Revolutions Are Built on Failure
From Birds Before the Storm by margaret killjoy
or: a better world is sorta possible
Last weekend, I packed up my van and drove over to the Shenandoah Valley anarchist bookfair in Virginia.
From Birds Before the Storm by margaret killjoy
or: a better world is sorta possible
Last weekend, I packed up my van and drove over to the Shenandoah Valley anarchist bookfair in Virginia.
From It's Going Down
Announcing Bash Bash Revolution, a week of music and combat sports to benefit various autonomous self-defense and mutual aid projects.
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.
From asranarshism
As the scent of spring fills the streets of Iran, so too does the stench of poverty and misery rise from the empty tables of the people. Nowruz, once a celebration of nature’s rebirth and a time of hope, has become a bitter reminder of soaring prices, economic stagnation, and financial ruin. For many, the new year is not a time for joy but rather a deeper descent into debt and despair. But who is responsible for this crisis? And more importantly, what path remains for the people?
From Remember Omar Aziz
The regime has fallen. Assad is gone. This is an important victory for all revolutionaries, but especially for Syrian revolutionaries.
The Syrian revolution started off as a bottom-up, working class uprising from the peripheries organised through local coordination committees. They set up local councils throughout the liberated areas that coordinated to provide services in the absence of a state.
They actually experienced life without the state, and they thrived. They were the living proof that not only can it be done, but that it can be fun and meaningful. Libraries, clinics, hospitals, schools, soup kitchens and more - all organised by the people who belonged to their communities.
There are moments, like today in Syria, when we can only rejoice. See the statues of Bashar and his relatives looted, the crowds in the streets, the open prison doors. These moments that remind us that all regimes, including the most authoritarian ones, can fall.
If there is a constant in the revolutions, it is that of freeing prisoners. Symbol of power, of who can decide the freedom of its subjects, prison is one of the nodes on which rests submission to the State and acceptance of social norms.
From It's Going Down
Original title: "Combat Sports and Revolution: A Report Back from Fight Weekend in North Carolina"
Through the weekend of October 18th-20th, the triangle-area of North Carolina hosted a series of events to bring combat sports and revolutionary politics together. This weekend was put together by a handful of comrades and friends who have been training, fighting, and coaching together, some of us for more than a decade.
Artxmis is joined by Kazimir Kharza, an anarcho-primitivist from Slovenia. He has a Youtube channel under his name, & a website titled “The Revolutionary Primitivist” which is “an online publication dedicated to worldwide propagation of revolutionary primitivism.