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Abolisyonista

@abolisyonista.bsky.social

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Writer and archivist on Philippine anarchism and socialism, reader of ultraleft communism, degrowth, social ecology, police+prison abolition, Southeast Asian anarchisms. For the self-abolition of the proletariat.

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · May 3

My essay on learning anarchist lessons from CPP-NPA-NDF is out now. I situate the people's war and mamundok in the context of a uniquely Philippine tradition of remontar and then put it in dialogue with Black anarchism, insurrectionary anarchism, and communization.
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Rebel Peripheries

Simoun Magsalin Rebel Peripheries May 1, 2025

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 1h

In this sense, post-colonial nationalism has historically been an anti-Indigenous project. In Latin America, Benedict Anderson noted in IMAGINED COMMUNITIES that creoles after independence wanted a new race through the miscegenation of settlers and Indigenous women.

Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 5h

For post-colonial creoles like myself, there is a double alienation, one from the land—of which creoles have no relation to unlike Indigenous peoples—and then another alienation from our indigeneity as we identify with colonial/post-colonial projects (e.g. the Philippines).

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 2h

Two executions were carried out in Singapore today, including the only woman left on death row.

Hamzah Ibrahim and his co-accused are the 13th and 14th people to be hanged by Singapore this year so far.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 2h

145/1000 with 15 hours left… still plenty left to match

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 11h

We continue: out of duty, as our promise—because we still need to keep hope alive ❤️‍🔥

Today only, we’re matching £250 / $333 to help six families & a camp STILL survive. That means food, shelter, transport north, baby clothes.

24 hours left 🚨 0/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle” decorated with a red watercolor poppy. Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. Give and be matched. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING: Israeli tanks open fire on Palestinian residents in the town of Bani Suheila and Sheikh Nasser neighborhood, east of Khan Younis.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 3h

A ceasefire is (sadly) not the equivalent of peace. It also does not make food, tents, warmth magically appear. You are needed. Please help.

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 3h

Please share. The needs haven’t ceased, so neither do we. We MUST resist the convenience of complacency.

Six families desperately need food and shelter—it’s still a famine and their homes are gone. We’re matching £250 to help today.

16 hours left 🚨 61/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Elegant Sledgehammer FREE LINK @tinyteerex.bsky.social · 7h

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 12d

I know we’re all racing to help people evacuate but many are choosing to stay in their beloved city. It’s our duty to honor their dignity.

Spark Space is, yes, still open, still serving people who are staying. Participate in, don’t exceptionalize, this sumud:

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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 5h

Recent chronic illness prompted me to reread Johanna Hedva's "Sick Woman Theory" which had a major revision since I last read it. Very sharp for understanding pathologization, disposability (especially wrt feminzation), and imposition of the category of "sickness." topicalcream.org/features/sic...

Sick Woman Theory | Topical Cream

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 5h

wrt colonization and settlement, people become Indigenous when they become alienated from their land, in very much the same way people become proles/workers through alienation from their labor.

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 5h

Land is never “just land.” A thing isn't never just a thing, it's always imbued with social relationships. That's the case with land. Would a plank of wood just be a fragment of a tree? Of course not; it's imbued with the crystallization of alienated labor and nature.

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 5h

Indigeneity isn't a nationalist category (as Marxists exclaim) but a condition imposed by settler colonialism, much like proletarianization. The French aren't “indigenous” to Paris or Marseille. Land isn't merely a “mode of production,” but is also imbued by social relations.

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 7h

Finished reading this and archiving it!

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On Sex Negativity and Sex Work

Anonymous On Sex Negativity and Sex Work 2019

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 11h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 17h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 12h

“physically fighting brings more people in than sign holding or writing letters to the editor ever did. If anything, the wet blanket and attempts to control things by protest managers and liberals kills social movements”

What Anarchists Have Been Saying For Years, and What Liberals Need to Start Hearing

Anonymous What Anarchists Have Been Saying For Years, and What Liberals Need to Start Hearing December 8th, 2016

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 1d

i hate the term invisible disabilities so bad lmao send it back to where it came from

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like saying any disability is invisible centers non-disabled people as the norm, and also reifies a sort binary way of thinking about disability. that thinking is braided throughout our medical & social systems. I have used “invisibilized“ here and there but I try to stray from it in general

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Malatesta Appreciator @comebackkid44723.bsky.social · 1d

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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day y’all, remember it’s fuck Columbus and all colonizers and land back.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

WASHINGTON—Affirming the importance of traditions like Columbus Day to other Americans, the nation’s 573 federally recognized Indian nations released a joint statement Monday confirming they don’t nee...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I have a zine I published this year that focuses on US policing and tear gas: issuu.com/projectnia/d...

A [short] History of U.S. Police & Tear Gas

This is the 6th issue in Mariame Kaba's archival activations series. It was designed by Cindy Lau (October 2024).

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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 1d

An all timer day for Indotwt

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 1d

Pasyon and Revolution coded

Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 1d

Anting-antings were kinda pricy if I remember 😭 They were telling me their amulets were indeed blessed. I held my tongue in asking “by whom?”

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Gaza Palestinians not Gazans. West Bank Palestinians not West Bankers. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Israeli Arabs.

Decolonize your language.

Say Palestine. Say Palestinians.

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 1d

CLR James, of course, touches upon it in BLACK JACOBINS, but his particular focus, bordering on obsession, on Toussaint L'Ouverture glossed over the fact that he and his successors like Jean-Jacques Dessalines reimposed forced labor!

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not actually aware of any work—Marxist, anarchist, Black radical—that deals with Haiti in terms of communization theory, in terms of the only example in history of a self-emancipation/self-abolition of a whole class, that being the enslaved. It's part of my current writing.

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