Category Archives: News blog

The resilience and fragility of mutual aid: Argentina

From the Correspondent, an article by Zoe Smith comparing mutual aid initiatives in Argentina and the experience in the United States. A further contribution to thinking through mutual aid and anarchist politics …

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Anarchism and the pandemic: Reflections on mutual aid

Every time a neighbor delivers loaves of homemade bread to each house in their block, each time someone provides a ride to a medical appointment, a toy to a child, or a grocery run, we learn who we can count … Continue reading

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Freedom for Farida

From the CrimethInc. Collective (22/06/2020)… Police and COVID-19: Two of a Kind: Why One Nurse Risked Her Life to Fight the Virus and the Police We stand in solidarity with Farida C., a 50-year-old nurse at the hospital Paul-Brousse de … Continue reading

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Mapping The State’s Strategy Of Repression Against The Rebellion

From It’s going down (18/06/2020) … While the recent rebellion against the police and white supremacy has been historical, it has also been coupled by an attempt by the State to drown the uprising in a sea of tear-gas and rubber … Continue reading

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Snapshots from the Uprising

From the CrimethInc. Collective (17/06/2020) … Snapshots from the Uprising: Accounts from Three Weeks of Countrywide Revolt In the following analysis, we review the series of movements that led to the uprising in response to the murder of George Floyd, … Continue reading

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News from Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), a.k.a. Capitol Hill Occupied/Organized Protest (CHOP)

From Roarmag (16/06/2020) … Life and times at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Shane Burley Following a long tradition of left revolutionary praxis, protesters in Seattle have declared a cop-free autonomous zone in the heart of the city. Over the … Continue reading

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The Minneapolis Uprising

To hell or utopia: The Minneapolis uprising Christopher Scott Thompson (Gods and Radical Press 10/06/2020) “Rather than running off as the police intended, the protesters stood their ground. When they were forced back by tear gas, they advanced again as … Continue reading

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From protest to occupation: The CHAZ of Seattle

As of June 9th, six blocks in Seattle—including an empty police precinct – have fallen under the control of protesters and declared an “autonomous zone”. From the IWW’s Industrial Worker … The Birth of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone J … Continue reading

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COVID-1984: Power, control and the struggle for freedom

From antimidia (brazil) posted with koletiva.media … The struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic has been used by different governments to implement a variety of means of social control and to increase the powers of the police. Yes, the threat of … Continue reading

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Mutual Aid in Cape Town

Mutual aid is a response to crisis born within the cracks of regimes of State-Capital. It is also that which allows the creation of ties and bonds, of social relations, outside commodity and spectacle mediation. It is that which can … Continue reading

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