Topic of the Week: Anarchists and Education

  • Posted on: 29 February 2016
  • By: thecollective

There are two ways to talk about education, one is using the word in good faith (as the variety of ways we learn and what we learn) and the other is to acknowledge the society around us and use the word to refer to how we're supposed to learn: through schools and experts, in pursuit of degrees that position us in reference to other people, etc.

The Attempted “Rehabilitation” of the Communist Party USA

  • Posted on: 3 March 2016
  • By: rocinante

From Anarkismo By Wayne Price

An Anarchist Perspective on the History of US Communism

"In recent decades, there have been efforts to "rehabilitate" the U.S. Communist Party as an historical model for the Left. Anti-authoritarian socialists and anarchists find this troubling. Whle the CP did some good things it also did some very bad things. A brief summary of its history demonstrates that and explains why this is."

The Short Story of How I Got Here: Casey Brezik

  • Posted on: 3 March 2016
  • By: thecollective

I was just going through some of the letters I’ve received over the years in an effort to minimize clutter, and I realize that in one there was a post someone had printed off for me in which one of my comrades was attributing the acts that led me here to my “mental illness.” I presume this to be a common opinion shared by several due to media reports surrounding my case. None of which have I ever known to be accurate and certainly not unbiased on this case.

(A-Radio) Feminism and conflict resolution: the Anarchist Federation Britain and its Safer Spaces policy

  • Posted on: 1 March 2016
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

Athens, Greece: Announcement of the occupation at Gini Building in Athens Polytechnic

  • Posted on: 1 March 2016
  • By: thecollective

At Monday afternoon 29/02/2016, after an initiative of Themistocleous 58 squat and with collaboration with solidaritarians, we occupied the Gini building at Athens Polytechnic, in order to provide shelter to refugee families that at this moment are being tossed at Victoria Square.

We invite groups, collectives and individuals to support effectively the occupation for the purpose of turning this building to a center of struggle and resistance against the states and their borders.

DIRECT ACTION AGAINST THE STATE AND THE CAPITAL!

Black Anarchism: A Reader

  • Posted on: 29 February 2016
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

Black Anarchism: A Reader – PDF

In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by Spanish workers and peasants. But digging through the mountain of available material, little can be found on black militants in the Spanish revolution, like the one featured in the powerful photo on the cover of this reader — a member of the Bakunin Barracks in Barcelona, Spain 1936, and a symbol of both the profound presence and absence of Black anarchism internationally.

Ghosts of Anarchist Past: a review of Kenyon Zimmer’s Immigrants Against the State

  • Posted on: 29 February 2016
  • By: anonymous

Kenyon Zimmer’s Immigrants Against the State (2015) came out at the tail-end of a surge in radicalism during which many young people found anarchist ideas of increasing relevance (or frustration). Anarchism continues to fascinate radicalized youth and Zimmer’s book does much to show that the ideology had a significant historic existence in the United States. He demonstrates that anarchist ideals were deeply embedded in certain militant working class communities, communities often dominated by immigrants with a specifically ethnic character.

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