Mutt. – Editorial Looking at the broad counterinsurgent tactics in babylon and across the world – from funding and surveillance to police-friendly A–B marches – Mutt. tells us why it’s important to know your enemy.
Zhachev – They Who Returned to the Rock Zhachev draws connections between ancient Nabataeans, historical Indigenous resistance, and deep knowledge of the land as he proposes a critical decolonial reading of ‘Dune’.
Mar – this poem is dedicated to uncle Mar dedicates, with the incandescent clarity of the midday sun, a poem to uncle – and all the aunties, NGOs, beckies and bootlickers, too.
Sidiq – Pengar / Hangover Sidiq shares a poem in defiance of colonial civilisation. Sidiq is part of two publishing collectives: ___contemplative [Instagram] andtalaspress [Instagram], and his prisoner support group is taking donations: [email protected]
Margeret Kimblerly & Roddy Rod – Martinique’s History of Resistance Abridged transcript of a discussion between Margaret Kimberley and Roddy Rod on the situation in Martinique, including its past and present colonial relations with France, internal Martinican politics, and ongoing insurrection.
Simoun Magsalin – The Anarchy of the Peripheries Simoun Magsalin takes us through landscapes of peripheries and asks what anarchisms might be created there. What can we learn from the specificities of failures and successes of anarchist projects? Where do we go from here, wherever we currently are?
Leonardo Torres Llerena – Toward an Indo-American Revolution With generosity and criticality, Leonardo Torres Llerena examines the legacy of José Carlos Mariátegui, an early C20th Peruvian Marxist writer and activist, and why his work is relevant for contemporary anarchist tendencies with regard to Indigenous-led uprisings.
CharlieBanga & Semiyah – Autonomous Submersion CharlieBanga & Semiyah discuss ‘autonomous submersion’, a term they originated to foreground Black autonomy as refusal to submit to enslavement by instead choosing death. ‘May we all be as brave and resilient as the original black autonomists.’
Anon – Our Burning Memory Unflinchingly looking at fear, cowardice victimhood as constituting whiteness, Anon urges us to remember our capacity for wielding power and to consciously recognise our revolutionary fighting spirit.
Patrick Jonathan Derilus – The Immovable Black Lumpenproletariat Looking at Black social formations that resist the State and its white colonial violence, Patrick Jonathan Derilus shares a critical history of Black factions and gangs that foreground abolitionist responses.
Fawaz Murtada – Why Would You Become an Anarchist in Sudan? An anarchist in Sudan explains why anarchism offers clarity in the struggle against multiple failed social systems, and how the anarchist movement in Sudan has contributed to community aid and education during war.
Daniel Adediran – Where is Black Anarchism in the UK? Contextualising the means and ends of anarchism within historical African societies and modern Black radical traditions, Daniel Adediran proposes Espicifismo as a way forward for Black Anarchism in the UK.
Anon – Principles for the coming Yankee invasion / Principios para la invasion gringa que se viene A Mexican anarchist predicts what will happen in the coming year if the Trump government is not stopped.
Decolonize Anarchism – May Day on Fire: Against Empire and Theocracy The Western left will march on May 1st under red banners, chanting slogans of internationalism and workers’ power. But SWANA anarchist project Decolonize Anarchism ask – is there room for Iranian workers in your May Day?
Group Of Informal Affinity – Reject the National Army law A fiery communiqué from insurrectionists resisting the Indonesian state.
Muntjac Collective – Protect Yourself We have two suggestions on how you and your groups can prepare yourselves.
Anon – Alexa, take me to prison! An analysis of how hostile technology is embedded in counterinsurgency, plus tactics and experimental ideas for what anarchists can do to create alternative cultures of operational security.
Haraami – Follow the Fires A diagnosis of how counter-insurgent forms of identity politics leverage scenes and milieus as incubators of insular and fickle social competition and calls upon revolutionaries to focus instead on fidelity to uprisings and practical questions of revolution.
Mutt. – What Color Is The Smoke? (In conversation with Follow The Fires) A embrace and criticism of a recent article on counter-insurgent forms of identity politics, plus reflections and memories of farcical moments in POC anarchist projects of the past and a Black anarchist project in the UK.
Mar – An Introvert’s Guide to the Insurrection Want to do insurgency but are put off by large social gatherings? Don’t worry, Mar is here with a light-hearted DIY guide on how to make revolution happen.
poet of da soil – untitled poet of da soil shares a poem that calls for rebellion in the form of life.
Anon – Selections From Disquietude Laboratory Three poems from an Indonesian language egoist anarchist zine.
Anon – Selections from Kompilasi Puizine A powerful introductory note and three poems pulled from a huge compilation of Indonesian-language anarchist poems, published during the ongoing clashes with the state.
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