The especifist tendency’s retreat from class analysis is not just a theoretical mistake – it in fact cuts them off from understanding the only thing that might actually realise anarchism ..read more

On Saturday, 8 February 2025, members of Geelong Anarchist Communists (GAC) and curious locals gathered under the shelter of Warrnambool’s Civic Green. Posters adorning the coastal towns’ streets promoted an Introduction to Anarchism workshop. These were the only signs of radical politics in Warrnambool, the words anarchism and communism enough to trigger an overblown reaction ..read more

Back in December, Woolworths distribution workers took a deal after 17 days of strike which cost the company upwards of $140 million dollars. The strategy of organising undertaken by the United Workers Union (UWU) demonstrates what it means to walk the daggers edge between exercising workers power by fighting bosses and avoiding union deregistration and ..read more

The Albanese Labor government has done a deal with the Liberals to pass legislation aimed at destroying the CFMEU. Make no mistake, the government’s CFMEU Act is a plan to kill a union. The strongest argument against this law is this: take a look at what is in it. The following is a summary of ..read more

By Daniel Rashid and Tommy Lawson The media outlets owned by Nine/Fairfax have released the results of an investigation into “corruption in the construction industry”. The articles  talk about contractors, the government, business figures and criminals, but the primary target is clear – the construction division of the CFMEU, and its Victorian branch in particular. The reports have triggered a wave of hysteria; some of it plainly insincere, the rest of it naive. Every day the reaction grows more severe. The Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Tony Burke, attacked the ..read more

We want to publish more reports from anarchists organising in their workplaces, and we want you to write them for us.  Your experiences are valuable. It is important that we write about organising in order to reflect, learn, and share lessons. We need anarchists to write about wins, losses, failed attempts and mistakes made. It is not enough to simply read accounts of organising in the past (as much as that is valuable), we need to learn about what is working and what isn’t right now. An organising report needs to cover: The context. What is the industry? What work do you perform? What a ..read more

Chris Oliver argues that left-wing activists should focus less on shallow mobilisation and protest, and more on deep, long-term organising. A few years ago I was involved in protesting outside a café in Sydney alongside a backpacker who’d previously worked there. The backpacker had been paid below the minimum wage the entire time they’d been employed, and all attempts at dialogue with the boss had proven futile. Having gotten nowhere with negotiations, we set out to protest at the cafe until the owner paid up all of the money that was owed. The whole thing took a lot of effort. Three weekends ..read more

Republished from Geelong Anarchist Communists by Tommy Lawson and Evan van Zijl As critics of genocide and Zionism, we are often told that settlement of Palestine offers a liberal utopia of pro-gay progressivism. Israel, the supposed sanctuary of Judaism, is in short the only alleged place for women and the LGBTQI+ community to be safe from Islam in the Middle East. These claims erupt most clearly in moments of crisis when there is more blood than even liberals believe can be justified, and are part of the argument that Arabs and Muslims do not have a right to life. We need to be clear that th ..read more

‘In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.’ Martin Luther King Jr.  It is no secret that the history of Palestinian resistance is deeply intertwined with the socialist movement. As anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism are basic principles, socialists have always opposed the occupation of Palestine by both Britain and Israel. Anarchist-Communists are part of the broader socialist movement and said principles are just as, if not more, deeply embedded in the tradition.1 However, in the face of the latest barbarity unleashed by Israel upon the ..read more

Juan Verala Luz reviews Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay 1956-1976. This review began as opening remarks at a recent book launch for Anarchist Popular Power. You can read excerpts from the original statement in this report, and listen to it alongside a discussion with historian Troy Araiza Kokinis in a forthcoming It’s Going Down podcast episode. Arriba los que luchan! Lessons in Struggle from Uruguayan Anarchists Compounding crises that neither capitalism nor the nation-state can solve have compelled many newcomer and veteran mili ..read more