#anarchist news

[autonomoustweekazoid]

"We are not drifts of snow moving through reality. Things have happened. Choices have been made. These choices can be evaluated, not from a timeless doctrine but from a human scale. By this human scale the size, the scope, of the choices made is beyond comprehension. This being the case, and as the desire of conscious bodies is to understand, a frame of reference to begin to impact the world can be based on one of two options. Either shrink the world that you desire to understand and touch or assert yourself onto a world gone mad in such a way as to transform scale. Institutions, ideologies, systems, schools, family, capital, government and revolutionary movements have all developed beyond the body. Nihilist anarchism isn’t concerned with a social revolution that adds a new chapter to an old history but the ending of history altogether. If not revolutionaries then possibly epochanaries, for the transformation of society without a positive program."

- Aragorn!

Anarchy and Nihilism: The Consequences

[blackcat-brazil]

Tzeltal Political Prisoners File Injunction to Demand Their Immediate Freedom.

[icarusxxrising]

Horrible fact of the day: Chevron just released a new boat fuel that WILL give you cancer.

Not "might", not "could", WILL. It has a cancer ratio of 1.3:1, as in, in a group of 10 people, 10 would contract CANCER.

(Edit: apparently some articles are now saying 1.4:1, and some are saying a little under that. Either way, the consensus seems to be anywhere between a 95-100+% of contracting cancer, with some expectations of this fuel not even needing a full lifetime of exposure for you to get Cancer.)

The EPA's safety limit is 1:1,000,000 as in 1 in a million people get cancer.

The EPA approved it anyways. I am not joking. The EPA approved a boat fuel that has a near 100% chance of giving someone cancer. It has such a good chance of giving someone cancer that if you DIDN'T get cancer YOU WOULD BE AN OUTLIER.

Fuck the oil industries.

Edit: If you find this (rightfully) horrifying, have you considered industrial sabotage? /hj

This isn't something we can vote away. This isn't something the rich are gonna apologize and make a 10 minute apology video for this. They don't care if you starve or wither in hospitals or get blown up in their wars.

If you don't know where to get started:

If you already know what to do, then it's time to do it. Participate in mutual aid, raise awareness in real life as well as online, participate in or train in self defense and emergency medical training classes.

[cookthepenguin]

[sophies-junkyard]

Change is incremental, but something CHANGED today. You weren’t sure about voting for Biden? You don’t have to anymore! And now is the time to RALLY. The world is fucked up, but letting Trump win will not lead to the political revolution we’re waiting for. Wake up.

Im gonna vote for Kamala Harris in November because I don’t want a wannabe dictator running our country. Simple as that.

[junewild]

Watching Sam & Brennan talk about the beauty of frivolity, of adults playing silly games just as seriously as they fight to survive, and... yeah. There are some things that keep us alive, and there are some things that make life worth living, and I think games are one of those things that fall into both categories. Games make our lives better and they make us better at being alive. I think that's pretty cool.

[fertbutt]

playing fallout new vegas and having to listen to caesar complaining about travelling and getting to study the languages of various communities living in the wasteland and calling it a waste of time while irl the humanities are constantly disregarded and getting a higher education and opportunities to study anthropology hands-on costs tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and requires so many connections and he was just getting that FOR FREE from the followers but that wasnt cool enough for him so he decided to use the education he was given to start his little fascist larper group and enslave people

[angstyhikka]

Happy new year everyone!🔥🎉🔥

[anarchywoofwoof]

well

here's the headline some of us collapse-aware folks have been dreading becoming mainstream for a long time now.

this is in a vice article. not some fringe website. this isn't fearmongering. this is reality.

so this isn't a small sample size. this a plea from 163 of of the 195 countries on the entire planet to act.

we have seriously broken something. and badly.

you people literally can't even take someone blocking traffic and making you late for brunch. you shit on Greta Thunberg. you shit on Just Stop Oil. you shit on anyone who tries to make any kind of meaningful difference. and then you say "we need movements." every movement that any radical with good intentions has tried to start in the 1st world on the left has been stomped out by the police time and time again. give me a fucking break.

trapped, is what they mean.

trapped in an unlivable wasteland with no food, no water, and no chance of survival.

millions of people are being forced back into half hour-hour commutes in the name steadying of corporate real estate prices. because a profitable business is more important than a habitable planet to the people with wealth who actually own the means of production.

the fact of the matter is that the rich and powerful will never, ever let you vote their power away and they will never agree to give away by choice. we can sing this song in a million different tunes, but it always has the same words. you gotta eat the rich.

[vice news]

[decolonize-the-everything]

Jasmine Sherman is LIVE on tik tok right now for 30-ish more minutes.

Please share their name and make posts about them if you like them. They're entirely grassroots. They don't get anywhere unless we help them. If the live ends first, please look at their platform and consider them this year and start sharing their name so you can definitely vote for them in 2028.

Here's the link for tiktok

Here's the stream of it on twitch

Their home site and some of their policies:

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

western anarchists: abolish prisons! abolish the government! abolish police! revolution now, we cant reform a corrupt system! … abolishing prostitution is unrealistic and also fascist. we need more regulations

[queerism1969]

[wholesomemorbid]

The Anarcats

Who needs the Aristocats anyway?

A series of four images that are just simple goofy pencil doodles in a cartoony style. There are titles handwritten on them.

EAT THE RICH AND BUTTHOLES: A cute cat is cleaning her booty

SEIZE THE MEANS OF PAWDUCTION: a kitty sits sleepily with his tumtum hanging out. He will seize things later probably

SOLIDARITY: Three cats interfere with a desktop computer

RELAXING IS A REVOLUTION: A cat stretches happily

GENERATE NO PROFITS: Three cats enjoy a sunbeam

~

If this comic gave you a laugh, please follow me. 1 heart = 1 vote in support of cats striking until they get the good wet food again

[ratbastarddotfuck]

I've never been truly able to get on board with "if you go far enough left, you get your guns back" because I genuinely just don't think we should be mass producing weapons that can facilitate mass murder at the scale we do. like, sure, I'm not against the principle of "marginalised people and activists should have the same access to weaponry that others do, especially for protection in a state of fascism" but I just. we only have these things as a result of the military industry, finding the most efficient ways to kill. these things should never have been made. we shouldn't be producing assault rifles for mass consumption, we shouldn't be producing them at all.

so like. sure. if you go far enough left you get your guns back, I guess. but I think that's a short-sighted and disingenuous way to phrase it, when I would assume that the more "radical" leftist stance is something more akin to global demilitarisation and the cessation of mass-production of weapons (alongside a lot of other garbage made for mass consumption under capitalism - we need to de-industrialise production on a major global scale).

(I don't necessarily mean getting rid of guns "completely" because people will always find ways to engineer them, but I think there is a massive difference between a gun designed for responsible hunting or sport vs a gun designed to kill people as fast as possible, or to be wielded as a threat the way cops do.)

idk. obviously this is a very future-focused perspective and I guess the "far enough left etc." crowd are usually talking more in the present. I just have concerns that this particular piece of rhetoric encourages some leftists to be less critical of the weaponry industry than perhaps we should be.

[whereserpentswalk]

Ripped off transphobic stickers that someone had put on the metal objects between my college campus and the subway stop I get off at to go to college. But ones that had queer identities in big letters I try to rip off in a way that preserves the word while removing the terf propaganda. So now there are just stickers that say "trans" and "lesbians" hanging around a random series of blocks in Manhattan.

[bitstitchbitch]

I desperately hope that the renegades are absolutely abolished in the spin off series. I need Nova to realize that, while the anarchists were worse, the renegades aren’t great either and her switching sides so fully and suddenly was just a knee-jerk reaction to leaving the anarchists and her and Adrian and the others rebel again at the council and put a real democracy with true equality in place. i also want nova pov again, but i know the chances of that are very low since i think we can assume it will be Evie x Max