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Two Aspects of Power: Consciousness and Physical Force

Left: A Freedmen’s school, a place of learning established by New Afrikans who had escaped the slave-system in the south of the united states. Right: a mob of euro-americans burns a Freedmen’s school to the ground. It is necessary, first, to overcome the opposition between a physicalist vision of the …

Fire and Flames, Black Blocs, and Militant Resistance

On KPFA’s Letters and Politics show featured an interview with Gabriel Kuhn, on the subject of the West German Autonomen, and the book Fire and Flames (which Kuhn translated into english). i have mirrored the interview here; it is well worth listening to. i found his comments on the evolution …

Report on Quebec’s Student Strike

Reposted from the excellent signalfire blog: We are now in the 13th week of a Quebec student strike against a 75% tuition hike – the longest student strike in Quebec history – the conflict has become a rallying point for any and all opposition to austerity here, and clearly represents …

Paint Bombs in Quebec Student Strike

From the pro-police media: Vandals armed with suspected Molotov cocktails and red paint hit several buildings in Montreal overnight, in an hour-long spree that left windows damaged and buildings defaced. Montreal police say there were at least four attempted firebomb attacks at buildings containing provincial government offices after 3 a.m. …

Black Bloc Action in Guelph

Guelph comrades stand in solidarity with the Black Block… Personally, i feel kind of unconditionally that the Black Block’s activities in Toronto recently were legitimate, regardless of follow up. But in terms of political efficacy, in terms of being “successful” or not, all our activities are vindicated (or not) based …

G20 Theories, Debates, and Slander: Sorting the Mess

Our strategy as anti-capitalists should be to retain and reinforce our differences from both the social-democratic and the right-wing critics of corporate globalization. This means continuing the work many of us are doing, in day to day struggles alongside the classes and nations which are most oppressed by Canadian capitalism. …

Update on Ottawa June 18th Defendants

The following is an update from Ottawa Movement Defense about the conditions and how to support the three individuals who were arrested on June 17th, on charges related to the bombing of a Royal Bank in Ottawa in April of this year. Please forward widely. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Ottawa Movement DefenseUPDATE & HOW …