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You can always tell when someone hasn't read Hellworld or its sources.
of hellworld itself, enabling the construction of communism through a protracted struggle within and against the eldritch horror of capital. After all, the coherence of the system’s social logic into an ‘automatic subject’ is, ultimately, the mere reflection of our own collective self-activity. This is the basic pattern through which Marx himself unveiled the inner workings of capitalist society: At each stage of the presentation, social forms and the things that represent them are first presented as if they had a life of their own and a social life with each other, independently from people. Then it’s revealed that it is actually us as people who give life to these forms through our actions, and that in doing so, proletarians are dominated by capital through the capitalist class as a whole, as well as by each particular capitalist.66
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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“The press, as usual, in dealing with this incident, strives to belittle & cast ridicule upon Venezuela & the sympathetic nature of her sons in order to magnify & extol the merit that we ought to possess ourselves.”
from the Tacoma anarchist journal, Why?
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crowd of people alarmed and outraged by sight of european battleships EVENEMENTS DU VENEZUELA Vaisseaux vénézuéliens coulés par la flotte anglo-allemande
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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A modern-day army recruiting centre in Lviv, Ukraine, flying the blood & soil flag of the fascist OUN who ethnically cleansed the city of Jews in 1941.
A recruiting centre in Lviv, Ukraine with a serving soldier outside Credit: Stanislav Ivanov (with Ukrainian nationalist flags, including that of the fascist OUN)
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Do you know what you're looking at here? Or are you unfamiliar with the history? It's Ukrainians being gifted with whiteness by a Western country at the expense of non-white people.
160 акрів-130 моргів австр. * ВілЬнОЇ землі * 200 м ільо нів акрів під управу в західній КАНАДі ДЛЯ КОЖДОГО ОСЕЛЕНЦЯ
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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“While the whole world writhes in a spasm of madness, let us in America be mad with a method, mad with a purpose. Let us say No to the atomic bomb rather than say No to life itself.”
Gentlemen, You Are Mad, by Lewis Mumford (1946)
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NEW ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION (globe cracking open) -Fitzpatrick in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch If We Don't Invent a Lasting Peace.
October 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Самойленко Юрій Олегович 13.12.1987 - 10.09.2022 6th separate battalion of the PS [Pravy Sektor - Right Sector] DUK ст. Лейтенант ЗСУ "ЯНІВ" 6 окремого батальйону ПС ДУК. Загинув на околицях Балаклії, Харківська область.
October 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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DND is a Germany-based arms company that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Israeli state-owned arms company Rafael. DND produces the MATADOR grenade launcher which, in 2022, Ukraine purchased thousands of, on the strength of the IDF testing it against Gazans in 2009.
Fascist soldiers of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of Ukraine posing with the Israeli grenade launcher, MATADOR, supplied by way of Germany's DND
October 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Ukraine doesn't have colonies, though many Ukrainian persons & families took part in the colonization of Canada back in the day. Canada advertised "Free Land" to them, neglecting to mention whose land. But Ukraine did more recently help occupy Afghanistan & Iraq, & arm Saudi Arabia & Myanmar.
Cards (in Ukrainian) advertising 160 acres of “Free Land” (stolen from Native people) in Canada to prospective Ukrainian settlers, from the North Atlantic Trading Company, under contract to the Canadian Minister of the Interior
October 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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laurajanegrace 44m Who exactly do you imagine the artist to be is in this dynamic? I don't own the company, I'm not the boss. Am I not a worker too? Do I have union rights? I'm not a "customer", I am the product being mass produced and exploited by both the owners and the workers to make a living? You think you have the right to demand I speak? To appease you? Well, who the hell are you?
October 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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New print-ready zine PDF collecting the texts, Back From Hell, Martin Sostre: Prison Revolutionary, and Black People Have a Right to Rebel, by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (1994-2019)
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Back From Hell (sideways photo of prison yard, guards in front of prisoners, taken from 1994 issue of Race Traitor where Back From Hell first appeared) Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
October 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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New & improved version print-ready PDF collecting four articles on militarism, past & present, dealing w/ the current wars in the Middle East & Eastern Europe, & the nuclear threat, with reference to Marcus Graham, Stuart Christie, Aaron Bushnell & others.
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(After Twenty Years by Art Young) Spear-holding gas-masked demon figure climbs over horizon surrounded by war armaments, with fighter planes overhead
October 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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(smiling sun button) nuclear power? no thanks
October 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Oct. 19th fantasy article on Freedom News:
"International support for Ukraine has been fickle."
The real world:
Foreign aid received per capita (up to 2023) Net official development assistance (ODA), divided by population. This data is expressed in US dollars and adjusted for inflation. Our World in Data Table Map Line +3 $1,000 Ukraine $800 Palestine $600 $400 Syria $200 Yemen Democratic Republic of Congo Sudan $0 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2023 • Play time-lapse 1960 2023 Data source: OECD (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) - Learn more about this data Note: This data is expressed in constant 2022 US$. OurWorldinData.org/foreign-aid | CC BY STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE The independent... Home Research Databases Publications SIPRI Yearbook News and Events Media SIPRI for the media Ukraine the world's biggest arms importer; United States' dominance of global arms exports grows as Russian exports continue to fall 10 March 2025
October 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Hey remember that zionist-sympathetic German anarchist distro that CrimethInc describes as "our comrades" and that has the zine on how to fight against the Palestinian solidarity movement BDS? Let's check in on them again... oh... oh no... dear lord...
BLACK MOSQUITO Home • Solidarity with Nova Festival - SOLI - T-Shirt SOLIDARITY NOVA FESTIVAL Stickers v Make BM v Action v Clothes v Education < Music v Stuff < Ne Solidarity with Nova Festival - SOLI - T-Shirt 25,00 € SKU#: 10 Color selection Size Option auswählen... 1 Add to cart Standing together against antisemitism and patriarchy.
October 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Quite possibly. And if so, the test was failed a decade and a half ago (if not earlier), during a Democrat regime, when they set the precedent for today's actions by the other party.

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Wikipedia: "Clinton testified to Congress in March that the administration did not need congressional authorization for its military intervention in Libya or for further decisions about it, despite congressional objections from members of both parties that the administration was violating the War Powers Resolution.[182][183] During that classified briefing to Congress, she allegedly indicated that the administration would sidestep the Resolution's provision regarding a 60-day limit on unauthorized military actions.[184] Months later, she stated that, with respect to the military operation in Libya, the United States was still flying a quarter of the sorties, and The New York Times reported that, while many presidents had bypassed other sections of the War Powers Resolution, there was little precedent for exceeding the 60-day statutory limit on unauthorized military actions – a limit which the Justice Department had said in 1980 was constitutional [...]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_as_Secretary_of_State#2011
October 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Do you remember?
old photo of a wall with graffiti reading: Marijana Matters it wuz Legal befor Bitchstopher Colombitch CAME HERE
October 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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SOS: CANADA, PLEASE TAKE SUSTAINED COLLECTIVE ACTION CANADA HAS ABANDONED THE REMAINING 3 FLOTILLA VOLUNTEERS WHILE THEY ARE BEING PUNISHED BY ISRAEL READ THE EMAIL FROM THE CANADIAN GOV -> PLEASE HELP US PRESSURE THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE LEGITIMATE CONSULAR SUPPORT, A SAFE RETURN TO CANADA, AND AN END TO CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE. • PROTEST • CALL THEIR MPS • EMAIL THE GOVERNMENT
October 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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6 CANADIANS ABDUCTED BY ISRAEL Mskwaasin Agnew Toronto, ON Salt River First Nation Sadie Mees St. John's, NL Nikita Stapleton St. John's, NL Devoney Ellis St. John's, NL Khurram Musti Khan St. John's, NL Nimâ Machouf Montreal, QC CONTACT THE GOVERNMENT & DEMAND THEIR RELEASE IMMEDIATELY ANITA ANAND (FOREIGN AFFAIRS) ANITA.ANAND@INTERNATIONAL.GC.CA CC: ANITA.ANAND@PARL.GC.CA DAVID MCGUINY (NATIONAL DEFENCE) DAVID.MCGUINTY@FORCES.GC.CA REBECCA ALTY(CROWN INDIGENOUS RELATIONS) REBECCA.ALTY@PARL.GC.CA PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY MARK.CARNEY@PARL.GC.CA CALL YOUR MP (MEMBER OF PARLIMENT) CALL YOUR LOCAL POLITICIANS AND REPS
October 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The theory of Mutual Aid was not invented by the anarchist Peter Kropotkin but was "first systemised by [Karl Fedorovich] Kessler, the politically moderate ichthyologist who was rector of St Petersburg University and chair of its Department of Zoology."
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Karl Fedorovich Kessler (Russian: Карл Фёдорович Ке́сслер, romanized: Karl Fyodorovich Kessler; 1 December [O.S. 19 November] 1815 – 15 March [O.S. 3 March] 1881) was a Baltic German zoologist who worked as a professor of biology at Saint Petersburg Imperial University.
October 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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American nationalism is really something because it even infects anarchists. You'll forget that the Wounded Knee massacre medals were just restored & your government's currently at war with Palestine & Russia, & has been attacking Venezuela, Iran & Yemen lately. You'll ask, what are we, Russkies?
Mark these words: If we let the fascists consolidate power in the US—if they manage to defeat the American people—the next stage will be ruinous war. Their brand of politics depends on always mobilizing against an enemy. That is what happened in Russia under Putin. Already, in 2022, we understood that the invasion of Ukraine represented a looming possible future for all of us. It would never have been possible for Putin to sacrifice hundreds of thousands on the altar of war if he had not spent the preceding decade crushing every social movement in Russia. https://crimethinc.com/AntiwarRussia20.... (A photograph showing hundreds of top military officials gathered in Quantico, Virginia on September 30, 2025 to listen to Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth promote their brand of authoritarianism.)
October 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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MINOR THREAT OUT OF STEP (poorly-drawn black sheep leaving the pack of artistic-excellence illustrated white sheep)
September 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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One reason it's important to not reduce anarchism to a mere aesthetic is that you'll end up with things like this flag on the top right in Makhno's hometown Huliaipole placing his image next to the Ukrainian fascist Bandera (who sought to collaborate with Nazi Germany) on his blood & soil flag.
flags in Makhno's hometown Huliaipole, one of which places his image next to the fascist Bandera on his blood and soil flag.
September 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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On July 31st this year, the Ukrainian army's fascist Luftwaffe 422nd Battalion of Unmanned Systems celebrated their one year anniversary. They reuse the insignia of Nazi Germany's airforce, seen here placed on a Ukrainian fascist blood & soil flag. They're a component of the 17th Army Corps.
Members of the fascist Luftwaffe 422nd Battalion of Unmanned Systems stand behind Ukrainian fascist red & black, blood & soil flag, with added, reused insignia of Nazi Germany's airforce
September 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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“…obviously from the start it was clear that the only way what was then Palestine could become a Jewish State would be by genocide…”
Inevitable War in the Middle East, by Albert Meltzer (1968)
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Jewish English anarchist Albert Meltzer typing on a typewriter
September 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM