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Anarcho-communism is a contradiction, so why believe it? -_-

Don’t worry anon, we have lots of useful reading material and introductions to anarcho-communism if you’re unfamiliar with it!

Anarchist communism - an introduction (libcom)

Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles, by Pëtr Kropotkin

What is Anarchist Communism? by Wayne Price

What Is Communist Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman

The liberation of society from the state: What is communist anarchism? by Erich Mühsam

We hope that helps!

- J.

jackawful

Hey y'all, I don't tend to use this blog for donation posts even when I myself am financially struggling, but this New Year's Eve I have a cause that is very, very close to my heart that I want to share with you.

I would like to urge those of you who can to financially support the Antifascist Internationalist Front Myanmar.

When the military took over Myanmar's government, protestors took to the streets in 2021. The government started killing people. And the people started shooting back. Former student protesters have largely fled to the jungle to form coalitions with existing local militias to oppose the military dictatorship. This movement recieved some attention in small leftist outlets in 2021 and 2022 for their use of 3D printed firearms, but overall, international support has been hard to drum up and it seems most westerners have forgotten about this civil war entirely.

I, and many other anarchists in the imperial core, saw ourselves in the young protesters in Myanmar. Particularly for those of us in the US, it was a striking picture of what might have happened if our 2020 uprising and the attempted J6 coup had gone slightly differently. The military dictatorship tortures those it captures, including by use of sexual violence, and uses indiscriminate airstrikes on civilian areas, resulting in horrific death and displacement.

The AIF is a group of internationalist fighters collaborating with local pro-democracy forces to fight the military dictatorship in Chin State. In addition to fighting on the frontlines themselves, they provide trainings to local people, with an emphasis on gender equality amongst their trainees. Fighters in the AIF are a mix of locals and internationalists from other countries: people who looked at the uprising in 2021, empathized with student fighters, and decided to step in and help - by leaving their homes and going to fight alongside the people of Myanmar themselves. You can learn more about their experiences here:

Anti-Fascist Perspectives On Revolutionary Struggle In Myanmar: Dispatches from the Antifascist Internationalist Front (zine)

Lessons From The Hills (zine)

Aung Ya Mie: Women's Struggle & Internationalism (The Dugout Podcast)

Azad - Myanmar Antifascist Internationalist Front (The Tiger Bloc Podcast)

The Western Volunteers Fighting In Myanmar (Popular Front Podcast)

Recently, their drone program has successfully destroyed supplies and killed multiple fascist military commanders. They need your help with funding so that they can continue the fight.

You can donate directly to the AIF here:

@AIFMYANMAR on venmo & paypal

$AIFMYANMAR on cashapp

Support AIFMyanmar

@antifainternational @kropotkindersurprise @anarchblr @anarchistmemedistro @probablyasocialecologist @all-things-are-nothing-to-me @noneedtofearorhope @natalieironside @sophie-frm-mars

Donald Trump has once again ascended to the Presidency. Below we lay out our recommendations for how to respond.

The “choice” of this election, like all elections, presented us with no choice at all: one program of open reaction and the other friendly-faced genocide. Still, a Trump victory was far from inevitable. Presented with an opportunity to overhaul their platform, the Democratic Party instead swapped one stand-in for another without any significant change in position. This was most glaring in Biden and later Harris’s willingness to sacrifice the votes of Muslim and Arab Americans by refusing to even slow—let alone stop—US facilitation of Israel’s genocidal wars in Gaza and Lebanon. But other factors prevailed too, including the Democrats’ failure to articulate anything resembling a plan to address compounding crises around profit hungry price-gouging, the cost of living, housing, bodily autonomy, or healthcare. It is impossible now to argue that Trump is an aberration. He is as American as apple pie, a product of the system of domination that structures our society. If we are to confront a second Trump administration, we must also confront this system of domination—a task that will require organization, bravery, and commitment. So here we are. While you might be feeling fear, anger, and despair right now, it’s not a time to back down. It’s time to step up.

crimethinc

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Body Armor

Protecting yourself against blows, batons, bullets, and more

https://cwc.im/bodyarmor

This guide reviews a wide range of protective gear, exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each so you can pick out what’s best for you.

On the night of November 13th we set fire to 6 Ernst Concrete trucks at 553 Seaboard Industrial Drive. Ernst is pouring the foundation for Cop City. This site, like so many others, is completely unguarded. Front-pouring cement mixing trucks have large rear engine compartments which can be accessed without opening any doors. We placed incendiary devices and kindling near the engine block, the fuel tank behind it, and the double rear tires. We encourage further experimentation with incindiary placement. There was a time when contractors were afraid to take on this project. If we can make the cost of the contract greater than the profit, they will drop it. Sneaking around at night is fun and burning shit is cool.

#cop city

by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – International Relations Committee (IRC) In this new, even more horrifying phase of the 75 year long occupation

In this new, even more horrifying phase of the 75 year long occupation of Palestine by Israel, it is important to give a platform to Palestinians struggling against ethnic cleansing.

Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN) reached out to Fauda, a small group centered in the West Bank that identifies itself as a Palestinian anarchist organization, to get their perspective on the current struggle. Fauda is a group that is new to us, and which we don’t have more information about beyond the interview presented here and what can be found in their public channels. Because of our own limited understanding of Fauda’s politics, strategy and activity, publishing this interview cannot be a complete endorsement of them. But we hope that this interview will be a step in creating more connections between revolutionaries in the US and the militant youth in Palestine, and more knowledge and understanding of each other.

Regardless of any similarities or differences in our politics, we believe that we need to be listening to the perspectives of militants on the ground resisting the violence of US-funded ethnic cleansing. We hope that this short interview can be a contribution to strengthening our own work here of undermining imperialism and settler-colonialism.

Other than edits for clarity across translation, the content of this interview is presented unaltered. We want to thank our Palestinian and Arabic-speaking friends for their help with conducting and translating this interview. We also want to extend our gratitude to the representative of Fauda who thoughtfully engaged with our questions during a moment of extreme uncertainty and violence.

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combaticon

Deleted all the stupid comments. Here’s some practical advice from a actual street medic who spent a chunk of 2020-2021 in jail for protesting:

1 never use plywood or anything so heavy/splinterable for signs or protest shields. Invest time in making a battlejacket, arm shields, and shin shields.

2 you cannot stop a police horse by pressing on its chest. Get out the way. I don’t care what that pink haired rich white kid on tiktok said. Those things are trained to bowl you over and trample you; get out the way.

3 if you wanna trash the cop shields and masks, mix sand, finely crushed (used up) light bulbs, and paint and fill heavy duty water balloons with them (or condoms). If you’re good, these projectiles can be launched from a t shirt gun. When the cops go to clean their gear, the sand and finely crushed glass gouges the face shields/riot shields beyond repair. They must now spend money and time getting new ones, and meanwhile, they’re in short supply for the next riot. Be warned that if you get caught with these (in the USA), they will likely try to charge you with domestic terrorism. Be smart.

4 cover your face and all distinctive tattoos/birthmarks/scars. Don’t post pictures of yourself or others at the protest. It’s not a block party. They arrested a woman who set a cop car on fire because they had a pic of her tattoo and traced her unique shirt from an etsy purchase. Read “In Defense Of Smashing Cameras” and tell photojornos to fuck off; break their cameras if you have to. They will get people killed

5 cops lie. If you get bagged (again us centric advice), keep your mouth shut. It’s “I invoke the 5th” and “I invoke my right to legal counsel” on repeat no matter what they say or do.

6 stop dumping milk in people’s fucking eyes for tear gas. Not only do this mark darker skinned people for arrest, it’s inviting infection. Use only sterile water or saline solution on the face and in the eyes. (Likewise do not dump baking soda solutions in people’s eyes; while this is good for skin below the neck that has been affected by tear gas, it can scratch the cornea of the eye)

7 DO NO HARM. if you are not trained in CPR, how to use a tourniquet, how to intubate someone, tal tal tal, don’t try. Never try to treat people above your skill level because you could seriously injure them instead.

8 riots are often outpourings of grief, anger, built up resentment at oppressive systems. They are truly the language of the unheard but the riot is not where the majority of the work happens; don’t wait until people are rioting in the streets of your town. Plug in to your local outreach; find something to get passionate about, whether it’s feeding people, gardening for sustainability, legal aid for immigrants, housing and rent relief, etc.

trans-axolotl

ID: [ a tweet from @innrwv that says: so happy police have gas mask….it be so tragic if people blinded them by filling water balloons with paint (especially paint designed to stick on plastic) forcing them to either take the mask off or have to leave cuhs they can’t see. id hate that so much.]

scottishcommune

On the point about cop horses, the way they dealt with them in the battle of cable street was witth hundreds of marbles

In May 2023, when Mauricio Garcia killed eight people in an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, it seemed like just another senseless mass murder s

At the end of the day, just like their white counterparts, neo-nazis who are not white will use violence to target a wide range of identities, including Jews, Muslims, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, feminists, and even people of color from other identities. Advocates of oppression can be found among all groups, and a multiracial neo-nazism already exists in reality—whether one can get their mind around it or not.

theexhaustedmermaid

So, Andre Dickens has lied about the total cost of cop city to the citizens of Atlanta.

Instead of the 30 million originally planned,

Cop City will instead cost tax payers 67 million!

That's more than twice as much as promised!

The majority of Atleans oppose cop city being built so that's tax payer money going to a unsupported cause without any vote.

If you are in Atlanta please attend the second public comment on June 5th. If not from Atlanta make sure this problem is heard about all across the world. With all the misogynic, transphobic, homophobic, and racist laws being pass right now, I fear that this facility will be used to further the fascism present in the U.S.

Not to mention the ecological disaster this will cause

These pictures were taken by drone only three months from each other. The sediment and runoff from this alone far exceeds the national limit and it will only get worse with the chemical runoff from the explosives that will be used.

I know the world's sort of gone to the dogs lately but please please please don't let this go out of the public eye. If the police force can't train then the police force can't enforce these laws. I have a list of petitions and funds pined on my blog as well as phone numbers to blast if you want something more direct.

Stop Cop City!!!

kusali

Copy City is going to train cops from all over the world including Australia and Israel, this is everyone's problem

Why wouldn't you want to own your own property?

“One percent of the people have eighty-two percent of the world’s annual wealth; eight men have the wealth of half the planet, etc. By positing communism as a source of deprivation, as an ideology based on taking away your property, anti-communism conceals the fact that you don’t actually have any property to begin with.” - Jodi Dean

Her propaganda canonized white supremacist murderers as "saints." She may have helped inspire a shooting at a gay bar. Now she's been unmasked.

The Terrorgram Collective is at the heart of the international neo-Nazi accelerationist movement, the most extreme and explicit iteration of white supremacism, which advocates deadly violence and other acts of destruction to hasten the collapse of society so that a whites-only world can be built in its place. The collective produces propaganda — audiobooks, videos and memes — that travels across the web in hopes of inspiring the next Christchurch shooter, who killed 51 Muslims in two mosques; the next El Paso shooter, who killed 22 Hispanic people in a Walmart; the next Pittsburgh shooter, who killed 11 Jews in a synagogue; and the next Buffalo shooter, who killed 10 Black Americans in a grocery store.

Evidence compiled by a coalition of anonymous antifascist researchers — including from SoCal Research Club, @WizardAFA, @SunlightAFA and @FashFreeNW — and published this week on Left Coast Right Watch, an investigative news outlet, reveals that one of the Terrorgram Collective’s main propagandists is Dallas Erin Humber, a 33-year-old woman living in Sacramento, California.

#Dallas Erin Humber #Terrorgram Collective #nazis #antifa

antifainternational

Speaking of Trump staffers that turned out to also be full-on pedophiles, guess which Trump re-election social media ad designer was in the same child porno ring as former Trump aide Adam Hageman? That's right, Ruben Verastigui, who you might recognize from his appearance at rallies for the anti-choice group Students for Life! Gee, what a coincidence that Trump - the man Q-Anon cultists believed was going to "round up" all the pedophiles - was actually employing two of them. When he wasn't partying with Jeffrey Epstein, of course. Ruben is #94#94 on our list of bigots/fascists/and far-right extremists who are also child predators. When fascists point to marginalized groups and try to paint them as groomers, it's #projection

anarchapella

There’s been a forest defender killed by the cops in Atlanta.

A Georgia State Patrol trooper was shot and a protestor was killed during a confrontation near the site of the controversial "Cop City" Atla

Folks are calling for otg support in Atlanta right now. If you can go, go asap.

anarchapella

New press release:

January 18, 2023 Today the police shot and killed a protester in Weelaunee Forest. Dozens of heavily armed DeKalb Police, Atlanta Police and

Novara Media joined grassroots investigators Red Flare on an anti-fascist winter walk as they trained a new generation of researchers in how to expose neo-Nazis.

While the EDL was racist, it was essentially a group of far-right reactionaries barking at Islamophobic dog-whistles. Patriotic Alternative (PA) is more explicitly concerned with ethnicity and has a more coherently racist politics. On a recent livestream, Collett congratulated a PA supporter who had just had a child for “welcoming more white babies in the world”. PA’s website includes a curriculum for parents who want to home-school their children with a more ethnocentric education.

In his 2022 northern conference speech, Collett said, “There is a phrase that many people in our movement love and it states that we must not just secure an existence for our people but we must also ensure a future for our children” – paraphrasing the 14 words which originated in the US neo-Nazi terrorist group The Order.

“PA is obviously Islamophobic, they’re antisemitic, they’re misogynist, they are ethno-nationalist – racist to the extreme. We refer to them as fascist and neo-Nazi and these are accurate descriptors of their politics,” says Sam.

PA appears to be a little more savvy, too. While the EDL was publicity hungry, it is largely thanks to the work of Red Flare and other anti-fascist researchers that we know much about PA at all.

While the group has done a number of attention-grabbing stunts, it operates somewhat secretively – often blurring the faces of activists on publicity photos – and focuses on community-building activities such as walks and gaming sessions.

These activities are aimed at bringing in new converts and “radicalising them, rather than throwing people straight into more or more explicitly political activity,” says Kit.

(A-Radio) A village to be evicted for coal - the defense of Luezerath in Germany

Dear all,

In this interview with an activist of Radio Aalpunk from Luezerath, we share background on the lignite mining of the RWE company and the importance of this village, information about self-organization and alternative living forms in Luezerath in the last two years, an overview of the last days, preparation and tactics now. Also, we talk about Radio Aalpunk, which is broadcasting from Luezerath, and its role during the eviction. Finally the comrade offers lots of ideas on how to support the struggle inside and outside of the village. Solidarity!

You'll find the audio (to listen online or download) here: https://www.aradio-berlin.org/the-defense-of-luezerath-in-germany/

Length: 15:21 min

You can find other English audios as well as all issues of the monthly anarchist show "Bad News" here: https://www.aradio-berlin.org/en/audios-2/.

Among our last audios you can find: * A talk with ABC Belarus about the situation around the war in Ukraine and lessons from the Belarus uprising 2020: https://www.aradio-berlin.org/fundraising-tour-abc-belarus-2022-war-in-ukraine-lessons-belarus-uprising/ * An interview with the Lieferando Workers' Collective about the struggles in Berlin's gig economy: https://www.aradio-berlin.org/the-lieferando-workers-collective-and-berlins-delivery-sector/ * An interview about the antifeminist attack on the Syrena squat in Warsaw: https://www.aradio-berlin.org/warsaw-the-attack-on-the-queer-feminist-syrena-squat-in-the-end-of-2021/ * An interview about ten years of Syrian revolution and anarchism in the Arab world: https://www.aradio-berlin.org/syria-the-forgotten-revolution/

Enjoy! And please feel free to share!

A-Radio Berlin

ps.: We are on Mastodon and Twitter! Please feel welcome to follow us at @aradio_berlin! ps2.: Please note: We are always looking for people willing to lend us a hand with transcriptions and translations from Spanish or German into English as well as people able to do voice recordings - in order to amplify our international radio work. You can contact us at aradio-berlin/at/riseup(dot)net!

#submission

wilwheaton

Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok) is a stochastic terrorist

(Copied from this outstanding post)

Libs of TikTok, the nom de plume of the extreme-right social media personality Chaya Raichik is a stochastic terrorist.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence/

Her hatespeech and relentless attacks on vulnerable minorities are directly responsible for such crimes as bomb threats on children’s hospitals, because they provide medically and psychiatrically appropriate, recognised and helpful aid to transgender children.

Because the stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik openly shares the names and addresses of for example teachers who display a pride flag, perpetuating and boosting the hateful and revolting lie that LGBTQ+ people visibly existing and acceptance of LGBTQ+ people is “grooming”, she is actively contributing to hate, threats and attacks against people.

With that the extreme-right and the stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik are enflaming a moral panic

against a minority by normalising the counterfactual narrative that the simple existence of this minority means children are under attack and are being sexually abused.

The extreme-right claims that the stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik is just “repeating information already publically shared”. This is a lie. Instead she heavily editorialises the content she posts and she is a major vector of hatespeech, propaganda, dehumanisation and efforts to illegalise the public existence of LGBTQ+ people.

The stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik and others of her kind such as but not limited to Matt Walsh and Tucker Carlson are directly responsible for the cowardly attack in Colorado Springs and other (attempted) attacks of a similar nature.

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