Category: Federation
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In the Fight of Our Lives: Healthcare Workers Speak Out
From the front lines of struggle against Covid-19 members and allies of Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra came together to produce this video of personal testimony and a collective statements in support of the National Healthcare Day of Action on April 15, 2020. Watch the video above and we have reproduced…
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Life Comes At You Fast: The Stunning End of the Bernie Sanders Campaign
The surprising announcement by Bernie Sanders this week that he will end his 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary bid offers us a critical moment to reflect on the strategic moment we face – especially given the dramatic economic and social crisis of Covid-19 that continues to unfold. This piece critically assesses the core claims of…
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Create a Strong People: Discussions on Popular Power
This piece by Brazilian anarchist Felipe Corrêa offers important commentary on the concepts of popular power, the state and power more broadly speaking. Translation by Enrique Guerrero-López Versión Español By Felipe Corrêa “Strong people don’t need leaders” Emiliano Zapata The Strategy of Social Transformation To begin the discussion on popular power it is important to…
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Announcing the Quarantine Livestream!
Are you bored sitting at home? Feel like you’ve watched everything on every streaming service twice over? Instead of binging the same series for the tenth time, join Black Rose/Rosa Negra as we launch our quarantine livestream. Over the coming weeks we’ll be hosting a series of live panel discussions on a variety of topics…
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Rent Strike and Tenant Organizing Resources
In the past months millions have lost their jobs and many more have had their hours cut due to the social crisis of COVID-19. These conditions in many ways have fueled the wave of protest and uprisings against anti-Black racism following the murder of George Floyd. And now a new crisis looms as millions have…
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Strategy and Tactics for a Revolutionary Anarchism
Written by Lusbert, a libertarian communist based in Spain, Strategy and Tactics for a Revolutionary Anarchism lays the foundation for exploring fundamental questions related to class struggle, building popular power, strategy, assessing the correlation of forces, building a revolutionary program and communications infrastructure — all of which we need to develop if we want to…
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Estrategia y táctica para un anarquismo revolucionario
Versión PDF English Version Una vez escribí que el anarquismo adolecía de visión estratégica. Más tarde, un espontáneo me recomendó un breve texto sobre estrategia y táctica ambientado en el contexto chileno de los años ’70 y de tendencia marxista-leninista. Y puesto que me pareció interesante (no porque fuera marxista ni chileno, sino por los…
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Coronavirus Sparks Wave of Walkouts and Wildcats
Coronavirus is sparking more than fear and rent strikes but also unleashing a wave of walkouts and shutdowns by workers – all around the country workers are confronting their bosses or walking off the job demanding protective equipment, to stop non-essential production, or demand wage increases where they are demeaned essential. Likely we will continue…
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The “Democratic Road to Socialism” and Bernie Sanders
The “inside/outside” strategy is a mistaken answer to the question of how we maximize our power to build a classless society.
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Coronavirus Stories: Crisis, Response, Resistance
We include here personal accounts from members and allies of Black Rose/Rosa Negra across the U.S. speaking on the direct impacts and responses to the coronavirus crisis underway. Some have been directly affected as healthcare workers, laid off service workers, or having to undergo self-quarantine. Others are on front the lines of the responses through…