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.

William Gillis on Radical vs Liberal Abolitionism

From YouTube via Seeds of Revolution Podcast

William Gillis is a second generation anarchist activist who studies high energy theoretical physics and has written extensively on the politics of abolition and transformative justice.

Words from anarchist comrades in Indonesia

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**FUCK THEM ALL.**

Last night, our friend Pem got snatched by the pigs, and we still don’t know what charges they’ll throw at him. This morning, they’re out there in the media, trying to make a spectacle of mass arrests, calling us “provocateurs” and “outside agitators.” And they’re naming names—**our names.**

Beyond Campism

From Mauvais Sang: Un journal bâtard pour la révolution (Bad Blood: A bastard newspaper for the revolution)
June 1, 2024

While the unbearable massacre in Gaza by the IDF and its thousands of deaths continues and is currently taking an even more abject turn with the offensive on Rafah, the current climate in the political environment has pushed us to write this article to repeat some observations which should be obvious to any anti-authoritarian revolutionary: as in any existing place on this planet, there are in Israel as in Palestine, a number of people fighting against the different powers that oppress them.

TOTW: Not anarchist

Topic of the Week – Here at Anarchist News, we sometimes receive article submissions that are not anarchist, don’t mention the anarchist word, and come from more of a leftist space. Often, these texts mention related words like “radical,” “anti-authoritarian,” “anti-capitalist,” “anti-state,” and “antifa” or talk about subjects that are of interest to anarchists, but not specifically by or about anarchists.

Daniel Guérin Showed Us What a Socialist Writer Should Be

From Jacobin by Ian Birchall

French socialist thinker Daniel Guérin lived a life of extraordinary political commitment, from anti-fascist and anti-colonial struggles to his pioneering advocacy of gay liberation. Guérin’s writings and record should be a touchstone for the modern left.

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