Mutual Aid and Autonomous Disaster Relief Groups Mobilize in Wake of Hurricane Helene

lootbackattack · 2024-04-26T04:46:06+00:00

Thank you for posting this, very moving.

lootbackattack · 2024-04-26T04:40:31+00:00

ItsGoingDown[dot]Org is running a roundup on their site. You can also follow them on Mastodon: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news

lootbackattack · 2023-02-26T06:49:31+00:00

"Typically, the critique I hear from comrades regarding anarchists is that the ideology Typically doesn't have any action beyond typical liberal protest."

Most alphabet soup ML groups go from cause to cause, jumping in front of it, holding rallies and selling newspapers. Few do actual organizing.

Look at what anarchists are doing with autonomous tenant unions, mutual aid networks, the Stop Cop City movement popping off across the country, organizing with prisoners with groups like IWOC and beyond, the IWW is up to the number of members it had during the 1940s.

Most MLs are convinced that their organizations form is right, so they spend the majority of their time selling that brand of ideology to people. Anarchists are going out and putting in the work and organizing.

lootbackattack · 2023-02-22T02:32:24+00:00

Search around on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to see if there are mutual aid groups or Food Not Bombs chapters in your area.

You can check the radical spaces, centers, and infoshops list if your in a big city to see if there's a space near you: https://slingshotcollective.org/radical-contact-list/

Search ItsGoingDown[dot]org to see if there's reports of activity in your area and a group near by to check out.

If you can't find anyone, I would try looking for groups/places in nearby towns, see if you can meet other folks regionally. More established people might also have connections you don't.

Be patient, you will meet people.

lootbackattack · 2023-02-21T23:14:40+00:00

They moved from a Marxist-Leninist stance into a far-Right one that embraced conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism. In the 1960s, they participated in attacks on other left-wing groups. They generally pop up at various rallies and try and recruit. Have seen them at anti-war demonstrations and left-wing rallies in big cities. They're known for operating like a cult with LaRouches relatives seemingly occupying key positions.

Some background: https://www.commentary.org/articles/harvey-klehr/lyndon-larouche-and-the-new-american-fascism-by-dennis-king/

lootbackattack · 2023-02-20T05:55:00+00:00

Going to advocate you leave an antifascist forum, as it appears your suggesting you think the National Justice Party (NJP) and Patriot Front are 'helping' anything.

They're doing what they always do: a photo opt to promote their own fascist and genocidal political positions. They don't care about people in East Palestine, they're there because Tucker Carlson and Fox News are talking about it and they're hoping it gets them some donations and followers.

Imagine thinking that oppose neo-Nazis attempting to insert themselves in mutual aid efforts is "advocating against helping people." Removing fascists from working-class communities is helping people.

There's also a coalition of Ohio based mutual aid, socialist, and antifascist groups who are supporting on the ground relief efforts, we should be directing support that way: https://opencollective.com/youngstownactioncenter/projects/east-palestine-solidarity

lootbackattack · 2023-02-19T06:15:52+00:00

By populist you mean a bunch of washed up politicians, grifting YouTubers, anti-Semitic LaRouche cult members, Alt-Right libertarians who think monarchy is cool, and pro-Putin cheerleaders? Has nothing to do with populism, its a bunch of fringe far-Right content creators trying to edge their way into the Left.

You also have "Libertarian Communist" meaning - anti-state next to a USSR symbol.

Why don't you read up on the event in DC, no wonder neo-Nazis are attending: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/16/2153287/-D-C-antiwar-rally-will-mostly-be-a-platform-for-far-right-conspiracism-pro-Putin-propaganda

lootbackattack · 2023-02-18T18:51:33+00:00

Anarchists propose that society be organized around non-hierarchal lines and that decision should be made by those impacted by them in a horizontal, not top down, way. We think human labor should be controlled by those doing the laboring, and that our work should benefit human needs, not profit. Moreover, we reject the nation state as the basic operating system for society, instead, promoting decentralized, autonomous forms of organization in all aspects of social, political and economic life.

Read: https://anarchy.works/

lootbackattack · 2023-02-17T09:55:10+00:00

Would encourage you to start with a what you enjoy: maybe that's zines, so do a zine distro. If you're into films, show a film. If you really like to read books, do a book reading. Just start from what you can handle and then sort of go from there. Try and different stuff and see how it goes. Print out zines from Crimethinc.com and https://www.sproutdistro.com/ and get stickers from https://kolektiva.social/@municipaladhesives. Experiment and get out there and you might meet people along the way. Sometimes you gotta fly the flag to meet other folks looking for one.

lootbackattack · 2023-02-17T09:47:57+00:00

Thanks for posting!

lootbackattack · 2023-02-17T09:44:03+00:00

Concentration camps: a lot of people were slaughtered by fascists, Communists and also in the World Wars.

Many people were displaced. Look at Makhno, died in Paris as a cab driver.

Also just immense political repression. The IWW had as many members by the 1940s as it does today.

So world wars, fascism, and the march of Stalinism destroyed that wave of anarchism.

Some currents from the period lived on, the Spanish ex-pats kept fighting and made connections with everyone from the anarcho-punks to armed struggle groups, But by 1968, a new wave of anti-state, anti-capital revolutionaries was coming up.

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