A text detailing lessons from the Arab Spring in Libya and Syria that we can learn from to organize armed struggle in the so-called “united states”
Zine via Unknown
Category: general
Who Wants to be Outgunned by ICE?
Yes, we even stole from work under socialism
Quote from back of zine:
“This is an extract from the book A Worker in a Worker’s State, written by Miklós Haraszti in 1972 when he was a young employee at the Red Star Tractor Factory and suppressed by the Hungarian government as a threat to socialism. Throughout history, workers have stolen from their workplaces under capitalism, socialism, and communism alike. Haraszti suggests that this stealing is actually the most creative and enterprising activity that takes place in the factory, implying the possibility of a world in which all labor would be equally creative and free. His text also provides a window into the lives of workers in the Eastern Bloc, revealing the void at the heart of the supposed workers’ utopia. So long as there are managers, workers will rob their workplaces—not just for personal gain, but above all to keep alive that which is best in themselves.
At a time when young people in the West who did not experience the horrors of state socialism are spreading nostalgia for it while fascists gain legitimacy in Eastern Europe by presenting themselves as its foes, it’s important to remember that state socialism never gave workers the freedom or abundance it promised—and that its true opponents are not the nationalists who would inflict still worse horrors, but anarchists and other ordinary working people who resist all forms of imposed authority. Likewise, Haraszti’s text is prescient in anticipating how artisanal craftsmanship would be further commodified in the post-industrial economy, offering the illusion of free activity as yet another facet of the market. Instead of peddling nostalgia for state control of industry, factory work, or any other specter of the 20th century—or seeking to monetize our autonomous activity after the fashion of the 21st century—let’s take immediate action against capitalism, socialism, and work itself.”
Zine via Evil Wizard Distro
Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto
“As Indigenous anti-futurists, we are the consequence of the history of the colonizer’s future. We are the consequence of their war against Mother Earth. We will not allow the specter of the colonizer, the ghosts of the past to haunt the ruins of this world. We are the actualization of our prophecies.”
Zine via Indigenous Action Media
Why Misogynists Make Great Informants
“The state has already understood a fact that the Left has struggled to accept: misogynists make great informants. Before or regardless of whether they are ever recruited by the state to disrupt a movement or destabilize an organization, they’ve likely become well versed in practices of disruptive behavior. They require almost no training and can start the work immediately. What’s more paralyzing to our work than when women and/or queer folks leave our movements because they have been repeatedly lied to, humiliated, physically/verbally/emotionally/sexually abused? Or when you have to postpone conversations about the work so that you can devote group meetings to addressing an individual member’s most recent offense? Or when that person spreads misinformation, creating confusion and friction among radical groups? Nothing slows down movement building like a misogynist.”
Zine via North Shore Counter-Info
Things To Be Prepared For When Having A Forgettable Fun Night
A zine about dealing with some of the intense emotions that come when people have forgettable fun.
Text originally published on BC Counter Info
together: booklet to form affinity groups
Anarchy: The Life and Joy of Insubordination
Post-Left Anarchy
“There remain large numbers of anarchists who continue to identify closely with the political left in one form or another. But there are increasing numbers ready to abandon much of the dead weight associated with the left tradition.”
Zine via Warzone Distro
Don’t Film, Act: A Call For Confrontation
“Maybe there was a time when it was reasonable to believe that capturing the brutality of police on film would mean an end to that brutality would be brought by some righteous conscience of the society bearing witness, but that time(if it ever did exist) is certainly long gone now. Year after year, brutal video after brutal video, we find ourselves inhabiting the same world of the police, their cruelty, and their brutality.
Your footage will not save anyone, you are not exposing some unknown side of the American cop. We know what the police are and what they do. It’s what they’ve always done.”
Zine via Jersey Counter-Info