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Matt Crossin

@MattCrossin

anarchist worker. @acfmelbourne. rank and file union member. @redblacknotes and @classcapitalau editorial collectives.

Katılım Eylül 2011
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Matt Crossin@MattCrossin·
In Melbourne March 7? Make sure you come to Anarchism 2026. The Anarchist Communist Federation will be hosting talks on our workplace organising, current struggles, and revolutionary theory. I’ll be speaking about the Spanish Revolution 90 years on too! ancomfed.org/conf-2026
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Anarchist Communist Federation@ancomfederation·
"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation..."
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Matt Crossin@MattCrossin·
@_toonworld The best single volume for a broad overview is bollotens (2015 edition)
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please recommend me your favorite book on the spanish civil war / spanish revolution. current topic of focus
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Strange Matters
Strange Matters@strange_matters·
"These [organizational dualist] thinkers argued that, in addition to massive and class-based pluralistic social organizations, specific anarchist organizations would also be necessary to promote their positions more consistently among workers." strangematters.coop/debates-within…
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Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
Another nationwide power outage was just announced in Cuba. Power was out in most of Havana last night. Doing this to 9+ million people is just completely insane.
Ilhan Omar@IlhanMN

We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed to suffocate an island. Food is spoiling. Water supply is compromised. Healthcare services are disrupted. End the blockade now. Grateful to all those helping deliver humanitarian aid!

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Anarchist Communist Federation@ancomfederation·
155 years since the Paris Commune. "Overthrown, but not conquered" it stands today not just as inspiring history, but as a rallying cry. 👇🧵
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Lonn Breaux@IBreauxup·
@Jonas_Ceika Align as in engage with the masses on the basis of their resistance and their national development. I already made myself clear i never simply said “align with the majority”
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Lonn Breaux@IBreauxup·
If the communists don’t have the masses support and doesn’t broadly align itself with the majority, which means it will be opposing the militant struggle against the Zionist and American regimes, than yes it should be denounced as chauvinistic. They have to properly engage their
Jonas Čeika@Jonas_Ceika

@kaywisehero @jsjxjdndjixjevs @CrimsonSpect0r I'm saying that we shouldn't, as an example, denounce and condemn the Communist Party of Iran for organizing workers and criticizing its government

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Matt Crossin@MattCrossin·
Marty Supreme still the best movie of the year though
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Matt Crossin@MattCrossin·
@elisha1542 John Reeds account has some great stories of snooty academic Marxists shaking their heads at ignorant workers ‘misunderstanding Marxism’ and ‘falling for agents of German imperialism’
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kali 🏳️‍⚧️☭@k4lihxc·
@correnterosso it is interesting. and i also do wonder what each individual group's reasoning's are for pricing – ie FSP and ACF have similar frequencies despite large differences. i imagine FSP produces more because they're a global group so maybe they can scale, but the jump is interesting
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spoti@_Spoti·
The @ancomfederation has an Anarchist Political School, which serves as an introduction to the revolutionary ideas and strategies of anarchist communism. You can check out the modules here: ancomfed.org/aps/
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Matt Crossin@MattCrossin·
@Stayseaok @correnterosso Geelong comrades have had some attempts at community pickets. in MEL we were involved in Unionists for Palestine before it fell apart, but here the community picket wasn’t just lacking involvement from the dock workers — it was actively hostile to them. We couldn’t support that.
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dis.claimer@Stayseaok·
@correnterosso Yeh, so what does the fed think about right now? Like, beyond going to work and building radical unions there in order to undo capitalism and the aus-US alliance, whats ancomfeds position on what to do?
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Matt Crossin@MattCrossin·
@NoLuckLopez The structural element is crucial though - Mundey for example operated in an entirely different context. Any similarity in ‘worldview’ is largely irrelevant.
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Daniel Lopez
Daniel Lopez@NoLuckLopez·
@MattCrossin His political philosophy and worldview are anything but top down. But look, I get what you’re saying about the structural stuff. All I’m rly saying is that I think they’re some of the good ones — like Jack Mundey was, for example. Bureaucrats who’d vote to limit their own terms.
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Daniel Lopez@NoLuckLopez·
"But if unions are serious about rebuilding working-class power in an era of deepening inequality, union democracy is a necessary first step. Democracy is not a procedural burden to be managed, it is the precondition for collective strength." jacobin.com/2026/03/austra…
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Matt Crossin@MattCrossin·
@NoLuckLopez again, less a comment against him then the role he occupies. And the limitations of attempts at reform from the top down.
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Matt Crossin@MattCrossin·
@NoLuckLopez I mean, even the bloke interviewed here has some stuff to answer for too…
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Daniel Lopez@NoLuckLopez·
@MattCrossin Ok fair, but the leadership faction in question has one of the best records in the country for leading militant industrial action, building rank and file democracy and training principled delegates and organizers.
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Matt Crossin@MattCrossin·
@NoLuckLopez For context, I’m a member. I didn’t say I don’t differentiate - but it is fundamentally a project of a faction of the bureaucracy. There’s sort of an ambition by some involved to reverse engineer a rank and file group, but we should be clear that’s what it is.
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Daniel Lopez
Daniel Lopez@NoLuckLopez·
@MattCrossin I think that's a pretty bad misreading. Members First is obviously more militant and some of the best organisers and delegates in the country are part of it. The emphasis on democracy is excellent. You don't need to abandon a critique of union bureaucracy to differentiate.
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