Anarchist and Autonomous Formations Hit the Streets of Mexico City on May Day

from It's Going Down

Report from Mexico City on May Day, as various anarchist and autonomous groups and initiatives take the streets.

In Mexico City, a city where the revolutionary tradition of Flores Magon, Zapata, and Villa is alive and well, there were countless celebrations of May Day. Leaving aside the sparsely attended marches organized by Stalinists or the large glum parades led by bureaucratic unions and top-down clientelist “social movements” controlled by the ruling political party Morena, there were at least three marches that had notable participation from autonomist, anarchist or anti-state communist sectors, all of which converged in the Zocolo, the central plaza of the city.

Moscow Anarchist Black Cross updates, May 2022

Anti-war sticker in Russia

from avtonom

Possibilities to protest in Russia were already significantly limited before the pandemic, and during the last two years, from March 2020 to Russian attack to Ukraine, street demonstrations have been banned with the pretext of the Covid Pandemic. People were demonstrating persecutions against opposition leader Alexey Navalnyi, and in few other cases, but these ended in massive arrests. But still, there was freedom of speech in social networks, some relatively free medias remained, authorities were making concessions with some local conflicts, such as defence of local green areas from forest clearance. 

Part 1& 2: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday

from Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret sits down with journalist and podcast host Robert Evans to talk about the anarchists who were hanged in Chicago in the 1860s for fighting for the rights of the working class.

"In the Spirit of Sholem Schwarzbard" - Addressing Confusion about the War in Ukraine

submitted by anon, original source: avtonom

A text recently appeared on It’s Going Down decrying support for anarchists in Ukraine who are fighting against the Russian army. Entitled “No War but the Class War,” it begins with a quotation from Rosa Luxemburg and concludes with a dedication: “In the spirit of Sholem Schwarzbard.” These two historical figures—a Jewish Marxist from Poland, active in Germany, and a Jewish anarchist from Ukraine, active in France—are conscripted to legitimize the authors’ polemic.

My Anti-Cull Philosophy part 2

from Eco-Revolt by Julian Langer

[This is being published in an upcoming pamphlet with the first section, through Forged Books.]

Last night I woke up at 3am, full of thoughts that I am going to seek to communicate here, as a second part to my My Anti-Cull Philosophy. Part of my intention for writing this in this way goes with plans for the first part to go in a collection, with some anti-totalitarian poetry. Unlike the first part, this section has one key idea of focus – the link between cull ideology and totalitarianism. 

Letter of the prisoner anarchist Vanggelis Stathopoulos

Write an anarchist prisoner today!

via Act for Freedom Now!

Letter of the anarchist Vanggelis Stathopoulos read at the event SOLIDARITY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE TODAY & THE NEED FOR A FEDERATED MOVEMENT held on 10/04/2022 by the Assembly of Refugee Squats (SY.KA.PRO) at the Self-managed Canteen of Law university in Athens

Letter:

In Contempt #16

Write an anarchist prisoner today!

from It's Going Down

Updates on Political Prisoners; Hot Horror in Texas Prisons; June 11th

Happy May Day! Welcome to your monthly installment of In Contempt.

We’ve got lots of important updates on political prisoners, George Floyd defendants, and news of repression and prisoners from across the world. As always there’s a lot to cover, so let’s dive right in.

TotW: Finding subtexts

As anarchists, I expect we're all pretty good at finding ways that some normal things that people take for granted, speaking English (or whatever language), ways of relating, ways of story telling, et majorly cetera, train us or encourage us away from autonomy, creativity, empowerment. And sometimes maybe (seems much more rarely) encourage us *towards* those things.

Love, Hope, & Joy

Love, Hope, & Joy

From Rulerless

An Anarchist Anthology

May 1st (International Workers’ Day), 2022

From fighting for freedom to plain ol’ living, this new anthology explores every facet of anarchic existence via its themes of love, hope, and joy. Open up these pages to experience three dozen fantastic poems and ten fascinating works of fiction and nonfiction alike, curated to inspire and elate whilst still not shying away from the darker sides of life.

We Outside: The Washington Square Parties of 2021

from It's Going Down

A look at how resistance to park curfews in Washington Square Park in the summer of 2021 continued the spirit of the George Flroyd rebellion.

A year after the riots and mass marches of 2020, the spring and summer of 2021 belonged to kickback flash mobs, generator punk shows, raves, and other guerrilla gatherings. The focal point of the trend in New York was the bluetooth-PA dance parties in Washington Square Park. Lured by meetup maps posted to Instagram, restless youth logged off Zoom class and traveled to Manhattan to enjoy the weather, drink, get high, dance, and look for trouble.

Informal Conversation with French Anarchist René Berthier

from Cyber Dandy

Among the topics discussed: Recent Piece on Islamic Anarchism, Proudhon, Kropotkin, Tiqqun, Invisible Committee, Communization Theory, etc., Unions, Platformism, Especifismo, and Synthesist Anarchism, Post-Anarchism and much more!

A Schematic Anarchism (Introduction)

from Libertarian Labyrinth by Shawn P. Wilbur

As long as we are constructing anarchisms for our own use, we can pretty much do what we want with terminology, provided that the uses we make are clarifying for us, in the context of our own specific contexts and commitments. When we turn to the comparison of anarchisms and the translation between them, the demands are obviously different. Our individual anarchisms may exhibit small inconsistencies or they may be almost wholly incommensurable — and our lack of not just a well-developed common language, but often even any kind of lingua franca, can make it hard to judge the extent to which they can be brought into conversation with one another.

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