From ANews Podcast
Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org
Topic of the Week: Mic check 1 2 3. Checking in (checking out) this week, we’re asking how you are feeling. It's a check in, like before your anarchist meeting starts or something like that. A larger spotlight and importance has been given to the idea of checking in on friends and loved ones during the pandemic to see how they are doing.
Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
an anarchist critique of Block Cop City’s nonviolence proposal
From Unoffensive Animal
Original title: CELULA INSURRECCIONAL POR EL MAIPO – NUEVA SUBVERSIÓN SETS ALIGHT A SLAUGHTERHOUSE
It is currently September of 2023. Depending on who you ask we are either rounding out our fourth calendar year of a global pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a year or two removed from the ending of that global pandemic, or (for the most conspiratorially minded) over three years removed from a grand hoax that was so well orchestrated that it managed to kill 1.14 million (and counting) of our loved ones in the so-called United States alone. Much has changed over the last four years, but much more has stayed the same.
by Wayne Price
A Review of Michael Lowy & Oliver Besancenot, Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity
Michael Lowy and Oliver Besancenot, two Marxists from the Trotskyist tradition, have made an effort to discuss possible convergences and interactions between Marxism and anarchism. (The little book has been well translated from the French by David Campbell, an anarchist who did most of the work while in jail in New York City.)
From Avtonom
This video on YouTube channel "The Right Podcast" includes an overview of Autonomous Action and an interview with Antti Rautiainen who was exiled from Russia. Antti talks about the history of Autonomous Action, the current website that arose from the movement, events in Russia leading up to his exile, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, anarchist resistance to Russia, work with political prisoners and more.
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From Bash Back
I left Bash Back! 23 feeling ecstatic, connected, inspired, and energized; I also left feeling frustrated, annoyed, & exhausted.
Submitted anonymously
I've suffered with this community, I've watched as numerous close friends from our community pass away and each time have felt a much needed warmth in the gentle embrace of these friends that I can only say are a deep part of myself.
"...Anarchists made an effort to add to the situation. Anarchists were not only present during the riots (albeit to a limited degree), some also carried out attacks. Although anarchists were largely late to the game in terms of intentionally participating, a good amount of anarchists showed up. Segregation and being in different social networks may have played a part in why our response as anarchists was delayed. A proposal of dispersed attacks was made and followed through on. That said, an opportunity to raise morale was missed by prioritizing atomized attack over group action. The anarchist space in Philadelphia is growing right now, and tempering cautious attitudes with encouragement and support can further encourage that growth."
From Bash Back
We’re here to speak on the culture of black anarchism being discussed in some previous report backs. Very insightful and meaningful report backs but measuring the locality of Black anarchism seems to be a feat that has been left up to the petty bourgeois and/or biracial anarchists who either belong to and/or have proximity to the very same white sub-cultural anarchic spaces they critique and therefore have a very limited understanding concerning historical consciousness and relevancy of the Black Radical Tradition.
Via Indymedia Lille, Translated by Act for freedom now!
At the beginning of July, we urgently re-launched our appeal for financial support for the purchase of a custom-made electric wheelchair for Boris. [...] Now, thanks to anarchist solidarity, Boris can look forward to a much more autonomous return to the streets and the sun.
From The Atlas News
The ongoing Azerbaijani blockade of food, fuel, and medical supplies from reaching the Armenian statelet of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, and home to around 120,000 people has today triggered the creation of a new anarchist group – Anarchist Artsakh.
From Hobo's Collective
Looking a bit into Zine history we take a look at the Anarchist Black Dragon. We look briefly at counter culture and subculture surrounding zines.
