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Now available, printable PDF and downloadable e-reader versions of Anarchism and Revolutionary Defeatism by K. C. Sinclair, the only English-language overview of the subject ever written to my knowledge.

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wildfires across Canada are due to climate change, of which the US Military plays a large part. However, one of the fires in Alberta was actually even more directly caused by militarism, the Caribou Lake Wildfire started by 'human activity' on Cold Lake Air Weapons Range www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Russian-speaking anarchists in exile in Switzerland call out Kropotkin for his chauvinism in WWI (w/ regard to Egypt and more) Reply, by the Geneva Group of Anarchist-Communists (1916)

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Heinrich & his discussants are always talking about "before exchange" this, before exchange that. Let me stop you right there becuz under capitalism there is no "before exchange", only exchange again & again. It's a circuit not a linear one-off event. Which points to "primitive" accumulation 👉

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One way you know settler states don't really consider Native peoples as sovereign is we only have the right to sell to the one settler state exclusively. We Métis in "Canada" weren't allowed to sell our land to the US & tribes in the US weren't allowed to sell their land to Britain, for example.

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What if I said "alienation" never referred only to human essence, it always also referred to the real material alienation in the capitalist labour process, where the product belongs to the capitalist not the worker, where labour-power is sold then consumed by the capitalist as his property?

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Marx himself did exactly this with the Franco-Prussian War saying Germany was in a defensive war. Lenin and Zinoviev explicitly wrote about defensive wars of colonized countries. But none of them were marxists. Only the KAPD were marxists lol.

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Maybe too fine of a point but something can be better than the status quo or good or whatever without being land back. Land back has to do with fullest sense of Indigenous sovereignty, not just limited transactions under and within a supposedly superior settler sovereignty.

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A US Victory in the Middle East?, by Anne-Marie Fearon (1967)

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The Trotskyist position that Ukraine has a right to self-defense and this overrides any concern with the imperialism of NATO seems more popular than the Stalinist position of being pro-Russia. But neither deals with Marx's position on the Franco-Prussian War and Russian intervention.

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Transhumanist arc has begun.

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Carney’s new bill won’t build a stronger Canada—but it will target migrants and create unchecked security powers, following Trump’s example. We gave the Liberal's original video an edit to make it more accurate. Watch:

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The main problem with the new CrimethInc piece isn't that they reuse other people's footage or don't give them credit, it's that in typical American anarcho-liberalist fashion, they say shit like, "Every camera is a weapon."

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Lillian Piche holds one of her children after setting up a tipi in Edmonton’s Sir Winston Churchill Square in 1969 to protest housing discrimination against Indigenous people in Edmonton. She was evicted from her apartment in Edmonton. Lillian Piché Shirt speaking at the University of Alberta 1/2

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In mid-May, TRAC at Syracuse University noted that for its first 100 days the current regime's average daily immigration arrests were 2% higher than the previous (Democratic) regime, but its average daily removals had actually been 1% lower than the Democrats. This too could always be changing tho.

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Do we imagine any of the premiers would, push come to shove, respect Indigenous peoples’ free, prior and informed consent—i.e., the so-called Indigenous veto—as to what happens on their ancestral lands and waters?

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Israeli arms exports reach record high, as sales to Arab states rise sharply - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-arms-exports-reach-record-high-sales-arab-states-rise-sharply

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Israel's decision last week to create 22 new settlements in the West Bank was reported as somewhat uneventful news in the media. The reality is, however, that it's the latest in a series of moves to cement Israeli control of the occupied territory. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

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"We have to do everything we can to demand an end to these atrocities and war crimes committed by Israel," says Greta Thunberg, speaking from the Mediterranean Sea. She and other activists are sailing to Gaza to deliver badly needed humanitarian aid being blocked by Israel.

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From Emma Goldman to CrimethInc (and many points before, after and in-between), anarchists and fellow travellers on Palestine.

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#OtD 4 Jun 2020 75-year-old Martin Gugino was attacked by police in Buffalo, NY, during a Black Lives Matter protest. His skull was fractured, he had a brain haemorrhage suffered long-term memory, mobility impairments and hearing loss. More info: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1045...

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Native families are abt 2 run out of time 2 receive compensation under the Cobell suit! Descendants of mismanaged Individual Indian Money accounts have until June 30 to file. Not sure if you qualify? Search for your relatives' names here to see if you do:

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Canada 🇨🇦's Liberal govt has proposed a new "Border Security Bill," in large part in response to pressures from 🇺🇸 I raised concerns about that back in March 2025 👇 macleans.ca/politics/the...

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1939 The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 German Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.

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Kumanjayi White’s death at Alice Springs supermarket raises painful memories for Warlpiri community.

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Another year where thousands of people, the majority of whom are Indigenous, are displaced due to wildfires.

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#OtD 3 Jun 1943 200 white US Navy sailors attacked zoot suit wearing Mexican-American children in LA. Police arrested the victims of the attacks and the city council even tried to ban the wearing of the suit. Zoot suit riots broke out in several cities stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1019...

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Israeli media reporting that three IDF soldiers were killed in north Gaza yesterday by a roadside improvised device, bringing total military deaths in Gaza to 423 since October 2023 (not including deaths in the rest of occupied Palestine).

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Spain cancels contract for weapons made by Israeli arms company Rafael. Ukraine has purchased thousands of weapons from a German subsidiary of the same company, weapons that Israel tested against Gazans in 2009 before selling them to Ukraine.

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I wonder how many people know that the Hudson's Bay Company wasn't just a company but was effectively the government too in the west up to a point.

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Praises Ukraine’s drone attack on Russia, then an hour later hopes that Israel will attack a civilian aid ship headed to Gaza.

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Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

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Don't forget he also played a socialist in The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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The Report Back on the People's Anti-Fascist Festival by Montréal Antifasciste (reposted by IGD and Montreal Counter-Info) is pretty instructive because for them you can be pro Quebecois colonialism but anti-fascist, which illustrates one of the problems with liberal anti-fascism...

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