May actions thin the veil that separates life from death

From Dark Nights - Chile

Original title: "Chile: May actions thin the veil that separates life from death. Words from La Zarzamora in the context of Black August"

August has a black memory. One that is indispensable for those who stand their ground and decide to act against domination. In memory, something from the past merges with the present, even more so when memory ceases to be words and manifests itself accurately in insurrectionary action or in a concrete gesture of solidarity. Thus, black memory manages to transcend the censorship of power and advances without temporal or generational boundaries.

Agitation in memory of compañera anarchist Belén Navarrete

From Dark Nights - Santiago, Chile

On the night of August 21, one year after the death of anarchist comrade Belén Navarrete, various individuals displayed propaganda in her memory, remembering her in the streets where she shared, conspired, and took action in various instances, leaving her anarchist mark.

The Anarchist Agitator Andrej Klemenčič: A Biography

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Andrej Klemenčič is an anarchist that you’ve never heard of. After he allegedly died in 1908, not a single obituary was written for him in any anarchist periodical. By the 1930s, the only traces of his existence were some old newspapers and tattered copies of The 1905 Proceedings of the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, a verbatim transcription of the debates and resolutions that shaped the initial IWW. Among the founders listed in this text was Andrej Klemenčič, identified as the mysterious A. Klemensic.

We Remember the Courage and Decision of Comrade Tortuga

From Act for Freedom Now!

via:  informativoanarquista

14 years have passed since the morning of Wednesday, June 1 in 2011 when the comrade Luciano Pitronello, known as Tortu, was gravely wounded after attempting to place an explosive artifact in a branch of Santander Bank in Santiago de Chile. This action, though failed in its execution, turned into an inflection point, not only for his life, but also for the anarchist space that surrounded him and of which he was a part…

Élisée Reclus on vegetarianism, anarchism, and colonial violence

From Freedom News UK by Spencer Beswick

The great geographer and theorist of anarchist communism was part of a radical milieu that engaged a wide range of social issues, from capitalism and colonialism to free love and animal rights

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