The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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When You Come For Our Neighbors, You Come For Us All
By Alex C On Wednesday, June 17th I awoke to a voicemail from a member of Take Back the Land, a community organization that uses advocacy and direct action tactics to help homeowners defend their homes from unjust eviction. They’d been holding an eviction watch at a home on Webster Avenue for about a…
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Setting Fire to the Noose: The Baltimore Rebellion & the More to Come
By Romina Akemi LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Version en español The early morning of May 1st Marilyn Mosby, the State’s Attorney for the city of Baltimore in Maryland, announced criminal charges against the six cops involved in the murder of Freddie Gray. The charges include second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. The bittersweet victory illustrated the impact…
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Prendiendo Fuego a la Soga: La Rebelión de Baltimore y las que vendrán
Por Romina Akemi Traducción Luis Cortés Originalmente publicado por Periódico Solidaridad El procesamiento de los policías por el crimen de Freddie Gray demostró el impacto de las manifestaciones ante las injusticias que vive la comunidad negra de Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, la cifra de muertos a causa de la violencia del Estado racista es enorme. La…
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Help fund our Cuban comrades on a European speaking tour.
Our Cuban comrades are organizing a tour of several European countries in order to take part in various international forums they have been invited to in order to speak to the realities of the country from an anarchist perspective and outside of the official Cuban government discourse which seeks to silence people’s struggles for a better and…
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Ready to Fight: Developing a 21st Century Community Syndicalism
There has been an effort by scholars and organizers alike over the last forty years to segregate anarcho-syndicalism from the rest of the broad anarchist movement. The labor movement dominated social struggles in the first half of the twentieth century, but as large business union bureaucracies were formed and new shop organizing began to diminish,…
