Category: Federation
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Disorganization is Their Weapon, Solidarity is Our Shield: Committing to Principled Collective Defense
We live in a perilous moment, one when the specter of a new Red Scare looms closer by the day. But we cannot allow state repression, whether threatened or realized, to achieve its intended aim of demobilizing or disorganizing our social movements and political organizations. To counter these attacks our only option is to build…
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Driving the Movement: West Coast Events with Black Panther Veterans
We are pleased to announce several events in California with Veterans of the Black Panther Party, JoNina Abron-Ervin and Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, organized in part by members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra. Our communities and the movements to defend them are under attack. The far-right is heightening political repression, using despair to overwhelm and immobilize us.…
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Genocide Demands Action: Solidarity in Word and Deed
For us, this genocide is both a singular atrocity as well as another instance of the worldwide intensification of class struggle. The horror of the genocide in Gaza must be halted for the sake of Palestinians. It must also be halted here and now before it is applied to other sections of the dominated classes…
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Turning the Tide Now Available through AK Press
We’ve partnered with longtime anarchist publisher AK Press to make physical copies of our political program, Turning the Tide, available for order through their web store. Follow this link to order your copy from AK Press today! You can also always read Turning the Tide in full, in both English and Spanish, by visiting the…
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Anarchists in the Tenant Movement #1 – SF Bay Area
This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Tenant Movement. In this interview, we speak with E, an organizer with the San Francisco Bay Area’s Tenants and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) in its East of Lake local. Like our other series Anarchists in the Labor Movement,…
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BRRN at Socialism Conference 2025 in Chicago
The Socialism Conference is a long running annual gathering held in Chicago, Illinois. Drawing upwards of 2,000 participants each year, the conference boasts 160+ panels, breakouts, and activities covering a wide variety of topics. As one might expect, the event is dominated by state socialists of various traditions and libertarian socialists have largely remained absent…
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International Statement: War Between States Means Death for the People
The following is a statement written and endorsed by members of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination (CALA) and sibling organizations across the Americas, including Black Rose/Rosa Negra. Violence in the Middle East continues to grow exponentially. The war profiteers, the main partners of neoliberal capitalism, impose death on those below, while they become richer with…
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Organizing to Keep ICE Out of Your Workplace
This article was written by a member of Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN) with experience in both workplace organizing and neighborhood based organizing against ICE. Drawing on this background, the author describes a series of steps you can start taking today to defend yourself and your coworkers from ICE. by Keith Robertson Introduction When…
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How To: Organize Your Building
This article by Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal originally appeared in Jewish Currents. It serves as a basic organizing guide for those seeking to build and use collective power to solve issues facing themselves and their neighbors. Both authors are veteran organizers with the Los Angeles Tenants Union, one of the largest and most successful…
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To Kick ICE Out Requires Action, To Keep Them Out Requires Organization
This past weekend in Los Angeles provocative ICE raids sparked fierce protest as community members turned out to disrupt the kidnapping and terrorizing of their neighbors and loved ones. As the situation in LA appears to be deepening with Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard and protests expanding to other cities, our California Bay Area…