The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Fundraiser: Send Anarchist Labor Organizers to Labor Notes 2026
We’re raising money to send members of our Labor Committee to the 2026 Labor Notes Conference. Click the button below to be taken to the donation page or read on for more details. Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) has long maintained labor organizing as one area of strategic focus. Our members are embedded in a wide
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Anarchists in the Tenant Movement #2 – Salt Lake City
This is the second installment of our Anarchists in the Tenant Movement series. You can find the first installment here. The interview below was conducted with an organizer named Espy, involved in building a tenant organization in the western Salt Lake Valley. Like our other series Anarchists in the Labor Movement, this series presents insights and perspectives
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Statement: May Day 2026
The following statement was written and approved by the Labor Sectoral Committee of Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation. 140 years ago the state hanged anarchist workers, the majority of them migrants, in Chicago for daring to organize and fight. Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engel, and Adolph Fischer were killed not for any crime, but
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Beyond Protest in the Second Trump Era
Originally written during the height of the first Trump administration, we’ve returned to this article published by South Florida Resistance to update it for the present moment. This article contains the perspectives of several BRRN members and does not necessarily reflect the collective view of the Federation. By Patrick Berkman It is difficult to quantify
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Women Lead the Class War: Black Rose/Rosa Negra Mobilizes for March 8
March 8th is International Working Women’s Day (IWWD). The commemoration traces its earliest roots to the socialist parties of the 2nd International, the date later becoming solidified on the 8th for its association with the women textile workers’ strike that initiated the first phase of the Russian Revolution in 1917. In the US this history
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Rafael Serra: Grandfather of Cuban Anarchism
Black Rose/Rosa Negra is a revolutionary political organization. This means that we focus our efforts on developing and applying a strategy to build popular power in our workplaces, neighborhoods, schools, and within the state’s prisons. However, we also recognize the pressing need to recover and transmit our movement’s historical memory. We do this not simply
