Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section C.3 of AFAQ this week, which is about what determines the distribution between labour and capital!

Happy reading!

• Section C.3: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionC.html#secc3

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6943504

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/11749

The voice of an anarchist who fled Ukraine to escape mobilization and war thecollective Thu, 12/04/2025 - 15:10

Mainstream media and even some “anarchist” or “radical left” media outlets bombard us with reports about soldiers on the front lines, but stubbornly refuse to listen to the voices of those who reject war and violent mobilization for war purposes. We take a different approach. We prefer to give space to the voices of those who fled the war rather than to hypocrites who describe the war as a liberation struggle.

Viatcheslav is an anarchist who fled mobilization. To quote him: “I refused to join the army and fled at the beginning of the war in 2022. It’s not that I particularly like Putin’s regime; I know very well that he is a dictator and that under his regime I would have no freedom and, as an anarchist, my life would even be in danger. But I have no desire to sacrifice my life so that the Ukrainian bourgeoisie can enjoy their privileges, so that the sons of oligarchs my age can continue to sunbathe on the beaches of Odessa while I tremble with fear in a trench, waiting to be bombed by a drone. War is also a class issue: if you are rich, it is very easy to obtain a medical certificate and be exempted from going to the front. That is not my case. It is not fair. That is why I decided to leave. Here in France, I was not welcomed with open arms.”

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I’ve been struggling when it comes to helping with youth rights so I dedicated a forum to the subject I just need people to post and help, especially when it comes to advertising so i decided to go for the best of the best anarchists, to ask for help in promoting it If anyone can give me extra advice too that would help. I feel as if youth rights are falling behind in the anarchist community

Hey all, I'm hoping this is the right comm for this kind of post. I'm really interested what brought my fellow lemmings to anarchism (or just radical politics in general). Was is a youtube video? A book? A conversation IRL or on the internet? For me personally it was a friend IRL who introduced me to an local anarchist collective.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6832731

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/9388

Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.

The post The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine appeared first on The Intercept.

Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment in response to a July 4 noise demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, during which a police officer was shot.

There are numerous problems with the indictment, but perhaps the most glaring is its inclusion of charges against a Dallas artist who wasn’t even at the protest. Daniel “Des” Sanchez is accused of transporting a box that contained “Antifa materials” after the incident, supposedly to conceal evidence against his wife, Maricela Rueda, who was there.

But the boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever MAGA officials claim “Antifa” uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets. Some contain controversial ideas — one was titled “Insurrectionary Anarchy” — but they’re fully constitutionally protected free speech. The case demonstrates the administration’s intensifying efforts to criminalize left-wing activists after Donald Trump announced in September that he was designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization” — a legal designation that doesn’t exist for domestic groups — following the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Sanchez was first indicted in October on charges of “corruptly concealing a document or record” as a standalone case, but the new indictment merges his charges with those against the other defendants, likely in hopes of burying the First Amendment problems with the case against him under prosecutors’ claims about the alleged shooting.

It’s an escalation of a familiar tactic. In 2023, Georgia prosecutors listed “zine” distribution as part of the conspiracy charges against 61 Stop Cop City protesters in a sprawling RICO indictment that didn’t bother to explain how each individual defendant was involved in any actual crime. I wrote back then about my concern that this wasn’t just sloppy overreach, but also a blueprint for censorship. Those fears have now been validated by Sanchez’s prosecution solely for possessing similar literature.

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a group of 150 or so ARAS members, who had gathered from all over greece for this purpose, came early in the morning to the campus under the direction of their much older leader. they were coordinated, wearing armor under their matching jackets, helmets, and carrying clubs. as one of them began filming, the ARAS guys formed a tight linked-arm cordon around the 30 or so anarchists, kettling them, and began loudly (falsely) accusing the anarchists of having knives, molotovs, etc, to make sure the other gathered leftists around the campus could hear, and shouting "you will not squat."

this is already bizarre behavior, uncharacteristic behavior, and to say the least inappropriate. then, the leader of ARAS shouted "helmets," and the ARAS troops donned their protective helmets and mounted their attack on the unprepared and unarmed anarchist students.

at different times over the years here, anarchists and communists have clashed in the streets or at parties. i am on the anarchist side but i don't like the "sports team" mindset some have about such things. every time it is a disgrace that it happens, but even according to those who've witnessed some of the worst, it has never been as vicious, one-sided and prolonged as happened this morning. sometimes the "clash" is a shoving match-- during a demonstration turned riot, some anarchists are fleeing a charging line of police and the communists link arms to block their way. then the communists stand back and let the police do beatings on the anarchists. this has not happened recently but used to be more common.

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MLs never understand why Greek anarchists have such visceral reaction against tankies. It's a rough lesson learned many times.

Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section C.2 of AFAQ the following 4(!) weeks! I will update the title each week and I will re-ping you here each week.

Happy reading!

• Section C.2: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionC.html#secc2

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From The Grapes of Wrath:

One man, one family driven from the land; this rusty car creaking along the highway to the west. I lost my land, a single tractor took my land. I am alone and I am bewildered. And in the night one family camps in a ditch and another family pulls in and the tents come out. The two men squat on their hams and the women and children listen. Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each other. Here is the anlage of the thing you fear. This is the zygote. For here “I lost my land” is changed; a cell is split and from its splitting grows the thing you hate—” We lost our land.” The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely and perplexed as one. And from this first “we” there grows a still more dangerous thing: “I have a little food” plus “I have none.” If from this problem the sum is “We have a little food,” the thing is on its way, the movement has direction. Only a little multiplication now, and this land, this tractor are ours. The two men squatting in a ditch, the little fire, the side- meat stewing in a single pot, the silent, stone- eyed women; behind, the children listening with their souls to words their minds do not understand. The night draws down. The baby has a cold. Here, take this blanket. It’s wool. It was my mother’s blanket— take it for the baby. This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning— from “I” to “we.”

If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into “I,” and cuts you off forever from the “we.”

https://www.antihate.ca/white_nationalist_organizing_exiles_golden_age_identify

Do you also find yourselves defending communist positions because they are misunderstood by most people? Do you also find yourselves specifying the type of anarchism you refer to because most people have a conception of anarchy as simply chaotic rebellion?

Personally, I find it more effective to define myself as an anarcho-communist in order to emphasize the concept of anarchy as a structure and to highlight the concept of communism as a proletarian organizational tool.

Used to go in to quiet places, remove the non sticky side of stickers and place them on electricity poles, churches and government buildings, usually these places arent really that active, so all good. But afraid of doing more RN, got any tips?

Cross-posted from "antifa by Sophie Labelle" by @Deceptichum@quokk.au in !comics@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I'm some good anarchist podcasts to listen to. What would you guys recommend? Big plus if they have an RSS feed link.

I can see the harms automation does in a capitalist society by putting people out of jobs, but what about in an anarchist society? By automation I am only talking about robotic automation for the production and delivery of goods or for services, not artificial intelligence or LLMs.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/29017365

I would like to connect. Maybe discuss direct action opportunities and share literature. If you are not Iraqi and have any information about active iraqi or arabic speaking anarchist communities please share. the anarchist movement is nonexistent in iraq but i know there are individual anarchists afraid of speaking.

Hey y'all! ~~Here we are reading and discussing Sections C.1-C.1.1 of AFAQ this week! We still take it slow, so we might do C.1 (and C in general) in a slower pace until we start to catch up again.~~

Edit: Here we are reading and discussing Section C.1 of AFAQ the following 4(!) weeks! We are taking it slow until we start to catch up again. I will update the title each week and I will re-ping you here each week.

Happy reading!

• Section C.1: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionC.html#secc1

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I know that anarchism, specifically anarcho-communism and marxism are very different. People always talk about their main difference being that they have a different means of achieving their goals but the same end goal , but that's definitely not true. So what are some of the ways they are different?

Hey y'all! We supposedly finished Section B last week! Off to C we go:)

Since I think many of us, if not all, are behind, we'll take it a bit slow, so here we are reading and discussing Section C.0 (the introduction of C) of AFAQ this week!

Happy reading!

• Section C.0: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionB.html#secc0

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Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Sections B.4-B.7 of AFAQ this week! These are the last parts of Section B. Next week we move on Section C (theoretically at least, I don't know how many are catching up haha).

Happy reading!

• Section B.4: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionB.html#secb4
• Section B.5: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionB.html#secb5
• Section B.6: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionB.html#secb6
• Section B.7: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionB.html#secb7

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/34631928

Just came across this croudfunded cooperative publishing house.

https://bio.site/egalite_publishing_house

Apparently, they translate books into Russian, but also reach out to prominent authors with original material writing proposals (learned about them from one of the philosophers they commissioned), just like regular publishing institutions. The quality of publications looks impressive, something for general public, not just us punks. And all within one of the most oppressive and totalitarian societies.

I suppose this is an example of an activist success to learn from?