Grants Pass and the Carceral Conjuncture

The Trump administration has begun disappearing international students and workers from university campuses. This article, written by three academic workers, argues that this escalation was made possible by a campaign of repression initiated by universities themselves. After analyzing where we are and how we got here, the authors put forward their answer to the pressing […]

Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) identifies mutual aid as a key principle that our members aim to introduce within social movements. This doesn’t mean that we all agree on how to do this, or even what we mean by “mutual aid.” We are continuing to have robust internal debate on the topic. The following essay represents […]

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 […]

Join us for the third installment in our Organized Anarchism Series, this time with Federación Anarquista Rosario (FAR) or Anarchist Federation of Rosario. As its name suggests, FAR is based out of the Argentine city of Rosario where its militants are embedded in a variety of sectors—most prominently in labor unions both public […] The […]

In late January 2025, the Black Rose/Rosa Negra International Relations Committee (BRRN – IRC) accepted an invitation to send a member of our organization to the 15th Encuentro Latinoamericano de Organizaciones Populares y Autónomas (ELAOPA) or “Latin American Gathering of Popular and Autonomous Organizations” in Santiago, Chile. Ketino, a militant of BRRN, primarily joined the […]

This is a response to an article titled ‘A Letter to the Libertarian Left’, published by the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA-LSC) in August of 2024. Over the course of several months, members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) devoted time to discussing and debating this letter internally, as well as […]

Heeding the international call to remember Omar Aziz on the 12th anniversary of his death, we are excited to announce a webinar on the topic of his legacy and the future of Syria. This comes at a crucial moment in the history of the Syrian people. Barely two months ago the regime of Bashar al-Assad […]

This is the sixth 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, #4 with a public librarian, and #5 with a public school teacher. In this interview we speak to GK, a restaurant worker in Michigan. As the […]

What is Conjunctural Analysis? Conjunctural analysis is a method of assessing what is known as the correlation of forces or the balance of power between social forces within a particular context (local, regional, national, etc) in the current moment. It also takes into account the relationship between these shifting social forces and the relatively permanent […]

This article by Syrian writer Jwana Aziz reflects on the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Jwana examines the conditions that precipitated the 2011 uprising, the years of civil war, and the difficulties that now lay ahead for the Syrian people, while also holding open the possibility for a truly liberated future. Jwana is the daughter […]