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Final Statement by Willem Van Spronsen – MP3 – Read – Archive – Torrent – YouTube On July 13, 2019, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while attacking transportation infrastructure for the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. The Northwest Detention Center can hold over 1,500 people, making it the largest immigration prison on the west coast, and one of the largest immigrant detention facilities in the country. Willem was a long-time activist, anarchist, anti-fascist, musician and father. In a memorial posted to Puget sound anarchists, his comrades wrote: “We are grief stricken, in ..read more

The Unquiet Dead Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology Chapter 7. Elitism, Populism, and Democracy – By Anonymous – MP3– Read– Print – Archive– Torrent– YouTube Chapter 7 discusses Nietzsche, anti-Semitism and elitism as well as The Peróns fascism and populism. The full text is available at unquietdead.tumblr.com; we will be posting recordings of other chapters in the future. “I tell you unless something is done to alleviate such things there will be more anarchists, aye, red-handed anarchists, in this country. I do not wonder that there are anarchists in this country; the wonder is that ..read more

This chapter discusses Nietzsche, anti-Semitism and elitism as well as The Peróns fascism and populism. The full text is available at unquietdead.tumblr.com; we will be posting recordings of other chapters in the future ..read more

30:48 – Understanding Patriarchy – By bell hooks – MP3 – PDF – Torrent – Archive – YouTube In this short essay bell hooks offers a quick introduction to patriarchy and particularly the way it affects men. She draws on examples from her own life and from other writers. This essay comes from an older feminist perspective that has not taken into account the experiences or existence of trans, intersex, or genderqueer people; however we believe it still offers a useful understanding of patriarchy. “Patriarchy is a political-social system that insists that males are inherently dominating, superior ..read more

30:24 – Delusions of Progress: Tracing the Origins of the Police in the Slave Patrols of the Old South – by Neal Shirley & Saralee Stafford – MP3 – Text – Archive – Torrent – YouTube Click here for an updated zine version The following was originally written for Scalawag, a magazine of southern culture and politics, with the aim of contributing to ongoing discussions of where the institution of police comes from and how it might be destroyed. While many have a general awareness that American policing has its origins in slave patrols, we found some of the specifics of how and when that t ..read more

26:59 – Bern Notice: Building A Material Force In The Age Of Trumpism – from Its Going Down –  MP3 – Read – Print – Torrent – Archive – YouTube Radio Edit – MP3 “If we strive to create a material force within the social landscape; an autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movement that builds counter-power and new forms of life, then we must take stock of the other emerging forces in the current terrain. We have to think about how we can fight—and win, against the growing rise of the autonomous far-right, especially after Trump’s presidential run ends. For after Trump returns to being a ..read more

31:30 – The Party’s Over: Beyond Politics Beyond Democracy – by CrimethInc – MP3 – Read  – PDF – Torrent – Archive – YouTube “Even if it was true that anyone could grow up to be President, that wouldn’t help the millions who inevitably don’t, who must still live in the shadow of that power. This imbalance is intrinsic to the structure of representative democracy, at the local level as much as at the top. The professional politicians of a town council discuss municipal affairs and pass ordinances all day without consulting the citizens of the town, who have to be at work; when one of those ord ..read more

19:19 – Society Against The State – by Pierre Clastres – MP3 – Text – Archive – Torrent – YouTube Can there be a society that is not divided into oppressors and oppressed, or that refuses coercive state apparatuses? In this landmark text in anthropology and political science, Pierre Clastres offers examples of South American Indigenous groups that, though without hierarchical leadership, were both affluent and complex. In so doing, he refutes the usual negative definition of tribal society and poses its order as a radical critique of our own Western state of power. This audio zine is the la ..read more

52:15 – On The Poverty of Student Life: considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual, and particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest proposal for its remedy –  by students  and members of the Situationist International –  MP3 – Text – Print – Archive – Torrent – YouTube First published in 1966 at the University of Strasbourg by students of the university and members of the Internationale Situationniste. Attacking the subservience of university students and the strategies of student radicals, it caused significant uproar, led to the dissemination of Situationist ideas, and ..read more