Anarchist Practice

Sergey is a friend of ours who was arrested early this morning on suspicion of firebombing a cop car in NE Portland. Their family says Sergey was beat up by the police while in custody and is in the medical unit. They are being held on three felony a…

Bread and Roses Oakland: Call Out Meeting!

BREAD AND ROSES COLLECTIVE OAKLAND
CALL OUT MEETING
NOVEMBER 17th 2-4PM @ THE HOLDOUT
2313 SAN PABLO, OAKLAND CA
The Bread and Roses Collective is an act of mutual aid.
In light of recent state and police repression, and in solidarity with the long h…

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True Facts, Keep it Silent, Never Sweat Or Bend: Notes on Leah Lynn-Plante From a Resister

From Puget Sound Anarchists
Leah broke, to what degree remains uncertain, but we know that she at least cooperated in someway with the grand jury investigation. She broke the wall of silence anarchists in the northwest had tried their best to craft f…

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Dear JennVicious: are anarchist lazy?

From Ask Jenn Vicious
Dear JennVicious, are anarchist lazy, or just the ones I know? I know that anarchism has a long history of people doing hella (Emma Goldman, Sasha Berkman, Howard Zinn, and a half dozen others come to mind). If anarchists were…

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Not failing better, but fighting to win

From Communist Party of Great Britain – by Mark Fisher
Is there no alternative? Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist realism, criticises neo-anarchism and outlines his perspectives
Capitalist realism, to sum it up briefly, can be seen as both a belief a…

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A Class Struggle Anarchist Analysis of Privilege Theory – from the Women’s Caucus.

From Anarchist Federation
Aims and definitions
The purpose of this paper is to outline a class struggle anarchist analysis of Privilege Theory. Many of us feel “privilege” is a useful term for discussing oppressions that go beyond economic class…

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Notes on ambiguity of Leah, and excerpt from upcoming text

The following is an excerpt of an incomplete text mapping the psychology of awaiting trial. It is written to elucidate nothing other than the fear of boredom and jail, the horrific nightmares of the unknown, and the pathetic affects of such thoughts….

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Response to Stanley Cup riot: Commons bans masks during violent protests

From Winnipeg Free Press
OTTAWA – It’s not a trick — and for would-be masked rioters, it’s no treat, either.
While tens of thousands of children are putting the final touches on Halloween costumes and masks, the House of Commons has approved a bill…

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Why Revolutionary Syndicalism?

From Ideas & Action – By Tom Wetzel
1. A Strategy for Workers Liberation
Capitalism is at its heart an oppressive and exploitative economic system. The core is the class structure, in which the majority are dispossessed of the means of production…

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for a struggle without end — nous sommes tous les fumigènes

From Infinite Strike
Revolutionary upheaval comes in waves. Right now, in Montréal, we are long after the zenith of the strike—which was probably in late April and early May—but we are almost certainly no longer at the absolute nadir of struggle…

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DOOM, OOMedia, and the struggle for middle-class respectability and political legitimacy

Different activist factions now compete for a monopoly on the Occupy brand like vultures and hyenas fighting over a rotting carcass. Each tries to outdo the other with their facile demonization of assorted miscreants. The combined message is that …

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"Anarchism" from Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

Reprinted by Void Mirror – by John Clark
The anarchist tradition has been sharply divided in its relationship to religion, spirituality and nature. On the one hand, the mainstream of Western anarchism has in general been atheist, anti-religious and a…

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Another Review of Fighting for Ourselves

From Libcom – by Nate Hawthorne
Solidarity Federation’s upcoming pamphlet, Fighting for ourselves: anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle.
In October you should get a copy of a new pamphlet called Fighting for ourselves: anarcho-syndicalism and…

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Stay Calm: some tips for keeping safe in times of state repression

From Bay of Rage
pdfs for printing and viewing below
The spectre of state repression has been growing over Bay Area radical milieus. Grand juries in the Pacific Northwest and in Santa Cruz, threats by police of using gang enhancements against activis…

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Boston 2nd Anarchist Bookfair Nov 9th-11th

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Boston Anarchist Bookfair,
To Bring Together Activists, Organizers, Community Members, and Academics For a Weekend of Learning, Strategy, and More.
Boston, MA—
Why anarchy?
With the ongoing economic war being waged on the poor…

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Oakland is for burning? Beyond a critique of gentrification

From Bay of Rage
I’m not a nihilist, but I wish they would burn every fucking thing down except for the houses. So that people would begin to understand that we don’t need this system.
- Bella Eiko, speaking to the Oakland City Council, during a …

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An Anarchist Life

From www.anarchistlife.com
We just want to let know that the film
An Anarchist Life by ivan bormann and fabio toich
will be out in january 2013.
You can visit the website and buy the dvd to contribute to the project.
It’s a film about the life of an…

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Nov-12th-Nov 19th: International Solidarity with Grand Jury Resisters!

Against the State, the repression of anarchists, and against all prisons!
Solidarity with all those who resist!
Free Kteeo, Matt & Leah! Free all prisoners!
Since July 25th 2012, there have been multiple house raids and the imprisonment of …

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