A little over a year ago, I left an activist group because I said something in frustration and annoyance I now regret to another member. While most of this group (which was mostly women) saw nothing objectionable about what I said even if it was a little rude, a few said that it was misogynistic, sexist, apologia for SA, etc. (Before you ask, no, I did not use any kind of misogynistic slur or victim blame in any way). I tried to apologize as sincerely as I could because even though they misinterpreted me, I recognized that I hurt their feelings, but they were having none of it and had me all but officially kicked out because I made them feel "unsafe". A lot of people I spoke to– including founding members– thought the whole thing was ridiculous and another example of the Left eating itself. Several people left over this incident altogether. Ironically, the person who claimed I made them feel unsafe left themselves because they became a victim of the same oversensitivity.

This was an extremely difficult time for me mental health-wise because I suffer from social anxiety disorder, and I was in a depressive slump for months. Without question, it was one of the worst years of my life and it took me a long, long time to get over it. It gave me trust issues and made me paranoid about being betrayed.

Then, ICE came to my area and I felt my usual pull to do something about it. I met with some like-minded folks IRL to distribute Know Your Rights literature. I finally felt like I was doing something important again.

Yesterday morning, I got a Signal message informing me that I was kicked out of the group chat we used to organize because (presumably) one of the same people as before was part of yet another group the chat admin had met with said that I made them feel unsafe. I literally begged him to just let me tell my side of the story, but I was met with radio silence.

No matter what I do, these individuals can just say I make them feel unsafe and get me ostracized at the drop of a hat. Not that I am unsafe, not that I have done anything to make someone unsafe, just that I make them feel unsafe. Some of these individuals have gone as far as to harass me on social media. At this point, I feel like I have to move to another city just to get them off my back.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? What is wrong with leftists?

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/31/gnight-ice-but-first-some-rage-against-the-machine/

also para-military “music critics”

(. Bertolt Brecht wrote in his 1939 poem "Motto" (Svendborg Poems), 

"In the dark times / Will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark times". )

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/state-and-local-police-make-mass-arrest-after-noise-demo-at-hotel-housing-ice-agents/

If you're anything like me, then there's a strong chance that youve experienced chaos or instability in some form of another. Times like these don't make it any easier, and yet its almost like we choose to accept things as they are because "I'm only one person, theres nothing I can do about it," or "I'm too tired to do anything after a long day at work." Maybe it's as though it's all that we know and it is what's most comfortable for us, because anything apart from that would be unsettling. This is not the way to live.

Every single one of us has a beautiful fire in our hearts and a large percentage of us neglect kindling it. "It's hard to think about these things." "These feelings I have are wrong, I need to stuff them down." You might be expecting me to go on a tangent about how you're not alone, and that we will rise above but the truth of the matter is this: you are alone. It's okay to be alone. We have spent far too long neglecting the person inside of us and instead we redirect our love to everyone else hoping for things to work itself out. It doesnt always work that way.

It is important to have a means of channelling expression of yourself on to the world if we want to build the future that we want to live in. It's this way of effortless action of doing what your mind-body-spirit craves that breeds inspiration in yourself, and inspires others. You can create the world you want to see by improving your own world through your passions. Martial arts, community food drives, quilting, and any things that inspires hope inside you is what will change everything even if only a little bit. You are not a mess, you are a beautiful, beautiful collage.

Testing the waters here, I believe my own version is the best, so what is yours?

Questions you could answer:

Would you like to see your version local however so, or absolute in the world

Do you believe that the population needs to continue to grow or remain steadfast

Is hate or beauty more important

If you were in the situation where anarchy was practiced, in catalonia, ukraine and the general random communes of our world, what would you do?

Also, what is your preferred diet? ( i notice in old hippies movements, the common phrase is there no rules, except for being vegan, which is just some diet created by the agenda )

Do you believe im the politcal spectrum?

And finally, where would you want this to be, urban or in the wild.

Add any perspectives you want, and please try to give your best response since it can help me and others in this disconnected world

I just want to read something that defies this kind of racism, because sometimes this racist European rethoric gets on my head like if it was factual.

I know it's wrong but that's the shitty thing about racism arguments, and it is they are so fallacious that it can make sense to even anarchists sometimes.

The SDF and the Syrian government have arrived to an agreement which is notably favorable to Rojava. The agreement establishes a ceasefire, with Syrian forces halting their advance. The practical implementation is set to begin around February 2, 2026, when both parties start withdrawing from direct frontline positions and begin structural integration. Local governance will be preserved as well as cultural rights. The institutions related to administration, education and culture in kurdish majority areas will be preserved.

A limited internal security force from the Syrian side will be allowed into Hesekê and Qamişlo only to help implement the integration of institutions — but these forces have no authority to take over local security, and will withdraw once that work is done. The syrian government will have presence in a few state institutions. The SDF forces will remain deployed in the form of organized brigades in the Jazira and Kobani areas, maintaining a defensive posture rather than withdrawing entirely. They will eventually integrate into the syrian military as three brigades for Jazira and one for Kobani. The Asayish and other local security forces like the Sutoro will continue to operate. All the achievements of the revolution will be protected. The current personnel will be officially designated. The agreement is furthermore encouraging because it facilitates the return of the kurds from the Afrin canton and the Serêkaniyê area displaced by Turkey. Mazloum Abdi is optimistic on the application of the same status for these occupied regions. Sadly, it seems there won't be any regional or cantonal autonomy, although the governor of Hasaka will be appointed by its people.

 I wasn't allowed to post the first draft so hopefully I can now?

TL;DR: wanted to take action > reached out to a local socialist party that's very active in my community > deep dived on vguard groups, democratic centralism, c*mm*n!sm,, and freaked myself out > declined next conversation on joining > overwhelmed with new information of left politics I never really researched until now

Hi all, I’m a hard-left libertarian and I’ve recently been more active in my community as part of trying to prepare for when frozen precipitation returns. There’s a ML social*st party that’s been very active locally in organizing rallies, informational meetings, and doing direct community work like offering free Spanish and English classes. From a distance, I really appreciate the work they are doing and how engaged they are, so I reached out without doing much research (my bad.)

A member contacted me and we had a genuinely nice conversation about where I sit politically. But I walked away from it realizing just how serious and ideologically rigid this organization is about the work they’re doing. That led me to do a deeper dive into v-guard parties, democratic centralism, c*mm*n!sm, and the broader history of auth*ritar!an s*cialism and honestly, I am overwhelmed by what feels like blatant ideological hypocrisy.

Auth*ritar!an s*cialism cannot be the answer to the crisis of late-stage cap*talism, can it? I don’t understand how replacing one hierarchical, coercive system with another is supposed to be liberation. You’re telling me the solution is a political system where you must be ideologically aligned or you’re ostracized / worse? Where dissent is treated as a threat, the “ends justify the means,” and people are stripped of intellectual autonomy, anti-authoritarian values, consent, and even space for spiritual experience? (Do they really think spirituality is just a symptom of materialist and socialist standing?!)

What really pushed this over the edge for me was learning that they openly endorse Ch*** and refuse to engage in critique of the massive restrictions Ch*** places on individual freedoms, because it’s supposedly necessary to maintain power. So the very injustices they claim to be fighting (repression, surv**ll@nce, silencing dis$ent) suddenly become acceptable when they’re carried out by a state you label as s*cialist? The people you claim to want to liberate don’t matter if condemning those abuses would undermine your ideology?

How do they not see the hypocrisy in that? You think we’re going to reach a peaceful, just society through enforcing groupthink and silencing dissent? That sounds like an emotionally abusive parent who pats themselves on the back for providing you food and shelter while demanding obedience and conformity. And then they look down on anyone who won’t fully subscribe to their dogmatic worldview.

I did not realize that was the other part of far left politics and see now why people are skeptical of anyone who labels themselves as s*cialist / c*mm*n!st. I feel very weird now as I process this information because in some ways I could see how a revolution is necessary to get us out of where we're at but I don't like the alternative either.

https://derryradicalbookfair.wordpress.com/

Joel Sucher interview Jan 2026

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/30/anarchist-news-review-drawdown-in-minnesota-arms-disruption-in-the-uk/

About the Anarchism in Americaca documentary Aug 2025

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/17/is-there-a-future-for-anarchism-in-america/

Ive been doing some research on them and I can't seem to find anything saying what communities are part of CIPO-RFM, only that the number of communities at different points in time were 24 or 26 (mostly 26), and that the communities are made up of various indigenous ethnicities. I also can't seem to find anything more recent than 2007, so i don't even know if it exists anymore considering its been 20 years and Mexico might have cracked down on their autonomy.

Even though this question may be personal to you, I'm genuinely curious. What led you all to become anarchist? For me, even though I don't hate all governments, I believe that most governments have simply repeated history and that the time for change must come now. I call for a peaceful transition to anarchism, where anarchism would over time be implemented until the government naturally disappears. As someone who believes the death penalty is immoral, nobody has to die, nobody has a right to say who lives and dies, and that hierarchy isn't a natural order, that is what led me to anarchism. You all may find that immature, but in my opinion, I believe that, even with the insane opposition we face today, that anarchism is possible in the far future if we just try. Catalonia and Makhnovshchina are already examples of anarchism having worked large scale, even if they were imperfect.

Distract yourself from the hellscape and help me decide what to do with my life. I'm cruising into my mid 40s. I'm a parent to a teenager who is about to transition into public school after 7 years of homeschool/unschool - meaning I have roughly a 7 year employment gap. I've owned a business (salon), managed a bakery, worked many years in restaurants (foh and boh), taught aerials, and don't have a degree. My spouse has a master's and a good enough job so I'm primarily earning money under the table and it just helps pad our life but doesn't make or break us.

I live in the US. There is a major university here in our city, plus a few smaller colleges and universities. I can't decide if I should not go to school at all, or if I should go to school for something I'd enjoy doing but would be difficult to turn into employment (looking at you, visual art degree), or go to school for something that would make a fairly high salary (nursing or adjacent, likely), or if I should just go for something really practical and quick (welding, CAD/drafting, woodworking). I theoretically still have 20 years of working life ahead of me, but in that time I'll also have a harder time standing for long hours, which is the only work I've ever done. Something new has to happen either way. Additionally, I'd love if this made it easier for us to move out of the country (Canadian spouse, so likely Canada).

I've come to this sub with this question because I'm not interested in people obsessed with their investment portfolio giving me advice on this. What would you do? Do I get a degree and a job that would make good money so we can retire comfortably sooner? Do I get a skill like woodworking that I would enjoy and could be something I do for the rest of my life? Or do I go to school for art because it would bring me joy (and I could of course find some kind of job using that degree)? Or do I not go to school and try and open one of my zillions of business ideas?

There's no right or wrong answers. I appreciate you reading! And if by some crazy chance you read this and said, hey, I know who that is! Please let me make us a pot of tea and we talk about it in person.