A subversive how-to pamphlet, put out by Abbie Hoffman in 1967 under the pseudonym of the "Mad Bomber" George Metesky, mostly containing info on how to obtain free stuff. Much of the pamphlet's contents would later find their way into Hoffman's book Steal This Book, which Hoffman eventually self-published…
This originally-mimeographed magazine, published in July 1966, was reprinted as a photocopy in 1993 by Chronos Publications (BM Chronos London WC1N 3XX). Though only two issues of Heatwave were ever published, it remains a noteworthy publication. In their November 1966 pamphlet "On the Poverty of Student…
May 26, 2024 Officers with the Lufkin Police Department recently had a rare encounter with a member of the marsupial species native to Australia. On Sunday, police received a call about a kangaroo that was spotted hopping down Fuller Springs Drive. While officers made their way to the scene in their…
Podcast of Cosmonaut Magazine Ep. 183 Listen HERE Buy Antifascist, Sports, Sobriety We join Gabriel Kuhn, author of books like Soccer vs. the State and Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a militant working-class culture for a discussion on sports, sobriety and also the ways Austromarxism applied…
11TH JUNE INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH LONG-SENTENCED ANARCHIST PRISONERS At a time when the long arms of power seek out and strike hard at our comrades and surroundings, it is up to us to respond to these blows with greater strength and determination. And one of our most dangerous weapons is…
Prison becomes inevitable for anyone who decides to follow certain practices, but to see us exclusively as “prisoners” would be to annihilate us politically, which is exactly what power wants To mark this international day of solidarity with long-term anarchist prisonsers, we share this reflection…
Conor here: In addition to prolonging oil production as the following piece lays out, there are also major risks from the pipelines that carry the captured CO2 to where it’s pumped back into the ground.From Bold Nebraska: In the event of a carbon pipeline rupture or leak, an explosive plume of CO2…
The far right surges, says the BBC and CNN, but the center holds. The far right wreaks havoc, but thankfully the center holds, echoes the New York Times. “…it looks like the constructive, pro-European centre has held,” European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said. “Constructive” is one…
Yves here. It is odd how little attention Russia’s campaign against Ukraine’s electric grid is getting, given that it is the sort of blow that the West and Ukraine can’t stop or even blunt. The kinetic war is getting vastly more attention, presumably because it is much more familiar and also…
“Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance!” After running pilot tests in Brazil and parts of the Asia Pacific for roughly two years, Mastercard is finally rolling out its biometric retail payments system in Europe. The world’s largest payment card company appears to be determined to wean consumers…
Early morning frost spotted on some of Mars’s huge mountains The Guardian Satellites spot strange sky glow that only comes out after midnight New Atlas Climate/Environment Mortality attributable to PM2.5 from wildland fires in California from 2008 to 2018 Science. From the abstract: “We estimate…
This year I attended the WISERA annual conference for the first time ever, as part of the Ireland branch delegation. As a first-timer, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Upon entering the venue, I recognised a few faces from fellow workers that had previously visited us in Ireland, who quickly welcomed…
News stories focus on dramatic little swings, but a much bigger, slower development is at stake The organised far-right in the EU Parliament now has over 130 seats, with another hundred or so unorganised far-right MEPs. This indicates the most important ongoing change in EU Parliament and Commission…
A small gathering was held at the end of this years scintillating IWW Conference. It was for those interested in the complaints process at IWW. Combining anthropological methods with grievance sharing, we conducted a rapid ‘potato workshop’. The idea being to share problems with organizing as the…
“On June 9th we walked around a beautiful part of our city that is being destroyed by gentrification. So we grabbed some spray cans and made sure the property values of every building went down just a but by putting up tons of messages about the liberation of all life on earth. Anarchist freedom cell…
“So, that is my life – the life of a schoolgirl-revolutionary, a student-dreamer, a friend and lover of the great man and poet Aleksandr Iaroslavskii, an eternal wanderer, an itinerant anti-religious lecturer, a writer for Rul, a street newspaper vendor, a thief with a long criminal record, and a…
2 June 2024 Autonomous anarcho anti-speciesists countered the National Animal Rights Day (NARD) in Naarm (so called Melbourne) last Sunday. The following statement was read out: “We are here today because NARD globally has been founded by Aylam Orian, who is a zionist and proudly served as part…
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This piece is a little bit late to the party, but after reading the other reportbacks published locally and participating in discussions with dear friends and close strangers, we still felt that some ideas were in need of sharing. We don't wish to recap the events of May Day but hope to contribute some…
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Originally published on [link] “The flea has fascinating fighting strategies and techniques…It does not kill its host…what it does is exhaust its host and consume its blood, causing constant disturbance, eventually preventing the host from being able to rest. It makes the host nervous and demoralized…
Sunday 26th May: after nearly 8 months of genocidal horror — 8 months in 76 years — we might think that particular acts of brutality can no longer move us. The atrocities committed in Rafah show us there are truly no limits to the zionist entity’s attempts to wipe out the Palestinian people and…
The following lines are a short debriefing about a case of workers’ persecution that threatens union activity. Originating in 2017, there are currently 6 people condemned to 3,5 years in prison, a sentence that could end in conviction in the following weeks. This document is a retelling of the facts…
In the first days of May 2024, the territory known as the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in what is known as Brazil, was hit by the biggest climate catastrophe in its history. Over a week of intense rainfall caused several rivers to overflow, sweeping away dozens of towns and destroying everything in their…
A drone view shows vehicles in the area affected by the floods, in Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 3, 2024. REUTERS/Diego Vara/ File Photo From the Antimídia collective of Brazil, a short video documentary report-essay on the floods of early May this year, in the state of Rio Grande…
