Category: Federation
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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…
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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…