#UnionMan #Unions #Unionize #Work #WorkPlace #NSFIAA #IWA #IAT #IAA #CNT #ZSP #BASF #OLS #CNTAIT#ASIMUR #COBAIT #Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism #DirectAction #WorkersControl #SolidarityForever #GeneralStrike #OneUnion #WorkersSolidarity #AnarchoUnionism #RevolutionaryUnionism #LibertarianSocialism #IndustrialUnionism #WorkplaceOrganizing #WorkersRevolution #ClassStruggle #AntiCapitalism #SelfOrganization #WorkersCouncils #FreeAssociation #MutualAid #WorkersAutonomy #NoMasters145 #FAU #USI #SAC #ESE #FORA #AIT #CGT #IWW36 #Antifa #Revolution #ACAB

Dozen Values is the most granular of the political alignment quizzes I've done. Would recommend.

LibLeft Gang to the max

#libertarian #leftist #socialism #anarchism #mutualism #libertariansocialism #anarchocommunism #democraticsocialism #revolution

https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass_js?ec=-7.88&soc=-7.69

"David talks to the historian of Russia Edward Acton about how the Russian Revolution might have unfolded if the Left SRs and not the Bolsheviks had come out on top. Could Lenin have been sidelined? Might the Terror have been avoided? And what would it have meant to the wider world if revolutionary socialism had been liberated from Marxist communism?"

https://shows.acast.com/pastpresentfuture/episodes/66d99b6cd4991eb8a6d39ac6

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Cops definitionally enforce class relations. Class relations are rooted in domination and exploitation at the expense of self-management of each and all. Mutual selfmanagement + nondomination is possible and needed for socialeco flourishing. Therefore ACAB

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/06/04/kick-the-cops-off-your-block-2/

Workers unite! Form unions to gain collective strength against bosses. Recognize that harm to one worker reflects the systemic exploitation affecting all workers. We have a world to win!

Communalist Starter Kit!!! New Revisions!!! Enjoy

Developing the commons:

Communalist projects aim to prefigure and develop the commons overtime. The commons are economic relations rooted in meeting needs and desires of people + are self-managed by those who need and use economy in community assemblies, embedded councils, and various working groups. The prefiguration of generalized mutual aid and the commons can look like anything from general and specific mutual aid groups (providing direct goods and services for free to participants and others), community free stores, tool libraries, resource libraries, to communal housing, fields, factories, workshops, recreational facilities, and infrastructure. Prefiguring the commons can help forge mutual interest between people where the wellbeing and thriving of each happens through contributing to the wellbeing and thriving of all. The commons can be developed out of what people pool together and they can also be seized through expropriating and communalizing hierarchically managed property and defending then defending such commons from hierarchical forces. For the commons to fully bloom, hierarchical property must be expropriated by popular organizations and social movements. The overall development of mutual aid and the commons can help 1. Meet needs of participants in community assemblies and other social movement groups 2. Help share the social reproduction of community assemblies and social movement groups 3. Fuel and assist direct action projects of such assemblies and groups 4. Help those who are most dispossessed 5. Help multiply and prefigure the contents of communal self-management and distribution according to needs in the process of social movement development.

In a good society:

In a good society, politics and economics would be integrated into co-federated, non-hierarchical, and directly democratic communes that have embedded self managed councils and rotating delegates for implementation of communal decisions. People in assemblies would dialogue, make direct collective decisions, and make agreements to share labor/work. The embedded councils of community assemblies would self-manage implementation of decisions within the bounds of policies, protocols, and mandates made by community assemblies. Re/Production would be to meet the needs and desires of people. And accordingly, distribution would be according to needs, desires and use where all would have access to a cornucopia that is reproduced and developed by shared participatory labor, work, and action assisted by ecological and liberatory technology.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2020/08/15/communalist-assembly-starter-kit/

It's up! My piece for Freedom News -- on information as mutual aid, with potential for a network of interconnected sites across the UK based on the French-language Mutu model:
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/10/15/mutu-network-challenges-media-moguls/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mutu-network-challenges-media-moguls #IndyMedia #LibertarianSocialism #socialism #anarchism #ReseauMutu #MutuNetwork #Mutu #MutualAid #media #MediaStudies #MediaActivism

Genuinely, what the actual fuck is the matter with you all. #anarchism #Anarchist #libertarian #libertariansocialism
Please support the @abcbelarus as they support their imprisoned comrades under the dictatorship of Lukashenko.

Ahead of our upcoming 9/2 release, we’re thrilled to share the 50th episode of the Non Serviam Podcast featuring Joshua Collins / @murosinvisibles with our awesome Patreon supporters.

You folks help keep #NonServiamMedia going.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/88189141?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

"He loved science and deeply respected it, but, like many of us, he soon came to the conclusion that to follow the career of a scientific man meant to join the camp of the Philistines, and that there was plenty of other and more urgent work that he could do."
- Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-memoirs-of-a-revolutionist

“The state has played a decisive role in creating the conditions necessary for such an economic system.” #anticapitalism #libertariansocialism

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/27/the-ambiguity-of-competition/

Volition exists on a continuum in the ecological world (Bookchin 2022). Robust self-management of each and all has specific requisite qualities when it comes to political economic beings and political economic institutions. The political, economic, and social virtues of freedom and equality require each other as well as a gestalt of other institutional and relational virtues to flourish. For some examples: 1. There needs to be direct democracy so that collectives can make direct collective decisions through deliberation. 2. There needs to be both a form and content of horizontality so that collectives and individuals are free from hierarchy, domination, exploitation, and oppression and by extension able to self-determine their lives. 3. There needs to be free association so that persons and collectives choose their associations and activities. 4. There needs to be rights and duties in relation to self-management so that there are guaranteed freedoms for collectives and persons and duties towards such freedoms. 5. Self-management on every political economic scale entails communal and inter-communal self-management and the means thereof (Usufruct Collective 2022). The above qualities can be adapted and elaborated according to relevant variables while retaining their essential features. *** The above is a non-exhaustive account of political economic virtues (such political economic virtues being subsets of institutional virtues more broadly), a non-exhaustive account of what they consist of and entail, and a non-exhaustive account of reasons justifying them as such.

Institutional virtues include but are by no means limited to the political, economic, and social virtues of direct democracy, horizontality, free association, communality, and intercommunality/federalism. Institutional virtues also include qualities such as mutual-aid distributive justice, justice more broadly (justice as related to the criteria of freedom and equality), practical reasoning (phronesis on an organizational and collective level), wise development and use of technics (techne), deliberative/communicative virtues, the virtue of unity in diversity, etc. Various virtues that Aristotle described–such as phronesis, techne, episteme, and justice– are not reducible to being mere properties of persons; they can also be properties of collectives.

Institutional and relational qualities can shape one another and can round one another out. For some examples: direct democracy with a form and content of horizontality is distinct from direct democracy that is entangled with hierarchy, domination, exploitation, and oppression. Direct democracy without deliberative/communicative virtues will negatively impact decision making and decisions made. Communal self-management without federalism and intercommunal mutual-aid can lead to and/or be caused by vices of parochialism and xenophobia. Self-managed production without distribution according to needs leads to distributive injustice. Horizontality without free association would inhibit the kinds of options people should have about what groups they join and what activities they do. The right kind of equality in the right ways is distinct from equality of squalor or equal rights to compete within an unjust/hierarchical system. Institutional virtues are the right kinds of specific qualities, in the right ways, in the right contexts, for the right ends. Some good institutional qualities can develop lopsidedly, yet only be made sufficiently virtuous through the mutual flourishing of multiple institutional virtues as a gestalt. Sometimes an institutional quality may merely approximate the virtue thereof rather than be sufficiently virtuous– and sometimes this happens because it is not rounded out by other institutional and/or relational virtues and gradations thereof. And even when an institutional quality is sufficiently good enough to be virtuous, it does not make it perfectly/ideally virtuous; virtuous qualities can be further rounded out and are in need of being developed overtime and recreated in differentiated and emerging contexts. And even in a good-enough society, there are additional good institutional and relational virtues that can be developed.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/gestalt-of-the-good-2023-remix/

#SystemFail

Regarding the behavior of oligarchs and their politician minions:

There have always been horrible people among us.

The problem is not that they exist, the issue is that our societies are structured in ways that allow them to hurt the rest of us.

#AbolishCapitalism
#AbolishAllStates
#NoGodsNoMasters #LibertarianSocialism

Happy May Day!

Last minute May Day Mutual Aid after 12 turkey dinners from Fresh Market were liberated

May the Haymarket Eight rest in power! No matter the repression we face, mutual aid shall be our liberation!

Trump passes out water, collects massive tax cuts for corporations, wealthiest by selling a "deregulation narrative".

JD Vance passes the buck to U.S. taxpayers (EPA), socializing the cost of his libertarianism once again.

#LibertarianSocialism - when you see it, say something

https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1628538666552270849

#introduction (redrafted with camel case)
I live in #Ireland, work in the HE sector, and post mainly about:
#SocialEcology
#Municipalism
#Cooperatives
#SolidarityEconomy
#PoliticalEcology
#DemocraticConfederalism
#LibertarianSocialism
#Syndicalism
#Zapatismo
#DefendRojava
#ClimateJustice
#EnvironmentalJustice
#Agroecology
#ScienceFiction
#Cycling