Australia: Reportback from the Kurilpa Anarchist Bookfair

From SE Queensland IWW

Brisbane has a long history of radical/punk zine culture going back decades. Arguably going back to the 1970s with The Saints, 4ZzZfm and that culture of DIY publishing. It is in this spirit that the Kurilpa Anarchist Bookfair was organised. That there has always been numerous zine events and DIY publishing in the city, but this being one of the first in a long time to be labelled “Anarchist”.

Texas: Solidarity from Solitary and Beyond

From Texas Observer by Michelle Pitcher.
September/October 2024 issue

Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.

Julio “Alex” Zuniga ends the messages he sends from his prison cell with the signoff “Solidarity forever.” He sometimes includes a postscript with music recommendations, leaning toward vibey alt-pop and indie—a somewhat surprising mix for the self-described anarchist activist.

A Report Back – Dual Power Gathering West

From Sabot Media
June 15, 2023

You find yourself in the middle of the woods, surrounded by the hum of anarchists chatting and the enticing smell of curry and campfire. Without your headlamp, you can’t see anything except the stars through the tree tops. Your cell phone hasn’t gone off in days. You are somewhere special, and everyone here knows it. What’s happening here, what you all are co-creating, it will ripple out from here in many profound ways you have yet to fully realize. But you feel that potential in your bones. You all do.

New Book: The Anarchybalion

From South Chicago Anarchist Black Cross / Free Hybachi Lemar

A fascinating examination of forces of nature as taught from ancient Egypt. The Anarchybalion fuses Anarchism and Ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) Knowledge into something a unique explanation of how Kemetic Knowledge can be applied to our lives today.

Remembering Staughton Lynd

PM Press Blog
https://blog.pmpress.org/2022/11/18/remembering-staughton-lynd/

Throughout his life, Staughton Lynd affirmed that another world is possible and sought means to get from here to there. He was one of the greatest historians and libertarian socialists of our time. The Admirable Radical. Our friend. Rest in power, dear Scrapper.

Below is the excerpt of the Introduction by Andrej Grubacic from From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader.

R.I.P Taylor – Rage is our weapon

Content warning – suicide (graphic), prison, violence, self harm, abuse, homophobia, transphobia

Taylor is dead. He was pronounced dead in prison at 10.37pm on Saturday 9th July after cutting his neck. He was meant to be on suicide watch but the prison failed him. We were informed by the prison governor at 3.30am on Sunday. His cell has been sealed by police and we await news of the autopsy. We will announce news of his funeral in the coming days and weeks.

In the Spirit of Total Resistance

From The Industrial Worker by Fellow Worker x409009 updated on May 20, 2021

The Life and Writings of Arthur J. Miller

Arthur J. Miller, a Wobbly of wide renown, passed away from natural causes at his home in Tacoma, Washington on May 4th, 2021. Arthur spent much of his working life pipefitting in shipyards of the United States’ west, east, and gulf coasts. He had also a fine flair for the written word, producing many accounts from his life as a Wobbly and class-conscious worker, as well as reflections, analyses, and stories about the ongoing struggles of the working class. These he published in the Industrial Worker; in his own anarchist journal, the Bayou La Rose, of which he was co-editor for over forty years beginning in 1978; and in various anarchist periodicals across four continents.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Anarchists

From Industrial Worker by Raymond S. Solomon

Review of “The Gulag Archipelago”

Who were the most dedicated, active, and long-suffering revolutionaries in Czarist Russia? In his epic history, The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn says that it was the Socialist Revolutionaries and the Anarchists who were imprisoned the most, had the most people serving hard labor, and the most people imprisoned by the Czarist regime—many multiple the times of the Social Democrats, from which both the Bolshevik and Menshevik emerged. It was mostly Socialists Revolutionaries (SR) and the Anarchists who received the worst sentences in Czarist Russia. The Anarchists and the Socialist Revolutionaries were very similar, although not identical, ideologically. What was the reward the Anarchists and Socialist Revolutionaries received for this labor, fighting, dedication, and death?

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