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28/09/2025

🪡 Clarissa Pinkola Estés

23/09/2025

"The ruling class has to push the myth of "personal responsibility" so you don't realize that most of your perceived failures are actually systemic."

22/09/2025

"People post that screenshot of the study saying cops have difficulty infiltrating anarchist groups because there's too much reading, but another one of my favorite parts is "We don't know how to cut their funding because it's just a bunch of anonymous poor people"

"Financing

"Given anarchists' opposition to capitalism and enterprise the question of how they fund their operations is intriguing. Anarchists typically lead a simple and inexpensive lifestyle. Many are vegetarian or vegan and are accustomed to a communal life where food and other resources are shared. On a daily basis, most anarchists have jobs (typically low paying service jobs). They often travel by shared rides in car, but many have become proficient at hopping trains to travel long distances. A series of projects throughout the country known as "Food not B0mbs" often provide collective food for the anarchist community (the food is not necessarily only consumed by anarchists). Therefore, it does not require much money to facilitate subsistence and travel. Many of the higher level [...]"

16/09/2025

A significant amount of effort has been and continues to be spent obscuring the fact that effective social movements involve participants becoming principled, educated, and most importantly ORGANIZED.

29/08/2025

"Honestly all the "fight hate with love" folks give love a bad name. Love isn't inaction, silence, or complicity. Love and fury can coexist.

""Love" that won't fight or sacrifice isn't love. "Love" that demands submission to violence isn't love."

23/08/2025

22/08/2025

On this day, 21 August 1970, the Black Panther newspaper published a letter from co-founder Huey P Newton in which he criticised attitudes in the left groups towards women and LGBT+ people, and called for solidarity with the women's and gay liberation movements.
Newton criticised homophobia and sexism in revolutionary movements, commenting that "homosexuals… might be the most oppressed people in… society", and called on the left to desist using homophobic language:
"We should be careful about using those terms that might turn our friends off. The terms 'f****t' and 'punk' should be deleted from our vocabulary, and especially we should not attach names normally designed for homosexuals to men who are enemies of the people, such as [president Richard] Nixon or [attorney general John] Mitchell. Homosexuals are not enemies of the people."
The letter stated that as a basic principle, "a person should have the freedom to use his body in whatever way he wants", and went on to say that: "there is nothing to say that a homosexual cannot also be a revolutionary... Quite the contrary, maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary."
Newton argued that all radical events should include "full participation of the gay liberation movement and the women's liberation movement".
The move came a year after the Stonewall rebellion, and the subsequent foundation of the Gay Liberation Front, which supported the Black liberation movement, and militantly raised issues such as homophobia within radical organisations.
We discuss this in our podcast episodes 25-26: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e21-22-the-stonewall-riots-and-pride-at-50/

21/08/2025

Read the whole thing...Been getting a lot of people asking again lately, so.........

A lot of folks want to be actively Organizing in their communities but don't know where to start or how to get involved. So figured we should make a list to help em out. Please feel free to add anything you think would be helpful!

(Please add suggestions in comments)

Read

Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People - Book

Look up
Food Not Bombs
IWW (we need more Wobblies actively pushing them to be better)
Name of your area followed by "mutual aid"
Community refrigerators/food pantries
Community Gardens
Community Defense
Skunk Ape Liberation Union and Miami Dade Mutual Aid Garden (if you're in Miami-Dade County)

*Your LOCAL DSA chapter

If you can't find anything, get a few buddies together and start your own affinity group.

(*keyword here is "local", the national org is a joke, but many local chapters are your best bet to finding active mutual aid groups and like minded folks. Local DSA chapters are full of real leftists doing real work in their communities, just be VERY CAREFUL, watch for red flags, and still form an affinity group, we kinda HATE dsa, but it might be your best bet to get started.)


Please try to find a way to help your local mutual aid groups. It doesn't need to be anything grand. If you're unable to physically go and help them, throwing them a few dollars goes a long way and you get WAAAAAY more bang for your buck helping a small mutual aid group than giving to a big charity.

Looking up information for them is also extremely helpful and time saving. For example, somebody went through our free seed list and found the growing zones for each one, then sent us their list. That's a MAJOR time saver for us and the folks we're sending seeds to, and they were able on help in a tangible way without ever leaving their home.

If you give it some thought, I'm sure you can find some way to contribute, regardless of your situation. I have weird chunks of time to kill in between jobs, so I'm able to drive places throughout the day, I have a truck so i can deliver supplies to places. Lots of people can't do that of course, but they might be able to do something like research. as good as I am at mobilizing, I'm not great with computers, someone else can find better sources of information faster than I can. Someone else can make better memes and info-graphics than I can. They can use social media to network more effectively than I can without ever having to get out of bed. Hell, even just sharing/commenting/reacting to posts can increase the reach to more people and get them involved, which is extremely helpful too.

We're all busy as s**t, overworked, underpaid, burning out, or burned out, in physical and mental pain, but there's still something each of us can do, even if you don't think it will make a difference.

Wish this part wasn't necessary but... Obviously not everyone can do everything, and there are A LOT of things that A LOT of folks genuinely can not do, but IF YOU ARE ABLE, you should definitely be doing something, no matter how small, every bit helps.

"If we act as individuals, it won't be enough.
If we wait for the government and politicians, it will always be too little too late.
If we act as communities, we just might make it"
-The Mighty Skunk Ape.

17/10/2024

14/10/2024

Two teachers share how they’re using Zinn Education Project resources to engage students in critical discussions about history of Palestine