Anarchist Federation

18/03/2025

This consultation seeks views on the approaches government should consider around reform of the health and disability benefits system and employment support.

07/03/2025

This excellent activist photographer had their page deleted after building it up for years.

Go give them a like on their new one!

https://www.facebook.com/share/15yNBVpQyP/

For those that were following my page Fields of Light Photography . That page was hijacked by scammers on 28th February. FB have done absolutely nothing so im reluctantly starting from scratch. I am working hard to get that page back. Solidarity welcome.

16/02/2025

Our last post triggered people into some interesting comments and I am sure that some of those people actually believe they are "allies" which is interesting given what the post said about empathy Vs action. It's all well and good to think you are an anti racist but the proof of the pudding is how you behave when the prospect of your privilege being diminished is raised.

Here's some good information for self awareness purposes and I encourage followers to consider where they are on this graphic. You can't address the toxic parts of whiteness if you don't understand whiteness and you don't understand yourself.

The 8 White Identities by Barnor Hesse

"There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities. People who identify with whiteness are one of these. It's about time we build an ethnography of whiteness, since white people have been the ones writing about and governing Others."

White Supremacist: Preserves, names, and values white superiority

White Voyeurism: Would not challenge a white supremacist; desires non-whiteness because it is interesting, pleasurable;
seeks to control the consumption and appropriation of non-whiteness; fascination with culture

White Privilege: May critique white supremacy, but maintains a deep investment in questions of fairness/equality under the normalization of whiteness and white rule; sworn goal of ‘diversity’

White Benefit: Sympathetic to a set of issues but only privately. Will not speak/act in solidarity publicly, because they are benefitting through whiteness in public

White Confessional: Some exposure of whiteness takes place, but as a way of being accountable to People of Colour after; seek validation from People of Color

White Critical: Take on board critiques of whiteness and invest in exposing/marking the white regime; refuses to be complicit with the regime; whiteness speaking back to whiteness

White Traitor: Actively refuses complicity; names what is going on; intention is to subvert white authority and tell the truth at whatever cost; need them to dismantle institutions

White Abolitionist: Changes institutions; dismantling whiteness, and not allowing whiteness to reassert itself.

25/10/2024

Stalls 👆This is what the hall looks like empty. Hopefully it will be packed with stalls and people on Saturday 2nd November 2024. 🤞 Stalls (Updated 25th October 2024) Just Added: Anarchist FederationThe Anarchist Federation is an organisation of revolutionary class struggle anarchists. We aim ...

30/07/2024

11/05/2024

We can't wait to see you at the Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair on 1st June Star and Shadow Cinema! We are delighted to so far announce some familiar and new faces for our 3rd instalment of the Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair in 2024. We will bring you groups from around the region and further afield to offer a unique selection of groups fighting for a wide array of causes.
Stalls planned include Northumbria IWW, Borderline Books, NE HUNT Monitors, North East Anarchist Group, Sign it Here, Food & Solidarity, LGBT+ Northern Social Group, The Battle of Stockton Campaign, PM Press - UK, Active Distribution, Tyneside Anarchist Archive and more!
As ever these are subject to change as the big day draws near and more will pop up closer to the time too. See the latest news here https://newcastlebookfair.org.uk/202-2/

16/02/2024

Capitalism is killing the Earth - an Anarchist Guide to Ecology. Now in German!

Einleitung der Plattform.Bisher gibt es nur wenig deutschsprachige Literatur zur anarchistischen Perspektive auf Ökologie, Umweltzerstörung und Klimakrise. Deshalb haben wir die Broschüre „Capitalism is killing the earth – An anarchist guide

07/12/2023

Rest in Power Benjamin Zephaniah.

One of the greatest poets and most passionate activists ever to live on this island of ours.

As he wrote in why I'm an anarchist 'F**k power, and lets just take care of each other'.

Take care of each other.

✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/benjamin-zephaniah-why-i-am-an-anarchist

03/12/2023

Our comrades at ansrchismus.de have published a German / Deutsch translation of our pamphlet The Role of the Revolutionary Organisation.

Download the free pdf from them here

https://anarchismus.de/materialien/_broschuere-08/231104_Brosch%C3%BCre_DieRolleDerRevoOrg_Digital.pdf

21/11/2023

Sign the open letter to Arnolfini asking them to explain their decision for cancelling two Palestinian film and poetry events.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeILD8nr1Wu2APTM9_xBLJ68r0NvdmCK2gZJ2ACGdCkO9lWsA/viewform