The following will look at 6 libertarian socialist influenced revolutions: The Morelos Commune, Makhnovshchina, Shinmin, The Spanish Revolution, The Zapatistas, and Rojava. usufructcollective.substack.com/p/community-...

New essay on Community-Self-Management and Commoning within 6 Libertarian Socialist Influenced Revolutions is now on our substack. Featuring: Morelos Commune, Makhnovia, Shinmin, Spanish Revolution, Zapatistas/ACGAZ, and Rojava/DAANES!!! usufructcollective.substack.com/p/community-...

New essay on community self management and commoning within 6 libertarian socialist influenced revolutions!!! usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/c...

PJAK and KJAR renew calls for democratic unity across Iran amid escalating conflict 👇 medyanews.net/pjak-and-kja...

"The creation of a whole series of free working communes, the desire to create organs for social and economic self-management, were the first steps of the peasants and workers toward the construction of a free and independent life." - Arshinov

Various hierarchical power blocks compete and cooperate for power and profit within the capitalist world market and interstate system. Against the above we support self-managed organization and the wellbeing of people; not states. Against the war and all rulers; for another world

Several hundred anti-ICE protesters are marching through downtown past LA city hall.

they never miss

liberals on bluesky: why is no one protesting taco trumpf? i will skeet harder until democracy is free ::people in LA fight back against fascism:: liberals on bluesky: YOU FOOLS! YOU EASY MARKS! YOU BUFFOONS! By resisting fascism you are going to make the fascists do more fascism! I am very smart!

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WTF is Social Ecology By @usufructcollective.bsky.social Featured in the current edition of DOPE Magazine

"Contrary to anti-human myths, the ecological crisis is not caused by an excess of human freedom; it is instead caused by the destruction of social freedom that happens through domination and exploitation towards goals of profit and power-over others." usufructcollective.substack.com/p/wtf-is-soc...

"The municipality, once it is freed of hierarchical domination and material exploitation—indeed, once it is recreated as rational arena for human creativity in all spheres of life – is potentially the ethical space for the good life." -Bookchin

"The civic nature of most modern revolutions points to the fundamental role that municipalities have played as incubators of social development and the functions they have performed in fulfilling humanity’s potentialities." -Bookchin

"Communalism...is a revolutionary political theory and practice, deeply rooted in the general socialist tradition. Far from setting up models or examples of cooperative lifestyles, it actively seeks to confront capital and the basic structures of state power." -Bookchin

#OtD 27 Feb 1937 Woolworth's sitdown strike of women workers in Detroit began. 150 women occupied their workplace and won improved pay and conditions, and helped galvanise the militant workers' movement sweeping the country at the time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

"Organizational responsibility and discipline should not frighten: they are the traveling companions of the practice of social anarchism." -Makhno

Tactics without strategy replaces strategy with tactics-- which predictably is not going to be sufficient for social change.

New essay "WTF Is Social Ecology?" now posted to substack usufructcollective.substack.com/p/wtf-is-soc...

"Politics, as distinguished from the social and statist, involves the re-embodiment of masses into richly articulated assemblies,the formation of a body politic in an arena of discourse, shared rationality, free expression,and radically democratic modes of decision making"-Bookchin

"Social revolutionaries, far from removing the problem of power from their field of vision, must address the problem of how to give power a concrete institutional emancipatory form." - Bookchin

Members of organized crime broke into assembly in Lacandon jungle town; community members injured

New Essay, entitled "WTF is Social Ecology?" usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/w...

"The ecological crisis is not caused by an excess of human freedom; it is instead caused by the destruction of social freedom that happens through domination and exploitation towards goals of profit and powerover others" usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/w...

Federici points out that when there are various kinds/degrees of hierarchical divisions within communities/commons, not only does egalitarianism and mutual aid come under attack but in addition: communities/commons become more vulnerable to external attack.

WTF is Social Ecology - Article by Usufruct Collective (@usufructcollective.bsky.social) Illustration by Bella Harter 👇 www.dopemag.org/articles-1/w...

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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

"Carried to its logical conclusions, the struggle for black liberation is the struggle against imperialism; the struggle for a balanced environment is the struggle against commodity production; the struggle for women’s liberation is the struggle for human freedom." -Bookchin

Pure fire. Bookchin giving a left critique of the left!!! Done well www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBP_...

We got a new essay dropping soon on social ecology!!! through Dope Magazine!!! Ideally making it a coherent 101 in as plain language as possible!!!

Use Signal to talk about protests Use Signal to talk about your wordle score Use Signal to talk about abortion Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club Use Signal to talk about parties Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care Use Signal to talk about the weather Use Signal

The new new right Trump gov is rooted in nationalism to unite people with their rulers+scapegoating immigrant, queer, and left populations+increased military/police+ austerity+wealth transfers to the USA upper class, a protectionist trade approach,and SOME distinct imperial moves /1

Class relations and forms of domination and exploitation can outlive the specific rulers and ruling institutions. The root problem of hierarchy is deeper than a particular ruler or particular hierarchical institution

We're sharing a recording of @andrewzonneveld.bsky.social and Modibo Kadalie talking about maroonage and resistance to slavery in Georgia and Florida from colonization 1529 onwards, recorded at ACABookfair 2024 thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/01...

Las 8 reglas de los comunes de Ostrom para anarquistas (2024) – Usufruct Collective Imagen por Rory Robertson-Shaw Versión del ensayo publicada en Dope Magazine Los bienes comunes son recursos autogestionados por comunidades que los necesitan y utilizan. Los bienes comunes se gestionan mediante el…

"Don't be afraid to stand alone with basic principles that are rooted in human potentialities-- not the way people are today or were at any particular time, but the way they could be, an inference that has to come from reasoning from these potentialities" -Bookchin

Syrian Women’s Council issued declaration for Syria's future. One objective is: “The immediate release of all women still held captive in the prisons of armed groups". 1/9 A 🧵 on imprisoned women & Turkish-backed militias.

forgot to get your bubbe a Hanukkah gift? well you have 7 more days to get the just-released English translation of Joseph Cohen's "The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America." Originally published in Yiddish in 1945, it's translated by Esther Dolgoff & edited by Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social

"Article 75 The commune:This is the basic grassroots organization form of direct democracy. It is the smallestadministrative unit in the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and EastSyria. " /1

Insightful essay explaining the commons by the @usufructcollective.bsky.social... usufructcollective.substack.com/p/ostroms-8-...

Update North-East Syria 🛑 Today temporary ceasefire ends 🛑 For 10 days Turkey has attacked non-stop, focusing on strategic areas & media 🛑 Turkey deployed Heavy weapons to border areas and Jarabulus (west of Kobane) 🛑 SDF has defeated all attacks 🛑 People in Rojava follow call for mobilisation

Long live the spirit of Kobani. Ways to help: Donate to/Fundraiser for the Kurdish Red Crescent. Do solidarity protests against Turkish imperialism/colonialism. Raise awareness for Rojava. And help to start commune-assemblies wherever you are adapted to conditions and needs.

18. Build educational programs Organize public talks, reading groups, and classes. You can discuss what fascism is, what the Far Right looks like at present, and how to resist it.

Update on #Manbij - since yesterday fierce clashes. Turkish-mercenary sleeper-cell were attacking #SDF in the city. As attacks were defeated, began to spread false information. Turkey bombed Manbij Civil Council with jets. Our forces remain strong & hold up. #DefendRojava #AllEyesOnManbij

🔷HTS’s al-Jolani claims on CNN that his group is shedding its jihadist roots and building institutions. Analysts say it’s more about rebranding than real reform. #HTS | #CNN | #Syria | #Jihadist 🔗 medyanews.net/hts-leader-t... ➡️ alternative: justpaste.it/ayc14