Games event in question, or any other type of proof that the 2021 year event happened at a later date due to being rescheduled. It appears to have been totally cancelled. Furthermore, there is no readily apparent evidence that Ihor participated during another year, or that Ihor was awarded a medal at this event in any year. There are, however, various videos and records of these games happening in various years from 2015 to the present, except for 2021.
It appears to me that Alex's article has been based on intentionally fabricated evidence, to support a narrative about the ADL and the event. If anyone can refute this, I encourage you to post information in this thread as a reply, so the truth can come out. However, as far as I can tell, this article is highly misleading and contains numerous unverifiable elements. It may be simply needing a lot of editing and further clarification, but the most likely explanation at this point is that it is outright fraudulent. This indicates that the Grayzone media outlet, far from being independent, appears quite compromised and unreliable. In the absence of a convincing and substantial response on this matter, I will disregard anything coming from this outlet unless explicitly confirmed by a more reliable and trustworthy source. This appears to be a major breach of media ethics, and damages the reputation of the entire outlet, and especially the author of this article.
New Years Eve Noise Demonstrations
How to Start making zinnes and how to make then circulate ?Je vais commencer par élaborer en français puis en anglais par la suite (english below)
Quelques ami es et moi avons commencer à créer des zinnes. Nous sommes un quatuor d'artistes engagés et tentons d'aborder les luttes dans notre communauté et nos millieux. Nous avons commencer à composer des zinnes et en avons finalement imprimé un avec nos écrans de sérigraphie. Le résultat nous plaît plus ou moins, le rendus est "cheap" mais ça nous permet d'en faire beaucoup et de les donner plutôt que de les vendres. Nous sommes pour l'instant bloqué à l'étape où nous partageons ce zinne en dehors de notre millieux de vie, notre cercle social.
Ces quoi vos expériences et conseils pour bien partir ?
A few friends and i are Starting to make zinnes and we are wondering what have been done before and what was Working. For now we are making it DIY with silkscreen and we are screenprinting them on recycled paper. We have no or verry low expérience in this and looking for all knowledge 🏴
On this day, 100 years ago, the IWA-AIT was founded in an illegal congress in Berlin, join your local today! (Image from the founding congress)
People focused on hating NATO and American imperialism should also realize Russian imperialism is bad tooTime after time I keep seeing people buy into this idea that America and NATO "escalated" the situation which led to Russia invading Ukraine. This is complete nonsense even from an anarchist perspective.
From since 1991 Russia supported separatist movements in places like in Moldova
[Transnistria - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria)
Russia would then in 1993 become further dictatorial with Yeltsin's strengthening of presidential powers. This would be one of the earliest indicators of the Russian government choosing to continue its practice as a dictatorship and empire.
[1993 Russian constitutional crisis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis)
Russia while supporting seperatism of Russian aligned forces also has a history of hypocritically violently suppressing separatist movements such as with Chechnya in 1999
[Second Chechen War - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War)
The Baltics joined NATO in 2004. While NATO is by no means a good organization it should be understood the position of NATO providing military aid to any member nation threatened by aggression was an obvious reason why the Baltics would join. They had already been militarily occupied by Russia since the 1930s. The claim too that the US promised to not expand NATO was a simple oral claim to Gorbachev. There was no signed treaty or declaration. Again while this does not matter to anarchist methods it does matter in terms of how nation states operate. Russia has a history of invading them and continuing to violently intervene in surrounding neighbors.
2008 would then be their most blatant act of imperialism by Russia with their invasion of Georgia marked by its past efforts as well to inflame ethnic tensions in Abkhazia and Ossetia leading to ethnic cleansing.
[Russo-Georgian War - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War)
[Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_of_Georgians_in_Abkhazia)
Then in 2014 in response to the Russian aligned president fleeing the country and the country voting in a leader less aligned with Russia. Pro Russian forces would go on to seize government buildings in Luhansk and Donetsk while being armed and supported by Russia itself. Crimea was seized and a show vote was given. The separatists in Donbass didnt just want to voluntarily secede in the regions they were but laid claim to the entire Donbass region. Early on the fighting was ugly from both sides in the conflict with human rights being violated. At this stage Russia further encouraged armed aggression.
[Everything you need to know about human rights in Ukraine - Amnesty International Amnesty International](https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/europe-and-central-asia/ukraine/report-ukraine/)
[UN: Killings, Violations on Increase in Ukraine Conflict (voanews.com)](https://www.voanews.com/a/un-unhcr-report-says-ukraine-killings-human-rights-violations-increase/2952432.html)
Already in 2015 the Minsk agreements while not stopping conflict, helped greatly reduce the intensity between both sides.
[Minsk agreements - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements#:~:text=The%20Minsk%20agreements%20were%20a%20series%20of%20international,Russian%20regular%20forces%20playing%20a%20central%20part.%20%5B1%5D)
By late 2021 the Russian government would then further ramp up tensions by bringing large amounts of forces to the borders of Ukraine. While they repeatedly claimed their was no intent to invade they continued to build these forces. They had multiple points to stage this buildup as either simply an exercise or upon recognition of the Donbas regions to then only stay within the borders of said region. Recognition of these regions outright broke the Minsk agreements either ways. Not only did they follow through with sending troops into Ukraine they went through with trying to stage an attack directly on the capital of Ukraine to overthrow the entire government. This was no humanitarian act to protect a secession movement this was an outright attempt to bring the entirety of Ukraine back under Russian hegemony.
[Prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_to_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine)
It needs to be crucially stressed that the intensity of the conflict was already largely winding down in part due to the Minsk agreements. Russian buildup and recognition were the specific escalating factors towards the current invasion. All it has done is further driven Ukraine and countries like Finland further into the hands of NATO as any reasonable actor would in response to a larger invasive neighbor.
Again this does not mean America or Ukraine are perfect countries. But American imperialism and Ukranian nazis were not what provoked this invasion. The claims of seeking to denazify Ukraine are easily disproven with the fact Russia employs Wagner group which has neo nazi members, released Azov prisoners, and their primary focus is holding the regions of Ukraine that produce gas and coal. It is purely an expansionist and imperialist action marked by torture and targeting civilian population centers.
[ukraine-natural-resource-map-field-png-favpng-pthZUXzG7eKaaKZxcHD2bRF0k.jpg (820×503)](https://img.favpng.com/24/9/15/ukraine-natural-resource-map-field-png-favpng-pthZUXzG7eKaaKZxcHD2bRF0k.jpg)
[Dmitry Utkin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Utkin)
[the\_wagner\_group\_\_nazis\_all\_by\_neotall\_df3ftk5-fullview.jpg (1280×720) (wixmp.com)](https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/029cb049-205a-4d4e-af6d-1327f21bd42f/df3ftk5-72241a74-dc53-4bcd-b89b-90fa6805eef7.png/v1/fill/w_1280,h_720,q_80,strp/the_wagner_group__nazis_all_by_neotall_df3ftk5-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9NzIwIiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvMDI5Y2IwNDktMjA1YS00ZDRlLWFmNmQtMTMyN2YyMWJkNDJmXC9kZjNmdGs1LTcyMjQxYTc0LWRjNTMtNGJjZC1iODliLTkwZmE2ODA1ZWVmNy5wbmciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTI4MCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.YL1-KurCYUVhoj0bWDuBx6eJkz_kPUU1iKtzLnovTy8)
Now let us look at the actual anarchist position on the invasion independent of pro NATO or pro Russia voices.
Revdia is one of the more prominent anarchocommunist organizations in Ukraine. Prior to the invasion of Ukraine they were focused on fighting neo nazis within Ukraine. When the war broke out they were forced to shift focus towards resisting invasion. Anarchists in Russia are in militant action against Putin's conscription and continuation of the invasion.
[https://youtu.be/m5ZLpFIsMH8](https://youtu.be/m5ZLpFIsMH8)
[Rev Dia – Why do anarchists go to war? – 🏴 Anarchist Federation](https://www.anarchistfederation.net/rev-dia-why-do-anarchists-go-to-war/)
[Ukrainian Anarchists Mobilize for Armed Defense, Draw Solidarity from Abroad as Russia Invades (militantwire.com)](https://www.militantwire.com/p/ukrainian-anarchists-mobilize-for)
[CrimethInc. : Russia: The Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization : An Interview with a Clandestine Anarchist Group](https://crimethinc.com/2022/08/22/russia-the-anarcho-communist-combat-organization-an-interview-with-a-clandestine-anarchist-group)
The materials provided by NATO and America to Ukraine are primarily leftover equipment designed to disrupt supply lines, air superiority, and intercept rocket attacks on population centers. Them providing Ukranians with the means to effectively fight back against Russian imperialism is not escalation. It is an active choice of Russia to not withdraw troops from Ukraine and to continue forcibly conscripting people for a war the working class doesn't want. NATO and America are not perfect but the primary aggressor and perpetuator of this war is solely Russia. Conceding to Russian military demands won't actually end the war since citizens in the occupied regions will just continue to militantly resist anyways. The only peace option is one of Russian military withdrawal.
Fuck the monarchy, doesn’t belong in the 21st century
A Good Time To Remember That All Royals Are Parasites
Police shoot at innocent citizen-- citizen returns fire
How money killed artI have just discovered this video that speaks about how art has become a soulless industry. While I'm not an artist myself, I have taken an interest in art this year and came to view it as incredibly important for self-development and the human soul. I have no idea where else to post this, but I will let take the post down if it doesn't suit this subreddit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Lh7eEbuPI
TL:DW The video talks about how art collecting as an industry has become a big business since the Medici family—bigger than movies/the box office—and how the gap between the art buyer and the art dealer is becoming smaller and smaller, the art collector is no longer an eccentric lover of art but a cold, money-focused individual who only cares about the name behind the art and how much clout they can get from it instead of the piece itself and it's quality and minute details that the artist painstakingly worked on. It also criticizes the average viewer, as the art piece is no longer treated as something to marvel at and appreciate, and is instead reduced to a backdrop for the viewer's next selfie.