2024 marks the 10th anniversary of our organization’s founding. This is a milestone on which we will soon have more substantial reflections to offer – keep your eyes out! For now, we are excited to invite you to join us in Oakland on August 10th for a public celebration marking a decade of Black Rose/Rosa Negra. […] The post Black Rose/Rosa Negra 10 Year Anniversary Event appeared first on Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation ..read more

We present here a translation of an article which appeared on July 7, 2024 in the recently revived Spanish anarchist journal Regeneración Libertaria. The journal describes itself as “a portal for the revolutionary anarchist tendency, concretely of the especifista current, adapted to the Iberian Peninsula”. Despite its original theoretical texts appearing in Spanish, the anarchist […] The post Especifismo Before its Critics appeared first on Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation ..read more

This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Labor Movement. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who are active in workplace organizing. Some of those we speak to are building a militant minority within the rank-and-file of their existing union, others are organizing the unorganized through new union campaigns, while others still are finding ways to build the capacity to win shop floor fights in contexts where union support is not available. In part, the aim of this series is simply to shine a spotlight on t ..read more

From Below, the podcast of Black Rose/Rosa Negra, is back! This time with a recording of a discussion panel titled, Bringing Indigenous Revolution to Campus. This panel happened recently at the Stanford University Palestine solidarity encampment and was organized by members of the Bay Area Local of Black Rose, which includes some students and workers at the university. The panel took place against the backdrop of a vibrant movement where students, workers, and others affiliated with universities across the country have been rapidly radicalizing as they confront the full weight of U.S. imperi ..read more

On May 15, 1948 the British Mandate in Palestine ended. This date also marks the day on which settlers declared the independence of “Israel”. The establishment and expansion of which was only possible through the violent mass displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. This is why May 15 also commemorates the ‘Nakba’ or catastrophe. Today the Nakba continues. Both in the sense that generations of Palestinians remain displaced from their homes, but also in that Israeli settlers continue to harass, attack, and kill Palestinians in an attempt to dispossess them of their land. While this vi ..read more

As members of grad student union UAW 4811 across the University of California begin voting in a unfair labor practice strike authorization in response to the encampment crackdown, members of BRRN who work in California universities drafted the following statement. We write to you as our California-based campuses join the ongoing encampment campaigns at American universities in opposition to the Western and Zionist belligerence against Palestinian personhood and homeland. We have spent seven months bearing witness to the horror.  Scholasticide. Genocide.  Yet we also celebrate and lea ..read more

The Durham Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra will host a series of discussions related to our organization’s political program, Turning the Tide. Meetings will take place beginning in mid-May and run through June. Discussion will be oriented toward connecting the politics and strategy outlined in the program with local campaigns in labor, tenant, and student organizing. To register for the series, follow this link. Confirmed Dates: May 14th, 6-8 PM @ The Night School Bar May 28th, 6-8 PM @ The Night School Bar June dates TBA For further information about this discussion series, please email the ..read more

May 1st is International Workers Day, a historic day of struggle born of the blood of revolutionary anarchist martyrs of the Haymarket Affair, who gave their lives as part of a mass movement in the US against the rapacious exploitation wrought by the capitalist system and the violence of the state that preserves and protects it. These revolutionary martyrs envisioned a world free not only from capitalism and the state, but free from all forms of domination. Their memory inspires each successive generation all over the globe to commit to revolutionary social transformation. Once more we return ..read more

Black Rose / Rosa Negra – Labor Committee On April 19th, over 4,000 labor unionists will converge on Chicago for what will be the largest-to-date Labor Notes conference. Member of Black Rose/Rosa Negra have regularly participated in past versions of the conference as attendees and panelists. In 2018 we organized a wildly successful independent event during the gathering that we called the Red and Black Party. This original Red and Black party was held in a hotel suite that quickly became hot and crowded as attendees streamed in to hear from anarchist workers involved in campaigns around the US ..read more

We are excited to announce the next event in our Organized Anarchism: A Global Perspective series, a discussion with a delegate from the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU). ➧ Register for the discussion at this link This event will take place on Sunday, April 7th at 12 PM (US Pacific) / 2 PM (US Central) / 3 PM (US Eastern) / 4 PM (UYT) The event will be simulcast in English and Spanish. Among the most storied anarchist organizations in history, the FAU is marked equally by its illustrious activity and by its members’ major contributions to anarchist social and political theory. Founded in 1 ..read more