'Where the state is itself a capitalist producer, as in the exploitation of mines, forests, etc., its product is a 'commodity' and hence possesses the specific character of every other commodity.' - Karl Marx
Source: Marx's Notes on Adolph Wagner

Mexico's biggest university joins today the global call in solidarity with Palestine! Viva Palestina and all the Global South 🍉

Schools are trainings snipers on kids, unleashing riot cops, sending officers to fire rubber bullets at students and faculty. And every one of these acts proves the student movement right. Universities have become hedge funds that care more about the war machine than learning.

Disorder is not violence. Camping is not violence. Trespassing is not violence. Genocide is violence. Knocking people to the ground and choking them is violence. Shooting people with rubber bullets is violence. Just feels like we need to remind each other of the meaning of words.

Something else has now been brought to our attention. All nonprofits should be paying attention to this.

“...every anarchist is a socialist but not every socialist is necessarily an anarchist.' - Adolph Fischer (a martyr of the Haymarket affair)
Source: Quoted by Noam Chomsky in Government in the Future

what, exactly, is the value of a Democratic governor and a Democratic mayor if this is what the state does do children?

Columbia students reclaimed Hamilton Hall in honor of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

It is not the first time students have occupied the building to make a stand.

I once read a tweet claiming that Starbucks workers aren't proletarians. I was so annoyed that I spent several months writing a 17,000 word essay on the history and meaning of 'the proletariat'. I include both famous and obscure socialists. It will be released soon.

This is not a pro tip. Don't use milk in your eyes.

Water. Just use water.

Someone explain to me why UCLA hasn’t done anything to stop Nouri Mehdizadeh from pulling knives on their students and assaulting women on their campus? Maybe they don’t care that he has for five nights in a row been attacking their students and engaging in predatory behavior

Go to the encampments. I cannot stress this enough. It doesn’t matter if you don’t go to that university. Go. Take up space. They need you! They need community! They need people to hold space!

short excerpt, go read the full article!

The tree-sit, according to it's architect, is dedicated to the memory of Tortuguita 🥹🥹

I AM NOT A LAWYER, AND THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE

if you're going to a protest where you expect to get arrested it's extremely important to have arrest training. this thread will not be as useful as a proper training, but i can offer a few tips:

1/4 'Rather than positing a one-sided perspective in which the modern state was created by capitalism, anarchists held that the modern state and capitalism cocreated one another.
Through an analysis of the modern state...as an actually-existing social structure, anarchists came

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1/2 'Anarchism is the opposition to all hierarchical power structures, the framework for locating and understanding them, and the method by which we might dismantle and replace those hierarchical power structures