Raid warnings the evening of April 30 proved to be a false alarm. The daytime scene was quite peaceful. This was two days after an attempted late-night police raid was driven off and unarrests made. Note the piled up police barricades, ripped down as protesters went from defense to offense after the…
April 30 was Day 2 of the Palestine solidarity encampment (tents and all) at University of South Florida in Tampa. Remembering the failed police attack the day before, this time police used far more force Protesters had shield too, but not enough for everyone and obviously didnât have enough if any…
Around the world, the people of several countries find themselves engaged in fratracidal warfare, killing others in the name of various conflicts, usually created by those in power. Those who have interests to fight do so to gain or to serve an ideology or national hatred stoked in the people. These…
Next week, two readings from the hills: Herman Melvilleâs âBartleby, The Scrivenerâ paired with Ădouard Glissantâs âFor Opacityâ. Hope youâll join us â yes, YOU.
Submission So, there was an encampment that was sprung up on the Penn campus on Thursday, April 25th. Guess I love the enthusiasm? Itâs being put on by a couple different orgs Iâm thinking. One thing I know for sure is itâs definitely a young crowd. Which, is cool, love to see younger folx doing…
Submission Calling all neighbors, organizers, radicals, militants, anarchists, outside agitators, and people of conscience to converge upon the UPenn Gaza Solidarity Encampment. The students, faculty, and neighbors who initiated the occupation on Pennâs campus took a definitive step toward liberation…
Madame Germen was a legendary band from the city of A CoruĂąa in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. During their brief existence from 2002 to 2005, they released three albums, all sung in their native Galician language and imbued with lyrics charged with harsh social and political criticism…
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From Philly Metro Area WSA Dear Comrades, you are warmly invited to attend! This Wednesday, May 1st , at 8:30 EDT Here is the link: [link] Opening Song by Martin Traphagen: âArrivalâ Annual One-Minute May Day Speech, by Rebecca Croog Heath Care Workersâ Struggles Haymarket Historical Quotes Relaxed…
The First of May is the date we remember Anarchists murdered by the State in Chicago. 137 years ago, these Anarchists, influential in the workers movement, helped lead a movement for the 8 hour day, in preparation for social revolution. Â A date of May 1st 1886 was set by the workers movement in the…
Errico MalatestaTo favour popular organisations of all kinds is the logical consequence of our fundamental ideas and, thus, should be an integral part of our programme. Ricardo Flores MagĂłn If [the revolutionary] lacks the guiding idea of their action, they will not be anything other than a ship without…
Corrected-FINAL-draft-IWW-Upstate-statement-32-hrs-week-1Download James Connolly Upstate NY IWW wants to greet all workers of the world on this International Workersâ Day. We believe that the 1st of May should be a holiday in the US as it is in many countries worldwide. International Workersâ Day…
EspĂrito Santo, Brazil â Providing an update from Brazil, we look at new happenings in four stories that Unicorn Riot has explored in the past; post-slavery commemorations, police killings, Bolsonaroâs legal troubles and the murder of Councilmember Marielle Franco. Celebrating the Queimado Insurrection…
From It Could Happen Here Andrew walks Mia through the oft forgotten history of anarchism is South Africa. Speaker 1 (00:01): All the media. Speaker 2 (00:04): Welcome to grappen Here. I'm Andrew SI to a future channel Andreism. I'm joined by Mia Wong. Speaker 1 (00:12): Did not miss your que this time…
Note on the Author Marcus Grahamâs name is well known to the militant working class movement in the United States and Canada, but he may need some introduction to English readers. During the last war he spoke at many meetings against conscription and the war in Montreal, and later edited an underground…
A report on the encampment at Arizona State University (ASU) in so-called Tempe, Arizona. Originally published on Living and Fighting. A comrade and I arrived at Arizona State University around 11 am on Friday, April 26, hoping to witness, support, and participate in the campus occupation in solidarity…
Reflection on the importance of supporting the growing anti-war movement. Before a reader jumps to any preconditioned presumption, Iâll qualify as such: I was raised in a relatively conservative Jewish household. I am a longtime Sonoran Desert dweller, I earned three degrees at the University of Arizona…
A look at the university as a historical site of conflict and in the current wave of struggle in solidarity with Palestine. As Israelâs brutal genocide against the Palestinian people and Palestine itself continues past the 200-day mark, students around the so-called United States have risen up and…
A personal rejection of Zionism and a critique of the recuperation of anti-Semitism. âIt galls me that a new Fascism should choose to use the experience of the victims of the earlier Fascism among its justifications.â âFredy Perlman I couldnât have imagined that the genocidal will of the Israeli…
Jackdaw May Day 2024 edition is out. With An Open Letter to Anti-Militarists, History of Mayday, and the Land Reform Bill. Get it from your usual places. Facebook Twitter Reddit WhatsApp Email
Security forces in junta-led Burkina Faso summarily executed more than 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in the northern villages of Nondin and Soro in February, according to a Human Rights Watch report. The report says the massacres are among the worst atrocities carried out during the…
Four people, including an infant and its two grandparents (aged 60 and 55), were killed in a fiery crash during a police pursuit involving multiple police vehicles on Highway 401 in Whitby, Ontario, on April 29, 2024. The person being chased was also killed. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) reports…
From the book Socialism insists on humanity from Abdullah Ăcalan On April 21, 1856, Australian workers protested for 8 hours of work, when they were working 12 to 14 hours. When the workers realized that their actions brought results, all year on that day they held demonstrations to fulfill their wishes…
Alexander Sapundzhiev was born on February 18th, 1893 in the village of Boboshevo in Bulgaria. Whilst at high school in 1911at Kyustendil, a town noted for being an anarchist stronghold, he came in contact with libertarian ideas and joined a student anarchist group. Soon after he had his first article…
This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Jordana (Jordy) Silverstein [X/Twitter]. Jordy is an academic based in Melbourne/Naarm and the author of Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders (Monash University Publishing, 2023) and Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities…
