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Breaking Ranks

the human strike!

From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
July 2, 2023

Original title: Breaking Ranks: Subverting the Hierarchy and Manipulation Behind Earth Uprisings

At this point, many anarchists in the US are already familiar with how tiqqunists destroyed the struggle at the Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD (Zone to Defend) occupation in France in favor of legalization and property ownership [1]. The narrative that this tragic conclusion to the decade-long struggle was actually a victory has been regurgitated ad nauseum by tiqqunist platforms in the US. For example, Ill Will Edition’s “The Strategy of Composition” is about applying this “strategy” to the struggle against Cop City: “The territorial phase of the struggle took shape gradually over a ten year period from 2008 until its eventual victory in 2018, and has since continued to nourish collective experiments on the Zone to this day”.

Anarcho-Blackness

Anarcho-Blackness

From ILL WILL

A Conversation with Marquis Bey

In the summer of 2020, Marquis Bey published Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism with AK Press. Released hot off the heels of a nationwide uprising against white supremacy and the police, the book stages an encounter between blackness and anarchism that offers insight into the spirit of that rebellion and others to come. The occasion spurred the following conversation, beginning in 2020 and wrapping up in the final months of 2021. In it, we discuss fragmentation, unsettled notions of blackness, being held accountable, and more. Marquis Bey’s next book, Black Trans Feminism, is due out January 2022. 

On the Black Leadership and Other White Myths

By We Still Outside Collective

Text submitted by anon on June 20, 2020.

What they call, “the black leadership,” does not exist. Let’s be serious: what they are talking about is nothing more than a figment of the white liberal imagination. That is, if these so-called black leaders even exist at all, then they can only be found shucking and jiving a “woke” white person’s head.

The Anarchy of Beginnings: Notes on the Rhythmicity of Revolt

The Anarchy of Beginnings: Notes on the Rhythmicity of Revolt

From Ill Will

In recent months there has been a lot of talk about the rupture that occurred October 18 in Chile. There may be no better chronicle of these events than El porvenir se hereda: fragmentos de un Chile sublevado (The Future is Inherited: Fragments of the Chilean Uprising, 2019), by the Chilean philosopher Rodrigo Karmy, a singular book that readily offers an insightful look at the October and November sequence with a reflexive density that anticipates the different conditions needed for inhabiting the fragmentation of the world.

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