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Updates concerning "the release" of anarchist prisoner Toby Shone.Via actforfree.noblogs.org:"During his free time he is...

Updates concerning "the release" of anarchist prisoner Toby Shone.

Via actforfree.noblogs.org:

"During his free time he is forbidden to attend political demonstrations and meetings, or to associate with those generically defined/defined ‘left-wing extremists’. He will not be able to write on websites and will only be able to connect to the Internet at approved times and in a predetermined place. He will be able to have at most one mobile phone with a SIM card, which will be monitored. He will not be able to delete the history of his phone or computer.

He will be forced to undergo psychological or psychiatric sessions, and he is absolutely forbidden to speak about his situation or to denounce those involved in it by name. Toby’s lawyers are preparing an appeal against these restrictions, which of course are not the norm in such cases, but they will be in force until the final outcome of the application.."

https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/13/updates-concerning-anarchist-prisoner-toby-shone-uk/

#TobyShone #AnarchistPrisoners #Repression #Authoritarianism #UK #PoliceState #ACAB

There’s A Problem with Anarchist Media – by Nerd Teacher“Perhaps it starts with the fact that these anarchist media organisations are...

There’s A Problem with Anarchist Media – by Nerd Teacher

“Perhaps it starts with the fact that these anarchist media organisations are often established as formal businesses and nonprofits (even if they call themselves worker-run collectives). Infuriating though it might be, they have to be established in some way because they’re aware that they have to exist within a capitalist system. If they sell things and generate any kind of revenue, they’re required to submit taxes so that they can continue to provide their products for our “intellectual self-defense,” a term that feels a bit holier-than-thou for what buying a book or listening to a podcast is.

And honestly, I’m not here to say that all of the work they publish and share is meaningless because it isn’t. I have found numerous texts that have shifted my own ideas or helped me build upon or articulate others, and I’ve listened to people who have improved my understanding of different topics or sent me down rabbit holes I never expected to follow.

But it is telling that, though they claim to hold anti-capitalist values, they persist in using capitalist strategies and fail to recognise how that impacts them, the way they organise, and their customers. And that third category is customers because it’s not really comradeship to sell stuff. It can be seen in the ways they talk about their work and what they do, and it can be understood in the gaps they create because they’re too focused on competing in a capitalist system against traditional media (whether they recognise it or not).

It’s a bit perplexing that we’ve bought into this model so thoroughly, they’ve actively chosen to use these strategies. They recognise that traditional media is their competition, but they’re choosing to compete with them using their tools.

Should we be there? Yes. Should it be our primary focus? I really don’t think so..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nerd-teacher-there-s-a-problem-with-anarchist-media

#AnarchistLibrary #AnarchistMedia #Critique #NerdTeacher

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/search?query=Anarqxista+Goldman

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/search?query=Anarqxista+Goldman

Anarqxista Goldman reportedly stabbed to death.According to a twitter statement made by her collective, she was stabbed thrice while aiding...

Anarqxista Goldman reportedly stabbed to death.

According to a twitter statement made by her collective, she was stabbed thrice while aiding a young woman against her violently abusive boyfriend, and died shortly after.

A prolific writer and frequent contributor to the anarchist library, she was an uncompromising proponent for a living everyday anarchy, insurrection and illegalism.

Her voice will be dearly missed.

Rest in Power!

https://raddle.me/f/Anarchism/150617/anarqxista-has-died-a-great-soul-has-left-earth

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EDIT

So this did not age all that well..

Turns out "Anarqxista Goldman" was a persona made up by some guy in his fifties, and this alleged murder never happened, since Anarqxista Goldman never existed.

You can read about the reveal here:

https://kolektiva.social/@hakan_geijer/109671877135091845

Please forward this link to anyone "in mourning".

The Black Flag Catalyst Revolt Guide – by The Black Flag Catalyst.“The following resource is intended to be a guide for those who wish...

The Black Flag Catalyst Revolt Guide – by The Black Flag Catalyst.

“The following resource is intended to be a guide for those who wish to carry out concerted political action and includes tactics for both militant and pacifistic direct action, organizing, creating assemblies, and even some introductory aspects of being a street medic. The goal of this guide is to compile the knowledge from the various insurrections across the planet and turn them into a single resource which can be given to anyone and to inform that person on their place in the broader schema.

For this reason, we will include both peaceful and non-peaceful tactics within this guide. If we are to learn from the successful movements of the past, we can see that all successful pressure has been the collusion of the peaceful and non-peaceful aspects of the movement, such that the peaceful party can lobby the state to concede, saying to them “now see? Wouldn’t you rather deal with me than them? Sit down and make some concessions to those suffering people.”

Meanwhile, the non-peaceful protesters escalate the aggression of their actions such as to put a clock on the state. Direct action should therefore not be seen as a chaotic by-product to be avoided. It should instead be seen as a necessity to extract outcomes for the movement. Ultimately, if the demands of the protests are not met, revolution should be the threat. In this way, we are to transform the state to our whims, not vice versa. And if it does not concede, we will have built the bodies of prefiguration that will be prepared to replace it..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bfc-revolt-guide

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchy #Introductory #Organizing #Protest #HowTo #StreetMedicine

Staring down the barrel of an artificially intelligent gun.From darknights.noblogs.org:"It has been known for a while that many states...

Staring down the barrel of an artificially intelligent gun.

From darknights.noblogs.org:

"It has been known for a while that many states around the world have been developing miltary hardware that are intergrating with artificial intelligence, from the North – South Korean border partolled by armed robots, to the US using auomated guns on many of its vehicles, drones seeing accelerated use in Ukraine, even the Syrian conflict seeing the use of AI enhanced guns.

This is one of the controlling aspects of the fourth industrial revolution, the actual use of these new technologies and sciences in weaponised form, given legitimacy by society with other uses that are supposedly to benefit us, but in the end will lead to their deadly affect, whether it is intergrating with our own bodies, eventually replacing us, making our living environment a hellscape of ecological destruction, a transformation into a smart prison planet, with us eventually staring down the barrel of an artifically intelligent gun.

As usual we do not want to just paint a picture of some dystopian nightmare future, we are clear that this is a dark present that is already arriving and that there is always a way to fight back. Those responsible for the development of the military and security technologies that are building the smart prison around us have names and addresses and they are far from impregnable.

It’s time to declare war on these Technocrats!

The Uncivilized"

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/08/staring-down-the-barrel-of-an-artificially-intelligent-gun/

#Surveillance #SocialControll #AI #Authoritarianism #BorderViolence

Letters of Insurgents – by Fredy & Lorraine Perlman“This change is reviving my interest in my surroundings, in my fellow beings, in...

Letters of Insurgents – by Fredy & Lorraine Perlman

“This change is reviving my interest in my surroundings, in my fellow beings, in myself, in you. If there is no change, if this is another illusion, if I’m not writing to Sophia but to a benevolent protector of the people’s real interests, a censor, then I’d rather be back in prison than “free.” There’s no joy in such freedom. Such a life is filled with dread and the only ones free of that dread are those already in prison. If the change taking place around me is an illusion or a trap, then I no longer care if I’m arrested again. Even in solitary confinement a prisoner tortured by dampness and rats is comforted by the thought that others survived it, that they weren’t crushed by moving walls or descending ceilings. But the policed “free citizen” can’t ever get rid of the fear that he may be dragged off at any time, wherever he is, whoever he’s with; that all his friendships and all his projects can suddenly end; that the front door of his house can crash open at midnight; that the ceiling of his bedroom might start descending on him while he’s asleep. In a context where any word or gesture can lead to the dreaded arrest there’s no freedom. In such a context, beings vibrant with the will to live are transformed into beings for whom death is no worse than a life marked by the dread of death. The prisons and camps don’t contain only those inside them but also those outside them. All human beings are transformed into prisoners and prison guards..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sophia-nachalo-and-yarostan-vochek-letters-of-insurgents

#AnarchistLibrary #Fiction #Revolution #Love

Anarchist Film Doesn't Exist."A video zine about how anarchist film doesn’t...

Anarchist Film Doesn't Exist.

"A video zine about how anarchist film doesn’t exist."

https://anarchy.tube/w/3JCLZWHUhoR4WTHdhSMLpv

#AnarchistMedia #AnarchistFilm #VideoZine #NoBudgetVideos #VideosFromTheTrashDimension #DIY

I stumbled into this documentary about the kids who broke into a FBI office in 1971 and liberated a fuckton of files that led to the...

I stumbled into this documentary about the kids who broke into a FBI office in 1971 and liberated a fuckton of files that led to the revelation of the COINTELPRO program.

Goes to show you what you can accomplish when you choose your collaborators carefully, and then simply keep your mouths shut. No-one was ever arrested and their identities only revealed 30 years later when they choose to go public.

Also, it must've been sweet to operate in the 1970's, before tedious security tech and the digital surveillance state made everything such a fuckin hassle.

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=y9lr3-7EYHI

#1971 #CitizensCommissionToInvestigateTheFBI #COINTELPRO #DirectAction #DIY

Prophets of Rage - Take Me Higher.https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=iwFOTaN_zks#ProphetsOfRage #Drones #LifeHacks

Prophets of Rage - Take Me Higher.

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=iwFOTaN_zks

#ProphetsOfRage #Drones #LifeHacks

If you do one thing in the new year, you should check on your comrades to ensure they are doing ok.Via unoffensiveanimal.is:“This year has...

If you do one thing in the new year, you should check on your comrades to ensure they are doing ok.

Via unoffensiveanimal.is:

“This year has been lively, with many campaigns kicking hard worldwide and a hunger for change. The resurgence of a strong front against vivisection and fur is a refreshing and welcomed shift which reminds us that target-specific campaigns have historically proven to bring change much faster than the simple advocacy against speciesism or for veganism, but it also reminds us that pressure campaigns bring heavier blows from the state..”

https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2022/12/31/if-you-do-one-thing-in-the-new-year/

Hunt the...

Hunt the hunters.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/02/huge-swedish-wolf-hunt-will-be-disastrous-for-species-warn-experts?ref=upstract.com

#HuntSab #TotalLiberation

Anarchism and Other Essays – by Emma Goldman (1910)“Property is robbery, said the great French Anarchist Proudhon. Yes, but without...

Anarchism and Other Essays – by Emma Goldman (1910)

“Property is robbery, said the great French Anarchist Proudhon. Yes, but without risk and danger to the robber. Monopolizing the accumulated efforts of man, property has robbed him of his birthright, and has turned him loose a pauper and an outcast. Property has not even the time-worn excuse that man does not create enough to satisfy all needs. The A B C student of economics knows that the productivity of labor within the last few decades far exceeds normal demand. But what are normal demands to an abnormal institution? The only demand that property recognizes is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade. America is particularly boastful of her great power, her enormous national wealth. Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soilless army of human prey..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchism-and-other-essays

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchism #Introductory #Abolition #EmmaGoldman

John Trudell on Becoming Human.“This discussion was conducted in 2005 for The 11th Hour by Leila Conners. The discussion covers...

John Trudell on Becoming Human.

“This discussion was conducted in 2005 for The 11th Hour by Leila Conners. The discussion covers Trudell's worldview that encompasses his call for humans to return to their intelligence and their humanity to forge a pathway forward. His responses to the questions now seem prophetic.”

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=180vRsMmqNI

#JohnTrudell #Climate #Philosophy #Analysis #Humans

What is Property?"All power structures are rooted in ideology. A shared belief in this ideology is what keeps the structures of power...

What is Property?

"All power structures are rooted in ideology. A shared belief in this ideology is what keeps the structures of power in place. Under capitalism, the edifice of social control is built on the collective illusion of private property, and the sanctity of the so-called ‘free market’. Any moves taken to challenge this logic will therefore provoke pushback from the system’s indoctrinated cheerleaders, and will certainly catch the attention of the repressive and recuperative functionaries of the state. But as the saying goes... you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. And you definitely can’t overthrow capitalism without messing with people’s stuff.

So.... what is property, anyway? And what do anarchists have against it?"

https://kolektiva.media/w/gwyuT2t9UWdLwuVXZB1Tx7

#AnarchistMedia #SubMedia #AForAnarchy #Property

Armed Joy – by Alfredo M. Bonanno“This book has become topical again, but in a different way. Not as a critique of a heavy monopolising...

Armed Joy – by Alfredo M. Bonanno

“This book has become topical again, but in a different way. Not as a critique of a heavy monopolising structure that no longer exists, but because it can point out the potent capabilities of the individual on his or her road, with joy, to the destruction of all that oppresses and regulates them.

Before ending I should mention that this book was ordered to be destroyed in Italy. The Italian Supreme Court ordered it to be burned. All the libraries that had a copy received a circular from the Home Ministry ordering its incineration. More than one librarian refused to burn the book, considering such a practice to be worthy of the Nazis or the Inquisition, but by law the volume cannot be consulted. For the same reason the book cannot be distributed legally in Italy and many comrades had copies confiscated during the vast wave of raids carried out for that purpose.

I was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for writing this book..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchy #Insurrection #AntiWork #AlfredoMBonanno

Bang Up and Smash – by ASBO“Many people have been sentenced or remanded recently for the Kill the Bill demos, and are currently in...

Bang Up and Smash – by ASBO

“Many people have been sentenced or remanded recently for the Kill the Bill demos, and are currently in prison, or awaiting trial. There are many more to come. In the process of providing random information about prison to people facing custodial sentences, I have revisited some of the concepts that I outlined in Bang-Up. This has fuelled my desire for “perfect disorder”, and reminded me of the importance of asking difficult questions.

Things were bad for anyone interacting with the courts and prison system when I wrote Bang-Up. Even with my most cynical hat on, I never would have imagined how much worse stuff would get, and how quickly. The Coronavirus Act (2020) suspended even the most basic crumbs of ‘rights’ that prisoners had in the ‘United’ Kingdom; with an unprecedented roll out of techniques previously hidden, (but routinely used) by the state on its incarcerated population. I won’t go into that for now, but suffice to say, in relation to prisons, Covid-19 is a gift to all governments in terms of increasing repression, legitimising new techniques of control, and increasing bang-up..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/asbo-bang-up-and-smash-2nd-edition

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchy #Repression #Prison #Abolition #PrisonerSupport

Anarchist Ivan Alocco begins a new hunger strike alongside Alfredo Cospito and in solidarity with imprisoned anarchists and...

Anarchist Ivan Alocco begins a new hunger strike alongside Alfredo Cospito and in solidarity with imprisoned anarchists and revolutionaries.

Via actforfree.noblogs.org,

“Anarchist Ivan Alocco begins a new hunger strike alongside Alfredo Cospito and in solidarity with imprisoned anarchists and revolutionaries.

The Italian state wants to keep Alfredo Cospito in 41 bis, despite his hunger strike of more than two months.

A prisoner’s life counts for nothing, for these beings with bland minds and cold hearts. Whether through the psychological torture of isolation (a form of social and intellectual death) or through the physical torture of a slow death, what they want is to annihilate one of their enemies.”

https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2022/12/27/anarchist-ivan-alocco-begins-a-new-hunger-strike-alongside-alfredo-cospito-and-in-solidarity-with-imprisoned-anarchists-and-revolutionaries-france-december-22-2022/

#AnarchistPrisoners #AlfredoCospito #41bis

There Never Was a West – by David Graeber.“What follows emerges largely from my own experience of the alternative globalization...

There Never Was a West – by David Graeber.

“What follows emerges largely from my own experience of the alternative globalization movement, where issues of democracy have been very much at the center of debate.

Anarchists in Europe or North America and indigenous organizations in the Global South have found themselves locked in remarkably similar arguments. Is “democracy” an inherently Western concept? Does it refer a form of governance (a mode of communal self-organization), or a form of govern ment (one particular way of organizing a state apparatus) ? Does democracy necessarily imply majority rule?

Is representative democracy really democracy at all? Is the word permanently tainted by its origins in Athens, a militaristic, slave-owning society founded on the systematic repression of women?

Or does what we now call “democracy” have any real historical connection to Athenian democracy in the first place? Is it possible for those trying to develop decentralized forms of consensus-based direct democracy to reclaim the word?

If so, how will we ever convince the majority of people in the world that “democracy” has nothing to do with electing representatives? If not, if we instead accept the standard definition and start calling direct democracy something else, how can we say we’re against democracy—a word with such universally positive associations?”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-there-never-was-a-west

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchism #Democracy #History #DavidGraeber

What is Gender?"Gender is one of the most fundamental stories humans have created.It is a story about each one of us that begins being...

What is Gender?

"Gender is one of the most fundamental stories humans have created.

It is a story about each one of us that begins being told even before we are born. It intersects with other aspects of our personal experience and social position to shape the opportunities we will have and the abuses we will suffer.

Gender is a means for society to categorize people along a masculine and feminine binary – categories which leave no space for the complexities and nuances in each one of us.

For anarchists the disruption and reformation of gender is intimately connected to our struggles against illegitimate power.

The fight to reclaim the telling of your own gender story will be a struggle that may last your entire life. Don't do it alone."

https://kolektiva.media/w/uNRGN4ehBkkkZ9QXU4TUpv

#AnarchistMedia #SubMedia #AForAnarchy #Gender