Much of todays "anti-imperialism" is nationalism in a Marxist coat.
Stalin swapped Lenins defeatism for patriotism, Mao took fascist "proletarian nation" theory wholesale
The modern left repeats it backing reactionary regimes just for opposing the West
Real anti-imperialism is class war
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Real unions aim to abolish capitalism, not just win crumbs.
The ACTU/ALP nexus turned unions into labour brokers. In 1986, ASF stood on BLF pickets, setting the template for worker-community solidarity, because the workers are the community.
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Vale Uncle Lionel Fogarty: A Mununjali Giant (1957 – 2026) 🖤 Yugambeh Nation pauses in deep "Gijeri" (sorrow) to honour the life and legacy of a true legend of our Jagun (Country) who passed yesterday —Uncle Lionel Fogarty. 🙏🏽 A world-renowned Mununjali poet, a fierce activist, and a warrior for our people, Uncle Lionel was "proper famous" not just for his books, but for the fire he carried in his soul. Born at Barambah (Cherbourg) and always connected to the Beaudesert region, he didn't just write poetry; he used the English language as a tool to dismantle the systems that tried to hold us down. Uncle Lionel was a pioneer of "guerrilla poetry." He broke every rule of the coloniser's language to make sure our Murri truth was heard loud and clear. From his tireless fight for justice regarding Deaths in Custody to his international literary acclaim, he remained a man of the grassroots.🌱 ● Warrior: He carried the memory of his brother Daniel Yock and all our fallen kin in every verse. ● Poet: He showed the world that our Black words are sacred, raw, and revolutionary. ● Legend: He travelled the globe but his heart never left the scrub and the community. "I am the language you couldn't kill." We walk taller today because Uncle Lionel paved the way. He showed us that being a Black man in this country means being a poet, a fighter, and a protector of culture all at once. 👣 Bawgal Wanyi (Thank you), Uncle. Your song remains in the wind, your fire lives in our hearts, and your words are our inheritance.❤️🔥 Rest in Power. Rest in Peace. ✊🏾🙏🏽
We mourn the passing of former ASF member Lionel Fogarty.
Comrade Lionel was instrumental in establishing the Aboriginal Embassy to the European Union in Terrassa, Spain in 2001 and acting as its first Ambassador with the Assistance of #CNT-AIT and @asf-iwa.org.au
Vale Lionel Fogarty
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Bangladesh's July Revolution started as students fighting an authoritarian regime but got co-opted by Islamist reactionaries.
Same story as Iran 1979.
Without horizontal organising, revolutions get hijacked by the next strongman in line.
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Chomsky's "question unjustified hierarchies" was always so vague it meant nothing.
Called himself an anarcho-syndicalist but never organised with workers. Now we learn he befriended a billionaire sex trafficker.
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How to fight against WAGE THEFT 7pm Friday 27 February Community Room, Frankston City Library 60 Playne St., Frankston Event organised by ASF Melbourne South asf-iwa.org.au
Wage theft runs rampant where pay is lowest. Laws exist but prosecutions are rare. The @asf-iwa.org.au has run successful campaigns recovering stolen wages for decades. Join the #Frankston meeting to learn how to fight back.
#anarchism #australia #iwa-ait
in barcelona.
I think the problem is that many dont actually understand or even heard of, anarchist federalism let alone practice it. We have plenty of separated autonomous groups, but few coordinating via anarchism between them to build a cohesive movement. that idea is left 'for the future' 3/3
autonomous groups together in a cohesive way. That is they do not have to be anarchist, just agree to organise via anarchist federalism between them.
This methodology historically has been able to bring together millions of people against the fascists. This started from small propaganda groups 2/3
The IWW is a syndicalist organisation not anarchist organisation like the IWA-AIT. It does not operate via anarchist federalism as an organisational method; anarchist praxis
I think that anarchists have an opportunity to convey anarchist organising as professed historically to bring 1/3
There is WSA though they are small. The IWA-AIT of which the CNT-AIT is the Spanish section exists, what is missing is US comrades organising via anarcho syndicalist principles to form federations of autonomous groups. So many groups but very little federating which is what builds strength.
Trump's legitimacy crisis isn't setting up a civil war, it's setting up revolutionary conditions.
With centralist communism and fascism both spent forces, anarcho-syndicalism offers the path to actual social transformation.
The lessons from Spain 1936-9 are still relevant.
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In the late arvo of 27 January 1986, a handful of workers and militants met above Jura Books in Newtown in #Australia and kicked off the Anarcho‑Syndicalist Federation. Forty years on, ASF‑IWA is still here fighting bosses, backing strikes, and building international class solidarity.
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‘Social contract’ is a story invented to justify why people supposedly owe obedience to a given order. You keep sliding from ‘norms exist’ to ‘therefore we’re bound by a contract’ and that’s exactly the move being rejected.
there is NO CONTRACT. its a fiction.
There is another word for those that are extremely adamant the fiction of 'social contracts' are somehow binding because they declare it so. Let alone that they are justified based on social norms.
It is 'bootlicker'.
No they dont. You just call things a contract that isnt.
The concept of a social contract is a fiction used to justify coercion.
So you think a contract can be made without agreement of one party?
You do know that a theory in science is simply the best explanation of a fact? Gravity is a fact, the theory of gravity is our best explanation via scientific method to the mechanics of that fact.
And among socialigists social norms are distinct from the idea of social contract.
No you are wrong any basic search shows that.
What you descrive is just social norms (manners/customs). A 'social contract' in political philosophy is a supposed agreement that legitimises a state and creates obligations to obey it. Norms exist everywhere, they don’t prove consent to governance.
What is hilarious is the verbal gymnastics, and reminds me of the saying 'playing chess with a pigeon'
it knocks over the pieces, shits on the board, then struts around like it won
No he didn't. You are just making stuff up.
‘social contract’ isn’t just ‘all the norms’. any basic search by anyone reading this shows that.
It’s a story that says: because you live here and follow norms, you’ve consented to the existing order, so it’s legitimate.
I’m rejecting that story, not denying that rules and habits exist.
Marx thought duties and rights exist in any society, sure.
But he didn’t think they come from a fair 'contract'. He thought they’re shaped by class power.
Saying 'rules exist' is not the same as saying 'we all freely agreed to them, so the state is legit.'
At first I was annoyed, but now I am kind of sad that this persons view is so boxed in that they are obviously struggling even with basic concepts as they have always just assumed it fits their worldview, never really explored the concepts.
Norms = how people currently behave
Social contract = a claim that those behaviours mean people consented to the existing order
You’re turning a description ('this is what we do') into a justification ('so we agreed to be ruled')
Anarchists reject that leap, not that habits and customs exist
Class isn’t a lifestyle you pick, it’s a material relation. you either sell your labour or you live off others work.
The point isn’t to make being working class trendy, it’s to fight together until classes don’t exist.
#anarchism #workingclass
Every society has norms, not every society has a ‘social contract’. That’s a specific philosophical story used to justify state authority via alleged consent. You’re just relabelling basic custom as contract to smuggle in obedience to government
Calling every shifting custom a ‘contract’ dodges the point. Social contract theory is about legitimising rule over people born into a territory. Anarchists aren’t denying that norms exist, we’re denying that they add up to a binding promise to be governed.
You’re just calling all social norms a ‘contract’. That empties the word of content. Social‑contract theory is about justifying political authority and obedience, not basic empathy or not farting in a lift.
It's you that have no idea what you are talking about and the words you are using.
A 'social contract' either via Hobbes, locke or Rousseau's definition, is an imagined agreement used to justify a state’s authority. you’re said to have consented, so it may rule, tax and coerce you in return for “protection” and “order”.
If “social contract” just means “people cooperating”, the term explains nothing. The real issue is rule. States use contract-talk to justify authority over people who never consented. A commune is just people organising and re‑organising their lives together, not swearing fealty.
