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Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870–1940
Steven J. Hirsch, Lucien van der Walt Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870–1940 The Praxis of National Liberation,...
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On this day in 1920, following the successful Siege of Perekop against White forces jointly carried out by the Red Army and the anarchist Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, the Bolsheviks betray the anarchists who'd just helped them, making mass arrests and executions. Some manage to escape.
Anarchism is wasted on the anarchists (and the middle class liberals who they see as their main constituency).
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Anarchism is wasted on the anarchists (and the middle class liberals who they see as their main constituency).
The point that frauds shouldn't be influencing Supreme Court decisions stands, but I'd contend that Daniels v. Canada is not one of the most consequential cases in Aboriginal law & didn't add much to how Canada has de facto (if not de jure) been acting since day one.
As @rjjago.bsky.social points out in this excellent editorial, this is not a victimless crime. And King has profited greatly from ethnic fraud: he has made an entire career from speaking for (and not just writing about) Indigenous peoples.
This is probably the most important point though:
This is probably the most important point though:
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The point that frauds shouldn't be influencing Supreme Court decisions stands, but I'd contend that Daniels v. Canada is not one of the most consequential cases in Aboriginal law & didn't add much to how Canada has de facto (if not de jure) been acting since day one.
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SEIU USWW and SEIU California president David Huerta is a leader in our labor movement. He was violently arrested for exercising his constitutional rights and observing ICE. The 15 million members of the AFL-CIO stand with David as he fights for justice. https://bit.ly/4p2hLOq
Labor union leader David Huerta pleads not guilty in LA immigration protest arrest
Los Angeles labor union leader David Jose Huerta pleaded not guilty to federal misdemeanor charges Tuesday when he made his first court appearance in connection with his arrest during an immigration e...
www.nbclosangeles.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
SEIU USWW and SEIU California president David Huerta is a leader in our labor movement. He was violently arrested for exercising his constitutional rights and observing ICE. The 15 million members of the AFL-CIO stand with David as he fights for justice. https://bit.ly/4p2hLOq
Open Wikipedia entry for Revolutionary Defeatism & the third line is wrong already:
"[Lenin argued] that the proletariat could not win or gain when fighting a war under capitalism..."
In Socialism & War, Lenin wrote, if "Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England" etc., it'd be "just"
"[Lenin argued] that the proletariat could not win or gain when fighting a war under capitalism..."
In Socialism & War, Lenin wrote, if "Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England" etc., it'd be "just"
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Open Wikipedia entry for Revolutionary Defeatism & the third line is wrong already:
"[Lenin argued] that the proletariat could not win or gain when fighting a war under capitalism..."
In Socialism & War, Lenin wrote, if "Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England" etc., it'd be "just"
"[Lenin argued] that the proletariat could not win or gain when fighting a war under capitalism..."
In Socialism & War, Lenin wrote, if "Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England" etc., it'd be "just"
Forensic Architecture's analysis of the Gaza ceasefire in maps
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November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Forensic Architecture's analysis of the Gaza ceasefire in maps
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🔴 Forensic Architecture writes that the Gaza ceasefire is “legitimizing the next stage of Israel’s occupation, failing to stop the ongoing genocide and threatening to permanently shrink Gaza’s territory.”
Their investigation shows Israel using the “yellow line,” imposed after the Oct. 10...
Their investigation shows Israel using the “yellow line,” imposed after the Oct. 10...
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🔴 Forensic Architecture writes that the Gaza ceasefire is “legitimizing the next stage of Israel’s occupation, failing to stop the ongoing genocide and threatening to permanently shrink Gaza’s territory.”
Their investigation shows Israel using the “yellow line,” imposed after the Oct. 10...
Their investigation shows Israel using the “yellow line,” imposed after the Oct. 10...
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“The organized white nationalist movement in Canada is the biggest it's been in modern history. A big part of that is Second Sons Canada, the Dominion Society, Diagolon, the Active Club movement.”
Growing white nationalist group behind broad daylight demonstration in London on Sunday | CBC News
An apparent white nationalist demonstration on a busy overpass near London, Ont.'s downtown on Sunday afternoon is concerning for witnesses and experts who track extremist behaviour.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“The organized white nationalist movement in Canada is the biggest it's been in modern history. A big part of that is Second Sons Canada, the Dominion Society, Diagolon, the Active Club movement.”
"Scientists are toiling day and night to lengthen our lives. We don’t want it, we want it thickened; it’s too damned thin now and if they stretch and stretch it, ’twill break in the middle."
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Scientists are toiling day and night to lengthen our lives. We don’t want it, we want it thickened; it’s too damned thin now and if they stretch and stretch it, ’twill break in the middle."
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
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Nov. 26, 1775: Six enslaved men make their escape from Edmund Ruffin’s plantation in Prince George County, Va. The group commandeers a fishing boat and steers it to Norfolk, where royal Gov. Lord Dunmore has promised freedom to any slave who rallies to the royal standard. 1/4
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Nov. 26, 1775: Six enslaved men make their escape from Edmund Ruffin’s plantation in Prince George County, Va. The group commandeers a fishing boat and steers it to Norfolk, where royal Gov. Lord Dunmore has promised freedom to any slave who rallies to the royal standard. 1/4
Notice how some anarchists have prioritized supporting the Ukrainian state and its arming by NATO states over the lives of real Ukrainian people, both here and back there (given conscription)
Nearly 200,000 Ukrainians in US thrown into legal limbo by immigration crackdown
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Notice how some anarchists have prioritized supporting the Ukrainian state and its arming by NATO states over the lives of real Ukrainian people, both here and back there (given conscription)
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My heart is with the deserters. This is shameful of the US government, and of the Ukrainian government.
Nearly 200,000 Ukrainians in US thrown into legal limbo by immigration crackdown
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My heart is with the deserters. This is shameful of the US government, and of the Ukrainian government.
Nearly 200,000 Ukrainians in US thrown into legal limbo by immigration crackdown
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Nearly 200,000 Ukrainians in US thrown into legal limbo by immigration crackdown
On this day in 1920, following the successful Siege of Perekop against White forces jointly carried out by the Red Army and the anarchist Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, the Bolsheviks betray the anarchists who'd just helped them, making mass arrests and executions. Some manage to escape.
Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870–1940
Steven J. Hirsch, Lucien van der Walt Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870–1940 The Praxis of National Liberation,...
theanarchistlibrary.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On this day in 1920, following the successful Siege of Perekop against White forces jointly carried out by the Red Army and the anarchist Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, the Bolsheviks betray the anarchists who'd just helped them, making mass arrests and executions. Some manage to escape.
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You cannot get land "back" under Canadian sovereignty for the very simple reason that Canada was not here "back" in the day. You can get land forward that way, I suppose, but not land back.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
You cannot get land "back" under Canadian sovereignty for the very simple reason that Canada was not here "back" in the day. You can get land forward that way, I suppose, but not land back.
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#tdih 1968 HS students in Cleveland walked out to protest poor cafeteria food, unsanitary bathrooms, inadequate science labs, powerless student councils, & abuse by security guards.
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
Nov. 25, 1968: John Hay HS Walkout
With a long list of grievances, more than 1,200 students at John Hay High School in Cleveland, Ohio, walked out of school and held an unauthorized assembly.
www.zinnedproject.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
#tdih 1968 HS students in Cleveland walked out to protest poor cafeteria food, unsanitary bathrooms, inadequate science labs, powerless student councils, & abuse by security guards.
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
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The Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause to “limit the rights of two-spirit and trans youth” in the province.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of anti-trans limitations | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause to “limit the rights of two-spirit and trans youth” in the province.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
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Canada’s drug laws are facing a constitutional challenge from the founders of a Vancouver compassion club.
In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
pressprogress.ca/drug-laws-fa...
In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
pressprogress.ca/drug-laws-fa...
Canada’s Drug Laws Face Challenge from Founders of Vancouver Compassion Club
'You feel lost and powerless, because you are,' Drug User Liberation Front co-founder testifies on day one of weeks-long hearing
pressprogress.ca
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Canada’s drug laws are facing a constitutional challenge from the founders of a Vancouver compassion club.
In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
pressprogress.ca/drug-laws-fa...
In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
pressprogress.ca/drug-laws-fa...
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huge news I just found a folder of these that I forgot i had!!!!!!!
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
huge news I just found a folder of these that I forgot i had!!!!!!!
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Falcon hovering over Whidbey Island, Ebey's trail.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Falcon hovering over Whidbey Island, Ebey's trail.
Are you just gonna make wild nuanced argumentation like that? And expect me not to respond with abstract categorical refusal?
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Are you just gonna make wild nuanced argumentation like that? And expect me not to respond with abstract categorical refusal?
Anarchists will say they hate liberals, that anarchists are the opposite of liberals, but at the same time they'll promote people like Graeber (who campaigned for Corbyn) or the Ukraine army anarchists as if they're upstanding anarchists and not just spicy liberals.
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Anarchists will say they hate liberals, that anarchists are the opposite of liberals, but at the same time they'll promote people like Graeber (who campaigned for Corbyn) or the Ukraine army anarchists as if they're upstanding anarchists and not just spicy liberals.
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did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.
"An American-owned cargo barge sitting dangerously low in the water near Bella Bella has reignited coastal First Nations’ fears about the dangers that oil tankers pose for the B.C. coast."
Near-sinking barge off B.C. coast stokes fears over oil tanker threats
The hull was "compromised in several places."
www.timescolonist.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"An American-owned cargo barge sitting dangerously low in the water near Bella Bella has reignited coastal First Nations’ fears about the dangers that oil tankers pose for the B.C. coast."