Mutu: rethinking our radical media.

Notes from a dying media

Even in these difficult times for libertarian radicals, there are numerous examples of local groups waging class struggle. But these struggles are often poorly promoted, relying on already over-stretched groups to publicise them via an array of blogs and social media platforms. In bigger towns and cities, protests and actions fail to attract the numbers they could, partly because people don’t know about them. And there exists an over-reliance on social media to promote our activities, rendering pages redundant (and therefore also the archive of content on them) as social media usage shifts from one platform to another.

All this has taken place in the vacuum created by the collapse of numerous anarchist publications. Arguably however the disappearance which had the biggest material effect on grassroots activism in Britain was the collapse of an online outlet, Indymedia.

For all its faults, Indymedia, with its slogan “Don’t hate the media, be the media,” functioned as a crucial hub which held various activist movements together from 1999 to the mid-2010s with sites across the country. As the anti-globalisation movement from which it had emerged started to ebb away however Indymedia went into free fall.

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The Toronto Anarchist Bookfair is returning in so-called Ontario and will take place on September 28th!

We are excited to announce the return of the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair! The 2019 Bookfair will take place September 28 at the Centre for Social Innovation – Annex, on the traditional territories of the Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat peoples. The Bookfair will be a space for everyone from experienced organizers to those simply curious about anarchism to share ideas and information, develop skills, and build the community capacity to create a world that aligns with our anarchist aspirations.

There will be space to explore anarchist history and ideas, as well as their application to grassroots organizing and ongoing struggles. The Bookfair will include workshops, info tables, book sellers and social events. This is an accessible space that aims to centre BIPOC and other marginalized voices.

Tabling, workshop and special event callouts and application forms are now available here: https://torontoanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org/callouts/ – we’d love to hear from you!

Keep an eye out for some fun summer fundraising events, to be announced very soon!

For more event details, please visit https://torontoanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org/ and get in touch with ideas, feedback, questions or anything else at AnarchistBookfairTO@riseup.net

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Art et Anarchie

Exposition collective présentée par le Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal

Du 6 mai au 30 mai 2019

Dans le cadre du 20e anniversaire du Salon du livre anarchiste de
Montréal, le CCGV accueille l’exposition Art et anarchie. Cet événement réunit des artistes (peintres, bédéistes, sculpteurs et photographes) engagés dans des luttes sociales d’ici et d’ailleurs. Leurs œuvres rebelles et revendicatrices abordent divers sujets sociopolitiques tels que le capitalisme, l’environnement, le féminisme et la culture punk.

Heures d’ouverture de la galerie :
Cet horaire ne s’applique pas pour la fin de semaine du Salon du livre anarchiste
Lundi au jeudi: 10 h à 21 h
Vendredi et samedi: fermé
Dimanche: 10 h à 13 h 30

Lieu :
2450, Rue Workman
Montréal,QuébecH3J 1L8 Canada

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The body of Anarchist Lorenzo Orsetti is accompanied out of Rojava by his comrades

Lorenzo Orsetti (February 13, 1986 – March 18, 2019), also known as Orso and Tekoşer Piling, was an Italian anarcho-communist and antifascist from Florence who fought against ISIL with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria.

History

Lorenzo was a chef by trade, sommelier and worked in different restaurants in Florence.[1][2] [3]When he lived in Florence, he became interested in the Kurdish conflict, his struggle against the Islamic State and the Rojava revolution, it was there when he met Paolo Andolina, an Italian activist and anarchist who fought against ISIS alongside YPG International. [4]In September 2017 he traveled to Syria where received military training from the People's Protection Units (YPG). Once in Syria he struck up friendship with several Italian antifascist volunteers who were fighting there alongside Kurds.

[5]He met several anarchist and communist militants from all over the world, but especially from Turkey, and was linked to the anarchist battalion IRPGF.

Upon finishing his military training at the YPG International Academy, he joined to the ranks of turkish TKP/ML TIKKO [6]and then fought at the battle of Afrin [7]against the Turkish Army and Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army's jihadists being part of the anarchist battalion Tekoşîna Anarşîst (TA, Anarchist Struggle).

Death

Lorenzo was killed in action on Monday morning March 18, 2019 in the village of Baghouz, Syria. He was in that locality fighting in the Battle of Baghuz Fawqani against the last bastion of the Islamic State in Syria. He was attached to an Arab unit when he and his comrades were killed by ISIS jihadists in an ambush, his death was announced by ISIS media. His death was confirmed by his unit Tekoşîna Anarşîst.

[8]When announcing his death, his comrades shared his last will in which Lorenzo explained why he had decided to travel to Syria and his ideological motives.[9]

Honours

A library in the train station of Berceto, near Parma, has been named in his honour.[10]

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On this day in 1945, the original antifa supersoldiers declared the general insurrection against fascism in Italy. Happy Liberation Day!

Mussolini was captured that same evening, hiding in the back of a truck, trying to flee north disguised as a German grunt.

Three days later, Colonel Valerio (war name of Walter Audisio, communist organizer and partisan) arrived to carry out his death sentence. Mussolini was shot by Valerio personally, while the fascist leadership caught with him was executed by firing squad.

The bodies were then driven to Milan and set up in the same square, Piazzale Loreto, where months earlier the fascists had murdered and exposed the bodies of 15 Italians, some of them resistance fighters and some rounded up for numbers from the ranks of "criminals" like labour organizers.

A huge crowd gathered to defile the bodies, prompting the picket of partisans to string them up and out of reach on the railing of the Piazzale Loreto gas station. This is where the famous photos of Mussolini strung up upside down come from.

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Support Anarchist Bookfair #Malmö

WHY

Last year, Anarchist Bookfair Malmö gave us hope, strength, new ideas and a diversity of tactics to keep on struggling for another world. This year we want to make this happen again.
We are right now in the starting of the preparations for the Anarchist Bookfair Malmö 2019 and we want to fill it with book presentations, panel-debate, lectures, workshops, stalls, talks, meetings, food, music, etc.
Although we wish for the bottom of our hearts that we do not need to use the capitalist system that we are under, we need contributions to make this bookfair happen.
There is still some room for those who want to talk about any interesting theme or bring their material here! Just get in contact here!

GOAL

We want to have the bookfair as a free entrance place and stalls without cost where knowledge can be shared.
Now we ask for donations to cover the costs of material like posters, flyers, rent for the venue, food, transport, and unexpected stuff.

Our main goal is to gather 800 € So we have a budget to pay for the venue, flyers, some transport costs etc.
If we manage to gather 1000€ we could pay the tickets for all the comrades coming to do lectures.

If the amount of money is over what we expected, is going to be shared with other projects and for the futures bookfairs.
Last years excess was given to our Anarchist meeting place Majkällaren which holds an anarchist library, letter-writing evenings, talks and meetings for different groups.

----> https://www.firefund.net/malmo-bookfair

12 % of € 800
€ 95 reached in total
44 days left !

Together we are the Malmös Anarchist Bookfair

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Stockholm Anarchist Bookfair 2019 !

When: 2019-06-01 10:00
Where: Midsommargården, Stockholm, Swedish territory.

The institutional left continues to fail us at all levels, rewarding our votes with austerity, reactionary border politics, patriarchal structures, and a dying planet. Now more than ever, we need to develop methods in order to survive and to build a world that the people who come after us can live in.

The Stockholm Anarchist Bookfair will host discussions and workshops about how we as groups and individuals can fight oppression, and create and maintain horizontal structures and autonomous spaces. There will also be information tables from various publishers, organizations, and radical initiatives. We’re looking to build the skills that we need to fight for a better world.

The Stockholm Bookfair is an inclusive space. The total liberation of non-men, people of color*, queers and crips** is essential to anarchism and the success of class struggle. This liberation requires a fully intersectional feminism based in mutual aid and solidarity. We aim to build counter power for people whose existences are suppressed. White supremacy, patriarchy and ableism must be resisted at every level – especially when we encounter it within our autonomous and leftist movements.

Saturday June 1 is our main day, full of events at our venue Midsommargården. There will also be activities spread across town on Friday evening and during the day on Sunday!

There is still time to get involved so please contact us via email if you would like to contribute to the program or the bookfair in any way. Though we welcome proposals from everyone, we’d especially like to hear from people who speak from a non-man, POC, queer or crip perspective.

See you in June!

people of color is the umbrella term for all who face oppression based in racism
*crip is a reclaimed slur/umbrella term for all who face oppression based in ableism

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