While the bookfair itself will be taking place at 25 Cecil Street, there will be two days of workshops happening at Bahen, nearby. Here is the workshop schedule; for actual workshop descriptions see http://torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com/workshops-2/ Community Dinner Friday April 15 7pm – 11pm Saturday April 16/Sunday April 17 10am – 6pm …
It is that time of year again – time for the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair! It’s happening next weekend, at the Steelworkers Hall at 25 Cecil Street, and you know i’ll be there, tabling with all my own stuff as well as friends’. While the final workshop schedule has not been …
This weekend is the 2nd North American Anarchist Studies Conference, to be held in Toronto, Canada. i’ll be tabling there on behalf of Kersplebedeb and PM Press – please do come by to say hello! The schedule, for those of you thinking of attending: North American Anarchist Studies Conference: January, …
The following article, “Reflections on the Demise of Bash Back!”, is from the recently released zine Pink and Black Revolution #6, available for download here. Bash Back! was started in 2007 as a network of queer anarchists to have a specifically queer presence at the Democratic National Convention and Republican …
There’s an at-times-interesting and at-times-funny piece by Crimethinc, “Fighting in the New Terrain: What’s Changed Since the 20th Century”, which (if you have the time) is worth skimming, up at anarchistnews.org Why amusing? Well, partly just because it’s funny to remember how oblivious these folks could be when they started …
Excellent news, comrades – at a time when inquiring minds want to know, the folks at Autonomous Resistance have delivered the goods, producing this snappy little pamphlet history of the Black Bloc in europe and north amerika. You can download Can’t Stop the Kaos from their site, or mirrored here. …
What happens when the foundations are cut out from under an observation? When a solid thought gets emptied out, vacated, left as hollow as a drum? When we’re talking ideas, what does a giant with feet of clay look like? An emperor with no clothes? Could what seems that way …
Just finished translating this text by the Revolutionary Communist Party – the Quebec-based Maoist organization, not the american avakian outfit – examining post-G20 fallout on the left: http://theredflag.ca/node/18 Legitimate Revolt Is Not a “Conspiracy” provides a pro-militancy critique of the “Trotskyist and revisionist” left and their shameful rush to spit …
The International Communist League, represented in (english) Canada as the Spartacist League, have a theory of anarchism emerging specifically as a result of the “low tide” or “movement interregnum” that followed the last cycle of struggle. In other words, in pissing-contest fashion, the line is put forth that because the …
Kuwasi Balagoon New Afrikan Anarchist Revolutionary December 22, 1946 – December 13, 1986 available from leftwingbooks.net “Without freedom, there isn’t any big deal in living since to accept fascism is to forfeit life.” Kuwasi Balagoon was a defendant in the Panther 21 case in the late sixties, and a member of the …