#syndicalist

[afool25]

Collectivize housing

Since landlords cant afford the property without the tenants, technically the collective of the tenants pay for the property and provide it for the landlord. So, housing should be collectivized into tenants unions.

[dailyanarchistposts]

We are currently in what might be called an era or period of pipelines. New ones are developing frequently and already built ones are undergoing expansion or twinning. There is no continent that is not traversed by pipelines, which spread like arteries/varicose veins across their terrain. And these pipeline networks are all slated to be expanded. Most pipelines on the planet are currently situated in North America and Central Asia and not coincidently these are the subject of much conflict and contestation. Highly contested pipelines in the North American context have not even been constructed yet, from the Northern Gateway development and Kinder Morgan twinning in British Columbia to the Keystone XL from Alberta to Houston to the Line 9 development across eastern Canada. Politics are waged on the basis of concern (about what a pipeline might result in) as much as, or more than, a basis of currently existing reality.

Much of the green movements, even some deeper green ones, pursue a politics of publicity, a politics of PR, which is largely the terrain of capital. The pursuit in such politics is positive public opinion. This differs greatly from a politics of sabotage (though sabotage must be properly contextualized and explained publicly). A politics of sabotage creates an intolerable situation that requires a positive resolution.

The flows of energy economies are subject to interruptions. This is done by business for the manipulation of prices, for example. But these flows can be interrupted for other uses by workers and/or their communities. For syndicalists, sabotage has typically referred to withdrawal of efficiency by workers. This brief commentary provides initial thoughts for a discussion of a politics of sabotage against pipelines and oil flows. Sabotage, from a green syndicalist perspective, poses direct challenges to capital flows and an impetus for rethinking green politics in the age of extreme energy.

[pookapine]

Art & Labour

Thoughts:

The creation of art is labour in itself. It is the intersection of both mental and physical work, first requiring the creation of the mental image before the actual piece is birthed. Every single piece of art is the result of the artist toiling away at their work in the hopes of reaching some kind of satisfactory endpoint. Artists often have little to no success when it comes to their extensive efforts, due to a volatile and highly competitive market, where corporations dominate over independent auteurs. Being an artist under capitalism usually means financial instability and insecurity. You are not always fairly paid for your labour and companies find much more success and have way more money to spend and earn. Other than some creatives that make it big and become millionaires and such, most artists will never see this kind of success and will have to do the work they enjoy with no monetary achievements.

The process of labour is art in itself. Labourers also toil away at their own creations, yet the perception is different. Their endpoint is a commodity that should come to serve somebody. I would argue that the process of creation is what makes art, it is the human effort behind the product. I would say the buildings in my city, the cars roaming the streets and every other product of effort is a tapestry of the millions of unidentified hands that toiled for the comfort of people and their own security. Every single man-made object is a piece of art simply because of the effort that went into it from people we will never know by name. But you've passed them in the street, or maybe talked with them at family dinner. It is the labourers who build our society, and it is the labourers who, like artists, will often get the short end of the stick. What sense does it make for bosses to get more money just for managing the people that do all the work?

Art & Labour are linked and inseparable, from both sides. You can't have one without the other. Process and Symbolism: I decided to have the background be FF0000 in RGB, or the purest red possible according to the sliders of paint.net. This flag draws heavy inspiration from already existing leftist and working class imagery. For example, red is widely associated with with leftism as a representation of the blood spilled by the working class. I wanted the red to be the purest red imaginable, very vibrant and striking.

000000, or the blackest black, compliments the red very nicely. I added black as a symbol of anarchism. When red and black are combined they usually signal anarcho-communism, but I want this flag to be useable by any movement that advocates and fights for the working class. This flag is not explicitly anarcho-communist, the red of the working class and the black of anarchy represent the freedom of the working class and do not endorse any specific ideology besides a general libertarian leftism. So if freedom and the working class are what you fight for, this flag is for you, no matter what the specific label may be.

The whitest white, or FFFFFF, is the colour of the anarchist A. I used a common public domain punk-style A, but I changed the formerly diagonal line to be horizontal instead. This was done to distinguish the A and make it less recognizable for people who have a keen eye for the specific punk-style A. On its own, the A represents anarchy, but in this flag it's meant to show the freedom of the working class and that they belong to no state. The reason I made it white is to represent pacifism. If you read any of my other polpookaposts, you might know how I feel about civilian casualties, unconditionally. This doesn't mean that I support pacifism blindly. Once all peaceful means have been thoroughly exhausted, pacifism is no longer an option. I kept it in the flag anyway to show that the working class is non-violent unless forced, and it contrasts nicely with the other colours.

The hydra of hands represents the collective character of the working class. The hands themselves are created from photographs of my own hands. I silhouetted them and touched them up to make them look a bit smoother. There are three left hands and two right hands. The fist I chose to base on my left hand as a nod to leftism. The center fist represents worker solidarity. It is central and larger than the other hands and holds no tools as it is the most important thing, I believe.

The lower-left hand holds a fountain pen to represent the intellectual artist who mostly writes, the upper-left holds a hammer to represent the industrial labourer, the upper-right holds a brush to represent the artist who makes physical pieces and installations, and the lower-right represents the agrarian labourer.

The hammer and sickle were appropriated from the Soviet flag and the pen and brush were free-to-use, no-attribution-required clipart.

I showed the flag to some of my young and progressive-minded friends, and some of them took issue with such explicit use of symbols that have been used by totalitarian communism. Slovakia has a communist past which is still a point of discussion and much of the youth feels apprehensive toward the former regime, which I don't fault them for. Authoritarianism, capitalism, nationalism, are all plagues that need to be purged from the human populace. They are the three pillars of harmful ideology.

Despite the symbols also being associated with totalitarian communism, I feel comfortable using them because symbols of the working class belong to the working class, and not to any specific ideology. Even if the hammer and sickle are most associated with the USSR, perpetrator of many atrocities against civilians, they do not belong to communism or to the Soviet State. They belong to us and we should be able to use them without any shame. There is a lot of stigma in Slovakia about being left-wing and you have to add thirty disclaimers if you don't support authoritarianism or SMER's cultural backwardism and corruption. The best way to fight back against this perception is to not be afraid of using the symbols associated with those negative perceptions, and explicitly use them in a positive manner that is antithetical to those negative perceptions.

EDIT: I have attempted the creation of a flipped-colour variant to some success

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[sludgetoxicmilkshake]

being alive is getting caught up in a small online niche community that is very down bad and forgetting why you got there in the first place… before remembering you just wanted to be a syndicalist revolutionary and got stuck on the road between “eat the rich” and militaryfetishistic writing.

[themogaidragon]

Anarvesil

PT: Anarvesil /end PT

ID: a flag with four horizontal stripes with a thinner stripe through the middle. Colors from top top bottom, black, red, white, red and black. In the center of the flag is a symbol of a four-pointed light red and white star start with smaller points between each star point. END ID

Anarvesil: a vesility term in which many or all parts of one’s identity are affected by anarchism.

PSD file of the vesil template on devianart (link), not made by Toothless.

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

you know it really sucks having a libby ass alter in a system of otherwise Socialists (most of are Syndicalists, Marxist-Leninists, or Anarcho-Communists) but i think we are gonna start calling her the Cop in our head, not sure how useful this is for combating our own internal Biases tho

[bluegrassthagoat]

“Without a government there would be chaos”

The majority of people don’t want to kill rape murder or steal, and for the people that do, I don’t want them in my commune anyway

[multidimensionalbulletinboard]

What I don’t think liberals understand (in fact, I know they don’t) is that Trump was/is extremely good for America, and that this is a bad thing. We should not want what is good for America, as what is good for America is bad for everyone else, including Americans. Liberals, though, will go further right than even Trump on issues such as the border just to prove they’re more pro-America than him.