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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.
Deserting the Image Factory
From CrimethInc.
On the 2022 Philippine Elections
Anarchist Strategies amid the Dying Liberal Status Quo
The State of Cuba
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation
Cuban Anarchist Reflections One Year After July 11th
Flickers of a Resurgent Labor Movement
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation by Black Rose / Rosa Negra Labor Committee
Our Report from Labor Notes ’22
Saboteurs of Rent
from Hypocrite Reader By Julian Francis Park
Get (the fuck) out, slumlord, parasite, hoarded wealth, they graffitied in black or red permutations on the walls and fences of nine vacant homes in West Oakland, California, stolen land they said, held in the portfolio of Sullivan Management Company (SMC) East Bay. Later that morning of May 2, 2021, an anonymous group released a communiqué claiming the actions through Indybay, a local independent media site.
How to prove the existence of anarchists of color once and for all
from It's Going Down
This commentary by a Chinese anarchist was prompted by Simoun Magsalin’s recent piece, "The Western Left’s Erasure of Anarchists in the so-called Third World"
Noam Chomsky interview Ending Climate Change
From Jacobin Magazine
Noam Chomsky: Ending Climate Change “Has to Come From Mass Popular Action,” Not Politicians
An interview with Noam Chomsky. Interviewed by Poyâ Pâkzâd & Benjamin Magnussen
The Mohawked Salamanders Burn Down the Salamander’s School
From en.squat.net, original from Attaque in French
Why We Attacked the Zad
Notre-Dame-des-Landes (France)
The Zad was our pirate ship, the mother of all Zads. It emerged in a time with no way out and it was as if the world became a little more bearable. Like a brief glimmer of light, a possibility breaking through the thick, sticky fog of our future. For those of us who lead full and busy lives, off the beaten track, it was the knowledge that there would always be a place to welcome us if we were on the run. A place where the state would never come for us. A place where we would always find allies to feed us, to clothe us, to hide us in the folds of its hedges.
TOTW: Solarpunk Anarchism
Topic of the Week: The sun still rises and with it a new conversation is shared over the wires. Over the years, here at Anarchist News we have posted topics discussing various tendencies within the anarchist space and this week we are talking about a rather new set of ideas on the block (but also old) related to solarpunk anarchy.
Intelligence Report on “Extremism” Equates Anarchists With Right-Wing Militias
From Truthout by Kristian Williams
Mainstream Democrats are in a hawkish mood when it comes to “domestic terrorism.” That is bad news for the left.
Immediately upon taking office, President Biden “tasked the director of national intelligence, in coordination with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, with compiling a comprehensive threat assessment on violent domestic extremism,“ according to The Washington Post. This request was prompted by the right-wing attack on the Capitol on January 6.
Anarchist Federation Joins the Resist G7 Coalition | Statements
From Organise! Magazine
Between 11-13th June 2021 the coastal town of Carbis Bay in Cornwall will play host to the 46th G7 summit. The world’s industrialised powerhouses will be coming together again to discuss how to maintain the nightmare of global capitalism and how a small but powerful fraternity can profiteer from the labour and deaths of the working class.
Cults of our Hegemony
from Cosmonaut
Destructive cults are usually considered the domain of religious movements. The Left, however, has its own track record of cults. Gus Breslauer sympathetically examines this history in search of the political questions that produce such groups, how they operate, and how to overcome them.
Inside Kolektiva, the social media platform built by anarchists and activists
In August, Facebook purged a number of anarchist news organizations and left-wing activists from the site under the guise of a larger ban targeting far-right extremists and QAnon conspiracy theorists.