Greece:”anarchists hijack the state television station!”

More news from the Pittsburgh anarchists in Greece:
Fri 12/19/08 9:08 AM
Today is a beautiful day here in athens. It is sunny and warm and already the day kicked off with a solidarity action: The french cultural center was burned down. In solidarity with their struggle for education. I finally got around to uploading my pictures… [...]

Labor Rising?

I tend to be pretty skeptical of the business unions leadership, although some of them are nice folks. But as organizations they are top-heavy, top-down, conveyor-belt for the ruling class, safety-valve against revolt, jingoist war profiteers, democratic patsies, historically racist and sexist, textbook example of recuperation, those “Don’t Bite The War That Feeds You Buttons,etc. [...]

Can It Happen Here?

No, I don’t mean that kind of open mutiny, as is occurring in Greece, but the State running out of tear gas. Road salt, or anything else, yes, but never weapons, lethal or otherwise. Occasionally, they will cry like spoiled debutantes and pretend their gear is falling apart, but funding is first priority, survival for [...]

Solidarity Means “Attack”

In the days surrounding the 2008 US elections, it was distressful enough to hear about the attempts to redefine anarchists as “the left wing of the democratic party”, a charge made by right-wing pundits for years, which really used to raise my blood pressure. They knew something I didn’t, I suppose?
What made things worse was [...]

Raising the Price

Updates on infoshop news (1)and the Occupied London blog
On the night of December 6, 2008, our comrade, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, was murdered by terrorists employed by the Greek State. Such violence, a byproduct of the State’s defense of class society, is nothing new, but a defining aspect of governments, escalated by the [...]

New US “Less-Lethal” Field Manual Available for Download

The Federation of American Scientists have managed to obtain and upload a copy of the new US Military “Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for the Tactical Employment of Nonlethal Weapons” field manual, as part of their government secrecy project.

130th Anniversary of the 1877 Shamokin Uprising and the Great Railroad Strike

Thanks to YT reader Hal Smith, who wrote this article for the News Item of Shamokin, and was kind enough to point it out.
This July 25th marks the 130th anniversary of the Shamokin Uprising, when desperation and starvation drove railroad workers and miners to join the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, America’s first nationwide strike.
Railroad [...]

Donnell Summers’ Felony Charge Dropped

The trumped up charge of aggravated riot, against North Toledo resident, Donnell Summers has been dropped. The persecution prosecution finally ran out of delays, and were unable to engineer enough evidence.
Lucas County Assistant DA Jim Vail seemed surprised that Mr. Summers would refuse to accept the State’s version of events, as if they were [...]

1877 Insurrection: Excerpt from THE AGE OF BETRAYAL: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900

The Post Gazette Editors were kind enough to publish this bit from Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 by Jack Beatty.
It’s worth checking out for the pictures, alone.
I wished I’d have copied this rather than the version on the ‘about this picture‘ page.
Maybe this’ll get the Yinsurrectionary Times its [...]

The Battle of Homestead: Where Are They Now?

Pittsburgh loves it’s fireworks. We have them for pretty much no reason. Even the Pirates, that overpaid little league team, break out the top-shelf fireworks a few times a month. So it’s heartening that the people of the region still get excited for the symbolic explosions, even if it’s on the anniversary of [...]