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  RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117403920831314085 THIS. A THOUSAND TIMES. THIS.

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  RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117403478115132450 #US foreign policy has been based on interventions in the affairs of other nations for 76+ years. This is US #imperialism on its own behalf and the behalf of global #capitalism and the ruling class. This is why I'm rooting for #Iran and while I'll always cheer for nations that are resisting US imperialism. Most middle class USians (of both parties) ignore our role in the world, choosing the convenient lie they've been told...

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  I regularly see posts by older liberals that still lament the loss of what they think was working before Trump. They continue to write as though the economy and government were largely okay and that it was Trump that broke things. That's the problem with the #Democrat Party and liberals in the US, especially the older demographic that were fairly comfortable in their retirements. For them, it worked well enough that they could ignore the fundamental injustices. Their take seems to be "Y...

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  I'll keep saying it because it seems like it needs to be said over and over. Until we reckon with our history, specifically with the genocide and slavery, the settler colonialism and violence, we'll be a haunted land. The violence of capitalism and the state will persist because we let it persist. I've recently read two blog posts reflecting on 250 years of the US, both by white middle class men. Neither post acknowledges their position in the white supremacy that continues to sit...

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  Ready for May Day? We're mobilizing nationwide. We've got events scheduled across #Missouri for tomorrow. Our event in Farmington #MO kicks off at 9am. We'll have a roving picket, food, and tables with pamphlets about the history of International Workers Day, the use of the mass mobilizations like the general strike. Events like this are ongoing practice for continued mobilizations that will intensify into multi-day disruptions to break the hold of capitalism and the sta...

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  May 1 is the original day for celebrating the working class, International Working People's Day. Across the US and the world we're out today to continue the fight begun over a hundred years ago. From the young women that walked out of the mills in Lowell MA in 1836 to the Haymarket labor militants that fought for the 8 hour day in Chicago in 1886 to today. We continue that fight. We're rebuilding the US labor movement. We're defending our immigrant neighbors. W...

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  Working with SEMO DSA recently and simultaneously reading through the various Especifismo texts and Black Rose literature I've been asking myself how do I proceed in this small town in rural southern #MO? Watching part 1 of The Elements of Mutual Aid yesterday was inspiring and I'm not new to starting mutual aid projects. But the flip-side of mutual aid is that depending on how it's organized in context, it can end up being a never-ending box of band aids rather than a ch...

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  To summarize crudely: If we do not organize to overthrow these systems we contribute to their existence. Social Anarchism and Organization: "To be disorganised, poorly organised or isolated means not to constitute an adequate resistance to capitalism and the state and, consequently, not managing to significantly increase the social force of the organisation that must have as an objective to replace them with libertarian socialism. We can say that “whoever doesn’t organise themselves,...

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  Just finished this podcast series by Crimethinc: No wall they can build. So well done and also available as a book. An interweaving of stories from desert aid workers in their time with migrants struggling across the desert southwest with analysis of what is going on with the migration from Mexico and south of Mexico with specific looks at Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador. And, of course, constant and direct US interventions have been critical for the duration. It will come as no surprise that d...

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  Watch and share. These are exactly the kinds of projects we should be building if we want to abolish capitalism. Support them if you already have them, start them if you don't. This is the direct action that helps build community democracy, solidarity, capacity and resilience. "A four-part, independently produced documentary series putting a finger on the pulse of community-led survival projects confronting crisis with care. Weaving together over 60 voices and profiling 15 gr...

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  This post is worth reading... posts by Crimethinc are always worth a read. What We Want for May Day What do we want for May Day? In short, to take another step towards freedom from all forms of oppression—towards what we call anarchy, by which we mean egalitarian relationships based in self-determination, solidarity, and mutual aid. Anarchists have been central to May Day since its origins as a labor holiday in 1886, when police in Chicago attempted to suppress anarchist labor organizers who w...

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  "Where the universe knows only what is, we have imposed upon it arbitrary relations such as private ownership, status, domination, obedience, and so on. Yet none of these can cover up our origins within the ecology, nor can they remake what the universe is. Every single process we carry out is foundationally predicated on the utilization of ecological growth, the long processes of natural chemistry, and our coincidentally hospitable place within the solar system." - Daniel Bary...

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  It should be clear to anyone at this point (it's been clear for a very long time) that Israel is a racist, terrorist, apartheid state bent on genocide and continued land theft. There are no limits to their depravity. How does anyone continue to support this or even tolerate it? Fully documented and supported? Zionists are doing a Nazi-like genocide, Nazi-like terrorism, at what point will they be condemned as the Nazis are? And of course, the US is an equal partner in this mass crim...

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  "Professor Munira Khayyat is speaking from Beirut, where she's currently hosting over 30 displaced families as Israel expands its invasion of South #Lebanon... she explains why the "peace" that followed World War II was only peace for the powerful — and permanent war for everyone else. From South Lebanon to #Gaza, from the Cold War to today, war has never been an aberration. It's a feature of the system. • What is happening in Lebanon right now — 1.5...

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  Excellent discussion. I especially appreciated the repeated reminder that in closing the Strait of Hormuz Iran is now doing to the world what the US has been doing to Cuba, and what Israel and the US have been doing to Gaza. How does it feel to get punched back? How does it feel to be denied an essential resource. And this blockade is only a few weeks old and has, to this point, not actually impacted supply. Imagine years of a blockade that denies fuel, food, and medical supplies. After years o...

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  "On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping." I would also add: No #War No #Imperialism #No Genocide All of our organizing should reflect a commitment to #international #Solidarity. Our struggle for freedom has to be rooted in our understanding that we've been on the wrong side. It&amp...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116317773014017243 USians need to come out against this war, yes. But even more important, we have to recognize it as the long-running imperialism that it is. We are a violent empire that profits from violence, resource theft, kidnapping, and arms dealing. The majority of USians seem to accept the built-in violence of colonialism that is central to the founding of this nation and has been present throughout. That violence defines the core of what we are....

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  What we've seen in MN with middle class white folks putting themselves in harms way to protect their neighbors shows the spirit of what should serve as our path forward. The extension of empathy into action as solidarity. And going forward this is what we need not just in resisting fascism but in all of our efforts. We need to dig deep for broad #solidarity in recognition that our real power comes from solidarity across all our superficial differences. Our politics should not be based on f...