The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Women Lead the Class War: Black Rose/Rosa Negra Mobilizes for March 8
March 8th is International Working Women’s Day (IWWD). The commemoration traces its earliest roots to the socialist parties of the 2nd International, the date later becoming solidified on the 8th for its association with the women textile workers’ strike that initiated the first phase of the Russian Revolution in 1917. In the US this history
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Rafael Serra: Grandfather of Cuban Anarchism
Black Rose/Rosa Negra is a revolutionary political organization. This means that we focus our efforts on developing and applying a strategy to build popular power in our workplaces, neighborhoods, schools, and within the state’s prisons. However, we also recognize the pressing need to recover and transmit our movement’s historical memory. We do this not simply
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Setting the Wasatch Front on Fire: Introducing the Salt Lake Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra
After years of local organizing, shared study, and connecting with comrades from Black Rose across the US, we are proud to announce the formation of the Salt Lake Local of Black Rose Anarchist Federation/Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN). With members already embedded in local struggles, we are excited to formally establish a pole for organized
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Benn Jordan Talks Privacy, Anarchism, and the War on Flock Cameras
Benn Jordan was already well known in the electronic music scene, releasing work under names such as The Flashbulb and Acidwolf. In the last few years however, Jordan has amassed an audience of over 1 million YouTube subscribers through videos on acoustic science, critiques of AI, and most recently, the rise and glaring vulnerabilities of
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Building Our Revolutionary Character: Interview With an American YPJ Volunteer on the Situation in Rojava
On January 13th, the Syrian Transitional Government launched a major offensive on the territories under control of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (DAANES) – the first it has faced since the defeat of ISIS. To better understand the situation and its implications for DAANES, members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s International Relations Committee
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It’s Not a General Strike, but It’s a Start
January 30th has been set as a nationwide day of action against the campaign of state terror carried out by ICE and other DHS agencies. Some have referred to the 30th as a ‘general strike’. In this article, Black Rose/Rosa Negra member Cameron Pádraig examines the prospects for a general strike on the 30th, offering
