It has been nearly 11 months since the Israeli government began their most recent assault on Gaza and the West Bank. The retaliation for the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel, has escalated to what the international community has called genocide, therefore, GRIID will be providing weekly links to information and analysis that we think […]
The rulers of many countries seem to be on a death trip; hot wars between States, wars against migration, war against the planet’s resources and social war are in a phase of enthusiasm for death, reminiscent of descriptions shortly before the outbreak of the First World War.
Meanwhile, humanity has its fingers glued to smartphones, numbed by the flickering of algorithms.
As for the hot wars, many anarchists remain in the spectator position. In one of these wars, there are good reasons to join the Kurdish structures and be active against the Turkish State and its Islamist proxies.
There are also good reasons to stay away from the PKK’s cult of personality and instead attack Erdogan’s interests in Europe, although the initial waves of action here have subsided considerably.
The anarchist space has also not yet developed any practice against the State systems that are largely responsible for the current massacres (NATO/EU/Israel/Iran/Russia) or the war profiteers that is capable of influencing the course of history.
Now, a text published on March 2, 2024 under the title “Developing Incisive Capacity: Making Actions Count”1 raises questions that are certainly relevant to many of us:
What could equip anarchists to carry out more significant strikes, to hone a quality of action that goes beyond the symbolic? What are the current obstacles to anarchists developing a capacity for action on a significant scale, organized in small autonomous groups that can coordinate around a particular focus? In other words, what needs to happen for more anarchists to establish the necessary skills and a certain routine for attacking identified vulnerabilities?
To answer these questions not only theoretically but also practically requires nothing less than an anarchist guerrilla. For with the methods developed in the autonomous movement over the last few decades, we have come no further than exactly where we have been for some time now.
In order not to indulge in lengthy analyses, which could hardly be more appropriate than issue 2 of the newspaper “Antisistema”, spring 2024, please refer to this issue.
A guerrilla, or at least guerrilla activities, require, among other things, that a group of people organize themselves over a longer period of time. This is where the first shortcoming of anarchist non-organization comes in: a short stay in the scene and a lack of commitment.
The development of a militant life takes longer than most people spend in the radical left milieus of the western metropolises. Combined with a misinterpretation of the anarchist perspective on committed organizing, this leads to the historical fact that, with few exceptions, most guerrilla groups were communist and/or aimed at national liberation.
From Autostraddle by Nico Hall Dressed in all black down to her ankles, dark hair in two braids, Margaret Killjoy let me into her house in the forested mountains, where she lives a hermit-like life with her companion, her dog Rintrah. A transfeminine musician, podcaster, and author of multiple fantasy books, Killjoy lives in the…
From Freedom News UK Original title: Through war, despotism and social change: Russia’s Anarchist Black Cross Features, Aug 30th For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under Putin’s regime and their work during…
Por Darío Aranda | 31/08/2024 | Ecología social El trigo transgénico de las empresas Bioceres-Florimond Desprez dio un paso más para cultivarse en Estados Unidos. Aunque no se conocen investigaciones de inocuidad para la salud, en Argentina ya se consume la cuestionada harina. El relato del agronegocio, la violación de derechos y los argumentos que […]
Over a million doses of polio vaccine have been shipped to Israel in preparation for a mass vaccination campaign in Gaza. The vaccines are an emergency response to the first confirmed case of polio reported in Gaza last month. According to an article in the New York Times:
UNICEF, the U.N. children’s fund, said it was delivering the vaccines in cooperation with the World Health Organization… UNRWA; and other groups. UNRWA officials said they hoped to deliver the first vaccines to Gazan children starting on Saturday.
Any relief from te continuing genocide by Israel would obviously be a great thing, however there is suspicion of nthe semi private WHO due to its recent past ineptitude and corruption.
The Palestinian resistance are unlikely to agree to a US/Israeli media circus “pause” with vaccines administered under the illegally occupying Israeli terrorist army, as proposed. Indeed the very concept of a “pause” implies a following renewal.
More likely the proposal is cynical, hoping to divert media buzz from the facts of US and UK arms control of the daily massacres.
Rejection of the vaccine campaign could merely serve to blame Hamas if there is a polio epidemic, while ignoring dozens of other more likely diseases among hundreds of thousands of civilians camping indefinitely with theor families in a ‘Killing Field’ without clean water, food, drains or medical care.
The Gaza Health Ministry confirmed that the vaccines had reached Gaza and that preparations to begin the campaign to inoculate children under 10 were underway…. the U.N. said on Monday that its already hamstrung humanitarian operations had been brought to a “temporary halt” after the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of Deir al-Balah, where the agency has its central operations.
So, the UN is unable to distribute humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, but they are charging ahead with a mass vaccination campaign?
Doesn’t that sound a bit strange? Keep in mind, the Israelis have been preventing food, water and medicine from entering Gaza for months which has led to mass starvation and a sharp uptick in preventable diseases.
But now we are expected to believe that they care about the physical well-being of the people they have been bombing to smithereens for the last 10 months?
I’m not buying it. Here’s more from the Times:
Speaking from Zawaida, in central Gaza, Mr. Rose, of UNRWA, said that more than 3,000 people would be involved in the vaccination campaign, about a third of them from UNRWA. Mobile health teams would help deliver the vaccines to shelters, clinics and schools, but he said a humanitarian pause was needed for parents and children to safely meet aid workers at those sites.
Aid workers “will do our absolute utmost to deliver the campaign because, without it, we know that the conditions will just be worse someday,” Mr. Rose said. “It is not guaranteed that it will be a success.”
For children who contract polio, he added, the prospects of receiving proper treatment remain “incredibly bad” while many of Gaza’s hospitals and health clinics are closed or only partly functioning as a result of the conflict. New York Times.
Polio vaccination campaign is starting in Gaza in a couple of weeks according to WHO. The Director-General of WHO emphasizes the need for humanitarian pauses during rounds of vaccines. #Gaza#PolioVaccinepic.twitter.com/WoF3mhxoUd
So—according to the Times—aid workers will require a “humanitarian pause” (aka—A ceasefire) the likes of which Netanyahu has stubbornly refused for 10 months straight.
But now—after just one confirmed case of polio—he’s expected to reverse the policy in order to save the same people he’s been pulverizing for the last year?
MEHR News Agency TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – A Turkish newspaper revealed that Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France at the request of Tel Aviv authorities. Turkish newspaper, Daily Sabah revealed that the Zionist regime was behind the arrest of Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram in France. This newspaper pointed out that publishing […]