TOTW: Anarchist "Practicalism"

Following up on last week's TOTW, I wanted to discuss the relationship between language, anarchism, and the limitations of practicality.  In a recent Food Not Bombs meeting when someone said our work was revolutionary, I countered what seemed self-evident to me, "Well, feeding poor folks isn't really revolutionary." I didn't mean we ought not to do it, but the other person seemed to believe so, "So, you think we shouldn't be doing it?" For my view on FnB, the work isn't revolutionary, but is still good. This is especially true when the work is focused less on the "mutual" and more on the "aid" (a larger conversation that can't take place here), mirroring more charity work than the radical reciprocal style proposed by FnB-ists.

The Left that's Left

From Surviving Leviathan by Peter Gelderloos

What is the Left likely to do in the immediate future, and what is its relationship to the unfolding catastrophe that is most visible in the economic crisis, the ecological crisis, increasing repression, the criminalization of trans and latina people, and ongoing wars and genocides around the world? My goal is to answer those questions with a useful, accurate critique of the Left.

The Woman by Lucia Mancini

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Lucia Mancini was likely born in or around Potenza, Italy in 1884. She immigrated to the US with her brother Eustacchio in 1900, eventually settling in Lynn, Massachusetts where she began to read and support the Cronaca Sovversiva anarchist newspaper in 1905.

Lotta #2

From Anonymous

The previous issue was very well received. Thanks to the collaboration of groups from different parts of the world, the magazine was published not only in English but also in Czech, Hungarian, Italian, French and Spanish. Another result of this great interest is that the second issue of the Lotta newsletter has more pages and therefore contains more information.

Mexico: 3rd Interntnl Gathering of Anarchist & Anti-Authoritarian Practices vs Fascism, 12/18-20

From Athens Indymedia

With the intention of continuing to open spaces of tension, the International Gathering of Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarian Practices returns to the border territory occupied by the Mexican state, this time in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, from December 18 to 20, 2026. Due to the rise of the far right and the electoral trap that fascism has set across Abya Yala, its now urgent to create gathering spaces where the anarchist movement, its collectives and individuals, as well as like-minded antiauthoritarian collectives and organizations, can share strategies and tactics so that we are prepared to continue the struggle against fascism in our regions.

Třídní válka / Class War archives and wordpress

Following the latest dirty trick by the Mullahs of Washington, many comrades (anarchists, communists, internationalists…) must rebuild their networks and blogs. The criminalization of the Autistici/Inventati collective is not a specific act of a supposed “techno-fascism,” as some claim, but rather, much more prosaically, the work of capitalism and its democracy! 

TotW: Setting the Scene: how do *you* do it?

Listening to a recent andrewism entry on the futility of policing language brought me, in my normal contrarian way, to a counter argument. Let me be clear, there is no counter argument that most policing (of any kind) is almost if not entirely about performing and purity, attempting to position the policer as the more knowledgeable, more connected, better person. But changing our own language can encourage us to think differently, especially if we don't turn it into something to attack other people with.

Raoul Vaneigem, Whose Manifesto Inspired 1968 Revolt in France, Dies at 92

From New York Times by Adam Nossiter | published Aug. 13, 2026 | updated Aug. 14, 2026

Raoul Vaneigem, a prolific Belgian writer whose radical 1967 manifesto “The Revolution of Everyday Life” was a leading inspiration for the student uprising of May 1968 in France, died on July 28 at his home in Sant Pol de Mar, on the coast north of Barcelona, Spain. He was 92.

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