Announcing Fifth Estate #410
From Fifth Estate
Announcing Fifth Estate #410 for Fall 2021, Anarchist Review of Books issue.
From Fifth Estate
Announcing Fifth Estate #410 for Fall 2021, Anarchist Review of Books issue.
from Anarchist Black Cross Belarus
Full title: Mikola Dziadok was sentenced to 5 years of incarceration
On 10 November in the Minsk City Court a sentence in the case of anarchist Mikalai Dziadok was announced.
from bugs
Here are translations of some of the posts by Luo Huazhong (the Kind traveler) about their idea of Tang ping (lying flat).
These posts came from their now deleted Baidu account, screenshots and transcriptions of which you can find in various places by using a search engine. I started with machine translation and then went through and fixed the machine’s mistakes. There are certainly some things I got wrong, and I will continue to edit this post with further corrections, but even in its messy form this is a really beautiful bit of thought!
from Business Insider
Full title: Inside the rise of 'antiwork,' a worker's strike that wants to turn the labor shortage into a new American Dream
"When you go to this stage in your life where you're not working anymore, and you really don't care about some things, it's freedom. It really is freedom."
via Round Robin
Full title: Italy: On 11/11/2021, the ROS [Carabinieri Special Operations] raided the homes of dozens of comrades all over Italy
At 4am in the morning of 11/11/2021, the ROS [Carabinieri Special Operations] raided the homes of dozens of comrades all over Italy on orders of the PM Comodi in an investigation set off by the usual Nobili and Basilone.
The entire book, All Things Are Nothing to Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner, by Jacob Blumenfeld, is read across these fifteen episodes from Immediatism podcast. Start with either the Introduction or Reading Max Stirner. The episodes are labeled so as to serve as a topical resource. Each is 30 or fewer minutes long and starts with a brief intro recapping the previous episode. For a shorter sample of Jacob Blumenfeld's analysis, enjoy just the final two episodes, which stand on their own as one essay on Stirner, Marx, and Communism.
Full title: Greek Anarchists Claim Firebombing of Police Station in Zografou, Athens
A unit of the anarchist urban guerrilla network, Direct Action Cells (DAC), operating under the name “Fiery Anti-State-Violence—Sector ‘Nikos Sampanis,’” has claimed the October 27 firebombing of a Hellenic Police station in the Zografou borough of Athens, Greece. Improvised incendiary devices fashioned from butane cannisters were detonated on the exterior of the police station. The communique claims that police retreated into the station as the devices were either placed or hurled at the building
From ANSA English
(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 11 - Strike people, or things? asks subversive publication
Six anarchists were placed under investigation in Umbria Thursday for allegedly spreading terrorist and subversive propaganda, judicial sources said.
via attaque, English translation by Act for freedom now!
The six anarchist comrades who stayed the last 8 month in preventive prison near Barcelona were liberated under obligation to pay 40.000€ bail each one! Accused of criminal association, and to act coordinated with violent actions i.e. burning a police-van at the Rambla during the 10-days-disturbs last February in Barcelona for the liberation of the political rapper Pablo Hazel.
From The New Yorker
by Reuven Perlman
Welcome to the newest edition of “The Anarchist Cookbook.” To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of this seminal and controversial guide, we’ve updated its contents for a maturing readership of former and aging anarchists. If you were a bit of a punk in your youth but now are the same age as your parents were when they bought their second house, this edition is for you.
A final reminder that the 2021 BASTARD Conference will take place this Saturday, November 13th from 12-8pm at The Long Haul Infoshop (3124 Shattuck Ave in Berkeley). We have a day full of exciting, incendiary conversations about anarchy planned, presented by participants in the Berkeley Anarchist Study Group alongside some friends from out of town.
Editorial: TOTW: New Laws in the New Normal (11/5/21)
by Anonymous
We may be past the worst, or not. The economic and climate crisis are still playing out. It remains to be seen whether and (if so) how capitalism will recompose for a new wave. If there’s an upturn then there may well be some social liberalisation or attempts to imitate aspects of anarchism in a tamed form. (I say this because of the similar process with liberalism in the nineteenth century and socialism in the twentieth). Archaic and pointless laws (e.g. against drugs and sex work) might be repealed. If there isn’t an upturn then the state might survive but with reduced resources, or it might collapse. In either case the gap between what’s legal and what’s possible will grow.
November 13-14, 2021
The Democracy Center
45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA
Workshops Online
This year our physical space is at the Democracy Center in Cambridge: attendees must be masked and vaccinated.
All our workshops will be virtual.
http://www.bostonanarchistbookfair.org/