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From Vagabond Theory

The first issue of My Own: Self-Ownership and Self-Creation against all Authority has come off the press. It is a paper of anarchist ideas, literature, analysis and reviews from an explicitly egoist and individualist perspective. I intend to put forward an anti-capitalist, non-market egoist perspective aimed at encouraging the interweaving of individual insurrections against all forms of authority, domination, enslavement and enforcement of conformity. I will not present any blueprints for an ideal society... I leave that to the various politicians and preachers seeking converts and cadre rather than accomplices.

I intend to publish My Own frequently, but am not setting a specific schedule so that my life and my project can play together more easily.

From The Precarious

In 2010, filmmakers Brandon Jourdan and Marianne Maeckelbergh asked potential funders for money to produce a documentary film about the popular global uprising in the wake of the international economic crisis. Skeptical potential funders raised their eyebrows: Sure the U.S. market had crashed, but a global revolution in 2011? We think not.

And then the Arab Spring arrived. And the uprising in Greece. And Spain. And the Occupy Movement - first in New York and then around the world.

From Parole Armate

Screech, graze o my coarse pen of fire and of energy upon the white candor of this sheet, as a viper tongue grazes upon the tender throat of an innocent child to give him, with venom, death. Away, get away from me me all the ideology, the theosophy, the philosophy dogmatic and political; distance from me every preestablished system: it has all fallen incinerated under the corroding flames of my negating spirit.”

- Renzo Novatore

Through human communication and cooperation everyone finds out more about themself and at the same time about those around them.

- Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

We start from here, from the firm conviction that the sharing of experiences and reflections of affinity is an unavoidable moment of the continuous attack against the existent. It is exactly this moment, and not an empty internationalism of mere facade, that breaks down the tyranny of space and time, allowing the spread of actions, thoughts and suggestions, in spite of geographic and linguistic obstacles.

From Nothing Is Ever Lost

CrimethInc are probably one of the world’s best-known anarchist collectives. They’re controversial, but they get a lot of attention: certainly, the airport security staff who recently detained a passenger for having CrimethInc posters in his bag thought they’re worth taking seriously. And, while some of their earlier material has contained really embarrassing stuff, such as attempting to pass off the proto-Fascist state of Fiume as an anarchist utopia, a lot of what they’ve written lately has been really good: for instance, their “Dear Occupiers” letter was a serious attempt to engage with the politics of a mass movement and move it in an anti-capitalist direction. I didn’t entirely agree with all of the tone and emphasis, but the basic content was totally sound. So, I’d say their new article “Nightmares of Capitalism, Pipe Dreams of Democracy”, which is a big overview of various struggles in 2010-2011, is definitely worth a read. It’s a serious attempt by anarchists to think through some of the key events of the last two years and draw strategic lessons from them, which is a project I definitely approve of. But, for all that, I can’t recommend it whole-heartedly: it contains some quite serious distortions of the last few years, so I think it’s worth going through it to see where CrimethInc’s account parts company with reality. Of course, it’s also certainly the case that my criticism of their article isn’t coming from any kind of objective position, and will contain all sorts of errors of my own: this isn’t trying to set the record straight in favour of the Truth with a capital T, but just to add a voice to the conversation.

From anhilaal

Lecture and Workshop Tour in February 2012

Main Speakers and participants : John Zerzan, Faridabad Majdoor Samachar, Vilas Sukhdeve, Rabbi Shergill and Gangadin Lohar

1. Can We Survive Career? In the 1950s, children were heroes if they secured 50% marks in their high school and secondary exams. In the '80s, children were well set for life if they secured 80%. Today, securing even 100% can be meaningless. We are creating entire generations stalked by despair and fear of failure. There is no mistaking the signs: the number of children committing suicide in India is growing at a rate of 30% every year. What explains this collective madness if not the twin spectre of increasing knowledge-load and time-poverty? If not the fear of fall in social and economic hierarchy and the fear of remaining unemployed : what else is the driving force behind the economy ? Has not the growing pressure to outcompete Others in the job-market, accumulating over decades and centuries, turned generations of parents and teachers into natural enemies of the younger generation?

Extensive analysis and claim of responsibility from the Individualists Tending toward the Wild for the incendiary package sent to Dr. Flora Ganem, who is the Head of the Pharmaceutical Technology Section of UNAM, as well as the explosive package sent to Pedro Bajcich who is the general director of the National Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Fishery Research.

This is the group's 4th and longest public communique.
#1 can be found here in English (27 April 2011)
#2 can be found here
in Spanish
(22 May 2011) - it has not yet been translated to English
#3 can be found here
in English
(9 August 2011)
#5 can be found here
in English
(18 December 2011)

Also this will be the last vindication communique that ITS will send to be published on the internet.

From Infoshop

Anarchism and Political Modernity by Nathan Jun is the first offering in the new book series "Contemporary Anarchist Studies" from Continuum Books. Over the coming years, the series will be publishing the best new scholarship on anarchist politics and history, bridging theory and practice, academic rigor and the insights of modern activism.

New Book Series: Contemporary Anarchist Studies

Anarchism and Political Modernity by Nathan Jun is the first offering in the new book series "Contemporary Anarchist Studies" from Continuum Books. Over the coming years, the series will be publishing the best new scholarship on anarchist politics and history, bridging theory and practice, academic rigor and the insights of modern activism.

From CrimethInc.--view the video footage there, as it doesn't function on other sites

Just in time for the anniversary of the beginning of the Egyptian uprising, we’ve received this report from a comrade who participated in the most recent clashes in Cairo. It offers an overview of the current context in Egypt, along with photos and video footage from the front lines.

From Contra Info

On Saturday, January 21st, we placed an incendiary device at a pawn shop (loan shark) in Ragavi street in the area of Gyzi. It was a symbolic response to the expansion of the modern mavragorites (black marketeers) in the neighbourhoods of Athens, who are taking advantage of the current generalized poverty, and attempt to plunder our fellow people that strive to survive.

The emergence of black marketeers resulted from the same attack which imposes people’s impoverishment; it is another aspect of the onslaught of State and Capital under an even more intensified sucking-the-blood out of social wealth.

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The following text is the transcription of a recording of a lecture given at the The New School for Social Research in New York City on May 6th, 2011. The lecture was part of the Anarchist Turn conference. The New School for Social Research played host to the first instance of the rhetoric and tactics of “occupy everything” appearing in the United States in December of 2008. The school was briefly occupied before being crushed by the police. Since then, the rhetoric and tactics of occupation have become the norm in the US and the western world.
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