Category: Federation
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Interview: Adjunct Faculty on Recent Rutgers University Strike
In April 2023, faculty and graduate student workers at Rutgers University staged an historic five day strike. The strike was mostly over wages and working conditions, and contributed to a recent wave of labor actions at institutions of higher education in the United States. While they did not win everything, the strike led to serious…
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Bay Area Local Marches to Name & Shame Cop City Funders
Photographs by Shay Horse | Instagram @huntedhorse On Tuesday, May 30th members of the Bay Area Local of Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation participated in a march alongside a larger coalition which sought to name and shame funders of Cop City. The march took place in Oakland, beginning at Oscar Grant Plaza before…
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Book Launch: Anarchist Popular Power – Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay 1956-76
We are excited to announce the launch event for Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis’ new book ‘Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay 1956-76’ published by AK Press. Troy’s book is the first ever English language history of the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU). It was the militants of the FAU who first developed…
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German Translation of General Strategy Section in Our Political Program ‘Turning the Tide’
Members of the German political education project Anarchismus.de, took it upon themselves to translate the general strategy section of our newly announced political program Turning the Tide: An Anarchist Program for Popular Power. We want to extend a warm thank you to these comrades for their work. In the spirit of internationalism, we look forward…
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May Day 2023: Announcing Our Program
Illustration by Dinelli. On the 1st of May 1886, hundreds of thousands of workers across the United States initiated a general strike to demand the working day be limited to 8 hours. During a mass meeting in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, a bomb was thrown. After the resultant chaos, 8 anarchist labor leaders were jailed on…
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International Statement: Call for Solidarity in Turkey, Syria, and Kurdistan
This statement was issued and endorsed by an international coordination of anarchist organizations. It is the first statement issued by this grouping that Black Rose / Rosa Negra has signed on to. Examples of previous statements can be found here. The earthquakes of 6 February and their aftershocks have devastated entire regions. The death toll…
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Statement: Not One More Tyre Nichols
The following statement is endorsed by the membership of Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra. On January 10, 2023, Tyre Nichols died from severe physical injuries, including a broken neck, sustained three days earlier at the hands, batons, pepper spray, and tasers of five Memphis, Tennessee police officers. As one of the…
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Members of Black Rose Discuss Rank-and-File Worker Power in UC Strike on KPFA Radio
Two members of Black Rose / Rosa Negra’s California Bay Area Local were interviewed by It’s Going Down News on the massive academic worker strike in the University of California system. The discussion covered a range of topics, from the wildcat strike that proceeded this moment, to building a militant minority, to extending the struggle…
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No COLA? No Contract! The Stakes and a Strategy for Success in the Historic University of California Strike
by Members of both Black Rose Bay Area and UAW 2865 On November 14, over 48,000 teaching assistants, tutors, readers, associate instructors, other Academic Student Employees (ASEs), Graduate Student Researchers (GSRs), and postdoctoral employees across the University of California (UC) launched the largest coordinated strike the United States’s higher education sector has ever seen. On…