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Wanted: Contributions for Embryozine #5‏
http://anarkisterna.com/blog/2010/03/04/wanted-contributions-for-embryozine-5/

Now it’s time to start working on the fifth Embryo zine! And we want you to contribute texts, illustrations or anything else you see fit. This time we start from a different point than we’ve done previously. Taking on Embryo #5 begins with three themes we want to explore. These are questions we’ve pondered for some time and which we believe to be rather vital to answer. We hope you feel the same way.

The first theme deals with how to manage being active in a scene that –for as long as we’ve been part of it – rather than a movement resembles a phase you go through (like adolescence). Some have become disillusioned or abject during their time in the extra-parliamentary Left – the revolution might not happen in our lifetime after all. On the other hand, many have learnt new skills and enhanced self-confidence here – the habit of leading meetings, planning and organizing actions, writing pamphlets, speaking in front of a lot of people and organizing workshops.

But if we don’t want to leave this phase, even though we might not be considered young adults anymore, having children and permanent jobs? How can we create a scene that enables you to remain active even when your life and circumstances change? And how do we take care of each other and create a sustainable activism? An activism based not on individual enthusiasts carrying through until they burn out just to be superseded by the next generation of enthusiasts? How have you dealt with it? What are your experiences? What has worked for you? Theme Two: Structures for movement

The second theme takes up the thread where the first one left off. How can our structures (collective spaces, archives, resources, experiences) help to create a continuous movement or a sustainable activism? What significance does an autonomous space as Utkanten have for activists in Malmö? What traces has the burnt down Cyclops left in Kulturkampanjen?

In Sweden, during the last ten years, Solidaritetsgrupper (anti repression groups) and Aktivist Trauma Support have lined up with the Anarchist Black Cross. What functions do these solidarity structures fill? Or for that matter, our other infrastructure – permanent people’s kitchens, joint farming projects, infoshops and distros?

Previous years’ internal discussions took place in forums that are not available for many of those who are active today. How can we create a continuous exchange of experience? People should not have to reinvent the wheel but rather fall back on the experiences others have collected before them, while at the same time no truths may be too sacred to be questioned and discussed.

The third theme, finally, focuses on our perspectives. Why do we do what we do? We are anarchists (or autonomous activists) and strive for an entirely different society that we often have a clearer notion of than we have of the way to get there. With Embryo # 5 we want to strike a blow for the need of long term activism.

We could easily spend all waking time on urgent responses or actions only centered on the here and now – but to actually begin advancing our positions in the conflicts at hand, something more is needed. We must ask ourselves where we want to get and how our actions today take us towards that aim.

Like Timbro (a Swedish neoliberal think tank) in the early 80s copied the language and ways of the left, we can take over a mode of operation from the established organizations and businesses:

We call for strategic thinking, evaluation and development of tactics. Your participation if you were not discouraged by the mass of text above, but rather inspired by the idea of contributing to #5, please contact us: You do not have to have a finished article – an opening idea is a good start. Similarly, if you have an article that you think does not bear all the way or that needs to be proof-read – send it to us, we’ll comment on it or suggest changes and send it back, you send it back again and so forth until everyone is content with it.

We are also happy for any photos, comics, or collages. All submitted material may not be included in the zine, though. The time frame is tight, we want the final versions of all contributions at the end of March, since our goal is to have Embryo #5 translated, designed and printed on time for the anarchist bookfair in Stockholm in June.

This zine will not be the end of these discussions, but it can be a part of an ongoing process, hopefully taking us further.

Love & struggle!/Embryo Collective

Articles needed for Anarchist Voices magazine:

It's that time again.

I'm hoping to get an edition of Anarchist Voices together in time for April / May and need articles!

500 - 1000 words. Plain English not academic English.

Simple black and white graphics (A4 sized are great as I can reduce them! after scanning!). Send to lleogrambyth@tiscali.co.uk

Best wishes

Jonathan

Callout for contributions to Mutiny Zine May #46‏:
This one's going to be a little late so bear with us comrades :)

**Deadline is FRIDAY 8th January 2010** (deadline may be extended)Contact us if you can't make the deadline but can still commit to writing us something for an extension.

* 350 words of news, actions, resistances, occupations, updates on political situations, etc.

* 1500 words worth of articles

* 350 words worth of reviews on recordings/screenings/gigs/films/books/'graphic novels'/etc

Please send your submissions to mutineers@graffiti.net

Links to the latest issue #45:

http://www.jura.org.au/files/jura/Mutiny45_WEB.pdf

and several back issues can be found at http://www.jura.org.au/mutiny

(Email us for any that haven't been uploaded yet, and we'll see what we can do).

Mutiny Zine Collective

UTA issue #9 now available + holiday subscription deal!:‏
Please forward widely

Dear Friends and Comrades,

We are pleased to announce that the ninth issue of Upping the Anti, a journal of theory and action, is can now be ordered online or purchased at these fine booksellers.
UTA 9 includes:
◘Interviews with Eli Clare and Sherene Razack
◘Ben Saifer on Campus Israel advocacy and the politics of "dialogue"
◘Kate Milley on anti-Native organizing and the "Caledonia Crisis"
◘Chris Hurl and Kevin Walby on the rise and fall of the Canadian Union of Students
◘Roundtables on the ten year of anniversary of the "Battle of Seattle" and anti-Olympics organizing in British Columbia

Upping the Anti is a radical journal published twice a year by a pan-Canadian collective of activists and organizers. We are dedicated to publishing radical theory and analysis about struggles against capitalism, imperialism and all forms of oppression.

Since our debut in 2005, we’ve published articles by and interviews with renowned activists and intellectuals, including Aijaz Ahmad, Himani Bannerji, Grace Lee Boggs, Ward Churchill, Michael Hardt, John Holloway, Sunera Thobani, Deborah Gould, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.We have covered a wide range of topics including Palestine solidarity activism, the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary anti-war movement, trans politics and anti-capitalism, Indigenous solidarity, contemporary feminist organizing, activist burnout, the dynamics of the animal liberation movement, and the contradictions and challenges facing student organizing.

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-- UPPING THE ANTI :

A Journal of Theory and Action

If the articles in Upping The Anti inspire or enrage you, if they have been useful (or not) in your organizing work, or if you have something to contribute to an argument on our pages, please consider writing us a letter. We print letters up to 1,000 words and reserve to the right to edit for clarity, spelling, and grammar. Email letters to uppingtheanti@gmail.com.

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Cause commune no 26:
Le numéro 26 de Cause commune, le journal de l'Union communiste libertaire (UCL), est maintenant disponible sur le web.

4000 exemplaires papier de ce journal sont distribués gratuitement par des militantes et des militants libertaires, membres ou non de l’organisation. Cause commune se veut un tremplin pour les idées anarchistes, en appui aux mouvements de résistance contre les patrons, les proprios et leurs alliés au gouvernement. Vous pouvez soumettre un texte ou nous faire part de vos commentaires en écrivant à journal@causecommune.net. Si le journal vous plaît et que vous voulez aider à le diffuser dans votre milieu, contactez le collectif de l’UCL le plus près de chez-vous (voir la liste sur http://www.causecommune.net/).
Au sommaire du numéro 26:
Le capital en déroute: une analyse communiste libertaire de la crise
Perspectives libertaires: Et s’il n’y avait pas de complot?
Contre-manif prochoix
Échangeur Turcot : La lutte s’intensifie.
Pendant ce temps en Espagne...
La Marseillaise canadienne
Conflits au Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
Ontario: La mine aux mineurs !
Related Link: http://www.causecommune.net/

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Issue 26 of Common Cause, the newspaper of the Union Communist Libertaire (UCL), is now available on the web.

4000 paper copies of this newspaper are distributed free by libertarian militants, whether or not members of the organization. Common Cause wants to be a springboard for anarchist ideas, in support of resistance movements against the bosses, the owners and their allies in government. You can submit a text or send us your comments by writing to journal@causecommune.net . If you like the paper and you want to help distribute it in your community, contact the group at UCL the nearest you (see list on http://www.causecommune.net ).

** Capital in collapse: a libertarian communist analysis of the crisis

**Libertarian perspectives: And if there wasn't any conspiracy?

**Pro-Choice counter demonstration

** Turcot Exchange: The struggle intensifies.

** Meanwhile in Spain ...

** The Canadian Marseillaise

**Conflicts in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean

** Ontario the mine to the miners!

Related Link: http://www.causecommune.net

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Workers Solidarity 112 is online:
The November - December 2009 Edition of the Workers Solidarity freesheet is now online. This is the 112th issue of Ireland's anarchist paper for you to read online, download a PDF of or distribute. 10,000 copies of the print edition are produced.

Click on one of the links below for a PDF version of Workers Solidarity 112.PDF of Workers Solidarity 112 Web Edition 2.3 Mb
Anarchism and the WSM
We carried out an anti-Lisbon campaign involving the distribution of 15,000 copies of a special edition of Workers Solidarity and putting up posters advocating a no-vote. Our activity was designed to begin a discussion about the sort of Ireland and Europe people would like to live in, and was centred on the needs of working people. The vote may have been lost but several thousand people got to hear about the anarchist alternative.

Our members have been active in supporting the MTL dockers during their prolonged strike in Dublin, where several community marches and an occupation of the freight depot were staged. As we got to print talks are still taking place about the details of a return to work, but the company has been defeated in its attempt to break the union.

We were also on the streets, with 15,000 others, in the national march against cuts in the community sector on Sep 30th in Dublin and mobilised for the ICTU regional protests on Nov. 6th. Our message was that ‘marching is not enough – a national strike is needed’.

WSM members have been involved, with others, in the new Social Solidarity Network of workers, unemployed, students and communities who want to resist cutbacks in pay and services.

Members in Belfast, who earlier this year were involved in defending Roma immigrants against racist gangs, supported a picket of the BBC offices there in protest at the neo-nazi British National Party being given a television platform.

We held well-attended public meetings in Cork and Dublin with a guest speaker from the Zabalaza Anarchist-Communist Front, a South African anarchist organisation. You can find out more about Zabalaza at www.zabalaza.net.

Our series of public meetings about the economic crisis and the anarchist alternative continued with one in Navan in early November. WSM members also met with probably the planet’s best-known anarchist, Noam Chomsky, who visited Belfast and Dublin at the end of October.

The WSM held a successful national conference on October 31st, where we discussed the future policies and strategies of the organisation as we head into what might be a period of heightened social struggle. If you are interested in joining us in this struggle, then get in touch!
In This Issue

There is Another Way : Anarchists find huge hoard of wealth
The rich remain rich and the rest of us are supposed to keep them that way. That’s why we get pay cuts, health cuts, education cuts, job cuts. It’s not as if dipping into the pockets of PAYE workers is the only way to foot bills.

It's Time to Strike Back
Working people hit the streets in huge numbers on November 6th. The protests showed, once again, that there is a willingness to resist the government’s attacks on living standards. Most observers put the total number who walked out of work to take part in the eight protests at around 100,000.

Francisco Ferrer: Murdered By the State
A hundred years ago this year, a huge campaign arose around the world to save the life of Francisco Ferrer. A Catalonian by birth, Ferrer was an active anarchist and well known across Europe and the Americas for his radical views on education. Ferrer’s enemies were not for turning though and the campaigns failed. He shot to death by firing squad on October 13th 1909.

Social Solidarity Network formed
The government has inflicted growing hardship upon workers and communities across the country, spreading the ethos that we should all commit to sharing the pain. This has been perpetuated by mainstream media, as “sharing the pain” has been portrayed, as the only way out of this crisis.

Review of the Someday Independent
“Someday Independent” is a 4 page leaflet produced by Dublin Shell to Sea. The design/layout and graphical work is of a very high standard and compares favourably to high cost, professionally produced brochures. The overall colour scheme and design is a pleasing blue “wave” design which is easy on the eye and appropriate to the subject material without drawing too much attention to itself.

Fascists Get the Boot
In October, Anti-Fascist Action successfully prevented a large European neo-nazi gig from going ahead in Kerry. Dozens of Slovakian, Polish and Czech neo-nazis were planning to spend a long weekend in Ireland to celebrate the birthday of a leading fascist living in Dublin who’s originally from Prague. AFA managed to stop the gig from taking place and even had the pleasure of bumping into a few of the Blood & Honour fascists in Dublin.

A veteran anarchist speaks of revolution, war and bad coffee…
During his recent visit to Dublin, Workers Solidarity took the opportunity, over “bad coffee”, to chat to 93 year old Roma Marquez Santo about some of his experiences of the Spanish revolution. In 1936 Roma was a metal worker and a member of both the UGT trade union and the POUM, an anti-Stalinist communist party.

Thinking About Anarchism: Workers Have the Power
In the WSM we're often asked why we spend so much time talking about the working class. Even the title of our paper, Workers Solidarity, seems a bit odd to some - why are we talking so much about workers? Isn't anarchism for everybody? And aren't we all middle class now?Review of Black Flame
This is an excellent work. It is wide ranging, both in terms of subjects covered and geography. The latter makes a welcome break from most accounts of anarchism, which are sadly all-too Eurocentric. The former sees anarchist analysis expanded from the usual subjects of political authority and economic class into gender and imperialism (and national liberation struggles). It covers such perennial issues as anarchist organisation (including ‘Platformism’), the Spanish Revolution and a host of others.

That's Capitalism
If the recession is hitting everyone, who is buying the Goldvish mobile phone? This diamond-encrusted mobile costs a cool €1 million. See www.goldvish.com. And you can write the cheque with a limited edition Montblanc fountain pen for $25,000 (€17,072).

MOUVEMENT ANARCHISTE DU CANADA/CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:

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Le numéro 25 de Cause commune, le journal de l'Union communiste libertaire (UCL), est maintenant disponible sur le web.

4000 exemplaires papier de ce journal sont distribués gratuitement par des militantes et des militants libertaires, membres ou non de l’organisation. Cause commune se veut un tremplin pour les idées anarchistes, en appui aux mouvements de résistance contre les patrons, les proprios et leurs alliés au gouvernement. Vous pouvez soumettre un texte ou nous faire part de vos commentaires en écrivant à journal@causecommune.net. Si le journal vous plaît et que vous voulez aider à le diffuser dans votre milieu, contactez le collectif de l’UCL le plus près de chez-vous (voir la liste sur http://www.causecommune.net/).

Au sommaire du numéro 25:
**Si les élections pouvaient changer la ville... Elles seraient interdites!
**[Perspectives libertaires] La vraie fraude, c'est le capitalisme
**L’anarchie de A à Z: «W» comme Wobblies
**Échangeur Turcot: Des logements, pas du béton!
**Fredy Villanueva : Un an plus tard à Montréal-Nord
**Blackwater USA : Besoin d’une guerre? Nous sommes les spécialistes!
**En Afghanistan pour défendre les droits des femmes?
**Syndicalisation : Starbucks montre son vrai visage
**[Courrier] Qui sème la privatisation, récolte la radicalisation
**[Luttes urbaines] Le centre-ville de Québec dans la mire des promoteurs

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Issue number 25 of Cause Commune, the newspaper of the Libertarian Communist Union(UCL), is now available on the web.

4000 paper copies of this newspaper are distributed free by libertarian activists , whether members or not of the organization. Cause Commune wants to be a springboard for anarchist ideas, in support of resistance movements against the bosses, the owners and their allies in government. You can submit a text or send us your comments by writing to journal@causecommune.net . If the paper pleases you and you want to help distribute in your community, contact the group at UCL the nearest you (see list on http://www.causecommune.net ).

**If elections could change the city ... They would be banned!

**[Libertarian Perspective] The real fraud is capitalism

**Anarchy A to Z: "W" as in Wobblies

**Turcot Interchange: Housing, not concrete!

**Fredy Villanueva: One year later in Montreal North

**Blackwater USA: Need a War? We're the experts!

**In Afghanistan to defend women's rights?

**Unionization: Starbucks shows its true face

**[Letters] He who sows privatization harvesst radicalization

[Urban Struggles ] The city of Quebec in the sights of developers

The following is an English translation from the orginal Spanish which appeared at THIS LINK on the Anarkismo site.

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[Costa Rica] La Libertad 10 hits the streets:

To the community of our readers , the most sincere of apologies: Much has happened to the editorial team of La Libertad, new spaces have opened and others have unfortunately closed . We have had to undertake a restructuring process, at both the personal and group level. If not for the support of many people who have demonstrated their love for this project, there would have been no new issue. A thank you to everyone.

** Editorial

**Notes on Costa Rican unionism

**Speech and Action

**May 1, repression and anarchist memory

** Anarchism in El Salvador

**Augusto Cesar Sandino, a free man

**Validity of anarchist thinking in Costa Rica

**Paradoxes of work

**Health, an approach to a social problem from an emergency service

**The ego, anarchism and the rules of living

**The insurgent

**Bitter Humor

Those who are interested in distributing our publication please communicate by email.

Costa Rica 500 colones

Foreign: $ 1 or 1 euro

Salud y libertad

Related Link: http://lalibertadcr.wordpress.com /

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Industrial Worker - Issue #1718, August/September 2009:

Headlines:
**Korean Motor Workers Under Police Siege
**French Auto Workers To Blow Up Factory?
**Starbucks Workers Union Expands To Canada
Features:
**London Workers Shut Down Underground
**Honduras Uprising Against Coup
Review:

Capitalism And The Transformation Of Africa

Download a free PDF copy of this issue.

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Black Flag issue 230 appeal:
Looking for articles for the next issue of Black Flag.

Black Flag is a UK based class struggle anarchist magazine which (currently) comes out twice a year. We are not affiliated with any of the British anarchist federations, although we aim to have friendly relationships with all and hope to increase co-operation in the future. We also work with the comrades at Freedom.

We are currently getting issue 230 ready and we are appealing for comrades to contribute articles. We aim, as usual, to have the autumn issue ready for this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair (which is the 24th of October this year and, as usual, we will be having a stall). This means that we need material as soon as possible for early copy, with a final the deadline of September 19th – but, obviously, the sooner the better!

As usual, we need articles about current events. We have a lot of history and theory, although obviously if it is a good article we would consider it.

If you are interested in getting involved, please contact us. And please pass this onto anyone who would be interested in writing articles or otherwise getting involved. Articles should be, preferably, in rich text format (rtf).

Needless to say, we are looking for articles by class struggle anarchists (or those close to that position) and which reflect a communist-anarchist or anarcho-syndicalist perspective (or, again, those close to that position).

If you are interested in getting issues of Black Flag to sell, please contact us as well. One of the regular issues with the magazine is distribution and we really need for comrades to take bundles to sell. There is little point in producing a magazine which only a few people read!

We recently had an excellent review of the last issue (229) in Freedom and we have placed back issues on line (numbers 226, 227 and 228) in case you wish to see what it is like. http://libcom.org/library/black-flag-issue-226

Obviously, we would like comrades to buy these if they can (we do have printers bills to pay!).

If you have articles for us, or wish to get involved please contact us.

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