TOTW: fellas, is it queer to be gay?

TOTW: fellas, is it queer to be gay?

Topic of the Week - guest contribution by MK Rain

An middle schooler in my life asked me a question to this effect the other day, and for this tranarchist, it kickstarted the most beautiful kind of existential crisis. Of course this tweenage organizer, who didn't use the a-word for herself, was gay—but in her possibly-ungovernable gay (and maybe queer) self, was she still practicing anarchy to some extent?

Culture of Solidarity

From Freedom News UK

We curate books and magazines and hold events on various topics such as direct action, gender, feminism, ecology, animal rights, anarchism, and, of course, anti-occupation and free-Palestine resources. One of the main events we hold is the Jaffa – Tel Aviv Anarchist Bookfair.

Noise Demo for Anarchist Toby Shone (Bristol,UK)

anarchists with a banner that says "Solidarity with Toby Shone"

From Act for freedom now!

Fireworks at HMP Bristol for Imprisoned Anarchist Toby Shone

Anarchists gathered at HMP Bristol on Friday 21 September at 8pm. As darkness fell, fireworks were launched over the prison to protest the rearrest of anarchist Toby Shone and to let him know he is never alone.

No one owns the forest!

attack!

No one owns the forest!

September 25th, Portland, Oregon

Overnight, a group of anarchists attacked the World Forestry Center museum and its conference building next door, destroying doors, windows, and the museum's glass facade before dissapearing into the darkness. The Center is set to host the "Who Will Own the Forest?" conference September 26th-28th. The conference brings together "landowners, asset managers, investors, forest industry executives" and other vampires to plan and adapt their plundering of the forests for capitalist growth.

My Queer Insurrection is Black as Night

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From Bash Back News

Bash Back 2023 was more or less what I expected it to be, a healthy amount of faggotry in-between questionable politics and ultra-violence. Shout out to the wrestling! What was also expected was the all-too-familiar experience of being a black anarchist in the predominately white anarchist subculture. This is why “Black anarchist reflections” felt like the most refreshing thing that’s come out the bb! for me. I feel that it is worth adding a few more things to what those folks said.

A Tacoma Anarchist Book Fair Reportback

Received via email

Tacoma’s first Anarchist Book Fair in more than a decade was a big success. A month of postering around Tacoma and boosting to social media and signal groups filled Tacoma’s new radical social space with an eager crowd on the evening of Friday, September 22. New friendships were forged and old relationships rekindled while slinging stacks of anarchist literature and slurping a variety of free soups.

A new rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism

A new rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism

From CEDAS-ASCED

Spanish anarcho-syndicalism has experienced a new rupture. The crisis had been brewing for a long time. It came to an end between 2015 and 2017. The CNT-AIT and CNT-CIT (or CNT©1) are now two distinct organizations. In the international libertarian movement, this conflict is little known, or it is observed with irony and condescension: a ridiculous battle over the CNT acronyms, when there are many other more urgent battles to be fought…

Black Anarchist Reflections, From Bash Back! and Beyond

From Bash Back

We are writing this document as black anarchist attendees of Bash Back! who are trying to grapple with some of the broader issues/organizational questions within the black anarchist milieu and how those convos came up during the weekend for us and our homies. While we come from a variety of political backgrounds, we share a committed desire to insurrection and revolt for black autonomy. It was great to meet one another and kick it over the weekend. We got to hash out the answers to some questions. There was a lot of necessary conflict at Bash Back!. While reportbacks are fun, though often misleading, our aim in this document is to talk in a broader, abstract way about some of the questions and dynamics that occurred for black participants.

anews note: the submitter provided the wrong image and erroneously confirmed that it was correct. thanks to all for the gracious reminders that we must check our shit multiple times before posting.

Communique claim for placed an explosive device...

BOOM!

Via Act for freedom now!

...made with dynamite and butane gas in a cargo truck on 31st Street in Escarcega, (Mexico)

At approximately 10 p.m. on September 9, 2023 we placed an explosive device made with dynamite and butane gas in a cargo truck on 31st Street in Escarcega, Campeche, with the intention of sabotaging the war that the Mexican government is waging against the jungle with the construction of the so-called “Mayan train”.

A Bash Back! reportback from a group of janky & rowdy queers

A Bash Back! reportback from a group of janky & rowdy queers who had a gay ol time

who had a gay old time

From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Bash Back! was nothing short of the joyfully militant & orgiastically unhinged gathering it advertised itself to be– queer AF, silly, sexy & sketchy antics ensued almost every day/nite. A lot of us felt held in an urban space where there was room to be all kinds of things & ways, & not much was taboo.

Fuck Bash Back! 23

Fuck Bash Back! 23

From Bash Back

Fuck these middle aged organizers and their bullshit attempts to appease our rage. We will not be fucking stopped. Were you ever even nihilists?? You are almost as bad as the tiqqunists. We’re not some academic conference. So we’re saying no more workshops. All we want is orgies and actions. We want to be together and fight when we need to and wherever the fuck we want.

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