Hi everyone, I’d like to start a discussion about the use of the term *fascism* and whether it remains a useful category for analyzing contemporary political phenomena from an anarchist perspective.

In many political debates today, especially within antifascist circles, the term *fascism* is frequently used to describe authoritarian right-wing projects and figures such as Trump, Bolsonaro, or Elon Musk. However, I wonder if this usage is still analytically helpful or if, on the contrary, it oversimplifies the issue and prevents a deeper understanding.

**Personally, I believe that antifascism as an ethical horizon will always be relevant.** However, labeling figures like Musk or Trump as "fascist" seems problematic to me. Even if they share authoritarian and reactionary elements, applying this label often turns them into mere *Hollywood villains*, making it easier for them to reject the accusation and weaken the critique. Additionally, this broad use of *fascism* may prevent us from identifying the specific characteristics of today’s political and economic landscape, such as **corporate capitalism** or **techno-feudalism**.

Authors like **Murray Bookchin, Peter Gelderloos, and Noam Chomsky** have criticized the indiscriminate use of the term *fascism*, arguing that applying it to any contemporary form of authoritarianism can be misleading. Instead, they suggest analyzing power structures within capitalism, colonialism, and broader hierarchical systems. (**Edit: I originally made a mistake regarding Chomsky. In fact, he does use the term** ***fascism*** **quite broadly. Thanks to a response from DvD\_Anarchist on this post, I can now clarify this.**)

Some questions I’d like to explore:

* To what extent does *fascism*, in its historical sense (Mussolini, Hitler, etc.), remain a valid category for understanding today’s authoritarianism?
* Does the overuse of *fascism* reduce complex political phenomena to historical comparisons instead of analyzing them in their own context?
* From an anarchist perspective, is it more useful to focus on power structures and hierarchy in general rather than labeling certain movements as "fascist"?
* What do you think of the critiques from Bookchin, Gelderloos, and Chomsky on this topic? Are there other anarchist thinkers who address this issue?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and any relevant bibliography on the subject. Thanks!

Is "fascism" still a relevant category for political analysis today?

Hi everyone, I’d like to start a discussion about the use of the term fascism and whether it remains a useful category for analyzing contemporary political phenomena from an anarchist perspective.

In many political debates today, especially within antifascist circles, the term fascism is frequently used to describe authoritarian right-wing projects and figures such as Trump, Bolsonaro, or Elon Musk. However, I wonder if this usage is still analytically helpful or if, on the contrary, it oversimplifies the issue and prevents a deeper understanding.

Personally, I believe that antifascism as an ethical horizon will always be relevant. However, labeling figures like Musk or Trump as &quot;fascist&quot; seems problematic to me. Even if they share authoritarian and reactionary elements, applying this label often turns them into mere Hollywood villains, making it easier for them to reject the accusation and weaken the critique. Additionally, this broad use of fascism may prevent us from identifying the specific characteristics of today’s political and economic landscape, such as corporate capitalism or techno-feudalism.

Authors like Murray Bookchin, Peter Gelderloos, and Noam Chomsky have criticized the indiscriminate use of the term fascism, arguing that applying it to any contemporary form of authoritarianism can be misleading. Instead, they suggest analyzing power structures within capitalism, colonialism, and broader hierarchical systems. (Edit: I originally made a mistake regarding Chomsky. In fact, he does use the term fascism quite broadly. Thanks to a response from DvD_Anarchist on this post, I can now clarify this.)

Some questions I’d like to explore:

To what extent does fascism, in its historical sense (Mussolini, Hitler, etc.), remain a valid category for understanding today’s authoritarianism?

Does the overuse of fascism reduce complex political phenomena to historical comparisons instead of analyzing them in their own context?

From an anarchist perspective, is it more useful to focus on power structures and hierarchy in general rather than labeling certain movements as &quot;fascist&quot;?

What do you think of the critiques from Bookchin, Gelderloos, and Chomsky on this topic? Are there other anarchist thinkers who address this issue?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and any relevant bibliography on the subject. Thanks!


We are well off. We have a home in Canada. We could make the trip.

I can’t believe i’m even considering this. People are DYING.  I am an autistic addict in recovery, and friends and therapists keep telling me to “focus on healing”. But we are running out of time.  I cannot heal when I keep getting stepped on. This country is an increasingly violent nightmare. Even the leftists I talk to are increasingly overwhelming to be around. The same sentiments, expressed thousands of different ways. Over and over. It hurts. I don’t even read theory properly.  All this privilege and no wick left to burn already. I feel all I can do is face the gun. Who am I doing this for, when I call myself an anarchist? Is this performance for all of you, too?
What is the alternative? Is there an alternative?

Help me understand what I have to do.
There are no answers, are there?

I’m thinking of running away.


The classic CrimethInc. anti-police poster alongside a mosaic portrait of Negro Matapacos, the famous Chilean riot dog, on Alameda in Santiago, Chile in early 2020.


It is a war by the white class and white-adjacent class against the racialised (and in particular Black) classes.

It is a war by the cis-het patriarchal class, and its allies, against all marginalised genders and sexualities, whether cis women, intersex people, queer cis people, and all trans people.

It is a war by the abled class against the disabled class.

It is a war by the citizen class against the immigrant class.

It is a war by the [insert dominant religious group in any region] class against the atheist class and minority religions.

To ignore all of these other things is to say that *only* money matters, which is honestly capitalist as fuck. No. There are other ways that violence is enacted and when many of our "comrades" insist that only one axis of oppression matters they are doing the work of the enemy.

The culture war IS a class war

It is a war by the white class and white-adjacent class against the racialised (and in particular Black) classes.

It is a war by the cis-het patriarchal class, and its allies, against all marginalised genders and sexualities, whether cis women, intersex people, queer cis people, and all trans people.

It is a war by the abled class against the disabled class.

It is a war by the citizen class against the immigrant class.

It is a war by the [insert dominant religious group in any region] class against the atheist class and minority religions.

To ignore all of these other things is to say that only money matters, which is honestly capitalist as fuck. No. There are other ways that violence is enacted and when many of our &quot;comrades&quot; insist that only one axis of oppression matters they are doing the work of the enemy.


i've been having this contention for a while, as comrades and i have predicted a potential civil war in the following years to come.. i come from an indigenous background, and have committed myself to staying off the grid/reading theory/committing to direct action. however, i come to a point of strife, as i find that this country has failed most latin american countries through imperialist tactics, apartheid, slavery.. blah, blah. anyways, i saw a post regarding "fleeing" in these tumultuous times, and some where criticizing and saying it would be cowardly. however, if a potential war were to flourish, would it be cowardly? i mean, my ancestors are not from here - in fact, they fell for some american dream gimmick, and were continually exploited, harassed, and disregarded in the bureaucratic system. why should i then, turn around and fight for land that's built on the most evil of principles? some romantic idea of revolution and/or autonomous state? that's what got Che killed in the end. these are different times - surely, but not sure. just conflicted and wanted to give my thoughts and meanderings. i would only fight for my loves ones and comrades if the organizing was right and established, which does not seem the case. and it seems it's only bound to get worse here. what do you think? what would you tell your POC comrades regarding this?

why should any mexican-american, native american, or african american fight in a potential civil war?

i&#39;ve been having this contention for a while, as comrades and i have predicted a potential civil war in the following years to come.. i come from an indigenous background, and have committed myself to staying off the grid/reading theory/committing to direct action. however, i come to a point of strife, as i find that this country has failed most latin american countries through imperialist tactics, apartheid, slavery.. blah, blah. anyways, i saw a post regarding &quot;fleeing&quot; in these tumultuous times, and some where criticizing and saying it would be cowardly. however, if a potential war were to flourish, would it be cowardly? i mean, my ancestors are not from here - in fact, they fell for some american dream gimmick, and were continually exploited, harassed, and disregarded in the bureaucratic system. why should i then, turn around and fight for land that&#39;s built on the most evil of principles? some romantic idea of revolution and/or autonomous state? that&#39;s what got Che killed in the end. these are different times - surely, but not sure. just conflicted and wanted to give my thoughts and meanderings. i would only fight for my loves ones and comrades if the organizing was right and established, which does not seem the case. and it seems it&#39;s only bound to get worse here. what do you think? what would you tell your POC comrades regarding this?


I never want to make money for someone. I never want to be rushed in my process for the sake of profit. I enjoy meaningful labor, and i enjoy science, botany, horticulture, entomology, ecology, permaculture.

I was working towards a degree in Horticulture before 2020, and now that I'm in the industry I see that horticulture is just training for industrialized farming practices. Are there any colleges that offer degrees in sustainable and truely valuable subjects? Should I just finish this degree course and then go find something more suited to my interests?

If your advice is skip the college bit, please offer a job idea or a concept to replace it because I'm good at school, and need more documented experience in something besides landscaping/greenhouse management to get a job doing something meaningful.

Thank you <3

Good jobs or degree options for Gardeners?

I never want to make money for someone. I never want to be rushed in my process for the sake of profit. I enjoy meaningful labor, and i enjoy science, botany, horticulture, entomology, ecology, permaculture.

I was working towards a degree in Horticulture before 2020, and now that I&#39;m in the industry I see that horticulture is just training for industrialized farming practices. Are there any colleges that offer degrees in sustainable and truely valuable subjects? Should I just finish this degree course and then go find something more suited to my interests?

If your advice is skip the college bit, please offer a job idea or a concept to replace it because I&#39;m good at school, and need more documented experience in something besides landscaping/greenhouse management to get a job doing something meaningful.

Thank you &lt;3


"Luigi is aware of the fund and very much appreciates the outpouring of support. My client plans on utilizing it to fight all three of the unprecedented cases against him," Karen Friedman Agnifilo, an attorney for Mangione, told Newsweek in a statement on Tuesday.

This quote can be found here:

https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-suspect-unitedhealth-ceo-murder-donations-jail-2025909

The fundraiser can be found here:

https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect

Luigi will be using fundraiser money for his defence

&quot;Luigi is aware of the fund and very much appreciates the outpouring of support. My client plans on utilizing it to fight all three of the unprecedented cases against him,&quot; Karen Friedman Agnifilo, an attorney for Mangione, told Newsweek in a statement on Tuesday.

This quote can be found here:

https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-suspect-unitedhealth-ceo-murder-donations-jail-2025909

The fundraiser can be found here:

https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect


[anarchist library](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francesco-dalessandro-the-forgotten-anarchist-commune-in-manchuria)

[Anarchy in action wiki](https://anarchyinaction.org/index.php?title=Shinmin_Prefecture)

i've just learned about it, why did it take me so much time ??? i've learned a lot about the makhnovian and spanish movements, but apparently this one was of the same magnitude and around the same time, and i've heard no one talk about it in my more than 10 years now of learning about anarchism ? how ??? anyway, enjoy this rabbithole i've just discovered

Did you guys know there was a libertarian revolution in Mandchouria ?

anarchist library

Anarchy in action wiki

i&#39;ve just learned about it, why did it take me so much time ??? i&#39;ve learned a lot about the makhnovian and spanish movements, but apparently this one was of the same magnitude and around the same time, and i&#39;ve heard no one talk about it in my more than 10 years now of learning about anarchism ? how ??? anyway, enjoy this rabbithole i&#39;ve just discovered


Hello all,

Tired of this shit. Tired of just watching it happen and feeling powerless. Any people/groups in Baltimore trying to do something? Thought about joining the PSL chapter here, but not sure if they’re actually doing anything radical enough for my liking.

Baltimore groups?


Despair is just the long way to apathy.

That's one of the biggest tricks that centers of power use to silence dissent and stop any action against them: Deny that a problem exists until it's so obvious and so bad that nobody can ignore it, and then say there's nothing we can do at this point, so why bother? We've seen this happen with capitalism and the record-breaking difference between the rich and poor, we've seen it with climate change, and we've seen it with the loss of our privacy. Right now - especially in the US - it seems like there's more interest in internet privacy than there's been in a long time, but when people look into it and find out how far we are from being truly private, they get discouraged. We're being pulled in 2 different directions: "We can't really do anything" and "We can't just do nothing."

If that's how you feel, you're not alone. But your privacy is definitely still worth taking back.

#1. Surveillance isn't free.

Corporations and governments have a lot of money, energy, and computing power to track people, but it's not infinite. The most intensive types of surveillance (the ones that involve dedicated experts, complex deanonymization techniques, and things like that) are mostly saved for high-level targets like terrorists and military agents. The basic level of surveillance they do on everyone is all passive: automatically logging information about you as you live your life.

Anything you do to separate yourself from their trackers stops a little of that. Doing something as simple as switching your browser to a more private one, or disabling location or Google apps on your phone, or deleting apps you don't need and logging out of social media, means 1 less source of information about your life that can be tracked.

Are more serious measures worth learning and doing? Absolutely, because privacy is freedom. The more dissenting, threatening to power, or targeted you are, the more private you need to be. But it's not all-or-nothing, and you can get better at it over time.

Especially because of the second reason:

#2. Information goes out of date.

It's a common belief that once your information is out there, there's no use protecting it. But almost everything about you changes over time, so if someone stops being able to track you, eventually what they know about you will be less useful. Maybe you don't go to the same places or talk to the same people as you used to. Maybe your beliefs and opinions changed. Maybe you have a different job, a different computer or phone, a different bank account or card than you did before. For all they know, maybe you changed your name and moved out of the country. Each piece of information you keep someone from getting is information that might not be true anymore.

One big exception is your DNA, which is why everyone should stay away from things like 23andMe and Ancestry.

#3. Privacy is a community effort.

Staying private would be impossible if you were the only one doing it. If everyone is leaving their data out in the open and you're the only one keeping it secret, you'll stand out more than anyone else - but if everyone is securing their privacy, it's there for people who need it most. And secure messages, group chats, and file sharing are only secure if *everyone* keeps that information safe.

Plus, privacy is only accessible because of open-source projects and the people who develop them, almost always for free, as well as those who learn privacy and security so they can help each other with it. Without that, only the best security experts could keep their data private.

And in a worst-case scenario, if *everything* goes wrong and they catch you doing something that really pisses them off, there's nothing like people you can trust around you, who will have your back and not snitch on you, and will remember you and visit you in jail if it comes to that.

The ultimate point of surveillance is fear, because without fear it's hard to control someone.

So let's take our control back, little by little.

3 reasons privacy is worth taking back

Despair is just the long way to apathy.

That&#39;s one of the biggest tricks that centers of power use to silence dissent and stop any action against them: Deny that a problem exists until it&#39;s so obvious and so bad that nobody can ignore it, and then say there&#39;s nothing we can do at this point, so why bother? We&#39;ve seen this happen with capitalism and the record-breaking difference between the rich and poor, we&#39;ve seen it with climate change, and we&#39;ve seen it with the loss of our privacy. Right now - especially in the US - it seems like there&#39;s more interest in internet privacy than there&#39;s been in a long time, but when people look into it and find out how far we are from being truly private, they get discouraged. We&#39;re being pulled in 2 different directions: &quot;We can&#39;t really do anything&quot; and &quot;We can&#39;t just do nothing.&quot;

If that&#39;s how you feel, you&#39;re not alone. But your privacy is definitely still worth taking back.

1. Surveillance isn&#39;t free.

Corporations and governments have a lot of money, energy, and computing power to track people, but it&#39;s not infinite. The most intensive types of surveillance (the ones that involve dedicated experts, complex deanonymization techniques, and things like that) are mostly saved for high-level targets like terrorists and military agents. The basic level of surveillance they do on everyone is all passive: automatically logging information about you as you live your life.

Anything you do to separate yourself from their trackers stops a little of that. Doing something as simple as switching your browser to a more private one, or disabling location or Google apps on your phone, or deleting apps you don&#39;t need and logging out of social media, means 1 less source of information about your life that can be tracked.

Are more serious measures worth learning and doing? Absolutely, because privacy is freedom. The more dissenting, threatening to power, or targeted you are, the more private you need to be. But it&#39;s not all-or-nothing, and you can get better at it over time.

Especially because of the second reason:

2. Information goes out of date.

It&#39;s a common belief that once your information is out there, there&#39;s no use protecting it. But almost everything about you changes over time, so if someone stops being able to track you, eventually what they know about you will be less useful. Maybe you don&#39;t go to the same places or talk to the same people as you used to. Maybe your beliefs and opinions changed. Maybe you have a different job, a different computer or phone, a different bank account or card than you did before. For all they know, maybe you changed your name and moved out of the country. Each piece of information you keep someone from getting is information that might not be true anymore.

One big exception is your DNA, which is why everyone should stay away from things like 23andMe and Ancestry.

3. Privacy is a community effort.

Staying private would be impossible if you were the only one doing it. If everyone is leaving their data out in the open and you&#39;re the only one keeping it secret, you&#39;ll stand out more than anyone else - but if everyone is securing their privacy, it&#39;s there for people who need it most. And secure messages, group chats, and file sharing are only secure if everyone keeps that information safe.

Plus, privacy is only accessible because of open-source projects and the people who develop them, almost always for free, as well as those who learn privacy and security so they can help each other with it. Without that, only the best security experts could keep their data private.

And in a worst-case scenario, if everything goes wrong and they catch you doing something that really pisses them off, there&#39;s nothing like people you can trust around you, who will have your back and not snitch on you, and will remember you and visit you in jail if it comes to that.

The ultimate point of surveillance is fear, because without fear it&#39;s hard to control someone.

So let&#39;s take our control back, little by little.


I think they were, frankly, geniuses, but were insufficiently concerned about power concentration despite largely understanding the arc of human history in a way that no one had to that point.

Does anyone else here actually love the writings of Marx and Engels but profoundly disagree with most Marxists/Leninists/Maoists?


After the South Korean coup attempt


I’m more than aware that my lifestyle isn’t perfect, but…

When people call to boycott oil, all I can think of is why they even bother if they’re just gonna drive their car next week anyways?

When people call to boycott huge food brands, all I can think of is why bother if you’re still buying imported produce, chocolate, animal products?

When people want to boycott big tech, all I can think of is why bother if they will give a single dollar to amazon or apple?

When people call to boycott anything on the principle of withholding economic power from those who do harm, I’m just bitter because that means every other day of their life they are fine with giving over that economic power, and frankly can be partly to blame rn for being such class traitors every single day they leave their house.

Anyone else feel this way??

Edit: lol no, i am not struggling to get on board with boycotting because its hard. Im degrading people who promote boycotting rather than switching to vegan and going car free and shopping exclusively local. It is literally not that hard.

Bitter towards boycotts


I’m really struggling with the amount of pain the marginalized groups are and will experience. I’m wondering how everyone else is doing with everything going on

Update: thank you everyone for being such beautiful souls ❤

Hey friends I’m not doing so great


I just wanted to let y'all know I was just in a store and heard a heartwarming thing. My partner did not have enough EBT for snacks so I covered the cost and mentioned inflation and people getting their EBT messed with lately. He isn't but it's not like there hasn't been a stream of reports coming from a bunch of states. I mentioned how most people I know seem to feel this way. I said the march thing from a few days ago had good stuff happening there. She was interested haha

I saw the beginning of this a long time ago but I still love to see it and I love that even more people are gearing up to show up for one another. Even despite their draining fucking DG schedule.

❤

The average Dollar General worker is ready to pop it off

I just wanted to let y&#39;all know I was just in a store and heard a heartwarming thing. My partner did not have enough EBT for snacks so I covered the cost and mentioned inflation and people getting their EBT messed with lately. He isn&#39;t but it&#39;s not like there hasn&#39;t been a stream of reports coming from a bunch of states. I mentioned how most people I know seem to feel this way. I said the march thing from a few days ago had good stuff happening there. She was interested haha

I saw the beginning of this a long time ago but I still love to see it and I love that even more people are gearing up to show up for one another. Even despite their draining fucking DG schedule.

❤


Favorite anti fascist hip hop songs? I'll start

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Durruti: Shadow of the People #3 Variant Cover: "Black Flags Flying" by DK (Oil on Canvas)


https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=AhBC1WJhm7l9y9DP

From the "beautiful mind" of Curtis "If a genital wart wished super hard to be a real boy" Yarvin comes a harrowing conspiracy to create a network state out of the ashes of Trumps America. As you'd expect, these fuckheads are working finger in asshole with Project 2025 to literally destroy the state as you know it, so they can rebuild their glorious neo-feudal fiefdoms where the poors are literally used as biofuel #jokingnotjokingwink

I know the goings been hard and you don't need any more reasons to cry into your whiskey sours but it's worth the 30 minutes that you were only going to doomscroll with...Why doom*SCROLL* when you can doom*WATCH!*...god I hate this...Enjoy! 🤗

The Network State Conspiracy to finger your asshole (and not in the good way)

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=AhBC1WJhm7l9y9DP

From the &quot;beautiful mind&quot; of Curtis &quot;If a genital wart wished super hard to be a real boy&quot; Yarvin comes a harrowing conspiracy to create a network state out of the ashes of Trumps America. As you&#39;d expect, these fuckheads are working finger in asshole with Project 2025 to literally destroy the state as you know it, so they can rebuild their glorious neo-feudal fiefdoms where the poors are literally used as biofuel #jokingnotjokingwink

I know the goings been hard and you don&#39;t need any more reasons to cry into your whiskey sours but it&#39;s worth the 30 minutes that you were only going to doomscroll with...Why doomSCROLL when you can doomWATCH!...god I hate this...Enjoy! 🤗


 Weekly Discussion Thread for Radical Gender Non Conforming People

*Radical GNC people can talk about whatever they want in here. Suggestions; chill & relax, gender hegemony, queer theory, news and current events, books, entertainment*

People who do not identify as gender nonconforming are asked not to post in Radical GNC threads.

Radical Gender Non Conforming Saturday

Weekly Discussion Thread for Radical Gender Non Conforming People

Radical GNC people can talk about whatever they want in here. Suggestions; chill &amp; relax, gender hegemony, queer theory, news and current events, books, entertainment

People who do not identify as gender nonconforming are asked not to post in Radical GNC threads.


Reportback on the Night Demo at mcgill on February 5th


Defeat the Fascist Snake

Defeat the Fascist Snake


Much of Anarchism as a social movement revolves around non-governmental mutual aid and other non-political support organizations. But if any given Anarchist sought to enter government with the intention to bring about at least some minor change how would they go about that?

At least for me, who does not like labels but would best be defined as an individualist anarchist — in which anarchism is a way of life that I personally hold myself to — I do not engage in the civic aspects of government, i.e. I do not vote because I believe it to be amoral. I am often critical of the possibility of actually effecting any real change through government, because it is the enemy after all. But I have considered after law school, I start next autumn, pursuing politics with the idea of at least keeping other politicians in check lol. But do not know how this would even work.

1. Would an Anarchist openly declare themselves as such, putting themselves at odds with the status quo and likely reducing the odds of being elected?

2. Would an Anarchist be better served by “playing the game” with an intent to reach higher offices in hopes of bringing about change more effectively?

3. Or would an Anarchist just best be served by staying out of politics and just focusing on what they can do personally to bring about social change?

Interested in hearing you all’s opinions and comments!

How Could an Anarchist Get Into Politics?

Much of Anarchism as a social movement revolves around non-governmental mutual aid and other non-political support organizations. But if any given Anarchist sought to enter government with the intention to bring about at least some minor change how would they go about that?

At least for me, who does not like labels but would best be defined as an individualist anarchist — in which anarchism is a way of life that I personally hold myself to — I do not engage in the civic aspects of government, i.e. I do not vote because I believe it to be amoral. I am often critical of the possibility of actually effecting any real change through government, because it is the enemy after all. But I have considered after law school, I start next autumn, pursuing politics with the idea of at least keeping other politicians in check lol. But do not know how this would even work.

Would an Anarchist openly declare themselves as such, putting themselves at odds with the status quo and likely reducing the odds of being elected?

Would an Anarchist be better served by “playing the game” with an intent to reach higher offices in hopes of bringing about change more effectively?

Or would an Anarchist just best be served by staying out of politics and just focusing on what they can do personally to bring about social change?

Interested in hearing you all’s opinions and comments!


If the "good side" wants ammunition, why not start spreading the word of DEIA rather than just DEI? This pdf was removed from the opm.gov website noted Jan 2025. State.gov had a pdf on DEIA that was removed Nov 2024. If these are such bad things why is the other side (the one in control not the people's side) making it obviously harder to find information about?

So as we know that DEI is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Before recent times, most people never heard of it or did and forgot (myself included). What I was surprised to hear was that its actually been DEIA they've been going after which now stands for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, AND Accessibility. It makes sense why the country founded on racism would want to make it seem like they're being racist cause thats what was ran on. So it makes sense that if you remove the word Accessibility from the equation, it makes it seem like its about race when in reality its been much more than that. [Didn't a certain fascist make common knowledge harder to obtain through the used-to-be available means at the time (i.e. newspapers, books, articles)? /rhetorical]

Listen if you made it this far, I know we've gone passed the point of "Words don't help". But there are people with a voice who aren't in power who can spread a message. Honestly, I say let it burn until we formulate a way to fight and preferably take back whats ours.

Topic About DEIA

If the &quot;good side&quot; wants ammunition, why not start spreading the word of DEIA rather than just DEI? This pdf was removed from the opm.gov website noted Jan 2025. State.gov had a pdf on DEIA that was removed Nov 2024. If these are such bad things why is the other side (the one in control not the people&#39;s side) making it obviously harder to find information about?

So as we know that DEI is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Before recent times, most people never heard of it or did and forgot (myself included). What I was surprised to hear was that its actually been DEIA they&#39;ve been going after which now stands for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, AND Accessibility. It makes sense why the country founded on racism would want to make it seem like they&#39;re being racist cause thats what was ran on. So it makes sense that if you remove the word Accessibility from the equation, it makes it seem like its about race when in reality its been much more than that. [Didn&#39;t a certain fascist make common knowledge harder to obtain through the used-to-be available means at the time (i.e. newspapers, books, articles)? /rhetorical]

Listen if you made it this far, I know we&#39;ve gone passed the point of &quot;Words don&#39;t help&quot;. But there are people with a voice who aren&#39;t in power who can spread a message. Honestly, I say let it burn until we formulate a way to fight and preferably take back whats ours.


Being in this intersection is fuckin lonely, parts of the exmuslim community is quite islamophobic for highly understandable reasons, many of us including me are actively avoiding being persecuted, 29/1/2025 just a week ago a prominent exmuslim Salwan Momika is assassinated, he is known for quran burning and that does not change anything to relieve exmuslims of their concern of the very safety of their life. On youtube, all rhetoric by both sides appeal to statist arguments and there is basically no one on either side seeking peace except for apostate aladdin, chillest exmuslim i know. As an anarchist, i also feel abandoned seeing barely any talk of anarchist against religious persecution, let alone persecution of exmuslims by Islam. This is an area i really wanna organise around, but I am just a closeted exmuslim with no ally, still living under my muslim parents, surrounded by muslims with hierarchical mindset. What can I do? Talking about anarchism with my friends is the best i could do and i am not even doing that yet out of fear for being considered mislead.

The Intersection of Anarchist and Exmuslim


How to create a mutual aid network


How popular is anarchism in Malaysia?

Hi! I've been on a trip in Malaysia for a few days. Yesterday I arrived to kl. I started noticing a lot of anarchist graffitis and stickers there. How popular is anarchism in Malaysia? How nany organizations exist in Malaysia? How active they are?

How popular is anarchism in Malaysia?

Hi! I&#39;ve been on a trip in Malaysia for a few days. Yesterday I arrived to kl. I started noticing a lot of anarchist graffitis and stickers there. How popular is anarchism in Malaysia? How nany organizations exist in Malaysia? How active they are?


We've prepared a zine version of our text "It’s Safer in the Front."

Please print these out and distribute them in your community!

[https://crimethinc.com/zines/its-safer-in-the-front](https://crimethinc.com/zines/its-safer-in-the-front)

“Counterintuitive though it is, in a confusing situation, often the best—if not safest—place to be is the front lines, so you can see what is going on around you.” 🏴

https://preview.redd.it/5vbiur006ohe1.png?width=816&format=png&auto=webp&s=aeab286f46de541315d9ab833ad8616e00ed15d2

Please print these out and distribute them in your community!

https://crimethinc.com/zines/its-safer-in-the-front

“Counterintuitive though it is, in a confusing situation, often the best—if not safest—place to be is the front lines, so you can see what is going on around you.” 🏴

https://preview.redd.it/5vbiur006ohe1.png?width=816&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=aeab286f46de541315d9ab833ad8616e00ed15d2


Friday Free Talk


started reading this a couple days ago and it feels like a really good explanation of what’s happening right now, hinging on the idea that neoliberalism uses fascism to keep power within capital— also has commentary on why some revolutionary tactics haven’t worked in the late 20th and 21st century. i found it a little hard to read but useful nonetheless (i’ll comment a link to a PDF below!)

do y’all have any book recs that you’re enjoying right now?

PS i don’t know anything about this author so please let me know if he’s weird or anything ty

book recs?


hey everyone, a friend is raising money to send to his family in the gambia so they can build a well. we've managed to raise about half of the goal, but it's plateaued in the last few months. my friend has been saving on his own and is planning to make the down payment soon, but i was wondering if anyone knows of any pages where we could link the gofundme, so it gets more visibility and they can finally build this thing?

tl;dr im looking for reddit boards or other pages to help boost a friend's gofundme.

ty ! <3

mutual aid boards?

hey everyone, a friend is raising money to send to his family in the gambia so they can build a well. we&#39;ve managed to raise about half of the goal, but it&#39;s plateaued in the last few months. my friend has been saving on his own and is planning to make the down payment soon, but i was wondering if anyone knows of any pages where we could link the gofundme, so it gets more visibility and they can finally build this thing?

tl;dr im looking for reddit boards or other pages to help boost a friend&#39;s gofundme.

ty ! &lt;3


Reading "What A Strike Is" by Peter Kropotkin

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Basically the title. I'm a little weary of [this site](https://generalstrikeus.com/), but I know wielding economic power is the best way to actually get things done.

What does Anarchism think of this call for a general strike?

Basically the title. I&#39;m a little weary of this site, but I know wielding economic power is the best way to actually get things done.


Hi folks! I have an Etsy shop and I would like to offer an item for free. I will make a special coupon/discount code for this item so when people go to the checkout they can have it for free.

I created an illustration of Medusa holding the decapitated head of the tangerine man. The image is ready to download and I thought I wouldn't show the entire image in the product description (just in case).

Is it safe? will my shop be closed if I offer this type of product?

Question for people offering anti-Trump merch on Etsy

Hi folks! I have an Etsy shop and I would like to offer an item for free. I will make a special coupon/discount code for this item so when people go to the checkout they can have it for free.

I created an illustration of Medusa holding the decapitated head of the tangerine man. The image is ready to download and I thought I wouldn&#39;t show the entire image in the product description (just in case).

Is it safe? will my shop be closed if I offer this type of product?


Some insight into how the USA Feb 5th protests were being organized - "Message from the Mods" of r/50501

Message from the Mods - about the pause


Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740

Figure I share this(pretty sure it might have been posted before)


Hi comrades! This is a followup to a post I made last week https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/1ie36co/why_did_you_stop_organizing/

The themes I'm seeing are hopelessness, frustration, burnout, poor communication, issues w/ charismatic or controlling leaders, misogyny and anti-queer sentiment.

Here is my followup question to you: what about the right wing makes their organizing so successful? What do you feel is lacking in anarchist organizing that other ideologies succeed in?

Why did you stop organizing pt 2

Hi comrades! This is a followup to a post I made last week https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/1ie36co/why_did_you_stop_organizing/

The themes I&#39;m seeing are hopelessness, frustration, burnout, poor communication, issues w/ charismatic or controlling leaders, misogyny and anti-queer sentiment.

Here is my followup question to you: what about the right wing makes their organizing so successful? What do you feel is lacking in anarchist organizing that other ideologies succeed in?


The Fate of Fascists (The Hanging of Mussolini's Corpse)


Starbucks Is Everything Wrong With American Capitalism


What are your thoughts on Hassan Piker?

What are your thoughts on Hassan Piker?


What The ‘Bread and Roses’ Strike Can Teach Us About Organizing Today


Delete if this has been shared already or is against the rules. This 22min video gives a rundown on has been happening in the past few days. In it, Leeja "calmly" (tw cursing censoring? and insults) explains what is happening on the democrats side of things and how they can use their abilities in to slow the onslaught of shock and awe while also telling the people what they can do to either annoy the every living crap out of the representitives who are voting against the poeples' best interest or commend those who are.

"Why Aren't Democrats DOING Anything??"

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Why Aren't Democrats DOING Anything??

Delete if this has been shared already or is against the rules. This 22min video gives a rundown on has been happening in the past few days. In it, Leeja &quot;calmly&quot; (tw cursing censoring? and insults) explains what is happening on the democrats side of things and how they can use their abilities in to slow the onslaught of shock and awe while also telling the people what they can do to either annoy the every living crap out of the representitives who are voting against the poeples&#39; best interest or commend those who are.

Why Aren't Democrats DOING Anything??


Weekly Discussion Thread for Black, Indigenous, People of Color

*Radical bipoc can talk about whatever they want in here. Suggestions; chill & relax, radical people of color, Black/Indigenous/POC anarchism, news and current events, books, entertainment*

Non BIPOC people are asked not to post in Radical BIPOC Thursday threads.

Radical BIPOC Thursday

Weekly Discussion Thread for Black, Indigenous, People of Color

Radical bipoc can talk about whatever they want in here. Suggestions; chill &amp; relax, radical people of color, Black/Indigenous/POC anarchism, news and current events, books, entertainment

Non BIPOC people are asked not to post in Radical BIPOC Thursday threads.


The Day the Émigrés Struck Back: Remembering the General Strike of May Day 2006

[https://crimethinc.com/MayDay2006](https://crimethinc.com/MayDay2006)

In 2006, students around the United States engaged in spontaneous walkouts protesting the repression of undocumented people, culminating on May Day in the first great general strike to take place in the US in the 21st century.

Today, as students are once again staging walkouts and people around the country are taking to the streets against the immigration policies of the second Trump administration, it is a good time to revisit this earlier high point of resistance.

"The port of Los Angeles, one of the country’s largest, was 90% inactive thanks to the overwhelming majority of truckers refusing to haul goods that day. A small but rowdy portion of the more than one million people who marched for immigrant rights in Los Angeles concluded the day in running battles with the police, throwing rocks and bottles, dragging debris into the streets, and vandalizing outdoor advertisements. California’s state legislature was forced to close when janitors, cafeteria workers, and maintenance people did not show up to work at the capitol building."

https://preview.redd.it/88hnr3fg1ghe1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=41065438cbbae59a1a1d2076a32cb79545a9f897

https://crimethinc.com/MayDay2006

In 2006, students around the United States engaged in spontaneous walkouts protesting the repression of undocumented people, culminating on May Day in the first great general strike to take place in the US in the 21st century.

Today, as students are once again staging walkouts and people around the country are taking to the streets against the immigration policies of the second Trump administration, it is a good time to revisit this earlier high point of resistance.

&quot;The port of Los Angeles, one of the country’s largest, was 90% inactive thanks to the overwhelming majority of truckers refusing to haul goods that day. A small but rowdy portion of the more than one million people who marched for immigrant rights in Los Angeles concluded the day in running battles with the police, throwing rocks and bottles, dragging debris into the streets, and vandalizing outdoor advertisements. California’s state legislature was forced to close when janitors, cafeteria workers, and maintenance people did not show up to work at the capitol building.&quot;

https://preview.redd.it/88hnr3fg1ghe1.png?width=1200&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=41065438cbbae59a1a1d2076a32cb79545a9f897


What are your thoughts on Poor Man’s Poison? Lately I have been playing two of their songs constantly kind of a self soothing ritual I guess. I don’t know

I think this is ok to ask


Hey everyone!

Wanted to extend an open invitation to any radical leftists in the Atlanta area to meet up for food and drink at a local restaurant next week!

We've been doing these for a few years and formed a book club out of it. Meetings are mostly a chance to have dinner, socialize, and meet like minded people in the local area.

If you are interested, shoot me a message and I can send the time and location!

Atlanta Radicals Social Meetup next week!

Hey everyone!

Wanted to extend an open invitation to any radical leftists in the Atlanta area to meet up for food and drink at a local restaurant next week!

We&#39;ve been doing these for a few years and formed a book club out of it. Meetings are mostly a chance to have dinner, socialize, and meet like minded people in the local area.

If you are interested, shoot me a message and I can send the time and location!


[anarchistnews.org] Malaysia: 3rd Conference of Anarcho-Syndicalists of the Asia-Pacific Region

Libertarian Socialist | Victoria, Australia | He/Him


This is a summarization and breakdown of the concepts within conquest of bread by Peter Krotopkin. I have tried to condense each chapter to key points to take away with quotations available as well. Seeing as this work is foundational to anarcho communism I figured some of you would wanna know what he said.

Conquest of bread

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conquest o bread

conquest o bread


Can anyone think of a book that outlines and compares leftist ideologies? I know there are lots of books written from the perspective of one ideology but I want something more comparative. And I don't just mean "Marxism vs. Anarchism", I mean all the sub-groups, too.

Bonus if it goes into the actual praxis of how each one achieves their goal - I'm especially interested in how we all view mass mobilization differently. Thanks!

Books that Compare Leftist ideologies?

Can anyone think of a book that outlines and compares leftist ideologies? I know there are lots of books written from the perspective of one ideology but I want something more comparative. And I don&#39;t just mean &quot;Marxism vs. Anarchism&quot;, I mean all the sub-groups, too.

Bonus if it goes into the actual praxis of how each one achieves their goal - I&#39;m especially interested in how we all view mass mobilization differently. Thanks!


A Forgotten Story Retold

Forgotten Lands and Forgotten Lessons

Across the waves and lands stands a forgotten world, a realm of forgotten peoples and forgotten ways. They sit on barren lands; collapsing towers of glass stand on the skyline; translucent materials scatter the land, a reminder that people once dwelled there. This was not always the case, before, the people basked in the sun on farms; towers, now in ruin, touched the skies, challenging the heavens; creatures existed in vast terrains, in woods, in rivers, in plains, and the frozen poles. Let me tell their story, so we may not forget them and so we may learn from them.

These people hailed from the Old Kingdom, it had existed since humanity could write; the Old Kings dined on the finest foods and dressed in the finest wares, whilst the farmers worked the fields to survive, saving every scrap they could. Amongst the common people, one group stood strong enough to challenge the Kings, the Merchants and Manufacturers. Soon the Kings’ power diminished, but did not disappear,  as the Merchants entered centre stage, trading in far off lands, bringing wealth to themselves and their Merchant Empire.

Then came a new age. The Old Kingdom and the Merchant Empire fell to the Manufacturer Republic. With this came a revolutionary development, the World Machine. The World Machine was the pride of the Manufacturer Republic, it brought untold wealth and progress to the Republic and its peoples; farmers became Manufacture-Subordinates, working at the behest of the Manufacturers and people suddenly could rule as if they were the Old Kings together. The Republic prospered: people earned more and more; Manufacturers made even more; new Machines spawned from the World Machine which made life for all simpler and more efficient; it seemed all was well to the people of the Republic.

Yet behind the curtain, countless secrets were hidden or twisted. The Manufacturer Republic was a Republic for the Manufacturers and by the Manufacturers - what power the people thought they had was an illusion, a fake choice between competing factions of Manufacturing. Manufacturers merely exploited the Manufacture-Subordinates, in their endless search for more wealth - they placated them with a tiny portion of the wealth and the illusion of rule, the people were happy. The World Machine, too, had its secrets. What looked like a bountiful creation was merely devastation disguised - all it gave was taken from others, leaving lands empty and ridden with people struggling to survive; its machinations burned the land it operated; it tore up the woods, dried out the rivers and killed the land’s creatures.

The people began to look at the Republic and saw that the Manufacturers dined on the same foods as the Old Kings, dressed in the same clothes as the Old Kings; all while they, the people, worked to survive, saving what scraps they could. They saw the land burning, being killed, by the World Machine and wept. They wept because they had been clueless, or had buried their head in the sand, and now the land they loved burned. They wept because they had not done this, the Manufacturers’ greed had done this, and they were the victims. They wept and wept.

As the land burned, the Republic soon fell. The Manufacturers died in the very towers they had built to flaunt their wealth, and now they lay forgotten with it. The peoples of the Republic starved as the land died, the last voice being an apology to the land for all the harm which had come to it, and a wish to see the world reborn, teeming with life once more, one where the Manufacturers, Old Kings and Merchants could never hurt it again.

So the tale of the Forgotten Land is told, let their story be remembered and let their lesson never be diminished, for if it is, we may all follow the Forgotten Land and be remembered only in the memories of others.

A Forgotten Story Retold


This channel is brilliant and cutting through the crap and focusing on what is needed now.

Taking action on the coup

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Fascists, follow your leader

Fascists, follow your leader


With the ICE raids becoming more and more indiscriminate. I'm worried that the homeless will become targets when/ if they can't provide documentation of citizenship. Have they been clearing camps?

Has anyone checked on the homeless?

With the ICE raids becoming more and more indiscriminate. I&#39;m worried that the homeless will become targets when/ if they can&#39;t provide documentation of citizenship. Have they been clearing camps?


Hi, I've been a FNB member for more than half a year now, and I really love the organization. However, recently, there has been essentially a take over from DSA to the point where I discovered that they were serving non-vegan food for multiple shares. I was unaware of this and we swiftly shut that shit down once we discovered it, however I noticed not only was there WAY more DSA members in FNB, and those specific members watered down and undermined the point that an OG FNB member made regarding the core values of FNB. I'm not sure what to do about this nor who to turn to about this. All of this has been very weird and very frustrating.

Update: All these comments are very helpful and I appreciate them all. Shits still going on and I'll update more when I get the chance.

Food Not Bombs Concern

Hi, I&#39;ve been a FNB member for more than half a year now, and I really love the organization. However, recently, there has been essentially a take over from DSA to the point where I discovered that they were serving non-vegan food for multiple shares. I was unaware of this and we swiftly shut that shit down once we discovered it, however I noticed not only was there WAY more DSA members in FNB, and those specific members watered down and undermined the point that an OG FNB member made regarding the core values of FNB. I&#39;m not sure what to do about this nor who to turn to about this. All of this has been very weird and very frustrating.

Update: All these comments are very helpful and I appreciate them all. Shits still going on and I&#39;ll update more when I get the chance.


I've had this thought; people HATE mainstream media nowadays. I'm talking liberals, fascists, hell it's somehow managed to piss the entire left off. Many people point to Fox, WSJ, NYT and other dominant news sources for their direct role in "sanewashing" fascists, presenting horrible, democracy-ending news as normal, and generally just being propaganda.

See, the usual workaround to the liberal propaganda in recent years was independent journalism or just direct information on platforms like Twitter, TikTok, Instagram sorta and other online platforms, or relying on Google algorithms to promote their websites. The issue now is that those platforms have basically decided to censor everything that doesn't suck on fascist cock, so nobody is able to get their usual news from crowdsources or whatever. People are actually listening to local news and national news with fresh ears and finding it to be distasteful.

There is a demand in the general public for honest, truthful news about shit, and they aren't getting it online. They aren't getting it in their current newspapers either. Anarchists have done much work to get their message out but censorship and state repression of our ideas has blocked the reach of our ideas for many years. I propose a solution:

Print media!

Zines, posters, fliers, and even established papers such as Slingshot. Make them and spread them around! Hand them out to people while tabling on college campuses. Staple fliers to telephone poles. Throw out pointless bourgeois magazines from those "free" things and replace them with propaganda!

I think the most important thing here is to remember to bring some proper journalism along with you. Write an essay about the actions going on in DC. Write about the truth of fascist deregulation causing deadly aviation accidents. Write protest reports! If you gain the public trust, you gain their ears. It's far easier to deprogram normies and liberals when they actually enjoy reading your shit

Anarchy news - print media to avoid the algorithm?

I&#39;ve had this thought; people HATE mainstream media nowadays. I&#39;m talking liberals, fascists, hell it&#39;s somehow managed to piss the entire left off. Many people point to Fox, WSJ, NYT and other dominant news sources for their direct role in &quot;sanewashing&quot; fascists, presenting horrible, democracy-ending news as normal, and generally just being propaganda.

See, the usual workaround to the liberal propaganda in recent years was independent journalism or just direct information on platforms like Twitter, TikTok, Instagram sorta and other online platforms, or relying on Google algorithms to promote their websites. The issue now is that those platforms have basically decided to censor everything that doesn&#39;t suck on fascist cock, so nobody is able to get their usual news from crowdsources or whatever. People are actually listening to local news and national news with fresh ears and finding it to be distasteful.

There is a demand in the general public for honest, truthful news about shit, and they aren&#39;t getting it online. They aren&#39;t getting it in their current newspapers either. Anarchists have done much work to get their message out but censorship and state repression of our ideas has blocked the reach of our ideas for many years. I propose a solution:

Print media!

Zines, posters, fliers, and even established papers such as Slingshot. Make them and spread them around! Hand them out to people while tabling on college campuses. Staple fliers to telephone poles. Throw out pointless bourgeois magazines from those &quot;free&quot; things and replace them with propaganda!

I think the most important thing here is to remember to bring some proper journalism along with you. Write an essay about the actions going on in DC. Write about the truth of fascist deregulation causing deadly aviation accidents. Write protest reports! If you gain the public trust, you gain their ears. It&#39;s far easier to deprogram normies and liberals when they actually enjoy reading your shit


idk if i can post it on that group but idk where else, someone will get me.

i recently had a conversation with some woman (probably 20-30 yrs older than me) about migration. and we were concerned about situation of educated Syrian people that they might be deported back to Syria.

and i said that im my country is similar with other migrants like people from Afganistan, and more, and that they application for international protection in UE, massively was getting rejected in past few months

and she said that it's a different situation, because those Syrian people were highly educated... ?? and those from Afganistan aren't??

and i was like, ok... and??? so to deserve living, you have to have proper documents, profession, or otherwise your live doesn't matter??

but i didn't say that, and instead recommended her some book about migration issues written by my fav author. i didnt knew what to say

and idk, i might be wrong, but in my opinion, she said a very cruel thing. why does it matter, if you have a degree or not when it comes to deportation? people are something more, than just useful money-machine....

not understanding other non-anarchists when it comes to migration issue, people has to be "useful"?

idk if i can post it on that group but idk where else, someone will get me.

i recently had a conversation with some woman (probably 20-30 yrs older than me) about migration. and we were concerned about situation of educated Syrian people that they might be deported back to Syria.

and i said that im my country is similar with other migrants like people from Afganistan, and more, and that they application for international protection in UE, massively was getting rejected in past few months

and she said that it&#39;s a different situation, because those Syrian people were highly educated... ?? and those from Afganistan aren&#39;t??

and i was like, ok... and??? so to deserve living, you have to have proper documents, profession, or otherwise your live doesn&#39;t matter??

but i didn&#39;t say that, and instead recommended her some book about migration issues written by my fav author. i didnt knew what to say

and idk, i might be wrong, but in my opinion, she said a very cruel thing. why does it matter, if you have a degree or not when it comes to deportation? people are something more, than just useful money-machine....


Since everything happening in the US right now and the President Musk hostile takeover i figured that anarchist subreddit would make call to action and organizations but it seem to me that people here doesn't really care or what ?!

We seem to be living a an historic moment and the response from the radical left is mild at best.

Am i trippin ?

r/politics freaking out on President Musk takeover & here anarchist just vinbin ?

Since everything happening in the US right now and the President Musk hostile takeover i figured that anarchist subreddit would make call to action and organizations but it seem to me that people here doesn&#39;t really care or what ?!

We seem to be living a an historic moment and the response from the radical left is mild at best.

Am i trippin ?


We know taxes fund a standing army, police, prisons, bombs etc. and on top of that when we pay taxes we submit to State authority, we say "you exist and I am your subject." A reason most pay taxes, probably, is the consequences the State would inflict if you didn't pay taxes (prison). As anarchists, in order to be aligned with our consciences, should we not pay taxes and accept whatever consequences the State throws at us?
I don't mean to be too obstinate, idealistic (or practical). This question is troubling me after reading Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and Tolstoy's The Law of Love & Violence

Do you pay taxes?

We know taxes fund a standing army, police, prisons, bombs etc. and on top of that when we pay taxes we submit to State authority, we say &quot;you exist and I am your subject.&quot; A reason most pay taxes, probably, is the consequences the State would inflict if you didn&#39;t pay taxes (prison). As anarchists, in order to be aligned with our consciences, should we not pay taxes and accept whatever consequences the State throws at us?
I don&#39;t mean to be too obstinate, idealistic (or practical). This question is troubling me after reading Thoreau&#39;s Civil Disobedience and Tolstoy&#39;s The Law of Love &amp; Violence


I had a work party tonight and when I got home to my apartment I settled in and turned on South Park. I was pretty close to falling asleep when I heard a bunch of banging on my door and when I checked it was the cops. I was so confused so I let them in and talked to them, they told me they heard some DV shit. I’m not even sure how they got into my complex. I’m just confused

Police


Like the title says. There's gotta be a lot of good stuff out there already if you know where to find it, so let's make it easy to find, for people to be able to choose what to print from a wide selection of quality materials.

How it works: post them in the comments. Also post if you have further thoughts on how to organize this collection, or suggestions of other collections that should be (or are already) started. And crosspost or share this post to other venues too, like resource lists of 'Things You Can Do.'

Megathread of things to print and distro for the current USA moment. Collect links to flyers, posters, zines here! Then you can salt them elsewhere.

Like the title says. There&#39;s gotta be a lot of good stuff out there already if you know where to find it, so let&#39;s make it easy to find, for people to be able to choose what to print from a wide selection of quality materials.

How it works: post them in the comments. Also post if you have further thoughts on how to organize this collection, or suggestions of other collections that should be (or are already) started. And crosspost or share this post to other venues too, like resource lists of &#39;Things You Can Do.&#39;


edit: thanx for the encouragement<3

hey everyone,

i’ve been ideologically anarchist for a decade. i haven’t engaged in much meaningful direct action, mostly just participated in a couple local protest movements alongside liberals

unfortunately i found my way to anarchism through reading and contemplation, not through a community. i had no concept of security at first, there was nobody to warn me that the state will not respect my freedom of thought and speech. so i’ve been posting about my politics on my personal social media accounts for years now

i only recently began taking the idea of privacy and security more seriously. my concern is that if i ever were to get involved in the anarchist community, i’d be a risk to everybody

it would be super easy for the police to connect my radical views to my legal name and to people i know. i’m a walking security hazard

so what if anything can i do to mitigate this hazard? does it actually work to delete my accounts, or will all that information still exist somewhere out there?

or should i resign myself to keeping my distance from any radical activity for life?

am i a lost cause?

edit: thanx for the encouragement&lt;3

hey everyone,

i’ve been ideologically anarchist for a decade. i haven’t engaged in much meaningful direct action, mostly just participated in a couple local protest movements alongside liberals

unfortunately i found my way to anarchism through reading and contemplation, not through a community. i had no concept of security at first, there was nobody to warn me that the state will not respect my freedom of thought and speech. so i’ve been posting about my politics on my personal social media accounts for years now

i only recently began taking the idea of privacy and security more seriously. my concern is that if i ever were to get involved in the anarchist community, i’d be a risk to everybody

it would be super easy for the police to connect my radical views to my legal name and to people i know. i’m a walking security hazard

so what if anything can i do to mitigate this hazard? does it actually work to delete my accounts, or will all that information still exist somewhere out there?

or should i resign myself to keeping my distance from any radical activity for life?


PROOF OF ARAS ATTACKING ANARCHISTS! THE REPORT FROM LIBERTARIAN ANARCHIST TEAM!


Weekly Discussion Thread for Radical Women

*Radical women can talk about whatever they want in here. Suggestions; chill & relax, radical trans women, anarchafeminism, news and current events, books, entertainment*

Men are asked not to post in Radical Women Wednesday threads.

Radical Women Wednesday

Weekly Discussion Thread for Radical Women

Radical women can talk about whatever they want in here. Suggestions; chill &amp; relax, radical trans women, anarchafeminism, news and current events, books, entertainment

Men are asked not to post in Radical Women Wednesday threads.


Protesting Safely

Got this from r/TheDollop podcast. A podcast I recommend!

Protesting Safely


Downtrodden Metropolis - a poem about the Capitalist City


this is a joke. i like dismantling the rules for communication and possibly abolishing grammar. but while i use the language for comprehension, this small modification often gives me somewhat a quirky and edgy feeling of resistance to the rules imposed by intellectual ELITES. i also turned off automatic capitalization on my keyboard for fun.

why is the letter "A" capitalized in anarchism? don't we all hate CAPITALISM?


Let the salting begin


Big high school protest from students across Los Angeles at city hall


Knowing our history can free us now (read)

The history of neurodivergence, psychiatry, and anti-psychiatry has a lot of powerful chapters. One of the dark ones is Aktion T4.

(First of all, if you're depressed then don't read this).

Aktion T4 was a project the Nazi Party started before WW2. It consisted of rounding up and k*lling people in asylums who had mental disorders.

It was their trial of the Holocaust, but out of all of the topics taught about the Holocaust Aktion T4 is the least known, and psychologically traumatized / Mad people are the least taught-about victim groups.

When we look at Aktion T4, we can see that we are more than just people who got diagnosed: we're a minority group with a legitimate history.

We can use genocides like Aktion T4 to protest projects like MAID (Canada's euthanasia program for traumatized people) and Bridge To Home (the abduction of traumatized homeless people in New York City).

To learn more: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program

The history of neurodivergence, psychiatry, and anti-psychiatry has a lot of powerful chapters. One of the dark ones is Aktion T4.

(First of all, if you&#39;re depressed then don&#39;t read this).

Aktion T4 was a project the Nazi Party started before WW2. It consisted of rounding up and k*lling people in asylums who had mental disorders.

It was their trial of the Holocaust, but out of all of the topics taught about the Holocaust Aktion T4 is the least known, and psychologically traumatized / Mad people are the least taught-about victim groups.

When we look at Aktion T4, we can see that we are more than just people who got diagnosed: we&#39;re a minority group with a legitimate history.

We can use genocides like Aktion T4 to protest projects like MAID (Canada&#39;s euthanasia program for traumatized people) and Bridge To Home (the abduction of traumatized homeless people in New York City).

To learn more: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program


I made a video about anarchism in toki pona!

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Aaron or LillyAnarKitty? The Complicated Identity of Aaron Bushnell


Are there any places in the world today similar to the former Spanish International Brigades, where anarchists from other countries join as volunteers? I tried looking into Rojava but couldn't find any contact information. Comrades, do you know anything? If possible, please DM me. I am an anarchist from mainland China

Are there any places in the world today similar to the former Spanish International Brigades, where anarchists from other countries join as volunteers? I tried looking into Rojava but couldn&#39;t find any contact information. Comrades, do you know anything? If possible, please DM me. I am an anarchist from mainland China


As refreshing as it’s been to witness a conscientious surge, be mindful of how you let one another define class war. There’s been an abundance of those who are newly radicalized, ready to become revolutionaries. Rightfully so, outrage has the masses standing on business. Those who’ve been rooted should feel a responsibility to guide. Yes, there will be waves of people on the frontlines, but does it prove efficient that be your “station”?

I don’t mean for the above to sound condescending.   Instead, a genuine plea that if you feel involved, please consider your stance. We’ve long fought the rise of this becoming; many groups formed in unison. Yet, they still inflate themselves with non-existing power, desecrating all voices unaligned, whether it be as a whisper or a gaggle. The organizing took place when your core values either aligned with or urged against this chauvinistic bullshit. Throughout the era’s, the fight has taken place. Strategizing is the only way we’ll overcome this.

It’s as though we’ve become so desensitized to headlines bold with “unprecedented” that we’re now ready to die for change. Don’t allow “martyr” to become hot press. Regardless of what radicalized you, do not effortlessly let radicalization become the end of you. That fight you felt is survival for all. How quickly we’ll be eradicated, charging forward prepared to die if needed. No, prepare to stand your ground at all costs. Those costs being any means to protect and persevere. Ironically, we are the heritage foundation. We are in need of protecting history, arts, architecture, science, theologies, and literature. Enforcing the removal of false narratives and the rhetoric whitewashing of it all. Return culture and protect those indigenous to the practices. Understand economics and political science but refuse contributions of that knowledge to the undeserving. Make an example of how infrastructure does not equate to industrialism nor capitalism. Prove that this is all possible while prioritizing humanity.

The ideal objective is to dismantle and discard crony capitalism, kleptocracy, patriarchs, oligarchs, fascism, elitism, misogyny, racism, police state - I mean fuck, for a crew to complain that LGTBQ was too long, they’ve sure pulled their fair share of the alphabet. To go against such will be tedious. An argument could be made from my “abolish all government” babes. Ashes too can be viewed as tiny little fragments remaining of a system now applied to the future as nothing more than a goddamn example. Just remember to go after the throats of the oppressors, not the oppressed, and be wise enough to know the difference. Still a complete cog in the system seeking fair justice and liberty for all with perhaps a sprinkle of order? You’ll need to be careful with the disassembling as you’re looking to reconstruct. All sides should remain open to the idea of direct democracy on some scale.

This thought became urgent to share when topics regarding 2/5 protests became large-scale. Some of the more linear thought processes I’ve witnessed debate whether it is a trap or not. The argument being that it doesn’t matter; solidarity is key. I completely agree that solidarity is key and should be the fundamental. You can protest in solidarity many ways. Before you stand in front of your capital,
Buildings ask who is defenseless and vulnerable in the neighborhood over. Did we take advice on protecting ourselves from a surveillance state while accidentally whistleblowing an ally? Did we become irrational from fear? Yes, the masses need to be in the streets standing up for what’s right, but how many of us need to be in front of a building full of government officials that have done absolutely nothing aside from proving they can’t read your signs nor hear your words? To most of them, you’re fanatical. Take your march to the border, to neighborhoods of culture and diversity, to domestic violence shelters where they are already being attacked. Stay true to your pacifist nature if needed by supporting local communities. Read books to the children scared, bring groceries to the families hiding, be ready to stand for them while strengthening them. Embrace spatial awareness and you’d be shocked at the many ways you fight. I fear while we are so focused on what will come of Wednesday, they will be going after our most vulnerable. What a waste it would be, to finally have opened your eyes to the reality, only to succumb to its wrath.

STRATEGIZE!


What you are reading, watching, or listening to? Or how far have you gotten in your chosen selection since last week?

What Are You Reading/Book Club Tuesday


Even though I truly believe in this cause there is something that deeply disturbs me when showing up to an organisation or event and people are just there nodding their heads in agreement. I feel like I am missing something and even if I agree with what they are saying I feel myself being repulsed by the whole system.

I feel like there needs to be some room for open discussions and thoughts and ideas to come through rather than one spewing their beliefs.

Is there anyone else that has gotten these vibes and worked through them? Should I be trying to quiet this voice? I'm just so confused by it all.

Herd Mentality

Even though I truly believe in this cause there is something that deeply disturbs me when showing up to an organisation or event and people are just there nodding their heads in agreement. I feel like I am missing something and even if I agree with what they are saying I feel myself being repulsed by the whole system.

I feel like there needs to be some room for open discussions and thoughts and ideas to come through rather than one spewing their beliefs.

Is there anyone else that has gotten these vibes and worked through them? Should I be trying to quiet this voice? I&#39;m just so confused by it all.


With the tension rising in... pretty much anywhere, and having seen some threads in here about protests, I thought we could do a little thread about safety tips for protests. I'll start by contributing what I know and what I lived, and everyone can add stuff from their own experiences. Maybe we'll disagree on some points, but it's all for giving advices to people to make sure they stay safe. (Note: Also any advices here not encouraging anyone to talk about illegal stuff online, because those advices are about \*safety\* and talking about illegal stuff online definitely isn't safe.)

I'm not the guy with the most experience doing radical stuff during protest. But I'll still share what I have. It's mostly about "What to do if you don't want to get arrested", and mostly rely on being able to avoid getting stuck in complicated situations in the first place.

1:
In 2012 (student strike in Québec), I was arrested not following a protest, but 3 months after it, because our local police had nothing else to do (Small rural city), and they wanted to file who were among the students of that specific protest in which we had blocked an exit from a public park after the prime minister came there. I wasn't even among the most radical people there at the time. I was just standing next to them, and cops happened to take my picture. It's part of what radicalized me, really. I had only stopped a guy from falling because he had been shoved by the police, and I myself tried to avoid contact with police as much as possible.

\>So yeah, avoid getting close to the police because even if they don't touch you, even if you're not doing anything specifically illegal, they can find ways to arrest you if they want. Be aware of any officer further back who might be filming or taking pictures. If you spot them, (and don't want to be arrested), move away from the hot spots

2:

In 2015, I went to a protest in Montreal. It was taking place just after the anarchist bookfair, and was part of the wave of student protest against austerity measures. I was at the anarchist bookstore, and saw around 50 people marching so I just joined them. I had shirts in my bag, and ski goggles, just in case.
They went to up to a street, I don't remember which, I don't know Montreal enough. It was a pedestrian street for the summer, but the cops suddenly drove in with minivans, just a bit faster than the retreating protesters were running. When the protesters where moving to the sides, the minivan stopped. Cops in riot gear got out of the minivans and grabbed the students that just got out of the vans' path. I had already moved to the sides as soon as the vans had showed up. There were not enough people to go and take them back.

\> Don't stay in the streets if the protest can't hold it anymore (When you don't have the critical mass anymore). Move to the sides and keep your distance.  You can only hold a spot against the police if there are many, many more of you than there are of them, and you still need good protective equipment to do so, and it won't last forever.

3:

A bit later, during the same protest, I followed a group of Cégep students to the front of their college. Someone came and said that many of their friends were stuck in a kettle and they wanted to do something about it. I didn't want my picture taken again, so I used the shirts and ski google to become part of the black-bloc.

But while I was following the group, we came to an intersection. The street to the left was flanked by cops. So I stayed on the right side of the group. Seeing that all the people I was with were turning left between two rows of cops, I tried to say something, but quickly just left the protest and hid behind some brick pillar in front of a commerce entrance. When looking at the street, the cops had wheeled behind the small group I was with. They were now being kettled. I turned around the city block a while, found another protester that had been separated. We left the spot, and I had them check out while I was finding an isolated spot to remove my black shirts and goggles.

Under my t-shirt, I had a white, XVIIIth century style shirt and coat whose sleeves I had rolled up under the t-shirt. The person I was with told be: "You don't look like a protester". That was the point.

\>Learn to recognize the signs of a kettle. Have disposable clothes if you want to conceal your identity. Avoid profiling by not looking like someone who would go to protests  (I know that last one is entirely dependant on privilege, but do your best)

4:

A few months earlier, we had taken part in a protest in winter in my rural homecity. I had a big red and black flag. I was masked, but my clothes were very noticeable. Me and my friend of the time did the protest, nothing illegal, but we still slowed traffic which is such a crime in the eyes of rural people... Coming back from the protest, we waited at our University. After a little while, we left, passed through a little wood to my appartment, but in the street of my appartment, we got stopped by police who questionned us, illegally asked us for our names and adress saying that IF we didn't comply we would be arrested. Of course they wanted our names so they would have files on the local protestors because we're a small city and there are not a lot of us out there.

\>This is the counter-example to the last trick. A mask won't save you if your clothes are still recognizable and if you don't throw away your disguise in a spot that won't be seen. Also, scout ahead, even - or should I say - ESPECIALLY after the protest. Protests ends, but there are cops working around the clock and if they want to harass protestors, they can just wait for the protest to end and target people when they go back home, isolated and vulnerable.

5:
In 2017, there were protests organized by racist group "La Meute" (wolf-pack) in Québec city. A bunch of reactionnary protesting against immigration. It was around the end of november, IIRC. There was a counter-protest organized by different leftwing organizations at the same time.
I went there with a few friends from my small city, a 2 hour car ride away.

I was dressed with a good looking coat, something someone "professional" would wear. I walked here and there to try and scout things a bit. I went all the way up to the rightwing protest, and then came back down to our counter-protest. When I arrived, there was already a police line pushing on counter-protestors, many of which had white traces of maalox in their face to treat the pepper spray. I was behind the police line, they were on my right. I walked up to the foot of the Québec wall near the parliament.

I turned right in the little park that was empty and went back toward the parliament and the counter-protestors. A bit further back, a new police line was forming, flanking the more peaceful parts of the protest.
I feigned innocence and asked the police to pass. They allowed me to do so.
I went back into the protest and warned people that a kettle was forming up. Many more liberal counter-protestors told me that it wouldn't happen there.
I found the people I came to Québec with, and told them it was time to leave.

The kettle was forming up. Near the parliament, there is a medieval-like wall in Québec, with a big door for the cars to pass through, and smaller doors on the sidewalks. A policeman with a dog was standing there. We were far enough from the rest of the protest that we didn't look like part of it.
A policeman on the wall told another one that we could go through. The one with the dog said we couldn't. So I told him: "Sorry sir, but your colleague on the wall told us to go. Can we know which one we must listen to first?" He told us "Okay you can go".
We went and reunited with other people of our region in a small cafe, waited an hour and then left Québec city.

We learned later that a few of our friends from Montreal, and one of our guy from our city, were arrested a bit further away, they were still forming a black bloc.

\>Once again, if you don't have the critical mass, leave. If you see cops forming new lines on the sides of a protest, leave. Be able to become unnoticeable. Blend yourself in the crowd of ordinary people just walking by. People will say to stay in group.
This is only good when standing your ground, and this can only be done if you're in numerical superiority.
Sooner or later, the protest will scatter and cops will start targeting those smaller groups going home. Or the protest will just be kettled.

You need to know when it's starting to happen to be able to scatter and leave just before that. I'd even recommend people who decide to organize protests to adopt a "guerilla" style of protests: Do the protests with ordinary-looking people scouting ahead. At the first sign of cops, signal, scatter, and reconvene at another point.

Safety tips for protests

With the tension rising in... pretty much anywhere, and having seen some threads in here about protests, I thought we could do a little thread about safety tips for protests. I&#39;ll start by contributing what I know and what I lived, and everyone can add stuff from their own experiences. Maybe we&#39;ll disagree on some points, but it&#39;s all for giving advices to people to make sure they stay safe. (Note: Also any advices here not encouraging anyone to talk about illegal stuff online, because those advices are about *safety* and talking about illegal stuff online definitely isn&#39;t safe.)

I&#39;m not the guy with the most experience doing radical stuff during protest. But I&#39;ll still share what I have. It&#39;s mostly about &quot;What to do if you don&#39;t want to get arrested&quot;, and mostly rely on being able to avoid getting stuck in complicated situations in the first place.

1:

In 2012 (student strike in Québec), I was arrested not following a protest, but 3 months after it, because our local police had nothing else to do (Small rural city), and they wanted to file who were among the students of that specific protest in which we had blocked an exit from a public park after the prime minister came there. I wasn&#39;t even among the most radical people there at the time. I was just standing next to them, and cops happened to take my picture. It&#39;s part of what radicalized me, really. I had only stopped a guy from falling because he had been shoved by the police, and I myself tried to avoid contact with police as much as possible.

&gt;So yeah, avoid getting close to the police because even if they don&#39;t touch you, even if you&#39;re not doing anything specifically illegal, they can find ways to arrest you if they want. Be aware of any officer further back who might be filming or taking pictures. If you spot them, (and don&#39;t want to be arrested), move away from the hot spots

2:

In 2015, I went to a protest in Montreal. It was taking place just after the anarchist bookfair, and was part of the wave of student protest against austerity measures. I was at the anarchist bookstore, and saw around 50 people marching so I just joined them. I had shirts in my bag, and ski goggles, just in case.

They went to up to a street, I don&#39;t remember which, I don&#39;t know Montreal enough. It was a pedestrian street for the summer, but the cops suddenly drove in with minivans, just a bit faster than the retreating protesters were running. When the protesters where moving to the sides, the minivan stopped. Cops in riot gear got out of the minivans and grabbed the students that just got out of the vans&#39; path. I had already moved to the sides as soon as the vans had showed up. There were not enough people to go and take them back.

&gt; Don&#39;t stay in the streets if the protest can&#39;t hold it anymore (When you don&#39;t have the critical mass anymore). Move to the sides and keep your distance.  You can only hold a spot against the police if there are many, many more of you than there are of them, and you still need good protective equipment to do so, and it won&#39;t last forever.

3:

A bit later, during the same protest, I followed a group of Cégep students to the front of their college. Someone came and said that many of their friends were stuck in a kettle and they wanted to do something about it. I didn&#39;t want my picture taken again, so I used the shirts and ski google to become part of the black-bloc.

But while I was following the group, we came to an intersection. The street to the left was flanked by cops. So I stayed on the right side of the group. Seeing that all the people I was with were turning left between two rows of cops, I tried to say something, but quickly just left the protest and hid behind some brick pillar in front of a commerce entrance. When looking at the street, the cops had wheeled behind the small group I was with. They were now being kettled. I turned around the city block a while, found another protester that had been separated. We left the spot, and I had them check out while I was finding an isolated spot to remove my black shirts and goggles.

Under my t-shirt, I had a white, XVIIIth century style shirt and coat whose sleeves I had rolled up under the t-shirt. The person I was with told be: &quot;You don&#39;t look like a protester&quot;. That was the point.

&gt;Learn to recognize the signs of a kettle. Have disposable clothes if you want to conceal your identity. Avoid profiling by not looking like someone who would go to protests  (I know that last one is entirely dependant on privilege, but do your best)

4:

A few months earlier, we had taken part in a protest in winter in my rural homecity. I had a big red and black flag. I was masked, but my clothes were very noticeable. Me and my friend of the time did the protest, nothing illegal, but we still slowed traffic which is such a crime in the eyes of rural people... Coming back from the protest, we waited at our University. After a little while, we left, passed through a little wood to my appartment, but in the street of my appartment, we got stopped by police who questionned us, illegally asked us for our names and adress saying that IF we didn&#39;t comply we would be arrested. Of course they wanted our names so they would have files on the local protestors because we&#39;re a small city and there are not a lot of us out there.

&gt;This is the counter-example to the last trick. A mask won&#39;t save you if your clothes are still recognizable and if you don&#39;t throw away your disguise in a spot that won&#39;t be seen. Also, scout ahead, even - or should I say - ESPECIALLY after the protest. Protests ends, but there are cops working around the clock and if they want to harass protestors, they can just wait for the protest to end and target people when they go back home, isolated and vulnerable.

5:

In 2017, there were protests organized by racist group &quot;La Meute&quot; (wolf-pack) in Québec city. A bunch of reactionnary protesting against immigration. It was around the end of november, IIRC. There was a counter-protest organized by different leftwing organizations at the same time.

I went there with a few friends from my small city, a 2 hour car ride away.

I was dressed with a good looking coat, something someone &quot;professional&quot; would wear. I walked here and there to try and scout things a bit. I went all the way up to the rightwing protest, and then came back down to our counter-protest. When I arrived, there was already a police line pushing on counter-protestors, many of which had white traces of maalox in their face to treat the pepper spray. I was behind the police line, they were on my right. I walked up to the foot of the Québec wall near the parliament.

I turned right in the little park that was empty and went back toward the parliament and the counter-protestors. A bit further back, a new police line was forming, flanking the more peaceful parts of the protest.

I feigned innocence and asked the police to pass. They allowed me to do so.

I went back into the protest and warned people that a kettle was forming up. Many more liberal counter-protestors told me that it wouldn&#39;t happen there.

I found the people I came to Québec with, and told them it was time to leave.

The kettle was forming up. Near the parliament, there is a medieval-like wall in Québec, with a big door for the cars to pass through, and smaller doors on the sidewalks. A policeman with a dog was standing there. We were far enough from the rest of the protest that we didn&#39;t look like part of it.

A policeman on the wall told another one that we could go through. The one with the dog said we couldn&#39;t. So I told him: &quot;Sorry sir, but your colleague on the wall told us to go. Can we know which one we must listen to first?&quot; He told us &quot;Okay you can go&quot;.

We went and reunited with other people of our region in a small cafe, waited an hour and then left Québec city.

We learned later that a few of our friends from Montreal, and one of our guy from our city, were arrested a bit further away, they were still forming a black bloc.

&gt;Once again, if you don&#39;t have the critical mass, leave. If you see cops forming new lines on the sides of a protest, leave. Be able to become unnoticeable. Blend yourself in the crowd of ordinary people just walking by. People will say to stay in group.

This is only good when standing your ground, and this can only be done if you&#39;re in numerical superiority.

Sooner or later, the protest will scatter and cops will start targeting those smaller groups going home. Or the protest will just be kettled.

You need to know when it&#39;s starting to happen to be able to scatter and leave just before that. I&#39;d even recommend people who decide to organize protests to adopt a &quot;guerilla&quot; style of protests: Do the protests with ordinary-looking people scouting ahead. At the first sign of cops, signal, scatter, and reconvene at another point.


All Against Oppressions

All Against Oppressions


[PDF] Predatory Cities by Bernadette Atuahene - Deprived "urban areas where public officials systematically [and illegally] take property from residents" to bolster public funds

Predatory Cities by Bernadette Atuahene. Deprived "urban areas where public officials
systematically [and illegally] take property from residents" to bolster public funds


Anarchism in America (1983 Documentary)

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Anarchism in America (1983 Documentary)