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What’s new this week written by chisel, read by chisel and chuckles
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A E S T H E T I C w/ Max and Octox
Trick or treat?
While some people roam the streets, going door-to-door merrily busking for candy, anarchists take to the streets to do direct action. For some, direct action means patching potholes, for others, it means littering. Is being an anarchist about being the house that gives the best candy? Or is it about who TPs the house that gives the best candy or who makes the best prank? Would you rather be feared or be loved? To be remembered fondly, or to live in infamy? Why not both?
From The Commoner by Simoun Magsalin
If the anarchisms of the earlier period were totally demobilized, what then are the roots of the contemporary anarchist milieu in the Philippines today? I observe four factors involved in the mobilisation and emergence of the contemporary anarchist milieu in the Philippines.
from Athens Indymedia, via raddle.me, translated by cretin
Original title: Athens, Greece: The sledgehammer offensive continues! 2 more banks attacked in solidarity with anarchist comrades G. Kalaitzidis and N. Mataragas [English translations of claims of responsibility + Videos of the attacks]
from Bristol ABC
Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone was sentenced to 3 years 9 months in prison for 8 drug offences at Bristol Crown Court on October 13, 2021 after Terrorism charges were dropped. He has already served 8 months of this sentence on remand.
from Center for a Stateless Society by Eric Fleischmann
Laurance Labadie’s “Anarchism Applied to Economics”
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Announcing: The Laurance Labadie Archival Project
While Anarchism is, in one sense, not a constructed philosophy, that is, not a “system,” anarchists stand firm “constructively” in the position above stated. What form voluntary associations which anarchists contemplate will take, remains for the future to evince. Anarchism primarily, is not an economic arrangement but a social philosophy based upon the conclusion that man is happy and independent in proportion to the freedom he experiences and can maintain.
from belsat.eu
Original title: Political prisoner Mikita Yemyalyanau on hunger strike for two weeks
Mikita Yemyalyanau was placed in a disciplinary cell for 20 days; two weeks ago, he started hunger-striking, the human rights centre Viasna reports.
from opendemocracy.net
Drawings by Belarusian political prisoners
Drawings sent to friends and family by Belarusian political prisoners, detained in a crackdown after the 2020 elections, provide an insight into their lives
from Athens Indymedia, via raddle.me, translated by cretin
Original title: Athens, Greece: More sledgehammer attacks against banks in solidarity with anarchist comrades G. Kalaitzidis and N. Mataragas (English translations of claims of responsibility + Videos of both actions)
from Cybernetic Marxists
In which we read and discuss "Anarchist Cybernetics", by Thomas Swann.
From hyperallergic
Anarchist illustrator N.O. Bonzo produces decentralized media in a highly bureaucratic cultural landscape. Their illustrations, murals, and literature emerge in unexpected places, from the streets of Portland, Oregon, to the far ends of Reddit and Twitter, addressing relations of labor and identity in the workplace and on the streets.
via It's Going Down
On the resurgence of housing struggle in the Netherlands
Our latest contribution comes from an anarchist in the Netherlands, and details the positions and possibilities of an exciting resurgence of housing struggle there after a decade of relative quiet. For those interested in the history of squatting in the Netherlands, we recommend this brief section (starting page 111) from The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life by Georgy Katsiaficas, published by AK Press.
Original Title: Athens, Greece: 3 arson attacks on aristocratic cars in Pefki area for the dead by cops in Perama
The answer to every state assassination and state repression should be fire. As an initial reaction we chose to reflexively attack the peaceful aristocrats of the northern suburbs because the repression is class and so are state assassinations.
Original title: Athens, Greece: Anarchists march in Perama Piraeus area in Athens after the execution of an 18-year-old by 7 cops
Perama: Microphone, gathering and a march took place after a call by the Anarchist Group of Perama on the afternoon of Sunday, October 24, 2021, starting from Heroes Square, two blocks away from the police station and the local offices of New Democracy, which were “tabooed” behind three MAT [riot cops] cages and an Aura (Water cannon )
From: https://raddle.me/wiki/dualpower
Dual power was coined by Lenin to describe two powers (the Soviets and the existing government) temporarily coexisting with each other and competing for legitimacy with the ultimate goal of the Soviets expelling the other power and seizing control of the state (to install state capitalism / one party dictatorship).
