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Protests in San Francisco
I was in San Francisco yesterday when I ran into some fellow anarchists staging a protest against police violence. According to one of the guys I spoke with, there were about 300 people who walked down Mission Street, eventually ending up in Union Sq...
All eyes on Greece
The anarchist movement in Greece is growing. It's fairly large right now, probably bigger than in any other country in the world. Practically every sector of the population is being radicalized, and mainstream pundits are worried that the government ...
Fucking media bias, again
Another biased mainstream newspaper article that fails to give voice to the anarchist point of view. And it's not as if this is a subject that only tangentially concerns anarchists; this is about anarchists! I'm talking, of course, about the one-side...
Update on riots in Greece
I've been doing some more research on the situation in Greece, and I've found, among other things, that, at least according to Infoshop News, that the youth killed by the police, 15-year old Andreas Grigoropoulos, was actually an anarchist, which lin...
Anti-police riots spread in Greece
From Reuters via The New York Times:ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters rampaged through Athens and the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Sunday, burning dozens of shops and vehicles in a second day of rioting after police shot dead a 15-...
Creon, you bastard!
Creon, the villain in Sophocles' classic Greek tragedy Antigone, has something to say about law and order. For those of you unfamiliar with Antigone, Creon, who is the ruler of Thebes, has sentenced his niece Antigone to death for disobeying his orde...
If only Shakespeare were an anarchist...
If someone could make the case for anarchism as eloquently as Shakespeare captured the martial spirit in Henry V, perhaps the task before us wouldn't be so monumental. Of course, if that someone existed, he or she would probably be silenced (and Shak...
O, mental slavery!
Forgive me if I appear to rant incoherently or without structure. I'm mainly just putting my thoughts into words as they come to me, and I'm not seeking anyone's approval!Something that I have noticed during my actor training this summer is how deepl...
Revolution Books in Boston
This past weekend, I stepped into Revolution Books in Boston, Massachusetts. What a joke. Bob Avakian and his Maoist goons should rename it and their Revolutionary Communist Party "No Gods, No Masters...except for Bob Avakian." What a blatant cult of...
Happy Independence Day
Two hundred twenty eight years ago, delegates from the thirteen British colonies which later became the United States of America gathered in a small room in Philadelphia, unanimously approving the Declaration of Independence, the rhetorical masterpie...
If we all hold essentially anarchist ideals, why aren't we all anarchists?
I posted two resolves (short ideological statements with an accompanying comment on which people can vote [with the options being agree, lean agree, lean against, and against] and post their own comments) on the social-networking/political discussion...
Infoshop.org needs your help
The time for mutual aid is now, comrades. Infoshop.org, the "nexus for anarchism online," to use Brad Spangler's words, has been down for a while due to lack of funding. Brad makes the case for donation eloquently:There are a variety of libertarian a...
My cousin is a Marxist, pt. 3
Once again. This may be the last post on the subject; we'll see.Cousin: I support the IWW, of course. I also support the left side in all of the events you mentioned (with the exception of anarchists vs Bolsheviks). My point was the lack of left poli...
My cousin is a Marxist, pt. 2
He's at it again.Cousin: Obviously Stalinism was and is a disaster, but even after Stalin's rule the gains of October were not entirely wiped out. Russia transformed from a worker's state to a degenerated worker's state, not to state capitalism. Stat...
My cousin is a Marxist, my brother is a fascist, and my father is a royalist!
Well, 1 for 3 is alright. My cousin really is a Marxist, and a Marxist-Leninist no less. I decided to show him an article from libcom.org and hopefully open his eyes to the flaws of Marxism-Leninism. I don't think it's working. However, I said some t...
Anarchist joke candidates - a counter-productive strategy?
Werner Scott wrote a post about some anarchist joke candidates, among other things, on his blog today, and I began to think about the actual impact of this sort of antics. Upon some reflection, I've become rather skeptical of their effectiveness.Whil...
Chomsky copyrights his material?
According to a section of his website, Chomsky.info, Noam Chomsky copyrights at least some of his intellectual "property." And he isn't just reserving the right to profit off his work, which is justifiable in my opinion; he is actually reserving the ...
Ne me libère pas, je m'en charge
Forty years later, Democracy Now! has a nice little story about the May 1968 protests in France. While a failure in the sense that capitalism still exists in France today (and that the Gaullists actually grew in power), the strikes had lasting impact...
