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The false red flag: a despotic dead end
By Paul Cudenec We have seen how the Bolsheviks in Russia repressed the grassroots revolutionary movement and imposed a centralised authoritarian regime that declared war on small farmers and hitherto independent individuals, turning most of the population into powerless slaves to a giant industrial machine. We have also learned that they were funded and assisted…
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Ecosophia by Peter Charles Downey – Film Review
The film Ecosophia is a tour through many of the issues facing humanity: our addiction to growth, energy, and materials, and our devastating use of “surplus energy” to extract and consume—and thus destroy—the very system that sustains us. The narrative of the film is told through a series of short interviews, interspersed with reflections by…
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Discontent is bubbling up in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Two-thirds of the country think that “New Zealand’s economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”. This is just one view in a new survey that indicates the high level of discontent and anti-establishment feeling that exists in the country at the moment. The IPSOS research company carries out an annual survey about populism…
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Demonstration against capitalist wars and capitalist peace
The collective organizing the May Action Week in Prague is calling for an anti-war demonstration to take place on Friday 24 May 2024 at 5pm on Palacký Square. War is a phenomenon that not only theoretically, but also very concretely intrudes upon everyone’s life. Under the current social order, there is no boundary separating life…
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April 1964-April 2024: The origins of a symbol
A history of the circled A as an anarchist symbol, a symbol whose 60th anniversary falls on this year. Via: https://autonomies.org/2024/04/april-1964-april-2024-the-origins-of-a-symbol/ We can thoroughly search all the archives, going back in time as far as possible and across all continents; however, reality is stubborn, and one fact remains unyielding: prior to April 1964, an A…
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AN APPEAL TO REASON [leaflet, 1909]
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/905s61 Today we find our politicians playing upon our national prejudices, and threatening to squander, in piratical wars, our people’s lifeblood and treasure. They cannot provide the few shillings per week necessary to brighten the old man’s journey to the grave, but are prepared to pour out money like water to provide instruments of murder…