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2024 Berlin-Kreuzberg Anarchist Bookfair

From Anarchistische Büchermesse Berlin-Kreuzberg
October 9, 2023

2024 Berlin-Kreuzberg Anarchist Bookfair

We are pleased to announce that an anarchist book fair will take place from September 5th to September 8th, 2024 at NewYorck at Bethanien 2 B, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg 36. The last time something like this took place in Berlin, to our knowledge, was in 2016, when the Days of Anarchist Ideas and Publications took place.

Conflicts and anarchists

Conflicts and anarchists

From Pramen

We were prompted to write this critical text by a situation that happened recently in social networks. In brief: we were invited to an anarchist group, where there was a person X., who was responsible for some pretty big problems within the anarchist movement. As a result of a conversation about X. we were removed from the chat room because we were considered to be engaging in “policing” and “blackmail”.

The failure of woke identity politics

From libcom.org

I have written about how the far-left anarchist circles in Burma have been absorbed by the woke left, identity politics, political correctness, western-backed educational institutions, and the cancel culture. As a result, the Maoists, social democrats, and western-backed NGOs and CSO organisations essentially dominate the majority of the left-wing movements in Burma.

Ten Theses on Anti-(((Tiqqunism)))

From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Recently a handful of people, likely a very small group associated with the Ungrateful Hyenas, who live thousands of miles from Atlanta and do not participate in the struggle against Cop City, have posted long tracts critiquing “Tiqqunism” on a platform dedicated to hosting communiques of sabotage against Cop City. If thoughtful, capable people come to believe the writings of the hyenas, it is not because they have posed interesting ideas or demonstrated any impressive capacity to act individually or as a group.

Breaking Ranks

the human strike!

From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
July 2, 2023

Original title: Breaking Ranks: Subverting the Hierarchy and Manipulation Behind Earth Uprisings

At this point, many anarchists in the US are already familiar with how tiqqunists destroyed the struggle at the Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD (Zone to Defend) occupation in France in favor of legalization and property ownership [1]. The narrative that this tragic conclusion to the decade-long struggle was actually a victory has been regurgitated ad nauseum by tiqqunist platforms in the US. For example, Ill Will Edition’s “The Strategy of Composition” is about applying this “strategy” to the struggle against Cop City: “The territorial phase of the struggle took shape gradually over a ten year period from 2008 until its eventual victory in 2018, and has since continued to nourish collective experiments on the Zone to this day”.

St-Imier, we have a problem

Was #Anarchy2023 hijacked by libertarians and worse?

A newly published article analyses many of the libertarian, ableist, technophile, new age etc. workshops to be held at the International Anti-Authoritarian Gathering, July 19 – 23 2023 in St-Imier...

Some Reflections on: "The Forest in the City"

From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Anarchists and other radicals face a chronic dilemma when it comes to deciding who to align ourselves with in the course of a particular struggle. [...] This historical problem is one of many that the authors of “The Forest in the City: Two Years of Forest Defense in Atlanta, Georgia,” published in February, shrug aside in favor of a compromised approach that they offer as though it were a self-evident movement strategy

A Friendly Critique of Bookchin’s Politics

A Friendly Critique of Bookchin’s Politics

From Usufruct Collective by Usufruct Collective

Bookchin is our favorite political philosopher. Which does not mean we think he is right about everything. Despite us agreeing with most of Bookchin’s political philosophy, we also think it is important to critique it. And yet, most every critique of Bookchin’s political philosophy, even when true, leads to an overall politics less coherent and liberatory than his own. Critiques of Bookchin–from those more close and distant to his views– usually straw man him or fail to properly sublate him: That is they often do not take the most liberatory parts from his philosophy, while critiquing him and synthesizing his best views with other philosophical and political dimensions in such a way that closer approximates coherence, rationality, and ethics. Our goal is to sublate Bookchin; not to straw man him, not to discard liberatory dimensions of his political philosophy and praxis, and not to treat him like he is beyond critique.

Announcing: SHH! THIS IS A LIBRARY! forum

Welcome to antipolitcs dot net backslasher forum 2.0

From SHH! THIS IS A LIBRARY!

Welcome to SHH! THIS IS A LIBRARY! forum. This is a place to have engaging conversations about texts on The Anarchist Library.

We’re a small group of librarians from The Anarchist Library project along with other participants who would like to encourage critical thought, reflection, and discussion of anarchist texts and ideas. Our aim is to provide discussion forums for thoughtful discourse of the most beautiful idea.

An Anti-Civ Critique of "Post-Civ"

what a piano looks like after you set 9 billion ppl free in the forest to hunt/gather

by ziq

While much of the fallacious green-scare red anarchists have been stirring up since the 1990s can be traced with a straight line directly to Kaczynski, ITS and DGR, there's also a green anarchist tendency that seems to only exist because of that same green-scare: post-civ anarchy. This tendency, while being anarchist and anti-civ, still manages to feed the big lie that other forms of green anarchy are deviant and bigoted ideas that we need to loudly castigate and distance ourselves from at every opportunity. It repeats that tiresome myth that primitivism is a political program to remake society in the image of indigenous gatherer-hunters and subsistence farmers, the same way communism is a program to remake society in the image of the collectively-owned factory worker.

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