Chiara Bottici: Anarchafeminism

via autonomies

[T]here is hardly any publication in the field today that does not engage with the concept of intersectionality — whether to promote it, to criticize it, or simply to position oneself with regards to it. Yet, strikingly enough, in all the literature engaging with intersectionality, there is barely any mention of the feminist tradition of the past that has been claiming exactly the same point for a very long time: anarchist feminism, or as I prefer to call it “anarchAfeminism.” The latter term has been introduced by social movements trying to feminize the concept, and thereby give visibility to a specifically feminist strand within the anarchist theory and practice. This anarchafeminist tradition, which has largely been neglected both in the academia and in public debate more in general, has a particular vital contribution to offer today.

How Do We Stop Another Religious Discrimination Bill?

from Anarchist Communists Meanjin By John David Card

Anarchist-Communists Meanjin urges readers to consider that permanent solutions will require a radical reapproach to our idea of politics and a departure from the dead-end of electoralism. No matter how galling the political outlook feels right now or after the upcoming election, just remember that the potential for change lies squarely with everyday, working-class people who care about these sorts of issues. In the short term, we can make sure that the Religious Discrimination Bill remains dead and buried by hitting the streets and showing our strength. Public demonstrations are planned against the stalled bill across the country over the next month. In Brisbane, the next rally is scheduled for March 12th, at 1pm, in King George Square. We’ll see you there.

Identity, nationalism and xenophobia at Freedom

We cannot leave the recent comment pieces in Freedom uncommented on. The first piece, “Fuck Leftist Westplaining” by Freedom editor, Zosia Brom (4th March), contained much that we politically and intellectually, disagreed with. While we have every sympathy for where it was coming from emotionally, unfortunately, any point that needed to be addressed was drowned out because it had been so heavily framed in identity politics. However, when this was compounded by the actual nationalism and xenophobia of the piece, A Thousand Red Flags by Darya Rustamova (7th March), a polite veil could no longer be drawn over the matter. We have long warned that the danger of identity politics was that it was leading the unwary into right wing territory.

Anarchist Organization in Times of War and Crisis

Originally published by Telegra.ph. Translated by for Enough 14 by Riot Turtle with the help of translation tools, on March 7, 2022.

"Another contribution with thoughts from an anarchist from Ukraine in times of war. We do not agree with some things that are said in this article. Nevertheless, we think that it is an interesting contribution. This article was translated with the help of translation tools. We hope that you will forgive us for any small mistakes."
-Enough 14

Warpilled

from It's Going Down

Anarchists are lucky: we don’t need to understand the intricacies of history or follow the follies of foreign policy to deplore a war and condemn the actions of a state. War bad, states bad, borders bad, simple as. Nationalists, pro-state communists and “liberals,” by contrast, have to make believe that the disgusting institution of war– a phenomenon, like slavery, specific to our species — has some serious purpose, some nobility, some validity. We under the black flag are spared telling ourselves or others such hateful and dangerous lies.

An Anarchist Analysis on the Anarchists in Ukrainian Resistance against Russian Invasion

from avtonom by Batur Ozdinc on 5 March, 2022

A group of Ukrainian anarchists living in Kyiv declared that they have joined popular resistance against Russian invasion and organized their own group- leading to many debates among anarchist circles. As long as we do not exactly know their own circumstances, one might think that they are purely pro-NATO people, confused nationalist-anarchists or even neo-Nazi supporters. Actually, they are not! According to their declarations before and during the war, they do exactly know what NATO, capitalism, nationalism and imperialism is; and they are against all of them. For me, they are just a group of comrades who found themselves in the middle of a war and trying to find out a way to defend their own lives and their own ideas.

Monarchy In The UK

Monarchy In The UK

From The Final Straw Radio

This week, you’ll hear my chat with Jon Bigger about the status of the monarchy in the UK, the power it wields, the interventions it makes into parliamentary procedure and where we might see hopes of challenging it from an anarchist approach. Jon is an anarchist who is involved with the Anarchism Research Group, writes a column on UK politics at Freedom News and has been involved in the project Class War. You can find him online at twitter and at his website, jonbigger.uk

TOTW: Gardens

the bloom lives in the bloom

Here in this part of the world, spring has almost arrived. Outside today the sun is shining, the air is the warmest it has been since the fall, with the overcast gloomy skies of winter breaking. This week, we’re taking a look into practical anarchy and asking how does your garden grow?

YOUR WARS, OUR DEAD!

Capitalism is driven by the internal logic of ceaseless expansion and endless accumulation of capital. This drives capitalism from one destructive crisis to the next. In the last decade, the crisis has had different names, e.g. economic, migrant, Covid-19, but the reaction of the authorities to these crises is very similar: strengthening of the repressive and control apparatus, militarization, dehumanization, incitement to hatred among people, persecution of social opposition and destruction of human lives. The rulers themselves are aware that they cannot guarantee people with health or security, let alone prosperity, under the existing system. Therefore, they increasingly resort to sheer violence and other authoritarian methods to maintain their power.

Kurdish-Speaking Anarchist Forum: No war but the class war

War, all kinds of wars, religious and national wars, wars between states and global corporations are all against oppressed people, it attacks their living means, it attacks their will and ability, in order to subjugate them to the will of oppressors, to the will of the authorities, the capitalists.

Anarcho-blackness on Immediatism podcast

Immediatism has recently added a number of recordings of writings by Black authors. The first is autobiographical whilst the second starts out biographical then segues to analyses of the laws and institutions that controlled Black people after the end of slavery. The third, No Selves to Abolish, presents afropessimism; "[I]t is not simply at odds with, but is in fact hostile to identity and privilege politics -- whether Black or non-Black" (from the intro on TheAnarchistLibrary.org). The fourth, Anarcho-Blackness makes the point that there are many anarchist factors and aspects at work presently in Black communities and asks the question: If Blackness is anarchic, do Black individuals necessarily need to identify as anarchists? Fifth is Flower Bomb's piece which analyzes The Future as a kind of control limiting us in the present.

Alice Molloy, Lesbian Fighting Irish of Oakland (1936 - 2022)

San Francisco Chronicle, March 3, 2022

Alice Molloy, died February 2, 2022, at the age of 86, after raising a glass for the last time in honor of the Irish fishermen of Castletownbere who stood down the Russian Navy.

As a founder of I.C.I., A Woman's Place Bookstore in 1971, located at the intersection of College and Broadway, Alice was dedicated to building an informed lesbian feminist anarchist community and a world free of the constraints of patriarchy.

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