#insurrectionism

[o-the-mts]

Kind of fascinating how the media cycle has already forgotten about Thomas Crooks. Like, if Crooks were Black or Muslim or socialist, pictures of him would be everywhere as the "face of evil." But just like the Nashville bomber, he's a white rightwing dude so it's immediate amnesia.

[zolamtl]

Took the time to re-edit the colouring book in a third volume, compiling most of my pages from vol1 and vol2 and a few new illustrations. The book will be available tat Kersplebedeb tables and is available to preorder online live! (itll help me cover printing costs, thanks!:))

[apocalyptic-mailman]

Tbh I wouldn't say I'm totally opposed to mass-movement organizing, and I wouldn't say it's made no gains in the past, but it's certainly not the best form of organizing anymore. It's slow, it's alienating, it's not conducive to diversity of tactics, it's easily-infiltrated, and it's very susceptible to recuperation. There's definitely more effective and more efficient ways for us to expend our energy.

[zolamtl]

Been working more on poster designs lately. This one comes out of my reflections about what the fuck am I doing. I've been wondering a lot lately, why am I obsessed with rioters again? What's in it that I believe so much in? Inspired by my friend Swarm and Dasic Fernandez's art, along with the famous Durruti quote, this is where my questions brought me for now, an answer directed towards the future we long for

«We are not in the least afraid of ruins... For we carry a new world, here in our hearts»

#insurrecto4ever

[apocalyptic-mailman]

Spreading signals of disorder accomplishes a number of things. It increases our tactical strength, as we hone a practice of vandalism, property destruction, public occupation, and rowdiness. It interrupts the narrative of social peace, and creates the indisputable fact of people opposed to the present system and fighting against it. It means the reason for this fight, the anarchist critiques, have to be taken more seriously because they already exist in the streets. In this way, the attacks create the struggle as a fact in a way that would otherwise only be possible in times of greater social upheaval and movement. To have this effect, the signals of disorder need to explicitly link themselves to a recognizable social practice, one that would otherwise be ignored or chopped up into disconnected eccentricities of lifestyle. People in the neighborhood must know that the graffiti and broken windows are the doing of “the anarchists” or some other group that has a public existence, because signals of disorder that can be isolated as phenomena of urban white noise can be legitimately and popularly policed with techniques reserved for inanimate objects and aesthetic aberrations; they would rub us off the streets with the same chemical rigor as they clean graffiti off the walls. ... ...Whenever we can break their little laws with impunity, we show that the State is weak. When advertising is defaced and public space is liberated, we show that capitalism is not absolute.

War in the Streets: Tactical Lessons from the Global Civil War, 2009-2016

[apocalyptic-mailman]

We as anarchists need to start getting organized. Like, a lot of us are involved in various disparate groups (FNB, antifa, a local housing collective, a clinic or safe injection site, a DIY space, Black Rose, the IWW, maybe a left-wing gun club), but I feel like at this point we really need to coalesce into a more cohesive group. We need to federate under one name, even as our groups maintain their autonomy and new ones spring up, if we’re going to present an effective force for anarchism.

Like, the anarchists in Spain were all CNT-FAI, the anarchists in Ukraine were all Black Army, the anarchists in Chiapas were all EZLN, and the anarchists in Rojava are all YPG. We (western anarchists) need to be organizing similarly.

[apocalyptic-mailman]

It's easy. You can do it by yourself, or with a bunch of trusted comrades. You don't need to have great means or technical competence. Capital is vulnerable, if you are determined to act.

Alfredo M. Bonanno

[zolamtl]

brick by brick take down the state