The Power of Having Diverse Anarchisms – Building Alternatives Outside Neoliberal Globalization (2025) –

by Sonia Muñoz Llort and Nerd Teacher from Morethanthisandthat on January 10, 2025 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-Fwt .

Introduction – A little bit of context–

Rationale: Persistent frustrations
Organizing within our movements: Building mutual care, accountability, and collective responsibility
Collaboration in diversity: The strength of heterogeneity
Resisting the triple supremacy of globalized capitalism: intergovernmental organizations, corporations, and international alliances
Conclusion

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It goes without saying, but it seems like almost every individual and collective we interact with has trouble with self-organization and mutual support.

Almost every conversation we have with the people we interact with brings up the same problems. We hear complaints from groups who prefer to focus on “increasing numbers” even as they dedicate themselves to supporting and defending abusers and bigots within their ranks, further ousting people.

We hear complaints of exclusionary behavior from groups or organizers who completely ignore almost any degree of accessibility and often refuse to do what is necessary to maintain a healthy environment.

We continue to see people trying to create hierarchies of inclusion that they claim are the result of “not having enough resources” to do it all and having to focus only on the “most important” actions.

Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements

This isn’t to say that everyone is struggling in exactly the same way, because there are quite a few nuances and contexts in our various regionalities, but there certainly seems to be an immense amount of overlap.

So when we talk to people, we often realize how exhausted they seem to be and how unbearably tired everyone is.

It’s also really hard not to notice, in our own experiences, how many people seem to think they have no responsibility to others, especially when most people’s complaints seem to be very similar and are treated as nothing more than a broken record when they keep pointing out problems that haven’t been addressed.

We don’t understand this attitude. If there are problems, why is there such a desire to sweep them under the rug or ignore them until something changes for the better?

We say this now because, as we’ve listened to so many others and engaged or reflected on our own collectives and groups, we’ve noticed another common theme: Many people have really lost faith in those around them, and often feel that those people and groups who claim to support them would never actually do so when the need arises.

It also seems that many are tired of the lack of community and constantly feel like there’s nowhere they truly belong. Not only have they had to struggle to find a place to belong, but they have found that the few organisations and collectives they have been able to find are either completely unequipped or unwilling to support them and everyone else.

This can be seen in the sudden dissolution of many of the online communities that sprang up during the COVID lockdown, which fell apart almost as quickly as they were created.

Very little was done to ensure these connections were maintained once everything returned to ‘normal’, especially in regards to those who have been unable to be physically present for whatever reason.

Perhaps – although this is said with a glimmer of hope for a better explanation for the dissipation of our organisational and community spaces – most of the people who had previously collaborated with others online are now busy participating in local movements offline.

Perhaps, we hope, collectives are doing more to build and support their local communities.

Because if we look at online spaces, almost all of the spaces we had created have crumbled and refocused on offline spaces and activities, leaving many of the most vulnerable in even more lonely, alienated, and precarious positions.

We have been left scrambling to find remnants of the communities we had before the pandemic began, but we have also been left watching our online communities gradually deteriorate in favor of things that feel “more real,” because many of us have never truly shifted our understanding that online spaces are not a substitute for offline ones, but are in fact part of the same realities and should support each other.

So we still have to ask ourselves if they are doing what they can to to meet the needs of everyone, rather than just offering empty platitudes and half-baked excuses..

It’s hard to know. We can only really speak from our own experiences in the spaces we inhabit, seeing how they have seen their participation dwindle due to their unwillingness to ensure the safety of the people they claim to support.

We’ve seen people proudly proclaim that they are part of a particular collective and trumpet their position within it, knowing full well that they have done very little within it – or in some cases supported causes antithetical to the aims of their collective – and are only using the name to try to bolster themselves and their reputation among others.

They want to build their own version of some kind of “anarchist” credentials, adding every interaction to their activist resume.

We also feel that the spaces we have are totally atomized and often alienated, both from the place around us and from broader movements.

Sometimes it is because others refuse to engage with certain ideas because some element of them would upset the status quo they enjoy. For us, this has been clearest in regards to marginalized anarchisms, especially anarcha-feminism and queer and trans anarchisms.

It has also been brutally obvious whenever we have mentioned anything related to the abolition of school and academia or when we have clearly stated that we should support and encourage youth liberation.

We have seen the co-optation of non-white anarchisms (by people who refuse to reflect on their own whiteness) and non-Western anarchisms (by people who think it is logically consistent to support certain imperialist states over others).

The many anarchisms of the marginalized are continually used as tools and weapons by those who, even if they deny it, maintain support for the very hierarchies we seek to dismantle. It is clear that there are problems that we desperately need to address.

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To top it off, we see groups who are virtually paralyzed by fear in this highly-surveilled world where we are in the crosshairs of the increasingly fascist and authoritarian governments that thrive around us.

Coup in EU State- NATO’s ‘Door for War’ Base in Romania-goes ahead -Election results Canceled to stop anti NATO Georgescu winning run-off

NATO is using Romania as “a door for war,” aiming to launch a major offensive into Russia, independent presidential candidate Calin Georgescu has warned.

on 12 Jan, 2025 06:36 from banned News by Kit Klarenberg | Substack via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FyA

Thousands Protest in Romania to Support anti NATO Candidat Georgescu

The expansion of the MK Air Base is aimed at starting a conflict, Calin Georgescu has claimed

NATO using Romania as ‘door for war’ – presidential frontrunner

During an episode of ‘The Shawn Ryan Show’ published on Saturday, Georgescu and former US Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan discussed the coup d’etat in Romania and the potential implications of the military buildup at the Mihail Kogalniceanu (MK) Air Base, the largest NATO facility near the Black Sea.

The presidential candidate has raised concerns over the bloc’s military presence in Romania, warning that the country’s NATO bases could be used to trigger a war with Russia.

Calin Georgescu in an interview with Shawn Ryan, January 11, 2025. © Social media

“What is happening now in Romania and the fact that there is no reaction from abroad, especially from the United States, shows that they do not understand what is going on here. Because if they use Romania as a door for war, what would be next,” Georgescu told the host in response to a question about whether Romania is “in the midst of a coup right now.”

“We do not need a war,” he said.

21st TSC moves 100,000 troops thru MK Air Base supporting Operation …

No official reason has been given for Romania’s constitutional court voiding November’s vote, despite days earlier signing off on the results.

Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the vote last month, just days after officially endorsing it, citing since-debunked claims by intelligence services that front-runner Calin Georgescu had been boosted by a Russian campaign on TikTok. It has since emerged that the campaign had been the work of a rival Romanian party, but the court has refused to reverse its ruling.

Romania, a NATO member since 2004, has been expanding the MK Air Base to accommodate more troops and military equipment. The project is intended to be NATO’s largest base in Europe. The development was criticized by Moscow, with Andrey Klimov, the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, calling it a “threat for Bucharest.”

NATO base in Romania could trigger conflict – presidential candidate

According to Klimov, the larger the “anti-Russian” military base and the “closer it is to Russia’s borders, the more likely it is to be among the first targets for retaliatory strikes.”

Asked whether the base would be used to conduct “a major offensive into Russia,” Georgescu responded, “Exactly. This is the word – offensive – which is wrong. And we cannot accept this,” he stated. “Because this is not our business. It’s not our war.”

A Typhoon jet of the Royal Air Force lands at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base near Constanta, Romania.. NATO’s biggest European base to be built next to Ukraine – media

A NATO coup just took place in Romania

Georgescu, who is known for his strong Euroskeptic and anti-NATO views, emerged as a frontrunner in Romania’s presidential race in November, securing 22.94% of the vote. His rise fueled speculation that he would push for Romania’s withdrawal from NATO or at least attempt to reduce military cooperation with it.

Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the election ahead of the second-round vote, citing intelligence documents alleging “irregularities” in Georgescu’s performance. This decision sparked rounds of street protests in Bucharest.

Although now admitting that Georgescu was inniocent of the suspivions the Court refuses to back down, its members are extremely pro NATO and open to the heavy pressure from the US and EU, which were shocked by Georgescu’s landslide win in the first election round.

On Friday, thousands of demonstrators gathered outside Romania’s top court, demanding transparency and accusing the authorities of orchestrating an electoral coup.

“Nine people inside, they decide instead of 19 million what they have to do,” the presidential candidate told the host while discussing the cancelation of the second round of the elections. “We ask for help for the democratic institutions, and we want to protect our life, our family, our nation,” he added.

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After NATO’s Romanian Coup, Where Next? -Kit Klarenberg

by Kit Klarenberg | Substack

On December 6th, Romania’s constitutional court made an extraordinary decision to inexplicably overturn first round results of the country’s November 24th presidential election.

The rerun of Romania’s presidential election is scheduled for May 4, 2025, with a potential runoff on May 18, 2025. That’s IF the US gets the right result.

Conveniently, the ruling was made mere days before a runoff that, according to polls, would’ve seen upstart outsider Calin Georgescu win via landslide.

In the process, citizens of all NATO member states were provided with a particularly pitiless, real-time crash course on what could now happen in their own countries, should the ‘wrong’ candidates be elected fair and square.

Georgescu’s stunning victory in the first round caught Romania’s political elite and their Western sponsors off guard, while leaving him the most popular political figure in the country.

Campaigning on a traditionalist, nationalist platform, he extolled views some might consider unsavoury, but also advocated nationalisation, and state investment in local industry. Perhaps predictably, the Western media has universally smeared him as “far-right”, “pro-Putin” and a “conspiracy theorist”, among other now-familiar sobriquets commonly levelled at political dissidents.

Georgescu’s greatest crime is to determinedly oppose continued Romanian involvement in and backing for the Ukraine proxy war.

As Kiev’s Black Sea-facing neighbour, Bucharest has offered significant financial, material and political succour since February 2022, all along running the risk of getting caught in the crossfire.

But in interviews with Western news outlets, Georgescu boldly proclaimed any and all “military or political support” would be reduced to “zero” under his watch:

“I have to take care of my people. I don’t want to involve my people…Everything stops. I have to take care just about my people. We have a lot of problems ourselves.”

NATO base in Romania could trigger conflict – presidential candidate

No official reason has been given for Romania’s constitutional court voiding November’s vote, despite days earlier signing off on the results.

Nonetheless, in the intervening time, Bucharest’s security apparatus released declassified reports intimating – without making direct accusations or providing any concrete evidence whatsoever – Georgescu’s victory may have resulted from a wide-ranging, Moscow-sponsored influence campaign, delivered via TikTok. Details provided instead pointed to a rather mundane – albeit successful – social media marketing effort.

The plot further thickened in late December, when it was revealed the TikTok campaign that purportedly boosted Georgescu was in fact financed by Romania’s National Liberal party.

This backing helped propel the hitherto obscure candidate to national prominence, the objective potentially being to harm the National Liberal party’s arch nemesis Social Democrats. No evidence of Muscovite funding, let alone support, for Georgescu has ever emerged.

Nonetheless, despite these disclosures, the narrative of Russian destabilisation catapulting him into power has since been invincibly minted.

NATO Air Forces Train Over Romania – Eurasia Review

NATO’s grand and ever-expanding military base in Romania
Bucharest’s sprawling territory is home to multiple US missile facilities, and a giant NATO military base, scheduled to soon be greatly expanded, explicitly in service of decisively changing the region’s “balance of power” in the West’s favour. Meanwhile, Romanian presidents wield significant clout in domestic and international affairs.

They dictate foreign policy, serve as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and appoint prime ministers. All of which points to a far more likely rationale for the presidential election’s abrogation than “Russian meddling”.

‘Without Hope’

On December 10th, the BBC published a striking report on how Romanians were “stunned by the eleventh-hour cancellation of their presidential election.”

The British state broadcaster was at pains throughout to justify the vote’s unprecedented, despotic annulment as proper, reasonably motivated by a “massive” and “aggressive” malign meddling campaign on TikTok – whether of Russian origin or not – improperly skewing the result.

However, the BBC evidently had little choice but to admit Georgescu was enormously, and organically, popular.

For example, NATO veteran Mircea Geoana, Bucharest’s former foreign affairs minister who ran for president in November and finished sixth, was quoted as saying “Romania dodged a bullet” and “came very close” to an all-out coup.

“If Moscow can do this in Romania, which is profoundly anti-Russian, it means they can do it anywhere,” he ominously cautioned.

Tens of thousands protest in Romania’s capital against election …

Still, Geoana conceded there was “a whole cocktail of grievances in our society,” and it would be “hugely mistaken to believe” Georgescu’s success “was just because of Russia.”

The BBC acknowledged immense “fatigue” with Romania’s doggedly pro-Western political establishment widely abounds among the local population, who harbour an ever-growing number of completely legitimate grievances, entirely unaddressed in the mainstream.

By contrast, the British state broadcaster recorded, Georgescu not only spoke openly and passionately about these manifold problems, but offered concrete solutions for tackling them.

And a great many average citizens “liked what he said.” Several Georgescu supporters were duly quoted in the article, issuing effusive praise. One evangelised:

“He’s like a preacher, with a Bible in his hand, and I thought he spoke only the truth…He talks about rights and dignity.

Romanians go to other countries for work, but we have so many resources here. Wood, grain – and our soil is very rich. Why should we be vagrants in Italy?”

US To Improve Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base …

The BBC further noted Georgescu’s “pledge to Make Romania Great Again helped him perform particularly strongly among the vast Romanian diaspora.” Given Bucharest’s mass depopulation in recent years, significantly assisted by EU membership, this is hardly surprising.

ALBUM REVIEW: CIARAN MURPHY – The Land That Connolly Warned Us Of (2024)

Over a decade since he was last active Irish singer-songwriter Ciaran Murphy is back with an 11-track album of incendiary acoustic Folk with a Punk as hell attitude. London Celtic Punk Sean Creegan reviews the new release.

January 9, 2025 Written by: London Celtic Punks from thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FvB Telegram https://t.me/thefreeonline

I must admit to being very happy on hearing that Ciaran Murphy or Pip as he’s known to many had decided to pick up the guitar again and pen some new material after a long period of time off in the musical world.

I was even happier to then be asked to review the new album for the London Celtic Punks website.

Since we had last heard from Ciaran he told us he had genuinely planned to never write or record again and focus instead on academia and to his credit he had since gained degrees, masters degrees, started a PHD (in his own words) realised it was “utterly fucking useless in the long run and stopped”.

Living as he does in the six counties Ciaran had seen the political situation become exactly what James Connolly had warned us about when he said “unless you set about the establishment of a Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain… England will still rule you”.

“Songs started coming back into my head because of pure frustration at seeing republicanism being drawn so far into that trap. And I just got the guitar out to scratch an itch tbh”.

The eleven track album which has haunting tin whistle, bodhran, guitar and if I’m not mistaken banjo throughout the songs tackles the kind of subject matter you would expect from Ciaran all sung with passion and heart.

Two tracks from Pips previous albums are reworked for this album namely ‘Death With Walls’ and ‘For God And Ulster’. They fit in well and sit alongside the new tracks admirably.

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The clearest example of this ideological corruption is nationalism’s ongoing acceptance of ‘Internment By Remand’, the imprisonment of republican political activists using sham ‘evidence’ from Mi5 and the PSNI, which everyone knows will not be accepted at any upcoming trial but is used to take men and women off the streets and keep them on remand for 2 – 4 years at a time.

It’s believed that over 11,000 days have been lost by victims of this tactic with constitutional nationalism turning a blind.

The song was the first single from the album released on August 9th, the date of the original internment operations of 1971.

“Free Staters. I’m taking Ireland for myself. Never mind nobody else”

A version of Shane MacGowans ‘The Dunes’ is included and sounds great.

It’s definitely leaning more towards a ballad’s type album but my favourite track ‘Free Staters’ is a bit more up tempo.

All in all Pip has made another thought provoking record in his own inimitable style that indeed tells us of the land that Connolly warned us of.

Rev Archibald Warwick was hung in front of his congregation following the 1798 rebellion.

Today nothing exists to remember his sacrifice, either in his home parish of Kirkubbin or beyond except this wonderful tribute from Ciaran.

We welcome Ciaran back and hope to see him belt these tunes out in the near future at a London Celtic Punks gig.

Last word to Ciaran and why he’s back and whatever we imagined to be brave is no comparison to what he’s doing… and doing so well.

The so called ‘Rebel’ music scene here doesn’t want to touch on these issues (Maghaberry, PSNI oppression, Craigavon 2 etc) because singers are afraid of not being asked to play certain bars, festivals etc which made it all the more urgent to start writing again so these topics aren’t totally ignored.

(You can stream / download the album from the Bandcamp app below) https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=3867043909/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=2ebd35/tracklist=false/artwork=small/

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Protesters urge Poland to arrest Netanyahu for Genocide as he Hypocritically visits Auschwitz

As a US vassal Warsaw refuses to obey the International Arrest Warrant for Israel’s prime minister who continues to direct the massacre, torture, starvation and kidnap of thousands of men, women and kids

on 11th January 2025 from thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FwZ Telegram t.me/thefreeonline text World News (banned).

A protester holding a sign with an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Warsaw, Poland, January 10, 2025.

Hundreds of people marched in Warsaw on Friday to protest against the Polish government’s decision not to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

In November, The Hague-based court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, on charges of committing war crimes in Gaza. On Thursday, the office of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that Warsaw would not arrest Netanyahu if the Israeli leader travels to Poland for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp during World War II.

screenshot Protesters rallied outside the Presidential Chancellery building, waving Palestinian flags and posters with anti-Netanyahu slogans.

screenshot The crowd chanted “arrest Netanyahu,” as well as accusations that Tusk and Polish President Andrzej Duda are “defending genocide.”

Because the ICC lacks any police force or enforcement powers of its own, it relies on the countries that signed the Rome Statute to enforce its warrants. Poland signed the treaty, but Israel did not. Netanyahu has denied the accusations of war crimes and reaffirmed that the Jewish state does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction.

The Israeli prime minister is not currently planning to attend the ceremony commemorating the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz, the Times of Israel wrote on Thursday, citing an aide in the Netanyahu cabinet. Netanyahu may consider attending, but Poland would have to “solve the ICC issue” first, the aide said.

On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing the imposition of sanctions on the ICC if the court charges Americans or citizens of vassal nations.

The US does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction and has refused to back the outstanding warrant despite the ongoing daily mass murders directed by Netanyahu.

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«Nos olvidamos y nos consideramos superiores. Pero, después de todo, somos solo una parte de la creación» – ¡Todos necesitamos revisar nuestra relación con la naturaleza y re-orientar nuestra asociación con el consumismo!

« No veo delegación de cuatro patas. No veo un asiento para las águilas. Nos olvidamos y nos consideramos superiores. Pero, después de todo, somos solo una parte de la creación. Y tenemos que considerar esto para entender dónde estamos. Y estamos parados en algún lugar entre la montaña y la hormiga. . ».

by Barbara Crane Navarro on 11th Januaty 2025 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FwI Telegram https://t.me/thefreeonline

Jefe Oren Lyons, Nación Séneca, hablando ante las organizaciones no gubernamentales de las Naciones Unidas, Ginebra, Suiza, 1977.

«Los últimos 500 años han visto una ‘reorganización rápida, continua y radical de la vida en la Tierra sin precedentes geológicos’: la llegada del colonialismo europeo, el imperialismo y la expansión asociada de los sistemas económicos capitalistas que conducen a la transferencia de enfermedades, plantas, animales, formas de uso de la tierra y sistemas administrativos en todo el mundo.»

Según la ONU, estamos entrando en una « era de pandemia » causada por la deforestación, la pérdida de hábitat, la agricultura intensiva y el tráfico de vida silvestre.

El Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (IPCC) ha dicho que una de las formas más importantes de reducir las emisiones de carbono es cambiar a una dieta basada en plantas.

La industria de la carne es responsable de producir más contaminación climática que todos los automóviles, barcos, camiones y aviones del mundo juntos.

Esta presión de los consumidores ha provocado la destrucción de enormes áreas de bosque tropical, ricas en biodiversidad, capaces de capturar grandes cantidades de carbono.