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Bakunin's Ghost and the 1926 Indonesia Communist Uprising

Bakunin's Ghost and the 1926 Indonesia Communist Uprising

From Pustaka Catut
October 25, 2023

On November 12, 1926, the Dutch East Indies colonial government was hit by a nationwide rebellion by the communist party. The rebellion did not occur all at once and lasted until 1927 in Sumatra. At that time, the communist parties in the Dutch East Indies were heavily influenced by the idea of anarchism.

Commies Attack Anarchists at a March in Greece

via raddle

Original full title: Brief update on the Greek Communist Party affiliated All-Workers Militant Front attack against anarchists at the General Strike rally in Patras

On 06/04/2022, during the rally of the strike march outside the Patras Labour Centre, two comrades attempted to denounce via the microphone the presence of the Association of Restaurant and Leisure Shopkeepers of Achaia Prefecture (S.K.E.E.A.N.A.) in the workers' march. When the PAME's [1] guards became aware of the content of the intervention, they interrupted the comrade who at that moment had taken the floor, throwing him down and immobilising him. At the sight of this attack, a few anarchists who were close to the incident, in their attempt to approach the comrade who had been attacked, were confronted by the PAME security, who, with excessive zeal and violence, attacked them in order to defend the presence of the bosses in the strike march.

In Imperialist Conflict Our Solidarity is with the Working Class

Video image released by the Russian defense ministry on 2 February, of Russian and Belarusian armored vehicles during a joint military drills at Brestsky firing range, Belarus

Anarchist Communists Meanjin By Iswed Tiggjan

Discussing the Ukraine Conflict

Imperialist tension has continued to rise in Eastern Europe as Russia and NATO appear determined to compete for hegemony in Ukraine. Despite assurances from the Ukrainian government that conflict is unlikely, western media has continuously beat the drums of war in order to ensure their citizens are primed for another proxy war should Russia decide to invade.

65 Years of Revolution

for an anarchism that calls itself specific, it sounds pretty generic

from Anarchist Communists Meanjin

By Oliver

From the 27th to the 29th of October the Federación Anarquista uruguaya – FAU celebrated its 65th anniversary of its founding. The FAU developed the theory of Especifismo, a strategy for anarchist communist organising that strongly influences Anarchist Communists Meanjin. During its existence it has played a significant role in union organising, international political discourse and resistance to dictatorship. To introduce this organisation, its history and ideas to an Australian audience I have written this article.

The Cost of Power and Hierarchy

from The Commoner

On April 5th, 1887, Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton proclaimed, ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ Obviously, we could poke fun at the evident contradiction of the prestigious position Lord Acton held and the intent and meaning of the quote, and if we were to get into Lord Acton’s politics, it would be incredibly difficult to take his word seriously when speaking on the subject of power. However, this isn’t about Lord Acton, this is about the truism that power corrupts. Yet in contemporary discourse, not everyone sees it as a truism. It is still a highly contested claim in many circles, and I’d like to attempt to settle the issue if I can. I’d like to examine some of the early conceptualisations of consciousness and psychology in the field of philosophy and relate that to current discoveries in modern science. I’d then like to loop back around to show how this is all relevant when considering the claims that have been consistently made by anarchists for as long as the political philosophy has existed.

Who do the passionate communards work for?

une pétroleuse

via Anarquía, translation by Anarchist News

"I will then become a worker: such is the idea that stops me, when the mad rages push me towards the battle of Paris - where, however, so many workers continue to die while I write to you! Work now, never again." 1 Rimbaud

Since 1871 - the year in which the "accursed poet" wrote this letter - it was not necessary to be a "seer" to see the obvious: the masses of workers who fought on the barricades in Paris continued to work. That "wildcat strike" in front of the Versailles authority was, in turn, a new job that produced new obligations and condemned them to perpetuate work in saecula saeculorum. Such deep reflection, in the midst of a necromancing trance, probably prompted Rimbaud to question: who were the passionate communards working for? prophesying a system of domination based on direct democracy as the axis of political-social management, which ensured the permanence of authority and continuity of work.

Before the Collapse: Optimism & Pessimism

via Red Autumn

There is a subject which is of utmost concern among many of the more conscious Socialists, Communists and Anarchists within the contemporary Political Scenario. A creeping ghost around the corner, a devouring, approaching beast that threatens our individual existences, of the others around us, and of humans and other species around the entire world. It is the logical conclusion and the greatest consequence of the unchecked, careless hunger ever-growth of capitalist industrialization. This ghost which approaches us is ecological collapse.

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