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To Be Free, Together: Freedom, Solidarity, and the Anarcho-Communist Vision

Freedom might be the most contested word in the political vocabulary. It is claimed by libertarians who want to abolish environmental regulations, by neoliberals who mean the right to buy and sell without interference, by…
To Be Free, Together: Freedom, Solidarity, and the Anarcho-Communist Vision
Freedom might be the most contested word in the political vocabulary. It is claimed by libertarians who want to abolish environmental regulations, by neoliberals who mean the right to buy and sell without interference, by nationalists who mean the exclusive sovereignty of one people over a territory, and by anarchists who mean something so different from all of these that it can seem like a different word entirely.
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April 3, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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Freedom Cannot Be Dictated: Why Anarcho-Communists Reject the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Freedom Cannot Be Dictated: Why Anarcho-Communists Reject the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
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March 27, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Freedom Cannot Be Dictated: Why Anarcho-Communists Reject the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Freedom, for anarcho-communists, is not a decorative ideal or a rhetorical flourish tacked onto an otherwise rigid political programme. It is the ground upon which everything else stands. Without freedom,…
Freedom Cannot Be Dictated: Why Anarcho-Communists Reject the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Freedom, for anarcho-communists, is not a decorative ideal or a rhetorical flourish tacked onto an otherwise rigid political programme. It is the ground upon which everything else stands. Without freedom, there is no communism worth speaking of, only new forms of domination dressed in emancipatory language. This is why anarcho-communists have historically rejected the notion of the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” not out of naivety or softness towards reaction, but out of a clear-eyed understanding of how power operates, reproduces itself, and ultimately betrays the very people it claims to serve.
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March 27, 2026 at 9:22 PM
To call Lenin a “right-wing deviation” is not to engage in empty provocation…

For many on the left, Lenin is still treated as a towering revolutionary figure, the man who led the Bolsheviks to power, smashed the old Tsarist order, and set in motion the first sustained attempt at building…
To call Lenin a “right-wing deviation” is not to engage in empty provocation…
For many on the left, Lenin is still treated as a towering revolutionary figure, the man who led the Bolsheviks to power, smashed the old Tsarist order, and set in motion the first sustained attempt at building socialism. Yet from an anarcho-communist standpoint, this reverence is not only misplaced but politically dangerous. Leninism represents not the flowering of working-class self-emancipation, but its containment, redirection, and ultimately its suppression.
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March 24, 2026 at 5:28 AM
The Grammar of Empire: How Western Media Rewrites War in Real Time

Language is never neutral. Every word choice is a political act, and nowhere is this more visible than in the coverage of military conflict by the Western mainstream press. The headlines we read, the verbs that are chosen, the…
The Grammar of Empire: How Western Media Rewrites War in Real Time
Language is never neutral. Every word choice is a political act, and nowhere is this more visible than in the coverage of military conflict by the Western mainstream press. The headlines we read, the verbs that are chosen, the sources that are named or left unnamed, all of it constructs a worldview before the reader has processed a single fact. It tells us, quietly and persistently, who is a legitimate actor and who is a threat.
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March 13, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Epstein and the Political Economy of Elite Perversion

When the Epstein files surface, as they periodically do, they arrive wrapped in the language of scandal. Names are whispered, associations mapped, flight logs parsed. The public is invited to gawk, to speculate, to feel briefly outraged. And…
Epstein and the Political Economy of Elite Perversion
When the Epstein files surface, as they periodically do, they arrive wrapped in the language of scandal. Names are whispered, associations mapped, flight logs parsed. The public is invited to gawk, to speculate, to feel briefly outraged. And then, inevitably, attention drifts. The files retreat back into the archive of unresolved horrors that liberal society has learned to live with. What remains unexamined is not who appears in those documents, but what sort of social order makes such documents inevitable in the first place.
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February 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
A stranger arrives in the afternoon...People are polite to him.
Politeness can be a weapon if you know how to use it.
“Who’s in charge here?” he asks.
A woman hands him a cup of tea. “Nobody,” she says. “Drink up.” theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/3...
One Hundred Days Of Refusal – A Novel
One Hundred Days Of Refusal is a novel that chronicles the transformation of a working-class town through a labour strike and its aftermath, presented in a series of fragmented, poetic vignettes wi…
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February 1, 2026 at 3:58 AM
What Anarchy Actually Looks Like

For most people, the word anarchy conjures chaos - burning cars, smashed windows, shouting crowds, the collapse of all restraint. It is a word carefully trained to frighten. Politicians invoke it as a threat, newspapers as a warning, and police as a justification.…
What Anarchy Actually Looks Like
For most people, the word anarchy conjures chaos - burning cars, smashed windows, shouting crowds, the collapse of all restraint. It is a word carefully trained to frighten. Politicians invoke it as a threat, newspapers as a warning, and police as a justification. Anarchy, we are told, is what happens when order disappears. But there is a simpler and more unsettling claim: anarchy is not the absence of order, but the absence of rulers.
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January 15, 2026 at 10:40 PM
The political economy of advanced capitalism is undergoing a decisive structural reconfiguration, marked by a strategic pivot from the post-war welfare state to a militarised security state. thepolarblast.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/h...
How the Warfare State Replaced the Welfare State
The political economy of advanced capitalism is undergoing a decisive structural reconfiguration, marked by a strategic pivot from the post-war welfare state to a militarised security state. This t…
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January 15, 2026 at 9:11 PM
January 10, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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A World To Win A Hell to Lose – The Industrial Workers of the World In Early Twentieth Century New Zealand
A World To Win A Hell to Lose – The Industrial Workers of the World In Early Twentieth Century New Zealand
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January 10, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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January 1, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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Beyond Toxic Masculinity: A Class Struggle Perspective
Beyond Toxic Masculinity: A Class Struggle Perspective
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January 2, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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Revolutions, Not Resolutions & Why the New Year Is Not New
Revolutions, Not Resolutions & Why the New Year Is Not New
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December 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A Series of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums – A collection of writings. Volume 2

another collection of words posted here and there Volume 1 here Slogans2Download
A Series of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums – A collection of writings. Volume 2
another collection of words posted here and there Volume 1 here Slogans2Download
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December 31, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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12 a.m. Jan. 1, this be my profile pic!
December 31, 2025 at 2:05 AM
December 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Revolutions, Not Resolutions & Why the New Year Is Not New

The New Year is announced across the world as a moment of renewal, a universal pause in which humanity is invited to imagine itself beginning again. Time zones tick over, fireworks explode above cities built on inequality, and the same…
Revolutions, Not Resolutions & Why the New Year Is Not New
The New Year is announced across the world as a moment of renewal, a universal pause in which humanity is invited to imagine itself beginning again. Time zones tick over, fireworks explode above cities built on inequality, and the same language repeats in dozens of languages - fresh starts, clean slates, hope. Yet beneath this carefully staged ritual, the social order remains intact.
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December 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM