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Disrupt the “ imperialist-white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy ” power structure was what bell hooks said was needed, and that is what she did. She died this week but her words, her books, and her writings will continue to be part of the tools used to disrupt and dismantle. We need to keep reading and listening to those words, and discussing them - they are powerful. At the Freedom Shop we have two zines with bell hooks' writing: one is ' Understanding Patriarchy ' and the other is an anthology we created ourselves: " bell hooks - a sample of writings by bell hooks to entice... ' We put together the anthology several years ago to try and ensure more people become keen to sample bell hooks' writings. The zine includes three articles: ' Teaching to Transgress: Paulo Freire ', ' Killing Rage: Militant Resistance ' and ' Feminist Class Struggle '. Killing Rage opens with the wonderful sentence, ' I am writing this essay sitting besid

2020 has been full of death and grief, and one more person has died. In the first week of September, David Graeber, anarchist, author, activist, anthropologist and historian, died suddenly.  Graeber's books included: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory , which first started off as an article in Strike! Magazine , Debt: The First 5000 Years , and Direct Action: An Ethnography , plus The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy . He was also one of the editors of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Transformation . Just one quick online search reveals so many journals and articles by Graeber, inlcuding in Rolling Thunder The Shock of Victory: An Analysis of Our Unclaimed Triumphs - there are also books due to be published later this year, including one co-written with his partner ' What are Kings '.    “Debt is the most efficient means ever created to take relations that are fundamentally based on violence and violent inequ

2020 has been full of death and grief, and one more person has died. In the first week of September, David Graeber, anarchist, author, activist, anthropologist and historian, died suddenly.  Graeber's books included: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory , which first started off as an article in Strike! Magazine , Debt: The First 5000 Years , and Direct Action: An Ethnography , plus The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy . He was also one of the editors of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Transformation . Just one quick online search reveals so many journals and articles by Graeber, inlcuding in Rolling Thunder The Shock of Victory: An Analysis of Our Unclaimed Triumphs - there are also books due to be published later this year, including one co-written with his partner ' What are Kings '.    “Debt is the most efficient means ever created to take relations that are fundamentally based on violence and violent ineq

The Final Straw Radio chatted with Barry Pateman on 26 April this year in an episode called ' Barry Pateman on Anarchist History and Challenges' . It's a rich and glorious discussion where Barry talks about 'what does it mean to be an anarchist in a capitalist world?', how 'to beat weaselly capitalism' in the world we live in and how we need to communicate. It's a highly-recommended must listen that talks about being an anarchist, communication and communities, class and bolshevism and the joy and frustration of being an anarchist in a capitalist world.

The Final Straw Radio chatted with Barry Pateman on 26 April this year in an episode called ' Barry Pateman on Anarchist History and Challenges' . It's a rich and glorious discussion where Barry talks about 'what does it mean to be an anarchist in a capitalist world?', how 'to beat weaselly capitalism' in the world we live in and how we need to communicate. It's a highly-recommended must listen that talks about being an anarchist, communication and communities, class and bolshevism and the joy and frustration of being an anarchist in a capitalist world.