Category: Federation

  • International Statement: Call for Solidarity in Turkey, Syria, and Kurdistan

    This statement was issued and endorsed by an international coordination of anarchist organizations. It is the first statement issued by this grouping that Black Rose / Rosa Negra has signed on to. Examples of previous statements can be found here. The earthquakes of 6 February and their aftershocks have devastated entire regions. The death toll…

  • Statement: Not One More Tyre Nichols

    The following statement is endorsed by the membership of Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra. On January 10, 2023, Tyre Nichols died from severe physical injuries, including a broken neck, sustained three days earlier at the hands, batons, pepper spray, and tasers of five Memphis, Tennessee police officers. As one of the…

  • Stop Cop City: in Solidarity and Mourning

    July 19, 2023 – Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra On January 18, 2023 a multi-agency task force moved to clear out an ongoing tree-sit protest in Atlanta, Georgia. In the opening minutes of this operation, Georgia State Troopers shot and killed a tree sitter.  The tree sitter, Manuel Paez Teran, also…

  • Members of Black Rose Discuss Rank-and-File Worker Power in UC Strike on KPFA Radio

    Members of Black Rose Discuss Rank-and-File Worker Power in UC Strike on KPFA Radio

    Two members of Black Rose / Rosa Negra’s California Bay Area Local were interviewed by It’s Going Down News on the massive academic worker strike in the University of California system. The discussion covered a range of topics, from the wildcat strike that proceeded this moment, to building a militant minority, to extending the struggle…

  • No COLA? No Contract! The Stakes and a Strategy for Success in the Historic University of California Strike

    No COLA? No Contract! The Stakes and a Strategy for Success in the Historic University of California Strike

    by Members of both Black Rose Bay Area and UAW 2865 On November 14, over 48,000 teaching assistants, tutors, readers, associate instructors, other Academic Student Employees (ASEs), Graduate Student Researchers (GSRs), and postdoctoral employees across the University of California (UC) launched the largest coordinated strike the United States’s higher education sector has ever seen. On…

  • Juan Carlos Mechoso: It’s Only Been a Few Days and We Already Feel Your Absence

    Juan Carlos Mechoso: It’s Only Been a Few Days and We Already Feel Your Absence

    Troy Araiza Kokinis reflects on the life and revolutionary work of Juan Carlos Mechoso, who passed on October 11, 2022. Juan Carlos was a founding member of our sister organization, Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU) and he will be dearly missed. Black Rose/Rosa Negra sends its heartfelt greetings and solidarity to the family, friends, and comrades…

  • Interview with a Brazilian Anarchist on Lula, Bolsonaro, and Social Struggle

    Interview with a Brazilian Anarchist on Lula, Bolsonaro, and Social Struggle

    Bruno Lima Rocha is a political scientist, professional journalist and professor of international relations based in Brazil, and is a member of the editorial board of the Institute for Anarchist Theory and History (IATH-ITHA). The following interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN): Looming over much of the political…

  • Anarchism in the Face of Fascism and the Electoral Debate

    Anarchism in the Face of Fascism and the Electoral Debate

    By Rafael V. Da Silva, Kauan Willian and Victor Khaled Translated by S Nicholas Nappalos This article was originally published by Jacobin Brasil. Introduction With neither Bolsonaro (Liberal Party) nor Lula (Workers’ Party) able to secure an outright majority during the October 2nd presidential election in Brazil, both advance to a run off election set…

  • Interview: Iranian Anarchists on Protests in Response to Police Murder of Mahsa Amini

    Interview: Iranian Anarchists on Protests in Response to Police Murder of Mahsa Amini

    by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – International Relations Committee Introduction On September 13th, 2022, 22 year old Mahsa Amini was arrested by an Iranian Guidance Patrol (also known as ‘morality police’). Mahsa was arrested in Tehran for not abiding by laws relating to dress. Three days later, on September 16th, police informed Mahsa’s family…

  • Fall 2022 Agitation Posters

    Fall 2022 Agitation Posters

    We present here our 2022 Fall agitation posters, ready to be printed out and used to decorate your room, your office, maybe even one of those boring walls you see everyday on your way to work. For more information on how you might affix these posters to walls, consult this video!