Today in Labor History November 16, 1938: José Saramago was born. He was a Portuguese libertarian communist, novelist, and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an illusory reality." He criticized the Catholic Church, the European Union, the IMF, and other oppressive institutions. He joined the Portuguese Communist Party in 1969, when the country was still under a fascist dictatorship, and remained a member throughout his life. In 2002, during the 2nd Intifada, he visited Ramallah and wrote critically of the Israeli government, saying that "what is happening in Palestine is a crime we can put on the same plane as what happened at Auschwitz.” Not surprisingly, he was pilloried by Zionists as being antisemitic.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #communism #libertariancommunism #anarchism #portugal #fascism #holoaust #zionism #palestine #literature #fiction #books #author #writer @bookstadon

New essay on Community-Self-Management and Commoning within 6 Libertarian Socialist Influenced Revolutions is now on our substack. Featuring: Morelos Commune, Makhnovia, Shinmin, Spanish Revolution, Zapatistas/ACGAZ, and Rojava/DAANES!!! https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/community-self-management-and-commoning

#rojava #zapatistas #DAANES #ACGAZ #communalism #commoning #directdemocracy #mutualaid #directaction #communitydefense #anarchism #anarchy #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism

New essay on community self management and commoning within 6 libertarian socialist influenced revolutions!!!

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/community-self-management-and-commoning-within-6-libertarian-socialist-influenced-revolutions/

#anarchism #anarchy #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #libertariancommunalism #communalism #directdemocracy #selfmanagement #mutualaid #directaction #rojava #zapatistas

For the essay I'm writing - and I regret the decision to write it with all my might - I had to go back to the basics

#anarchism #anarchocommunism #libertariancommunism #Anarchy #anarchist #alasbarricadas

Decisione non sofferta, ma decisamente ponderata: ritorno attiva sui social mainstream. L'idea di rimanere solo sul Fediverso non è funzionale, si rischia di creare un circolo di persone radicali che parlano di quanto sono radicali e fanno a gara a chi è più radicale - tanto che un paio di fenomeni li ho già dovuti bloccare anche qui. La ricerca della purezza radicale non mi interessa.

Con l'eccezione di Twitter (social mai conosciuto come X) che non ho mai avuto, sono tornata a scrivere su Instagram, Bluesky e Substack. Nonostante siano posti di merda, lasciare tutto lo spazio mainstream ai fasci è una cosa folle - senza contare che alla fine se li lasciamo noi 4 tropporradikali non cambia nulla. Credo che nonostante tutto sia necessario rimanere tra la gente e cercare chi sia interessatə a un'alternativa, sempre con la convinzione che il lavoro vero si faccia essendo presenti nel mondo reale e che sui social, anche sul Fediverso, siamo un altro prodotto.

Sto pensando a un nuovo podcast in cui racconto la mia transizione, che sarà poi un pretesto per parlare di molto altro, e sto preparando un nuovo saggio sulla necessità di cambiare il nostro paradigma relazionale. Vediamo cosa succede.
#especifismo #anarcocomunismo #anarchocommunism #anarchismo #anarchism #libertariancommunism

"Contrary to anti-human myths, the ecological crisis is not caused by an excess of human freedom; it is instead caused by the destruction of social freedom that happens through domination and exploitation towards goals of profit and power-over others."

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/wtf-is-social-ecology

#anarchism #socialecology #communalism #commune #mutualaid #commons #commoning #ecology #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism