Category: Federation
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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…
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Benn Jordan Talks Privacy, Anarchism, and the War on Flock Cameras
Benn Jordan was already well known in the electronic music scene, releasing work under names such as The Flashbulb and Acidwolf. In the last few years however, Jordan has amassed an audience of over 1 million YouTube subscribers through videos on acoustic science, critiques of AI, and most recently, the rise and glaring vulnerabilities of…
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Building Our Revolutionary Character: Interview With an American YPJ Volunteer on the Situation in Rojava
On January 13th, the Syrian Transitional Government launched a major offensive on the territories under control of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (DAANES) – the first it has faced since the defeat of ISIS. To better understand the situation and its implications for DAANES, members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s International Relations Committee…
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It’s Not a General Strike, but It’s a Start
January 30th has been set as a nationwide day of action against the campaign of state terror carried out by ICE and other DHS agencies. Some have referred to the 30th as a ‘general strike’. In this article, Black Rose/Rosa Negra member Cameron Pádraig examines the prospects for a general strike on the 30th, offering…
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How Teachers, Students, and Parents are Organizing to Keep ICE Out of Durham Schools
Before Thanksgiving 2025, the Department of Homeland Security set its sights on North Carolina. Since launching Operation Charlotte’s Web, a multiagency campaign of terror and abduction directed against the state’s non-white immigrant population, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have made more than 400 arrests while local businesses have shuttered…
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The Minneapolis Mass Strike Shows the Way – Let’s Go Further
Resistance to state terror, particularly ICE terror, is growing across the country. On January 23rd Minneapolis will be at the forefront of this fightback, launching a city-wide mass strike in response to ICE’s occupation of the city. Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s (BRRN) External Education Committee (EEC) offers this editorial statement on what appears to be the…
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Healthcare Workers Freed a Patient From ICE – You Can Do the Same
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents brought a detainee to a California hospital in 2025, they didn’t know they would leave empty-handed. Using capacity they built over months of organizing, Healthcare workers intervened quickly to protect and ultimately free their patient from the clutches of federal secret police. Based on an interview with local…
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Downloadable Pamphlet and Poster Directory Now Available
Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s External Education Committee (EEC) is happy to announce the launch of our website’s first directory of downloadable pamphlets and posters. The directory includes pamphlets covering a wide range of topics, from anarchist history and theory to practical organizing guides. Each is available in a PDF format, ready to print and assemble. The…
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International Statement: We Denounce the Imperial Offensive on Venezuela
This statement was prepared and signed by member organizations of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination – Coordinación Anarquista LatinoAmerica (CALA). Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) was invited to sign the statement as a sibling organization. The Latin American Anarchist Coordination and sibling organizations condemn the threats of direct intervention in Venezuela by the US government, driven…
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Against the Authoritarian Advance: Fighting on the Ropes but Fighting Back
On a yearly basis Black Rose/Rosa Negra engages in a lengthy process of research, analysis, and debate to examine the ways that social, political, economic, and cultural forces are interacting to shape the present moment in the United States. We do this to better position ourselves for intervention, using information we glean to revise our…