Do we understand what violence is, when we call for it? Or are we merely playing with fire? What does it mean for “joy” to be politicized at all?
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
David (Dave) Poole, editor of Land and liberty : anarchist influences in the Mexican revolution, (a collection of articles by Ricardo Flores Magón) has recently died. The news was shared by his daughter on twitter.
From YouTube (Spotify and other services in ~month!)
Today, Artxmis is joined by Bjørn Olson, a self-described neoprimitivist. Bjørn discusses his videography project, his experience with the paleo-diet / ancestral diet, a critique of veganism, and more!
Thumbnail is by Bjørn Olson.
From It's Going Down
Call from the NYC chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) for noise demonstrations this New Year’s Eve (NYE).
From It's Going Down
101 Years Since the Assassination of Ricardo Flores Magón
Letter from Indigenous Mazatec anarchist Miguel Peralta to his community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón to mark 101 years since the assassination of Ricardo Flores Magón and the ongoing struggle against political imprisonment and persecution in the community.
From Dark Nights
Full original title: UK: HMP Garth Illegally Restricting Toby Shone’s Mail
Toby Shone, currently incarcerated in Category B prison HMP Garth, is receiving no mail – including his legal mail from his lawyers – and any money being sent into him to be added to his prison account is being restricted to only those persons on his approved contact list. If you are intending to send him a letter, it is suggested that you send you message via https://www.emailaprisoner.com/, which he is currently able to receive. If you want to send him money and are not on his approved contact list, Toby suggests you send it to his support group (bank account details below).
From supportericking.org
Eric is in a step-down unit of the ADX.
From Bloomington Anarchist Black Cross
Fire Ant is a quarterly publication focused on spreading the words of anarchist prisoners and generating material solidarity for our imprisoned friends.
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:
The focus of this issue is Trotsky’s limited opposition to developments in the USSR which resulted in the rise of Stalinism. This is usually dated to his 1923 “New Course” articles but most Trotskyist accounts of his opposition are inaccurate, ignoring his advocacy of party dictatorship and lack of concern over economic democracy. We rectify this by discussing his actual ideas rather than the wished for ones of his followers. Camillo Berneri’s comment remains true;
We share an open letter written by Danil Chertykov in detention. He talks about the difficulties he had to face in SIZO-1 of Tyumen and compared the penal system to the digestive system.
Received via email from International of Anarchist Federations
The Commission of Relations of the International of Anarchist Federations gathered in Athens on 4-5 November 2023 to discuss and share thoughts and practices of our Federations. Currently, we are particularly active in antimilitarist activities, in a period that is characterised by the intensification of wars, of which the most known, such as the conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine or Sudan should not make forget the globality of the problem.
From A las barricadas, machine translated by ancoms_suck
The stance of organized anarchism in the face of what is coming in Argentina.
From It's Going Down
The following contains an interview with anarcho-punk political prisoner and member of the Okupa Che collective in Mexico City, Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel.
Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
Despite the (lack of) final result, the organizers of the Block Cop City demo did do a few things right. Their celebrated 80-something city speaking tour was straight out of the old summit hopping playbook, and did a lot to raise awareness of the mobilization. And despite rumors to the contrary, BCC had a robust legal support structure in place, although it didn’t end up having much to do. BCC’s voluminous rhetoric even convinced the cops to halt construction at the site for a day, although they might not have bothered if they’d known how harmless the action would be. That’s about it, though.
