TOTW: Anarchists Work

  • Posted on: 24 June 2018
  • By: thecollective

For most anarchists, at least in North America, work plays some role in our lives. While there are still anarchists who elevate work as a (or sometimes the) terrain on which our battles will be waged (and presumably won?), many anarchists are somewhere between critical and antagonistic to the concept of work. To be clear, this is hardly a new or groundbreaking development in the spheres of anarchist thinking, but often it comes down to conversations about to work or not to work, or what are more and less legitimate fields of employment for anarchists to enter in to. I assume the answer to the first is, “not if you don’t have to,” and to the second, “there are less but probably not more legitimate jobs.”

New Poster Series: Police Everywhere, Justice Nowhere

  • Posted on: 27 June 2018
  • By: thecollective

From CrimethInc.

Connecting J20 to Other Cases of Police Violence

We’ve prepared a new poster series connecting the police violence during Trump’s inauguration with the everyday violence and oppression that police carry out in Washington, DC and around the world. Please print these out and post them in your community.

I Am Action: Praxedis Guerrero, 1882-1910

  • Posted on: 27 June 2018
  • By: thecollective

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

Courtesy of AK Press and editor/translator Javier Sethness-Castro, we share part of the introduction to the forthcoming I Am Action: Literary and Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles by Praxedis G. Guerrero, a Mexican anarcho-communist militant, journalist, and organizer. Javier’s biographical introduction is followed by translations from the volume of three of Guerrero’s most moving writings.

Positively Quila Street

  • Posted on: 27 June 2018
  • By: thecollective

From Fifth Estate

Lima anarchist scene survives official clean up
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018

When Lutxo Rodríguez recalls the local punks and social outcasts of the downtown Lima, Peru district he habituates “dressing in black in the ’80s,” I smile wryly, remembering the Lower East Side of my own youth. But the urban decay that allowed for the florescence of bohemia and an anarcho-punk scene in this small enclave of a South American capital came “in the context of political violence,” he says.

Building Autonomous Power: Radical Struggle in Philadelphia

  • Posted on: 27 June 2018
  • By: thecollective

From Radical Education Department

Radical struggle is on the rise in Philadelphia. Since at least 2016, anarchist actions—by the Summer of Rage Anarchist Crew, Antifa, and many others—have been intensifying and broadening in a city that has a long history of antiauthoritarian struggles. Other groups have been energized too, like prison and police abolitionists, socialists, and Marxists. With anarchists, they are challenging gentrification, police brutality, mass incarceration, predatory landlords, and attacks on workers. These far left forces are starting to converge and overlap—seen in reaction to the killing of a local activist, in the abortive 2016 anti-DNC protests in the city, or in actions against local white supremacy. But the radical scene remains disconnected. It is still struggling to develop on the mass scale that would be needed to challenge capital in a revolutionary way.

NC, USA: Solidarity with the Harrisburg action and ACAB

  • Posted on: 27 June 2018
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

Amidst the early morning fog on the 22nd of June we immobilized and sprayed up multiple pieces of heavy construction equipment along US 220 in North Carolina. An excavator, a bulldozer, and a number of front loaders all tasted exquisite venom, by way of maple syrup and bleach. Fire extinguishers on-site were also rendered useless.

The term Black Group: Working group for the country's anti-Elektoralism campaign in Indonesia

  • Posted on: 27 June 2018
  • By: Anarchist_BC

The term White Group (Golput or Golongan Putih) emerged to describe a group of people who opposed 1971 General Election during the New Order era (Orde Baru or ORBA). Largely made up of students and youth, they protested Soeharto’s dictatorship and militarism. At the time, Soeharto’s party, the Golkar Party (Golongan Karya), was known for its institutional fraud and intimidation of opposition.

Hamilton: Keeping our Guard Up and Moving Ahead

  • Posted on: 26 June 2018
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

With The Tower about to reopen at its new location, it seems like a good moment to take stock of our situation. The weight of repression in Hamilton has not gotten any lighter, but we have gotten more used to and maybe even more skilled at carrying it. That said, it's too soon to say the storm has passed and we face challenging times ahead. As we navigate these next days, weeks, and months, there are a couple of things worth keeping in mind to help us all stay safe.

Essay submissions wanted for a new zine "INSURGENCY: An Anarchist Vegan Straight Edge journal of Destruction issue #0"

  • Posted on: 26 June 2018
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)
Actualize collapse

"INSURGENCY: An Anarchist journal of Total Destruction issue #0" will be a zine project focused on anti-speciesist eco-defense, nihilist anarchy and insurrection.

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