Anarchism

On Saturday, January 24, an ICE agent murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. In response, people drove ICE and Minneapolis police out of the neighborhood.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/33276904

Yeah basically the title. A group I am part of does not really see all the "unorganized" anarchists as part of their potential partners for action&projects. Thats why I am looking for experiences, examples and even theoretical texts that explore the cooperation of these different flavors of anarchism.

I found these small labels that I want to type stuff on and stick them around town.

I need ideas.

They can fit 150 characters at most.

Update: thanks for all the suggestions, I will definitely use some of those.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7430176

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/22192

Resistance to state terror, particularly ICE terror, is growing deeper and wider across the country. On January 23rd Minneapolis will be at the forefront of this fightback, launching the first city-wide mass strike in response to an ICE occupation of the city.

Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s (BRRN) External Education Committee (EEC) offers this editorial statement on what appears to be the opening of a new phase in the struggle against ICE.

by BRRN External Education Committee

On January 23rd, Minnesotans will make history with a mass strike demanding ICE out of their city. Teachers, healthcare staff, transit drivers, communication technicians, and other workers will stay off the job; faith leaders will rally congregants into the streets; and rapid response networks will redouble their efforts to thwart ICE from terrorizing Latino and Somali neighbors. Shutting down the city demonstrates the need for large-scale, disruptive direct action to beat back the violent advance of authoritarianism in our workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods.

In Minneapolis and around the country, the George Floyd Rebellion looms large in memory. The burning of the Third Precinct exposed how vulnerable the state’s repressive infrastructure is when confronted by overwhelming numbers. Strategically, however, the Rebellion showed the limits of large scale mobilization, even as it took on an insurrectionary character at times. Mass organizations such as tenant unions and popular assemblies in neighborhoods; student unions in schools; and militant labor unions in workplaces act to embed, sustain, and sharpen diffuse popular fury into popular power.

Without independent mass organizations that allow us to develop our own strategy to determine where social movements go next, even the most antagonistic street movements have shown themselves susceptible to pacification by NGOs, union bureaucracies, and the Democratic Party.

Millions of people disgusted with the Trump administration’s fascist maneuvers have learned vital lessons about sustaining struggle. As we highlighted in our recent conjunctural analysis, spectacular, symbolic demonstrations that released social discontent have been displaced by everyday people developing and expanding infrastructure for defense. Angelinos rapidly spread pioneering responses to National Guard and ICE deployments in Southern California during summer 2025. Chicagoans, Memphians, and now Minnesotans have adapted those tactics, techniques, and strategies to protect their neighbors against ICE surges in their cities.

Rather than standing as fodder for symbolic arrest in front of police lines, people have learned how to throw sand into the gears of state machinery. Direct action blocks ICE from kidnapping their friends and family, and it exemplifies to others how they can shape history. These actions, and others like them, have increasingly gained at least tepid support from local and state officials. Nods to backing mass civil disobedience have only come after everyday people have acted and won. The political class cannot and will not lead us; its members fearfully trail movements they anticipate “getting out of hand.”

By not just declaring, but actually building toward a general strike, workers, neighbors, and students in Minneapolis demonstrate popular power in action. This approach doesn’t rely on political brokers to act on their behalf, nor does it resort to anonymous flyers or social media posts expecting spontaneous social explosions.

A general strike takes sincere, courageous, and widespread solidarity. It takes mass and political organizations – many with which we may share sharp disagreements – working in tandem to turn out their membership and allies to buy nothing, suspend work, and disrupt business as usual. It takes dominated peoples collaborating, stumbling, and striving together.

Nothing should take away from this momentous political occasion. But we would be remiss if we didn’t forewarn that one day of widespread disruption will not throw the brakes on accelerating authoritarianism. Instead, we must sustain widespread disruption and take total control of our cities: our workplaces, neighborhoods, schools, and social institutions, of, by, and for ourselves. How might that look, and what are the steps to expand Minnesotans’ burgeoning power?

Drawing on experiences from the last two decades, including recent work to fight back ICE, we offer the following suggestions and insights we think can carry the budding popular power brewing in Minneapolis one step closer to the social revolution that will rid us of this rot.

1. Consolidate organizations for the long term: Like elsewhere, Minneapolis has grown neighborhood-based communications and networks to warn one another about ICE’s presence. Sustaining their efforts will require durable, rooted structures, like neighborhood councils, defense committees, and popular assemblies, that can take up other fights.

   Read more about how to build a popular assemblymanual and steps for kicking ICE out of your workplace.

2. Raise interim demands: Workplace policies that keep out ICE can become longer-term horizons to kick out all police forces. Demanding hotels in our neighborhoods refuse contracts with ICE impedes their ability to operate. Setting clear goals focuses energies to fight like hell and keep on the pressure.

   The example of healthcare workers in Californiademonstrate how to raise, build towards, and win intermediate gains.

3. Build a culture of mass resistance: Slogans, propaganda, study groups, and more must reiterate it is us – not bosses, politicians, administrators, or any other member of the dominating class – who can save or take care of us.

   Print flyers and pamphlets to share with your friends and in your workplaces, neighborhoods, and schools.

4. Grow principled networks of antifascist, anticapitalist, and anti-state resistance: All who stand shoulder-to-shoulder on 1/23 reject the state paramilitaries terrorizing and attacking their communities. The Trump administration’s policies are not an aberration but an outgrowth of the US empire in decay. To stop these forces once and for all, we will need to tear out its roots: capitalist exploitation and state oppression.

   Learn how organizing across political divides in the California Bay Area kept out ICE.

Workers, neighbors, and students in Minnesota are navigating uncharted waters in our modern political landscape. Their resolve shows that everyday people can stand down the federal government. As ICE terror surges, we will do all that we can to make one, two, a thousand coordinated stands in Minneapolis and wherever the state reaches its hands, and we can beat it back, once and for all.

The post The Minneapolis Mass Strike Shows the Way – Let’s Go Further appeared first on Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.

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The Russian government were suspected as being responsible as part of their hybrid war against Europe. According to the Institute for the Study of War, isolated events of explosions and arson were recorded last year in Poland, and four suspected saboteurs were detained in Latvia, Germany and the UK.

There was also speculation that the Russians had used AI to draft the confession letter. In it, the Vulkangruppe mentioned other attacks carried out under the same banner in the past decade: against “Adlerhof Technology Park, Tesla’s Gigafactory in 2021 and 2024, the infrastructure of the Vattenfall Reuter coal-fired power plant, and the Vodafone hub in Adlershof.” However, unlike all the claims of responsibility that came with those actions, the current letter did not mention the word “capitalism” even once, instead using the obscure term “imperial lifestyle”.

Participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences and reflect on how these neworks could contribute to revolutionary social change.

Recent weeks’ clashes between Syrian state forces and Kurdish forces have developed into a multi-front assault on Rojava, threatening open war as a means of forcing it to integrate into an Islamist state structure. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are resisting sustained attacks using drones and heavy weapons by Damascus-affiliated militias in Hasakeh and Raqqa, including near two prisons housing thousands of Islamic State (ISIS) fighters. SDF confirmed that repeated assaults on al-Shaddadi prison were initially repelled at heavy cost before the facility ultimately fell with thousands of ISIS fighters escaping, despite its proximity to a US-led coalition base that did not intervene.

Cases of long-term infiltrators employed by authorities in the 21st century.

Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section C.8 of AFAQ the following 2(!) weeks, which is about fs state control of money is the cause of the business cycle! I will update the title each week and I will re-ping you here each week.

Happy reading!

• Section C.8: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionC.html#secc8

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This is an important essay to read, especially as the social media experiment reaches critical mass and alternatives seem to be fumbling around.

In 1994 early online advocate Carmen Hermosillo wrote this essay based on her experiences with the early online communities, in which she was able eerily predict the commodification of social interactions, and the current state of social media.

Includes a very interesting section in the middle how community organizing is very efficient at stopping violence and how they do it.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7327823

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/19473

Two Forgotten Historians of American Anarchism thecollective Tue, 01/13/2026 - 04:07

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First of all, I have no intention of taking or promoting any side here, because I'm not well informed enough about what has happened since 2022... however, before getting burned out of the internet somewhen by the end of the last decade, I used to follow a lot of anarchist collectives. I was on Riseup and Autistici mailing lists, and I remember reading a lot about everything that was happening in Ukraine directly from the anarchists there, the protests being led by openly fascist paramilitary groups like the C14, Svoboda, Tryzub, Pravy Sektor, the SNA that became the Azov Battalion, tons of pictures and videos documenting everything and everyone, even American Blackwater mercenaries operating in the country. These fascist groups clashing with socialists, setting fire to union buildings and shooting people trying to escape, and now it's hard to even find references to these groups and their actions on the internet, like it was sanitized (not so long ago, I also had trouble finding some materials from antizionist rabbis I had read back in the mid-2000s, I actually just found accusations of them being antisemitic on main search engines, so I really believe there is a lot of fuckery going on to control information)... and I'm afraid if I start talking about Donetsk and Lugansk I might get accused of something, so never mind.

I'm mentioning it because it has been only a few months since I joined Lemmy, and I've seen some controversy about accusations of nazis in Ukrainian lines, like it's tankie propaganda or that Dugin shit... but, uh, back when pro-EU factions took the government, the anarchists had documented the nazis very well... is there a generational gap of information here? How many people were following anarchist press (not the shit you'd find on Twitter, Tumblr, or whatever) back in 2014?

ps: I'm not here to discuss Russia.

edit: fixed some grammar mistakes I noticed, but I'm no native speaker.

I enjoy books more than internet essays. Sue me.

Everyone could always stand to read more, I think gelderloos is a reactionary shithead who deserves to be trampled to death by a horde of escaped cattle slaves, have read bookchin and graeber and enjoyed them both.

I've also read most of C. Scott's work which is interesting generally although the man seemed a bit incoherent.

Who are some modern anarchist authors worth reading? Give me your difficult academic texts where I'll have to check 200 references. I fucking love them!

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7300137

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/18869

The Political Repression and Resistance of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca thecollective Sat, 01/10/2026 - 06:50

This week, an interview we just conducted with Madeleine Wattenbarger and Axel Hernández of the Cooperativa de Periodismo in Mexico and Ambar Ruiz of Radio Zapote about the case of autonomous resistance and repression in the Mazateca community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón in Oaxaca, Mexico, so named for being the birthplace of the Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón, revolutionary Mexican anarchist who was murdered by medical neglect by the US prison system in 1922 (check out our 2022 episode on the history).

We talk about the rise to economic and political power of the family of Manuel Zepeda and his daughter Elena, their weaponization of the judiciary against community defenders resisting a hijacking in 2014 of the traditional community assembly and the years of organizing by Mazateca women whose loved ones face long prison sentences. We also speak about the case of Miguel Peralta, a Mazateca anarchist challenging his 5 decade sentence related to this case, as well as the recent murder by medical neglect while in prison of militant anarcho-punk Yorch Esquivel at the hands of the Mexican state at the behest of UNAM.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7299785

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/18867

Iranian anarchists: Uprising is “genuine self-organisation by ordinary people” thecollective Sat, 01/10/2026 - 06:43

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Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section C.7 of AFAQ this week which is about what causes the capitalist business cycle!

Happy reading!

• Section C.7: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionC.html#secc7

There is also an EPUB version of AFAQ, courtesy of @irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com: here

If you'd like to join, please comment and we'll ping you next post.

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Finally some good fucking news 🏴🏴🏴

Rough idea made on a whim. Constructive and critical feedback welcome. Better memes depicting the idea even more welcome.

Image: A gloved hand peeling an Anarchy sticker off Malarchy.

Text: Malarchy masquerades as Anarchy, to look good, and make Anarchy look bad.

For one real world example among many, to consider stop falling for: Those palates of bricks that big money conveniently deliver to bank/capitalism protests.

Heh, I wonder how "over the target" this is, and gets heavily downvoted by agents and unwitting assets not liking the reveal or invite to scrutiny. ;)

[Edit: Since "Malarchy"'s not nearly as well known or as immediately understood as I imagined,

Mal-Archy, is a bit of a portmanteau made of:

mal

• 1. Evil; disease.
• 2. A prefix of Latin origin, through French (equivalent to dys- or caco- of Greek origin), meaning ‘bad,’ and implying usually imperfection or deficiency, and often simply a negative, as in malodor, a bad odor, malfeasance, bad- or wrong-doing, malformation, imperfect shape, maladroit, not adroit, malcontent, not content, etc. The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such.

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archy

• 1. A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.

Archy, ruled by.

Mal, bad.

And it's like "Malarkey", deceptive foolishness too. But with more dominating unjust power overtones.

Malarchy. ]

PS, While I'm at it... Some relevant quotes:

"Governments have always used the pretext of ‘public safety’ to suppress dissent. They create the very chaos they claim to fight, so they can pose as saviors." -- Errico Malatesta

"The history of the State is the history of violence, but it is also the history of lies—lies told to the people to make them accept their own enslavement." -- Peter Kropotkin

"Every act of government violence is wrapped in the flag and sold as patriotism. The State’s greatest trick is making people believe that their oppressors are their protectors." -- Emma Goldman

"States don’t just respond to crises—they need crises. They need enemies, real or invented, to justify their existence. The ‘war on terror’ is just the latest version of a very old game." -- David Graeber

"The first revolutionist is the State itself. It revolts against its own principles, against its own lies, to better enslave us under new disguises." -- Mikhail Bakunin

"The most effective way to neutralize a radical idea is to take its symbols, drain them of meaning, and sell them back to the people as a commodity." -- David Graeber

"The worst enemies of anarchy are not its open opponents, but those who pretend to be anarchists while serving the interests of the powerful." -- Errico Malatesta

"Beware those who wrap themselves in the red flag to hide their betrayal." -- Gustave Lefrançais

"They fear our ideas, so they steal our symbols." -- Anonymous

"The State’s favorite anarchist is a fake one."

"Real anarchy threatens power. Fake anarchy is power."

"They wear our symbols like costumes… but their script is written by the State

"The State is nothing but a vast machine for the oppression of the masses, a machine that lives on lies and thrives on the ignorance of the people." -- Mikhail Bakunin

"Fascism and capitalism are not opposites—they are partners in the same crime. One gives the orders, the other provides the guns. Both rely on your fear, your confusion, and your obedience. Do not believe their lies. Do not obey their commands. Think for yourself, act for yourself, and trust only in solidarity." -- Errico Malatesta

[Edit: oh... I already added this to the end too... Why was that other responder requesting... "You can post 10000 quotes but not just tell us what you mean with “Malarchy”? "Oh... their intention was on the "just"... as in to rid the quotes... no wait, but why did they also say I can add 10,000 quotes... I'm very confused... their answer was already there... why were they~ ugh, never mind. Well, it's now added above as well as beneath the anarchists' quotes depicting malarchy; power/archy's deceitfulness. Surely there wont be a third responder asking what's malarchy now, since that's been well covered here at least 3 or 4 times now. Unless they're just up to more malarchy.]

mal noun

Evil; disease. A prefix of Latin origin, through French (equivalent to dys- or caco- of Greek origin), meaning ‘bad,’ and implying usually imperfection or deficiency, and often simply a negative, as in malodor, a bad odor, malfeasance, bad- or wrong-doing, malformation, imperfect shape, maladroit, not adroit, malcontent, not content, etc. The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such. (Oh, I did not know that… “The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such.” Interesting. And I dare say, fitting, what with all the revolutionary spirit in France.)

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archy adjective

Arched. archy brows A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch. Archy, ruled by.

Mal, bad.

Part 2 here

Hey all! Does anyone have any good direct action tactic guides on starting unions? I am considering starting one, but I am lost as to where to begin in terms of the actual process. Thanks in advance!