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@manchestersf.bsky.social

Anarcho-syndicalist local organisation, federated country-wide (Solidarity Federation) and internationally (International Workers Association)

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I don't believe in mob violence nor government censorship of speech but it's very hard not to notice that the government that are imprisoning pensioners for opposing genocide with writing on cardboard are worried that people might not be free enough to call for acts of violence against trans women.

03.09.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 376    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

Queer People in Manchester have been hating Andy Burnham for a while.

21.09.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Poble Rebel
- a film evening presented by Manchester Solidarity Federation
- Thursday October 2nd, 7pm
- at Partisan Collective 
22a Beswick St, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 7HR
- "The history of dissident Catalonia since 1973. Combative, critical and free of gags."
- 2019; 100 mins, English subtitles
- manchestersf@solfed.org.uk

Poble Rebel - a film evening presented by Manchester Solidarity Federation - Thursday October 2nd, 7pm - at Partisan Collective 22a Beswick St, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 7HR - "The history of dissident Catalonia since 1973. Combative, critical and free of gags." - 2019; 100 mins, English subtitles - manchestersf@solfed.org.uk

POBLE REBEL
- Documentary charting "the history of dissident Catalonia since 1973."
- showing Thursday October 2nd, 7:00pm

24.09.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pernyataan Solidaritas Persaudaraan Pekerja Anarko-Sindikalis (PPAS) atas Perlawanan Rakyat Agustus - September 2025 05 September 2025 Pernyataan solidaritas ini kami dedikasikan kepada mereka yang mati dibunuh Negara: Affan Kurniawan, Andika Lutfi Falah, Iko Juliant Junior, Muhammad Akbar Basri, Rheza Sendy Pratam...

PPAS mengutuk kekerasan Negara dan polisi selama aksi protes baru-baru ini, menghormati mereka yang dibunuh, menuntut keadilan, pembebasan tahanan, pengembalian yang hilang, serta menyerukan penghapusan kekuasaan parlemen, polisi, militer, dan represi fasis

#Anarkisme #iwa-ait #anarchism

05.09.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Solidarity Statement of the Persaudaraan Pekerja Anarko Sindikalis (PPAS) on the People’s Resistance August – September 2025 September 5, 2025 This solidarity statement we dedicate to those murdered by the State: Affan Kurniawan, Andika Lutfi Falah, Iko Juliant Junior, Muhammad Akbar Basri, Rheza Sendy Pratama, Rusdamdians...

PPAS condemns State and police violence during recent protests, honours those killed, demands justice, release of prisoners, the return of disappeared, and calls to abolish parliamentary power, police, military, and fascist repression.

#anarchism #iwa-ait #anarkisme

05.09.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Once again the people of our city showed the fascists that they should still be afraid of Bristol.

We outnumbered them 10 to 1 and they didn't get anywhere near the hotel.

Bristol is antifascist!

Once again the people of our city showed the fascists that they should still be afraid of Bristol. We outnumbered them 10 to 1 and they didn't get anywhere near the hotel. Bristol is antifascist!

Once again the people of our city showed the fascists that they should still be afraid of Bristol.

We outnumbered them 10 to 1 and they didn't get anywhere near the hotel.

Bristol is antifascist! 🏴🚩

#Bristol #BristolAntifascists #Antifascism #Antifascist #Antifa

09.08.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Bristol antifascists counter demo
Mercure Brigstow, Welsh Back, BS1 4SP

Racists plan to protest outside of the Mercure Hotel. Fill Welsh back road to ensure the racists never even get close.

Mask up, come with friends, don't talk to cops.

Saturday 9th August 11:30 AM

Bristol antifascists counter demo Mercure Brigstow, Welsh Back, BS1 4SP Racists plan to protest outside of the Mercure Hotel. Fill Welsh back road to ensure the racists never even get close. Mask up, come with friends, don't talk to cops. Saturday 9th August 11:30 AM

Bristol Antifascists counter demo 🏴🚩- Saturday 9th August  11:30am - 

Mercure Brigstow, Welsh Back, BS1 4SP

#BristolAntifascists #Antifascist #Antifascism #Antifa #BristolIsAntifascist #Bristol #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome

05.08.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Defend the migrant hotel against fascists, at Hatton Garden Liverpool L3 2AA on 9th August at 12 Noon

Defend the migrant hotel against fascists, at Hatton Garden Liverpool L3 2AA on 9th August at 12 Noon

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Organise! IWA statement on the far-right, fascism, racism and bigotry. - Organise Anarchists Ireland Last Saturday (19th July 2025) a mob of teenagers left a man stripped naked and barely standing in Tallaght. He was lucky to be rescued by a woman from the area. This is not the first attack of it’s k...

Organise!-IWA statement on the far right, fascism, racism and bigotry...
organiseanarchistsireland.com/organise-iwa...

24.07.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We'll be helping serve up some free antifascist pasta at the @cowleyclub.bsky.social this Friday

23.07.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Statement on the Housing Crisis following CATU national demonstration 5th July 2025 - Organise Anarchists Ireland We are committed to working towards a grassroots movement in order to ensure that everyone has access to proper housing.

Organise! IWA statement on the housing crisis:
organiseanarchistsireland.com/statement-on...

08.07.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Class War - Organise Anarchists Ireland Welcome to Class War, the anarcho-syndicalist bulletin from members of Organise! in the Republic of Ireland. Now quarterly. Inspired by CamilloΒ  Berneri’s newspaper Guerre de Classe. Which was edited ...

Latest issue of Class War available now:
organiseanarchistsireland.com/class-war/

16.05.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
red and black flag with text: "Let's make production and consumption sustainable! Stop climate crisis: Abolish capitalism!" (ASN Cologne)

red and black flag with text: "Let's make production and consumption sustainable! Stop climate crisis: Abolish capitalism!" (ASN Cologne)

Sustainable Workplaces?

How we might combine social-economic #transition with #ClimateChange adaptation

The growth of capitalist #economy can’t continue forever: the natural resources of wealth have been exploited for centuries. And humankind is more and more […]

[Original post on todon.nl]

10.05.2025 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On May 10, members of the ZSP in Warsaw took part in a demonstration in against racism and fascism and in defense of migrants. This was a counter-demonstration against a racist anti-immigrant march in the capital.

zsp.net.pl/anti-racist-...

10.05.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Poster for the screening of the film Who Was Harry Cowley (1984) at the Cowley Club.

Poster for the screening of the film Who Was Harry Cowley (1984) at the Cowley Club.

Want to know why the hub of Brighton's anarchist community is called the Cowley Club?

This Thursday at Brighton Solfed's weekly bar night we'll be showing the film Who Was Harry Cowley? (1984)

If you're interested in Solfed or in the Cowley Club come along.

28.04.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Liverpool SolFed will be hosting one of our famous anarchist film nights at the Next to Nowhere social centre at 20:00 (8 o'clock) tomorrow. We'll be showing In Time, from 2011. See you there πŸ™‚

11.04.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking: Stock Market Puts Stones In Pockets, Walks Into The Ocean

04.04.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A Quote from Rudolf Rocker's 'Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory & Practice', 1947. Quote begins: 'Political rights do not originate in parliaments, they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. Just as the employers always try to nullify every concession they had made to labor as soon as opportunity offered, as soon as any sign of weakness were observable in the workers' organisations, so governments also are always inclined to restrict or abrogate completely rights and freedoms that have been achieved if they imagine that the people will put up no resistance. Even in those countries where such things as freedom of the press, right of assembly, right of combination, and the like have long existed, governments are constantly trying to restrict those rights or to reinterpret them by juridical hair-splitting. Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will be met with the violent resistance of the populace. Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution'.

A Quote from Rudolf Rocker's 'Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory & Practice', 1947. Quote begins: 'Political rights do not originate in parliaments, they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. Just as the employers always try to nullify every concession they had made to labor as soon as opportunity offered, as soon as any sign of weakness were observable in the workers' organisations, so governments also are always inclined to restrict or abrogate completely rights and freedoms that have been achieved if they imagine that the people will put up no resistance. Even in those countries where such things as freedom of the press, right of assembly, right of combination, and the like have long existed, governments are constantly trying to restrict those rights or to reinterpret them by juridical hair-splitting. Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will be met with the violent resistance of the populace. Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution'.

While it's very politically on-brand for an Anarcho-Syndicalist to be posting Rudolf Rocker, this passage of his has been playing in my head a lot recently, for obvious reasons.

18.03.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Liverpool SolFed were out supporting the Crips Against Cuts demonstration in Liverpool today, fighting against cruel government cuts to disability benefits.

22.03.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sign this today before tomorrow's hearing...

26.03.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Acto contra la explotaciΓ³n en Lefties.

Acto contra la explotaciΓ³n en Lefties.

Este pasado sΓ‘bado, la CNT-AIT madrileΓ±a volviΓ³ a concentrarse frente a Lefties (Grupo Inditex) contra el acoso y la explotaciΓ³n, atendiendo asΓ­ al llamamiento a la solidaridad de la central anarcosindicalista de Badalona:
🌐 sovmadrid.org/nuevo-piquet...

24.03.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Imagine that you're in a workplace where management pressures workers to perform. Sexual harassment of a colleague is being trivialized. How to put pressure on a boss to address the issue? This and other situations were tackled in a workshop in Bratislava, led by @solfed.bsky.social comrade.

25.03.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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Anarchism and the New Military Wave (pt.1) - Freedom News A few thoughts on where we are as we teeter on the cusp of a decade-defining shift into armed nationalism ~ Rob Ray ~ In the deluge of capital-N News we’ve had over the last month, by far the most con...

Britain’s anarchists can and should work on ways to stop this catastrophe. But we must also consider that, as for most of the last four decades, we may not have the wherewithal to do so, or even to slow it down.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/03/23/a...

23.03.2025 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
filton10 | Instagram | Linktree Linktree. Make your link do more.

Sign the Filton 18 petition before Thursday 27th March, when there is a hearing at the Old Bailey to drop the terror connection.

The link to the petition is:Β tr.ee/eNH4DE2DXH

If you can, come to the hearing and protest. See Instagram for the details.

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They are being denied bail and treated as terrorists - sleep deprivation, denial of letters, separation from each other etc.

The campaign updates on Instagram: www.instagram.com/freethefilton18

There are links to media articles, how to donate or write to the prisoners etc. at:Β linktr.ee/filton10

23.03.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Filton 18 have been held in prison for over 6 months under terrorism legislation, for damaging weapons produced at the Israeli Elbit factory near Bristol. This is despite not actually being charged with terrorist offences...
www.instagram.com/freethefilton18

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In June 2024, the PA union published a call for financial support for anarchists in war-torn Sudan. Thanks to the collected funds, several of them were eventually able to leave the country. In total, over €7,000 has been raised through the solidarity campaign organized by the French CNT-AIT.

23.03.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Solidarity Federation | Section of the International Workers Association The concept of marketisation must have seemed a good idea to someone at some point. It’s a shame that it has fallen to higher education to prove the idiocy of capitalism.

solfed.org.uk
What did they expect?
SF Education Union analysis of the failing finances of UK higher education
#SFEU

08.03.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Solidarity Federation | Section of the International Workers Association The concept of marketisation must have seemed a good idea to someone at some point. It’s a shame that it has fallen to higher education to prove the idiocy of capitalism.

solfed.org.uk
What did they expect?
SF Education Union analysis of the failing finances of UK higher education
#SFEU

08.03.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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