The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Fascists Fail to Disrupt Boston Anarchist Bookfair
Following the Sunday, November 18 attempt by neo-fascist group Patriot Front to storm and harass the Boston Anarchist Bookfair, the organizing collective released the following statement on the incident. You can follow the Boston Anarchist Bookfair‘s social media on Facebook and Twitter. November 19, 2018 — Boston, MA First off, we’d like to thank everyone…
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Argentina: Against the Stigmatization and Persecution of Those Who Struggle
We republish this statement signed by anarchist and social movement organizations around the world denouncing the current wave of repression aimed at left, anarchist and social movement organizations in Argentina. In the lead up to hosting a meeting of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on November 30, two bombing incidents conducted by unknown groups have…
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Small Band of Fascists Attempting to Disrupt Boston Anarchist Bookfair Are Quickly Repelled
BREAKING – We will update this story as more information is known. BOSTON – On Sunday, November 18, a small group of fascists attempted to enter, disrupt and intimidate attendees of the Boston Anarchist Bookfair but were quickly pushed out by attendees. The group of five to six men who wore matching clothing and face…
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Love and Fire: Boots Riley on Art, Labor, and Mass Movements
The Coup’s 2012 album, also titled “Sorry to Bother You” (intended to be the film’s soundtrack, before the screenplay started getting the attention of various famous musicians like Janelle Monáe, who ended up on the film’s actual soundtrack) came with an insert featuring this short treatise laying out Boots Riley’s communist political praxis. For much…
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Interview: Building Black Working Class Counter-Power in South Africa
The following interview with Warren McGregor of Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) discusses basic tenants of anarchism and key questions facing the left in South Africa such as calls to form a new “workers party,” addressing racial and national oppression, linking fights for reforms to revolutionary transformation and counter-power, and the history of anarchism in South…
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In November We Remember Those Who Gave Everything
Veteran Tariq Khan reflects on the hollow legacy of Veterans Day and connects the history of November 11 to remembering those who fought for a better world. By Tariq Khan and other BRRN members On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the working class people who made up…