Forwarded from Freedom News
As I translate his voluminous work, I am beginning to encounter a different Proudhon, who often seems to haunt the conversation when I tell other anarchists what I’m working on.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/20/will-the-real-proudhon-please-stand-up/
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/20/will-the-real-proudhon-please-stand-up/
Freedom News
Will the real Proudhon please stand up? - Freedom News
Instead of anarchist lore, we need historical context and an open mind ~ Shawn P Wilbur ~ It’s challenging to think about Pierre-Joseph Proudhon today: like it or not, we struggle with him in his role as a progenitor, precursor, pioneer, as the first to…
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Forwarded from Freedom News
Mutual aid and local organising could be crucial in the next few years, as well as intergenerational learning among anarchists and activists.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/23/do-it-yourselves-and-take-care-of-each-other/
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/23/do-it-yourselves-and-take-care-of-each-other/
Freedom News
Do It Yourselves and take care of each other - Freedom News
Reflections on three decades of environmental activism ~ Helen Baczkowska ~ The first thing to do was to re-arrange the furniture—what was set out for a speaker and audience quickly became a rough circle. After all, a discussion means listening to many stories…
[Slovakia]
There are massive street protests against Fico going on right now.
Here's a link to live video
https://tvnoviny.sk/domace/clanok/948348-sledujeme-online-bratislavske-namestie-praska-vo-svikoch-organizatori-protestov-ziadaju-premiera-fica-aby-odstupil
[Via Reddebrek]
There are massive street protests against Fico going on right now.
Here's a link to live video
https://tvnoviny.sk/domace/clanok/948348-sledujeme-online-bratislavske-namestie-praska-vo-svikoch-organizatori-protestov-ziadaju-premiera-fica-aby-odstupil
[Via Reddebrek]
tvnoviny.sk
V Bratislave protestovalo proti vláde 60-tisíc ľudí | TVNOVINY.sk
Séria protestných zhromaždení v piatok (24. 1.) podvečer pokračovala. Zhromaždenia sa konali v mestách po celom Slovensku.
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[Antigua and Barbuda]
Gaston Browne’s goons are out in full force to enforce the illegal enclosure of the Barbudan commons. This is what the Caribbean political class that talks “reparations” and “climate justice” truly represents.
(h/t Mohammid Walbrook on Facebook)
[Via Clash! Voices for Caribbean Federation from Below]
Gaston Browne’s goons are out in full force to enforce the illegal enclosure of the Barbudan commons. This is what the Caribbean political class that talks “reparations” and “climate justice” truly represents.
(h/t Mohammid Walbrook on Facebook)
[Via Clash! Voices for Caribbean Federation from Below]
[Syntagma Square, Athens, Greece]
Tens of thousands of Greeks gathered in front of the Parliament in Athens on demanding Justice for the 57 victims of the train disaster in Tempi.
Police inevitably took to violence to control the people, which Greeks don't take lying down.
Photos by Alexis Daloumis
[on Twitter: @Alexis_Daloumis]
Tens of thousands of Greeks gathered in front of the Parliament in Athens on demanding Justice for the 57 victims of the train disaster in Tempi.
Police inevitably took to violence to control the people, which Greeks don't take lying down.
Photos by Alexis Daloumis
[on Twitter: @Alexis_Daloumis]
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[Mexico City, Mexico]
From the streets of Hong Kong, Sidi Bouzid, Manchester, New York, street venders are often the first to face police aggression in the wave of authoritarianism.
Working class people, making unregulated income, we "aesthetically ruin" some toffs walk.
So it is in Alameda Central, the oldest public park in the Americas.
[h/t Ghost of Durruti]
From the streets of Hong Kong, Sidi Bouzid, Manchester, New York, street venders are often the first to face police aggression in the wave of authoritarianism.
Working class people, making unregulated income, we "aesthetically ruin" some toffs walk.
So it is in Alameda Central, the oldest public park in the Americas.
[h/t Ghost of Durruti]
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Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
It's Safer in the Front
Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation.
But this is not always the most effective strategy.
https://crimethinc.com/saferinthefront
“Counterintuitively, in a confusing situation, often the best, if not safest, place to be is the front lines, so you can see what is going on around you.”
Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation.
But this is not always the most effective strategy.
https://crimethinc.com/saferinthefront
“Counterintuitively, in a confusing situation, often the best, if not safest, place to be is the front lines, so you can see what is going on around you.”
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