Anarchism is what we call the things we do

From Organise! Magazine

When asked to write this article, I accepted enthusiastically and without hesitation. Admittedly, I love to write and leapt at the chance to work on something other than an instagram caption. (I was of course more eager for an opportunity to reflect on our work). Reflection is something we do everyday as a small team of volunteers. As we get feedback from community members, make adjustments to our workflow, and build more efficient systems of organizing, we are constantly asking ourselves “what works?” and “what sucks?” Still, these are assessments made on the go and rarely are we allowed time enough to think carefully about the ideological facets of our work. I’ll be honest, I find leftist self-critique at this point cliched, approaching hackneyed. Because we are hyperfocused on “what sucks,” you’ll have to forgive me for jumping at the chance to highlight things that don’t. If this article has an overly saccharin tone, I hope it is tempered at least in comparison to a preponderance of the opposite.

Uchiyama Gudō’s Anarchist Buddhism

From Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s-1990s

The Impact of International Socialism on Japanese Buddhism

Uchiyama Gudō’s background in Buddhism inspired his socialist beliefs; therefore, he understood socialism and anarchism not as departures from Buddhism, but as natural expressions of Buddhist egalitarianism. What he failed to grasp, however, were the conflicting natures of Buddhism’s inner liberation and anarchism’s outer revolution.

Malaysia: 3rd Conference of Anarcho-Syndicalists of the Asia-Pacific Region

From Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (KRAS)

On December 27-29, the 3rd conference (“convergence”) of anarcho-syndicalists from Asia-Pacific countries was held in the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. It was attended by delegates from Australia, Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia, representatives of the Secretariat of the International Labor Association and the M.A.T. Sub-Secretariat in Asia-Pacific, as well as on-line comrades from a number of other countries.

Japan: Anarchism Document Center Newsletter #69 Published

From CIRA Japan
July 2024

We have published "The Anarchist Document Center Newsletter No. 69". The opening page introduces materials selected by Dameren and friends who visited the archives during a tour of Shizuoka to celebrate the publication of the new book. It introduces various materials in the archives. In addition, it features the publication of "List of Anarchist Movement Journals and Magazines [1912-2012]" and the popular series "Old Bookstore Oyaji's Introduction to Old Books."

Abolish Israel

From Institute of Barbarian Books

Anarchists are, after all, people who tend to be committed by principle to working towards abolishing not just the police and incarceration systems, but the very States we live in themselves (along with having dispensed of any illusion about justice under international law). Israel is a culmination of the worst aspects of authority and State power anarchists profess to oppose. Abolition is not only a natural objective, but a necessary one.

Life of anarchist-feminist revisited 100 years after her murder

From The Japan Times
September 11, 2023

Sept. 16 will mark 100 years since the brutal killing of Noe Ito, a Japanese anarchist, author and social critic of the Meiji and Taisho eras, who was targeted and killed in the massacres that followed the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Beehive Design Collective: Reportback from 2023 Asia Pacific tour

From Beehive Design Collective
August 14, 2023

From February until May 2023, our family of Bees went to the Asia Pacific region to tour with the Beehive’s True Cost of Coal and Mesoamérica Resiste graphics, inspiring discussions about the intersections of colonialism, resource extraction, corporate globalization, workers movements and climate change. All in all, we did over 100 presentations at 70 different events, including an 8,000-person electronic music festival, a buddhist temple, bookstores, occupations, street parties, community centres, conferences, cafes, protests and 12 different schools, from middle schools to universities in Aotearoa, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea and Japan.

Sugako – Advance 2021

The lyrics are concerned with the name sake of the group, Kanno Sugako, a Japanese anarchist journalist interested in the liberation of women and humanity as a whole. She was executed by hanging on January 25, 1911 by the Japanese government due to her connections to the High Treason Incident, a plot by a group of socialists and anarchist to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. 26 people were arrested of which twelve were hanged to death despite the lack of direct evidence. Two more were sentenced to eight and eleven years of prison respectively and the remaining twelve were sentenced to life imprisonment. Sugako was the last person to be killed.

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