Spencer Sunshine, August 21, 2020 On Wednesday a number of anarchist Facebook accounts, some of which were associated with the antifascist movement, were removed without warning. These included It’s Going Down — a widely followed news and media platform publishing original content and reprinted analyses about “anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial
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Stand with Anarchist Publishers Banned by Facebook
Sign our open letter to oppose Facebook’s “both sides” narrative as they align with the Trump administration to suppress the voices of activists and media producers associated with left protest movements. As publishers, authors, educators, activists, and media producers, we are deeply troubled by Facebook’s decision to ban itsgoingdown.org, crimethinc.com,
Vice, “Facebook Is Treating Anti-Fascism the Same as Murder-Linked Conspiracy Groups”
On Wednesday, Facebook deleted groups and limited ads belonging to QAnon conspiracists, far-right militias, and in a stunning example of false equivalence, anti-fascists. Janus Rose, August 20, 2020 In a major purge Wednesday, Facebook took down hundreds of pages and limited the reach of ads belonging to violent right-wing militias and
Radically Redistributing Mutual Aid
Via: MADR Over the past three months, starting with the pandemic and expanding into the current rebellion, there has been a beautiful flowering of mutual aid. These projects grew from the seeds of already-existing collective care. Indeed, “mutual aid” wasn’t invented by radical social theorists, even if anarchist geographer Peter
What Is AntiFa? 5 Things To Know About The Movement
President Trump tweeted Sunday that he’s designating “AntiFa” as a “terrorist organization,” but can he legally do that? WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon that the United States will designate antifa as a terrorist organization, although some say the U.S. government doesn’t have the legal authority to
Anarchists Respond to Accusations of Violence at Justice for George Floyd Demonstrations
Widespread Unrest and Violence is Inevitable if Structural Racism, Police Killings Continue Unaddressed WASHINGTON, DC – The President of the United States and likeminded conservative voices have recently targeted anarchists and anti-fascists as the source of violence during unrest that has occurred in cities across the country in response to
Growing Deeper Roots in Mutual Aid: a list of reflections, inspiration, & resources
“We Keep each Other Safe” by Monica Trinidad While grieving the loss all around us, we’re simultaneously finding fortitude in a world suddenly in bloom with thousands upon thousands of mutual aid-based projects, ideas, and connections. We’ve seen so many inspiring resource lists sharing the logistics of how to respond
Withered Green Anarchism
Originally published in French in La Mauvaise Herbe vol.17 no.2 “No one cares about them anymore around here, why don’t you just let them wither away in impertinence?” asked a good friend who identifies as an anarcho-primitivist. Anecdotal perhaps, but I couldn’t help but remember a very successful event on
Why Anarchists Do Not Vote
A piece by Elisée Reclus. Reclus was a Frenchgeographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes (“Universal Geography”), over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894). Originally published by Gatorna Info. EVERYTHING that can be said about the suffrage may be summed up
An Anarchist’s Perspective of the Yellow Vests
From Anarchist Black Cross Gothenburg The following text is an article by EUNOMIA, translated from french to english by ABC GBG After four weeks of demonstrations, blockades, occupations, general meetings, analysis of all kinds, here is one with a radical left and/or anarchist angle. Sorry to all those who are
#Argentina – All 12 Anarchist Comrades Detained in November Are Being Held in Preventive Detention
Note from the Chilean blog Publicacion Refractario: Despite the continuous contradictory information that has come to us from different factions regarding the detained comrades on the other side of the mountain range, which is related to the fact that their situation is not being publicized – their names, the charges,
German Left and #GiletsJaunes – With a Clean Vest on the Brink
The negative reaction to the social protests of the “gilets jaunes” by parts of the German left is not only wrong – it is dangerous. Originally published by Lower Class Magazine. Edited machine translation by Enough is Enough. Since November 17 France is burning. Tens of thousands of demonstrators, often wearing
On the Gilets Jaunes: Dispatches from France
via communists in situ The following is a collaborative effort of translated analyses from France focused on the Gilets Jaunes movement between Agitations, Carbure, Otto Mattick & Ediciones inéditos. More texts will be translated in the coming days. In the last few days, the Left has struggled to politically apprehend
International Call For New Year’s Eve Noise Demonstrations
International call for New Year’s eve noise demonstrations by New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Originally published by New York City Anarchist Black Cross. You will find translations in Bahasa Indonesia and Spanish (Castellano): here. This is a call for a raucous night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by
The #Anarchism of Blackness – Review of Zoe Samudzi & William C. Anderson, “As Black as Resistance; Finding the Conditions for Liberation.”
There are almost no books on anarchism and African-American liberation, which makes this an exceptional work. It places racial oppression at the center of U.S. society, interacting and overlapping with all other forms of oppression and exploitation. The strengths and weaknesses of the work are reviewed. Originally published by Anarkismo.