Taking responsibility

from Athens Indymedia, translated by Act for freedom now!

Every day we are confronted with more and more violence and repression, from unpaid ten-hour days to the destruction of the National Health Ε.Σ.Υ. From the murders of refugees to the anti-terrorism case files, to security and the energy crisis.The story is well known: the State kills and the bosses get rich on our backs. On the dawn of 12/03/22, we chose to break the window of social peace by breaking the facade of the Piraeus Bank in Archbishop Makarios Street, Heraklion Crete.

Terra Incognita squat update

via Act for freedom now!

Full title: A brief update on our preliminary examination calls regarding the eviction of Terra Incognita squat

We come to witness once again how the state targets the people who chose to support open assemblies and events of the squat with their presence while using their fingerprints on some items as the only evidence to justify this attack. To make it clear, now they target people only because of their presence in an open political space where events, solidarity kitchens, manifestations, workshops and so much more were taking place. They target people who practically supported the squat against any type of attack. They criminalize the concept of the squat itself, the movement that chooses to support the existence of such structures and those underly their importance in a system which constantly takes away everything that we have won through years of struggling.

Let’s sabotage the war / Let’s light the flame of practical internationalist solidarity

from Athens Indymedia, translated by Act for freedom now!

Taking Responsibility – Let’s sabotage the war / Let’s light the flame of practical internationalist solidarity

As part of the oppressed, our struggle must be transnational, class and revolutionary. We stand beside the social base of Ukraine that is experiencing the death politics of the rulers, migrating and dying. We stand with the social base of Russia that sees its life impoverished, that is experiencing a barrage of racism from liberal and “peace-loving” European governments, that is imprisoned for protesting and that is dying on the front. As anarchists our struggle is anti-state, anti-fascist, anti-national and anti-militarist. Internationalist solidarity with the combatants in Urkania and Russia, with those who position themselves in the war with class and revolutionary projects and those who experience migration and persecution.

Chaos, nihilism, and the way of “No Surrender”

This, on the other hand, is evidence that your middle-schooler is deep into creeping ultra fascism and/or satanic black magic.

(or, In defence of the Chaos Star and the Nihilist-Anarchists)

from Alpeh's Heretical Domain by Aleph Skoteinos

[T]he Chaos Star is also one of a number of esoteric symbols that have been altered and recuperated by fascists as representations of their movement, leading some leftists to declare that the Chaos Star is itself a fascist symbol, despite the fact that it was a non-fascist symbol invented by a man whose own political convictions put him completely at odds with fascism. And recently, this has resulted in an entire tendency of anarchism, namely the nihilist anarchists, being tarred over the use of the Chaos Star in an image declaring the nihilist-anarchist position. Both anarchists and presumably Marxists take turns saying both that nihilist-anarchists are incapable of threatening the system and that they are dangerous fascist counter-revolutionaries, without the slightest bit of irony or self-awareness regarding the outright regurgitation of that old far-right trope that their enemy is strong but also weak.

Reading Tolstoy’s “Sevastopol Sketches” against Russia’s Wars on Syria and Ukraine

The book cover of Leo Tolstoy's Sevastopol. English edition of 1888.

From New Politics by Javier Sethness

Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a globally renowned White-Russian prose poet, journalist, ethicist, and Christian-anarchist critic. Though he fought as a cadet in the Eastern Caucasus and became an artillery officer in the Imperial Russian army as a young man, he would resign as a first lieutenant in 1856, after two years.3 Rather than affirm Tsarist colonialism or jingoist pan-Slavist ideologies, as did the celebrated novelist Fëdor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Lev Nikolaevich from the start of his writing career expressed critical views of imperial violence and dispossession. This can be gleaned from “The Raid” (1853), the “Sevastopol Sketches” (1855), The Cossacks (1863), and War and Peace (1869). In its dual rejection of the exaltation of violence and the worship of power, the writer’s humanist war correspondence is motivated by the utopian hope that lending a voice to those who suffer the most in armed conflict might “drastically reduce its incidence” in the future.4

Margaret Killjoy

imagine having Shane Burley interview you...

From Full Stop by Shane Burley

Speculative Fiction can be a place where we dream about what is possible, or even what we think is not. Because it is about future worlds or alternative trajectories, it opens up our imagination to a fundamental change in our society. For better or for worse, it is a temporal projection where we can take seriously (or precisely un-seriously) what giant social shifts can result in. This may be part of why we are living through a massive surge of radical Speculative/Science Fiction, which adds a revolutionary dimension to this world building. It alternates between two perspectives, the dystopian, where we see through the conclusions of the human self-destruction we are witnessing, or its alternative, the utopian. The utopian Speculative Fiction is the much harder of the two, willing to take risks by imagining something provocatively different, better, than what we have now.

ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR AMSTERDAM, Oct. 29-30

ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR AMSTERDAM, Oct. 29-30

We are back for the 6th annual Anarchist Book Fair in Amsterdam! The Book Fair will take place on Saturday the 29th and sunday the 30th of october 2022 at the Dokhuis (Plantage Doklaan 8). It will again be a multiple day event of stands and workshops of anarchist collectives from all around the region. It’s going to be great!

Glasgow, UK: Red & Black Clydeside Bookfair, May 7

Glasgow, UK: Red & Black Clydeside Bookfair, May 7

Glasgow has one of the richest histories of anarchist organising in these islands. Our founding mothers include Ethel MacDonald, Jenny Patrick, Margaret Duff, and Mollie Baird. Our history includes names such as Guy Aldred, John Taylor Caldwell and Stuart Christie, organisations such as the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, and publishing houses such as the Strickland Press.

Stockholm Anarchist Bookfair, June 4-5

Stockholm Anarchist Bookfair, June 4-5

Greeting Friends, Comrades, accomplices, and co-conspirators,

The Stockholm Anarchist Bookfair is back and you are invited to participate. It has been a difficult couple of years of caution in the name of collective safety, but now it is time to creep out of our holes and meet in person to plan, learn, and cause trouble for the bad kind of power.

An Anarchist Guide to The Communist Manifesto of Marx & Engels

An Anarchist Guide to The Communist Manifesto of Marx & Engels

From Anarkismo by Wayne Price

Marx & Engels Communist Manifesto from the perspective of an anarchist. Most of its class analysis is still valuable, but anarchists reject much of its political and economic program.

AntiJob: The Russian Anarchist Labor Site that Terrifies the Bosses

from CrimethInc.

Since 2001, the collectively-run website Antijob.net has provided a “blacklist of employers,” offering a space for laborers in Russia to report on their negative experiences at work. As Russian media and labor organizing have come under increasing pressure, Antijob continues to provide a crucial resource for ordinary employees, even in an extremely repressive environment. Russian corporations and government agencies have repeatedly attempted to bribe the publishers or suppress the site, without success. The so-called “Great Resignation” and a popular Antiwork Reddit site have recently made waves in the United States; we conducted the following interview with Antijob to learn what anti-work agitation looks like in Russia.

The struggle against the state is part of the struggle against patriarchy

Write an anarchist prisoner today!

via abolition media

Words from Anarchist Prisoner Mónica Caballero​

Today, power dresses fashionably, it takes on feminist outfits and those of sexual dissent, and why wouldn’t it? If everyone has a place in the democratic party, everyone can be represented in the institutions, we can all have the same constitutional rights. [...] Today, those who do not wait for others to break their chains take to the streets, those who here and now want to destroy patriarchy. Direct action against machismo! Let all institutions burn to their foundations!

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