“Blueprint for a New Party” recently published in Jacobin Magazine advocates a model of building a new left electoral party – but author Scott Jay argues it is strategy that leads to campaigning for Democrats and expanding the focus on electoralism rather than a path to strengthening social movements. By Scott Jay These are desperate […]
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A radio interview on feminism, anarchism and building a movement Romina Akemi of Black Rose/Rosa Negra is interviewed by “Free Flow” on KCHUNG Radio broadcasting from Chinatown, Los Angeles discussing “Breaking the Waves: Challenging the Liberal Tendency within Anarchist Feminism” written by Romina and Bree Busk for the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS). The interview covers […]
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With deaths and anniversaries there’s often a tendency to remember figures and history in a one sided way but as Enrique Guerro-López reminds us the left should aspire to move beyond simplistic and uncritical narratives to understand them in their complexity – a perspective often missing when looking at the legacy of Fidel Castro and […]
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Statement from the organization Anarchist Women on the “sexual abuse” bill proposed by the governing AK Party in Turkey which was recently withdrawn after mass protests from women. Among other things, the bill would have pardoned men who raped underage girls if the girls married their rapists. As the AKP is currently ruling through de-facto dictatorship, […]
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As each state came in on election maps, a sense of panic flew through many parts of the country. Hillary Clinton made up the mildly liberal side of the same capitalist coin of party politics, one that those of us with an anti-capitalist and anti-state analysis would not be scared into supporting. This did not […]
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LO QUE NOS ENFRENTA Donald Trump ha sido elegido el presidente número 45 de los Estados Unidos. Como revolucionarixs estamos comprometidxs con un mundo que no tenga lugar para personas ni como Trump ni Hillary Clinton. Sabemos que Clinton hubiese continuado creando un mundo para la clase dominante y probablemente no hubiese hecho nada sustancial […]
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This past Wednesday morning, November 16, Richard Turner died in the street surrounded by police officers. We do not know yet how he died, whether it was natural causes, a heart attack, drug-related, the result of something the police did, or some other reason. What we do know is that he “became unresponsive” as he […]
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We bring you this statement from our comrades with May First Anarchist Alliance on the current political moment and especially readers towards the list of concrete steps at the end. No One is Coming to Save Us – An Anarchist Response to the Election of Donald Trump First of May Anarchist Alliance November 2016 A […]
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A leaflet from our Los Angeles Black Rose/Rosa Negra comrades. When we look around at the thousands of people marching with us, we can feel the power that we hold. But we know that this isn’t enough. In the coming years, our communities are going to be under attack. We need to organize strong communities […]
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Tuesday night many of us were shocked about the election of Drumpf. Social media was full of disbelief and fear. People felt a new era approaching, an era of mass deportation and registering Muslims, an era where white nationalists are comfortable in public. Last night in Richmond, Virginia, I caught a glimpse of another beginning. […]
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