To our anarchist comrades, a short note on what happened in the demonstrations of January 17.
After one week of our T-shirt fundraiser we raised just over £250!
Our first pay outs were of £100 to South Norwood Community Kitchen and The 0161 Community.
Both of these groups have been going above and beyond during lock down to support key workers and their communities in general, helping everyone get by in these difficult times with some beautiful mutual aid.
None of the organisers are involved with either project and they were selected after talking to national level organisers and comrades in general.
They are both doing some fantastic work and I'm sure would appreciate your solidarity and donations:-
www.0161community.com/covid19-response
www.facebook.com/0161community
www.southnorwoodcommunitykitchen.co.uk
www.facebook.com/southnorwoodcommunitykitchen
This will be an ongoing fundraiser, so if you want some new threads and help support mutual aid projects head over to www.punx.uk and pick yourself up one, £15 with all profit going towards mutual aid groups.
Lots of thanks to all those who have purchased T-shirts already, everyone involved in one of the 4000+ mutual aid networks and especially to our key workers, NHS staffers, Delivery people, check out staff and they rest of you who are keeping the plates spinning during these difficult times.
Thank you.
To our anarchist comrades, a short note on what happened in the demonstrations of January 17.
The more we organised with non-anarchist people the more ideological anarchists started to disappear and more neighbours were joining the FAGC. It starts the golden times of self-management, with the first massive experiences, with the first failures, but also satisfaction
Now, more than ever, it is necessary to strengthen the internationalist dimension of anarchism, to oppose the ongoing authoritarian processes and to relaunch a revolutionary perspective in a world that capitalism and state have brought to the point of collapse.
To try to suppress the stories even though everyone knows what is going on speaks to a regime unburdened by any need to justify its own actions
March 7-—Distant rumbling reaches my ears as I cross the Nevsky. It sounds again, stronger and nearer, as if rolling toward me.