We’re beginning playlists of political tracks from multiple genres because if punk isn’t an intersectional revolutionary movement then there’s no fuckin point. Each list will be by decade. We’re starting with now to show that our best days aren’t at all behind us. It’ll be 5 to 10 tracks added each week with a write up done by Steve. Here’s the premiere of the list. Find a new favorite artist who’s about fuckin the man. – C Fish For almost as long as language has existed, we have had evidence of music, and for as long as we have had music, one of its roles has been political. Music is a key me ..read more

We have a new one from Steve who you’ll mostly hear from on music. In fact this is a song review that fits better in this column. We got a lot of dope shit coming this month and into 2024! C-Fish As Israel pursues its active ongoing ethnic cleansing against Palestinians throughout Gaza, and countless children have been murdered, injured, and stripped of their homes, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and helpless- especially from half a world away. Mike Alvarez could not stand to feel hopeless, and in the first days of the assault, sat down and put pen to paper to write about his feelings. Alvare ..read more

First they came for the Palestinians and you said “we gotta stick with Biden or we’ll get Trump” because you’re a liberal Next they came for the immigrants and you said some version of NIMBY because you’re not an immigrant Next they came for they queers and it still wasn’t your problem as I was packed into the train and it still wasn’t your problem because you’re not queer Then they came for the left and you were completely alone because the rest of us were already gone C-Fish ..read more

This is from The Anarchist Library and I’m presenting this. It’s their credit. C-Fish Anonymous – How (and Why) to Use a Burner Phone The Anarchist Library Mobile phones are vital for on-the-ground resistance coordination; however they weren’t designed with privacy and security by default. Not only do they do a poor job of protecting your communications, they also expose you to surveillance risks — especially GPS and cellular tower location tracking. As an example, the Police can submit a warrant to a cellular service provider for the phone numbers and associated information (such as locatio ..read more

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As of October 8th the body count from the Hamas break out was between 260 and 700 honestly a but odd but entirely understandable. As of this week it’s been up to 1400 and now 1200. So, is Israel making up numbers? Are there just 5 to 700 magical dead Israelis? That is some strange math. A question no one seems to ask is why wad there a music festival in such a dangerous location? We’ve been told.since that border existed that Palestinians want for nothing but blood and you shouldn’t get too close to the wall, much like a wild animal exhibit. If that’s true, then why dangle your own people lik ..read more

WordPress got paid unexpectedly, so the moving this over to knew hosting is on a slower time line. I’ll be building the zine archive, properly numbering Punk Politics and hopefully putting in some new sections with new writers all here and tell the amazing entity known as Kitty Sonic that she can take her time on the website build. This means more fun agitprop content to come. In the next week or 2, I’m gonna reintroduce Punk Voter, well my own current iteration that has been a few years of re working. Thanks to everyone who’s supported this collective over the last 10 years whether it’s from ..read more

Firstly, governments aren’t people. The problem is the Israeli government and those who stand by it. This war isn’t even about religion, it’s just colonialism and capitalism. There will be many links below So I’ve been meaning to write more on the endlessly tragic shit goin down in Israel, but it’s been sensory overload. Honestly, it’s difficult to watch a livestream holocaust while your own government goes out of its way to aid, abbet, and provide cover for. Between Lindsey Graham screaming for holy war, the ethnic cleansing, and Biden publicly jackin’ off Benji, I’ve been horrified, angry ..read more

Yep, I am endorsing a candidacy! Last week on The Leftist Mafia podcast Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report (for president) and Matt Binder of Majority Report (for vice president) and a shit load of other important internet outlets. They’ve announced they’re running for the Democratic nomination. I’ll post links for them. I believe Mike has a poster of his policies on Twitter. I’m banned from there for cyberbullying nazis and Elon, so I’m unable to search and provide. I do hope to hear Mike’s position on hunting nazis for sport as it’s a deeply important issue to me. I’m not sure if they’ll ..read more

So most of us know the wicked witch of the bay area has blessedly passed on. I know a lot of “lefties” are mourning her due to the amazing gaslighting of corporate media, even the right had made up problems with her so that was basically just a pro wrestling script. I watched an unhealthy amount of news in the 90’s as a kid so that whole class of Klan Democrats are part of my childhood trauma and some of it dead ass healed when Feinstein finally got shoved off the mortal coil. Also quite a few Dead Kennedys songs are about her and her reign of terror on San Francisco but more on that later. Fi ..read more