The enemy is here

via Attaque translated by Act for freedom now!

Our enemies are not the other exploited but the bosses and the state. We reject all nationalist and Common Front appeals, even if we recognize the horror of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [...] We can only try to be on their side in fighting against the state and the bosses here. Last night we set fire to a BMW with diplomatic plates and an Aston Martin SUV on Edmond About street in the Parisian district of Passy. May the opposition to this imperialist invasion trigger a revolution all over the world!

The Invasion of Ukraine

from It's Going Down by Peter Gelderloos

Anarchist Interventions and Geopolitical Changes

The current war in Ukraine is difficult to grapple with and not only for those of us with friends and comrades who are over there, fighting or surviving, or who have already fled and now find themselves homeless, many of them for a second time, in the case of the many refugees who had taken shelter there over these last several years.

Mansion occupied on Belgrave Square, owned by a russian oligarch

from squat.net

Russian Elite’s – You Occupy Ukraine, We Occupy You

We Are Anarchists. We Occupy this property in protest against Putin and his world. This mansion is owned by a Russian Oligarch (Oleg Deripaska), Complicit in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

A Russian Anarchist Against The Ukraine War

from The Final Straw Radio

This week, we spoke with Petr, a Russian anarchist member of the group Autonomous Action, who is living in Europe right now. For the hour we speak about the invasion of Ukraine, a bit about the resistance inside of Russia to the war drums and the Putin regime, the dangers of a nuclear conflict, the impacts of increased sanctions and anarchists organizing across the borders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus against the war and against tyranny.

Albums Against the Invasion by the ABC Musical Solidarity Group

album art

Shortly after the first bombs started falling on Ukrainian cities in the
invasion by Russian forces, anti-authoritarian musicians around the
world began collaborating with members of Anarchist Black Cross
collectives to respond. Now, two compilation albums have been released
to raise money for anarchists fighting the invasion on the front lines
in Ukraine, and behind the lines in Russia.

https://abcmusicalsolidarity.bandcamp.com/

TOTW: Recuperation

Quench your thirst for justice with Pepsi!

While it’s easy to place emphasis on the more exciting forms of state violence—baton-wielding, armor-clad riot cops through a teargas haze—it’s equally important to be mindful of another ever-present and much more boring reality: recuperation. The murky ways in which once-radical acts are disarmed, defanged, redirected, or otherwise rendered ineffective of their original purpose.

Message from Anarchists in Sardinia in Solidarity with Yvan Colonna

Message from Anarchists in Sardinia in Solidarity with Yvan Colonna

From Raddle f/anarchism

Sardinia/Corsica/France] Message from Anarchists in Sardinia in Solidarity with Yvan Colonna, Corsican Political Prisoner who is in a Coma following a Brutal Attack at Arles Prison in France (English-language translation)

Moscow Anarchist Black Cross updates, March 2022

In picture: action of Left Bloc activists against FSB.

from avtonom

War in Ukraine has already increased the level of repressions in Russia, but there are not yet any new criminal proceedings against anarchist or anti-fascist activists. In this new exceptional situation, we are channeling some of our resources to humanitarian needs which go beyond our usual narrow focus of supporting repressed anarchists and anti-fascists. 

The Latest Witch Hunt

from Scarlet Imprint by Peter Grey

Social media is designed to manufacture the three cons: conflict, conformity and consumption. The sheer level of toxicity has led the silent majority to abandon platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, leaving them largely to the purveyors of outrage who align most perfectly with the three cons.

The requirement for conformity has produced an absolutely chilling effect on free speech and the imposition of a rigid binary. That kind of black and white thinking is anathema to the practice of magic and witchcraft. It is the new puritanism, to which I reply non serviam.

Egoism, Morality, and Anarchism Under Complexity

from Center for a Stateless Society by Andrew Kemle

Jason Lee Byas has already articulated what I think is an interesting (and effective) challenge to Max Stirner’s critique of morality, as well as come to a conclusion that I very much endorse: namely, that self-interest and caring for the well-being of others need not be separate concerns.

NO PATH

received via email

AGAINST SPECIESISM, CIVILISATION AND THE REIGN OF IDEAS

We warmly invite our unknown comrades to submit original essays, English translations of beloved texts, poetry, artwork and whatever else potentially relevant to the following topics: anti-speciesism, anti-civ anarchy, nihilism, egoism, gender chaos, rewilding, irrationality. Beyond these more specific concerns, we also wish to pose a riddle: How are we to affirm the here and now, with all its toxic overflows, not pretending to be somewhere else?

(Submissions by mid May or sooner would be great - we hope to release by summer 2022).

Defend the Barricades; Calling Feral Anarchists to Atlanta Forest!

Defend the Barricades; Calling Feral Anarchists to Atlanta Forest!

From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

“No Forest? No Peace! Truck the Police!”, reads a banner hanging from a skypod attached to an overturned truck blocking the ONLY Bridge crossing the little creek between the police construction staging ground and the main part of the forest which they intend to destroy.

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