after having a horrifying experience on the popular leftist discord Bash The Fash, i decided to make a document and warn others about what i saw. link is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MC3IPQBq00wjsRaN4mbBI_ZESh3CNC2o474PX3Gxmrs/edit?usp=sharing

The first episode of Reading Theory is out ! In it we discuss "Silence is a Commons" by Ivan Illich. The text goes into a lot of really interesting concepts like the commons, their conversion into resources and our relation to both. Illich also makes us explore the relation (often of dependence) we have with our tools.

Please have a listen and provide us with feedback if you have any ! If you have another podcast idea feel free to join the AF2C to start your own mutual audio project :)

Many thanks to the IAS and Agency for making this possible !

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I was banned from LSC for urging people to rethink their anti-electoral stances, as I am trans and don't want my rights to be stripped back by a neofascistic regime. I even checked the rules they said I violated, and they actually do urge people to vote. Not for any party with institutional power or ability to hold the ultraconservative Republican party out of office (one that has recently been granted borderline dictatorial powers), but for the PSL, which is a fringe party with no staying power or ability to change anything. Their reason is "to gauge leftist support" which is fine, but not when human rights are on the ballot. I'm sick of people who aren't politically active talking about how they just "won't vote" but it's a new level of infuriating when the people saying it are politically active, but don't properly gauge the threat (usually because it doesn't directly affect them).

Wish these statist would wake the fuck up!

From the article

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-united-class-not-a-united-left/

"The political left has a tendency to multiply through division. That’s nothing to mock or mourn. Anarchists have always made a distinction between so called affinity groups and class organizations. Affinity groups are small groups of friends or close anarchist comrades who hold roughly the same views. This is no basis for class organizing and that is not the intention either. Therefore, anarchists are in addition active in syndicalist unions or other popular movements (like tenants’ organizations, anti-war coalitions and environmental movements).

The myriad of leftist groups and publications today might serve as affinity groups – for education and analysis, for cultural events and a sense of community. But vehicles for class struggle they are not. If you want social change, then bond with your co-workers and neighbors; that’s where it begins. It is time that the entire left realizes what anarchists have always understood.

We need a united class, not a united left, to push the class struggle forward. At least that’s my view on the situation in Europe and the USA. If I am mistaken, then I am happy to be enlightened."

This isnt about conservative people on twitter or facebook, this is about free speech, and the government is now against it.