TOTW: A Life Worth Copying

  • Posted on: 11 December 2017
  • By: SUDS
Make it better

Not long ago anarchists were gifted copycats. The autonomist movements of Europe set a prime example of how to take an idea, open it up to participants, and allow for them to experiment and improve on ideas as they went.

The Social Centre Movement was key in imagining anarchist spaces seeking freedom from the status quo, and gave birth not only to the infoshop but also to the DIY movement, and longer-lasting experiments like Christiania.

Determining a Threat When You’re the Target: A Response to Several Authors

  • Posted on: 15 December 2017
  • By: thecollective

As antifascists, it should be clear that our brand is empathy and liberty. We stand not only on the side of love, but also on the side of joy. We fight nazis because we want a world where speech can be free. The contradiction of a shallow first glance fails to capture us. Sometimes the best way to maximize freedom and liberate love, is to resist that which would destroy or silo them into inbred cesspools of homogeneity. When we punch nazis, or spend years researching, infiltrating, and exposing them, we do it for love, not out of a vulgar brutalism. Don’t ever let someone steal that truth from us.

On Popular Power in Venezuela: A Statement by Uruguayan Anarchists

  • Posted on: 15 December 2017
  • By: thecollective

via Black Rose Anarchist Federation/Federacion Anarquista Rosa Negra

The political situation in Venezuela continues to be embattled and the legacy of Chavismo is one that remains contested and debated on the left. We republish this translated statement by the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU) with their perspectives on the current situation. Founded in 1956 the FAU was one of the strongest anarchist movements in Latin America, survived the period of dictatorship and continues to be active today. We also recommend other translated pieces on Venezuela, “The ‘Madurization’ of Chavismo” a statement by Caribbean anarchists and an analysis by Chilean anarchists who conducted political research in Venezuela, “Political Situation in Venezuela: Crisis, Trends, and the Challenge of Class Independence.” The original text in Spanish appears below. [ed. note: see the link to the original article]

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Santiago, Chile: Explosive Attacks Against the Headquarters of the Socialist Party and the Radical Social-Democratic Party by Antagonistic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerrilla

  • Posted on: 15 December 2017
  • By: thecollective

Wanting to be precise and concise, through this statement we claim responsibility for the placement of explosive devices at the headquarters of the main parties of the new majority, corresponding to the ‘Socialist Party’ and the ‘Radical Social-Democratic Party’ located at number 873 Paris street and number 57 Londres street respectively.

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Strategic Optimism

  • Posted on: 14 December 2017
  • By: thecollective

by Magpie, via birds before the storm

I want to die in bed, a hundred years old, having lived most of my life in a stateless, anticapitalist society. This is possible. Authoritarianism is not unconquerable. I don’t believe in utopia, per se, and I don’t think an anarchist society would be perfect, but I believe we could live a lot healthier, happier, and more freely than we do now. So I want to win. I believe it’s possible for us to win.

On the other hand, I don’t expect to.

Error451: #06 (Cryptocurrencies, Nazis, Bailbloc & IRL Impacts)

  • Posted on: 13 December 2017
  • By: thecollective

From The Final Straw Radio

This week, Bursts was joined by Pat Boyle, a collective member at Unicorn Riot (more about them later in this post), radical independent media project. We chatted about crypto-currency, Bitcoin in particular, technologies and strategies involved in the implementation of crypto-currency, recent comings to light of increased wealth coming via Bitcoin into the hands of far right racists and ecological impacts of crypto-mining.

On Two Revolutions

  • Posted on: 13 December 2017
  • By: thecollective

by NEZUMI, from HAPAX blog

When it comes down to it, there are two revolutions. The revolution which answers and the revolution which does not, or the revolution which answers and the revolution which questions. The revolution which is made to conceal even a millimeter of teleology, evolutionary theory, or program is the enemy. Caught between right wing and liberal, the old left, New Left, and even officially recognized anarchism (including mutations like anarcho-fascism) form a gradation. All of this amounts to nothing more than a struggle over governance. All that matters is severing ourselves from it.

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