Not Just Free Speech, but Freedom Itself by CrimethInc Ex-Workers Collective / Analysis Maybe you missed this, but you’re not in a dialogue. Your views are beside the point. Argue all you want—your adversaries are glad to see you waste your breath. Better yet if you protest: they’d […]
‘Both Sides’ Arguments Reinforce Right Wing Violence by Derek Scarlino / Love and Rage The tactic of escalation in accordance with civil disobedience, even the nonviolent kind, is predicated on dehumanization. The goal of direct action such as sit-ins, strikes, occupations, and other tactics, is highlighting the disregard […]
by Romina Akemi/Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation On May 8, 2017 the LA-based feminist collective Intersectionality NOW organized an event at the Women’s Center for Creative Work titled Feminists Against Capitalism. The panel participants included Miranda Sklaroff from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Left Caucus, […]
by It’s Going Down Here at IGD we talk a lot about strategy, about building our capacity, and also about growing as a material force within our communities. One thing we haven’t talked a lot about however is the need for more people to step up to the plate and […]
by Black Rose Anarchist Federation We members of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee (BRRN-RSSC) in the strongest terms condemn the Bashar al-Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies for their recent conquest of Eastern Aleppo. This brutal defeat of the Aleppo rebels, who were both […]
Originally published by It’s Going Down On Wednesday, December 7th at Texas A & M University, as FBI agents monitored hundreds of protesters from the tops of roofs, heavily armed riot police clashed with demonstrators bent on disrupting and shutting down an event organized by Preston Wiginton, a 51 […]
by Joris Leverink/ROAR Magazine Illustrations, Mirko Rastić The idea of the commune has animated the radical imagination of rebels and revolutionaries for centuries. Examples of pre-capitalist societies characterized by communal ways of living were studied by radical theorists like Marx and Kropotkin, who did not necessarily consider these societies […]
by Wayne Price/Anarcho-Syndicalist Review In recent decades, there have been efforts to “rehabilitate” the U.S. Communist Party (CP) as an historical model for the Left. Anti-authoritarian socialists and anarchists find this troubling. While the CP did some good things it also did some very bad things. A brief […]
by Opal Tometi/ROAR Magazine In 1992, the world witnessed African American Rodney King being brutally beaten by Los Angeles policemen. In 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Black immigrant from Guinea, was shot 19 times by five New York City policemen outside his apartment. Sean Bell was shot to […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage It doesn’t take much. A Black person expresses support for some attribute of Blackness or solidarity with the unique struggles of Blacks in the US and white people come from all directions with accusations of racism. The arguments are lazy, reactionary and represent […]
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