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January 02, 2022
The following zines were released in the broad anarchist space over the past month or so. They include a mix of new texts engaging with the dying planet and the anti-police uprisings of 2020, as well as several reprints of older texts.
As always, we encourage folks to distribute and discuss these texts widely. If you have something you would like us to include here next time, let us know. You can view past monthly round-ups or view our catalog for a curated collection of anarchist zines.
We’re concluding this introduction with a quote from the zine Please Riot:
The deck is stacked against any change, let alone revolution. But, in the words of anarchist science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
Those kings are dead.
This is the latest issue of Return Fire. The publication’s tag line is “anti-authority // daily revolt // individual will // de-civilisation.” To that end, there are numerous articles covering a wide range of topics including COVID-19, debates around insurgency and activism, lessons from recent struggles in Hong Kong, eco-anarchist actions in Mexico, and writings from anarchist prisoners. This publication is always worth reading.
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Released as a supplement to the latest issue of Return Fire, this zine expands on similar ideas. It critiques the work of Swedish academic Andreas Malm who advocates for Leninist approaches to climate change. While Malm’s writing may not be widely known, it’s representative of the leftist approach to climate change which advocates for state control and “humane” technologies. Moreover, Malm argues for hierarchal movements with strict discipline a la Deep Green Resistance and trashes decentralized direct action. This critique thoroughly debunks Malm’s ideas and other similar approaches.
This zine – written by anarchists in Colorado – analyzes what they assert are the key events of the past year and a half: 1) the racial domination by the state via racist police killings that led to the death of George Floyd and so many other Black, Brown, and Indigenous people every day, 2) the management of COVID-19 that has killed or maimed millions in the “US”, and, 3) the failures of representative government to improve social wellbeing. It’s always refreshing to see folks analyzing where the prospects for revolt are at and the role that anarchists can play. In the end, the authors argue for a strategy of “building revolutionary potential called dual power.” There is no elaboration on what this means in practice, instead, the authors plan to outline its meaning in the future.
This is a newly laid out edition (same content) of a piece released earlier this year that analyzes the 2020 anti-police revolts through the lenses of the anarchist nihilist text Blessed is the Flame: An introduction to concentration camp resistance and anarcho-nihilism. From the intro:
The generalized revolts of the summer of 2020 were awe inspiring, it was likely the largest redistribution of wealth in US history, it also attacked society on various levels ( capital, police, media, etc.). After years of watching social movements form, flounder, and not a damn thing changing…this is seemingly different. While nothing “officially” has changed in terms of the system, this wave of insurrections demonstrated peoples capacity to absolutely destroy the illusion of order the state likes to project. The incomprehensibility of the insurrections lended to their power, there was nothing for the state to grasp at, nothing for the recuperative forces to hop onto, this was something that lay outside of their frameworks.
This is a collection of 93 aphorisms against work by Len Bracken, a former member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and Northeast Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC). The brief statements do a good job of accessibly critiquing work. This has been reprinted many times since its original publication.
This is a newly formatted (by Counterflow Distro) version of an older (~2011) critique of Leninism. It’s a solid critique of Leninism and worth reading if you are unfamiliar. It’s always surprising that the corpse of Leftism hangs on, but unfortunately it’s still something anarchists encounter from time to time. This zine is a good thing to distribute amongst newer folks.
This is a newly formatted version of an essay by Josep Gardenyes that came out a few years ago (~2016). It’s still a solid analysis of the contemporary anarchist movement based on the global events of the early 2010s and the spread of various anti-government struggles. While the context may have shifted somewhat, the questions about how anarchists relate to widespread social movements are still relevant. This is highly recommended!
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Colston 4 Trial: How They Won It / Colston / Colston 4 / Trial of the Colston 4
The trial saw plenty of complex legal arguments, but ultimately it came down to a question of doing the right thing.
With the verdict in the Colston 4 trial announced, many, not least the right-wing media and Twitterati, are asking how the defendants managed to win what seemed like a clear-cut case against them.
With video evidence of them committing the charges against them, Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Jake Skuse and Sage Willoughby were left to argue that their actions were morally justified.
Speaking after yesterday’s verdict, Raj Chada, of Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors, who defended Graham, said that the defence came down to ‘the righteousness of the cause.’
He also said that a conviction would be a disproportionate interference with the defendants’ rights to free speech and conscience.
So what does this look like in practice?
One of the arguments put forward by Mr Chada, and the other defendants’ lawyers, was that in pulling down the statue, the four were in fact ‘preventing a crime from happening’ as ‘it was a criminal offence to keep that statue up, because it was so offensive.’
Or, to put it in legalese, the statue constituted an indecent display under Section 1 of the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981, according to Liam Walker, the barrister who appeared for Sage Willoughby.
I believe I had a lawful excuse, preventing further harm to the people of Bristol
The view that the statue itself was the real act of vandalism was evidenced by testimonies in the courtroom.
Gloria Daniels, a Bristol resident and descendant of former enslaved people, submitted a statement to the court during the trial. In it she said she felt a ‘wave of huge relief,’ when she learned of the toppling.
She went on to say that ‘the statue of a slave trader had remained up for so long, and without contextualisation, was in my view profoundly shameful.’
During the trial it was noted that Bristol City Council, who owned the statue, had multiple opportunities to remove the statue following petitions to that effect and general public sentiment against the statue, as was confirmed by the council’s head of culture and creative industry.
In his evidence to the court, Ponsford recounted how he himself had signed petitions to have the statue removed, but felt that the council had ‘abandoned’ the issue.
He said: ‘I believe I had a lawful excuse to damage that statue, preventing further harm to the people of Bristol.’
Meanwhile, Skuse, who was accused of helping roll the statue to the harbour, said: ‘If there was racist graffiti on the wall, the council would remove it. But they didn’t remove this statue.’
In comments after the trial, Mr Chada said that it was wrong of the council to allow the statue to stand for so long, and that: ‘If the democratic process wasn’t going to do it for the council, then these four individuals were going to do it,’ he said.
Despite the best efforts of the prosecution to maintain a narrow focus on the acts of the defendants, the trial turned on the wider context in which those acts took place.
Each defendant spoke at length of their motivations to act against the Colston statue based on the latter’s involvement in the slave trade and responsibility for tens of thousands of deaths.
In her initial police interview, Graham is reported to have said: ‘Whether [the toppling] is criminal or not, I think, is up for debate… because of all the context around the statue, and the fact that people have campaigned to take it down… and it is just an abhorrent offence to a lot of the population of Bristol.’
The defendant’s arguments of context were substantiated by the expert evidence of historian and TV presenter David Olusoga.
On December 17th, Olusoga told the jury of how Colston became deputy governor of the Royal African Company, which held a monopoly on slave trading in the 17th Century.
He also described the way in which Colston’s legacy has been managed and moulded over the years by the Society of Merchant Venturers, of which Colston was a member during his lifetime. Olusoga said that the Society sought to focus attention on Colston’s later philanthropy and not his slave trading.
Day 4: Edward Colston was “heavily involved” in the most prolific slave trading organisation in British history, celebrated historian @DavidOlusoga told the jury. https://t.co/xEov4TDA8S— The Bristol Cable (@TheBristolCable) December 17, 2021
Beyond helping to convince the jury, Olusoga’s testimony helped broadcast the truth about Colston’s, and Bristol’s, role in the slave trade to a wider audience than ever before.
Speaking after yesterday’s verdict, Graham gave thanks to David Olusoga for the testimony he gave, which, she said, amounted to ‘a two-hour lecture on slavery and the empire’ in the court.
This trial did not set any new legal precedents. However, Mr Chada stated his desire that the trial should signal to other judges and courts that juries should be given full information about a case, including all relevant context and background.
Yesterday’s verdict was surely shocking to some given the evidence against the defendants. However, it was not unprecedented.
The verdict gives us hope that conscience and justice can win
The jury’s decision follows at least three high profile acquittals last year. In June, the Ziegler case in the Supreme Court – in which Mr Chada was also involved – vindicated activists charged with obstruction of the highway. The court found that obstruction can, in certain circumstances, be considered lawful.
In December, three members of Palestine Action were acquitted on charges of criminal damage after the magistrate determined that the prosecution had failed to prove that convicting the defendants would be proportionate with their freedom to protest, A similar argument was made in regard to the Colston 4 as well.
Later in December, six members of XR employed the Ziegler defence and were acquitted by a jury for climbing onto and glueing onto a Docklands Light Railway train in London.
The Colston trial also drew on the Ziegler verdict, with the jury being required to consider whether conviction would be proportionate with regard to the Human Rights Act 1998.
The right-wing press are already decrying yesterday’s verdict as granting a “licence to destroy” But as Priti Patel’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which makes a specific offence of damaging a statue, nears passing into law, the reality is that many of us will face trials like this one.
Yesterday’s verdict, and that of the Ziegler case, are a lesson in how to win against the odds. They give us hope that conscience and justice can win and that a better world is possible.
What did you think of the trial and the verdict? What does this mean for other activists? Leave a comment below.
The Fall of Colston: Where Do We Go From Here?
Ellie Sandy celebrates Bristol’s anti-racist response to the rethinking of Edward Colston, and urges us to continue scrutinizing Britain’s history of…
CENSORED: $4.5 TRILLION Bank Bailout 4th Quarter 2019 Months Before COVID .. Exceeded 2008 Bailouts from Tap News / Weaver and A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation
“We’re looking at a form of corporate tyranny previously unseen in America.”
Pam Martens, Wall Street on Parade.
by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News
Pam and Russ Martens of Wall Street on Parade have reported on the mega giant bank bailouts during the 4th quarter of 2019, just months before COVID was declared to be a “pandemic” giving further evidence from a series of events at the end of 2019 that the “war on the virus” that has enslaved the entire world, was all planned long in advance by the Globalists.
Not reported in the media, either corporate news media nor anywhere else in the Alternative Media that I have seen, the Martens have exposed the fact that the bailouts of the biggest banks in New York far exceeded the bailouts during the 2008 financial crises.
This bailout of Wall Street in 2008 was the fuel that gave rise to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that started in September of 2011, and spread around the world.
Four days ago, the Federal Reserve released the names of the banks that had received $4.5 trillion in cumulative loans in the last quarter of 2019 under its emergency repo loan operations for a liquidity crisis that has yet to be explained.
Among the largest borrowers were JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, three of the Wall Street banks that were at the center of the subprime and derivatives crisis in 2008 that brought down the U.S. economy.
That’s blockbuster news. But as of 7 a.m. this morning, not one major business media outlet has reported the details of the Fed’s big reveal.
We reported on it the following day.Those Fed revelations, that had been withheld from the American people for two years, should have made front page headlines in newspapers and on the digital front pages of every major business news outlet.
Instead, there was a universal news blackout of the story at the largest business news outlets, including: Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal, the business section of the New York Times, the Financial Times, Dow Jones’ MarketWatch, and Reuters.
The newsrooms covering Wall Street megabanks now demanding similar gag orders from journalists? We’ve never before seen a total news blackout of a financial news story of this magnitude in our 35 years of monitoring Wall Street and the Fed.
Theories abound as to why this current story is off limits to the media. One theory goes like this: the Fed has made headlines around the world in recent months over its own trading scandal – the worst in its history.
Why might such an outcome be a problem for media outlets in New York City?
Read the full article here.
Donald Trump, who was the President of the United States when all these banks were creating money to give to themselves at the end of 2019, also has significant business holdings in New York City, as does Pfizer.
And while Trump is currently making the media rounds to promote his Pfizer bioweapon shots, and telling his fanatic followers that he is against mandating the gene-altering shots, if you try to have dinner or enter his Trump Towers in NYC, this is the sign you will see.
So much for being “against mandates.” Trump has always been a person where you need to ignore what comes out of his mouth, and actually watch what he does.
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We were attempting to hold the Fed, Big Media, and the Wall Street megabanks accountable with our article yesterday on mainstream media’s news blackout of the Fed’s release of the names of the Wall Street trading houses that got $4.5 trillion in cumulative repo loans from the Fed in the last quarter of 2019 – long before the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the U.S. on January 20, 2020. (The full tally came to $11.23 trillion in cumulative repo loans from September 17, 2019 through July 2, 2020.)
But when a Reddit group that calls itself “Superstonk” spotted our article and posted it in their comment section, our website got caught in the crosshairs. The traffic to our article was so heavy at times that our website couldn’t be accessed from either a laptop or a cell phone……
….“Wait. The banks…own the New York Fed…and can loan themselves unlimited amounts of money at practically 0% interest… in secret…? What. The. F***” [Asterisks added.].. Read the full article here.
America is run by criminals. They just pulled the greatest coup in probably the history of the human race, without firing a single shot or sending in a single soldier.
It did not start with the outbreak of COVID in 2020, but it started in the Fall of 2019 where they enriched themselves with the capital they needed to pull off this coup, and then their puppet politician, fellow Wall Street Billionaire Donald Trump, followed their directions to implement Operation Warp Speed to get the gene-altering injections produced and injected into the population…
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By Fabio Vighi at https://thephilosophicalsalon
.. Some may have started wondering why the usually unscrupulous ruling elites decided to freeze the global profit-making machine in the face of a pathogen that targets almost exclusively the unproductive (over 80’s). Why all the humanitarian zeal? Cui bono?
Continue reading “Banks that own Fed stole $4,500,000,000,000- TRILLION – in repo Bailout just before using COVID lockdown for cover.”Posted on by dorsetbookfair
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December 31, 2021 by Dave Lindorff
The Pentagon failed its audit amid a now $35 trillion scandal (yes, trillion) – Lee Camp
That’s what should have been the biggest news of 2021.
Instead, the story, which broke on November 17, was largely ignored or buried.
The nation’s two main newspapers, the Washington Post and the New York Times, have simply ignored it.
Cold War is good for business: US contractors rejoice at the new Red Scare
Other news organizations stenographically quoted Pentagon officials as admitting that they “failed again” but saw “progress,” and as promising that they would achieve a “clean” audit by… get this … 2027.
The Pentagon, with some $3 trillion (give or take a trillion but who’s counting?) in assets and a record current 2021 budget of $738 billion, has for the third year in a row failed its audit.
Read more Pentagon books so wrong on every level so it’s impossible to detect fraud – Matt Taibbi
An army of 1400 auditors hired by us taxpayers for $230 million and borrowed from some of the biggest auditing firms in the country, spent the past year poring through the books and visiting hundreds of operations of the government’s largest and geographically vastest single agency, and came back with word that they couldn’t give it a pass.
They couldn’t even figure it out.
Continue reading “Pentagon Fails Audit (yet Again!) – $35 TRILLION still MISSING”
. Rojava: Mujeres fortaleciendo la autonomìa hacia la economìa comunal Diciembre 21, 2021 kurdistanamericalatina.org
En la Revolución en Rojava no solo se llevó a cabo la lucha armada, sino también una transformación hacia una economía autónoma.
Rojava: Mujeres fortaleciendo la autonomìa hacia la economìa comunal — Red Latina sin fronteras
fuente: Ebir Muhemed / JINHA / Traducción y edición: Kurdistán América Latinahttps://www.kurdistanamericalatina.org/rojava-las-mujeres-fortalecen-la-economia/ . enlace relacionado: https://rojavaazadimadrid.org/cooperativas-de-mujeres-y-democracia-local-en-rojava/ .
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