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 U ..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 ..read more

by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – External Education Committee Black Rose / Rosa Negra invited Brazilian anarchist theorist, educator, and militant Felipe Corrêa to inaugurate our Organized Anarchism Discussion Series. Corrêa chairs the Institute for Anarchist Theory and History, is the author of the forthcoming book ‘Freedom or Death: The Theory and Practice of Mikhail Bakunin’, and is a member of Organização Socialista Libertária (OSL). On February 25th, Corrêa gave a live presentation on the history, theory, and practice of organizational dualism – a strategic orientation within the anarchist m ..read more

by Jake Carman, with contributions from other members of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Boston Local Planning & Execution Through the Fall and Winter of 2023, the Boston Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) hosted a four-part discussion series on our program: Turning the Tide. The first collective effort of the newly reconstituted Boston Local, the discussion series brought 15 to 25 people to each of the meetings, with 40 or more individuals participating over the life of the series. Our goals, according to Local member Matt Tracy, were to “build connections with strangers and organizers surr ..read more

Varios miembros de Black Rose / Rosa Negra se han ofrecido a colaborar en este artículo para que prevalezca la lucha de la liberación Palestina a través de organizar equipos de lucha con metas a largo plazo. Se hace énfasis en la diferencia entre la movilización temporal y la organización sostenida enfocada en sitios de la vida cotidiana como lugares de trabajo, escuelas y vecindarios. This article can also be found in English. Introducción Han pasado más de 100 días del ataque con fines genocidas por Israel en el pueblo Palestino y esto ha provocado una de las movilizaciones en contra de la ..read more

⇨ DONATE HERE ⇦ Since Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN) was founded 10 years ago, labor has remained a key focus of our sectoral organizing approach. For our members this has meant organizing the unorganized in campaigns to build entirely new unions, fighting within existing unions for greater rank-and-file control, and building the capacity of workers to lead their own struggles from the shopfloor. In the last few years our members have participated in paradigm shifting wildcat strikes, successful organizing campaigns in ‘right to work’ states like Texas and North Carolina, massive strikes in hi ..read more

We are excited to announce the first in a series of live discussions that we are calling Organized Anarchism: A Global Perspective.  Anarchist movements across the globe have a robust history of theory and practice around political and social organization dating back to their origins in the 19th century.  In the past decade alone, more than a dozen anarchist political organizations have emerged around the world. From Argentina to Australia, these formations have been inspired by the tradition of organizational dualism, also known as “organized anarchism.” But what is organized anarc ..read more

In this article several members of Black Rose / Rosa Negra offer reflections on their efforts to bring the fight for Palestinian liberation into their long term organizing efforts. Throughout, an emphasis is made on the distinction between temporary mobilization and an orientation toward sustained organizing in sites of everyday life—our workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods. Introduction More than 100 days into Israel’s genocidal assault on the people of Palestine and in turn some of the most vigorous anti-war mobilization in over a decade, so many of us who have been out in the streets hav ..read more

On July 18th the Bay Area Local of Black Rose / Rosa Negra and AK Press hosted historian Troy Araiza Kokinis to discuss his new book ‘Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956-76‘. You can now listen to the entirety of the recorded talk via the embedded YouTube link below, or via the It’s Going Down podcast where it was originally published. Anarchist Popular Power is the first-ever full-length English-language history of the Anarchist Federation of Uruguay (FAU). As Araiza Kokinis explains, the FAU organized students and workers to dir ..read more

In 2019, significant segments of the dominated classes of Chile gave shape to what is now known as the “social explosion”, a popular uprising of national proportions. The social explosion produced a profound political crisis which forced the resignation of then president Sebastián Piñera and initiated a process which sought to overturn and rewrite the country’s dictatorship era constitution. In this interview with Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation (BRRN), members of the Santiago Anarchist Federation (FAS) offer a number of criticisms and alternative proposals to the constitutional as ..read more