Mark Deasy 🍉<p>An excellent article. This spoke to me in so many ways. The conservative capture of the RSL and the AWM, and of course the misuse of ANZAC Day to glorify war leaves many ex-serving members in limbo. Our governments are terrible and our journalists insufficiently curious.</p><p>"There is no cultural space for dissenting veterans in Australia. They tend not to join veterans’ associations, or participate in local veteran community events.</p><p>Some of the veterans I spoke to initially participated in Anzac Day marches, but stopped attending after recognising how the day itself was exploited by conservative forces. “I don’t really want to be part of this,” realised one Vietnam veteran, “so I walked away from it.” "</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-war-has-made-me-a-pacifist-why-are-we-so-reluctant-to-acknowledge-australias-anti-war-veterans-253530" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/friday-ess</span><span class="invisible">ay-war-has-made-me-a-pacifist-why-are-we-so-reluctant-to-acknowledge-australias-anti-war-veterans-253530</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/anzacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anzacs</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peace</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/radicalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalhistory</span></a></p>
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Heretical_i<p>1867 US <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/GeneralStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralStrike</span></a>... This is one of the reasons known-<a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> prez Abe Lincoln was even remotely interested in freeing the south's <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/slaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slaves</span></a>. The Eu immigrant workers didn't care for <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/SlaveLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlaveLabor</span></a> and he hoped, for his northern industrialists bffs, they'd move north once freed, to work in the <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/sweatshops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sweatshops</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>workingclasshistory</span></a></span> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unions</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/USHistoryBackwards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USHistoryBackwards</span></a></p>
A Radical Guide<p>Dandelion DIY has been added to A Radical Guide <a href="https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/dandelion-diy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">radical-guide.com/listing/dand</span><span class="invisible">elion-diy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhereWereYouRadicalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhereWereYouRadicalized</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadicalEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalEducation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radicalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalhistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrassrootsMovements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrassrootsMovements</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antifascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SupportRadicalSpaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupportRadicalSpaces</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CollectiveLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollectiveLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MovementBuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MovementBuilding</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anothetworldispossible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anothetworldispossible</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/grassrootsactivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grassrootsactivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bristol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bristol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unitedkingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unitedkingdom</span></a></p>
A Radical Guide<p>BASE Social centre has been added to A Radical Guide <a href="https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/base-social-centre" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">radical-guide.com/listing/base</span><span class="invisible">-social-centre</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhereWereYouRadicalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhereWereYouRadicalized</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadicalEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalEducation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radicalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalhistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrassrootsMovements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrassrootsMovements</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antifascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SupportRadicalSpaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupportRadicalSpaces</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CollectiveLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollectiveLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MovementBuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MovementBuilding</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anothetworldispossible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anothetworldispossible</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/grassrootsactivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grassrootsactivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bristol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bristol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unitedkingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unitedkingdom</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>"Poster from an Antiwar, Lesbian, Feminist Fugitive, ca. 1970." Details, including alt text, at <a href="https://markstoneman.com/2025/03/14/poster-from-an-antiwar-lesbian.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">markstoneman.com/2025/03/14/po</span><span class="invisible">ster-from-an-antiwar-lesbian.html</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WHM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WHM</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/OldPosters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldPosters</span></a></p>
Heretical_i<p><a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/TodayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TodayInHistory</span></a>, <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a>, US edition:<br>"On March 8th, 1971, eight ordinary citizens broke into an <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> office in Media, PA. Calling themselves the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, they removed every file in the office. ... The heist yielded a trove of damning evidence. The most significant revelation was <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/COINTELPRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COINTELPRO</span></a>, a controversial, secret, illegal surveillance program..." <br>Documentary/Interviews with the "burglers" <a href="https://youtu.be/y9lr3-7EYHI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/y9lr3-7EYHI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>"A New Era for Women Workers, Minority Women and Lesbians." 1976 poster by a Seattle organization called Radical Women.</p><p>Via Library of Congress, Yanker Poster Collection, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016649885/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">loc.gov/pictures/item/20166498</span><span class="invisible">85/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WHM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WHM</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Intersectionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intersectionality</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seattle</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a> 🏳️🌈</p>
tim d (he/him)<p>this Sunday at 2pm, come to the Lucy Parsons Center to find inspiration from Boston's radical history. free!</p><p>myself and jay c will be your tour guides on this voyage...</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BostonMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BostonMA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a></p>
tim d (he/him)<p>a new, long-form article on preserving the story and legacy of local Italian-American anarchists, Sacco and Vanzetti...</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sacco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sacco</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vanzetti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vanzetti</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaccoAndVanzetti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaccoAndVanzetti</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BostonMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BostonMA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/13/sacco-vanzetti-archive/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/</span><span class="invisible">13/sacco-vanzetti-archive/</span></a></p>
zeno's paradox speedrunner<p>Occult Black History Month</p><p>did you know the most powerful practitioner in New Orleans history worked as a hairdresser?</p><p>Marie Laveau (1801-1881) knew something most modern occultists forget; real power flows through networks of whispered secrets, shared struggles, and strategic silence. while she's remembered as the Voodoo Queen, her true genius was in understanding that liberation requires both spiritual and earthly power.</p><p>her salon wasn't just a business... it was command central for an intelligence network that would make modern hackers jealous. rich white women's secrets flowed freely under her hands, while her spiritual services gave her access to every level of society. she didn't need encrypted channels when she had a city's worth of devoted eyes and ears.</p><p>she walked freely through a violently segregated city, entered prisons at will, and made both governors and slaves tremble at her name. not through elaborate rituals or fancy grimoires, but through a perfect fusion of practical cunning and spiritual authority.</p><p>the history books want you to see her as some exotic mystery, all snake dances and gris-gris bags. they don't want you thinking too hard about how a free Black woman built an empire of influence in the antebellum South, or why the powerful feared her while the oppressed sought her protection.</p><p>they definitely don't want you thinking about how she used that influence. she secured pardons for the condemned, protected fugitive slaves, healed the sick regardless of race or status, and maintained a power base that lasted decades in a time when most Black women couldn't even own property.</p><p>she understood something fundamental about power. it's not just about what you can do, it's about what people believe you can do. every rumor of her abilities, every whispered story of her influence, every public display of her authority... all carefully cultivated tools in a arsenal of liberation.</p><p>her greatest trick? convincing the powerful she was just entertaining while building networks of resistance right under their noses. she didn't need to hide in shadows, she made herself so visible they couldn't see what was really happening. </p><p>that is just amazing shadow/void work. funny how they focus on the rituals and ignore the revolution beneath them. there's a lesson there.</p><p>next time someone tells you to keep your spiritual practice 'pure' and separate from politics, remember Marie. she knew that real power isn't about keeping your hands clean, it's about using every tool at your disposal to protect your people.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Voodoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voodoo</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PowerToThePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerToThePeople</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OccultHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OccultHistory</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/occult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>occult</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/magic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magic</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/magick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magick</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BLM</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKJWRwApn2Y&pp=ygVtYW50aXppb25pc20gaGFzIGV4aXN0ZWQgc2luY2UgdGhlIGJlZ2lubmluZyBvZiB6aW9pbmlzbSwgbW9sbHkgY3JhYmFwcGxlLCBtYXJjIHN0ZWluZXIsIHRoZSByZWFsIG5ld3MgbmV0d29yaw%3D%3D" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=iKJWRwApn2</span><span class="invisible">Y&pp=ygVtYW50aXppb25pc20gaGFzIGV4aXN0ZWQgc2luY2UgdGhlIGJlZ2lubmluZyBvZiB6aW9pbmlzbSwgbW9sbHkgY3JhYmFwcGxlLCBtYXJjIHN0ZWluZXIsIHRoZSByZWFsIG5ld3MgbmV0d29yaw%3D%3D</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TheRealNewsNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealNewsNetwork</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TRNN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TRNN</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TheMarcSteinerShow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMarcSteinerShow</span></a> with guest <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MollyCrabapple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MollyCrabapple</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/JewishLabourBund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewishLabourBund</span></a>, a secular and antizionist party </p><p>Anti-Zionism has existed since the beginning of Zionism </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/radicalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalhistory</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/antifascisthistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifascisthistory</span></a> :antifa: <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Jewishhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewishhistory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ZionismIsJudeoNazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZionismIsJudeoNazism</span></a> <br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/NotInOurName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotInOurName</span></a> ✡️ :anarchismhebrew:</p>
Peter Riley<p>IWW Clydeside<br>@clydeside</p><p>This Sunday 30th June at 12 noon, open invite to have a stroll/meander around <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlasgowGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlasgowGreen</span></a> </p><p>Let the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scottie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottie</span></a> (dog) into a parkie ! <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edinburgh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotland</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlasgowKeelie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlasgowKeelie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workingclasshistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclasshistory</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iwwClydeside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iwwClydeside</span></a></p>
Spencer Beswick<p>Marxism & anarchism in the 1920s-30s</p><p>"Marxism overtook anarchism on the Left in response to both economic developments and the Russian Revolution. Syndicalist forms of the anarchist struggle had proliferated within the nascent industrialization of the early twentieth century. While anarchism had a stronger working-class base than often presumed, it flourished in the relatively informal production conditions of this period. As federated anarchist labour unions began to challenge the rule of capital, capitalists responded by centralizing and formalizing production—in part to break the power of syndicalist unions. This formalization provided fertile ground for Communist Parties to organize centralized unions. </p><p>In addition, anarchists were unable to offer a satisfactory response to the global depression of the 1930s. Anarchism provided little alternative to the popular-national forces that took power— including [FDR]'s New Deal Democrats in the United States, Lazaro Cárdenas’s agrarian reforms in Mexico, and the popular front government in Chile—all of which were supported by their respective Communist and Socialist Parties. </p><p>Yet even in countries where anarchism seemed to disappear after the early 1930s, such as Mexico and Argentina, the tenets and ideals of anarchism lived on in libertarian currents within Communist Parties and within the everyday lives of ordinary people fighting for freedom, equality, and self-determination."</p><p>Revisiting my article "Radical Americas: A Hemispheric History of the Left" in Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate as I prepare a lecture on Latin American anarchism <a href="https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/lh/article/view/39672" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php</span><span class="invisible">/lh/article/view/39672</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radicalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalhistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/latinamerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>latinamerica</span></a></p>
Spencer Beswick<p>"Reproductive rights were won by grassroots feminist movements working in conjunction with electoral and legal strategies. </p><p>Doctors, lawyers, and even many clergy spent decades fighting legal battles to lift restrictions on abortion and birth control. Like today, they often limited their focus to cases based on health concerns or rape, rather than arguing for the fundamental right to bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom. </p><p>These tactics laid the legal foundation for Roe v. Wade, particularly the Supreme Court’s 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut that legalized birth control for married couples based on the right to privacy. Yet this reliance on the framework of privacy limited the scope of reforms by obscuring the actual fight for reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy. It was only with the birth of a militant feminist movement that fought to repeal all laws restricting abortion that there was substantive progress regarding abortion itself at the level of the state. </p><p>Radical feminists in the 1960s-1970s employed new strategies for building power and effecting change. Feminists in the Women’s Liberation Movement, many of whom were veterans of the anti-war movement and New Left organizations like Students for a Democratic Society, began forming autonomous women’s groups in the late 1960s. They organized consciousness raising groups across the country in which women discussed their shared experiences. </p><p>This provided the foundation for women to speak out publicly about their abortions and to openly fight for the repeal of all abortion restrictions. Feminists began disrupting male-dominated medical spaces and challenging their supposed expertise. The Redstockings led the way when they spoke out at a 1969 New York State Joint Legislative Committee Hearing and proclaimed that “the only real experts on abortion are women!” </p><p>In addition to speakouts and demonstrations, feminists also built grassroots women’s infrastructure including underground abortion networks. Women across the country took reproductive care into their own hands, including through the new at-home abortion technique of menstrual extraction that was developed in 1971. </p><p>Feminists were inspired to put into practice what they learned from the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective’s landmark text Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970). The Chicago Jane Collective, for instance, performed over ten thousand illegal abortions between 1969-1973. Feminists demanded the repeal of all abortion laws and advocated for women themselves—not the state or the male-dominated medical system—to control their bodies. </p><p>Feminist scholar-activist Jenny Brown argues that it was these “massive feminist mobilizations” which “brought hundreds of thousands into the streets,” alongside consciousness-raising and underground abortion provision, that “in just four years forced a reluctant Supreme Court to legalize most abortions across the country.” Militant mobilization and widespread public disobedience, in combination with ongoing legal cases, pressured the Court into codifying limited abortion rights into law in the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling."</p><p>Read more in my recent article in Radical History Review, "'To Repulse the State from Our Uteri': Anarcha-feminism, Reproductive Freedom, and Dual Power"</p><p><a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/article/2024/148/90/384729/To-Repulse-the-State-from-Our-Uteri-Anarcha?guestAccessKey=7806bc55-d93d-4b68-ac99-8c9b089b52ef" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hi</span><span class="invisible">story-review/article/2024/148/90/384729/To-Repulse-the-State-from-Our-Uteri-Anarcha?guestAccessKey=7806bc55-d93d-4b68-ac99-8c9b089b52ef</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reproductiverights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reproductiverights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reproductivefreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reproductivefreedom</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/roevwade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roevwade</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radicalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalhistory</span></a></p>
Spencer Beswick<p>Anarchists in the 1980s devised the idea of "Warchest Tours." David Solnit described them as "roving guerrilla-theater nonviolent direct action that confronted the corporations that fund and control the Democratic Party and are involved in nuclear weapons and military intervention."</p><p>"The form of a Warchest tour was taken from the "Hall of Shame" tours which were mobile protest tours that stopped at the corporations behind the nuclear industry in the spring of '82. They were organized by anarchists in the anti-nuclear power/weapons movement. . . the Warchest Tours attempted to tear off the democratic mask of U.S. elections and confront the destructive corporate power behind both political parties." </p><p>In 1984, the Democrats hosted their national convention in San Francisco. Anarchists, punks, and others planned a series of escalating Warchest Tour demonstrations that attempted to connect the harms of militarism, capitalism, and imperialism to the Democrats and Republicans. Demonstrators gathered at sites like the Bank of America world headquarters and spoke out about the Bank's investment in injustice from South Africa to Poland. They ran between targeted companies disrupting business as usual and clashing with police.</p><p>For many young people, this experience was exhilarating. As Solnit says, "The Warchest Tours were also a living critique of the left's forms of protest: monitors controlling and moving people like cattle, tactical leaders with bullhorns repeating monotonous chants, and even anti-nuclear sit-down-and-wait-for-the police-to-arrest-you civil disobedience that felt too much on the terms of the police. The Warchest Tours Collective encouraged avoiding arrest, nonviolent direct action, guerrilla theater, creative protest and fun."</p><p>A few anarchists were visiting from Minneapolis and were inspired by the potential of the Warchest Tour model. Afterward, they went home and founded Back Room Anarchist Books and the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League, which you can read about here: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@spencerbeswick/111811829957403904" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@spencerbeswi</span><span class="invisible">ck/111811829957403904</span></a></p><p>Read more about Warchest Tours from David Solnit here: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210505035410/https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=1984_War_Chest_Tours_II" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2021050503</span><span class="invisible">5410/https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=1984_War_Chest_Tours_II</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchisthistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchisthistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radicalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalhistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democrats</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a></p>
tim d (he/him)<p>1/2</p><p>Meet 26 Mansfield St. Somerville (and Pat Falco's rendition of it for my new zine)</p><p>Located near Target, and now a pentecostal church, in the 10s thru the 30s, this small house was a Casa del Popolo-- a collectively-run community center for Italian Americans. (There were Case around the Italian diaspora-- and even back home in Italy.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SomervilleMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SomervilleMA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PatFalco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatFalco</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BostonMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BostonMA</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a> Channel 🇬🇧<br>The forgotten radicals of the <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/EnglishCivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishCivilWar</span></a> | The <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Levellers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Levellers</span></a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsrRsy8E2AQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=bsrRsy8E2A</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/England" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>England</span></a></p>
WerkstattGeschichte<p>Heute vor 30 Jahren starb Edward Palmer (E.P.) Thompson, britischer Sozialhistoriker, Sozialist, Wegbereiter der <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/GeschichteVonUnten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeschichteVonUnten</span></a>, streitbarer Autor, Mitgründer mehrerer Zeitschriften (u.a. Past & Present), Antiatomwaffenaktivist ... ein kurzer Nachruf von Logie Barrow erschien seinerzeit in der <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/WerkstattGeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WerkstattGeschichte</span></a> 6/1993, <a href="https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/maennerleben-lebemaenner" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au</span><span class="invisible">sgaben/maennerleben-lebemaenner</span></a></p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/EPThompson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPThompson</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/HistoryFromBelow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryFromBelow</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/MoralEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MoralEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Alltagsgeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alltagsgeschichte</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Sozialgeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sozialgeschichte</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/SocialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialHistory</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/RadicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalHistory</span></a></p>
Evan Smith<p>New collections added!</p><p>Labor in America Collection<br>Campus & Queens Activism of the 1960s<br>CCNY Antiwar Notices<br>Eugene V. Debs Collection<br>Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Archive<br>ANU Chinese Cultural Revolution collection<br>Chinese Public Health Campaigns</p><p>Over 500 online and open access collections of radical, left-wing, labour and anti-colonial historical documents are now listed. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radicalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalhistory</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-online-collections-and-archives/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">radical-online-collections-and-archives/</span></a></p>
Spencer Beswick<p>What is the radical Left?</p><p>The radical Left is united by a shared endeavor to address the foundational roots of social injustices. It seeks to overthrow—not simply tweak—capitalist social relations. Leftists work towards the common goal of a stateless, classless society characterized by collective self-determination, worker control of production, and individual freedom and dignity. </p><p>In my historical approach, I emphasize active participation in antisystemic movements over theoretical distinctions. Yet clarification of differences is also necessary. Anarchists are antistate or libertarian socialists who advocate the reorganization of society into voluntary federations based in social equality and individual freedom. Syndicalists, who overlap substantially with anarchists, believe that revolutionary unions should prefigure the new world and act as the vehicles to re-organize society. The labels of socialism and communism are at times used interchangeably; this paper will follow the general approach of classifying socialists as those who pursue reformist strategies whereas communists advocate revolutionary seizure of state power by a vanguard party. </p><p>An undogmatic radical Left acknowledges significant ideological differences but manages to collaborate on common projects and struggles. Dogmatism and sectarianism have long been the bane of the Left, but the transnational history discussed in this article reveals alternative currents of theory and practice that are unconstrained by both national borders and rigid ideological lines. Indeed, transnational networks have often enabled non-sectarian connections and collaboration at multiple levels, stretching from Caribbean anarchist networks in the early twentieth century to the “provocative cocktail” of political traditions represented in the Zapatistas and other new social movements of the late twentieth century. </p><p>Read more in my recent article in Left History, "Radical Americas: A Hemispheric History of the Left" <a href="https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/lh/article/view/39672" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php</span><span class="invisible">/lh/article/view/39672</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/syndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syndicalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radicalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalhistory</span></a></p>
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