Is the labor movement a socialist/anarchist movement?

From Organise! Magazine by Zaher Baher

Authoritarian socialists, communists, and even some anarchists believe that the labor movement and the socialist/anarchist movement are the same and share identical goals. In this article, I want to show that there is a difference between these movements and to explain how this misunderstanding arises. This does not mean that the working class which drives the country’s economy should be overlooked. On the contrary, we can say that a socialist or anarchist revolution cannot take place without the participation of the working class and the vital role it plays.

Anarchism is what we call the things we do

From Organise! Magazine

When asked to write this article, I accepted enthusiastically and without hesitation. Admittedly, I love to write and leapt at the chance to work on something other than an instagram caption. (I was of course more eager for an opportunity to reflect on our work). Reflection is something we do everyday as a small team of volunteers. As we get feedback from community members, make adjustments to our workflow, and build more efficient systems of organizing, we are constantly asking ourselves “what works?” and “what sucks?” Still, these are assessments made on the go and rarely are we allowed time enough to think carefully about the ideological facets of our work. I’ll be honest, I find leftist self-critique at this point cliched, approaching hackneyed. Because we are hyperfocused on “what sucks,” you’ll have to forgive me for jumping at the chance to highlight things that don’t. If this article has an overly saccharin tone, I hope it is tempered at least in comparison to a preponderance of the opposite.

Toby Shone - Recalled To Prison

From Organise Magazine

Toby Shone is an anarchist who was imprisoned in Wandsworth, Bristol and G4S Prison Parc for nearly two years accused of being the administrator of counter-information project 325.nostate.net. After the political prosecution failed and the cops had to drop the case 5 days before trial in October 2021, Toby received a sentence of 3 years 9 months for possession of psychedelic medicines. He was released on 28 December 2022 under heavy restrictions (license conditions), oversight by a multi-agency team (MAPPA) including the National Security Division (counter-terror) and forced to live in a filthy bail hostel in Gloucester for 9 months. He had just moved back into a flat in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire 9 days ago.

Care In anarchy

From Organise! Magazine

How does one care without ethics and how does one come to exist without/outside of/devoid of governmentality? These are the two questions that will fuel this exploration of anarchy and care. In particular, though I term anarchy herein, I am specifically speaking to a postanarchism/anarcha-feminism/decolonial anarchism (Newman 2015; Dark Star Collective 2012; Aragorn! 2005; Shannon, Rogue, Daring, and Volcano 2013; Ramnath 2011). Moreover, as I am terming care, I am turning to care ethics and caring as elucidated in the latter half of the twentieth century by theorists such as Nel Noddings, Joan Tronto, Fisher, etc. (Noddings 2003; Tronto 2013).

Two Roys: Obituaries

From Anarchist Communist Group and Kate Sharpley Library
April 19, 2023

From ACG:

We are saddened to learn of the deaths of two former subscribers to Organise! magazine of the Anarchist Federation. Some of us remember them from when we were in the Anarchist Communist Federation/Anarchist Federation and when Organise! was a very fine anarchist communist publication.

The loneliness of the small-town anarcho-communist

From ORGANISE!

It’s not easy being a small-town anarcho-communist. Even if you adopt a less theoretical, hands-on approach and avoid badgering the local farmers about Bookchin while they're getting on with lambing season, there can be issues involved when it comes to praxis.

Organise 96 PDF Released

from Anarchist Federation

Organise 96 is out for Summer 2022.

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Great Anarchists | Review

From Organise Magazine

Anarchism, despite being a rich historical tradition with theorists and thinkers from all over the world, and which has influenced a great many social movements, is unfairly maligned at times. Some pigeon hole it as an anachronism, based on the worship of a prelapsarian past; a mindset of the small-society and essentially obsolete today. Others malign it as overtly and centrally European, unequipped to deal with the struggles faced by people of colour and colonised peoples today who may demand a nationalism of their own for the sake of safety. Beyond this, some – often of the more traditionally Marxist stripe – tend to label it utopian and divorced from material change: too busy focused on what could be to deal with what is.

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