TOTW: urban/rural anarchy
Whether you reside in a busting city full of anarchists, a sleepy town well-known for its Veteran’s Day parade, or somewhere in between, your location often influences the type of anarchy you create with others or alone.
Whether you reside in a busting city full of anarchists, a sleepy town well-known for its Veteran’s Day parade, or somewhere in between, your location often influences the type of anarchy you create with others or alone.
From ORGANISE!
It’s not easy being a small-town anarcho-communist. Even if you adopt a less theoretical, hands-on approach and avoid badgering the local farmers about Bookchin while they're getting on with lambing season, there can be issues involved when it comes to praxis.
From Gods and Radicals by JERE KUZMANIĆ
The birth of an intimate relationship with the urban space
Is there a city where the anarchist feels good? Instead of debating with some big ideas on ideal anarchist cities, utopian federations of farms, factories and workshops, I opt to turn this text into one short opinion piece about something that we may miss in striving for radical social change. Often when talking about urban space, anarchists see only problems, materializations of capitalism and injustice, walls and fences, power asymmetries, and alienation. Anarchist authors, such as Thureau, Zisly or AbdelRahim, often advocate for a return to nature, to rural or even wild idyllic communes. Almost every visualization of anarchy in the foreground will have the cultivation of vegetables in some garden surrounded by greenery. And yet, the whole history of the modern anarchist movement took place mostly on the hot city asphalt, among the chimneys of factories and among the barricades on the boulevards.
From CrimethInc.
On Rural Anarchist Participation in the Uprising of June 2020
From Coffee with Comrades
Today, we share the second half of out two-part special with comrades from the IAF-FAI, Bad Salish Girl and The Green City. This time, we chat about the unique challenges and advantages of organizing in the countryside.
From Anarchy Bang
Anarchy Bang is a weekly anarchist call in show. It happens at noon PST on Sunday (3pm on the East Coast. -8 UTC).