anarchyinwaitawhile

anarchyinwaitawhile OP wrote (edited )

Hello,

Thought I would share this old enlightening piece from a militant comrade of the Spanish social revolution days, the author argues the importance of organising along anarchist structures.

When Antonio sent this mail to be shared, at the time, Jura Book Shop, Melbourne Anarchist Club, Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group, and Perth Libertarians (very late to the party and dropped out not long after) were participating. I cannot remember what collectives dropped out if any prior to 2014 (they all have by now), tho, there was a Sydney group (the name escapes me now, they were platformists) who were critical of anarchists organising and federating at the time.

Unfortunately, Antonio is making company with earth worms now.

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anarchyinwaitawhile OP wrote

Excluding Endnotes and Dramatis Personnae

MAC Chronology This chronology has been prepared to outline the history of the Melbourne Anarchist Club (MAC) and explain the controversial events of the past few years. The names of those involved have been replaced with code names to observe basic security protocols. The registered name of the Incorporated Association created in 1988 to hold the property has been withheld. This document is intended to be educative and it is hoped it will suffice as a cautionary tale.

1987 – House at Union St., Brunswick gifted to @press for the purpose of accommodating their printing equipment.

1988 – Incorporated Association ‘Name Withheld’ (XXXX) founded to own and manage the property registered with Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV). Press housed in garage out back, house open to use by anarchist organizations by agreement with XXXX. 1999 - @press ceases to function. XXXX continues to hold property.

2001 – Former member VENT STACKi confiscated the minutes, message books and other documents and submitted to CAV falsely accusing the XXXX of corruption causing the property to be vested in the Crown. After two and a half years the property was returned to the XXXX.

2002 – The XXXX chose to operate under the name of ‘Melbourne Anarchist Club’ (MAC)ii

2006 – XXXX decides to sell Union St property on account of the prohibitive cost of repairing the roof. XXXX created a list of requirements for the decision to go ahead; (a) realise at least $250,000, (b) inform the original members of @press, (c) uphold all current agreements with user organizations (Barricade Books, ASF Melbourne North) and (d) present the decision at a meeting of anarchists in Melbourne.

All anarchists in Melbourne were invited to a meeting at Coburg Library in December 2006, where the following was agreed; (1) the XXXX is an autonomous anarchist organization that is answerable to its members and only its members, (2) the XXXX takes sole responsibility for the ownership and management of the property and (3) membership of the XXXX is open to all anarchists who agree to abide by the MAC constitution, the rules of the XXXX as registered with CAV and pay dues at a rate determined by the XXXX.iii

2007 – Union St. Property sold, St. George’s Rd. property purchased.

2008 – XXXX resolves to transfer the ownership and management of the property to a functioning regional anarchist federation. XXXX initiates discussions to this end and hold a conference at St. George’s Rd. to advocate the foundation of a regional anarchist federation.iv

2012 – The MAC and Anarres Books reach an agreement on a merger. The agreement is made on the basis that the purpose of the XXXX is to provide a space for an anarchist infoshop. It was also agreed that, in the event that the property had to be sold, a two-storey shopfront located as close to the Melbourne CBD as possible would be purchased.v 2013 – The XXXX (as MAC) resolved, for a second time to transfer the ownership and management of the property to a functioning regional anarchist federation. To this end the MAC initiated the Anarchist Federation Australia (AFA) project. This resolution was later rescinded on account of the eventual failure of the AFA project.vi

2018 – On 22 July, a group of IWW members and political activists from various activist groups blockaded and occupied the MAC premises to prevent its AGM from taking place. Five members of the MAC were expelled for breaches of the MAC rules as proposed by the 24 June meeting. By December, MAC bank account exhausted.vii 2019 – On 5 May, the MAC repossessed its premises.viii On 23 May, a small group of IWW members along with individuals from Food Not Bombs (FNB) and other activist organizations held a meeting at SITEWORKS to discuss legal action. An Incorporated Association was registered by them with CAV for the purpose of making a claim to ownership of the property.ix On 15 June, members of the IWW and other political activists picketed the MAC premises to prevent the auction and contacted CAV in addition to instructing their lawyer to place a caveat on the premises.x In July, an original member of @press held a meeting at 3CR to explain the origins of the XXXX. In August, the property held by XXXX was vested in the Registrar of CAV. In October, a member of IWW provided the MAC with the minutes of the meetings of the Incorporated Association established on 23 May along with screenshots of text messages and DMs. In December 2019, Reclaim Australia activist and one-time United Patriots Front member, Philip Galea, was convicted in the Supreme Court of Victoria of terrorist offences including a plot to bomb the premises of the MAC among other targets.xi 2020 – In June, CAV regularised the status of XXXX and return ownership of the premises. In September, the caveat was removed by Victorian Land Registry. The MAC is currently organising the sale of the premises and has commenced the search for another suitable property.

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anarchyinwaitawhile wrote (edited )

Reply to by !deleted7175

I would recommend Ada. It is had a strong, static, and strick type system, it is also very verbose and easy to read. I have spent the last 25 years teaching myself programming languages, C, C++, Pascal, and more, I still believe Ada is the best. There is also GNAT which makes Ada somewhat more accessible.

Ada Programming on Wikibooks provides a good introduction.

Programming in Ada by John Barnes (2012) It skips the newbie stuff—unfortunately anything, Ada does :-(

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anarchyinwaitawhile wrote (edited )

Hi,

I mean not to hijack, and I understand the context of a looking for a GNU/Linux distribution without systemd, however, I thought I would carefully drop a +1 for FreeBSD, or any BSD Unix for that matter. All the BSDs are using modern, as in modular RC init scripts, which are just /bin/sh scripts. Granted, they lack socket activation and decent rigid dependencies between services/scripts, though there are interesting alternatives in FreeBSD land: OpenRC; runit.

In FreeBSD (RC from NetBSD) it is easy to keep stock system and user changes to RC separate, you can also automate addition and removal of services.

I have been using FreeBSD for 18 years now, I switched to it from Microsoft Windows 9x. The system is solid and feature full, there may be concerns over a usable Desktop Environment—to each their own—my X environment is very minimal and has been for years. I use or have used FreeBSD for gaming, work, study and the usual expectations for a desktop system today.

From memory, Crux Linux was a distribution that aimed to keep BSD and System V roots, so I suspect they still have RC type init system.

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