#directaction

Yesterday, April 28, we remember the death of Benito Mussolini (1883–1945), who was captured and executed by anti-fascists, and if you’re interested in the topic, "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, is definitely a book worth checking out.

It critiques how nationalism creates divisions among people and serves the interests of those in power. Rocker argues that nations are constructs of the state, used to control individuals and disconnect them from their shared humanity.

The book discusses how nationalism is often presented as a unifying force while actually leading to oppression and cultural stagnation. Rocker emphasizes that nationalism justifies state power and can result in authoritarianism, ultimately harming cultural development.

- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-nationalism-and-culture

#Fascism #Nationalism #Culture #RudolfRocker #AnarchoSyndicalism #Politics #Philosophy #FarRight #Critique #DirectAction #Solidarity #SocialJustice #Anarchism #Anarchy #BenitoMussolini #Mussolini #OnThisDayInHistory #OtD

#directaction #directdemocracy #Internationalism
#Italy #LaborMovement #MayDay #May1 #Organize #solidarity #unions #USI

Squat The City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwn1A3LuSA

#Arts #directaction #FRAPRU (People's Rights Over Urban Development) #HousingCrisis #HousingJustice #MutualAid #solidarity #SquatTheCity

Thanks @constellation

#naarm next ?
@RAHU

https://calendrier.constellationmtl.net/event/squat-the-city-how-to-use-the-arts-for-housing-justice-book-launch-by-norman-nawrocki

https://leftwingbooks.net/products/squat-the-city-how-to-use-the-arts-for-housing-justice

#Arts #directaction #housingCrisis #HousingJustice #landlords #Montreal #rent #solidarity #squatting

The NZ Herald is fact checking the govt's claims about the recent coal mine occupation, and what do you know?
The activists were right (again)!

Denniston mine protest: Blowback from the ‘blow-ins’
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/denniston-mine-protest-blowback-from-the-blow-ins/FM54SZ75GNDHFGQXDKRSGT2M5Q/

Non-paywalled:
https://archive.ph/oNjTi

#fastTrackWrongTrack #endFossilFuels #directAction #Aotearoa #NZPol

Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace

https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/21/become-an-anarchist-or-forever-hold-your-peace

Neither courts nor laws will suffice to halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take direct action on their own initiative—in other words, to become anarchists.

#Anarchist #DirectAction #FreeHumanity #Community #Inclusion #StandUpFightBack #Humanism #Justice #Everyone

Add student activists, immigrants, trans people. And don't forget, the registries for autistic people and Jews. And camps for people with disabilities, depression, anxiety, and autism.

Honestly, we're already nearing the end of Pastor Niemoller's poem w/almost no resistance. If people wait much longer, there won't be enough people left for a General Strike to make any difference.

No one is Free until we ALL are Free!

For a World without Bosses, Landlords, Priests or Kings!

#GeneralStrike #directaction

Incendiary Attack on 17 Cars at Tesla Dealership (Rome, Italy)

Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on 17 cars at the Tesla dealership (Rome, March 31, 2025)

Few people in the world, nowadays, embody absolute Evil like the infamous entrepreneur and billionaire technocrat Elon Musk. It would be reductive, however, to consider him a classic cartoon “villain”, a character that would fit him like a glove, without realizing that this despicable individual is only the product of an economic and social system that marches towards its own self-destruction and that his expansionist aims symbolically summarize those of the system itself.

Officially entering the field of politics, all this is exemplified in his servility towards Trump, who has placed him in the front row of the reactionary, imperialist, sexist and supremacist offensive underway in the United States. Specifically, as a reward for his billionaire support for the electoral campaign, the newly elected president has awarded his favorite Dark Maga the leadership of DOGE, an ad hoc body that has quickly busied itself on cuts and reforms aimed at directly or indirectly affecting that slice of the population that is recognized by the new elite as “surplus”.

As for the companies he manages or founded, however, there are many examples to give

Neuralink is a startup that aims to create a system of neural interfaces that connect the human brain with artificial intelligence; he claims to have implanted his first brain chip, called Telepathy, in January 2024. The transhumanist dream that becomes reality, the utopia of the suppression of the “defective” components of humanity through human-machine integration, the creation of those efficient gears that technocratic capitalism has and will always badly need.

OpenAI, a company founded by Musk as an artificial intelligence research laboratory, has produced the first famous chatbot in history: ChatGPT. After abandoning its leadership due to a potential conflict of interest with its role in the development of AI for self-driving Teslas in 2023, he founded a rival startup, xAI, which has the stated purpose of training a generative artificial intelligence chatbot (Grok) that automatically learns to respond racistly, against the woke culture of which ChatGPT would be an expression.
In turn, through xAI Musk has recently purchased the X platform himself, the former instant messaging service called Twitter, well exemplifying the use of social media as a tool for algorithmic manipulation of public opinion for the most vulgar political purposes, as well as revealing in a now indisputable way the use of social media as an inexhaustible source of data for the use and consumption of AI BigTechs.

Not forgetting SpaceX and its (apparently crazy) prospects of interplanetary colonialism, which lay the foundations for the continuation of the plunder that this system will need even once the stocks of the planet we live on are exhausted: a company that, at the moment, seems to be becoming richer and more powerful even than NASA. Its best-known product is the Starlink satellite system, which, in addition to filling low Earth orbit with technological garbage, aims to guarantee internet connection even in the absence of infrastructure on Earth. These artificial constellations, therefore, are becoming an essential tool for armies in theaters of war; Starlink is in fact thriving by providing its services to the Ukrainian and Israeli armies, making itself complicit in massacres and genocides of today and tomorrow.

Finally, we conclude with Tesla, the famous company of hyper-technological electric cars, the status symbol par excellence of the rich techno-fascists of all latitudes, the emblem of the ecological lie that aims to electrify the planet, destroying it definitively in the name of profit. Tesla itself, with its 8 continuous cameras mounted on each car and its interconnected devices for (future) automatic driving, combined with the work of Musk’s lesser-known companies, Hyperloop and The Boring Company (respectively, they deal with the development of a futuristic high-speed transport system and an underground tunnel project to reduce traffic) participates in the totalitarian urban control plan of Smart Cities, A dystopian project that, thanks to the development of digital infrastructure, aims to make urban life a constant flow of data.

Techno-fascism, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, the conquest of space, war, technological surveillance and the destruction of the planet: do we need more reasons to attack Elon Musk’s interests anywhere and at any time?

For these and many other reasons, on the night between 30 and 31 March, we decided to welcome spring too, on a cold night… heated by the fire of 17 cars in the only Tesla dealership in Rome. Because we claim to be those flaws that the project of characters like Musk would like to eradicate.

In a world of fiber optic cables and pylons, let’s plant the seed of rebellion, because the only thing that really makes sense, in the scenario that lies ahead of us, is to fight tooth and nail, until
at the last breath, for freedom.
Because the only Tesla we like is the one that burns…. And how it burns
well!

Solidarity with anarchist prisoners around the world, against every cage and against the infamous 41bis!
Anna, Alfredo, Stecco, Giulio, Ghespe, Tonio, Juan, Daivid: we are by your side!
Kyriakos lives in the fire of our actions!

[Received by email and posted in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/25/rivendicazione-dellincendio-di-17-automobili-presso-la-concessionaria-tesla-roma-31-marzo-2025/]

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18700

#ai #anarchist #DirectAction #europe #italy #Rome #technoFascism #tesla

@angryeducationworkers

Homage Poster https://crimethinc.com/2025/04/18/the-vanguard-of-fantasy-a-poster-in-homage-to-up-against-the-wall-motherfucker

#AffinityGroups #CrimeThinc #DirectAction #NewYork #Posters #UpAgainstTheWall

LIZA – Plataforma Anarquista de Madrid has been added to A Radical Guide https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/liza-plataforma-anarquista-de-madrid #WhereWereYouRadicalized #MutualAid #DirectAction #RadicalEducation #radicalhistory #GrassrootsMovements #Solidarity #Abolition #Antifascism #RadicalHistory #SupportRadicalSpaces #CollectiveLiberation #MovementBuilding #anothetworldispossible #grassrootsactivism #liberation #europe #madrid #spain

Actionists bypass security and crash inside the Bristol-based research, development and manufacturing hub for Israel’s biggest arms producer.

By dismantling machinery and weapons, they directly intervened in Elbit’s genocidal supply chain.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-UWr6GtWRN/

#GenocideMachines #ShutItDown #Elbit #SupplyChain #DirectAction #FreePalestine

Ted Dickinson joined the Australian #IWW in 1923 and edited the Australian IWW paper, #DirectAction.
Jailed for IWW activities in Port Adelaide he went to England after his release from prison in the late 1920s & joined the British Battalion of the International Brigades as second in command of the second company.
In 1937, he was captured and executed by the fascists.
https://adelaideaz.com/articles/ted-dickinson-of-the-wobblies-jailed-for-sedition-and-leading-riot-in-1928-port-adelaide-wharf-dispute

Other Wobs in Spain
https://libcom.org/article/iww-members-who-fought-spanish-civil-war

#antifascism #workingclasshistory

https://portside.org/2025-04-24/america-pissed-enough-trump-and-musk-general-strike

#DirectAction
#FightOligarchy #FromBelow #GeneralStrike #LaborMovement #Organize #RankandFile #Solidarity #unions

Emma Goodman's fight for reproductive freedom in 1916.

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#emmagoldman #reproductiverights #reproductivefreedom #reproductiverights #womenshistory #womensrights #WhereWereYouRadicalized #MutualAid #DirectAction #RadicalEducation #radicalhistory #GrassrootsMovements #Solidarity #Abolition #Antifascism #RadicalHistory #SupportRadicalSpaces #CollectiveLiberation #MovementBuilding #anothetworldispossible #grassrootsactivism #liberation

Mothers Against Genocide

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIpZHrmg110/?igsh=MWRzZnVmcGhjajNhNA%3D%3D

Graffiti on the wall says - Speak up for the children of Palestine.
Direct Action, you can too.

#MothersAgainstGenocide #WarCrimes #GetLoud #DirectAction #YouToo #StandUpFightBack

“Palestine Action just forced ANOTHER company to cut ties with Elbit”

by The Canary @thecanaryuk

“This time, its concerted direct action has forced Manchester-based metal components manufacturer Dean Group International to sever all ties with Elbit’s UK subsidiary Instro Precision”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/04/22/palestine-action-dean-group/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

#Press #UK #Elbit #ElbitSystems #PalAction #DirectAction #DeanGroup #InstroPrecision #Complicity #Genocide

OVER 50 HOURS ALREADY!!
The #stocktonMine occupation #directAction continues and the courageous activists are still in the coal buckets, preventing any coal from leaving the ground.

More in their social media #ClimateLiberationAotearoa
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIw9v6nhk6q/
https://www.facebook.com/ClimateLiberationAotearoa

#endFossilFuels #Aotearoa

Erste Beben - Aufstände der Erde

"Seit 2021 gibt es die Bewegung der „Soulèvements de la Terre“, eingedeutscht als „Aufstände der Erde“, die auch kollektiv als Autoren des Buches „Erste Beben“ signieren.

Sie schildern die ganze Vielfalt von Aktionen der beteiligten Aktivist*innen: Sabotage, Blockaden, Besetzungen, direkte Aktionen verschiedenster Art, spektakuläre wie klandestine Aktivitäten.

Die „Soulèvements“ sind ein Netzwerk aus Aktivist*innen, Bäuer*innen, unterschiedlichen Kollektiven etc., das den vielen Fragmenten des Widerstands einen Zusammenhalt gibt. ..."

Endlich ist ein #Buch auf Deutsch erschienen, dass uns einen genaueren Einblick in die vielseitigen Kämpfe in Frankreich gibt, die in der sog. Klima- und Umweltbewegung stattfinden.

https://www.untergrund-blättle.ch/buchrezensionen/sachliteratur/aufstaende-der-erde-erste-beben-008990.html via @untergrundblaettle

#Klimakrise #Klima #Frankreich #Protest #Soulevementsdelaterre #Sabotage #DirectAction #Antireport

Today in Labor History April 22, 1996: Peace activists Tom & Donna Howard-Hastings celebrated Earth Day 1996 by cutting down three power poles in Clam Lake, Wisconsin, preventing the launch of the U.S. Navy's first-strike nuclear submarine. They stapled an indictment against nuclear war to one of the poles and signed it "with disarming love, Tom & Donna." The district attorney charged them with criminal damage to property and sabotage. However, a jury found them not guilty of sabotage. This was just the fourth time in 16 years that members of the Plowshares antinuclear movement were acquitted of such charges. From 1980-1995, there had been 57 trials of antinuclear activists on sabotage charges. In northern Wisconsin, these direct actions focused on Extremely Low-Frequency transmitters, known as ELF, used to communicate with submerged nuclear submarines.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #earthday #directaction #civildisobedience #sabotage #nuclear #antiwar #peace #ploughshares

I know Instagram is evil, but honestly, the Climate Liberation Aotearoa and 350 crew are killing it with the stuff they are posting about the #stocktonMine occupation (over 35 hours now!)

Here's a taster responding to Jones's ludicrous press release earlier today; but if you still have an account there, please give them some love because they are heroes and their posts are pure

https://www.instagram.com/climateliberationaotearoa

#endFossilFuels #Aotearoa #directAction