TOTW: Anarchist Anti-Imperialism

  • Posted on: 24 March 2019
  • By: thecollective

Anti-imperialism is a term used in a wide variety of contexts, usually by nationalist movements who want to secede from a larger body politic (often in the form of an empire, but also in a multi-ethnic sovereign state) or as a specific theory opposed to capitalism in Marxist–Leninist discourse, derived from Vladimir Lenin's work Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. People who categorize themselves as anti-imperialists often state that they are opposed to colonialism, colonial empires, hegemony, imperialism and the territorial expansion of countries.

Organic radicals: new site launched

  • Posted on: 29 March 2019
  • By: anon (not verified)

A new website has been launched which challenges "to the core" the thinking of the industrial capitalist system.

It presents the ideological alternative of an "organic radicalism" which it sources from a wide range of thinkers, past and present.

This philosophy, it says, is based on the idea of a living community, a social organism consisting of "horizontal relationships and exchanges between free human beings, rather than on sterile hierarchy".

We Are All Going to Die: An open letter and anti-manifesto to Climate Offensive, Extinction Rebellion, Earth Strike, and other nonviolent movements

  • Posted on: 29 March 2019
  • By: heresydistro

When the world ends, people come out of their apartments and meet their neighbors for the first time; they share food, stories, companionship. No one has to go to work or the laundromat; nobody remembers to check the mirror or scale or email account before leaving the house. Graffiti artists surge into the streets; strangers embrace, sobbing and laughing. Every moment possesses an immediacy formerly spread out across months. Burdens fall away, people confess secrets and grant forgiveness, the stars come out over New York City...and nine months later, a new generation is born.

Turin, Italy : Expulsion orders following the latest hearing of the ”Scripta Manent” trial

  • Posted on: 27 March 2019
  • By: thecollective

From Act for Freedom!

THE TRICKLE OF MEASURES CONTINUES

DETERMINATION CONTINUES TO GROW

Yet another expulsion order from Turin delivered following one of the numerous actions of solidarity with those who struggle and those who are struck by repression.

Jack Halberstam on Wildness, Anarchy, and Growing Up Punk

  • Posted on: 27 March 2019
  • By: thecollective

In a way, the contemporary anarchist does not seek to make life better under the current conditions of exploitation and extraction, but tries, rather, to figure out how to bring things to the point of collapse. Because the system itself is what must be opposed—a representative democracy within which only rich, white people are represented.

Voltairine de Cleyre: American Radical

  • Posted on: 27 March 2019
  • By: thecollective

Born in Michigan in 1866, Voltairine de Cleyre was named after Voltaire. By the time she died forty-five years later, she had lived up to the free-thinking and trouble-making reputation of her namesake. The famous activist Emma Goldman called de Cleyre “the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.

Who's to judge? About the shooting attack on the courthouse in Kiev

  • Posted on: 27 March 2019
  • By: thecollective

The time has come to elaborate further on our attack on Holosiivskyi district court in Kiev.

Among the commentaries on the attack, we’ve read more than once that some people don’t understand our motives. They don't get how does Azat Miftakhov’s arrest in Moscow have anything to do with a courthouse in Kiev. We'll try to explain, because it’s important to get this seemingly obvious message across.

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