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William C.

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“Everybody has to die Firdaus. I will die and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”— Nawal El Saadawi My website 🔗: williamcanderson.info My book 📖: https://www.akpress.org/nationonnomap.html

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 27d

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org.

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Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm

The COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21h

Keep it going. Get your family and friends to join
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Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 15h

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
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A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1d

this is a great question that makes things much clearer too 🥴

William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1d

Talking about the reasons left sects have no power is not punching left. There is no “the Left” in the US, there are however, denominations that get caught up in things that are not the best use of people’s time.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1d

If it was just chatter and not redundancy that deepens silly sectarian nonsense I wouldn’t bother. The depth of anti intellectualism and miseducation circulating among US left(s) for years is dangerous, esp at a time like this.

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 1d

Anarchism & Indigenous Peoples

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 1d

On Indigenous Peoples Day (Anti-Columbus Day) one can remember that anarchism has always been a mixed bag when it comes to Indigenous peoples. Early proto-anarchists Godwin & Proudhon were anti-Native, while Déjacque explicitly supported the Native demand for "a place in the sun" for their peoples.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1d

People do such a great job demobilizing themselves and sabotaging their potential with this goofy rhetoric based dogmatic iteration of social media leftism we have in this era. It’s actually worth wondering if a lot of this is intentional because it looks like a real trap.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1d

“Let’s have 150 year old debates based on materials we haven’t studied and argue based on viral misinformation and no context while fascists militarily occupy the cities we live in” – social media leftism in the USA

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1d

People’s homes are being raided by authorities while the social media left cosplays Engels and Bakunin without actually reading either or the broader socialist movement. Just lots of talking, little to no study, and a culture of rhetoric that leads to no transformation. That’s “leftism” in 2025.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1d

Leftists rehashing debates from the 1800s over authority and authoritarianism as terms in the midst of fascism is such an indictment of what leftism means in this era. To say people are stuck is an understatement.

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Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social · 2d

“They’re not trying to impose dictatorship from a position of strength, they’re trying to impose it from a position of weakness, and fear. So that’s why I said we have to build an alternative, radical force.” offshootjournal.org/ungovernable...

Ungovernable: An Interview with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

Author and independent writer William C. Anderson interviews veteran organizer and former Black Panther and political prisoner Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin on the current political crisis, fascism, and rising relevance of Black anarchism.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 2d

Cosmetician With Cancer Beautifies Displaced Cancer Patients During War on Gaza [Vertical]

Forcibly displaced and suffering daily from breast cancer, Samar Al-Jaal finds joy in beautifying her cancer-ridden campmates using cosmetics.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump admin reportedly plans to deploy the FBI, DHS, DOJ, IRS and the Treasury Dept. against left-wing groups it accuses of 'funding and organizing political violence'

INSIGHT-Trump’s War On The Left: Inside The Plan To Investigate Liberal Groups

The Trump admin plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus against left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, the officials said.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 6d

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: ‘She is surrounded by love’

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: 'She is surrounded by love'

Trans campaigner and author Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has been moved to hospice care following her hospitalisation earlier this month.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely not.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6d

US commentator Van Jones has apologised for making a joke about Palestinian babies killed by Israeli attacks, but he is not alone when it comes to dehumanising comments about Gaza aje.io/33pm5k

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AK Press @akpress.org · 6d

Two years. Our hearts are heavy. #SolidarityWithPalestine

Art by Fuad Alymani from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦—the latest issue of @ww3illustrated.bsky.social

Artwork by Fuad Alymani depicts a young child planting a flower against a map of Palestine and a red background.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 6d

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Aug 21

Some people are attempting to make their compliance with fascism into something it's certainly not. For @prismreports.org, I wrote about how the promotion of obedience, hiding, and disengagement is taking us backward, despite attempts to make it seem reasonable. prismreports.org/2025/08/21/o...

Another way out: Hiding and obedience won't stop fascism

By being obedient to the point of giving up all self-determination, we’re poised to return to what many before us fought to overturn

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 6d

People are still doing this nonsense! bsky.app/profile/will...

William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Apr 10

How did so many people attach to this idea that if Black people take to the streets, that's how the state will suspend normative law and deepen overt fascism? The state doesn't need Black people protesting or any alleged excuse for that matter to do what's already happening in plain sight.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 6d

Keep in mind that many people who initially claimed he wanted protests so he could militarily occupy cities quietly adjusted that narrative without admitting he did what he wanted, regardless. No “excuse” was necessary. Fascists don't need a reason or excuse.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

Are you starting to get it? He was always going to hit us. You will not change the math by insisting that people assume some magical form of perfect victimhood that somehow reels in a monster. That's not real. And I am so sick of hearing it.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

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