recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
ContraPoints

**Natalie Wynn** or **ContraPoints** is a left-wing YouTuber who is known as being one of the most popular defenders of left-wing values against alt-right arguments. Her videos cover feminism, racism, the alt-right, philosophy, queer people, social justice and anti-capitalism. Her videos are known for their absurd, surreal and ironic humor.

## Works

* The Apocalypse (2018)
* Pronouns (2018)
* The Aesthetic (2018)
* Incels (2018)
* The West (2018)
* Tiffany Tumbles (2018)
* Jordan Peterson (2018)
* What's Wrong with Capitalism (Part 2)
* America: Still Racist (2018)
* Autogynephilia (2018)
* What's Wrong with Capitalism? (Part 1) (2017)
* Why the Alt-Right Is Wrong (2017)
* Violence (2017)
* Degeneracy (2017)
* The Left (2017)
* Decrypting the Alt-Right: How to Recognize a F@scist (2017)
* TERFs (2017)
* Gender Dysphoria (2017)
* Does the Left Hate Free Speech? (Part 2) (2017)
* Does the Left Hate Free Speech? (Part 1) (2017)
* Debating the Alt-Right (2017)
* What is Race? (2017)
* What is Gender? (2017)
* I Am Genderqueer (2017)
* Is BDSM Feminist? (2017)
* What the Alt-Right Fears (2017)
* Is Casual Sex Bad for Your Soul (2017)
* Punching Natsees (2017)
* Psychiatry (2016)
* Baltimore: Anatomy of an Uprising (2016)
* Fat Acceptance (2016)
* President Trump (2016)
* Cultural Appropriation (2016)
* Pick-Up Artists (2016)
* Alpha Males (2016)
* Non-Binary Genders (2016)
* Pop Feminism (2016)

* Why I Quit Academia (2016)
* How I Became a Feminist SJW (2016)
* For Whom the Belle Trolls (2016)
* Is Trump Racist? (2016)
* Everyone's a Little Bit Racist Sometimes (2016)
* Western Rape Cultures (2016)
* What Makes a Trans Chick "Cool"? (2016)
* Criticism or Bullying? (2016)
* Feminism Did Not Destroy Atheism (2016)
Jugoremedija

**Jugoremedija** is a pharmaceutical factory in Zrenjanin, Serbia that saw an episode of strikes from 2003 to 2004 before seeing workers' control from 2006

## Background

The Serbian state sold illegally sold its 68% of shares of ownership to capitalists and reduced the share of employee ownership from 58% to 32%. In protest, workers at the factory went on strike and were attacked by private security forces. Who used dogs to attack strikers and security forces dislocated several peoples arms. In response, workers would fight back and lay down in front of security vans and military vehicles. Eventually, the private security forces evicted all workers and illegally fired them.

## Worker Cooperative

Serbian courts eventually ruled that the state's ownership structure changes were illegal and restored the workers' 58 percent ownership in the factory. The workers announced plans to begin a program of workers' control.

## References

1. ↑ Andrej Grubacic (2010) Don't Mourn, Balkanize! Essays After Yugoslavia
Birmingham Uprising

The **Birmingham Uprising** was an uprising in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, USA in protest of racial segregation in 1963.

## Background

The civil rights movement had failed to achieve legal equality between black and white people after months of nonviolent protests. After a bombing by white supremacists destroyed a black home and black businesses. Riots in the city of Birmingham began.

## Tactics

Thousands of black people rioted, seizing control of a 9 block area, destroying police cars, injuring several cops (including the chief inspector), and burning down white-owned businesses.

## Results

By the end of the uprising, President Kennedy was pleading for Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Peter Gelderloos (2007) How Nonviolence Protects the State https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state
Sydney Opera House Work-In

The Sydney Opera House Work-In was an episode of workers' control that occurred in Australia in 1972.

## Background

The Construction of the famous Sydney Opera House took place between 1959 and 1973, or a period of 13 years. In 1972, management had fired a worker and in response the workers demanded the rehiring of said worker and a wage increase of 25%. Management refused these requests, and were all fired. In response, the workers broke into the construction site with a crowbar and brought their own toolboxes.

## Workers' Control

Workers elected a foreman and safety officer, and when the Department of Public Works refused to provide engineers, they simply reorganized and did jobs that did not require engineers. Foreman tried to order the workers around and threatened to fire them, but were simply told to go jump into the harbour. Productivity skyrocketed as workers did the same work which previously took fourty-eight hours in thirty-five (or a 25% increase!), something management had considered impossible. This was a result in improved morale, efficient organization and less people skipping work. This frightened management so much that they promised greater and greater wage increases and better working conditions, but the workers kept saying no until they got better and better deals.

## End

The workers agreed to end their work-in when management agreed to give them a 25% wage increase, the right to elect their foremen, four weeks annual leave and a large payment for their troubles. The workers were extremely satisfied with this, and ended their work-in.

## See Also

* Harco Work-In
* Clutha Development Mine Work-In
* Whyalla Glove Factory Work-In
* Wyong Plaza Work-In
* Nymboida Mine Work-In
* Coal Cliff Work-In
* Sanyo Television Factory Work-In
* Union Carbide Work-In
* Department of Social Security Work-In

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Immanuel Ness (2014) New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism - Chapter 10: Doing without the boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s
Can Masdeu Uprising

The **Can Masdeu Uprising** was an anti-eviction uprising near the Can Masdeu squat, Barcelona, Spain in 2002.

## Events

In April of 2002, over 100 police came to evict 11 squatters, and they held of police efforts to remove them by locking themselves in rooms, hanging off harnesses on the building and balancing of seesaws which no occupant could be removed without dropping or killing the other. The police attempted to starve them out over three days, and a solidarity movement formed. Arguing with and attacking the police, blocking traffic and attacking banks, real estate offices, banks and a McDonalds.

## Result

The eviction was stopped and the squatted social center survives to this day.

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can\_Masdeu
2. ↑ Peter Gelderloos (2010) Anarchy Works
Discrimination

**Discrimination**, **Prejudice** or **Bigotry** refers to the act of treating someone differently solely because of differences in factors they cannot control - such as race, gender or sexuality. Left-Libertarians are staunchly opposed to all forms of discrimination and seek to actively fight it using a variety of methods.
Capitalism

**Capitalism** is an ideology and economic system with several different interpretations and it is the main, commonly agreed upon 'enemy' of all left-libertarians. It is commonly defined as having three different traits:

1. Private ownership of industry
2. Market system of distributing resources
3. Class system between wage workers and owners
Can Vies

**Can Vies** or **Centre Social Autogestionat Can Vies** is a squatted social center in Barcelona, Spain that has been squatted since 1997.

## History

The building was constructed in 1879 to house resources necessary for the railroads around Barcelona. During the Spanish Revolution, it was collectivized by the CNT. It soon became the site of several union offices (including the CNT) until several arson attacks left the building abandoned in the 1990s.

In 1997, young squatters occupied the building and turned it into a social center. Used for democratic assemblies, newspapers, parties, movie nights, debates, musicals, theater, book presentations and communal meals. It was the site of an anti-state uprising in 2014, as the police attempted to evict the squat.

## References

1. ↑ https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro\_Social\_Autogestionado\_Can\_Vies
Aboriginal Australians

The Australian Aboriginal Flag. The black represents the Aboriginal people, the yellow represents the sun - the giver and protector of life - and the red represents the land and blood spilled.

**Aboriginal** or **Indigenous Australians** refers to 500 different nations and 800,000 different people who are the descendants of those who lived in Australia for tens of thousands of years before European colonization.

## Pre-Colonial Society

Aborigines came to Australia from Southern and Southeastern Asia between 95,000 and 20,000 years ago.

### Economy

Aborigines had developed advanced systems of agriculture, aquaculture, construction, forestry, irrigation and damming around 4,000 years ago.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/our-people
2. ↑ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous\_Australians
3. ↑ Bruce Pascoe (2018) Dark Emu
Free Syria

**Free Syria** is a network of towns and villages in Syria which have existed since 2012 and are aligned with the Free Syrian Army. They spawned from the Syrian Revolution and are broadly left-libertarian in nature. There are an estimated 400 communities following the Free Syrian model.

## See Also

* Syrian Revolution
* Rojava
* Arab Spring

## References

1. ↑ Max Boothroyd (2016) Self-Organization in the Syrian Revolution
Skorpion Zinc Strike (2008)

The **Skorpion Zinc Strike** was a strike at Skorpion Zinc Mine (the largest Zinc mine in Africa) in Namibia in 2008.

## Background

The mine had been accused of underpaying its workers and racial discrimination against black workers.

## Events

The strike lasted 19 days, from the 10th of May to the 29th of May before an agreement was reached.

## Results

The strike won a 12% increase in wages plus increased overtime and holiday benefits.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008\_Skorpion\_Zinc\_strike
Tafsut Taberkant

Location of Kabylie in Algeria

The **Tafsut Taberkant** or **Printemps noir** or **Black Spring** was an indigenist uprising coordinated by predominately Amazigh people in Kabylie, Algeria in 2001.

## Background

Amazigh people had face hundreds of years of war and genocide, the expropriation of land, destruction of culture and racist practices from the Algerian population. The killing of an Amazigh teenager on the 18th of April, 2001 and the arresting of his friends in suspicious circumstances led to riots.

## Events

Starting of the 21st of April, people began fighting with police, burning down police stations, welfare offices, government buildings and the offices of all political parties. After police were removed from the region, not only was there very little crime but further protests into the capital of Algiers were organized. Despite pressure to institutionalize from academics and NGOs to form political parties or charities, the protesters continued to use insurrectionary tactics and rejected the measures of the state.

## Results

The uprising led to the withdrawing of police and military units from the whole of Kabylie, the reinstantement of the traditional djemmâa system of popular assembly to replace the state and the recongition of Tamazight, the Amazigh language across Algeria.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jaime Semprun, (2002) *Apología por la Insurrección Argelina*
2. ↑ https://crimethinc.com/2017/11/02/other-rojavas-echoes-of-the-free-commune-of-barbacha-an-autonomous-uprising-in-north-africa-2012-2014
3. ↑ Peter Gelderloos (2010) Anarchy Works
4. ↑ Peter Gelderloos (2015) The Failure of Nonviolence
Squatting

**Squatting** is the act of occupying an unused building or piece of land without the owners permission. There are an estimated one billion squatters as of 2004 (Or 16% of the world's population at the time). Squatting is strongly supported by the anarchist and autonomist movements, particularly in Europe.

## References

1. ↑ Neuwirth, R (2004) Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World
French Republic

The **French Republic** is a liberal colonialist capitalist state located between Spain, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg. There are also colonies spread out across islands in the world, mainly in the Caribbean, the Pacific and South America.

## Major Social Struggles

* 1789: French Revolution
* 2006: CPE Uprising
* 2009: Guadelope Uprising
* 2009: Zone to Defend
* 2018: Yellow Vests
Coal Cliff Work-In

The **Coal Cliff Work-In** was an episode of workers' control at Coal Cliff, Australia in 1975.

## Events

Workers' Control lasted three days at the mine.

## Result

The employer of the miners agreed to their demands.

## See Also

* Harco Work-In
* Clutha Development Mine Work-In
* Sydney Opera House Work-In
* Whyalla Glove Factory Work-In
* Wyong Plaza Work-In
* Nymboida Mine Work-In
* Sanyo Television Factory Work-In
* Union Carbide Work-In
* Department of Social Security Work-In

## References

1. ↑ Immanuel Ness (2014) New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomous Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism - Chapter 10: Doing without the boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s
Jane

**The Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation** or **Jane** was an anarcha-feminist organization that provided illegal abortions to women in the US from 1969 to 1973.

## Efforts

The group had around 100 members which provided over 11,000 abortions over four years. The group was inspired by Emma Goldman's efforts to illegally distribute birth control in the 1910s.

## Disbanding

The group was disbanded in 1973 after the US made abortions legal in response to the threat posed by the group - the threat of grassroots direct action showing people they could live without the state.

## References

1. ↑ Laura Kaplan (1995) *The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service*
2. ↑ CrimethInc (2016) http://www.soleone.org/solecast/2016/8/8/solecast-27-beyond-democracy-w-a-crimethinc-participant
Rojava

Areas under DFNS control

**Rojava** or the **Democratic Federation of Northern Syria** is an autonomous region of Northern Syria aiming to construct libertarian socialism around the principles of democratic confederalism. They have been operating during the Syrian Civil War since 2012.

## Crime and Punishment

Rojava is also making efforts to set up restorative justice councils across their territory in order to move away from Assad's punitive justice system. Underage marriage, polygamy and honour killings have all been banned in order to protect the rights of women.

## Economy

As of 2015, around 75% of land in Rojava is commonly owned, and 33% of workplaces are under workers' control. With ambitions to expand this system further.

## References

1. ↑ Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava\_conflict#Restorative\_justice
2. ↑ Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava\_conflict#Banning\_of\_child\_marriages\_and\_honor\_killings
3. ↑ Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness (2015) A Small Key Can Open A Large Door
State

The **State** or **Government** is an organization of great interest to left-libertarians, with several different competing meanings, purposes, perspectives and histories.

## Definitions

The most common definition of a state used by left-libertarians was given by Max Weber, who argued a state has three main components:

1. Centralized bureaucracy
2. Monopoly on the use of legitimate violence (ie control of police and military)
3. Clearly defined geographic area to use this violence
Open-Source

**Open-Source** is a concept that emerged with the rise of computers, the internet and mass software use from the 1990s onwards, it refers to the free use of and open participation in editing of software and information. Although not explictly Left-Libertarian, many Left-Libertarians support open-source practices.
Strandzha Commune

The **Strandzha Commune** was a short-lived anarchist commune in the Ottoman Empire in what is now Bulgaria in 1903 during The St Elijah's Day or Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.

## Decision-Making

According to one historian righting on the subject:

> the question of state power was never raised, and no decrees were issued. The population of the liberated villages nominated and elected not mayors and presidents, but commissioners from among their own number. The commissions were to administer, not to rule. Never was there any talk of establishing any authorities, albeit new ones. It was only emphasized that the "commissions" would function under the control of the rebel forces. This was quite natural and also a matter of necessity, because decisive power was now in the hands of the people in arms, and its fate was in its own hands.
>
>

## Economy

The economy of the Strandzha Commune was based almost entirely on agriculture, and land, livestock, salt and grain were made common to all people based on anarcho-communist principles. Most of the labor force was composed of women, who worked in the farms as men became guerilla fighters. This period saw a significant boost in the health of people as they were able to eat more.

## Cultural Changes

The now free villagers held numerous feasts, dances and festivals to celebrate the commune.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Georgi Khadzhiev (1992) Down With The Sultan, Long Live The Balkan Federation!
CPE Uprising

The **CPE Uprising** was a worker uprising which occurred in France during 2006 as people rioted against the introduction of deregulated labor laws.

## Background

The CPE law was an austerity measure which would undo decades of hard-won labor protections, allowing bosses to fire younger workers with hardly any restrictions and greatly increasing workers' precarity.

## Tactics

They occupied universities and government buildings, blocked streets and
 highways, protested peacefully, rioted, burned cars, went on strike, and fought with police. In the occupied universities, students held assemblies and debated topics that went far beyond the particularities of the CPE law, to talk
about wage labor, capitalism, and the organization of life in general. In the end, they defeated the law.

## Results

The uprising defeated a law that would have greatly worsened labor conditions for workers.

## References

1. ↑ Peter Gelderloos (2015) The Failure of Nonviolence
Vaga de La Canadenca

The **Vaga de La Canadenca** (The Canadian Wave) was a strike in Catalunya, Spain in 1919.

## Events

The strike originated at the principal electricity company in Barcelona, *Riegos y Fuerzas del Ebro*, popularly known as *La Canadiense* because its major shareholder was the Canadian Bank of Commerce of Toronto. It soon grew into a general strike, stopping 70% of industry in Catalunya. The Government settled the strike by granting all the striking workers demands that included an eight-hour day, union recognition, and the rehiring of fired workers. The CNT played a major role in organizing the strike.
Spanish Civil War

The **Spanish Civil War** was a major civil war in Spain between an alliance of leftist and liberal militias, dubbed the 'Republicans' and an alliance of the military and fascists dubbed the 'Nationalists'. Although it ended in a Nationalist victory and 36 year long dictatorship, it saw the anarchist Spanish Revolution create Revolutionary Spain.
Passo Livre Uprising

The **Passo Livre Uprising** or **Free Pass Uprising** was an uprising in Brazil in 2013 over high public transport fees.

## Background

The Brazilian government had announced a hike in public transport fees, many people were angered and demanded free public transportation. Since so much public money was being spent on evicting people from their homes, the upcoming world cup and expanding the police force.

## Events

Protesters fought with police, who used rubber bullets, tear gas, and even live ammunition, killing about ten people and injuring and arresting hundreds. A number of police were also injured, though, and rioters attacked government buildings, took over streets, and burned buses. The protests marked the widespread use of the Black Bloc in Brazil. They also organized assemblies and created numerous opportunities for self-organization.

## Results

As a result of the uprising, public transport prices were reduced, there was a crackdown on government corruption, oil revenues were dedicated to healthcare and education, and homophobic laws were revoked.

## References

1. ↑ Peter Gelderloos (2015) The Failure of Nonviolence https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-the-failure-of-nonviolence
Guadelope Uprising

The **Guadelope Uprising** or **Guadelope General Strike** was a worker uprising that occurred in Guadelope, Caribbean France in 2009.

## Background

The uprising was triggered by a combination of poor living conditions, the high cost of living, low wages, racial tension, anti-colonial sentiment, precarious and high unemployment from a tourist economy and the commodification of the environment and indigenous traditions.

## Tactics

Islanders burned cars and businesses, throwing rocks and eventually opening fire with guns on the police.

## Results

Peter Gelderloos explains the success of the uprising:

> After just three days, the French authorities came back to the negotiating table with a much better offer: raising the lowest salaries by a whopping 200 euros a month, and acceding to all of the strikers' top 20 demands. President Sarkozy, a hardliner and law-and-order politician through and through, took on an apologetic tone with rioters and promised to review French policy in all its overseas possessions.
>
>

## References

1. ↑ Peter Gelderloos (2015) The Failure of Nonviolence
Solomon Islands

The **Solomon Islands** are a liberal capitalist colonial state in Micronesia. The state claims six major islands and over 900 smaller islands with a population of around 600,000 people.

## History

The Solomon Islands were inhabited by people from New Guinea in at least 28,000BCE. Agriculture had been practiced from 4,000BCE, following the construction of large villages, shrines and regional trade networks with tens of thousands of people.

 In 1568, the island was sighted by colonizers working for Spain who attempted to colonize it but failed due to resistance from the indigenous inhabitants. Further efforts by the Netherlands, France and Britain to colonize the island were made over the next 200 years, but all failed due to fierce indigenous resistance.

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon\_Islands
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History\_of\_Solomon\_Islands#Earliest\_inhabitants\_in\_Solomon\_Islands
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History\_of\_Solomon\_Islands#European\_contact
List of Left-Libertarian Organizations

A list of organizations - past and present - that have advocated for some form of Left-Libertarianism.

## Current

* Catholic Worker Movement
* Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo
* Earth First!
* Industrial Workers of the World

## Historical

* Arditi del Popolo
* Burlington Greens

* Jane
* Western Federation of Miners
* Young Negroes' Cooperative League
Commons

**Commons** or **Common Ownership** is a system of property advocated by left-libertarians.

## Examples

### Communal Grasslands in Mongolia

According to a Wikipedia article on the subject:

> Based on a research project by the Environmental and Cultural Conservation in Inner Asia (ECCIA) from 1992 to 1995, satellite images were used to compare the amount of land degradation due to livestock grazing in the regions of Mongolia, Russia, and China. In Mongolia, where shepherds were permitted to move collectively between seasonal grazing pastures, degradation remained relatively low at approximately 9%. Comparatively, Russia and China, which mandated
> state-owned pastures involving immobile settlements and in some cases privatization by household, had much higher degradation, at around 75% and 33% respectively. A collaborative effort on the part of Mongolians proved much more efficient in preserving grazing land.
>
>

The system of common ownership has thus been far superior at preserving the environment than state ownership or private ownership.

### Community Forests in Nepal

According to a Wikipedia article on the subject:

> In the late 1980s, Nepal chose to decentralize government control over forests. Community forest programs work by giving local areas a financial stake in nearby woodlands, and thereby increasing the incentive to protect them from overuse. Local institutions regulate harvesting and selling of timber and land, and must use any profit towards community development and preservation of the forests. In twenty years, locals have noticed a visible increase in the number of trees. Community forestry may also contribute to community development in rural areas – for instance school construction, irrigation and drinking water channel construction, and road construction. Community forestry has proven conducive to democratic practices at grass roots level.
>
>

The system of common ownership was thus highly successful at promoting democracy, sustainability and economic growth in a non-market way.

## References

1. ↑ Trupti Parekh Mehta "Community Forestry in India and Nepal"
Global Justice Movement

The **Global Justice Movement** or the **Anti-** or **Alter-** or **Counter-Globalization** movement was a network of anti-capitalist protests and actions all over the world from 1988 to 2002.

## Results

David Graeber argues that the Global Justice Movement severly damaged neoliberalism and free trade agreements.
Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin in 1900

**Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin** or **Peter Kropotkin** (1842 - 1921) was a majorly influential scientist and an anarcho-communist author, theorist and activist. In addition to his major influence in anarchist politics, he also had major influence in economics, agricultural science, conservation, ethology, criminology, city planning, geography, geology and biology. He is credited with starting the modern environmental movement, commune movement, scientific study of cooperation and popularizing anarcho-communism.

## Major Works

See Also: List of Writings by Peter Kropotkin

* 1902: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Read Here)
* 1898: Fields, Factories and Workshops (Read Here)
* 1896: The State: Its Historic Role (Read Here)
* 1892: The Conquest of Bread (Read Here)

## References

1. ↑ Zabalaza (2013) Green Flame: Peter Kropotkin and the Birth of Ecology
The Failure of Nonviolence

**The Failure of Nonviolence** is a book written by Peter Gelderloos which heavily criticizes Pacifism.

## Summary

### Chapter 3. The Revolutions of Today

#### The Oka Crisis

The Oka Uprising - where armed indigenous activists took on police and the army in Canada to protect their lands in 1990 - is explored. It is evaluated as being very successful, not only seizing space and spreading critiques of colonialism and the state, but it succeeded in defending sacred land from destruction to make a golf course.

#### The Zapatistas

The Zapatista Revolution and Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities from 1994 are explored. They are evaluated as a successful example of anti-pacifist activism, seizing autonomous spaces for a new society and inspiring the Global Justice Movement.

#### The 2006 CPE Protests

The CPE Uprising is explored, being seen as a successful action, reversing the CPE law and fighting the state with violent, hit-and-run tactics.

#### The Gezi Park Uprising of 2013

The Gezi Park Uprising is analyzed, where environmentalist rioters fought with police across Turkey to protect a large city park.

#### The Burgos Uprising

The Gamonal/Burgos Uprising is analyzed, where anti-gentrification riots occurred in a Spanish city. These are seen as highly successful, defeating the construction and created a space of autonomy and power for the people in the city of Burgos.

#### The Can Vies Revolt

The Can Vies Uprising is analyzed, where squatters fought back against an eviction in Barcelona. These are seen as highly successful, defeating the eviction and creating a great deal of autonomy.
Maasina Ruru

**Maasina Ruru** or **Rule of Relationship of Siblings Together** was an indigenist movement moving for self-governance, social and economic equality, labor rights and preservation of indigenous culture in the Solomon Islands between 1943 and 1953.

## Background

The indigenous people on the Solomon Islands had faced the destruction of their land and culture, massacres to stop rebellion, exploitation of their labor and racial segregation.

## Events

Maasina Ruru began in 1943 as anti-colonial, anti-racist and anti-capitalist sentiment rose among factory workers in the Solomon Islands. They developed a manifesto and began spreading it around the islands indigenous population, there was a general strike in 1945 demanding the wages of plantation workers be increased by 1200%, which led to the arresting of protest leaders and thousands of indigenous protesters in 1947 by British authorities. As such, villagers declared autonomy and refused to pay taxes and sabotage of workplaces became common. Mass arrests became common, but the indigenous people stood their ground and began blocking roads and villages across the country, leading to eventual negotiations.

## Results

The movement led to the bettering of workers' rights, the creation of dozen of autonomous villages, the releasing of all political prisoners and an indigenous council to represent their voices in 1953.

## References

1. ↑ http://wikieducator.org/Solomon\_Islands\_Labour\_Movement#1940s\_-\_50s\_Maasina\_Ruru\_movement
2. ↑ http://libcom.org/history/1944-52-solomon-islanders-establish-autonomus-village-movement
Ixquisis Uprising

The **Ixquisis Uprising** is an ongoing indigenist uprising in northern Guatemala that began in 2017.

## Background

Indigenous people in Guatemala have been subject to hundreds of years of discrimination, slavery and massacres. Their culture and land was taken to serve colonial interests of Spain. During the Guatemalan Civil War, indigenous people were subject to frequent massacres and indigenous women were frequently raped by soldiers. Since then, indigenous Guatemalans have faced racism, poverty and police brutality. The proposed construction of five hydroelectric dams without indigenous which would damage local ecosystems caused widespread outrage.
Trade Union

**Trade Unions** or **Labour Unions** are organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals, such as improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through strikes, collective bargaining and sabotage. They are of strong interest to Left-Libertarians.
Life and Labor Commune

The **Life and Labor Commune** was an anarchist commune which existed in the USSR from 1921 to 1930. Peter Gelderloos explains:

>  It was an agricultural commune established near Moscow in 1921 by people following the pacifist and anarchist teachings of Leo Tolstoy. Its members, nearly one thousand at their peak, were at odds with the Soviet government on account of refusing to perform military service. For this reason, the commune was finally shut down by the authorities in 1930; but during its existence, the participants created a large self-organized community in peace and resistance.
>
>

## References

1. ↑ Peter Gelderloos (2010) Anarchy Works
Commonwealth of Australia

The **Commonwealth of Australia** is a liberal colonial capitalist state located near Indonesia, East Timor and New Zealand.

## Major Atrocities

* Australian 'Frontier' Wars
* Massacres of Aboriginal Australians
* Support for East Timor and West Papua Genocides.

## Major Social Struggles

* Social Struggles in Victoria

* 1929: The Rothbury Strike

* 1966: The Gurindji Strike
* 1971: Harco Work-In
* 1983: The Wide Comb Strike
* 2011: Qantas Strike

## Left-Libertarian Organizations

* Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
* Industrial Workers of the World
Nymboida Mine Work-In

The **Nymboida Mine Work-In** was an episode of workers' control in Nymboida, Australia from 1975 to 1979.

## Background

In the 7th of February, 1975, Nymboida Collieries announced the closure of its small mine in northern coastal New South Wales because it was insufficiently profitable, and issued dismissal notices to the thirty workers, whose years of service ranged from ten to twenty-six years. The company also intimated it would not pay the workers some $70,000 they were owed in severance pay, annual leave, and other entitlements. The miners were all union members, and met and collectively agreed to perform a work-in.

## Workers' Control

In exchange for not paying owed wages and benefits, Nymboida Collieries agreed to hand ownership of the mine over to the workers after a few weeks. Productivity immediately increased from 500 tons of coal a week to 700 tons of coal a week (or a 40% increase in production!) despite no improvements to machinery or the size of the labour force. This was due to increased motivation, less skipping of work and a more efficiently organized mine.

## End

Workers' Control at Nymboida Mine ended as the local power station supplying the mine with electricity was closed down.

## See Also

* Harco Work-In
* Clutha Development Mine Work-In
* Sydney Opera House Work-In
* Whyalla Glove Factory Work-In
* Wyong Plaza Work-In
* Coal Cliff Work-In
* Sanyo Television Factory Work-In
* Union Carbide Work-In
* Department of Social Security Work-In

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Immanuel Ness (2014) New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism - Chapter 10: Doing without the boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s
Gamonal Uprising

The **Gamonal Uprising** or **Gamonal Conflict** was a working class uprising in the neighborhood of Gamonal in the city of Burgos, Spain in 2014.

## Background

Gamonal was a largely working class neighborhood that the local government and real estate developers attempted to gentrify the neighborhood by construction of a new boulevard. Anger stemmed from government corruption, the use of public money for private gain while cutting off school and hospital services for claims that they couldn't be afforded and the loss of free parking spaces. There were several peaceful protests and petitions but they were ineffective.

## Uprising

The Uprising began on the 10th of January, as protesters physically blocked construction workers from working on the project. They were evicted by police, and protesters attacked the police with rocks, leading to a riot. Over the next few days, every night saw the burning of police cars and police stations, sabotage of construction equipment and attacking banks. The Mayor of the city condemned the violence but on the 14th of January agreed to the protesters demands, pleading with them to stop their violence (which killed no one).

## Result

The uprising succeeded in stopping the development project, preventing an increase in rents and prices in the area.

## References

1. ↑ https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflicto\_de\_Gamonal\_de\_2014#Contexto\_y\_situación
2. ↑ https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflicto\_de\_Gamonal\_de\_2014#Cronología
3. ↑ Peter Gelderloos (2015) The Failure of Nonviolence https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-the-failure-of-nonviolence
Republic of Korea

**대한민국/Daehan Minguk** or the **Republic of Korea** or **South Korea** is a liberal capitalist state located near the states of North Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and Russia.

## Notable Atrocities

* Second highest suicide rate in the world.
* 1949: Mungyeong Massacre
* 1950: Bodo League Massacre
* 1950: Bloody Gulch Massacre
* 1950: Asan Massacre

## Major Social Struggles

* 1510: Sampo Waeran Uprising
* 1894: Donghak Peasant Uprising
* 1919: Sam-il Uprising
* 1926: Manse Uprising
* 1929: Manchurian Revolution
* 1946: Autumn Uprising
* 1948: Jeju Uprising
* 1948: Yeosu-Suncheon Uprising
* 1960: April Uprising
* 1979: Minjun Uprisings
* 1980: Gwangju Uprising
* 1987: June Struggle
* 1996: Strike Wave
* 2005: Anti-Colonial Protests
* 2006: Railroad Strike
* 2007: Gangjeong Protests
* 2009: Ssangyong Factory Occupation
* 2010: Hanjin Strikes
* 2011: University Demonstrations
* 2013: Railroad Strike
* 2015: Wednesday Demonstration
* 2016: Candlelight Struggle
* 2018: Anti-Conscription Protests
Arditi del Popolo

The **Arditi del Popolo** or **People's Daring Army** were an underground anti-fascist organization active between 1921 to 1922 in Italy. They are noted for being the first anti-fascist organization in history.

## History

The group was founded in Rome in June of 1921 by anarchists, communists, socialists and liberals, gaining 20,000 members in 144 decentralized sections in just a few months. The group got in numerous fights with fascists, killing dozens of them in street gunfights. But as time went on, the Leninist Socialist Party of Italy withdrew their support and signed a truce with the fascist government in the hope of expanding their movement. Only anarchist and syndicalist groups continued to support the organization, but it eventually collapsed due to a lack of left unity and onslaught from the now much more powerful fascist movement.

## Legacy

Former members of the Arditi fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Other members fought in the anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy.

## References

1. ↑ Mark Bray (2017) Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
2. ↑ Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arditi\_del\_Popolo#Legacy
Clutha Development Mine Work-In

The **Clutha Development Mine Work-In** was an episode of workers' control in South Clifton, Australia in 1972. From May 8 to 10, 1972, about sixty miners took over the Clutha Development mine at South Clifton in defiance of its official closure on May 5, ensuring the mine was reopened for a further period; all workers were returned to the payroll and promised work at other mines after the impending closure.

## References

1. ↑ Immanuel Ness (2014) New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism - Chapter 10: Doing without the boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s
Shifu

## Liu Szu-fu

**Shifu** or **Liu Szu-fu** (1884 - 1915) was an anarchist strongly inspired by Peter Kropotkin who helped organize the Guangzhou Commune. He founded the Society of Anarchist Communist Comrades, who organized over forty anarcho-syndicalist trade unions with thousands of members in Guangzhou, as well as numerous cooperatives and militias.

## See Also

* Peter Kropotkin
* List of Left-Libertarians
Cherán

**Cherán** is a small town in Mexico that has followed a left-libertarian model of self-governance since 2011 as a result of the Cherán Revolution.

## Law and Order

There hasn’t had a slaying or other serious crime since early 2011.

## Economy

The town has started several worker cooperatives, notably a greenhouse, sawmill and concrete factory.

## Environmental Protection

Reforestation efforts undertaken by the community have led to the reforestation of 1,500 hectares of land as of 2015.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-cheran-20170710-htmlstory.html
2. ↑ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/after-long-fight-self-government-indigenous-town-cher-n-mexico-n906171
3. ↑ https://intercontinentalcry.org/the-cheran-indigenous-communitys-remarkable-road-to-self-rule-in-mexico/
1903 Trinidad and Tobago Water Uprising

The **1903 Trinidad and Tobago Water Uprising** was a left-libertarian uprising over water use in Port of Spain in the then British colony of Trinidad and Tobago in 1903.

## Background

Port of Spain's bourgeoisie had been known for excessive water waste in the construction of elaborate fountains and gardens. Engineers in the 1880s observed the over-consumption and recommended expanding the plumbing network and installing water meters, but this was ignored by the central government. The concept that water was a common resource to be shared by all and not a capitalist commodity became popular among the lower classes, and efforts to restrict public participation in debate led to a riot.

## Events

The Parliament (The Red House) was attacked with stones and bottles, windows were smashed and people stormed the parliament, forcing politicians to hide under tables. Police, the army and the navy were all deployed to land soldiers. Police massacred 16 protesters and injured 42 (including two teenagers and a child). As protesters stormed the parliament, it was burned down to the ground.

## Results

The riot led to the reinstatement of a local democracy to manage water affairs.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/the-trinidad-water-riots-of-1903/
Timeline of Anti-Fascism

A timeline of major organizing, actions and attacks against fascism by anti-fascists.

## 1900s

### 1920s

* 1921: The Arditi del Popolo (People's Army) is the first anti-fascist organization founded. Created by a group of anarchists, socialist, marxists and liberals in Rome, Italy.
* 1926: Anarchist Gino Lucetti attempts to assassinate Benito Mussolini.
* 1926: 15-year-old Anarchist Anteo Zamboni possibly attempts to assassinate Benito Mussolini.

### 1930s

* 1936: The Spanish Civil War breaks out between fascists and anti-fascists.

### 1940s

* 1943: Anarchists in Milan, Italy form the Bruzzi and Malatesta Brigades (named after Errico Malatesta) fight the Italian and Nazi armies using guerilla tactics, seizing control of the city and ignoring the demands of US soldiers who later arrived.
* 1945: Anti-Fascist guerilla fighters arrest and execute Mussolini and 22 other fascists, stringing up outside on meat racks.

## 2000s

### 2010s

* 2017: US White Supremacist and Fascist Richard Spencer is punched in the face during a street TV interview where he's explaining memes by an anonymous hooded figure.
* 2017: The Battle of Charlottesville occurs between anti-fascists and fascists in the US.

## References

1. ↑ M. Testa (2015) Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance, page 16
M. Testa (2015) Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance, page 11
3. ↑ M. Testa (2015) Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance, page 20
4. ↑ https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-punched/index.html
Shinmin Autonomous Zone

The **Shinmin Autonomous Zone**, also known as the **Shinmin Prefecture**, **Shinmin Autonomous Region**, the **Korean People's Association in Manchuria** or **Anarchist Shinmin** was a large Left-Libertarian society in what is now Manchuria, China and North Korea from 1929 to 1931. There was an estimated population of two million people.

## References

1. ↑ Alan MacSimoin (1991) A Talk by Alan MacSimoin to the Workers' Solidarity Movement, Dublin Branch in September 1991
Department of Social Security Work-In

The **Department of Social Security Work-In** was an episode of workers' control in Australia in 1980. White-collar workers organized in the Administrative and Clerical Officers’ Association who were employed in the federal Department of Social Security staged a series of work-ins. In 1980, they decided against a “traditional work-in” and instead backed up their demand for improved staffing levels by refusing—for more than two years—to recover overpayments made to social security recipients, which cost the federal government many millions of dollars.

## References

1. ↑ Immanuel Ness (2014) New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism - Chapter 10: Doing without the boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s.
Seattle Uprising

The **Seattle Uprising** was a worker uprising that occurred in Seattle, USA in for five days in 1919. From Anarchy Works:

> During the February 1919 general strike in Seattle, workers took over the city. Commercially, Seattle was shut down, but the workers did not allow it to fall into disarray. On the contrary, they kept all vital services running, but organized by the workers without the management of the bosses. The workers were the ones running the city every other day of the year, anyway, and during the strike they proved that they knew how to conduct their work without managerial interference. They coordinated citywide organization through the General Strike Committee, made up of rank and file workers from every local union; the structure was similar to, and perhaps inspired by, the Paris Commune. Union locals and specific groups of workers retained autonomy over their jobs without management or interference from the Committee or any other body. Workers were free to take initiative at the local level. Milk wagon drivers, for example, set up a neighborhood milk distribution system the bosses, restricted by profit motives, would never have allowed.
>
>

> The striking workers collected the garbage, set up public cafeterias, distributed free food, and maintained fire department services. They also provided protection against anti-social behavior — robberies, assaults, murders, rapes: the crime wave authoritarians always forecast. A city guard comprised of unarmed military veterans walked the streets to keep watch and respond to calls for help, though they were authorized to use warnings and persuasion only. Aided by the feelings of solidarity that created a stronger social fabric during the strike, the volunteer guard were able to maintain a peaceful environment, accomplishing what the state itself could not.
>
>

> This context of solidarity, free food, and empowerment of the common person played a role in drying up crime at its source. Marginalized people gained opportunities for community involvement, decision-making, and social inclusion that were denied to them by the capitalist regime. The absence of the police, whose presence emphasizes class tensions and creates a hostile environment, may have actually decreased lower-class crime. Even the authorities remarked on how organized the city was: Major General John F. Morrison, stationed in Seattle, claimed that he had never seen “a city so quiet and so orderly.” The strike was ultimately shut down by the invasion of thousands of troops and police deputies, coupled with pressure from the union leadership.
>
>

## References

1. ↑ Peter Gelderloos (2010) Anarchy Works
Peter Gelderloos

Peter Gelderloos in an interview on nonviolence

**Peter Gelderloos** (Born in 1981 or 1982) is an anarchist activist, theorist and author. He focuses on the history of the state, squatting, intentional communities, indigenism and criticism of pacifism.

## Works

See Also: List of Writings by Peter Gelderloos

* Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation (2017)
* The Failure of Nonviolence (2015)
* Anarchy Works (2010)
* How Nonviolence Protects the State (2007)
Kenyan Tea Workers' Strike (2007)

Location of Kericho within Kenya

The **Kenyan Tea Workers' Strike** was a strike by tea workers in the Kericho region of Kenya in 2007 over the underpaying of workers.

## Background

Workers had been illegally underpaid in tea plantations for two years, leading for calls for a strike.

## Events

10,000 tea workers' went on strike, shutting down 18 different plantations. The strike was declared illegal by the government but it kept going, with workers destroying the house of a manager and burning down work trucks.

## Results

The strike led to an increase in wages by 8%.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyan\_tea\_workers\_strike\_of\_2007