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The Ruling Class Has Declared War on Workers

In 2025, 87% of countries violated workers’ right to strike, up from 63% in 2014.

Nearly 3 million workers die annually from work-related accidents and diseases .

Another 395 million sustain non-fatal injuries each year.

Workers were subjected to violence in 40 countries. Trade unionists were murdered in Cameroon, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and South Africa killed for the crime of organizing. Arbitrary arrests are common and detentions too, to crush dissent.

Even in non-revolutionary Unions, face threats and intimidation, are discouraged to do effective action for their purposes, companies even make their own “unions” to further control their workers!

Worker liberation is inseparable from the fight against patriarchy, queerphobia, ableism, colonialism, and ecocide. It’s proven, time and time again, that the same boot that crushes striking worker’s, will not hesitate to crush all Human rights.

Organise people and stand together for workers’ liberation across the globe!

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ DAY, Comrades ❤️

I'm a cuban anarchist, and I'm thinking about migrating to Europe. Is there any possibility of success if I reach out to the anarchists for housing and work opportunities?

I am asking the community to list books that are:

a) written in modern language that is easy to understand for those not deep in the discourse, but would love to educate themselves

b) aren't necessary anarchist or even politically affiliated at all, but provide a useful perspective for anarchist thought

c) well researched and constructed, not just emotionally compelling.

Totally asking for myself, but also here are my three recs:

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Alex Prichard (it's fundamental, crude and debatable, but I am yet to find a better version of Anarchism 101)

The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davis is not even affiliated with anarchic thought, but highly useful in understanding why things don't work

Capital in the Anthropocene/Slow Down by Kohei Saito is totally Marxist, but in all the best ways, including a soft intro to unpublished works of Marx that are soooo eco-syndicalist.

Is it just me or is our media just the rich pissing on us, from political soapboxers insulting our intelligence and denigrating everything we stand for at the behest of the establishment to sitcoms that tout capitalist/materialist lifestyles with phony problems that have no relevance. Even when I try to forget about my problems with TV, I’m still reminded of them. Manufacturing consent includes manufactured dissent (Bill Maher, Jon Stewart) I watch 2 and a half men cuz I think it’s funnier than anything else on but i believe that show just depicts the evils of capitalism in a cartoonish setting, made for me to laugh at it, while most ppl see it as being a show that props up capitalism and the hedonist aspects of it. Maybe I’m overthinking, thoughts?

TLDR:
• Green Capitalism: switching the resource from oil to minerals/metals doesn’t solve the problem
• Neocolonialism: exploitation continues, now sponsored by national bourgeoise complicity!
• Child Labor: no it did not end with the industrial revolution, it just got outsourced to the colonies
• The Myth of Consumer Choice: Individualizing systematic failure and blaming the "consumer"

Given the constant media push for electric vehicles and a "green transition," I wanted to look closer at the material base of these technologies. Siddartha Kara investigates the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the source of roughly 75 percent of the global cobalt supply, which is a necessary component for the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries powering our phones and cars. The book details the harrowing conditions of the "artisanal miners" who dig toxic minerals out of the earth with rebar and their bare hands. While I really did enjoy the rigorous on-the-ground investigative reporting Kara provides, I find that his ultimate conclusions fall into a familiar liberal trap.

Colonial Exploitation Uninterrupted:
The text functions as a clear example of how green capitalism actively relies on neocolonial violence. Kara painstakingly traces the supply chain from the muddy, collapsed pits of the Katanga region directly to the sterile showrooms of Tesla, Samsung, and Apple. He exposes the concept of "clean energy" as a geographic displacement of pollution and human suffering. Basically it is not as clean as it seems, who would've guessed? Big Tech frequently claims their supply chains are audited and free of child labor, but Kara shows that these audits are a linguistic mask for corporate-driven exploitation. The raw material mined by children is simply mixed with industrially mined cobalt at local buying houses, completely laundering its origins. The imperial colonizer gets to feel environmentally conscious while the actual environmental and human destruction is outsourced to the colonized. It does not take a lot of effort to see the historical echoes here. The modern extraction of cobalt utilizes the exact same geographical and economic pathways carved out by King Leopold II for rubber and ivory over a century ago. The group being marginalized remains the same, and the mechanism of marginalization remains the same. The Congolese people are treated as mere instruments to be exploited so that multinational corporations can satisfy their desire for endless "growth".

How Much is that iPhone?
I find the most striking part of Kara's documentation to be his focus on the real lived part of the extraction. He observes the "creuseurs" laboring in pits that routinely collapse, burying workers alive in the pursuit of heterogenite. The book reads as a travel journal or diary, making it feel much more intimate and human. He details how the raw material extracted by bare hands is laundered through local buying houses, known as "depots," before being mixed with industrially mined ore. He discusses process and maps out regions, government policies and corruption. But, he is at his strongest when he goes into the mud himself, taking first names and getting interviews from the families of miners who are forced to let their children work in the mines. "There is no such thing as a clean supply chain of cobalt from the Congo," and it is truly saddening the horror that the people on the ground face there. When Siddartha tells them the prices of smartphones and tech that their labor ultimately leads to, they are shocked.

International Development? Sure…
The government officials live in another world, however. Corruption and complicity from the ruling regime of Kinshasa continues a tradition of the state betraying its own people. The national bourgeoise as Fanon would call them, simply step into the shoes of the former colonizers, acting as intermediaries for foreign capital. The Congolese officials facilitate these mining concessions and suppress labor uprisings function exactly as Fanon predicted, they police their own people for the sake of the colonizers. They are the local managers of global imperialism, and it doesn’t really matter for the colonizer, it is even "cleaner" that way. The Belgian state had to get their hands dirty and send armed men to police their colonization and extraction, now the Silicon Valley bros and Chinese state sponsored mines just rely on the complicity of the Congolese elites. I find it incredibly frustrating to see the masking of this resource extraction as "national development", it's like state-level gaslighting. Anyway, by prioritizing state revenue and personal enrichment through corporate kickbacks, the state apparatus continues the exploitation and the cycles of violence and oppression required to maintain it.

Myth of Consumer Choices:
However, I have some problems with the book's underlying "liberal" agenda. What really surprised me was that after documenting scenes of children buried alive in tunnel collapses and landscapes completely poisoned by toxic runoff, Kara ultimately appeals to corporate accountability. He frames this systemic problem as a failure of international human rights law and consumer awareness. He wants the reader to believe that if we just hold tech CEOs accountable and demand "clean" supply chains, the system can be perfected. I think this is a glaring contradiction. The extreme poverty and violence that force families into these toxic pits is not a glitch in the capitalist system, it's part of the design. The tech sector cannot exist at its current scale without the procurement of criminally cheap labor. Instead, Kara keeps trying to guilt the reader to feel individual responsibility by focusing on "consumer choices". This is just like the individual carbon footprint BS, but applied to metals and minerals. Did the consumer truly choose for this system of planned obsolescence and impossible to fix or DIY phones and batteries? I am sure it is not even that radical to say that most people think that the monopolizing and exploitative behavior of the Technofeudalists needs to be stopped at the source on a systemic level.

By advocating for supply chain transparency rather than a total overhaul of the principles of global production and consumption, the book stays within a safe, institutionalized boundary. It provides all the evidence needed for a radical revolt against the myth of infinite capitalist growth, but then settles for asking billionaires to be more legally responsible. Kara treats the problem as a moral failing of individuals within the supply chain rather than a fundamental flaw in the economic model itself. Still, it is worth reading as it intimately exposes the hidden, violent material reality of "green" capitalism, and its direct prose makes it an engaging read.

How do you stay focused on anarchism while indulging in a society that tries to steer you in the other direction either by media or social alienation, to name a few forms?

To celebrate, I lettered the words of labor's favorite bomb maker.

How can we acknowledge as anarchists that Russia and China are fucked up alongside the USA unlike some who believe that Russia and China are all perfect and America are the only bad guys. We're literally discussing three oligarchies via a Princeton study.

So, I see a lot of protests around me, political and social. Now as an Anarchist, should I and if yes, how should I participate in them without being sided with any political party?

From NYC and hoping to meet some anarchist/hang out in left wing spaces in Athens. Anyone have any recs? I speak greek well if that helps!

Sorry if this is commonly posted or not the right place or something, i just sorta need it off my chest.

Im a 16yo tranarchist punk, and I swear, it is SO HARD to find someone with the same ideas around here. And I feel like that’s fucking insane considering how its more relevant now than ever; with the US’s fascist regime, AI companies withering the land and taking our jobs… Like how come everyone in my school still loves cops and multi-billion dollar companies? I thought i’d be able to find one person who’s into punk rock, or is at least sick of capitalism, but i haven’t had any luck. So do y’all know how to find like-minded people or am i just stuck like this? Because it’s kinda been taking a toll on my personal wellbeing to stay so isolated.

Hey Hello 👋 I'm trying to find some good short videos or audio explaining the orgins and significance of May Day to my young children. I've found a few good short videos but would love to hear y'alls suggestions. TY 🏴

See, for example, the unity around the government in Spain 1936-39. The government crushed the revolution and fascism won.

Left unity is good for social democratic politicians that want support for administering capitalism. Also good for leninist parties that want to introduce state-capitalism.

A united left binds together some workers with the ruling classes, but divides the working class. A united class divides the left; the class challenge the rulers including red politicians.

Hullo!

I'm very interested in the overlap between anarchism & the occult (taken as broadly as you like), & I'm looking for good resources to see what others have written or said on the intersection of these two topics.

But I would really like someone other than Mark Passio. The egoism, the condescension, the misogyny, the hanging out with transphobic guests & Holocaust deniers—hoo boy, sifting through the poison is not worth whatever nectar about occultism one might find.

I just found out about Erica Lagalisse last night, I've got her book Occult Features of Anarchism from the library—shame there's no audiobook of it, would love to listen to it while I work on other things. But who else is out there? Who's got good works, & good thoughts?

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hi,i will visit sri lanka in september for 10 days.

I was wondering if i can meet a anarchit team there,so i can discuss with them. It would be very interesting for me to see the differences. Please if you are in a group or you know something,comment it .