Anarchist Infighting

From Debate Me, Bro by mk zariel & Hayden R.

a reader asked how we handle conflict in anarchist spaces. so Hayden R. and i are co-editing a series of guest posts on this topic—specifically your stories. tell us about your messiest affinity group drama, your transformative justice process, who’s cancelling who on Mastodon, how you deal with it when every anarchist you know is upset at each other, and the times when conflicts have been resolved and helped you come back stronger and freer.

Addicted to Losing

From Ill Will by Athena

In the summer of 2020, we saw the largest uprising in America’s history. Its racial character was undeniable: in a landscape of unfrozen civil war, the negro question once again took center stage. Among those most eager for destruction was the black working class, which made short work of police cars, cops, and storefronts. Looking back on these events, part of the reason the uprising died down was that it hit upon both technical and social limits.

Program of International Anarchist Agitation & Kulture Fair, March 29-31

From FIAKA 2024

FIAKA 2024 (Veracruz, Mexico)

This is the schedule for the International Anarchist Agitation and Kulture Fair 2024. There was a change with the location of the fair, now it will be in Tlaltetela, Veracruz. Ask for information on how to get there. This is an alcohol and drug-free meeting space with only non-animal plant foods)

Easy Ways to Spot Authoritarians Within the Anarchist Milieu

from Warzone Distro

au·thor·i·tar·i·an·ism
Noun: the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.

We decided that a fun way to kick off the new year would be to encourage a more critical and confrontational examination of authoritarian elements within anarchist spaces.

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.

A Nihilist Understanding of Social War

By DESTROY. Originally published at https://upittanarchy.org/zine-files/socialwar.pdf. Accessible on theanarchistlibrary at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/destroy-a-nihilist-understanding-of-social-war.

Introduction
“Politics is the continuation of war by other means.” This war can best be understood as the social war, or the war by the state and other institutions to maintain social control, as well as the resistance to this control.

Identity, nationalism and xenophobia at Freedom

We cannot leave the recent comment pieces in Freedom uncommented on. The first piece, “Fuck Leftist Westplaining” by Freedom editor, Zosia Brom (4th March), contained much that we politically and intellectually, disagreed with. While we have every sympathy for where it was coming from emotionally, unfortunately, any point that needed to be addressed was drowned out because it had been so heavily framed in identity politics. However, when this was compounded by the actual nationalism and xenophobia of the piece, A Thousand Red Flags by Darya Rustamova (7th March), a polite veil could no longer be drawn over the matter. We have long warned that the danger of identity politics was that it was leading the unwary into right wing territory.

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