From Stirner to Mussolini

From Gillis to Trump, the anarchist mutualist origins of the Republican Party

From C4SS by William Gillis

Review: The Anarchist-Individualist Origins of Italian Fascism

In 1910 Luigi Fabbri and Armando Borghi abducted an anarchist woman who had shamed their friend by divorcing him. Together, they forced her into a gynecological exam so the doctor could publicly pronounce her deformed and incapable of sex.

Invecchiare Selvatico on Immediatism Podcast

Invecchiare Selvatico's book Black Blossoms at the End of the World, with poetry and songs by Nazel Pickens, is a compilation of essays, fragments, scribbles, letters, rants, songs, and ramblin's discovered in a secluded backwoods cabin. Written by a primary editor of Green Anarchy magazine who has used a variety of names, these essays are timely and relevant to our lives. "Can Bricks Break Diametrics? On Decapitating Two~Dimensional Binary Thinking" challenges our language and ideas, potentially leaving us better anarchists for having considered these. "Their World is Virtually Done" is a rant on "the almost encompassing grasp technology has over humans."

Censorship of correspondence for Alfredo Cospito extended again (March 2022)

Write an anarchist prisoner today!

from Act for freedom now!

We inform that in the middle of March the censorship of correspondence (incoming and outgoing) for anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, currently imprisoned in section AS2 (“High Security 2”) of Terni prison, was renewed once again. The censorship will last three months, until June. The measure had also been ordered between September and December 2021 and between December 2021 and March of this year.

TOTW: Against Architecture

Fun fact: A hummingbird's nest is mostly spider silk, lichen and saliva.

I have been thinking recently about what seems to me to be one of the greatest failures of anarchist, anti-technology and anti-civilisation discourse and practice. This failure is that of not having presented much, if any, critique or challenge to architecture, which seems to me to be the cage that captures most within the totalitarianism of this technologically dependent culture.

An Analysis of Action in the Pinelands

Anonymous Submission to Jersey Counter-Info

Just a few months ago the state arrested a local Piney, Greg Fullman, for burning down over 600 acres of forest and starting several other incendiary fires in South Jersey, in an arson spree that spanned almost a year. By the state's own account, they massively screwed up their own "investigation" several times, in an almost comical fashion, despite having virtually indisputable evidence against Greg. There was security video footage, DNA, and easily traceable items purchased at a Wawa that he used to start the fires. On one occasion, agents of the state even caught Greg in preparation of setting a fire and did not detain or arrest him. Greg was eventually arrested after almost a year and is now facing over two dozen arson related charges.

Communique from Operation Solidarity, Ukraine

"Greetings, comrades!

We are the Ukrainian anti-authoritarian volunteer network, “Operation Solidarity”.

Since the first days of escalation by Russia, we have taken part in the resistance against the invasion, as have the majority of Ukrainian anarchists and anti-authoritarian left activists because we believe that this war is imperialist and usurping.

Anarchists Attack Cops' Apartment

via Athens Indymedia, translated by Act for freedom now!

Athens Pagrati area, Greece: – Excerpt from claim by Anarchists for an attack on an apartment building where cops and Eftichis Vardoulakis reside

At dawn on 17/02 we placed an incendiary device at the entrance of an apartment building in Lykofronos Street in Pagrati, where 5 cops live, among them some in high-ranking positions, as well as the communication technocrat of the New Democracy, Eftichis Vardoulakis. The result was the destruction of part of the entrance.

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

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