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Anarchism

Anarchism is a social and political theory and practice that works for a free society without domination and hierarchy.

Social Ecology

Social Ecology, developed from green anarchism, is the idea that our ecological problems have their ultimate roots in our social problems. This is because the domination of nature and our ecology by humanity has its ultimate roots in the domination humanity by humans. Therefore, the solutions to our ecological problems are found by addressing our social and ecological problems simultaneously.

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Poetry and imagination must be integrated with science and technology, for we have evolved beyond an innocence that can be nourished exclusively by myths and dreams.

~ Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom

People want to treat ‘we’ll figure it out by working to get there’ as some sort of rhetorical evasion instead of being a fundamental expression of trust in the power of conscious collective effort.

~Anonymous, but quoted by Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

~Murray Bookchin, "A Politics for the Twenty-First Century"

There can be no separation of the revolutionary process from the revolutionary goal. A society based on self-administration must be achieved by means of self-administration.

~Murray Bookchin, Post Scarcity Anarchism

In modern times humans have become a wolf not only to humans, but to all nature.

~Abdullah Öcalan

The ecological question is fundamentally solved as the system is repressed and a socialist social system develops. That does not mean you cannot do something for the environment right away. On the contrary, it is necessary to combine the fight for the environment with the struggle for a general social revolution...

~Abdullah Öcalan

Social ecology advances a message that calls not only for a society free of hierarchy and hierarchical sensibilities, but for an ethics that places humanity in the natural world as an agent for rendering evolution social and natural fully self-conscious.

~ Murray Bookchin

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Action Antifouchiste

Puisqu'il semble que personne n'est au courant on va tirer les choses au clair quant au réseau dégueulasse qui se cache derrière @infolibertaire.net

Ce site pille littéralement tout contenu militant dans le but d'agréger un maximum de trafic et afin d'attirer les internautes dans un réseau mis en place et géré par un seul mec basé au canada.

Plus de 30 sites constituent le réseau fondé par un certain"Anarchoi".

Le plus connu c'est le site de VPC Ni Dieu Ni Maître qui semble faire des profits mirobolants.

Mais attention hein une part des profits sert la cause. T'achète pas un tee-shirt dégueulasse, produit à bas coût dans des conditions lamentables. Non tu achètes un acte de solidarité !

C'est plus qu'un simple teeshirt c'est un acte de solidarité chaque achat permet de lever des fonds pour faire des dons aux mêmes causes que vous défendez

Car une partie du pognon est reversée à une organisation appelée No Gods No Masters (gerée par le même petit malin), orga qui reverse ensuite sous forme de dons à différentes causes en toute opacité bien sûr.

Or... Il se trouve que parmi les causes financées on retrouve la galaxie de sites fondée et administrée toujours par Anarchoi.

Votre teeshirt financé plus de 100 groupes militants Chaque achat récolte des dons mensuels à des initiatives comme info libertaire offrant un hébergement web non commercial sur des serveurs écologique et aidant les militants à construire une présence en ligne

Soutenez la scène punk

Nos teeshirt soutiennent financièrement les plus grandes communautés punk et plateforme de streaming musical comme pirate punk et d'autres outils essentiels aidant les groupes à promouvoir leurs albums

Site qui pille le contenu d'artistes des scènes indépendantes (ou pas) qui ont un grand succès chez les "jeunes ados rebelles", très friands des tee-shirts vendus par Ni Dieu Ni Maître.

C'est l'économie circulaire. Tu ratisses un max des visiteurs sur tes sites en pillant le monde militant et les artistes, pour flécher ton public vers ton site de VPC qui en retour finance l'infrastructure de ton réseau.

Afin de pouvoir offrir gratuitement des milliers de téléchargement là communauté devait trouver un moyen de payer ses frais d'opération sans recourir à des publicités

Anarchoi est célèbre pour son management toxique de ses équipes de modération comme pour l'agressivité légendaire contre toute personne qui ose remettre en cause ses pratiques dégueulasses. En bref fuyez tout ces sites de merde.

Avec le pognon engrangé, ce faux collectif annonce héberger un centaine de sites militants (c'est faux) qui se révèlent pour tous ceux qu'on a pu trouver en tout cas, être les vitrines du même anarchoi. Il va jusqu'à se faire passer pour les fédérations anarchistes locales.

Dans le réseau on retrouve notamment :

  • anarcho-punk net
  • Pirate punk
  • Quebec underground
  • Forum libertaire
  • Punk download
  • Punks and skins
  • Anarchist quotes
  • Et tout un tas de faux website de fédération anarchiste reproduit en un dizaines de langues.

On sait pas si le montage juridique de son réseau lui permet de défiscaliser les dons. Ou au moins de faire baisser ses bénéfices. Bref tout ça mériterait une enquête approfondie. Si y a des motivé·es hésitez pas à nous contacter. Merci à @doujar.bsky.social

Liste des sites du réseau Anarchoi.

Ne vous étonnez donc pas de trouver des contenus antisémites, transphobes, ou du HB. Y a zéro filtre tout est automatisé. Anarchoi la politique c'est juste son business. Screen du site info libertaire

L'idéologie de l'identité de genre est profondément mysogine et homophobe

Le réseau Ni Dieu Ni Maître / No Gods No Masters s’articule autour de plusieurs sites web multilingues qui constituent la plateforme de vente en ligne. Chacun reprend le slogan anarchiste « Ni Dieu ni Maître » dans une langue différente. On dénombre cinq sites principaux interconnectés Ces sites présentent un contenu similaire (catalogue de vêtements, même modèle économique) adaptés à chaque langue, avec une promotion commune : « Livraison gratuite/Free shipping », « coopérative de vêtements éthiques », « chaque vente contribue à des dons pour des causes », etc..

Un visiteur peut naviguer dans sa langue sans être redirigé vers un autre domaine, chaque version étant sur un domaine dédié

Aucune redirection externe apparente n’est visible pour l’utilisateur lors de la commande, mais en back-end les commandes sont transmises à la plateforme Spreadshirt Ces sites sont de simples vitrines : ils proposent des designs et gère le site web, mais n’a pas de stock propre ni d’atelier d’impression. Ce fonctionnement « zéro inventaire » est assumé dans leur communication (« zero inventory, zero waste »)

Concrètement, lorsqu’une commande est passée sur un des sites, c’est Spreadshirt qui la prend en charge en coulisses : Spreadshirt assure l’impression des t-shirts, la livraison au client et gère également les paiements. 100% dropshiping En 2010 un t-shirt était vendu 14,99 $ via la boutique Pirate-Punk/No Gods No Masters, dont 8,90 $ revenaient à Spreadshirt, laissant environ 6 $ de bénéfice net par t-shirt pour “Anarchoi"

La "coopérative" se présente comme « à but non lucratif » et met en avant ses dons, mais il n’y a pas de statut légal clair affiché (pas de n° d’association ou coopérative déclaré publiquement sur le site, ni de rapport financier détaillé). Elle recueille des fonds sous l’étiquette “non-profit” sans cadre légal : les acheteurs pourraient croire à une obligation formelle de donation, là où il s’agit d’un engagement moral unilatéral.

Autant vous dire...

Le catalogue de No Gods No Masters puise largement dans l’iconographie militante, les logos de mouvements, les images d’artistes ou de groupes de musique engagés... Un “pillage” culturel contraire à l’éthique DIY ... Pillage généralisé des petites distro, artistes indépendants, etc, sur les plateformes de téléchargement illégaux qui servent de produits d'appel pour les boutiques. Évidemment aucun site ne comporte de mentions légales, pas de noms de société, et le whois protégé par des services d'anonymisation.

Les sites de VPC affichent des labels du type « 100% vegan – PETA Approved » sur ses produits. Il faut noter que ces certifications proviennent en réalité de... Spreadshirt La réalité les teeshirt de marque "fruit of the loom" sont fabriqués au Honduras...

Comme le dit anarchoi "plus qu'un simple teeshirt", une arnaque bien ficelée. Il existe une possibilité que derrière ce modèle se cache un schéma, hypothétique, d’optimisation fiscale.

Le site de VPC (NGNM) génère des revenus via la vente de t-shirts. Ces revenus sont normalement imposables s’ils sont déclarés en tant qu’activité commerciale NGNM effectue des “dons” à des associations militantes affiliées.

→ Ces dons sont enregistrés comme des charges d’exploitation ou dépenses caritatives, ce qui peut potentiellement réduire le bénéfice imposable L’asso "militante" reçoit les fonds et les utilise pour financer ses propres projets ou ses sites web. Si l’asso est déclarée comme organisme d’intérêt général au Canada, elle peut délivrer un reçu fiscal permettant au donateur de déduire ce montant de ses impôts. L’argent revient indirectement dans le réseau géré par Anarchoi. Si ces associations financent des sites du réseau notamment en payant l'hébergement (Pirate-Punk, Libertaire . net, etc...), alors l’argent circule sans réellement quitter le contrôle du même groupe Là on est dans le domaine de l'hypothèse, mais cependant vu l'opacité organisée par l'administrateur de cette galaxie de sites, on peut s'attendre à tout. Et puis c'est pas comme si par le passé il avait pas déjà été pointé du doigt pour ramasser des dons afin de payer l'hébergement et les serveurs de ces sites de piratage de contenus, alors que les fichiers étaient stockés sur megaupload où d'autres plateformes..

English

Action Antifouchiste

Since it seems no one knows, we're going to clear the air about the disgusting network behind @infolibertaire.net. This site literally plunders any activist content in order to aggregate maximum traffic and attract Internet users to a network set up and managed by a single guy based in Canada.

More than 30 sites make up the network founded by a certain "Anarchoi."

The most famous is the mail-order site Ni Dieu Ni Maître (Neither God Nor Master), which seems to be making huge profits.

But be careful, a portion of the profits goes to the cause. You're not buying a disgusting t-shirt, cheaply produced in appalling conditions. No, you're buying an act of solidarity! It's more than just a t-shirt; it's an act of solidarity. Each purchase raises funds to donate to the same causes you support.

Because a portion of the money is donated to an organization called No Gods No Masters (run by the same smart aleck), an organization that then donates to various causes, all in complete secrecy, of course. However... It turns out that among the funded causes are the galaxy of websites founded and still managed by Anarchoi.

A site that plunders the content of artists from independent (or not) scenes who are very popular among "young rebellious teens," who are very fond of the T-shirts sold by Ni Dieu Ni Maître.

It's the circular economy. You rake in as many visitors as possible to your sites by plundering the activist world and artists, to direct your audience to your mail-order site, which in turn finances your network infrastructure. In order to offer thousands of free downloads, the community had to find a way to cover its operating costs without resorting to advertising.

Anarchoi is famous for its toxic management of its moderation teams as well as for its legendary aggression against anyone who dares to question its disgusting practices. In short, run away from all these shitty sites. With the money it's made, this fake collective claims to host a hundred activist sites (it's false), which, according to everyone we've been able to find, at least, turn out to be the showcases of the same anarchoi. He even goes so far as to impersonate local anarchist federations.

The network includes:

  • anarcho-punk net
  • Pirate punk
  • Quebec underground
  • Libertarian forum
  • Punk download
  • Punks and skins
  • Anarchist quotes

And a whole host of fake anarchist federation websites reproduced in dozens of languages.

We don't know if the legal structure of his network allows him to deduct donations from taxes. Or at least reduce his profits. In short, all this merits a thorough investigation. If anyone is interested, don't hesitate to contact us.

Thanks to @doujar.bsky.social

List of Anarchoi network websites.

Born So don't be surprised to find anti-Semitic, transphobic, or HB content. There are zero filters, everything is automated. Anarchist politics is just his business.

The No Gods No Masters network is structured around several multilingual websites that constitute the online sales platform. Each uses the anarchist slogan "Neither God nor Master" in a different language. There are five main interconnected sites.

These sites present similar content (clothing catalog, same business model) adapted to each language, with a common promotion: "Free shipping," "ethical clothing cooperative," "each sale contributes to donations for causes," etc.

A visitor can browse in their own language without being redirected to another domain, as each version is on a dedicated domain.

No apparent external redirection is visible to the user when ordering, but in the backend, orders are transmitted to the Spreadshirt platform.

These sites are simple showcases: they offer designs and manage the website, but they do not have their own inventory or print shop. This "zero inventory, zero waste" approach is reflected in their communications.

In concrete terms, when an order is placed on one of the sites, Spreadshirt handles it behind the scenes: Spreadshirt prints the t-shirts, delivers them to the customer, and also handles payments. 100% Dropshipping

In 2010, a t-shirt sold for $14.99 via the Pirate-Punk/No Gods No Masters store, $8.90 of which went to Spreadshirt, leaving approximately $6 net profit per t-shirt for "Anarchoi." The "cooperative" presents itself as "non-profit" and highlights its donations, but there is no clear legal status displayed (no association or cooperative number publicly declared on the website, nor any detailed financial report). It raises funds under the "non-profit" label without a legal framework: buyers might believe it's a formal obligation to donate, when in fact it's a unilateral moral commitment. In other words...

The No Gods No Masters catalog draws heavily on activist iconography, movement logos, images of activist artists or bands... A cultural "plundering" that runs counter to DIY ethics

... Widespread plundering Small distros, independent artists, etc., on illegal download platforms that serve as loss leaders for stores.

Obviously, none of the sites have legal notices, no company names, and the WHOIS is protected by anonymization services.

Mail-order sites display labels like "100% vegan - PETA Approved" on their products. It should be noted that these certifications actually come from... Spreadshirt

The reality: "Fruit of the Loom" brand T-shirts are made in Honduras...

As anarchoi puts it, "more than just a T-shirt," a well-crafted scam.

There is a possibility that behind this model lies a hypothetical tax optimization scheme.

The mail-order site (NGNM) generates income through the sale of T-shirts. This income is normally taxable if declared as a commercial activity.

NGNM makes "donations" to affiliated activist organizations. → These donations are recorded as operating expenses or charitable expenses, which can potentially reduce taxable income.

The "activist" association receives the funds and uses them to finance its own projects or websites.

If the association is registered as a public interest organization in Canada, it can issue a tax receipt allowing the donor to deduct this amount from their taxes.

The money indirectly flows back into the network managed by Anarchoi. If these associations finance sites within the network, particularly by paying for hosting (Pirate-Punk, Libertaire.net, etc.), then the money circulates without actually leaving the control of the same group.

This is hypothetical, but given the opacity organized by the administrators of this galaxy of sites, anything can be expected. And it's not as if he hadn't already been singled out in the past for collecting donations to pay for the hosting and servers of these content piracy sites, while the files were stored on Megaupload or other platforms.

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English machine translation below.

French

Action Antifouchiste

Puisqu'il semble que personne n'est au courant on va tirer les choses au clair quant au réseau dégueulasse qui se cache derrière @infolibertaire.net

Ce site pille littéralement tout contenu militant dans le but d'agréger un maximum de trafic et afin d'attirer les internautes dans un réseau mis en place et géré par un seul mec basé au canada.

Plus de 30 sites constituent le réseau fondé par un certain"Anarchoi".

Le plus connu c'est le site de VPC Ni Dieu Ni Maître qui semble faire des profits mirobolants.

Mais attention hein une part des profits sert la cause. T'achète pas un tee-shirt dégueulasse, produit à bas coût dans des conditions lamentables. Non tu achètes un acte de solidarité !

C'est plus qu'un simple teeshirt c'est un acte de solidarité chaque achat permet de lever des fonds pour faire des dons aux mêmes causes que vous défendez

Car une partie du pognon est reversée à une organisation appelée No Gods No Masters (gerée par le même petit malin), orga qui reverse ensuite sous forme de dons à différentes causes en toute opacité bien sûr.

Or... Il se trouve que parmi les causes financées on retrouve la galaxie de sites fondée et administrée toujours par Anarchoi.

Votre teeshirt financé plus de 100 groupes militants Chaque achat récolte des dons mensuels à des initiatives comme info libertaire offrant un hébergement web non commercial sur des serveurs écologique et aidant les militants à construire une présence en ligne

Soutenez la scène punk

Nos teeshirt soutiennent financièrement les plus grandes communautés punk et plateforme de streaming musical comme pirate punk et d'autres outils essentiels aidant les groupes à promouvoir leurs albums

Site qui pille le contenu d'artistes des scènes indépendantes (ou pas) qui ont un grand succès chez les "jeunes ados rebelles", très friands des tee-shirts vendus par Ni Dieu Ni Maître.

C'est l'économie circulaire. Tu ratisses un max des visiteurs sur tes sites en pillant le monde militant et les artistes, pour flécher ton public vers ton site de VPC qui en retour finance l'infrastructure de ton réseau.

Afin de pouvoir offrir gratuitement des milliers de téléchargement là communauté devait trouver un moyen de payer ses frais d'opération sans recourir à des publicités

Anarchoi est célèbre pour son management toxique de ses équipes de modération comme pour l'agressivité légendaire contre toute personne qui ose remettre en cause ses pratiques dégueulasses. En bref fuyez tout ces sites de merde.

Avec le pognon engrangé, ce faux collectif annonce héberger un centaine de sites militants (c'est faux) qui se révèlent pour tous ceux qu'on a pu trouver en tout cas, être les vitrines du même anarchoi. Il va jusqu'à se faire passer pour les fédérations anarchistes locales.

Dans le réseau on retrouve notamment :

  • anarcho-punk net
  • Pirate punk
  • Quebec underground
  • Forum libertaire
  • Punk download
  • Punks and skins
  • Anarchist quotes
  • Et tout un tas de faux website de fédération anarchiste reproduit en un dizaines de langues.

On sait pas si le montage juridique de son réseau lui permet de défiscaliser les dons. Ou au moins de faire baisser ses bénéfices. Bref tout ça mériterait une enquête approfondie. Si y a des motivé·es hésitez pas à nous contacter. Merci à @doujar.bsky.social

Liste des sites du réseau Anarchoi.

Ne vous étonnez donc pas de trouver des contenus antisémites, transphobes, ou du HB. Y a zéro filtre tout est automatisé. Anarchoi la politique c'est juste son business. Screen du site info libertaire

L'idéologie de l'identité de genre est profondément mysogine et homophobe

Le réseau Ni Dieu Ni Maître / No Gods No Masters s’articule autour de plusieurs sites web multilingues qui constituent la plateforme de vente en ligne. Chacun reprend le slogan anarchiste « Ni Dieu ni Maître » dans une langue différente. On dénombre cinq sites principaux interconnectés

Ces sites présentent un contenu similaire (catalogue de vêtements, même modèle économique) adaptés à chaque langue, avec une promotion commune : « Livraison gratuite/Free shipping », « coopérative de vêtements éthiques », « chaque vente contribue à des dons pour des causes », etc..

Un visiteur peut naviguer dans sa langue sans être redirigé vers un autre domaine, chaque version étant sur un domaine dédié

Aucune redirection externe apparente n’est visible pour l’utilisateur lors de la commande, mais en back-end les commandes sont transmises à la plateforme Spreadshirt Ces sites sont de simples vitrines : ils proposent des designs et gère le site web, mais n’a pas de stock propre ni d’atelier d’impression. Ce fonctionnement « zéro inventaire » est assumé dans leur communication (« zero inventory, zero waste »)

Concrètement, lorsqu’une commande est passée sur un des sites, c’est Spreadshirt qui la prend en charge en coulisses : Spreadshirt assure l’impression des t-shirts, la livraison au client et gère également les paiements. 100% dropshiping En 2010 un t-shirt était vendu 14,99 $ via la boutique Pirate-Punk/No Gods No Masters, dont 8,90 $ revenaient à Spreadshirt, laissant environ 6 $ de bénéfice net par t-shirt pour “Anarchoi"

La "coopérative" se présente comme « à but non lucratif » et met en avant ses dons, mais il n’y a pas de statut légal clair affiché (pas de n° d’association ou coopérative déclaré publiquement sur le site, ni de rapport financier détaillé). Elle recueille des fonds sous l’étiquette “non-profit” sans cadre légal : les acheteurs pourraient croire à une obligation formelle de donation, là où il s’agit d’un engagement moral unilatéral.

Autant vous dire...

Le catalogue de No Gods No Masters puise largement dans l’iconographie militante, les logos de mouvements, les images d’artistes ou de groupes de musique engagés... Un “pillage” culturel contraire à l’éthique DIY ... Pillage généralisé des petites distro, artistes indépendants, etc, sur les plateformes de téléchargement illégaux qui servent de produits d'appel pour les boutiques. Évidemment aucun site ne comporte de mentions légales, pas de noms de société, et le whois protégé par des services d'anonymisation.

Les sites de VPC affichent des labels du type « 100% vegan – PETA Approved » sur ses produits. Il faut noter que ces certifications proviennent en réalité de... Spreadshirt La réalité les teeshirt de marque "fruit of the loom" sont fabriqués au Honduras...

Comme le dit anarchoi "plus qu'un simple teeshirt", une arnaque bien ficelée. Il existe une possibilité que derrière ce modèle se cache un schéma, hypothétique, d’optimisation fiscale.

Le site de VPC (NGNM) génère des revenus via la vente de t-shirts. Ces revenus sont normalement imposables s’ils sont déclarés en tant qu’activité commerciale NGNM effectue des “dons” à des associations militantes affiliées.

→ Ces dons sont enregistrés comme des charges d’exploitation ou dépenses caritatives, ce qui peut potentiellement réduire le bénéfice imposable L’asso "militante" reçoit les fonds et les utilise pour financer ses propres projets ou ses sites web.

Si l’asso est déclarée comme organisme d’intérêt général au Canada, elle peut délivrer un reçu fiscal permettant au donateur de déduire ce montant de ses impôts.

L’argent revient indirectement dans le réseau géré par Anarchoi. Si ces associations financent des sites du réseau notamment en payant l'hébergement (Pirate-Punk, Libertaire . net, etc...), alors l’argent circule sans réellement quitter le contrôle du même groupe

Là on est dans le domaine de l'hypothèse, mais cependant vu l'opacité organisée par l'administrateur de cette galaxie de sites, on peut s'attendre à tout.

Et puis c'est pas comme si par le passé il avait pas déjà été pointé du doigt pour ramasser des dons afin de payer l'hébergement et les serveurs de ces sites de piratage de contenus, alors que les fichiers étaient stockés sur megaupload où d'autres plateformes..

English

Action Antifouchiste

Since it seems no one knows, we're going to clear the air about the disgusting network behind @infolibertaire.net. This site literally plunders any activist content in order to aggregate maximum traffic and attract Internet users to a network set up and managed by a single guy based in Canada.

More than 30 sites make up the network founded by a certain "Anarchoi."

The most famous is the mail-order site Ni Dieu Ni Maître (Neither God Nor Master), which seems to be making huge profits.

But be careful, a portion of the profits goes to the cause. You're not buying a disgusting t-shirt, cheaply produced in appalling conditions. No, you're buying an act of solidarity! It's more than just a t-shirt; it's an act of solidarity. Each purchase raises funds to donate to the same causes you support.

Because a portion of the money is donated to an organization called No Gods No Masters (run by the same smart aleck), an organization that then donates to various causes, all in complete secrecy, of course. However... It turns out that among the funded causes are the galaxy of websites founded and still managed by Anarchoi.

A site that plunders the content of artists from independent (or not) scenes who are very popular among "young rebellious teens," who are very fond of the T-shirts sold by Ni Dieu Ni Maître.

It's the circular economy. You rake in as many visitors as possible to your sites by plundering the activist world and artists, to direct your audience to your mail-order site, which in turn finances your network infrastructure. In order to offer thousands of free downloads, the community had to find a way to cover its operating costs without resorting to advertising.

Anarchoi is famous for its toxic management of its moderation teams as well as for its legendary aggression against anyone who dares to question its disgusting practices. In short, run away from all these shitty sites. With the money it's made, this fake collective claims to host a hundred activist sites (it's false), which, according to everyone we've been able to find, at least, turn out to be the showcases of the same anarchoi. He even goes so far as to impersonate local anarchist federations.

The network includes:

  • anarcho-punk net
  • Pirate punk
  • Quebec underground
  • Libertarian forum
  • Punk download
  • Punks and skins
  • Anarchist quotes

And a whole host of fake anarchist federation websites reproduced in dozens of languages.

We don't know if the legal structure of his network allows him to deduct donations from taxes. Or at least reduce his profits. In short, all this merits a thorough investigation. If anyone is interested, don't hesitate to contact us.

Thanks to @doujar.bsky.social

List of Anarchoi network websites.

Born So don't be surprised to find anti-Semitic, transphobic, or HB content. There are zero filters, everything is automated. Anarchist politics is just his business.

The No Gods No Masters network is structured around several multilingual websites that constitute the online sales platform. Each uses the anarchist slogan "Neither God nor Master" in a different language. There are five main interconnected sites.

These sites present similar content (clothing catalog, same business model) adapted to each language, with a common promotion: "Free shipping," "ethical clothing cooperative," "each sale contributes to donations for causes," etc.

A visitor can browse in their own language without being redirected to another domain, as each version is on a dedicated domain.

No apparent external redirection is visible to the user when ordering, but in the backend, orders are transmitted to the Spreadshirt platform.

These sites are simple showcases: they offer designs and manage the website, but they do not have their own inventory or print shop. This "zero inventory, zero waste" approach is reflected in their communications.

In concrete terms, when an order is placed on one of the sites, Spreadshirt handles it behind the scenes: Spreadshirt prints the t-shirts, delivers them to the customer, and also handles payments. 100% Dropshipping

In 2010, a t-shirt sold for $14.99 via the Pirate-Punk/No Gods No Masters store, $8.90 of which went to Spreadshirt, leaving approximately $6 net profit per t-shirt for "Anarchoi." The "cooperative" presents itself as "non-profit" and highlights its donations, but there is no clear legal status displayed (no association or cooperative number publicly declared on the website, nor any detailed financial report). It raises funds under the "non-profit" label without a legal framework: buyers might believe it's a formal obligation to donate, when in fact it's a unilateral moral commitment. In other words...

The No Gods No Masters catalog draws heavily on activist iconography, movement logos, images of activist artists or bands... A cultural "plundering" that runs counter to DIY ethics

... Widespread plundering Small distros, independent artists, etc., on illegal download platforms that serve as loss leaders for stores.

Obviously, none of the sites have legal notices, no company names, and the WHOIS is protected by anonymization services.

Mail-order sites display labels like "100% vegan - PETA Approved" on their products. It should be noted that these certifications actually come from... Spreadshirt

The reality: "Fruit of the Loom" brand T-shirts are made in Honduras...

As anarchoi puts it, "more than just a T-shirt," a well-crafted scam.

There is a possibility that behind this model lies a hypothetical tax optimization scheme.

The mail-order site (NGNM) generates income through the sale of T-shirts. This income is normally taxable if declared as a commercial activity.

NGNM makes "donations" to affiliated activist organizations. → These donations are recorded as operating expenses or charitable expenses, which can potentially reduce taxable income.

The "activist" association receives the funds and uses them to finance its own projects or websites.

If the association is registered as a public interest organization in Canada, it can issue a tax receipt allowing the donor to deduct this amount from their taxes.

The money indirectly flows back into the network managed by Anarchoi. If these associations finance sites within the network, particularly by paying for hosting (Pirate-Punk, Libertaire.net, etc.), then the money circulates without actually leaving the control of the same group.

This is hypothetical, but given the opacity organized by the administrators of this galaxy of sites, anything can be expected. And it's not as if he hadn't already been singled out in the past for collecting donations to pay for the hosting and servers of these content piracy sites, while the files were stored on Megaupload or other platforms.

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Ocalan called on the group he founded to lay down its arms and disband.

"All groups must lay down their arms and the PKK must dissolve itself," he said. Ocalan's call for "all groups" indicates that he likely means all PKK offshoots in Syria and Iran.

Since 2012, Syrian Kurds have been able to carve out a semi-autonomous region in northeast Syria, which they refer to as Rojava, meaning Western Kurdistan.

Turkey has repeatedly targeted the region, saying the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the official military wing of Rojava, is an offshoot of the PKK, an armed group that has been fighting the Turkish state since 1984. The SDF denies links to the PKK.

"there will be no need for weapons if attacks against the Kurds come to an end."

"SDF officials interviewed by RIC say paths such as simply laying down their weapons are impossible due to the current threats facing northeast Syria - primarily attacks from Turkey and the Turkish-backed SNA."

"Ocalan’s message concerns the PKK and has nothing to do with us in Syria."

"there will be no justification for Turkey’s attacks on us in Syria".

Local Kurdish media reports that attacks by Turkish-backed groups have so far not stopped, with shelling targeting the countryside surrounding the Kurdish-majority city of Kobani.

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Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on the prison island of Imrali since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world.

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You can skip the ads that iHeart Radio injected at the start.

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Anarchism is thus neither a doctrine, nor a syndicalist movement, nor a particular philosophy of one or more nineteenth-century authors, nor is it a definite political stance, although all this may derive from it and although it has manifested itself eminently in famous authors and in egregious political movements, but anarchism today is a topology, that is, it is a place outside space and time, a utopian position. Landauer would have called it atopic, a position that can be found in the present, in the past and in the future, feeding back on itself as it is actualised.

Thus, we already find the anarchic position in classical Greece, but it can also be traced in prehistory and in other cultures; we find it in the anarchising aspects of the works of writers, artists, scientists, poets, who are not regarded as anarchists given the exegesis of their works as a whole by their own confraternities, but who were so at some point or at many moments that can be rescued and retraced. There is an urgent need for a History of Anarchic Philosophy, ranging from the Cynics of ancient Greece to the Sufis of modern Iran, from Zenon of Citium to Omar Khayyam and beyond.

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The near future in front of us is uncertain. Many possibilities exist, covered with fog of uncertainty. Many people in Syria want peace, but the air if full with tension and anticipation of war. There are doubts whether another option exists, other than standing to defend the revolutionary gains against all odds and against all authoritarian powers around. Peaceful agreements and diplomatic solutions are hard to believe when it comes to states. Everyone pursues their interests. And peoples of Northeast Syria will pursue their interests, too — revolution must be defended. Otherwise — no justice, no peace, no free life. We will continue our struggle here, and we are ready to take our humble place in whatever is about to come.

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Having risen out of obscure boards on 4chan and Reddit, the alt-right is a right-wing extremist movement that’s mostly decentralized. Despite this, they have become incredibly pervasive, not through logical argument, but through operating in a way that makes spotting and opposing them particularly tricky. This post shall act as a brief look into some of the tactics they employ, and how leftists can effectively counter them.

  1. The Lulz
  1. Never On The Defensive
  1. I Decide What You Believe
  1. Whataboutism
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Finnish interview: over here.

Update: I'm a fool, they have an English version, it is here.

~~English translation: over here on Riseup Share.~~

(For ease of reading, one can click "View in browser", it should display as a plain text file.)

Summary: a Finnish-language anarchist website published an interview with Ksusha, a member in the Solidarity Collectives network in Ukraine.

I found the interview informative of the situation they have, and wanted to share. However, Finnish is as good as encryption to most people, so I translated it to English.

Since I think Lemmy does not support posting long texts in post summaries or comments, I uploaded the translation to RiseUp Share.

I hope authors forgive that I've not contacted them to ask for permission, because I don't have their contacts, although eventually I must find a way to contact Solidarity Collectives on another matter. The interview in Finnish was also published in the magazine "Kapinatyöläinen" ("rebel worker"), issue 61.

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TAKE THESE AND MAKE SOMETHING BETTER and brilliant… catchy! Record it. Link it. SPREAD IT. Let these people know they will be held accountable. And by these people I refer specifically to no actual person who has ever existed. These lyrics are entirely the work of Imagination and shared as art, free speech, poetry so that others can make great music with them. They are owned by everyone. In fact, I found them somewhere else and pasted them here.

He want to be a big man

But he know he a small man

In private he dress up and do the can can

He all cartoony like gruncle Stan Stan.

He gotta rich friend he think the man man

His rich friend he love the klan klan

The two be goose steppin’ 

The two be goose steppin’

In the mornin’ he pulling da fire alarma 

He just trying to scare you and make up more trauma

He can’t live without all dat drama

He won’t eat middle eastern cause he says he hates dat schwarma.

Bad things gonna come back on him because of dat karma

The two be goose steppin’ 

The two be goose steppin’

He talkin’ real loud, tryna sound all tough

But we all know he cain’t sell that rough stuff

Big shoes, big coat, but he still bluff bluff

He be flexin’ like he diamond, but he straight Hufflepuff

Million dollar this that, but it all fake fake

Runnin’ round town like he pushin’ that weight weight

Luigi comin’ Luigi comin’

He scared of the dark, leave a night light on late

Tryna act all brave but his heart pumpin’ shake shake 

Luigi comin’ Luigi comin’ ‘cause

The two be goose steppin’

The two be goose steppin’

He say he run the block, but he really just rent it

Tried to buy a Rolex, but the price he couldn’t dent it

All talk, no walk, that’s how he designed it

Tryna boss up but his clout been rewinded

He scared of his shadow, jumpin’ left and right

Actin’ like a king but he cryin’ every night 

Luigi comin’

Say he got power, but his grip too light

He can’t handle heat, better step outta sight

The two be goose steppin’

The two be goose steppin’

He got a lil’ squad, they be all yes men

Sayin’ “yes sir,” but they all just pretend

He be braggin’ ‘bout his riches, but he can’t even spend

Tryna swing big, but his punches don’t extend

Talk about respect but he ain’t earned none

Still runnin’ from the truth like he stole some .

Lookin’ in the mirror, see a fraud, not a don

Tryna build an empire but the bricks all gone

The two be goose steppin’

The two be goose steppin’

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  • 'Dr. Phil' embeds with ICE in Chicago
  • Trump administration deputizes DOJ agencies for immigration enforcement
  • ICE makes arrests in Arizona, Puerto Rico

Phil McGraw, known as "Dr. Phil" for the eponymous American television series focused on mental health, followed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and other federal agents during the action, according to his X account and two sources familiar with the matter.

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It appears the US congress has just proposed (edited) a bill that declares "Antifa" a terrorist organization.

This doesn't even make sense as Antifa isn't an organization, but just a shared name for anyone that self-identifies as a person opposed to and willing to fight fascism 🤦‍♂️

Stay safe out there!

Note: SLRPNK is an EU based service and we are openly Antifa here, and proudly so!

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This is a very rough start for a guide to getting involved in activist work in your community. Please chime in with ideas! Many people are feeling at a bit of a loss as to how to get meaningfully involved and I wanted to try to offer some help.

The first step to becoming an effective activist is to become part of your community—something you cannot do online or in isolation at home. If you don’t know anyone locally you probably won’t be a helpful part of a network of resistance down the line except perhaps by lending monetary support online occasionally or phone banking for prisoners. In order to protect people in your community you need to establish yourself as a trusted part of it in some way shape or form.

Start small. Get involved in organizations that feed the homeless or provide meal trains for the sick, elderly, overwhelmed, or others that need it. Join a weekly trash cleanup crew in a local park. See if your local womens, lgbt, or homeless shelters need anything you can provide. One or more of these options usually exists even in rural towns.

  • Check online for radical bookstores or community centers (some cities have lgbt clubs or community centers too) where you might start exploring local options or making friends with people who share your values. Even the local grassroots punk venue or garage show circuit might be a good avenue towards building community.

  • don’t discount religious organizations only qua religion. Not all churchgoers (or church leaders for that matter) believe in god, and not every religious person supports the dark sides of their religion’s history. Often these organizations are the only already organized ways to get involved in very rural areas. Some church or mosque supported soup kitchens try to evangelize their visitors but some do not. Test out a few. Trust your guts. Unitarian, Buddhist, and Jesuit organizations are often among the more secular-friendly side of religious charity work. 

  • many religious organizations support/sponsor a number of refugees who may be at risk under the current administration. You can offer to provide rides if you drive (to the grocery, to ESL classes, a carpools to school), prepared meals if you cook, yardwork, woodwork, piano lessons, home repair, english conversation practice, etc.

Join existing activist groups. Join already active resistance groups. In an urban setting there are many to choose from. In a rural setting there will inevitably be less options.

  • “Friends of the” river/park/community theatre organizations are one place to seek community connections that can solidify into important networks of solidarity down the line. Ask about volunteer opportunities in your area on nextdoor.

  • Even if you are not an environmentalist consider volunteering for local branches of the sierra club or similar to build a network with other activists.

Stay safe

Trust your gut. If you go to the first meeting and they are talking about doing something you totally disagree with don’t feel like you have to go along with it no matter what theory they spout, you can always find something else more in alignment with your morals. If you find yourself doing something to prove authenticity or that feels like initiation/hazing that is probably not a healthy organization. If all decisions are deferred to one person and you are getting a creepy vibe from them that is probably a cult. Use your common sense. Use the buddy system.


  • If you involve yourself in anything that might seem remotely sketchy to an ultra conservative government be wary of your online paper trail which could be used against you. Before engaging in online organizing, please learn the ins and outs of online privacy. Do NOT engage on platforms like ig/fb/twitter and other known bad actors. Ensure any platform you do use is encrypted properly. See the thread below by @[email protected] and the reply by @[email protected] for online safety tips.

etiquette

  • Don’t expect people to always be grateful for your offer of food/resources. People are multi-dimensional and have complex histories. If you work with displaced people some of them will be intolerant or sexist. Just be kind, polite, and respectful to each individual’s wishes once they make them clear. If they are abusive towards you exit the situation and let others in your group know. In many cases your group will be able to point out these individuals beforehand to avoid confrontation.

  • Don’t try to immediately voice your opinions loudly, feel an organization out by watching and listening to decide if you’d like to be a part of it. How do they deal with internal disagreements?, What are their priorities (as demonstrated by their actions? Their words?), Are they trying to control their membership in a way that comes off like bullying or grooming?

  • There will probably be people involved in every activity you check out that you don’t like or don’t understand, or don’t find helpful. Someone who is always virtue signaling or always condescending, or just a huge oddball. This is just part of being involved in these spaces, it’s okay if you don’t get along with or like everyone.

  • If you attend protests but didn’t organize the event don’t talk to journalists. They are likely to misquote, twist, and misrepresent your words.
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The fantasy-story of right-wing anarchy is creating misinformation, someone thinks that something like "anarcho-capitalism" is real philosophy, instead of the linguistic distortion of fascist-capitalism that it is.

Should people even specify that they are left-wing anarchists now? Do we really want to put a stop to this propagandistic joke? Anarchy will always be the extreme left into the political pendulum.

And I will tell you more: anarchism is by its nature also pacifism, as it aims to prevent any form of uncontrolled power on others. This is to silence even centrists: another fake group, people who think that it's not "extremist" in its own abstinence, in delegating violence.

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Murray Bookchin (1921 - 2006)

Fri Jan 14, 1921

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Murray Bookchin, born on this day in 1921, was a libertarian socialist political philosopher whose thought is associated with the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.

Bookchin was the author of two dozen books covering topics in politics, philosophy, history, urban planning, and social ecology. Some notable titles include "Our Synthetic Environment", "Post-Scarcity Anarchism", and "The Ecology of Freedom". In the late 1990s, he became disenchanted with what he saw as an increasingly apolitical "lifestylism" of the contemporary anarchist movement and stopped referring to himself as an anarchist.

Bookchin's ideas have influenced social movements since the 1960s, including the New Left, the anti-nuclear movement, the anti-globalization movement, Occupy Wall Street, and, most notably, Abdullah Öcalan's concept of democratic confederalism and its application in Rojava.

"If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

- Murray Bookchin


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