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Solidarity with the Movement to Stop Cop City and Defend Weelaunee Forest
On January 18, 2023 a multi-agency task force moved to clear out an ongoing tree-sit protest in Atlanta, Georgia. In the opening minutes of this operation, Georgia State Troopers shot and killed a tree sitter. The tree sitter, Manuel Paez Teran, … Continue reading
Staughton Lynd: Thinking history, doing politics, from below
What we are about is a new set of values, the practice of solidarity. Capitalism developed within feudalism as the practice of the idea of contract. What was imagined was a society in which free and equal members of civil … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, IWW, labour, marxism, Staughton Lynd, united states
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The Other Shore: Mutual Aid and Autonomous Infrastructure after Hurricane Ian
I had no time to hate, becauseThe Grave would hinder meAnd life was not so ample ICould finish enmity. Nor had I time to love; but sinceSome Industry must beThe little toil of love, I thoughtWas large enough for me. … Continue reading
Lucy Parsons’ anarchism
The philosophy of anarchism is included in the word “Liberty,” yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else that are conducive to progress. No barriers whatever to human progression, to thought, or investigation are placed by anarchism; nothing … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, black anarchism, Lucy Parsons, revolution, united states
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For Russell Maroon Shoatz: The tradition of Maroon “anarchism”
Russell Maroon Shoatz, activist and writer, was a founding member of the revolutionary group Black Unity Council in 1969, as well as a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. In 1972, he would be convicted … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-prison, anti-racism, black anarchism, Black Panthers, Russell Maroon Shoatz, united states
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Shane Burley: Building Communities for a Fascist-Free Future
(From Roarmag magazine online and the 2021, 11th paper issue of Roar Magazine) The challenge for antifascists today is to build the capacity to act as a buffer for marginalized communities and the movements fighting for a new world. On August 17, 2019, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, mutual aid, Shane Burley, united states
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For bell hooks (1952-2021)
Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that’s been a place of hope. bell hooks bell hooks … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, bell hooks, Feminism, patriarchy, united states
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Attica is all of us: 50 years after the rebellion
We are firm in our resolve and we demand, as human beings, the dignity and justice that is due to us by our right of birth. We do not know how the present system of brutality and dehumanization and injustice … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-racism, Attica, racism, State terror, united states
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Occupy Wall Street/Occupy, ten years on
As a project, yes. Projection, planning and programming have never done anything but project what it was possible to calculate at a given moment. And consequently, they block the image of a future already hemmed in. Of course, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, David Graeber, democracy, Mark Bray, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, united states
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Occupy as Rupture
We share an interview with Matt Peterson, by Amogh Sahu, published with The Institute of Anarchist Studies (August 24, 2023). The decade we have left behind, the 2010s, was described by the British journalist Paul Mason as a time where … Continue reading →