Topic of the Week: the Co-operative Movement

  • Posted on: 6 June 2016
  • By: thecollective

Co-operative modes of property, labor, production, distribution, and consumption have been around as long as their hierarchical alternatives. Sometimes anarchists have argued in favor of cooperatives: that the workers are able to own and manage the enterprise, make decisions together as stake-holders, and operate with an emphasis on other values besides competitive profit-making. Other times, cooperatives have been criticized as self-exploitation, reformist, and/or counter-revolutionary.

Marius Mason Statement for ‘Fight Toxic Prisons’ Convergence

  • Posted on: 11 June 2016
  • By: thecollective

From Support Marius Mason

Greetings to all the good folks who are coming together on this day to fight together against an important Environmental Justice issue. It inspires me to see that friends in the environmental movement and friends in the prison abolition movement are seeing some essential common ground, to join forces and visions in their work.

The Federal Government vs. the Tacoma Anarchists (2008)

  • Posted on: 11 June 2016
  • By: thecollective

Transmetropolitan Review

The following video explains one of the most serious cases of infiltration and entrapment in the Pacific Northwest. Not only did every local law enforcement agency conspire against the anarchist movement, but also the Pentagon and the FBI (to name only a few). While this local history surfaces from time to time, it is always on the verge of falling out of common memory. To prevent this from occurring, we are releasing this short video.

June 11 statement by Jeremy Hammond

  • Posted on: 11 June 2016
  • By: thecollective

Revolutionary greetings on this June 11! Solidarity with all Earth warriors and anarchists behind bars!

We are up against a system of power and profit, a system which is destroying the planet and forcing the people into poverty and imprisonment. Many of us who have fought back found ourselves in the crosshairs of an extensive counter-intelligence apparatus who use trumped-up “terrorism” charges and entrapment by informants to put us in prison for years. There are many lessons from each case to consider before engaging in future work, but it is most important that we do not let the seemingly overwhelming forces of domination intimidate us into inaction and passivity.

Hack Back! — Discussions on hacking, Anarchism and secure OSs

  • Posted on: 10 June 2016
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

A hacker recently pwned several corporations who get rich of violating human rights. Below is a bit of discussion of political theory.

UPDATE: Based on feedback from HB! I have made minor revisions to this document. Multi-word edits will be annotated with an asterisk(*). Minor revisions will not.

Radical Chic and the US Military: Together At Last

  • Posted on: 9 June 2016
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

The first time as tragedy, the second as farce – that’s what Karl Marx had to say about the woof and warp of history as it repeats sheer folly in different forms. And that certainly describes the attraction of many American leftists to the cause of Kurdish nationalism: it’s the latest lefty fad. A recent article in the Village Voice – where else? – depicts the journey of two “anarcho-communists” as they travel to “Rojava,” the northernmost Syrian enclave where a curious blend of Murray Bookchin-style anarchism and the neo-Marxist blatherings of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the terrorist Kurdish Workers Party, holds sway.

Detroit sides with anarchists over developer in land bid

  • Posted on: 9 June 2016
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

From The Detroit Free Press

Neighbors claim city officials for years ignored their efforts to buy the side lots

A self-described "anarchist housing collective" where members live a communal life sharing expenses as they occasionally host live music shows has successfully outbid a land developer trying to buy lots next door for new apartments.

Anarchists for Donald Trump—Let the Empire Burn

  • Posted on: 9 June 2016
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

From The Daily Beast

The left-contrarian arsonist crowd is larger and wider-spread than the cubicled creatures in the Clinton campaign have accounted for.

The historic opportunity of the 2016 election is one which Bernie Sanders likely will not have the courage to embrace: The burning to ashes of the corporatist Clintonite neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party.

PLAY: A Call for Submissions for the Next Issue of Perspectives

  • Posted on: 9 June 2016
  • By: NorthSiders

PLAY: A Call for Submissions for the Next Issue of Perspectives

Are you an organizer or activist currently engaged in movement work? Are you interested in taking time to reflect on the lessons and ideals of this work in order to help advance anarchist praxis? Are you a self-taught thinker with a particular interest or expertise in some aspect of radical history or practice? Are you willing to share your insights to contribute to our collective memory? Do you have ideas, experiences, or questions that you would like to develop and share with a wider audience?

Dispatches from France Four: Nantes Manifestación 6/2/16 Postscript, A Night at the Opera

  • Posted on: 8 June 2016
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

El Errante
"When the National Assembly becomes a bourgeois theater, all the bourgeois theaters should be turned into national assemblies."
Graffiti Paris May 1968 (above the entrance of the occupied Odéon Theater)

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