# Red and Black Anarchists

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## [About the Red and Black Anarchists category](https://discourse.anok.io/t/about-the-red-and-black-anarchists-category/217)

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**Author:** [@Anok](https://discourse.anok.io/u/Anok)\
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Red and Black Anarchists is a resource for anyone interested in anarchism whether new to anarchism or not. Red and Black Anarchists seeks to address widespread misunderstandings of anarchism that are current on social m…

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## [আন্তর্জাতিক শ্রমিক সমিতি (iwa)-র আত্মপ্রকাশের ইতিহাস](https://discourse.anok.io/t/iwa/368)

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**Last updated:** [26 October 2026 01:24 UTC](https://discourse.anok.io/t/iwa/368 "2026-10-26T01:24:57Z")

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বিশ্বের বিভিন্ন দেশে সংগঠিত শোষণবিরোধী শ্রমিকদের—যারা রেভ্যুলেশনারী সিন্ডিক্যালিস্ট ও নৈরাজ্যবাদী হিসেবে পরিচিত ছিল—তাদের একটি বহু আকাঙ্ক্ষিত লক্ষ্য ছিল শ্রমিক শ্রেণীর একটি আন্তর্জাতিক সংগঠন গড়ে তোলা। অবশেষে, ১৯২২ সালে …

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## [Kiss vs. Kafala: Does Sharia kill love and legitimize exploitation and rape?](https://discourse.anok.io/t/kiss-vs-kafala-does-sharia-kill-love-and-legitimize-exploitation-and-rape/218)

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Weighed down by two severed heads, even the drongo and the myna kept a sorrowful silence in this vibrant autumn. Like dry winter, the trees became emaciated and leafless. No milk gathered within the rice paddy. Nature gr…

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## [Fanny Kaplan: The Socialist Revolutionary Who Challenged Lenin’s Coup Against 1917 Revolution](https://discourse.anok.io/t/fanny-kaplan-the-socialist-revolutionary-who-challenged-lenin-s-coup-against-1917-revolution/219)

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Fanny Kaplan: The Socialist Revolutionary Who Challenged Lenin’s Coup Against 1917 Revolution The 28-year-old half-blind woman appeared in a crowd of people near the Michelson arms factory in southern Moscow on August 30…

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## [On the Question of Ethno-Nationalist Burmese Federal State: in Favor of Geographical Multicultural Federalism](https://discourse.anok.io/t/on-the-question-of-ethno-nationalist-burmese-federal-state-in-favor-of-geographical-multicultural-federalism/220)

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Regarding "Bamar State"Today, the political and federalist demand for a "Bamar State" has become a preliminary political and federal roadmap for a third-way coalition outside the NLD/NUG factions. Why is a "Bamar State"…

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## [Jane Doe, Patriarchy, and Rape Culture](https://discourse.anok.io/t/jane-doe-patriarchy-and-rape-culture/221)

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For thousands of years us human beings have lived in patriarchal societies. These societies are ones in which men monopolize wealth and power. Patriarchal societies don't have to be as extreme as, for instance, Afghanist…

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## [IWA Campaign Against Wage Theft in Korea](https://discourse.anok.io/t/iwa-campaign-against-wage-theft-in-korea/222)

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Every year in October, the International Workers' Association (IWA-AIT), a global federation of anarcho-syndicalist organizations, launches its annual campaign against wage theft. This year's campaign will take place fr…

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## [Leninist internationalism is bourgeois internationalism](https://discourse.anok.io/t/leninist-internationalism-is-bourgeois-internationalism/223)

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**Last updated:** [3 October 2026 23:04 UTC](https://discourse.anok.io/t/leninist-internationalism-is-bourgeois-internationalism/223 "2026-10-03T23:04:51Z")

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Conventional anti-capitalist movements are cloaked in the guise of Marxism-Leninism; however, particularly on the question of internationalism, pluralistic and contradictory trends can be observed even within the leftist…

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## [Can anyone recover their face value by attacking the ASF?](https://discourse.anok.io/t/can-anyone-recover-their-face-value-by-attacking-the-asf/224)

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Published under the pseudonym "Wildcat Wob," this memoir sheds light on the internal dynamics of Melbourne's anarcho-syndicalist movement and the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (ASF) during the 1990s. While externally st…

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## [Struggle: Marxist vs. Anarcho-Syndicalist](https://discourse.anok.io/t/struggle-marxist-vs-anarcho-syndicalist/225)

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In the long trajectory of classical socialist politics, the concept of capturing the state and the theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat were established as the mainstream of the leftist movement. However, agains…

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## [AI Risk as Traditional Theory](https://discourse.anok.io/t/ai-risk-as-traditional-theory/226)

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Recently unauthorized activities by the AI agents of the top artificial intelligence companies such as hacking third parties and escaping guardrails have brought conversations about the risk to humanity posed by AI into …

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## [Excavating the democratic mind](https://discourse.anok.io/t/excavating-the-democratic-mind/227)

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“Democracy can be more than two wolves and a sheep voting on who will become dinner. It can also be, through a grueling process of rotating consensus-building, become one wolf voting with the sheep against the other wolf…

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## [What Was 9/11?](https://discourse.anok.io/t/what-was-9-11/228)

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On September 11 2001 hijackers took control of four flights; flying two planes into the world trade center buildings and another into the Pentagon building, with the fourth intended to be crashed into the capitol buildin…

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## [Limitations of Reformism and the Imperative of Class Struggle](https://discourse.anok.io/t/limitations-of-reformism-and-the-imperative-of-class-struggle/229)

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It has already been explained in dozens of texts that the history of human civilization is essentially the history of class struggle. Ever since the breakdown of primitive communist society, the existence of two opposing…

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## [The Life, Melody, and Rhythm of Tea Garden Workers](https://discourse.anok.io/t/the-life-melody-and-rhythm-of-tea-garden-workers/230)

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**Last updated:** [30 August 2026 00:37 UTC](https://discourse.anok.io/t/the-life-melody-and-rhythm-of-tea-garden-workers/230 "2026-08-30T00:37:11Z")

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The corporate greed of British imperialism in the late 19th century planted the roots of slavery in the green plains of Bengal, and its scars continue to bleed even 150 years later. Every green tea leaf in the hilly vall…

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## [Libcom’s Essay and the Theoretical Bankruptcy of Appeasement](https://discourse.anok.io/t/libcom-s-essay-and-the-theoretical-bankruptcy-of-appeasement/231)

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Background of Structural Transformation and Theoretical StruggleAt every turning point in human history, particularly in the liberation struggle of exploited and oppressed working people, theoretical clarity has always p…

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## [The Return of the Barracks State](https://discourse.anok.io/t/the-return-of-the-barracks-state/232)

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Watchdoc’s investigative documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) explicitly and undeniably dismantles the deeply rooted blood ties between military institutions, the state apparatus, and the circulation of capital in Papua. I…

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## [The Return of the Barracks State](https://discourse.anok.io/t/the-return-of-the-barracks-state/367)

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**Last updated:** [26 August 2026 05:02 UTC](https://discourse.anok.io/t/the-return-of-the-barracks-state/367 "2026-08-26T05:02:13Z")

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Film dokumenter investigatif Pesta Babi garapan Watchdoc dengan sangat telanjang membongkar relasi darah yang mengakar kuat antara institusi militer, aparatus negara, dan sirkulasi modal di tanah Papua. Dalam dokumenter …

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## [Bolshevik Confusion and the Theoretical Bankruptcy of Anarchists](https://discourse.anok.io/t/bolshevik-confusion-and-the-theoretical-bankruptcy-of-anarchists/366)

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In the long and complex intellectual trajectory of political and social movements, a fundamental question has always come to the fore: which party, religion, philosophy, or ideology is genuinely capable of liberating hum…

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## [133 Days of Classical Marxism](https://discourse.anok.io/t/133-days-of-classical-marxism/365)

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Marx's corpus not only produced the most detailed critical analysis of capitalism to ever be produced, but it immediately spawned, with the help of his collogue Friedrich Engels, a new system of thought and practice that…

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## [The USSR: An Anarchist View](https://discourse.anok.io/t/the-ussr-an-anarchist-view/364)

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In my article on the Russian Revolution I explained the process by which the first communist state in world history came into existence. In 1922 this state became known as the Soviet Union. Those who embrace the official…

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## [The Beast of History: The Basics of Politics and Antipolitics Part One](https://discourse.anok.io/t/the-beast-of-history-the-basics-of-politics-and-antipolitics-part-one/363)

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Theory of the political It is often said that the personal is political. This is right in the sense that in our world our personal lives are facilitated by political processes reproducing the society we live in. It is wr…

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## [Religion and Anarcho-Syndicalism](https://discourse.anok.io/t/religion-and-anarcho-syndicalism/362)

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From the dawn of human civilization to the complex geopolitical and information-technology-driven era of the twenty-first century, "religion" has never remained confined within a bounded circle of belief or formal ritual…

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## [The Russian Revolution: An Anarchist View](https://discourse.anok.io/t/the-russian-revolution-an-anarchist-view/361)

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The Russian Revolution was one of the most earth shaking events in human history. It created the first ever communist state in the world and thereby gave rise to a new international communist movement that ascended to po…

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## [(Part One: An Introduction) - The Anarchist Impulse in the History of Human Rights](https://discourse.anok.io/t/part-one-an-introduction-the-anarchist-impulse-in-the-history-of-human-rights/360)

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One of the most fundamental characteristics of modern human rights theory is the positioning of the state as the primary subject of obligation. In the framework of international human rights law, the state is not merely …

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## [(Bagian Pertama: Sebuah Pengantar) - Nafas Anarkisme dalam Sejarah Hak Asasi Manusia](https://discourse.anok.io/t/bagian-pertama-sebuah-pengantar-nafas-anarkisme-dalam-sejarah-hak-asasi-manusia/359)

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Salah satu karakter paling mendasar dari teori hak asasi manusia (HAM) modern adalah penempatan negara sebagai subjek utama pertanggungjawaban. Dalam konstruksi hukum HAM internasional, negara bukan sekadar salah…

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## [The Bankruptcy of Capitalism and Religion, and the Revolutionary Journey of Anarcho-Syndicalism](https://discourse.anok.io/t/the-bankruptcy-of-capitalism-and-religion-and-the-revolutionary-journey-of-anarcho-syndicalism/358)

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In the long historical trajectory of human civilization, two primary forces have most extensively controlled and shackled the human mind and society: capitalism and institutional religion. In this critical and complex er…

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## [Against the Unmoved Mover](https://discourse.anok.io/t/against-the-unmoved-mover/357)

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Theology has, since its beginning, rooted itself in a demand for creation. This is so much so that creation myths are identified by scholars as a primary form in world mythology. Since human beings could examine the worl…

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## [Anarchism and Naturalism](https://discourse.anok.io/t/anarchism-and-naturalism/356)

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In the past I have asserted that Anarchism has historically usually dovetailed with naturalistic philosophy and that this is because it is the framework most amenable to shaping Anarchist commitments into a coherent worl…

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## [Anarcho-Syndicalism in Bangladesh: Present Context & Challenges](https://discourse.anok.io/t/anarcho-syndicalism-in-bangladesh-present-context-challenges/355)

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1. Shift of Power and the Reconstruction Strategy of the Bourgeois State ApparatusThe political shift in Bangladesh's state power on August 5, 2024, was not a revolution in the interest of the working class; rather, it w…

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