anarchism

Recently released BLA PW & New Afrikan Anarchist Ojore Lutalo was arrested and needs money for bail

this wednesday, january 20th, 7pm.

come write letters to queer people in prison. bring a snack, bring a stamp, or bring a friend. sponsored by queers against prisons philly. also check out: www.blackandpink.org

--A Review of Forty Years in the Struggle; The Memoirs of a Jewish Anarchist, by Chaim Leib Weinberg; English Translation by Naomi Cohen; Edited by Robert Helms; Litwin Books, 2008.

The “Old City” neighborhood of Philadelphia is renowned for its many historic sites related to the “founding fathers” and the US colonial era. Yet, very few know about this same neighborhood’s significant anarchist history. Since 1997, local historian Robert Helms has led an “Anarchist Historical Walking Tour” that presents this history of resistance from the poor and working classes, who viewed the rhetoric about “American Democracy” as a fraud, and organized themselves to challenge the power of the ruling class. Helms is the editor of the just-released English translation of Chaim Leib Weinberg’s (1869-1939) autobiography: Forty Years in the Struggle; The Memoirs of a Jewish Anarchist.

By Hans Bennett

On January 1, 1994, the now-infamous North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. That same day, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), rose up and launched a military offensive that occupied towns throughout the state of Chiapas, in Mexico. The EZLN, or “Zapatistas” had been covertly organizing for many years, but they specifically chose the day of NAFTA’s implementation for their public rebellion.

Many components of NAFTA favored US corporate interests at the expense of Mexico’s general population, but the Zapatistas were particularly opposed to NAFTA’s rewriting of the Mexican Constitution, in order to eliminate the population’s biggest victory won during the Mexican Revolution fought 90 years before, at the time of World War One. “The Mexican Revolution wrote into the national constitution the opportunity for a village to hold its land communally, in an ejido, so that no individual could alienate any portion of it,” writes Staughton Lynd, co-author of the new book Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History.

Anarchists Against the Wall
With Uri Gordon
7pm Monday, September 14
A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave, 19143 (W. Philly)
a-space@defenestrator.org
Free! Donations to Anarchists Against the Wall legal defense fund are appreciated!

Edited by Chris Spannos

Review by James Generic

"Real Utopia: Participatory Economics for the 21st Century", edited by Chris Spannos, is a collectionof essays by a multitude of authors who have developed Participator Economic (Parecon) theory, used it in real collective work, and have written extensively in defense of participatory economics.

Kazembe Balagun speaks about his experiences with SLAM after complementing Philadelphians on our good looks.

The event was a release party for Upping the Anti #8.

More audio and stuff coming soon!

How do we build radical movements?

Lessons from the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM) and from
revolutionary activist study groups

Friday June 5th * 7pm

Happy Birthday Suzy Subways!
The A-Space
4722 Baltimore Ave
south side of Baltimore Ave, between 47th and 48th

On SEPTA, #34 green line surface trolley. plenty of parking for bikes
and cars. http://www.the-aspace.org/

Join local writers/activists Dan Berger and Suzy Subways, with special guest speaker Kazembe Balagun, for a launch party for issue 8 of Upping the Anti and a discussion of current revolutionary organizing!

by nathaniel miller

I did not vote for Barak Obama— Despite the imploring of friends, many bona fide radicals, the queasy feeling of voting Democrat while being an anarchist led me to vote McKinney/ Clemente, the Green Party candidates, two women of color whose names I had to write in, a process that literally caused the voting machine to break and a long line to develop, indicative of our democratic farce where the only legitimized form of political expression is voting for one strata of the ruling class or another.  But the spontanious, and global, celebrations that erupted on election night were real, and certainly electing as president a black man with the middle name Hussein who speaks of inclusion and who promises to dull (oh so slightly) the edge of US imperialism is exciting, even if it is only a symbolic change.  Contrasted to the McCain campaigns’ visceral racism and the encroaching fascism since 9/11, Obama’s election more than anything repudiates Bush, so while neo-colonialism has now come to the heart of the US Empire, there was real cause to celebrate.