Black Rose Anarchist Federation

Report From Our ‘Turning the Tide’ Study Series in Boston

Turning the Tide? Does this mean BRRN is going to destroy the moon? NOT COOL!

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

Through the Fall and Winter of 2023, the Boston Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) hosted a four-part discussion series on our program: Turning the Tide. The first collective effort of the newly reconstituted Boston Local, the discussion series brought 15 to 25 people to each of the meetings, with 40 or more individuals participating over the life of the series. Our goals, according to Local member Matt Tracy, were to “build connections with strangers and organizers surrounding our shared political questions, thoughts, and goals – and also try to come to a higher level of thinking and reflection regarding the program itself.” The series resulted in dozens of potential members interested in joining the Federation, a network of anarchist militants forming around us, and new local sectoral organizing projects.

After the Social Explosion

After the Social Explosion

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

An Interview with the Anarchist Federation of Santiago

In 2019, significant segments of the dominated classes of Chile gave shape to what is now known as the “social explosion”, a popular uprising of national proportions. The social explosion produced a profound political crisis which forced the resignation of then president Sebastián Piñera and initiated a process which sought to overturn and rewrite the country’s dictatorship era constitution.

Voices from the Front Line Against the Occupation

Voices from the Front Line Against the Occupation

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation, by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – International Relations Committee (IRC)

Original title: Voices from the Front Line Against the Occupation: Interview with Palestinian Anarchists

In this new, even more horrifying phase of the 75 year long occupation of Palestine by Israel, it is important to give a platform to Palestinians struggling against ethnic cleansing.

In Support of “Turning the Tide”

In Support of “Turning the Tide”

From Anarkismo

Just like Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) in their recently released political program “Turning the Tide: An Anarchist Program for Popular Power”, in our own regional organization – the I-5AF – we have often compared general strategy to a compass. Strategy serves as our north star. It helps us get to where we’re going, but it isn’t the actual destination, just a tool to help us triangulate our position and approximate our heading. A long-term political project on the international level is not at all in opposition to establishing anarchism as an influential force in the US and, concerning our own project, more specifically along the I-5 corridor.

Black Rose: Organizing Toward Revolution

Black Rose: Organizing Toward Revolution

From Revolutionary Left Radio

Roxana and Enrique from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation join Breht to discuss their new political program, the analysis and strategy contained therein, the importance of organization for revolutionaries, their orientation toward Marxists in their organizing, platformism and Especifismo, the importance of internationalism, and more! Then Breht and Enrique discuss modern american history and current politics together.

Seize the Hospitals! …But How?

Seize the Hospitals! …But How?

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation By Healthcare Worker Members of BRRN Labor Committee

In May of 2023 several Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN) Militants organizing in the healthcare sector attended the Health Autonomy Convergence (HAC) in Durham, North Carolina. This is their collective reflection on and analysis of the event and of the prospects for radical labor organizing in healthcare more generally.

Standing Room Only for Launch of ‘Anarchist Popular Power’

Standing Room Only for Launch of ‘Anarchist Popular Power’

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

On July 18th, around 40 people crammed into the upstairs floor of the Tamarack bar, social center, and library in Oakland, California for the launch of Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay 1956-76. With so little space in the upper story of the building, some attendees stood in the stairwell to listen to the presentation on the history and activity of the Anarchist Federation of Uruguay (FAU) made by author and historian Troy Andreas Araiza Kokkinis. For over an hour Araiza Kokkinis covered in harrowing detail the activity of the FAU in the years preceding and during the civic-military dictatorship in Uruguay.

May Day 2023: Announcing Our Program

May Day 2023: Announcing Our Program

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

On the 1st of May 1886, hundreds of thousands of workers across the United States initiated a general strike to demand the working day be limited to 8 hours. During a mass meeting in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, a bomb was thrown. After the resultant chaos, 8 anarchist labor leaders were jailed on flimsy evidence supposedly implicating them as conspirators. A year later, 4 were hanged to death by the state.

International Statement: Call for Solidarity in Turkey, Syria, and Kurdistan

International Statement: Call for Solidarity in Turkey, Syria, and Kurdistan

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

This statement was issued and endorsed by an international coordination of anarchist organizations. It is the first statement issued by this grouping that Black Rose / Rosa Negra has signed on to.

Statement: Not One More Tyre Nichols

Statement: Not One More Tyre Nichols

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

The following statement is endorsed by the membership of Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra.

On January 10, 2023, Tyre Nichols died from severe physical injuries, including a broken neck, sustained three days earlier at the hands, batons, pepper spray, and tasers of five Memphis, Tennessee police officers. As one of the lawyers for Tyre’s family described it, Officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr, and Justin Smith treated him like “a human piñata” during a January 7 confrontation.

Interview with a Brazilian Anarchist on Lula, Bolsonaro, and Social Struggle

Interview with a Brazilian Anarchist on Lula, Bolsonaro, and Social Struggle

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

Bruno Lima Rocha is a political scientist, professional journalist and professor of international relations based in Brazil, and is a member of the editorial board of the Institute for Anarchist Theory and History (IATH-ITHA).

Anarchism in the Face of Fascism and the Electoral Debate

Anarchism in the Face of Fascism and the Electoral Debate

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation, by Rafael V. Da Silva, Kauan Willian and Victor Khaled, translated by S Nicholas Nappalos, this article was originally published by Jacobin Brasil.

With neither Bolsonaro (Liberal Party) nor Lula (Workers’ Party) able to secure an outright majority during the October 2nd presidential election in Brazil, both advance to a run off election set to take place on October 30th. There is a great deal of anxiety and tension surrounding the electoral process in the country, which has seen extreme political polarization not dissimilar to what is taking place in the United States.

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