Defeat Fascists with This One Weird Trick

From Revoluciana by Luciana Inara

I've been seeing a lot of rhetoric telling marginalized people in increasingly fascist countries that, if possible, they need to get a gun and arm themselves, and to learn how to shoot it. I also see a lot of people living comfortably in safe countries, telling people subject to violence or threat not to do so. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this discourse, and I bet you do, too.

ABC Belarus’ position regarding the accusations against Mikola Dziadok from his former partner

From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

We think it’s important to express our position on the situation that has unfolded around Mikola Dziadok after his release, as our group supported Mikola for a total of 10 years, and we shared with him the same movement and struggle against the dictatorship in Belarus.

Political violence. Words from anarchist compañera Mónica Caballero

From Dark Nights - Chile

Political violence can be understood, from an anti-authoritarian perspective, as an aggressive response that seeks to break, attack, or fracture each of the components that make up domination.

Hostages of the Gun: On Militancy and Militarism

From North Shore

This text is based on a talk given at the 2024 Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair. It is available as a printable zine.

Political violence is a delicate topic—and not only because of how easy it is to find ourselves getting criminalized for conversations among comrades about violence.

Uncivilized Podcast Episode 54 -- Anarchism and Violence

Brady and Artxmis talk about anarchism and violence. They seek to begin to answer or bring forth discussion about the following questions: What is the relationship between anarchism and violence? Is violence an innate part of the anarchist milieu? Is it a corruption of anarchist ethics? Or is it more difficult than this? (As a reminder, we don’t support violence.)

Wounded of Sainte-Soline: who are the two men between life and death?

From celebsnet.com, March 29, 2023

SAINTE SOLINE. Serge D.-G. and Mickaël B. seriously injured during the Sainte-Soline demonstration are still in a coma on March 29. Both are known to the intelligence services for previous virulent mobilizations. What we know.

Case Revisited - Kaczynski's Lingering Influence in 2021

Kelley and I discuss the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, and his life. We discuss how his anti-technology beliefs and extreme outlook resonate with events and radical, anti-government movements in this current day and age. And finally we explore what lessons can be learned by looking at this case in hindsight.

See the full video and transcript below. I edited the text slightly for clarity’s sake, just to remove filler words and put anything I forgot to say in.

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