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Required Reading For Anarchism

Here is a list of mandatory texts for all anarchists.

Witnesses say guards choked Geraldo Lunas Campos to death. Now a government report says evidence is missing.

On this day, 27 June 1905, the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in Chicago, Illinois. One of the first multiracial unions in the US, the IWW advocated that all workers unite into one big union, taking control of society and abolishing capitalism. Its founding conference lasted from June 27 to July 8, and was attended by over 200 workers, including legendary labour organisers like Mother Jones, 'Big' Bill Haywood and leading Black anarchist, Lucy Parsons. It organised large swathes of previously unorganised workers in the US, and pioneered many innovative new types of industrial action like slowdowns and sabotage. Parsons, at its founding convention, delivered a speech arguing for sit-in strikes, which would sweep the US 30 years later, declaring: "My conception of the strike of the future is not to strike and go out and starve, but to strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production." The IWW won big improvements for hundreds of thousands of workers, and for its troubles faced brutal repression from employers, with many organisers beaten, jailed and murdered. It also spread to other countries, including Chile, Australia and South Africa. The union still exists today, although much smaller than it was, and its members are active in many organising projects. Learn more in our podcast series about the union: https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww

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If you're arguing with a Marxist-Leninist, I think it's a bit silly to claim that the USSR was imperialist—there is a particular understanding of that term within Leninism, and while there's no reason to give Lenin's definition precedence over any other, it remains the case that on a practical level if you accuse the Soviet Union of imperialism you will quickly find yourself enmeshed in pointless semantics. This is a waste of everyone's time, and the solution is to re-phrase your fact claims in less fraught language.

So let me say it this way: the Soviet Union maintained the territory conquered by the Russian Empire in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and elsewhere. The Soviet Union continued the forced settlement of nomadic groups, the Russification of minority peoples, and the environmental exploitation of land in conquered areas. They drained the Aral Sea to grow fucking cotton in Uzbekistan. And the USSR engaged in settler colonialism, continuing the displacement of indigenous populations in Siberia and Central Asia that started under the Russian Empire, and continuing the build up of largely ethnically-Russian industrial and population centers in the greater Russian east.

But, of course, none of this was lead by finance capital, you see. Can't be an empire if the empirializing isn't lead by finance capital. Obviously. Rookie mistake.

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"Visualize Industrial Collapse"

Graphic by Krime

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Cave temple, Burma, 2010

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South Asia is witnessing scorching heat waves, with temperatures in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India regularly surpassing 110 degrees Fahrenh

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jennifer cantwell, 2011

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“the recording is of a blackbird in my garden in the north of scotland. the idea of the piece is that it's a letter home from a migrated bird, telling the family of its new life and making the connection between the migrant and the homeland.” - jennifer cantwell

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The US carpet-bombed vast civilian areas, killing thousands of people. It was almost certainly a war crime.

And there is another misconception, one that Americans might not want to hear but that is important for understanding the hermit kingdom: Yes, much of its anti-Americanism is cynically manufactured as a propaganda tool, and yes, it is often based on lies. But no, it is not all lies. The US did in fact do something terrible, even evil to North Korea, and while that act does not explain, much less forgive, North Korea’s many abuses since, it is not totally irrelevant either.

That act was this: In the early 1950s, during the Korean War, the US dropped more bombs on North Korea than it had dropped in the entire Pacific theater during World War II. This carpet bombing, which included 32,000 tons of napalm, often deliberately targeted civilian as well as military targets, devastating the country far beyond what was necessary to fight the war. Whole cities were destroyed, with many thousands of innocent civilians killed and many more left homeless and hungry.

For Americans, the journalist Blaine Harden has written, this bombing was “perhaps the most forgotten part of a forgotten war,” even though it was almost certainly “a major war crime.” Yet it shows that North Korea’s hatred of America “is not all manufactured,” he wrote. “It is rooted in a fact-based narrative, one that North Korea obsessively remembers and the United States blithely forgets.”

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To begin, America forced a government with Rhee Syngman in charge to rule even though there was a People’s Republic of Korea that was willing to work with North as a unified effort to govern Korea together, despite Soviet-American division. Soviet Union supported the people’s committee that would be the Northern representative of People’s Republic of Korea, but America flatly rejected this and violently repressed the People’s Republic. America manufactured the Korean War and then bombed Koreans for fighting a war that another country manufactured on their soil.

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76 years today since the start of the korean war

lol looks like minisoc had to remake