Organizing – Beyond Resistance!

Eulogy for the Houston SRA By Marion Koshy

Posted on 2025/01/23 - 2025/03/12 by beyres

For the first time in a long time, I opened my organizing e-mail. I expected an invitation to a membership orientation for another organization, however, I received an unexpected message informing me about the shutdown of the Houston Chapter of the Socialist Rifle Association (“SRA”). A mix of emotions swept over me, but i felt some sort of sorrow. It wasn’t wholly unexpected, the chapter had been bleeding in terms of activity for over a year, and for months now, less than a handful of people attended the weekly meetings. The Chapter Central Committee had put forth a “death date” that already passed months ago, and I suspected the only reason why it came now was that everyone remotely involved in organizing in the Houston SRA finally decided to pull the trigger through a haze of burn out.

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Revolutionary Silliness! by Withywindle

Posted on 2024/10/31 - 2024/10/31 by pizzaparker1

A panel from Jojo part 1 where Dio holds up the mask and says "I reject my normality, Jojo!"

(Author’s note: This article was supposed to be published in comic sans so pretend that worked out)

For the most important time in our lives, when we’re growing up and learning to navigate the world, we’re corralled into bland and sterile cells where we are forced to sit down, shut up, face forward, and listen to the adults in power ramble about various subjects and make sure that we memorize it all. Not learn about it, memorize it. We’re not expected to analyze, interact, or ponder the information, just regurgitate it. At the same time, these lectures and drills impose expectations of what is “normal.” How things are, why they are this way, the “normal” ways to navigate the system and change it by participating in it and following its rules. If we were really learning and therefore able to critically look at these lessons, we’d realize how fucking dumb it really is. How doing things “normally” isn’t going to improve our situation or fundamentally alter the systems that keep us down.

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You Don’t Need Bosses, Cops, or Politicians! by Marion Koshy

Posted on 2024/05/13 - 2024/05/13 by pizzaparker1

Typically, when people are told about anarchism or anarchy in general, they are greeted with images of bombs exploding, unprovoked violence, and scenes from apocalyptic movies and shows. The “strong” reign, and the “weak” are powerless to stop them. The way society is now, but without cops or someone to “protect” people. But this is not what anarchism is about, anarchism is more complex than this simplistic summary. Continue reading “You Don’t Need Bosses, Cops, or Politicians! by Marion Koshy” →

A Call for Democratic Education Pt 1 by M.M.

Posted on 2024/04/27 - 2024/04/27 by pizzaparker1

The current education system has failed to meet the needs of students, teachers, and society as a whole. One reason for this is the direction the education system has headed. That being in the direction of hierarchy, standardization, and the alienation of learning from the student. This is the wrong direction, and it is captained by those who should have no say in the matter. Administrators, politicians, and directors are all people who are not in the classroom and thus are separated from the very environment they are controlling. Education must become democratic. I do not mean the idea of a “representative democracy.” That is not a democracy. I mean a directly democratic education.

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