C. Pádraig

Education Worker | Union Rank-and-Filer | 🏴🚩 | Member @BRRN_Fed

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@anarchist_ypsil @g_abe2 I mean, your post history makes it kinda obvious. Good luck!

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@anarchist_ypsil @g_abe2 Fair enough. I think it’s pretty clear that you have a sectarian chip on your shoulder when it comes to many of these issues and react in much the same way—going out of your way to put down or minimize efforts.

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@anarchist_ypsil @g_abe2 Sure, but that’s moving the goalposts. The post I responded to specifically referenced “platformist” organizations. Which is what I’m talking about.

It’s actually fairly significant that several organizations in this mold have been established in Spain alone in recent years.

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@anarchist_ypsil @g_abe2 A collaborative online event with 4 anarchist political organizations that have all emerged in the last 15 years talking about their active intervention some of the largest uprisings in recent European history, yep.

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@anarchist_ypsil @g_abe2 You asked for evidence and I provided it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@anarchist_ypsil @g_abe2 I don’t know anything about this group and they’re part of the IFA, so I don’t really care either way.

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@anarchist_ypsil @g_abe2 Yep! Come tomorrow to this international discussion tomorrow to see a small slice of it :)

https://t.co/Op3pQ0eMce

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@g_abe2 @anarchist_ypsil Social media is awash in this kind of stuff from every tendency (if I had a nickel for every banner drop I’ve read about on a-news), but there’s pretty clear evidence that we’re seeing a resurgence of formal anarchist political organizations globally. Kinda hard to deny that.

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@EcoTechBro BRRN needs a primitivist caucus

[Black Rose/Rosa Negra @BRRN_Fed]

Seattle Event Announcement: Anarchists in the Labor Movement Panel and Discussion 🚩🏴

Hear from three veteran anarchist labor organizers on today's key lessons and contradictions for anarchists in the labor movement

When: Fri, Dec. 4th
Where: CID, Seattle, WA

Event details👇

[Black Rose/Rosa Negra @BRRN_Fed]

🗓️ Online event announcement: Europe in Revolt

Join us for a discussion on Nov. 15 with our French, Spanish, and Catalan sibling organizations who will share insights about the upheavals in their countries and how they are participating and intervening.

Info below 👇

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

anyway that’s all the libbing out you’ll get from me

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

Kinda funny that Trump dropped the whole “they won because they cheated” shtick because he wasn’t on the ballot lol

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

Listening to the clips from last night where reporters got trump on the phone in real time and he sounds so over it. Like an inch away from doing the “listen up, I’m actually really fucking sorry” meme

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

Apropos the inevitable discourse from revolutionaries around voting, something I wrote during the 2020 election:

https://t.co/Jr9hBd2NdF

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@Reverend_Banjo Well, yeah. But it’s not enough to just get organized ‘as anarchists’ — that very easily turns into a club house. The purpose of anarchist organization is a far more crucial question.

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@exiledarizona You’ve made this statement over and over and it’s just not true. Maybe if your only metric is membership, but that’s essentially meaningless.

The organization I’m a member of is involved in substantially more deep organizing than something like L&R ever was.

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@deeeepdooooop @workercouncil_p None in actuality with all existing anarchist groups in the dual organizationist tradition. Maybe a difference can be created based on how unaffiliated online personalities make one or the other their identity.

But all of our organizations belong to the same proto-international.

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@anarchist_ypsil @NewPerspectives There is a significant difference between “we will be there beside them” (which is very ambiguous) and “we will fight for our revolutionary perspective in this uprising.” That, again, is what is at issue. It’s in line with Endnotes’ historic position on this question.

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@anarchist_ypsil @NewPerspectives What good is being a revolutionary if we can’t intervene in an organized way to offer and fight for our perspective?

Are we expected to relinquish our agency and simply hope that an uprising spontaneously takes on the character of our perspective? That’s what’s being suggested

[C. Pádraig @ceepadraig]

@anarchist_ypsil @NewPerspectives And this is exactly what’s at issue. Without attempted intervention by those with a revolutionary perspective, that rot sets in much faster.

What I’m arguing against is the idea that we can only hope that there is a revolutionary breakthrough that things will be “figured out.”