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Anarchism News
23 minutes ago

Libcom: **Black Flag 145 (1-7-1985)**

" Including: Athens police kill 15 year old Mikilas Kalteras, founding of Anti-Fascist Action (including Searchlight smears of Class War), Brixton council leader Ted Knight confronted by Canterbury Anarchists, Birmingham Stop The City court cases, Thatcher's speech writer Robert Moss, disputes at BBC and Scottish & Newcastle brewery, demonisation of Arthur Scargill, 75th anniversary of CNT, international updates, death of Oklahoma prisoner Willie Myles, Free Omori!, US fascist group The Order, letter on Holland, historical riots, phone tap…"

https://libcom.org/article/black-flag-145-1-7-1985

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Anarchist Quotes
23 minutes ago

In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy.
-- Emma Goldman

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Anarchism News
26 minutes ago

Bristol Anarchist Black Cross: **New Queers Hate Prisons T-shirt Fundraiser for Bristol ABC!**

"New beautiful t-shirts are available with a stunning illustration saying “Queers Hate Prisons”. 100% of profits will go to Bristol Anarchist Black Cross. Bristol ABC is a grassroots group dedicated to supporting prisoners, including the ... Read More"

https://bristolabc.org/new-queers-hate-prisons-t-shirt-fundraiser-for-bristol-abc/

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Anarchism News
3 hours ago

Libcom: **Black Flag 134 (17-6-1985)**

" Including: Battle of the Beanfield, Industrial updates, Freedom Association, anarchism and Young Liberal Party, repression in Greece, Stop Business as Usual Netherlands, MOVE massacre, L'Internationale editors arrested in France, letter: Bristol anarchists pelt Harvey Proctor, publications, two page flyer for Direct Action Movement publications. Submitted by Fozzie on September 23, 2023 Copied to clipboard With thanks to Kate Sharpley Library for providing a copy to be scanned. Files BlackFlag134-1985.pdf (7.15 MB) Book traversal links…"

https://libcom.org/article/black-flag-134-17-6-1985

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Anarchism News
3 hours ago

Bristol Anarchist Black Cross: **Toby Shone has been recalled to prison**

"Toby Shone is an anarchist who was imprisoned in Wandsworth, Bristol and G4S Prison Parc for nearly two years, accused of being the administrator of counter-information project 325.nostate.net. After the political prosecution failed and the cops ... Read More"

https://bristolabc.org/toby-shone-has-been-recalled-to-prison/

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Anarchist Quotes
4 hours ago

Fascism may be briefly described as the reluctant acquiescence of capitalists to governmental regimentation in order to stem the increasing impotency of a one-sided wealth accumulation to satisfy the needs of a country.
-- Laurance Labadie

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Übertage
5 hours ago

In unserem vorletzten Interview vom internationalen anarchistischen Treffen in St. Imier, spricht Joshua mit Amy & Black aus New York, über die anarchistische Bewegung und die soziale Situation vor Ort.

Zum Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dtIA0i3pYY

Webseite der Anarchist Bookfair NYC: https://anarchistbookfair.net/

#Anarchismus #Anarchie #Sozialismus #Kommunismus #Anarchism #NYC #NewYork #USA #Podcast #Interview #Übertage #anarchy

Anarchism News
5 hours ago

PM Press: **Why We Need Mass Movement Climate Justice Politics**

"By David Camfield Midnight Sun Magazine Midnight Sun is excited to present this excerpt from David Camfield’s new book Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change. Reprinted with permission of PM Press and Fernwood Publishing. Why do mass movements matter so much at this time in history? First, they are crucial for defensive …"

https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/09/23/why-we-need-mass-movement-climate-justice-politics/

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Anarchism News
6 hours ago

Agency: **Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: Mutual Aid and the Criminalization of Compassion: Humanitarian Aid Must Never Be A Crime**

"September 22, 2023 Mutual aid is your neighbor bringing over a freshly baked blueberry pie because they know you love that kind and they... The post Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: Mutual Aid and the Criminalization of Compassion: Humanitarian Aid Must Never Be A Crime appeared first on Agency."

https://www.anarchistagency.com/critical-voices/mutual-aid-disaster-relief-mutual-aid-and-the-criminalization-of-compassion-humanitarian-aid-must-never-be-a-crime/

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Anarchism News
6 hours ago

Bristol Anarchist Black Cross: **Support Ryan & Ryan!**

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https://bristolabc.org/support-ryan-ryan/

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Ideally we'd buy land together and have our own houses with communal areas, but my friends and I are like... almost exclusively low income, queer, trans and disabled. The only land we could possibly buy is in the middle of nowhere, and that creates other issues of isolation. Turns cult like very fast. So I don't think living in close proximity is an option. But surely it's possible somehow even without that option?

#community #queer #trans #disabled #anarchism

Does anyone have any recommendations for resources on how to build mutual aid based irl communities? Not like asking each other for money, but helping each other in crisis or less urgent stuff. Friendship. Taking care of each other, not just our monogamous romantic partners.

Because I feel kinda isolated when it comes to help in a crisis. And I absolutely love to help and care for others.

#mutualaid #community #anarchism

Anarchist Quotes
9 hours ago

Only the man who has successfully rid himself of the chains of oppression and seen all the horrors being perpetrated against the human race can be persuaded that his freedom and that of his neighbor are inviolable, as are their lives, and that his neighbor is his brother.
-- Nestor Makhno

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Anarchism News
10 hours ago

CrimethInc.: **Anarchist Voices from Armenia and Azerbaijan : On the Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh**

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https://crimethinc.com/2023/09/23/anarchist-voices-from-armenia-and-azerbaijan-on-the-violence-in-nagorno-karabakh

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Anarchism News
12 hours ago

Freedom News: **Callout: Solidarity demo against IPP**

"23rd of September from 2 PM Outside HMP Belmarsh, Western Way, SE28 0EB …"

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/23/callout-solidarity-demo-against-ipp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=callout-solidarity-demo-against-ipp

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Anarchist Quotes
14 hours ago

The Roman Empire was a state in the real sense of the word. To this day it remains the legist's ideal.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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Anarchism News
15 hours ago

Audible Anarchism: **The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 22 - First Days in Kharkov**

"Full text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-the-bolshevik-myth-diary-1920-22 Alexander Berkman's the Bolshevik Myth is a collection of diary entries documenting his travels to the early Soviet Union following his expulsion from the United States with other immigrant political radicals."

https://audibleanarchism.podbean.com/e/the-bolshevik-myth-chapter-22-first-days-in-kharkov/

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Anarchism News
17 hours ago

Anarchist News: **For a new Anarchist Center in Lisbon!**

"Received via email Three collectives that belong to the history of Portuguese anarchism – Centro de Cultura Libertária, BOESG (library) and A Batalha (newspaper) – got together to buy a new Anarchist Center in the Lisbon region: a common space, open to old and new collectives, that will rid us, once and for all, of the pressure brought about by gentrification and real estate. The new Anarchist Center will be a social center but will also host the relevant archives and libraries of the three collectives. In t…"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/new-anarchist-center-lisbon

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Anarchism News
20 hours ago

Anarchist News: **The grifterverse and Russell Brand**

"From Freedom News UK Just under a decade ago, Russell Brand was going through his revolutionary leftist phase and had gotten into anarchism, a topic which he characteristically used for the benefit of his own hype but which also prompted “interest” from the mainstream media. By interest, I, of course, mean ignorant denunciation from centrist talking heads, who inevitably used Brand’s voluble public persona as a good means of showing off their in-crowd credentials with a bit of sneering at the Dumb Celeb Bein…"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/grifterverse-and-russell-brand

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Felipe :catjam:
20 hours ago

Why The Government Has Infinite Money | SecondThought

Great explanation why American problems, and for extension everyone else's in the world, are caused because the government wants them to be there.
From homelessness to inflation, corpo wants them to be there, the state obeys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFhKVCaadzE

#socialism #anarchism #capitalism #federalreserve

Anarchist Quotes
21 hours ago

The most violent element in society is ignorance.
-- Emma Goldman

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Anarchism News
23 hours ago

Anarchist News: **Eric King’s 2023 Running Down the Walls Statement**

"From Support Eric King Greetings friends, comrades, and assorted government voyeurs! This is my second RDTW from ADX. The “Alcatraz of the Rockies” is a weird place, filled with creepy, abusive predators, and a few hundred prisoners! I’d like to focus on how important things like tangible support and the ABC Warchest are for prisoners. Everything that makes prison somewhat tolerable costs money — stamps and envelopes; paper and pens; emails and phone calls; coffee, non-m…"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/eric-king%E2%80%99s-2023-running-down-walls-statement

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Anarchism News
1 day ago

Autonomies: **Breaking ranks: desertion as a crisis of meaning**

"A reflection on desertion, by Amador Fernández-Savater … It grabs your guts and won’t let go; restlessness, a background noise, a discomfort. The thing, far from disappearing, is growing. Despite distractions, narcotics, stubbornness; until you can’t stand it anymore. And …"

https://autonomies.org/2023/09/breaking-ranks-desertion-as-a-crisis-of-meaning/

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Anarchist Quotes
1 day ago

Thus, on the one hand, the "unionised" are today in a position to understand, study and receive libertarian teachings: on the other, anarchists need not fear that, in taking part in the corporative movement, they will be required to forswear their independence.
-- Fernand Pelloutier

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Anarchism News
1 day ago

Anarchist News: **Words by Mónica Caballero in solidarity w/ Marcel Villarroel**

"Via Dark Nights For those of us who choose not to accept the discourse of the powerful, we know that the legal principles that underpin the legality of the State are not applied to everyone in the same way. Paper can hold a lot and can show us a vision far removed from reality. The reality of power denies us that there are people punished for being openly hostile to its dominating forms, and that in pursuit of being the most implacable they violate their …"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/words-m%C3%B3nica-caballero-solidarity-w-marcel-villarroel

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Anarchism News
1 day ago

Anarchist Communist Group: **Don’t Expect Any Change with a Labour government**

"It’s normal for a political party to promise a number of reforms in its political programme and then to renege on them when …"

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2023/09/22/dont-expect-any-change-with-a-labour-government/

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Anarchism News
1 day ago

The Commoner: **Help Tom and the Incarcerated at HMP Lowdham Grange**

"Help us take action for Tom Fairclough and those other incarcerated people facing abysmal conditions at HMP Lowdham Grange."

https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/help-tom-and-the-incarcerated-at-hmp-lowdham-grange/

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ch0ccyra1n :she_her:
1 day ago

I find myself agreeing a lot more with social anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th century than contemporary social anarchists. What's up with that?

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Individualism #Socialism #Communism #Collectivism

Anarchist Quotes
1 day ago

The view which sees in every capitalist only a profit machine may very well meet the demands of propaganda, but it is conceived much too narrowly and does not correspond to reality.
-- Rudolf Rocker

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Autonomie und Solidarität
1 day ago

UK: Anarchist comrade Toby Shone abducted by armed cops & sent back to prison!
"Toby Shone is an anarchist who was imprisoned in Wandsworth, Bristol and G4S Prison Parc for nearly two years accused of being the administrator of counter-information project 325.nostate.net. After the political prosecution failed and the cops had to drop the case 5 days before trial in October 2021, Toby received a sentence of 3 years 9 months for possession of psychedelic medicines. He was released on 28 December 2022 under heavy restrictions (license conditions), oversight by a multi-agency team (MAPPA) including the National Security Division (counter-terror) and forced to live in a filthy bail hostel in Gloucester for 9 months. He had just moved back into a flat in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire 9 days ago.
(...)
Toby is in a good mood, as always, and asks for letters and books.
You can write to:
Toby Shone A7645EP
HMP Bristol
19 Cambridge
Bishopston Road Bristol BS7 8 CV"

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/22/uk-anarchist-comrade-toby-shone-abducted-by-armed-cops-sent-back-to-prison/
#UK #Anarchism #AnarchistPrisoners #politicalprisoner #AbolishPrisons

Anarchism News
1 day ago

Anarchist News: **Macjak-Squat – an interview**

"From Anarchist Radio Berlin PODCAST LINK HERE: Anarchist Radio Berlin Macjak was a small anarcha-queer squat in ljubjana, slovenia. Sadly it is history now. During the last days of august we spoke with two of the squatters about macjak and the future plans of squatting in ljubljana. If you want to listen to another interview with the folks from macjak, have a look at page of Frequenz (A). Infos about the two evicted squats, Zizania and Ano Kato in Greece can be found here and here. Tags: squat the planetAnarchist…"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/macjak-squat-%E2%80%93-interview

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MikeDunnAuthor
1 day ago

Today in Labor History September 22, 1919: After union suppression 400,000 steelworkers in 50 cities struck to protest intolerable working conditions. Union leaders believed that if they could organizer the steel workers, it would lead to a massive wave of unionization across the country. Thus began the Great Steel Strike of 1919. The bosses, however, were able to turn public opinion against the workers by calling them Communists and immigrants. They attacked strike organizer William Z. Foster as a revolutionary syndicalist and Wobbly (IWW). And they called upon federal troops, which helped crush the strike after 3½ months, killing several workers.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #union #steel #strike #IWW #anarchism #communism #immigration #PoliceBrutality #PoliceMurder #police #racism

Image: An unprovoked attack by mounted state police during the strike in Pennsylvania in September 1919By Unknown author - The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons, William Foster https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36032/36032-h/36032-h.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75133002
Anarchism News
1 day ago

Dark Nights: **UK: Anarchist comrade Toby Shone abducted by armed cops & sent back to prison!**

"Toby Shone is an anarchist who was imprisoned in Wandsworth, Bristol and G4S Prison Parc for nearly two years accused of being the administrator of counter-information project 325.nostate.net. After the political prosecution failed and the cops had to drop the case 5 days before trial in October 2021, Toby received a sentence of 3 years […]"

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/22/uk-anarchist-comrade-toby-shone-abducted-by-armed-cops-sent-back-to-prison/

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Anarchist Quotes
1 day ago

Side neither with nations nor with parties. Be neither Russians, Poles nor Slavs. Rather, be men who hunger for truth, free from any thoughts of particular interests, and from speculative ideas concerning the Chinese, Africans or Europeans. The patriot always ends up hating the foreigner, and loses the sense of justice that once kindled his enthusiasm.
-- Elisee Reclus

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Anarchism News
1 day ago

Anarchist News: **Conversation on Modern Islamic Anarchism**

"From Notes Toward an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism by Javier Sethness Check out my recent conversation on Thomas Wilson Jardine’s podcast Ideologica Obscura about my review of Mohamed Abdou’s Islam and Anarchism on The Commoner below: SPOTIFY LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6muCbd4ZWlbWOEuXGPpxB0 Tags: IslampodcastSpotify"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/conversation-modern-islamic-anarchism

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Anarchism News
1 day ago

Freedom News: **Toby Shone – Recalled to prison**

"Toby Shone is an anarchist who was accused of being the administrator of counter-information project 325.nostate.net. …"

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/22/toby-shone-recalled-to-prison/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toby-shone-recalled-to-prison

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transform-social
2 days ago

or how Marie Goldsmith criticized the idea of meritocracy in 1919: "To give each proportionally to their work is, if you wish, a fair principle; but it is a lower type of justice, like the idea of rewarding merit or punishing vice."
#anarchism

Reminder that #Raddle 's website maintainer Ziq used sock puppets to make raddle seem more popular, as they did on Reddit to avoid bans from the moderators of /r/anarchism and /r/anarchy101.

The post has been removed by Ziq because they have gone back on their word, including banning people who have called them out on removing the evidence. Here it is archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20180405002453/https://raddle.me/f/lobby/28422/i-m-stepping-down-as-admin-because-of-some-shit-i-did-emma

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Anarchism News
2 days ago

Anarchist News: **17th Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival**

"From MTL Counter-Information via Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival From the Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival Montreal’s 17th Annual International Anarchist Theatre FestivalMay 2024, seeks plays Application deadline: November 14, 2023 The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (MIATF), the only festival in the world dedicated to anarchist theatre, is currently seeking plays, monologues, dance-theatre, puppet shows, mime, e…"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/17th-montreal-international-anarchist-theatre-festival

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Freedom Press
2 days ago

Toby Shone – Recalled to prison
Toby Shone is an anarchist who was accused of being the administrator of counter-information project 325.nostate.net.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/22/toby-shone-recalled-to-prison/
#Anarchism #PrisonAbolition #PrisonerSupport #Solidarity #TobyShone

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Anarchist Quotes
2 days ago

The United States was born in a revolution, and some of its most revered Founding Fathers extolled the right to make one.
-- Janet Biehl

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Anarchism News
2 days ago

Anarchist News: **Anarchist comrade Francisco Solar’s words in solidarity with Marcelo Villarroel**

"From Dark Nights, $hile Solidarity is attack It is not the fruit of a profound analysis that by striking with forcefulness and frequency, it is possible to bend the hand of Power. This has been demonstrated in multiple experiences of struggle in different territories and at different times. At this moment the situation of comrade Marcelo Villarroel requires, without a doubt, that decision and collective and individu…"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/anarchist-comrade-francisco-solar%E2%80%99s-words-solidarity-marcelo-villarroel

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redcat
2 days ago

Irgendwer hat mal gesagt:
"Anarchismus ist die Ziele von Demokratie einen Schritt weiter gedacht".
Und falls nicht, dann sag ich's.

Anarchie ist organisierter Respekt und systemische Liebe für alle.
Freiheit ist es nur wenn alle frei sind. Deshalb braucht es Teilhabe aller an allem. Also Rechte für Minderheiten und Individuen. Also geht es nicht ohne Organisationsstrukturen. Diese müssen lightweight sein und so wenige Machtpositionen habe wie möglich.

#anarchism #democracy #organization

Anarchism News
2 days ago

Dark Nights: **$hile: Anarchist comrade Francisco Solar’s words in solidarity with Marcelo Villarroel**

"Solidarity is attack It is not the fruit of a profound analysis that by striking with forcefulness and frequency, it is possible to bend the hand of Power. This has been demonstrated in multiple experiences of struggle in different territories and at different times. At this moment the situation of comrade Marcelo Villarroel requires, without […]"

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/21/hile-anarchist-comrade-francisco-solars-words-in-solidarity-with-marcelo-villarroel/

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Anarchism News
2 days ago

Anarchist News: **Toby Shone - Recalled To Prison**

"From Organise Magazine Toby Shone is an anarchist who was imprisoned in Wandsworth, Bristol and G4S Prison Parc for nearly two years accused of being the administrator of counter-information project 325.nostate.net. After the political prosecution failed and the cops had to drop the case 5 days before trial in October 2021, Toby received a sentence of 3 years 9 months for possession of psychedelic medicines. He was released on 28 December 2022 under heavy restrictions (license conditions), oversight by a multi-agen…"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/toby-shone-recalled-prison

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Anarchist Quotes
2 days ago

You have accused me of theft, as if a worker that has nothing could be a thief.
-- Clement Duval

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Anarchism News
2 days ago

Dark Nights: **$hile: Words by Mónica Caballero in solidarity with Marcel Villarroel**

"For those of us who choose not to accept the discourse of the powerful, we know that the legal principles that underpin the legality of the State are not applied to everyone in the same way. Paper can hold a lot and can show us a vision far removed from reality. The reality of power […]"

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/21/hile-words-by-monica-caballero-in-solidarity-with-marcel-villarroel/

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Anarchism News
2 days ago

NYC Anarchist Black Cross: **Running Down the Walls 2023: A Reportback**

"Running Down the Walls 2023 has come and gone. Here in NYC we had a beautiful day to do it, the mid-September New York weather finally feeling like autumn instead of a desert summer. Both Prospect Park and the City itself seemed even busier than usual, with buskers, vendors and birthday parties nearby and marches […]"

https://nycabc.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/rdtw2023report/

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Anarchism News
3 days ago

NYC Anarchist Black Cross: **Running Down the Walls 2023: A Reportback**

"Running Down the Walls 2023 has come and gone. Here in NYC we had a beautiful day to do it, the mid-September New York weather finally feeling like autumn instead of a desert summer. Both Prospect Park and the City itself seemed even busier than usual, with buskers, vendors and birthday parties nearby and marches […]"

https://nycabc.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/running-down-the-walls-2023-a-reportback/

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In my group of friends and chosen family, we have this thing where if someone needs to hear that they did good, they just tell what they did and ask for praise.

I find that it's actually really healing to have people say they're proud of you, and having the safety to just openly ask for that is amazing.

#Friends #relationship #LongDistance #LongDistanceRelationship #NonMonogamy #ChosenFamily #Queer #anarchism

Autonomie und Solidarität
4 days ago

The state would like to silence revolutionary anarchist propaganda… we will neither be silenced nor stopped, EN/IT/FR/ES Poster in solidarity with those investigated in the ”Scripta Scelera” operation (Italy)
"We are not surprised by operations like this. Ever since anarchism emerged – not from the scholarly abstractions of some philosopher, but from revolutionary experiences, from the aspirations of the oppressed – anarchists’ papers have been hit. States have a long history of massacres, torture, assassinations, thousands of years of imprisonment against revolutionaries. We have the impetus of the dream and the risk of action, the determination of the will and the strength of necessity. And we continue on the path we have taken… Let inquisitors and illustrious magistrates get over it, beyond and against all censorship and repression, we will continue to rejoice every time this authoritarian social reality is attacked, its certainties shattered and troubled by the roar of revolt."
https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/19/the-state-would-like-to-silence-revolutionary-anarchist-propaganda-we-will-neither-be-silenced-nor-stopped-en-it-fr-es-poster-in-solidarity-with-those-investigated-in-the-scripta-scelera-o/
#Anarchism #Repression #Italy

Poster 

The state would like to silece revolutionary anarchist propaganda.....

https://actforfree.noblogs.org/files/2023/09/solidarity-poster-scripta-scelera.pdf
Anarchism News
5 days ago

CrimethInc.: **Solidarity among the Displaced : How Russian Anarchists in Exile Supported Armenian Refugee Squatters**

"In Armenia, Russian anarchists in exile set an example of solidarity, supporting Armenian refugees who had squatted the abandoned Ministry of Defense."

https://crimethinc.com/2023/09/19/solidarity-among-the-displaced-how-russian-anarchists-in-exile-supported-armenian-refugee-squatters

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Autonomie und Solidarität
5 days ago

#Solidarity among the Displaced
How Russian Anarchists in #Exile Supported Armenian #Refugee Squatters
"Throughout the world, mass displacement is accelerating as climate catastrophe, economic crisis, and war drive millions into exile, both within their own countries and across borders. These mass migrations are exacerbating gentrification, driving up housing costs just as real estate speculation is rendering more and more people homeless. How can displaced people continue to take political action in their new homes, establishing solidarity across ethnic lines in unfamiliar settings? In #Armenia, #Russian anarchists living in exile set one example, supporting Armenian refugees who had squatted the abandoned Ministry of Defense."
https://de.crimethinc.com/2023/09/19/solidarity-among-the-displaced-how-russian-anarchists-in-exile-supported-armenian-refugee-squatters
#Anarchism #Exil #Migration #Squat #Antireport #MigrationIsAHumanRight

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Anarchist Quotes
5 days ago

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
-- Emma Goldman

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Anarchist Quotes
5 days ago

We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity.
-- Malcolm X

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Anarchist Quotes
5 days ago

Socialism and communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal anarchism.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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Anarchist Quotes
6 days ago

Those who would like to see society transformed without shocks must make up their minds to surrender the hope; it is impossible. Ideas in the course of evolving lead to revolution.
-- Jean Grave

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Adrian Riskin
6 days ago

A lot of US political talk tacitly assumes that a purpose of government is to help people. One way this assumption manifests itself is as shock that the government openly facilitates exploitation. They prosecute shoplifting but not wage theft! Littering but not industrial pollution! Jaywalking but not killer self-driving cars! Poor people's tax evasion but corporations pay nothing! Student loan defaults but not COVID money fraud!

Often this discourse contrasts current conditions to an imaginary past when the government did its putative job. The top tax rate used to be 90%! The minimum wage was a lot higher in real dollars! Public universities used to be affordable! But really, when was this supposed golden age?

The first governments that colonists set up on this continent were run by enslaving planters to facilitate slave-based capitalism. During the nineteenth century the planters were replaced by industrialists and financiers to facilitate wage-slave-based exploitation. At some point capitalists subbed in professional politicians but the work didn't change. Any gains workers made were the result of resistance, not government beneficence. If there was actually a time when American governments, federal, state, local, meant to help people, when did it start? When did the plantocracy or its successors relinquish control?

Governments here have *never* been on our side. Their main function has *always* been to facilitate exploitation and the transfer of wealth from poor to rich. At any given point in history they've stolen as much as they could get away with, and if it looks like things used to be better it's only because they didn't yet have the means to make them worse. Capitalism isn't amenable to reform, only to abolition. Of the police, of wage slavery, of coercion as a tool of government. So, you know, smash the state!

#Anarchism #Anarchy #Capitalism #WageSlavery #Slavery #Plantocracy #SmashTheState #Abolition

Anarchist Quotes
6 days ago

Anarchy is not perfection, it is not the absolute ideal which like the horizon recedes as fast as we approach it; but it is the way open to all progress and all improvements for the benefit of everybody.
-- Errico Malatesta

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Anarchist Quotes
1 week ago

The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years.
-- Emma Goldman

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Anarchist Quotes
1 week ago

The anarchist ideal is large and rich in its diversity. Nevertheless, the role of anarchists in the social struggle of the masses is extremely modest. Their task is to help the masses take the right road in the struggle and in the construction of the new society.
-- Peter Arshinov

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it's not intersectional if it doesn't include black people
it's not radical if its inaccessible to the poor
it's not liberation if we left someone behind

- Grace Alexander

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #anarchism #activism #poor #FuckTheRich #AbolishMoney #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #Disability #Aboriginal

Anarchist Quotes
1 week ago

We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.
-- Lucy Parsons

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Aral Balkan
1 week ago

Against the Logic of the Guillotine: Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine – and We Should Too

https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

Every word in this article speaks directly to my soul. I have no desire to burn down the world we live in yet every desire to try and help bring about the kind of world I want to live in: a kinder, fairer, more equal and – to steal a phrase from the piece – more joyous one for us all.

#anarchism #SmallTech #SmallWeb

The worst punishment anyone could inflict on those who govern and police us today would be to compel them to live in a society in which everything they've done is regarded as embarrassing-for them to have to sit in assemblies in which no one listens to them, to go on living among us without any special privileges in full awareness of the harm they have done. If we fantasize about anything, let us fantasize about making our movements so strong that we will hardly have to kill anyone to overthrow the state and abolish capitalism. This is more becoming of our dignity as partisans of liberation.
So we repudiate the logic of the guillotine. We don't want to exterminate our enemies. We don't think the way to create harmony is to subtract everyone who does not share our ideology from the world. Our vision is a world in which many worlds fit, as Subcomandante Marcos put it—a world in which the only thing that is impossible is to dominate and oppress.
Anarchism is a proposal for everyone regarding how we might go about improving our lives-workers and unemployed people, people of all ethnicities and genders and nationalities or lack thereof. The anarchist proposal is not in the interests of one currently existing group against another: it is not a way to enrich the poor at the expense of the rich, or to empower one ethnicity, nationality, or religion at others' expense. That entire way of thinking is part of what we are trying to escape. All of the
"interests" that supposedly characterize different categories of people are products of the prevailing order and must be transformed along with it, not preserved or pandered to.
From our perspective, even the topmost positions of wealth and power that are available in the existing order are worthless. Nothing that capitalism and the state have to offer are of any value to us. We propose anarchist revolution on the grounds that it could finally fulfill longings that the prevailing social order will never satisfy: the desire to be able to provide for oneself and one's loved ones without doing so at anyone else's expense, the wish to be valued for one's creativity and character rather than for how much profit one can generate, the longing to structure one's life around what is profoundly joyous rather than according to the imperatives of competition.
Sofie
1 week ago

Breaking the Spell

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Posted on 4. September 2023 by breakingthespell
MURDERD BY MARXISTS: Plakatreihe zu vom Marxismus ermordeten Anarchist*innen

Die Auswirkungen und Funktion der linken Auslöschung anarchistischer Geschichte

Vorwort: Marxismus ist kein Kommunismus

Wenn hier von Marxismus gesprochen wird, ist damit nicht Kommunismus gemeint. Wirklicher Kommunismus ist anti-staatlich, anti-autoritär. Marxismus ist das absolute Gegenteil davon. (Anti-autoritäre) Kommunist*innen und andere anti-staatliche Sozialist*innen und Sozialrevolutionär*innen sind erstmal grundsätzlich unsere Kampfgefährt*innen und sollten tief in unseren Herzen sein, wenn wir über den Marxistischen Terror sprechen. Weil ihre Bewegungen in der Regel kleiner als die Anarchistische waren und bis heute sind, erlitten sie die selbe Unterdrückung ohne die gleiche Solidarität und Unterstützung zu erfahren. Heute ist oft noch mehr ihrer Geschichte vergessen. Eine von ihnen war Evgenia Iaroslavskaia-Marko zu der wir wahrscheinlich noch einen eigenen Beitrag veröffentlichen werden. Genauso wenig sollten wir die anderen „Opfer“ des Marxismus vergessen, dies schließt zahlreiche Marxist*innen, trotz ihrer Beteiligung an der Unterdrückung, mit ein. Das solidarischste was Anarchist*innen, die marxistischen Bekannte haben, für diese tun können ist sie daran zu hindern an die Macht zu kommen.

https://breakingthespell.blackblogs.org/murdered-by-marxists/#more-62

Trans women have bodies that belong to women, therefore they have women's bodies.

Trans women have penises that belong to women, therefore they have women's penises.

Trans women have biology that belongs to women, therefore they have women's biology.

Trans women have chromosomes that belong to women, therefore they have women's chromosomes.

Trans women have life experiences that belong to women, therefore they have women's life experiences.

Trans women have socialisation that belongs to women, therefore they have women's socialisation.

#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #women

Avery Winters
1 week ago

#introduction

Hello! I'm Avery Winters. I build software that gives people a reason to not hate their computers as much. I care a lot about robustness, performance, and preserving people's #privacy and freedom.

I tend to post about #rust 🦀, #nix ❄, #floss 🧑‍💻, #urbanism 🚲, #leftism 🌹 and #anarchism 🏴.

Anarchist Quotes
2 weeks ago

Usually, when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
-- Malcolm X

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Autonomie und Solidarität
2 weeks ago

Richterliche Kontrolle über die Anarchisten im Fall „Scripta Scelera“ aufrechterhalten

https://emrawi.org/?Richterliche-Kontrolle-uber-die-Anarchisten-im-Fall-Scripta-Scelera-2808

#Italy #Anarchism #Repression #Police #Prison #Antireport

Logo der Zeitung  Bezmotivny  in schwarz weiß
Autonomie und Solidarität
2 weeks ago

What is Justice?
"A world without #police or #prisons doesn´t mean a world where harm isn´t confronted. Our Conciption of justice shape who we are and who we believe the world should work. Learn more about anarchist conceptions of justice in this Episode of A is for Anarchy."
Via @subMedia
https://kolektiva.media/w/qwgjqNUJK1YN2spojmEz9q

#Anarchism #Justice #State #Antireport

Scott Matter
2 weeks ago

Now we’re having fun! This week’s DenseDiscovery newsletter asks “what if we abandoned land ownership?”

#commons #property #PropertyIsTheft #anarchism

https://www.densediscovery.com/issues/255

Anarchist Quotes
2 weeks ago

The Communist power installed itself by military force, not only when the Bolsheviks occupied a place after a battle to drive out the Petliurists, but also in places where the region was already free and the peasants were on their own.
-- Peter Arshinov

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Anarchist Quotes
2 weeks ago

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
-- Max Stirner

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Jennifer Deseo
2 weeks ago

REMINDER: Mutual aid is political.

#mutualaid #anarchism

Anarchist Quotes
2 weeks ago

The state is nothing but this domination and this exploitation, well regulated and systematised.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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Anarchist Quotes
2 weeks ago

They will die of hunger at the proprietor's door, on the edge of that property which was their birthright; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, "So perish idlers and vagrants!"
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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"Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on criminology and criminal justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven visions and practices for new world formations.

The book introduces readers to a detailed history and analysis of crime as a concept and its colonizing trajectories into existence and enforcement. These significant contexts buried within peculiar academic histories and classroom practices are often overlooked or unknown outside academic and public discussions, causing the impact of racializing-gendering-sexualizing histories to extend and grow through criminology’s creation of crime, extending how the concept is weaponized and enforced through the criminal legal system. It offers written, visual, and poetic teachings from the perspectives of students, professors, imprisoned and formerly imprisoned persons, and artists. This allows readers to engage in multi-sensory, inter-disciplinary, and multi-perspective teachings on criminology’s often discussed but seldom interrogated mythologies on violence and danger, and their wide-reaching enforcements through the criminal legal system’s research, theories, agencies, and dominant cultures.

Abolish Criminology serves the needs of undergraduate and graduate students and educators in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. It will also appeal to scholars, researchers, policy makers, activists, community organizers, social movement builders, and various reading groups in the general public who are grappling with increased critical public discourse on policing and criminal legal reform or abolition."

https://www.routledge.com/Abolish-Criminology/Saleh-Hanna-Williams-Coyle/p/book/9780367521332#

#MutualAid #Indigenous #Aboriginal #IndigenousMutualAid #queer #trans #autism #audhd #disability #JobSeeker #PleaseShare #Help #PleaseHelp #SettlerSaturday #SettlerSunday #uni #student #Criminology #CriminalJustice #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #book

The front cover of the book "Abolish Criminology", edited by Vivian Saleh-Hanna, Jason M. Williams, and  Michael J. Coyle. The picture on the cover is a group of Black people, one of whom is holding a dandelion flower and blowing the seeds from it towards a giant crack in the ground.
Angry Education Workers
3 weeks ago

"America never deindustrialized. It just scaled down its industries in the manufacturing sector of the economy while concentrating industrialization in other parts of the economy—like education... Education is an industry with the same exploitation and disparities of power, privilege, and resources as any other. It has transformed from local, community-based schools to an industry in the same way the retail, service, logistics, legal, healthcare, hospitality, railroad, construction, maritime, agricultural, and other industries have."

Read the entire text here:

https://www.angryeducationworkers.com/class-divide-in-education/

#education #history #politics #labor #workers #socialism #communism #anarchism #schools #teachers #libraries #museum #archives

Title of the paper: The Class Divide in Education superimposed on an image showing the components of the industry in the 1990s.