wydderen

[guy-debordiga-deactivated201602]

“The hell of capitalism is the firm, not the fact that the firm has a boss.” - Amadeo Bordiga

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

[akickevenfunnier]

We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence at its disposal. We must acknowledge this, and proclaim it aloud, and act up to it.

Peter Kropotkin (via akickevenfunnier)

[globalnewscn]

War

[from-around-the-globe]

September 1920: armed workers occupy factories in Milan, Italy.

[jessieedblog]

[dailyanarchist]

[art-and-anarchism-deactivated20]

Some time ago, in an attempt to discredit one of the Zapatista leaders in southern Mexico, Sub-comandante Marcos, government officials there tried to put forth the idea that Marcos was gay. In a region where machismo still runs strong, it was hoped this would tarnish the leader’s credibility.

He responded by writing a poem:

“Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco Black in South Africa an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

"Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying ‘Enough’. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable — this is Marcos.”

[wydderen]

[wocinsolidarity]

…The wealth of imperial countries is our wealth too. On the universal plane this affirmation, you may be sure, should on no account be taken to signify that we feel ourselves affected by the creations of Western arts of techniques. For in a very concrete way Europe has stuffed herself inordinately with the gold and raw materials of the colonial countries: Latin America, China, and Africa. From all these continents, under whose eyes Europe today raises up her tower of opulence, there has flowed out for centuries toward that same Europe diamonds and oil, silk and cotton, wood and exotic plants. Europe is literally the creation of the Third World. The wealth which smothers her is that which was stolen from the under-developed peoples…

Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (translated by Constance Farrinton, 1963)

[class-war-hooligan-deactivated2]

Colorized photograph of anarchists in the Spanish Civil War

“The hillsides ring with ‘free the people’/Or can I hear the echo of the days of ‘39?/With trenches full of poets, a ragged army/Fixin’ bayonets to fight the other line”

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

[probablyasocialecologist]

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. It is the slavery of other men that sets up a barrier to my freedom […] My personal freedom, confirmed by the liberty of all, extends to infinity.

Mikhail Bakunin, Man, Society, and Freedom (via anarchistcommunism)

[antifainternational]

Hungarian anti-fascists set up a station on the border to help refugees.  This is what real anti-racism looks like.  Bravo!

[class-struggle-anarchism]

Much of the knowledge actually imparted in schools is useless; and the hope of reformers has been void because the organisation of the school, instead of serving an ideal purpose, has become one of the most powerful instruments of servitude in the hands of the ruling class. The teachers are merely conscious or unconsious organs of their will, and have been trained on their principles. From their tenderest years, and more drastically than anybody, they have endured the discipline of authority. Very few have escaped this despotic domination; they are generally powerless against it, because they are oppressed by the scholastic organisation to such an extent that they have nothing to do but obey. It is unnecessary here to describe that organisation. One word will suffice to characterise it — Violence. The school dominates the children physically, morally, and Intellectually, in order to control the development of their faculties in the way desired, and deprives them of contact with nature in order to modify them as required. This is the explanation of the failure; the eagerness of the ruling class to control education and the bankruptcy of the hopes of reformers. “Education” means in practice domination or domestication.

Francisco Ferrer, The Origins and Ideals of the Modern School, 1913 (via class-struggle-anarchism)

[marthaelisarq]

EZLN women fighting against Mexican Army.

Chiapas, México, 1994.

[average-smoothie-enjoyer]

How eating meat contributes to racism:

“Environmental racism- This article talks about how CAFOs and slaughterhouses “are disproportionately located in communities of color and regions of poverty …”

Video of drone exposing a “feces lagoon” at Smithfield foods- the US’s biggest pork producer.- Waste from this particular lake is sprayed into the surrounding area, literally raining waste onto nearby low income households.

“Environmental racism manifests itself in rural communities primarily in: (1) the construction and operation of intensive livestock operations in or near people of color communities; (2) labor practices dangerous to workers (including factory workers and farmworkers); and (3) the placement of landfills, incinerators, and other noxious production and waste facilities in or near people of color communities and low-income communities.” 

“ “[P]eople of color and the poor living in rural communities lacking the political capacity to resist are said to shoulder the adverse socio-economic, environmental, or health related effects of swine waste externalities without sharing in the economic benefits brought by industrialized pork production.” “

Article detailing abuse of slaughterhouse workers, who are predominantly people of color and undocumented workers.

Article on slaughterhouse worker injuries

More on slaughterhouse workers

Land cleared for animal feed in Brazil leads to Amazon destruction

“Global demand and production of fish and livestock has reduced traditional fishing stocks and decimated coral reef systems for indigenous people living on coasts and islands, shriveled and segmented million year old forests. This will only exacerbate world poverty and hunger because while remote from those who consume animal products, it is the world of the indigenous and the very natural resources they have relied on for centuries.”

[avocadoshawty]

Damn.

[youngfeminism]

Causes of rape: Rapists! Nothing else