Public Version Introduction The current conjuncture contains a wide range of obstacles for anarchists aiming at a libertarian-socialist horizon. The cascading crises that mark this moment, from the ecological to the economic, can be both daunting and disorienting. Without any meaningful solutions from political elites, the process of polarization and politicization continues. While the far-right […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Updated version: 2024 Introduction Since we published the first edition of our program, Turning the Tide, on May 1, 2023, many core conditions of the conjuncture that we analyzed have persisted. But a variety of major new events, including the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the 2024 US presidential election, and accelerating climate change have since […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
To guide us through the highs and lows of struggle along the path toward our ultimate objective—social revolution and libertarian socialism—we need a compass to keep us aligned with our North Star. In other words, we need a general strategy, a durable revolutionary orientation aimed at both dismantling the system of domination and laying the […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Introduction So far, we have analyzed the general structures, relationships, and mechanisms of domination that give shape to the society in which we live. Now we will establish our prescription for uprooting these structures—social revolution—and describe in broad terms the form of social organization that we are struggling to bring into existence—libertarian socialism. Social Revolution […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Introduction Our world is divided between the few who dominate and the many who are dominated. This deep-seated division is the product of the core structures that define our society: capitalism, the state, heteropatriarchy, imperialism, settler colonialism, and white supremacy. Although we will analyze these structures individually, we see each as mutually reinforcing expressions of […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This is the political program of our organization, Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN). The writings it contains are the result of nearly two years of collective analysis, discussion, and debate. The content of the program is divided into three parts: sections that detail our understanding of the social, political, and […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN) is a political organization founded in 2014 which shares a common set of politics and a shared strategic vision of building popular power in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and schools towards the goal of libertarian socialism. With locals and contacts in over a dozen cities, our […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
In this new, even more horrifying phase of the 75 year long occupation of Palestine by Israel, it is important to give a platform to Palestinians struggling against ethnic cleansing.| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Tenant Movement. In this interview, we speak with E, an organizer with the San Francisco Bay Area’s Tenants and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) in its East of Lake local. Like our other series Anarchists in the Labor Movement, […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
The Socialism Conference is a long running annual gathering held in Chicago, Illinois. Drawing upwards of 2,000 participants each year, the conference boasts 160+ panels, breakouts, and activities covering a wide variety of topics. As one might expect, the event is dominated by state socialists of various traditions and libertarian socialists have largely remained absent […] The post BRRN at Socialism Conference 2025 in Chicago appeared first on Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This is a brief report on a series of public events put on by the California Bay Area Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra in May and June of 2025. You can find the Bay Area Local on their Instagram page: @blackrosebayarea. by Black Rose/Rosa Negra – Bay Area Local Throughout May and June, members of […] The post Black Rose Bay Area Hosts Organizing Events Across California appeared first on Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
The following is a statement written and endorsed by members of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination (CALA) and sibling organizations across the Americas, including Black Rose/Rosa Negra. Violence in the Middle East continues to grow exponentially. The war profiteers, the main partners of neoliberal capitalism, impose death on those below, while they become richer with […] The post International Statement: War Between States Means Death for the People appeared first on Black Rose/Rosa ...| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Organizers with the Koreatown Popular Assembly in Los Angeles block an ICE van in response to punitive raids against sanctuary cities that detained over 100 people in the city and the backstory of how this organizing was built. #NotOneMore #NiUnaMas| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
US-based political organization building popular power from below / Organización política construyendo el poder popular desde abajo| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This article by Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal originally appeared in Jewish Currents. It serves as a basic organizing guide for those seeking to build and use collective power to solve issues facing themselves and their neighbors. Both authors are veteran organizers with the Los Angeles Tenants Union, one of the largest and most successful […] The post How To: Organize Your Building appeared first on Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This is a basic guide on how and why to build structures for decision making and collective action at the neighborhood level, what we call popular assemblies. We emphasize the need for popular assemblies to be rooted in a defined geographic area and aimed at organizing the people who live, work, or stay there to […] The post How To: Organize a Neighborhood Popular Assembly appeared first on Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Join members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra for two upcoming public events; one in May in San Antonio, TX and the other in Sacramento, CA in June. If you are looking to begin organizing in your area and want to connect with Black Rose/Rosa Negra, these events are for you! May 31st – San Antonio, TX […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Many in the US labor movement are fearful as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle legal protections granted to unions by the National Labor Relations Act and regulated by the National Labor Relations Board. Many see a dismantling of the NLRA as a terrible blow that could topple the US labor movement as it is […] The post Online Event Announcement: Labor Lessons from the South appeared first on Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
The writing this program contains is the product of nearly two years of collective research, discussion, and debate among the members of our organization.| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This interview is a reflection on the successes and missteps of the Koreatown Popular Assembly (KPA), an attempt at neighborhood based organizing that existed from 2016-2022 and aimed to confront the first Trump administration’s deportation policies. With Trump now back in power, many are once again looking for models to defend themselves and their communities […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Why Labor? The workplace is a key site of struggle between the conflicting interests of the majority of us who must work to survive, and the capitalist minority who profit off of our bodies, minds and labor. In other words, we see class struggle as one of the core antagonisms of the society in which […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This is the second in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Labor Movement. In this installment we bring you interviews with two nurses in the Southern United States. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who are active in workplace organizing. Some of those we speak to in […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This is the fifth installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker, #2 with healthcare workers, #3 with a metal worker, and #4 with a public librarian. In this interview we speak with Shan, a public school teacher in North Carolina. As the title suggests, this series […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Members of the Miami Local of Black Rose Anarchist Federation/Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra have been supporting the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park residents’ struggle against CREI Holdings. In this report, they document the situation residents face, the business and political elites who are causing it, and some next steps to stop the evictions. By Adam […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Labor Movement. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who are active in workplace organizing. Some of those we speak to are building a militant minority within the rank-and-file of their existing union, others […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This is the fourth installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker, #2 with healthcare workers, and #4 with a metal worker. In this interview we speak to Alex, a public library worker in North Carolina. As the title suggests, this series […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This somewhat belated report captures Black Rose/Rosa Negra Labor Committee’s participation in the 2024 edition of the Labor Notes Conference. Prepared by the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Labor Committee. Background on Labor Notes The 2024 Labor Notes Conference was held from April 19th to 21st in Chicago, bringing together some 4,700 unionists from around the United […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
This is the third installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker and #2 with healthcare workers. In this interview we speak to Daniel Bovard-Katz, a metalworker in a midwestern U.S. state. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
