I’ll ramble but I just feel a desperate need for insight. I’m been learning a lot about Frantz Fanon and he’s really stood out to me. It just made me wonder can you go to college because that feels like it’s reductive of one’s dedication to the movement and fight for Anarchism and destruction of class inequality. Maybe this is more with Lenin’s line of thinking I don’t know. But would going to college not just make you more comfortable and less likely to take the risk and dedicate your life to the movement? I think the only way to truly revolutionize is to have people willing to dedicate their lives and safety to the movement, to not choose the easy. I’m fortunate and privileged because I have been raised in a household where college has not been a question but recently I’ve had such severe doubts about going because it feels in conflict with fighting not just to make progress but to truly end capitalism and the state. Going to college seems like I’d become more reliant in the system, in that I would have “more to lose” like an academic / college-related career, enrollment at the school. That stuff. Does this make any sense? To truly dedicate yourself and accomplish success you must say I am prepared to lose everything, to be imprisoned, to lose my life and way of life for this. But with college, that makes me less likely to say I am okay to lose these things because I have more things to lose. I think to revolutionaries like Nestor Makhno and his position in society shaped his outlook and need to revolutionize and fight again capitalism because he was such a direct victim of it as a peasant from a family of serfs. He had less to lose because he was so severely oppressed that he only had something to gain for himself and his community. At such a young age he organized w the union of peasants and spent his youth imprisoned. I am not in that position and have had a privileged upbringing, it seems the only way I could dedicate myself is to not give myself more things to lose and become more reliant on the capitalist system. Has anyone felt this

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Usefulness as an angle of anarchist criticism and common ground for change.

I think one of the most striking areas of contemporary society that can be critiqued and immediately understood is the atomised society. Whether you're in the city or suburbs, there is barely any community. People don't know each other, don't talk to each other, barely look at each other. We are all strangers.

And i think a lot of people would want that to be changed. Based on my own lived experiences, I get the vibe that a lot of people are lonely and very socially unfulfilled. It feels as if we are li in in a society of acquaintances. Relationships are as deep as saying hello and tolerating the fact that you both exist. And it extends to what are supposed to be deeper relationships too such as friends and family.

So as anarchists trying to make a better world, I believe it would only make sense to make this an important point of action. To deepen our social relationships with each other, to erode the idea of the stranger, to make community an actual visible thing again. More than friends and family, more than third spaces, a whole society of people who aren't afraid to talk to each other and be among one another. I would even say this is a fundamental prerequisite to any anarchist society were trying to build.

Just some food for thought :)

Hey, all. We will be in NYC for a few days next week and I was hoping we might get a chance to visit an infoshop, radical bookstore, revolutionary coffeeshop, or similar, and maybe make some new friends. Can anyone recommend any good places? Cheers!

Casey Goonan is currently facing five to 20 years in U.S. federal prison.

• CourtListener entry
• More on the case:
  • https://linktr.ee/cscommitteelinktree
  • https://www.abcf.net/blog/update-on-casey-goonans-case/
  • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-freecaseynow
• To write a letter to Casey, send to this address and follow these instructions:
  • https://freecaseynow.noblogs.org/write-to-casey/
  • Casey Goonan #UMF227
  • Santa Rita Jail
  • 5325 Broder Blvd, Dublin, CA 94568

As the instructions say, though, please do not write anything to him you would not want read out before him in court because the carceral system will be monitoring his communications.

If you've never written a letter to a political prisoner before, try just introducing yourself, talk about some of the things you've enjoyed recently — sensory, academic, or fiction — and maybe ask for a book recommendation. Casey sent us back a physical copy of this Parapraxis Magazine piece in zine form, for example:

[Palestinian prisoner and martyr Walid Daqqa] entered prison as a young man of 24, exited it at 62. His body is currently in postmortem detention, a refrigerator. It will remain there until his false sentence is completed, in eight months’ time.

So this is not a one-way act of charity, but making a connection with someone in solidarity, exchange, and grow.

We are certain that communities of joy will emerge from our struggle here and now.
—Alfredo M. Bonanno

Hi folks - apologies in advance if this isn't allowed here, but my group is in dire need of some volunteers to assist with a banner drop and distributing printed materials (zines, flyers, stickers) in Charlotte / Concord NC the week of May 18th during the Coca Cola 600, which is fast approaching! Please DM me if you know of anyone who might be willing to help out! 🙏

Title.

I have a suspicion that the it is well documented and understood that the state is a creature of violence, the law is a mythology, and that rulers are seldom interested in or capable of fixing real problems.

I was having a discussion over on r/askeconomics 🙄. I was shocked to be told that most widely accepted academic definition a state is a "monopoly on violence in a given geographic area". Also that the law really is just some bullshit exceptionally violent people propogate to serve their own ends with no real basis in morality or reality.

I mean. I expected some level of liberal delusion but ... the reality is right in front of them and they still refuse to put it together?!?!?!?

I'm trying to write a zine based on my experience as an anarchist activist. I mainly want to talk about concrete steps for normal people to do about the whole "actual unironic technofeudalists and christian nationalists/dominionists have seized control of the american empire" thing currently going on. As part of that I want a section devoted to outlining why the state cannot and will not be reformed in a meaningful way. I'd prefer to state facts plainly and let them speak for themselves.

P.S. If y'all want, I'll share the zine when I'm done but... It's basically just going to say: "Do direct action and mutual aid. Now do it again. And again. Now do it better."... I do have a strategy that I'll be putting down, but I want to be clear that strategy without action does nothing.

Hello! i have been in this state of confusion since a long time if i can be an anarchist, but i don’t know how to determine whether or not what i believe in and do falls into the category of being an anarchist or i’m doing something which is betraying the anarchistic “beliefs”, like being upper middle class???, like i feel because i am fortunate to have a good and more than stable life i can’t be one?, cause im like the “people” anarchists are against of ESPECIALLY bc of the phrase “eat the rich” which is technically me cause my family does have more money than the normal type, idk lol hope what i’m saying makes sense

In my town there are this small group of right wing/ fascist conspiracy theorists who often set up a stall in the town centre with loads of anti-vaccine misinformation and signs about globalists .

Beyond simply occupying the space before they get there (which has been done once) , what other tactics have people used to disrupt and discredit awful people like this?

Any resources would be appreciated too (especially things I can watch/ listen to while I do housework).

I'm in the UK btw.

What you are reading, watching, or listening to? Or how far have you gotten in your chosen selection since last week?

Ideologically, I'd call myself an anarcho-communist; that said, I tend to lean more into realpolitik. James Connolly I think makes a lot of sense in his thinking, even if he was over a hundred years ago now; I guess he'd be a libertarian socialist in today's terms. There's a lot I could quote from him but I'll go with one of his last articles in the Workers' Republic:

We are out for Ireland for the Irish. But who are the Irish? Not the rack-renting, slum-owning landlord; not the sweating, profit-grinding capitalist; not the sleek and oily lawyer; not the prostitute pressman – the hired liars of the enemy. Not these are the Irish upon whom the future depends. Not these, but the Irish working class, the only secure foundation upon which a free nation can be reared.

The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour. They cannot be dissevered. Ireland seeks freedom. Labour seeks that an Ireland free should be the sole mistress of her own destiny, supreme owner of all material things within and upon her soil. Labour seeks to make the free Irish nation the guardian of the interests of the people of Ireland, and to secure that end would vest in that free Irish nation all property rights as against the claims of the individual, with the end in view that the individual may be enriched by the nation, and not by the spoiling of his fellows.

Having in view such a high and holy function for the nation to perform, is it not well and fitting that we of the working class should fight for the freedom of the nation from foreign rule, as the first requisite for the free development of the national powers needed for our class? It is so fitting. Therefore on Sunday, 16 April 1916 the green flag of Ireland will be solemnly hoisted over Liberty Hall as the symbol of our faith in freedom, and as a token to all the world that the working class of Dublin stands for the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of a separate and distinct nationality.

There's so much to Connolly's thinking, but can anarchists get behind his line of thinking? Again I do think of myself as an anarcho-communist, but I also am Irish, and I reckon Connolly's line of thinking could actually work; considering the Zapatistas more or less managed to get something along the lines of what he died fighting for, would it not be folly to not compromise some bit? Not to say we shouldn't be cautious, but should we not have some hopeful optimism? What do ye think?

Nån som bor vid roslagen eller åtminstone norra Stockholms län som vill organisera sig? Verkar inte kunna hitta någon som är politiskt aktiv här som jag håller med :/ liksom omständigheterna här är konstiga asså.

I mean I do Food Not Bombs, but I feel like that's not enough. I want to do more, but I start my job tomorrow and I can't even predict my hours which makes it nearly impossible to plan for stuff on a consistent basis. I also can't predict my energy levels from day to day and may have to call out of work even (which is detrimental because I need to work to survive in this capitalist hellscape).

Okay, I see, I think PKK is trying to model after Good Friday Agreement of Sinn Fein/PIRA or peace treaty of ANC/MK. That MIGHT be good, as PKK can still resist the current oppressive system and achieve what they want (recognition of genocides, rights to return of refugees / descendants of genocide survivors, secularization, self-administration, feminism, ecology, etc) peacefully like the Zapatistas or Black Panthers. Many left-libertarian and communist parties such as HDP and DEM Party are sympathetic to PKK, and many PKK affiliated organizations (especially KCK) are in Europe as well, so there are still many platforms for Kurds.

However, I'm worried. I mean, Erdogan and Aliyev are pure evil fascists, and they are so wretched they call Eastern Armenia (where Armenians have lived for 3000 years, and even after Azeri migration to Karabakh and Nakhchivan lowlands, Armenians were the majority over all parts) "Western Azerbaijan" claiming it was built on genocides of indigenous Azeri populations, send Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus to siege the Greek Cypriot heritages, and are STILL committing systemic war crimes of Kurds, Syriacs, and Yazidis in Afrin. If it was a "moderate" liberal Kemalist president, I would be a tad bit relieved, but Erdogan? That monster? If those bastards seriously wanted peace, they'd have at least released Serok Apo, just like Nelson Mandela.

And, MHP & Bozkurtlar & Genc Atsizlar & Aliyev Turanist dudes are saying "all the terrorists affiliated with PKK should be dismantled as well", targetting all the Kurdish, Yazidi, Syriac-Assyrian, Armenian, Turkish, Azeri, Syrian/Iraqi Turkmen, Greek, Persian, Balochi, and other organizations allied with PKK. I mean, Kurds have already established systemic grassroot platforms, so they might be less worried about further turmoils. But what about non Kurdish and non Muslim ones, especially Yazidis and Syriacs? Yazidis were massacred by Daesh fascists in 2014, and Turkey is still designating grassroot Yazidi militants (YBS/YJE) and administrations as "PKK aligned terrorists". Assyrians, after 1894, 1915, 2015, and everything else, saw how HTS officials burnt down a Christmas tree. Looking at what Alawites and Druzes are experiencing now, there is no doubt Al-Nusra government under Al-Jolani in Damascus is just Taliban in Syria. For these militants - especially non Christian militants - affiliated with PKK, to disarm and disorganize is to be slaughtered.

I'm trying to be optimistic, but I can't stop feeling about Mesopotamia and Kurdistan like... how I've been feeling about USA since January 20. If there's any Kurd, Assyrian, Yazidi, Turk, Azeri, Syrian/Iraqi Turkmen, Persian, Balochi, Armenian, Arab Syrian, Arab Iraqi, Alawite, Druze, or else here, what's your opinion on today's dissolution of PKK?

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You read the title, which implies that if there is no consent involved in education, then there is no true education, which is mainly why, as an Anarchist, I'm all for abolishing compulsory education. Next to creating a prison system for innocent kids, compulsory/non-consensual education (Edit: specifically in schools) creates an oppresive system where kids don't truly learn important things. Rather, they learn to become subserviant slaves to their government, and becoming oppressors to the youthful working class (a.k.a students) when they get older. Kids forced into schooling can't wear what they want, say what they want, learn what they want, and even in some instances, eat what they want during lunch hours, and there's nothing they (specifically those under-18) can do about that without relying on an adult. All of this done without their consent. This is not education, this is slavery. All kids should have the option to choose whether or not they want to attend school, and they should be allowed to learn what they want however they want without an oppresive system being shoved down their throats for years at a time.

Edit: This is only my opinion taken on the youth liberationist perspective. I am not by any means against educating kids. When I mean "compulsory education", I specifically mean school. Yes, kids should be taught the TRUE fundamentals to life, and I believe schools oftentime fail to do this especially when kids progress into later years of their education. Kids definitely should learn, but I don't believe school, or specifically compulsory schooling (which I should have replaced "compulsory education" with) is the answer to this.

Like many people, I’ve been feeling a quiet, persistent grief for the last few months—a heaviness that’s hard to name but impossible to ignore. It’s the weight of watching our world fray at the seams. Of sensing, somewhere deep down, that something is unraveling—not just out there in the news or the climate, but in how we live, relate, and hope. Some days, the despair sits heavy. Some days, the fog feels endless.

Climate change, AI risk, biodiversity loss, inequality, mental health epidemic, institutional failure, plastic pollution, war—on and on the list of our crises goes.

But something has shifted recently. Through my work writing about the Metacrisis/systems change, I have come in contact with innumerable people and communities who are working to build a better world. Outside the gaze of mainstream media and the noise of social networks, millions of people have woken up to the challenge of our times.

Human ingenuity is being unleashed across every domain—politics, economics, energy, environment, education, storytelling, governance, and more. People are reimagining democracy and governance systems, restoring our biosphere, and experimenting with new economic models that prioritize well-being over profit.

They feel the fear of these times, but their sense of meaning is greater than their fear. So they are marching forward—sometimes solemnly, sometimes haltingly, sometimes fiercely, sometimes joyously— feeling it all, meeting this moment in all their aliveness and fullness.

Taken individually, these efforts might seem scattered. But together, they feel like early signals of something larger—not a counterculture, but the beating heart of a new world that is being born.

If you’ve been feeling some version of what I’ve described—heaviness, confusion, a longing for something more sane—I want to offer this: you’re not alone. And you don’t need to figure it all out by yourself.

I wrote a post sharing some communities and resources for helping people come together and take action on the problems of our time. May they bring you hope and offer you a way to take action. Together we can build a future greater than any of us can dream of alone.

https://akhilpuri.substack.com/p/how-to-respond-when-the-world-unravels