A May 1916 statement by the Anarchist-Communist Study Group, a group of Russian anarchist communists living in Paris. The statement is a reply to the 'Manifesto of the Sixteen', a document drafted in 1916 by anarchists Peter Kropotkin and Jean Grave which advocated an Allied victory over Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War. Originally posted at the Anarchist FAQ
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An interview by Ryan Stanton of Joe Burns—a labour lawyer, union activist and bargaining negotiator since the 1990s—about where the US union movement has gone wrong and what needs to change. Burns recently completed negotiations for 27,000 United Airlines employees and Association of Flight Attendants members. He has written three books on labour organising: Strike Back, Reviving the Strike, and Class Struggle Unionism. Originally posted: July 5, 2025 at Red Flag.
Few conservationists have shaped the public conversation around wildlife protection quite like Peter Knights. Best known for co-founding WildAid and helping to redefine conservation as a communications challenge as much as an ecological one, Knights built a career not by tracking poachers in the field but by shifting minds on a mass scale.
MALUKU, Indonesia — Just four months after Mongabay reported on a dramatic surge in diagnoses of respiratory illness near Indonesia’s second-largest nickel industrial estate, new data indicate that up to half the local population may have been exposed to unsafe levels of mercury — and one in three to harmful arsenic.
The Trump admission has frozen over $6 billion to public schools to review for “radical leftwing agendas” — while greenlighting hundreds of billions for war and deportations. Unions must mobilize to fight funding freezes, resist privatization and cuts, and defend our schools and communities.
PLACENCIA, Belize — After Hurricane Iris decimated the coral reef at Laughing Bird Caye National Park in 2001, many wrote off the UNESCO World Heritage site as a coral graveyard. But a small group from the coastal village of Placencia, Belize, about 18 kilometers from the island, saw hope.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was silent while the “bill of devastation” moved through the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Congress, and passed by a vote of 290 to 115 on May 13.
A piece by K. C. Sinclair about the concept of 'revolutionary defeatism' and similar anarchist conclusions to it. Originally posted: May 9, 2025 at History Is What's Happening