Peter Good and the Cunningham Amendment

From Kate Sharpley Library
February 8, 2024
by Seymour Di Sobedience

If you’ve been to many of the anarchist bookfairs in the UK you’ll probably recognise Peter Good: always a smile, always a bow tie, plus sweets (though I think one year it was home made wine?) for anyone who wanted to chat. Peter is the editor and printer of The Cunningham Amendment (named after forces slang for mixing everything behind the bar in a bucket). The final issue has arrived (vol.21, no.2 ‘Thursday 4th January 2024’) celebrating 50 years of publishing.

How anarchists in North Carolina rescued books banned in Florida

How anarchists in North Carolina rescued books banned in Florida

From The Washington Post by By Lori Rozsa

A bookshop in left-leaning Asheville is now sending children’s books back to the Sunshine State

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — When the managers of a small bookstore in this Appalachian mountain town received a call from a distributor wondering if they could take in 22,000 books rejected by a Florida school district, it felt like a colossal ask.

Anarchists should not be spreading Putinist propaganda

In picture - armed AntiMaidan thugs in Odesa, 2nd of May 2014.

From Avtonom

The argument is based on both ethical and factual points. I will start by commenting on the latter, as unfortunately it seems like these comrades have fallen into an alternative reality, shaped by Russia Today and other Russian-sponsored social media disinformation.

Burma’s revolution and the role of Beijing’s imperialism

From ASF-IWA
by Comrade Kay (Yangon Anarchist Association)
January 16, 2024

From the start of the coup, the junta (SAC) faced a series of sanctions and diplomatic pressure imposed by the Western superpowers. The military junta (SAC), being isolated from the West, was left with no choice but to increase its reliance on Russia, China, and India.

Current tensions and challenges surrounding autonomous popular constructions

Current tensions and challenges surrounding  autonomous popular constructions

From Rebelion dot org by Diego Naim Saiegh

In the following paper, we will investigate certain implications that are currently being exhibited when it comes to carrying out processes of autonomous popular construction - with emphasis on those whose political and methodological perspectives can be inscribed within a libertarian socialist matrix - in a historical context marked by structural unemployment, the growth of poverty and, in general terms, the precariousness of life as a social form. We will try to put forward, through our journey, certain threads of analysis on some problems to be faced according to the aforementioned context, particularly in the framework of our Latin American peripheral societies, and some hypotheses on the challenges to be faced in order to overcome them in an emancipatory key.

The Writer Hristo Karastoyanov Died

From Federation of Anarcho-Communists in Bulgaria
January 24, 2024

On January 23, the writer Hristo Karastoyanov died.

Hristo connected part of his creative path with the anarchist movement in Bulgaria and presented it in "Cuckoo's Yarn" and "The Same Night Awaits Us All" - as he got to know it over the years.

The Anarchist Transmitter of Sabato Rodia

The Anarchist Transmitter of Sabato Rodia

From The Transmetropolitan Review

In the summer of 1910, an anarchist named Sabato Rodia arrived in Seattle, a humble Italian worker visiting his brother and their comrades. Later known to the world as Sam Rodia, back then he was Sabato; quiet, passionate, and fiercely committed to the beautiful idea of anarchism where there would no more masters or slaves but only free people living as equals, their imaginations and agency unchained from the constraints of church and capital, free to soar to unknown heights.

Australia: Camp Anarchy March 2024

From Anarchist Events Melbourne (facebook)
February 7, 2024

Camp Anarchy March 2024
Camp Eureka, Yarra Junction
March 9-11, 2024

Camp Anarchy - March edition is a chance to connect with community and commune with nature. Relax by the fire in the revegetated surrounds and sleep under the stars or in one of the original Communist Youth League model huts imported from the now Czech Republic.

Geopolitics for 2024

From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos

I’m in bed today, chemosick, too foggy to work on my book, and too achy to take a hike on this beautiful sunny day after Imbolc [okay, after editing it’s half a week later]. But maybe I can put together a newsletter, a more composed contemplation of the topic I took up in the tongue-in-cheek “The Year Ahead in 2024”

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