Robin Goldman of Tekoşîna Anarşîst talks about anarchist organizing in Rojava, how TA's developing, Turkish & proxy TFSA asymmetrical warfare & resource stranglehold in Serê Kaniyê, medical outreach & education, gender & lgbtqi in AANES in Syria + Sean Swain!

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/01/23/anarchist-struggle-in-rojava/

PATH A: NEWSWARS

[Strasbourg, France]

Anti-Fascist protect wider demonstrations by highlighting and confronting fascist infiltration.

Here in Strasbourg they run them out while the crowd chant "tout! le monde! deteste les fascistes!" / "All! The World! Hates The Fascists!"

"Surrealist work refusal, an extreme position of permanent strike, is a fascinating model of oppositional resistance and non-compromising protest demand."

When we go on permanent strike, let’s aim for something better than gigging by building autonomy

https://washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/19/can-pandemic-labor-shortage-help-us-envision-world-without-work

Belarusian activists hacked railway servers in order to interfere with Russian troop relocations.

Hackers knows as "Cyber Guerillas" have hacked and encrypted the servers and the database of the Belarus railroad company. The backups were deleted as well. The goal of the attack was to make it harder for the Russian army to move its troops into Belarus.

#Russia has been gathering troops near Ukrainian borders for several months now. Earlier, #Belarus and Russia announced joint military exercises in February.

The Russian state is once again the guarantor of oppression throughout the region, backing dictatorships in Belarus and Kazakhstan by military force—treating Russian lives as expendable, too.

Against all wars—against all governments.

Poster in Russian:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/protiv-vsekh-voyn

Ukrainian capitalists and politicians benefit from being able to deflect attention to the threat of Russia. But the only thing that could make war impossible would be revolutionary movements on both sides.

Against all governments.

Poster in Ukrainian:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/

In Russia, Ukraine, and the US, rulers who won't die in the trenches are preparing to throw away people's lives just to gain leverage in geopolitical competitions.

We should fight those who would make us die on their behalf, not each other.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/against-all-wars

"In response to the machinations of governments, we must identify and resist every effort to turn us against each other. We should build solidarity across national, ethnic, and religious lines while doing everything we can to topple authoritarian governments from Washington, DC to Moscow. Our hope is that revolutionary movements will break out on both sides of every border.

"Escalations in state violence are calculated to make this impossible—to substitute war for revolution. But in a world headed towards ever more diffuse wars, goaded on by nationalist strongmen, our best chance of survival is to build ties between combative social movements. Let us fight those who would make us die on their behalf, not each other."

Social quitagion 🤡

Fb moms get it

Curious why new labor struggles haven't really taken off, despite the conditions being so ripe for them?

Last month, the graduate worker strike at Columbia University was the biggest strike in the US. But to make the strike possible, they first had to confront and overthrow the union bureaucracy from within:

https://cwc.im/ColumbiaStrike