Staff in Obsidian and Echo Body Piercing, Belfast are currently on strike over refusals by management to engage with staff or recognise their union, Organise! IWA. Please support the striking workers if you can:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-ob...
#OtD 9 Dec 1842 one of the founders of contemporary anarchist-communism, Peter Kropotkin, was born. An activist, scientist, and philosopher, he abandoned his aristocratic background in favour of the revolutionary class struggle. Works available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
"People might do better, physically, psychologically, socially, if they have a role that they think is important and they identify with…If you retired and you're volunteering for something, then you still might feel that connection to something greater than yourself”
Canadian company run by an ex-IDF member celebrates reaching 2,000 armoured vehicles sent to Ukraine since 2022. The same company has been trying to sell to Israeli police and more recently sold vehicles to ICE in the US.
Latest from me: I talk about how the GOP became the Groyper Party, which started decades back as paleoconservatives tried to figure out how to move working class whites towards a nationalist and nativist agenda. This is the entire party today.
A bit late posting this here-latest issue of Black Star online now.
organiseanarchistsireland.com/black-star/
Fred Hampton speaks
On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
Join us at Dundrum Shopping Centre tomorrow 2 - 4pm for some #BDS awareness raising! #FreePalestine
Militiamen in street cafe, Plaça Catalunya? Barcelona 1936. By Juan Guzmán (born Hans Gutmann in Cologne). Guzmán, who fought in the International Brigades, took some 1300 photos of the war, many of them brilliant, including the famous image of Marina Ginestà brandishing a rifle. Archivo EFE
Tying in with our screening of Even The Olives Are Bleeding, Organise! IWA members in Dublin will host a talk by Nick Lloyd (Spanish Civil War Tours). This will be an online event-please email us at organiseasidublin@gmail.com if interested.
Upcoming event: Organise! IWA members in Dublin will be hosting a screening of the Spanish Civil War documentary, Even The Olives Are Bleeding, on 14/12/25.
Spotify are running ICE recruitment ads on both its free and paid platforms. Earlier this year, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek also invested $600 million in Helsing, a German defence startup specialising in AI-powered combat drones and military software... Only stupid bastards help Spotify!
This is our flag. It tells you what we stand for
Racists attempted to burn down a mosque and community centre in Peacehaven last night. Incredibly fortunate that no-one was hurt. Solidarity with the muslim community of Peacehaven. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Image of a monster next to someone dressed as a stereotypical anarchist with a circle a on their sweatshirt. Caption: “Hi. I’m the Boogeyman. A mythical creature used to frighten children into doing what they’re told. This is my buddy Antifa. He does the same thing but for Republican Adults.”
The ‘antifa’ boogeyman
From: www.nj.com/opinion/2025...
Statement of support from historians at Columbia University and Barnard College. Thank you for your solidarity!
at an event hosted by Israeli cyber sec company, Check Point, closely linked with the Israeli military & security services, today. He cannot say he didn't know. This is completely out of step with the majority of us who stand with Palestine and against Israel's genocide. #BDS
I'm honored my essay on alienation is in @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's wonderful "Read This When Things Fall Apart."
I write that we can be "both surviving and flexible—surviving through our flexibility. And in our flexibility, we connect."
Order it (@akpress.org)! www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
Black Star is our monthly Northern online and print anarchist news bulletin. Written by members of Organise! in the north the focus is unashamedly working-class, local and global.
The current issue is available on our website now:
organiseanarchistsireland.com/black-star/
Dublin members of Organise! IWA did a stall at Mothers Against Genocide's Solidarity Souk, which was well received. We shifted plenty of leaflets, as well as some books, along with copies of our bulletins and some of our new stickers. €52 from our stall was donated to MAGs.
Latest edition of Black Star on the webiste now from our comrades in the North:
organiseanarchistsireland.com/black-star/
Organise! IWA statement on the far right, fascism, racism and bigotry.
organiseanarchistsireland.com/organise-iwa...
Upcoming public meeting in Dublin. Contact us for details.
New Black Star out today, too:
organiseanarchistsireland.com/wp-content/u...
New issue of Class War up on the website now:
organiseanarchistsireland.com/wp-content/u...
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