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  1. Via End Deportations Belfast: We joined workers at Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast today for an antiracist rally organised by @ nipsa_the_union.

    This city belongs to all of us.

    #NoBorders

    Photo credit @ brendanjharkin

    instagram.com/p/DZcyf2rt7JT/?i

    #mastodaoine #StopTheFarRight #antifa #FarRightThugs #StansUpToRacism #ukpol #Belfast #unionise #union #WorkersUnion #organise #AntiRacist

  2. Via End Deportations Belfast: We joined workers at Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast today for an antiracist rally organised by @ nipsa_the_union.

    This city belongs to all of us.

    #NoBorders

    Photo credit @ brendanjharkin

    instagram.com/p/DZcyf2rt7JT/?i

    #mastodaoine #StopTheFarRight #antifa #FarRightThugs #StansUpToRacism #ukpol #Belfast #unionise #union #WorkersUnion #organise #AntiRacist

  3. Via End Deportations Belfast: We joined workers at Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast today for an antiracist rally organised by @ nipsa_the_union.

    This city belongs to all of us.

    #NoBorders

    Photo credit @ brendanjharkin

    instagram.com/p/DZcyf2rt7JT/?i

    #mastodaoine #StopTheFarRight #antifa #FarRightThugs #StansUpToRacism #ukpol #Belfast #unionise #union #WorkersUnion #organise #AntiRacist

  4. Via End Deportations Belfast: We joined workers at Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast today for an antiracist rally organised by @ nipsa_the_union.

    This city belongs to all of us.

    #NoBorders

    Photo credit @ brendanjharkin

    instagram.com/p/DZcyf2rt7JT/?i

    #mastodaoine #StopTheFarRight #antifa #FarRightThugs #StansUpToRacism #ukpol #Belfast #unionise #union #WorkersUnion #organise #AntiRacist

  5. Via End Deportations Belfast: We joined workers at Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast today for an antiracist rally organised by @ nipsa_the_union.

    This city belongs to all of us.

    #NoBorders

    Photo credit @ brendanjharkin

    instagram.com/p/DZcyf2rt7JT/?i

    #mastodaoine #StopTheFarRight #antifa #FarRightThugs #StansUpToRacism #ukpol #Belfast #unionise #union #WorkersUnion #organise #AntiRacist

  6. You can be #antiracist & still not be OK with #whitewashed #POC who choose to work for #government & are #Zionazis.
    If I based everything on race alone - I'd never have confronted Asian sellout politicians nor chose to go no contact with several whitewashed, capitalist jerks in my own family.
    Only fools will keep volunteering to defend any politician.

    #AsianMastodon #POCVoices #politics #FuckTheWhitewashed #DecolonizeYourMind

  7. Hi, I'm Sean.

    I'm from the oldest incorporated city in so-called #canada, #SaintJohn - home of the #irving empire.

    I am an iconoclast - staunchly #antifascist, #antiracist, #anticapitalist, somewhere on the #autism spectrum, and 3 years into punishing #LongCovid. #WearAMask!!!

    I've worked the last decade as #HeadOfSound at a beautiful heritage #theatre. Before that I was in #tech for a decade doing #development and #reverseEngineering. I've also worked in #electronics and other #audio fields.

    I grew up in a musical family and have played in bands since 13. I'm on around 60 albums, have toured canada and the us, and am part of what is likely the most prolific band in canada: #Slugmilk.

    I run a home mixing studio and a small printshop and I have a small "datacentre" which #selfhosts this #mastodon instance.

    I'm here on the #fedi to learn from everyone, and to help others learn. I will help anyone with anything I can.

    I'd love to meet more like-minded friends - don't be shy!

    #FREEPALESTINE

    #Introduction

  8. Last month, members of the Aryan Freedom Network (AFN)--a militant neo-Nazi organization--held a small "hiking & campout" event at Stone Mountain. An image posted to Telegram shows just three Nazis posing with an AFN flag. (A fourth presumably took the picture.)

    As we have stressed before: the State of Georgia purchased Stone Mountain Park and completed the Confederate carvings on its mountain face as a show of opposition to Civil Rights. The site has an earlier history as the birthplace of the modern Ku Klux Klan.

    As long as the racist carvings remain, the Park will continue to attract organized white supremacists. This obviously creates danger for the surrounding community, especially residents who simply enjoy the Park as a pleasant hike or place to exercise.

    An interesting article on the history of Stone Mountain and its carvings is here:
    linns.com/news/us-stamps-posta

    For our article from last year exposing the hosts of AFN's "Aryan Fest" in Georgia, see here:
    atlantaantifa.org/2024/11/01/m

    #StoneMountain #StoneMountainGA #Georgia #racism #antiracist #neonazi #antifascist #antifa

  9. “Statist socialists [throughout the Russian Revolution] remained true to their authoritarian tradition and it was armed with that outlook that they seized upon the Great Russian Revolution, a revolution of a depth and breadth in social implications for which History had seen no equal. As for us anarchists, we opposed their mistaken forecast about the destiny of ‘proletarian’ power. In the course of the polemic between us, we showed the statists that any State, whether bourgeois or proletarian, tends, by its very nature, simply to exploit and oppress man, to destroy in each and every one of us all the natural qualities of the human spirit that strive for equality and for the solidarity that underpins it. Which earned us only greater hatred from the statist socialists. Now, the existence and practice of ‘proletarian’ power in Russia have borne out and bear out the accuracy of our analysis. The ”proletarian” State has increasingly betrayed its true nature and proved that its proletarian-ness was a mere figment, as proletarians have been able to appreciate since the early years of the revolution, the more so since they themselves helped install it. The fact that in the course of its degeneration the ‘proletarian’ power has showed itself to be nothing more than a State power pure and simple is now beyond dispute and has induced it to desist from artful concealment of its real face. Its practice had abundantly proved that its goals and those of the Great Russian Revolution had absolutely nothing in common. Over all those years of hypocrisy, it has failed to subordinate the aims of the Russian Revolution to its own ends peaceably, and has had to confront all who threatened to expose its true essence — as a huge and festering ulcer upon the body of the revolution — the cowardice and treachery of which spell death and ruination to all without exception, and primarily to those who try to be independent and operate freely. One might ask oneself: how did all of this come to pass? According to Marx and Lenin, ‘proletarian’ power ought not to bear any resemblance at all to bourgeois power. Does not some segment of the vanguard of the proletariat bear a share of the blame for this state of affairs?

    Many anarchists tend to reckon that the proletariat counts for nothing in this, having been, so to speak, duped by the caste of socialist intellectuals, who supposedly aspire, over a series of purely sociohistorical phenomena and by reason of the logic of inevitable amendments to the State, to replace the power of the bourgeoisie with their own power. It is supposedly on these grounds that the socialist intelligentsia would seek, on a permanent basis, to direct the struggle of the proletariat against the capitalist, bourgeois world.

    As I see it, such an argument is neither quite accurate nor is it really adequate. Russia’s revolutionary experience supplies us with objective data galore in this connection. It shows us beyond rebuttal that the proletariat was not at all homogeneous during the revolution. Thus, the urban proletariat, whenever it participated in the overthrow of the power of the class enemy — the bourgeoisie — in many towns, hesitated for a moment between the paths of the revolutions of February and October 1917. It was only after a time, after October’s military victory over February, that a significant fraction of the urban proletariat began to throw in its lot with the part of its brothers, the direct architects of the gains of October. Soon, that segment of the proletariat not only forgot to defend those gains for itself, but also was in more of a hurry to go over to the Bolshevik party on power, which was cute enough to flatter it immoderately, cultivating in it a certain taste for class privileges, political, economic and juridical. Drinking deeply of these class privileges, this segment of the proletariat fell equally in love with its ‘proletarian class State.’ Self-evidently, the Bolshevik social democratic party wholly supported and encouraged it in this trend, for it offered the party great scope for implementation of its own program, which consisted of utilizing the practical struggle of the proletariat so as to bring the bulk of the proletariat to heel and then take over State power in its name. Along the way, the better to stand out from the crowd, the Bolshevik social democratic party turned itself into the ‘Bolshevik Communist’ party, unashamedly resorting to the most brazen demagogy and shrinking from no ploy, not hesitating, as the need arose, to cannibalize the programs of other political groupings: all for the sole purpose of binding the proletariat (to which it pledged its unstinting help, when in fact it was pursuing its own ends alone) all the better to itself. In this sense, the party was the finest embodiment of the historical ambitions of the intellectual caste: supplanting the bourgeoisie in power and exercising that power, no matter the cost. A sizable segment of the proletariat failed to stand up to its views: indeed, quite the opposite, it identified with what it did and became its accomplice.

    That segment of the proletariat had, however, been educated over generations to the notion that the proletariat would only emancipate itself from the bourgeoisie when it managed to break its power and destroy its state organization in order to clear the way for the construction of its own. Nevertheless, this fraction of the proletariat helped the Bolshevik-Communist party to organize its ‘proletarian power’ and erect ‘its’ class State.

    The path taken and the means employed did not take long to assimilate that fraction of the proletariat in every particular to the overthrown bourgeoisie, rendering it every whit as impudent and arrogant, with no scruples about using the most savage violence to enforce its domination over the people and the revolution.

    It goes without saying that this violence was second nature to the party’s intellectual caste, for it had been schooling itself in its use for many a long year and had become intoxicated with it. As for the bulk of the proletariat — yesterday’s mute slave — the violence deployed against its fellows is wholly alien to it. Busy with the building of its ‘class State,’ part of the proletariat was thus induced to behave, through the use of violence, in a repugnant fashion with regard to the individual liberty, freedom of speech and expression of any revolutionary organization, the moment that the latter impudently took issue with ‘proletarian power.’ That fraction of the proletariat scurried to ensconce themselves, under the leadership of the Bolshevik-Communist party, in the positions left vacant by the despots of the toppled bourgeoisie, becoming in their turn a tyrannical master-class, showing no hesitation, in pursuit of these ends, about using the ghastliest violence indiscriminately against all who opposed its designs. At the same time, this behavior was artfully concealed behind the ‘defense of the revolution.’

    Such violence was employed above all against the body of the Russian revolution, for the exclusive benefit of the narrow interests of one fraction of the proletariat and of the Bolshevik-Communist party, and on behalf of their complete domination of all the other laboring classes. This cannot be regarded simply as the proletariat blown temporarily off course. Yet again, we can see very clearly how all State power brazenly shows what it is made of, with the adjective ‘proletarian’ changing absolutely nothing.

    As I see it, it is for all these reasons that all foreign comrades who have not had this first-hand experience, should carefully scrutinize all the stages of the Russian revolution, particularly the role played in it by the Bolshevik-Communist party and by that fraction of the proletariat that has followed it. This so that they may steer clear of the same errors, in the light of the shameless demagogy of the Bolsheviks and their supporters, regarding the serviceability of ‘proletarian power.’”

    –Nestor Makhno, “The Paths of ‘Proletariat’ Power” Probuzdeniye No. 18, January 1932, pp. 45–48.

    #quote #quotes #classwar #eattherich #antiauthoritarian #anticapitalist #antifascist #antinazi #antiracist #killyourlocalnazi #killyourlocalcapitalist #killyourlocalfascist #fuckthesystem #fyi #psa #antislavery #killyourlocalimperialist

  10. The Stone Mountain Action Coalition is rightly calling for Stone Mountain Park to cancel the upcoming April 29 "Confederate Memorial Day" event:
    stonemountainaction.org/cancel

    The racist nature of this event is obvious. The keynote speaker for the Sons of Confederate Veterans event is John Weaver, a notorious segregationist preacher.

    The SCV's Georgia spokesman is Martin O'Toole, a leader of the white nationalist Charles Martel Society who we have written about previously.
    atlantaantifa.org/2022/04/28/n

    Last year's SCV rally also featured entertainment from a family tied to white supremacist "Christian Identity" circles. The event attracted Sam Dickson, a longtime white power leader and close associate of O'Toole, as well as at least one member of Patriot Front.
    atlantaantifa.org/2022/05/06/r

    For as long as the giant Confederate carvings remain on Stone Mountain, it will attract white supremacist organizers. This in no way excuses Stone Mountain Park's decision to facilitate white supremacist gatherings, which endangers others visiting the park as well as the surrounding community.

    #StoneMountain #StoneMountainGA #antiracist #antifascist