to the barricades

it’s that time of year again

1 point for every small US flag

5 points for a full size US flag

10 points for a blue lives matter flag

15 points for any random alternative/historical US flag, like the one with 13 stars

20 points for any military flag (POW-MIA, Marines, etc.)

University of Washington shooting suspect identified

The right winger who shot and critically injured an IWW member who was protesting Milo Yiannopolous.

Marc K. Hokoana, age 29, can be seen in video and still photographs at the scene shooting a protester.  Hokoana  is originally from Lacey, WA and graduated from Timberline High School in 2006.  He is also a UW alumnus. At Researchgate.net he declares an academic interest in biology and physiology. He lives in Lacey currently.

Eyewitnesses who saw him that night told me he was aggressively provoking protesters and appeared intoxicated.  He appears in a photo that evening accompanied by a woman.  He recently married Elizabeth Freeland, who appears to be the same person seen that night.

A review of Hokoana’s online presence indicates he or his family has Hawaiian roots.  On Facebook, he Likes Donald Trump, Breitbart News and Breitbart editor, Ben Shapiro.  

Today marks the masturbatory spectacle where tens of millions will stand in long lines, go into a curtained box, fill in some bubbles, and then feel like they did something material to stop tyranny. 

We don’t care if you vote or don’t vote, if you vote for the “lesser-evil” (a subtle admission that both are evil. all evil must be banished. those who aid evil are merely encouraging the spread of war, slavery, racism, etc.)

We are calling upon all to join us in the coming insurrection of insurrections. The revolution of revolutions. Wherever fascism, whether in the form of white mobs, police, prisons, or less obvious forms, raises its ugly head, smash it! Wherever tongues waggle in favor of fascism, rip them out!

Today we mock your highest of nationalistic holy days by announcing the formation of an antifascist federation in these United Snakes

Find friends and lovers, form self-defense groups or even train to be a lone fighter if you must. Collect weapons and learn martial arts. Study urban and rural tactics of asymmetrical war. Spy on fascist websites and forums and gather intel and share it with anti-fascist networks. Find friends in other cities to coordinate events and create mutual aid networks to support one another. Across the globe we already have many strong cells of antifa fighters ready to support true friends even if we haven’t met them yet. 

Already in the wake of several recent white supremacist and national socialist rallies, the most recent in Harrisburg, PA, the most violent in Sacramento, CA, we have seen the formation of several new large antifa groups.

We are calling upon everyone with an anti-fascist madness burning in their hearts to form cells and announce them in your area using social media or even better posting fliers about town. Of course make sure you exercise proper security culture, there are many police and fascists who would gladly infiltrate us. This is why most of our groups are informal, that is, most members only know one another through mutual friends. We don’t keep registers, have public meetings, etc. Most of these groups are composed of numerous cells and individuals who do their best to keep their connections hidden so if fascists and police infiltrate they can’t learn much about us and how we operate. 

Let us not be humble. We take the threat of fascism seriously, but we know with brave hearts and sure hands we can destroy them utterly. But we see the fascist scourge as only a deviant growth from the body of capitalism and the state. We see the fight against fascists as a dress rehearsal and good training opportunity for our increasingly daring attacks on the partisans of capital and the state.  

Let the nights be filled with our howls and caterwauls. Our teeth gnash and flash strikingly white in the darkness. Our blades sing out for the blood of fascists. Our hearts beat like battle drums.

Let us wage war on the fascists and on the capitalists and statists. The supermoon of November is an auspicious sign from the heavens that the time for revolution, insurrection, dionysian riot is at high tide!

We strike killing blows against the fascists, the capitalists, the state with one fist

We build a liberated new world in which many worlds fit with our other hand

Death to the fascists! Life to the good and varied creatures of our earth!

-Antifascist Federation Against the United Snakes

black flag cell, black cat cell, john brown cell, lucy parsons cell, red witches cell, fire-worshippers cell, green serpent cell, flood cell, sacco and vanzetti brigade, red fern cell, feral cat cell, street rat cell, alley cat cell, destroying angels cell, wild roots cell, oakheart cell, screaming banshees cell, fistful of dynamite cell, blackfox cell

may many more endorse our call and rattle their war weapons and scream their battle calls across this settler colony of united snakes

(this declaration was given to be by a trusted source. i added the image at the end. the publisher does not know of who else is behind it and has no clue as to who makes up the various endorsing cells. even if it is merely the work of one person or a few we still whole-heartedly endorse the call for the creation of such an informal federation of antifascist groups, cells, and individuals)

Are you interested in an opportunity to join the revolution in Rojava?

Are you a socialist, communist, feminist, autonomist, antifascist, anarchist, or just someone who wants to take an active role in helping a radical experiment in autonomy and the flourishing of freedom and liberated life?

An international group of volunteers is currently seeking members to join their unit.

This is a rare and limited opportunity.

They’re looking for trustworthy people who can book a flight to Greece before October. Once in Greece you will have to pay nothing; food, shelter, clothing, training, etc. will be provided by the community. You will remain in Greece training, especially learning Kurdish, until sometime in mid-winter when you will then move on with the unit into Rojava.

Please contact [email protected] (very secure encrypted email provider. It’s highly recommended that you make an account with them) for more info.

DO NOT contact the blog posting this. I am not part of the group but I have a friend I trust who is. I know absolutely nothing beyond what I am posting above. 

It breaks my heart to say this, but I don’t know how many of us Black “movement folks” would stand alongside Assata if she were actively organizing and resisting in America right now. We quote her book, share her photos, wear her on our shirts and hoodies and declare #HandsOffAssata on social media, but I can’t help but question the public dissonance between the mythos of Assata Shakur, the radically defiant Black revolutionary, and the reality of Korryn Gaines, the radically defiant Black mother from Baltimore.

Gaines (to her son): “Don’t. What did I just tell you.” Gaines’ son: “Don’t cry.” Gaines (to her son): “Don’t cry. And you better fight.”

Wannabe Zimmerman murders a man for being black around scared white people. 

“"I am locked and loaded," he tells the dispatcher. "I'm going outside to secure my neighborhood. You need to send PD as quickly as possible."

The dispatcher asks, "I'm sorry. You're going out to do what to the neighborhood, sir?"

"I'm going to secure my neighborhood. I'm on the neighborhood watch. I'm going to have the neighbors with me. There's hoodlums out here racing up and down the street. It's 1 o'clock in the morning. There's several dozen of them. They have firearms, and we're going to secure our neighborhood. If I were you, I'd send PD as quickly as possible." 

There is a go fund me for Kouren-Rodney Thomas’ family

June 11th statement by Jennifer Gann

Thank you for the opportunity to issue a statement on the June 11, 2016 Day of Solidarity with Long-term Anarchist Prisoners. First and foremost: as a California prison rebel and trans woman who has been incarcerated for 26 years, I truly appreciate the solidarity and support I’ve received from sisters and comrades in the struggle internationally.

I was first exposed to anarchist ideas as a young punk rock kid in the 1980s. However, I was not always an anarchist. I had a Christian upbringing in predominantly white, racist neighborhoods in Southern California suburbs outside of the L.A. area. I associated with skinheads and white prison gangs.

I didn’t come to prison for revolutionary acts. I was involved in an armed robbery with a couple of homeboys in 1990. We were just young street thugs. I was sentenced to 7 years in state prison.

I became politicized after participating in the 1991 Folsom Prison hunger strike, and in 1992 began a long-term struggle against prison authorities and torture. This resulted in multiple prison terms of 16 years and 25 years to life for assaulting a guard, an associate warden, and Sacramento County prosecutor. I spent 11 years in Pelican Bay SHU solitary confinement (1994-2004).

Several years ago, when I was released from Pelican Bay SHU, I completely renounced my racist past associations and was targeted by the Aryan Brotherhood. As my political development continued in the Prisoner Resistance, in 2007 I “came out” as a trans woman. I fully transitioned my gender identity, started hormone therapy, and joined a Maoist faction engaged in prisoner solidarity work. As a long-time anarchist sympathizer, I simply could not swallow Maoist aspirations for state power, and a “Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat” that they envision would simply lead to more oppression.

In 2010, I joined Black & Pink as a “leadership” member for 5 years. This led to me becoming an insurrectional anarchist and trans feminist Amazon.

In 2011, I joined the California Prison Hunger Strike to end solitary confinement by doing a 23 hour solidarity strike. At the time, I was just finishing a 3 year long SHU term in Tehachapi for “battery on a peace officer.”

Since late 2011, I have been confined here behind enemy lines at Kern Valley State Prison, where I’ve continued to battle the administration, organize trans women prisoners, and literally fight off homophobic gang violence. My sisters and I have organized a trans-feminine Amazon faction called Loyal Queen Revolutionaries, and we continue to work with outside groups such as TGI Justice Project and the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco in an effort to change the hostile and unsafe prison conditions we face as trans women in male prisons. We will struggle and fight to abolish these oppressive institutions once and for all, by any means necessary! We will resist those who attack us, and avenge the mass rape and murder of our trans sisters.

Viva las Amazónas! Viva Anarchy!

Solidarity with Mónica and Francisco! Solidarity with FAI-IRF & the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire!

This is my action, and my statement for June 11th, against prisons and in solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners. FTP!

“nazi cabbie” Gabriel Diaz poses as Muslim to infiltrate antifa meeting to gather information for the national socialist movement

About a year ago, Anti-Fascists around the country started seeing a man calling himself Mohammed coming out to demonstrations against Neo-Nazis and Klan as well as Anti-Fascist/Leftist events and conferences and trying to get involved in the Anti-Fascist movement.

“Mohammed” has been busy the past year, travelling from his home in the Bronx to places like Ohio, Georgia and here in Philly trying to make connections with Antifa and extract personal information from them. He managed to get a couple phone numbers and promptly handed them over to the National Socialist Movement (NSM). The NSM’s “head of security” Mike Scholer, then began making harassing and threatening phone calls to those Antifascists.

Fortunately, Scholer is about as smart as the rest of the NSM and couldn’t help but let certain clues slip during his calls that allowed Anti-Facists to realize not only that there was in infiltrator in their midst, but that the only person it could have been was “Mohamed.”

From there it wasn’t hard to figure out that “Mohammed” was actually Gabriel Diaz, also known as “The Nazi Cabbie,” who grabbed headlines 2 years ago when he suspended for 30 days after being photographed driving his cab around Manhattan wearing a Swastika Armband. Diaz got his license back after the suspension, but it is unknown whether he is still working as a cab driver or not.

Diaz was confronted when he attempted to join the May Day event in Union Square in NYC and sent packing. Scroll down in the link for video. Fliers with his face and affiliations were circulated among the crowd and he was told that if he is seen at any further leftist or Antifascist events he would be treated like any other Nazi bonehead.

Diaz is living in the Bronx, and during the time of his suspension was living with family. His parents had previously tried to blame Diaz’s fascist politics on mental illness, but when someone is putting Anti-Racists in danger by giving their information to members of the NSM, their mental stability ceases to be an issue. It is also all-too-common for people to try and pathologize Nazism as a way to avoid the hard truth that their friend or family member wholeheartedly believes in social Darwinism, eugenics, militarism, racism, sexism and homophobia. Furthermore, clearly Diaz’s parents claims that they would “handle” their son so he wouldn’t harm anyone were empty.

Gabriel Diaz being sane or not is not the reason he is the way he is. Fascist, racialist politics are not strictly the purview of white people. Diaz is a Nazi and a Fascist just as much as any bonehead or Klansmen and should be treated as one. If this is hard to wrap your mind around, we recommend this article by Spencer Sunshine, in which Sunshine gives an accurate account of the very complicated and nuanced state of the racist right today.

Anti-Fascists around the country should be vigilant that Diaz may try and form a new identity and start again infiltrating leftist circles or that the NSM may try again with another agent. The best way to prevent that is to spread this information far and wide.

but that’s not going to happen so capitalism and the state must be destroyed. 

ANTIFA ALERTA

Donald Trump’s brownshirt militia is already spying on and planning to attack the protesters at Saturday’s Trump rally in Fountain Hills, Arizona.

Here’s what the “lion guard” is saying:

March 16, 1988, a genocidal poison gas attack on the city of Halabja in which 3,200-5,000 Kurdish people were killed

Anfal Campaign Genocide Museum

182,000 broken pieces of glass to represent the victims of Saddam's Anfal genocide. 4,500 bulbs to represent the destroyed villages.

The Anfal campaign began in 1986 and lasted until 1989, and was headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid (a cousin of then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein). The Anfal campaign included the use of ground offensives, aerial bombing, systematic destruction of settlements, mass deportation, firing squads, and chemical warfare.

In addition, 31 Assyrian villages were destroyed. One million Kurds, of 3.5 million within the borders occupied by the Iraqi state, were internally displaced.

As part of the Arabization of Bashur (the region of Kurdistan occupied by Iraq) Saddam relocated poor Arabs into Kurdish cities using the lure of cheap public housing. 

While Bashur has gained relative autonomy since Saddam has been deposed, Kurds in Turkey and the Turkish occupied Bakur region of Kurdistan continue to face genocidal campaigns, including the use of curfews and summary executions of those found breaking curfew. 

Police Brutality has many faces. Without a doubt, physical violence being one of the most noticeable, and striking aspect of it. We can think back to the family man, a man of color in chateauguay with no previous legal antecedents, stopped by the chateauguay police for having his hazard lights on. How he and his children, of which he was bringing to school that day, were assaulted by the police, doused in pepper spray, for nothing more than the color of his skin... Let us not forget that his case is nothing but one amongst countless others.

A flurry of broken bones, ruined lives, trauma, political, racial and gender repression. Let us not forget Mrs. Villanueva, still mourning her dead son, her heart full of indignation and anger... Let us not forget the undercover agents, dressed as civilians and masked. On the 18th of December, these agents conspired to harm and entrap peaceful protesters, going so far as to send someone to the hospital, another pulling his firearm on a crowd of marching citizens. With all of this, the SPVM's spokesperson, Ian Lafrenière, would later give us false, erroneous information, going so far as to lie to protect the image of Montreal Police officers... Let us certainly not forget that, or pass into silence, the 102 people of color whom died in 2015 by hands of American police officers. These are just symptoms of a greater issue, racial profiling and institutional racism is alive and well, whether in America, or here in the North. May those who have passed rest in power.

Often times, when there is a dynamic of power and authority, there are those willing to abuse of it. Police officers are not exempt from this somber and dangerous reality. When the indigenous women of Val-D'or in Quebec and others across the province and the country callout police officers for physical or sexual violence they have committed, we are consistently reminded about that overbearing authority. No sooner did the women of Val-D'or act against their police aggressors did we see the head of the SQ attempt to pacify and sweep the situation under the rug. He says there is no crisis in Val-D'or, the community there says otherwise...

In their eyes, police officers can do no harm. Professionalism leaves way to impunity. One needs simply look at the performances of Professional Ethics committee, rare are police officers sanctioned or reprimanded, rarer still are they fired. This simply shows other police officers that misconduct, abuse, and brutality is the norm. Police brutality is just the tip of the iceberg of rampant and abusive police oppression. Anyone can become a target of police oppression or brutality, whether racially, socially or politically. Some of us live our daily lives constantly harassed, intimidated and humiliated by the police, municipal laws used as tools for silencing our freedom of speech, removing us from our civil liberties and rights and subduing us to the authority of armed thugs. Thankfully, we are reminded that when we organize, victory can be achieved. The legal battles against p6 and 500.1 respectively remind us of that.

We can never be silenced. Graffiti, texts, theatrical pieces, and direct action are all forms of social expression folks have been using to show their exasperation with an abusive and repressive police force. Let's take for example the mannequin hung from an overpass, dressed to look like a police officer with a suicide note pinned to it's jacket on the 15th of march 2015...

The Collective Opposed to Police Brutality

a PDF on black anarchism

In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by Spanish workers and peasants. But digging through the mountain of available material, little can be found on black militants in the Spanish revolution, like the one featured in the powerful photo on the cover of this reader -- a member of the Bakunin Barracks in Barcelona, Spain 1936, and a symbol of both the profound presence and absence of Black anarchism internationally. 

For more than 150 years, black anarchists have played a critical role in shaping various struggles around the globe, including mass strikes, national liberation movements, tenant organizing, prisoner solidarity, queer liberation, the formation of autonomous black liberation organizations, and more.

Our current political moment is one characterized by a global resurgence of Black rebellion in response to racialized state violence, criminalization, and dispossession. Black and Afro-diasporic communities in places like Britain, South Africa, Brazil, Haiti, Colombia and the US have initiated popular social movements to resist conditions of social death and forge paths toward liberation on their own terms. Given the anti-authoritarian spirit of these struggles, the time is ripe to take a closer look at anarchism more broadly, and Black anarchism in particular. 

The deceptive absence of Black anarchist politics in the existing literature can be attributed to an inherent contradiction found within the Eurocentric canon of classical anarchism which, in its allegiance to a Western conception of universalism, overlooks and actively mutes the contributions by colonized peoples. In recent years, Black militants, and others dedicated to Black anarchist politics, have gone a long way toward bringing Black anarchism into focus through numerous essays, books, interviews, and public talks, many of which are brought together for the first time in this reader. 

Our hope is that this reader will serve as a fruitful contribution to ongoing dialogues, debates, and struggles occurring throughout the Black diaspora about how to move forward toward our liberation globally. “Anarchism,” noted Hannibal Abdul Shakur, “like anything else finds a radical new meaning when it meets blackness.” While this reader brings us closer to “a radical new meaning” for anarchism, there are glaring gaps that need to be filled to get a fuller picture of black anarchism, particularly the vital contributions of black women, queer militants, and more folks from the Global South.

In struggle, 

Some great shots from Anaheim of the KKK getting run out of town