Anarchists At War in Spain, Myanmar and Rojava (with James Stout)

From The Final Straw Radio

This week, we’re pre-releasing an interview with James Stout on his upcoming AK Press book: Against The State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava, due out early January. You may recognize James as a contributor to the Cool Zone podcast It Could Happen Here (including the recent four parter, “Darién Gap: One Year Later” December 1-4th episodes, 2025), distributed by IheartMedia. For this episode, we talk about the idea of anarchist armies, discuss those three conflicts, left libertarian approaches to formalized armed resistance beyond a guerrilla unit, some of the novel technologies and international solidarities that have developed and a lot more.

Book 3 is taking shape – Punk Anarchy in Action!

From The Anarchism and Punk Book Project

Good things come to those who wait…

Punk Anarchy in Action! is the third volume in the Anarchism and Punk Book Project series. It will provide activist and scholarly accounts of how anarchism and punk overlap in practice.

Insight Myanmar podcast: “Zenarchism”

From No Selves, No Masters

Though this blog has been relatively inactive for the past few years, I still try to keep tabs on the subject while surviving and working on a book draft. Recently, the fantastic Insight Myanmar podcast, who I have had some dialogue with in the past, participated in a panel discussion in Chiang-Mai on the intersections of Buddhism, Anarchism, and social-revolutionary activism.

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.

Myanmar: Interview with Yaw Han from Food not Bomb Mae Sot

From libcom.org
October 3, 2024

Yaw Han is a life-long supporter of Food Not Bomb movement in Myanmar and an anarchist punk-rocker from Maggot Zyxtem, an anti-fascist local Punk band from Myanmar (Burma).

Hein: You’re a life-long supporter of Food Not Bomb Myanmar, and also a punk rocker who lean anarchist. Can you tell us since when you got influenced by anarchism?

Burma’s revolution and the role of Beijing’s imperialism

From ASF-IWA
by Comrade Kay (Yangon Anarchist Association)
January 16, 2024

From the start of the coup, the junta (SAC) faced a series of sanctions and diplomatic pressure imposed by the Western superpowers. The military junta (SAC), being isolated from the West, was left with no choice but to increase its reliance on Russia, China, and India.

The failure of woke identity politics

From libcom.org

I have written about how the far-left anarchist circles in Burma have been absorbed by the woke left, identity politics, political correctness, western-backed educational institutions, and the cancel culture. As a result, the Maoists, social democrats, and western-backed NGOs and CSO organisations essentially dominate the majority of the left-wing movements in Burma.

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