We bad-jacket Anarchist news dot org

As many well know, the Communist Party (Factionalist) operates a number of anarcho-maoist and trotskyist affinity groups. Generally speaking, their modus operandi is inactivity and observation. Most of the techniques that they would employ are already carried out by our anarchist brethren: badjacketing, internecine violence, paranoia, anti-intellectualism, provocation... and the list goes on. We the factionalists don't need to engage in these amongst the anarchists because they have become expert at it all. Up the Autonomy, er, Factionalism!

Nevertheless, we aren't completely clear when Anarchistnews.org first appeared on the scene (*which anarchists generally operate within, rather than, y'know, movements). The site has posts dating back to 2005, but became most clearly evident only last year, staging what amounted to a Jerry Springer Show for anarchist(er-than-thou) communiques and tracts, complete with chair throwing commentary and overblown melodrama. It beat out the United States competitors like A-Infos, Infoshop, and Indymedia. Granted, Infoshop contributed greatly to its own demise as the North American anarchist web news of choice, but the ascent of this latecomer has been impressive.

And it is a theatrically bad website. It has been the main source of any number of the most putrid and sniping communiques that anarchists have written against each other, from the APOC attacks on Food Not Bombs and CrimethInc, to the Bash Back diatribes, to the recent Crazy Bitches reports. For those with little or no personal commitment to these scenes, Anarchistnews.org offers nothing but the most humorous depiction of the state of their ideology in this country. Truly enjoyable reading. All from a laughably self-identified "non-sectarian" conduit.

It's value to the 'movement' then, can be expressed in that it has done nothing but help exacerbate animosities, break up groups, given exposure to the most sordid fringe voices, squelch real debate, and generally help implode most of what existed of organized anarchism only a few years ago.

That is why, with pure conjecture and nothing remotely resembling evidence, we would like to break the biggest news in the scene. Anarchistnews.org was produced by anti-politics capitalist hipsters in the employ of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brandon Darby, Steve Wilkos, and the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. If Anarchistnews.org is indeed not a product of infiltration and COINTELPRO activities, then anarchists are an even bigger joke than we already thought.

To learn more about the accusations and more, check out the new non-partisan news source Anarchistdrama.org. Now to return to our principal day's work, leaving violent sectarian ridicule in the comments section of our favorite anarchist websites.

Update:

This entry was recently posted to Anarchistnews.org, and clearly their readership is subject to less rigorous censorship than ours- the only explanation for the larger number of comments over there.

On Social War and Bashing Back

The CP(F) wishes to commend the anarchist queer network Bash Back! on its present-thinking modus operandi. Without the need to really hash out any long-term strategies or goals, it's so much easier to make action and have fun.

They are not organizers. They are not consciousness raisers (though assuredly they do a little to raise the consciousnesses of youth who otherwise thought they were alone). They are not revolutionaries. They are not libertarian socialists. They are not forward-thinking. They are not strategic. But they are performative, of-the-moment, fabulous glamarchists.

Without strategy or organizing, we all know that no movement is going to get anywhere. And before you get your panties in a bunch that an ultra-Leninist outfit such as ourselves might cozy up to some anarchists, we're happy to lay it out for you. Much of the Bash Back! milieu actually turns many radicals, queers, trannies, fags, dykes, gay boys, sex workers, and genderfucks off of anarchism by their: excessive use of slurs; chants that "we're anarchists, we'll fuck you up" in remarkably inopportune moments; poor planning for summit shutdown-style actions; puritan hypocrisies; and lack of cohesive ideology. Okay, the vast amounts of glitter and gory-holes do turn some people back on.

It's yet another pretty petit bourgeois formation. Oh, yes, yes, we'll get admonished by all those members flaunting their proletarian street cred. But bring up class as anything more than an identity issue, and you're a workerist (which ironically means bringing up class as an identity issue to many other leftists). That builds the kind of ruptures in movements that makes any factionalist proud. And since most of them oppose 'workerism' and Marxism so completely (by never chancing to figure out what it is), they cloud the issues so perfectly.

Unfortunately, the group is sensationally bad at security culture, though paranoid to a fault, so most of the time even core members don't know where a meeting (or national conference!) is going to be until last minute, while they post the map of the location on blogs that no one but the Feds check. Seriously, one of our sources remembers one time where some members deceived other members into thinking there was not a meeting, and requested people to join an action by telling them they had to completely commit to it before they had any idea what it was, or they couldn't find out what it was! Aw, college freshman!

Bash Back! has made waves. At least eight or so actual chapters (and several more that only exist on wheatpasted paper) were created in the first year of its existance, around the country. They have made national news, got romanticized in Details, and joined the Avakianites of the Revolutionary Communist Party in becoming one of FOX News' favored radical groups to bash.

Clearly, the CP(F) must rethink and launder out of its history the long-term plan to house decadent homosexual cheerleaders in re-education camps with ex-gay headmasters. We must determine the most forward-thinking and progressive outlook on LGBTTIAQ&sometimesY issues, and leap ahead of even that in our programme and manifesto.

If Bash Back! has filled a void amongst young queer and queer-friendly nihilists, then the Factionalists must launch into our own fabulous and angrier-than-thou queerist sectarian mass organization. For details on the open planning meeting to initiate our new project, oh, you don't already know? Well, then we can't tell you. I don't know, dude, if you're in, you're in. Whatever, nobody told you already, I'm sorry, I can't tell you. You'll love it!

On the Historical Revisionism of Anarchists and Leninists

One of the greatest crimes of capitalism, and indeed any system of exploitation, is the absolute domination of history it maintains. But what happens with those in opposition to that very system are guilty of the same sin? It is no more justifiable! Know truth and truth shall set ye free!

So let's shed some light on historical revisionism. In the years 1918 through 1921, industrial parts of Italy underwent the Biennio Rosso, in which the possibility for a social revolution was very real. Among the top signs was a powerful factory occupation movement. Let's see how our alleged comrades of today discuss this period.

First, the anarchists of the site libcom.org (Liberal Communists or something) have a page dedicated to the Biennio Rosso. This page is wonderful in that it unabashedly wallows in the kind of factionalism we seek to promote. How does it do this? By completely omitting the large role played by the non-anarchist Marxists in the struggles. Whenever an action or thought can be attributed to anarchists, they endlessly mention the word. Whenever one should be attributed to non-anarchist Marxists, they simply drop ideological adjectives and act as if the workers acted completely without political philosophy. And there are some other glaring omissions too. The writer mentions how European working class movements became larger and more militant after World War I, but no where is mentioned the role that the new existence of the Soviet Union played in inspiring them, and whatever you think of the Soviet Union, on that note there is no debate. And after going out of their way not to put non-anarchist Marxists in a positive light, they then attack Italian Marxists and socialists at the end. It is really a delightful read, though just a simple example of how we Leftists consider each other greater enemies than the capitalist class. Why are we angry with the article? We'll get to that.

Now rightists and bourgeois historians like to blame this period for the next period, the Biennio Negri, when the fascists took power, but that's like blaming a man who talked back to verbal police harassment for the beating that then takes place. A person or a people have a right to resist, and the repression that occurs later is not to be blamed on them.

Similarly to LibCom, the english-language wikipedia, though extremely brief, paints the picture as anarchist. But move to the Italian wikipedia, and the article is devoid of any reference to anarchists, placing the significance on the inspiration of the Russian Revolutions, and the Italian (non-anarchist) Marxist movements, never once mentioning anarchism.

And while some (non-anarchist) Marixist accounts have simply given their anti-authoritarian would-be comrades their due, fortunately many others continue the line of the Italian wikipedia and the converse of the anarchist version. It's as if a fuller picture requires reading both, skipping past the anarchist attacks on the Leninists. But all of this revisionism is greatly in the interest of the factionalism, comrades.

Of course, both accounts are quite false. The truth goes something more like this:

Biennio Rosso

Back in 1915, Segretario Generale-Capo (a cousin twice-removed of our own venerable GSC) joined the anti-imperialist defeatists at the Zimmerwald Conference, specifically calling for the reclamation of the forces of production while the national militaries were away.

Generale-Capo then sent his small circle of comrades into the factories and warehouses of Torino, where they quietly agitated until they began defenestrating bosses from windows in 1918. Of course, thanks to the Mediterranean Free Trade Agreement, jobs were quickly depleting from northern Italy to Albania, and while shifting the blame from a racist attack on Albanians to one against the boss class, Generale-Capo launched a factory occupation movement like the world had never seen.

All was preceding gloriously, when anarchist ultra-leftists who desired to 'abolish work' began throwing fist fights with the Faccionalisti workers, and PSI bureaucrats called for everyone to 'Stop the Violence,' 'Save the Children,' and 'Keep Hope Alive.'

Both those with infantile and elderly disorders were, in actuality, agents of Mussolini which led eventually to his March on Rome. While Generale-Capo languished in a Neopolitano prison, his movement split between Trotsky and Stalin. And, well, that's really what happened.