"The 'War On Terrorism' was always a war OF terrorism. A mutual symbiosis. The empire bombed and the islamists bombed in response." - @rechelon.bsky.social
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“Anarchism means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality…the development of the individual and the assertion of the individual…self-responsibility, not leader worship.”
Voltairine de Cleyre
#InternationalWomensDay
"I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things. Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything."
Emma Goldman
#InternationalWomensDay
1) don’t snitch should be standard.
2) supporting people facing charges who don’t snitch, and maintaining a culture of such practice makes it a lot easier for people to not snitch.
On a NEW episode of Mutual Exchange Radio, host @zacharywoodman.bsky.social interviews @kevincarson1.bsky.social about his study "The Methodenstreit Revisited: Marginalism and the Lost Power Context."
They discuss social science, political economy, landlordism, and more👇
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zine cover of our interview "Science, Radical Realism & Anarchy with William Gillis | The Final Straw Radio - January 25, 2026" text over black and white charts with spirales and overlapping circles
Revealed!: the transcribed zine of our interview with William Gillis (@rechelon.bsky.social) on their @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social book about The Science Wars, Radical Realism and anarchism.
Check it out alongside many more zines at tfsr.media/zines/#Janua...
“Abolish the tariffs, issue no patents[,] take down the bars from unoccupied land, and labor will straightway rush in and take possession of its own. Then mankind will live in freedom and in comfort.”
- Benjamin Tucker
It's not an excuse for cooperation, but the federal government has clearly extracted bullshit confessions under conditions that meet the definition of torture—incl extreme isolation, sexual violence, physical and emotional abuse, and the withholding of appropriate food and medical care.
Read more about this case in @theintercept.com's article by Jeremy Busby, @joinjeremy.org, in partnership with FPF:
Prison-style free speech censorship is coming for the rest of us: The government wants to make it illegal to possess literature it deems dangerous
Follow @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social for updates.
The US government is trying to criminalize anarchism in the Prairieland case.
Several defendants are cooperating.
Do not give in to this fascist regime.
Keep paying attention, speaking out, and doing what's right.
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This week, in the Prairieland case, Texas prosecutors are attempting to equate anarchism with terrorism.
While masked thugs in plainclothes assault and abduct people around the country.
While bombs destroy hospitals and elementary schools in Iran.
crimethinc.com/Prairieland
They also allege that the box contained six incendiary zines, which you can get here to help pay for Des' defense.
detritusbooks.com/des
Beyond being morally repugnant, snitching is demonstrably not a winning strategy:
"The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy: photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called zines."
No paywall: archive.ph/whWm0
Read more about what this case means for press freedom in this op-ed by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com, published in Nov.
What can resistance to ICE in Minneapolis teach us about decentralized social movements? @mutual-a.bsky.social examines the struggle:
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It's important to remember that what the US government is doing to non-citizens both at home and abroad are two sides of the same blood-soaked coin.
This is where the worship of nation, state, and race terminate: concentration camps and carpet bombings.
this can become trivially true by making the external world into something that looks computer shaped, but that is also how you get
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Nationalism is poison.
If you know someone who is summoned for Jury Duty and looking to get out of it, send them this talk by FIJA's Kirsten Tynan on how big of a difference a single person can make
I agree that seriously analyzing public goods is important for devising & sustaining institutions appropriate to a free & flourishing society.
I offered my thoughts on these issues in this conversation with @zacharywoodman.bsky.social for @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social
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This is a point that Chris Coyne,
Josh Ammons, Yahya Alshamy & I reinforce in our paper "The Market Process as Nonviolent Action."
Mikayla Novak, Yahya Alshamy & I also reinforce this in our paper "Polycentric Peace."
I just launched my Substack. It's called "Guns, Guards, and Governance."
In my first post, I discuss the core theme I hope to cover: Border militarization undermines self-governance & threatens liberty for all, including citizens.
open.substack.com/pub/gunsguar...
Trump and Putin, Jinping, Netanyahu, and Orbán
Non Serviam Podcast #39 - Anti-Imperialism and Global Solidarity with Eric Draitser / @stopimperialism
“What comes after U.S. unipolar global imperial hegemony? More imperialism.”
- Eric Draitser
🔗 youtu.be/c61vatoEieM
@counterpunchmedia.bsky.social @lucystag.bsky.social #antiimperialism #foreignpolicy
anarchist William B. Greene
“ #Mutualism has unlimited #individualism as the essential and necessary prior condition of its own existence, and co-ordinates individuals without any sacrifice of individuality, into one collective whole, by spontaneous confederation, or solidarity.”
- William B. Greene
Non Serviam Podcast #73 - The Cruelty of Incarceration with Victoria Law
The first NSP of 2026 is out now! 🏴
We were honored to talk with @victorialaw.bsky.social about politics, pandemics, prisons and more.
🔗 on.soundcloud.com/kcczBbex8wGC...
@haymarketbooks.org @lucystag.bsky.social #anarchism #abolition
David Graeber
“Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.”
- David Graeber
