WSF-IWA hold 1st Congress in Karachi

On 27 April 2024, the Workers Solidarity Federation, the Pakistan affiliate of the IWA, held its first Congress in Karachi. 18 delegates from across the country were in attendance. The

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Lugius

16 May 2024 · 3 min read

China

Report on the Chinese Labour Movement

Changes in workers action We have recorded labor movements in different regions and industries through statistics of labor movement data over the past ten years. It presents a social, political

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Lugius

23 Jan 2024 · 11 min read

Burma’s revolution and the role of Beijing’s imperialism

From the start of the coup, the junta (SAC) faced a series of sanctions and diplomatic pressure imposed by the Western superpowers. The military junta (SAC), being isolated from the

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Lugius

16 Jan 2024 · 4 min read

Victory! Successful recovery of stolen wages

The five month campaign by ASF Melbourne North to recover stolen wages for one its members has been successful with the employer agreeing to the demands made. The total amount

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Lugius

10 Jan 2024 · 1 min read

Victory! Sacked workers receive compensation at last

After almost ten years fighting for justice, Ansell workers in Sri Lanka who were sacked for attempting to organise their workplace, have won the compensation they were seeking as justice.

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Lugius

3 Oct 2023 · 3 min read

D.G.Expresso - justice is the recovery of stolen wages and tips

On 15 August, ASF Melbourne North conducted a protest action at D.G. Expresso demanding the return of wages and tips stolen from 'Mo'. Mo worked hard at their job

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Lugius

17 Aug 2023 · 2 min read

CNT exiles in Melbourne and the 1973 strike at Ford Broadmeadows

One must understand the environment we were dealing with, to begin with the majority of the work force were immigrants with little or no command of the English language who

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Lugius

31 May 2023 · 3 min read

1 May is May Day

The Melbourne North affiliate of ASF has celebrated and commemorated May Day on 1 May every year since 1986. The ASF celebrates all those achievements of the international working-class by

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Lugius

1 May 2023 · 6 min read

Schism; division.

By ~vidak. Schism; division. Sometimes it is actually quite a good thing. Isn't it true? Perhaps sometimes we should think like a doctor: shouldn't diseases and infections be cast out

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~vidak

10 Feb 2023 · 1 min read

“The Rebellion is built on Hope.”

It has been almost two years since the Myanmar Military seized the state power by coup; despite their brutal oppression and cohesion over the whole population with various methods, people

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Lugius

25 Jan 2023 · 9 min read

Knowing 'That', But Knowing 'How'

~vidak [email protected] Statecraft and Totalitarianism I recently had the chance to discuss more concrete and prefigurative politics with the ASF-Perth. We decided the evidence supports the devolution of

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~vidak

2 Oct 2022 · 10 min read

Plato, &c.

By Blair Vidak. Plato is normally regarded as an enemy of the anarchists. I suppose my own trajectory into anarchism has been highly unorthodox (having never been a trotskyist, I

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~vidak

20 Aug 2022 · 4 min read

Radical Individualism

It is certainly true that anarchism shares the 'needs principle' with the Marxists. The needs principle states: "from each according to the ability--to each according to their need". However, Kropotkin--and

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~vidak

20 Apr 2022 · 3 min read

Militarism

The IWA: Against War and Militarism

Militarism is the system of monopolistic State violence for the purpose of defence and expansion of the national theatre of exploitation (defensive war or war of aggression), for bringing fresh theatres of exploitation under control and for coming down hard on the rebellious popular masses ...

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Dave Error

1 Mar 2022 · 2 min read

Anarchism

You ask about implementing anarchism in real world projects?

The aim of anarchism is revolution, but we understand this revolution in a two-fold sense: Negatively speaking, what we are against is capitalism and the state. Positively, what we are

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Paralus

6 Feb 2022 · 3 min read

Anarchism

Anarchy and the Collapse of the West

I believe we here in the West--Australia most perceptibly--are undergoing a process of political, economic--societal--collapse.

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~vidak

20 Dec 2021 · 4 min read

Campaign

Why we are picketing CEX’s Australian stores during October and November

The ASF is an independent workers union affiliated with the International Workers Association (IWA-AIT [https://www.iwa-ait.org]). We are responding to a call for solidarity from the CNT-AIT [https:

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ASF-IWA

23 Oct 2021 · 1 min read

Anarchism

Unity, Coercion, and the State

Marxists are the ones who have--historically--excluded our ideas from the cause of worker's struggle. So too in their attempts to re-animate their conception of the social revolution. It is not that they turned-back the argument for Free Association on itself; this is absurd.

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~vidak

12 Oct 2021 · 5 min read