A Fallen Friend I Never Met

From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos

Today, 51 years ago, Salvador Puig Antich was executed by garrote in the Modelo prison, Barcelona. Salvador was a young anarchist and part of the MIL, Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación, an anticapitalist armed group that included other anarchists alongside anti-state Marxists, active in Catalunya in the last years of the Franco dictatorship.

Peter Gelderloos on Memory, Community, Organization and Struggle

From The Final Straw Radio

This week, we’re airing an interview with anarchist author, Peter Gelderloos about two of his recent books They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements (Pluto Books, 2024) as well as Organization, Continuity, Community (Detritus, 2024). For this episode, we speak on movement memory, community, care work, organization and struggle.

May Day

From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos

After a police raid, detentions, zip ties, the students running the nearest Palestine solidarity encampment started negotiating with the school administration. The result: they would be allowed to maintain their encampment overnight, but they would be fenced in, cops would control the entrance, and they had to kick out non-students

We need a plethora of tactics

From Freedom News UK

Considering “metacrisis” and the ever greater need to re-embrace Bookchin’s social ecology.

‘Metacrisis’ is my chosen umbrella term for the escalation of multiple global crises of climate, ecology, and political economy, which have reached such a point now that all radical organising is a form of crisis response. And I know for folk on the sacrificial frontlines of capitalism, the terms ‘radical organising’ and ‘crisis response’ belie that they have to fight just to survive.

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