01/04/2021
Issue Ninety Three of Organise!, the quarterly journal of the Anarchist Federation, is available now for sale at radical bookstores and meeting places, and for free download from the Federation website. Lead article this time round is titled “The Queer Polish Revolution is Just Beginning”, and looks at the struggle against anti-abortion laws in the increasingly reactionary state in Eastern Europe, which has also inspired a new coalition of radicals, dissidents, free thinkers, atheists, gay people and feminists to unite across their divides to challenge the government. Mordekaj Poćwiardowski is the essayist who writes “What the government did not expect, was somewhat cliché- the solidarity of the queer community. When cops arrived to take Margot (an activist) to jail for two months (in the end she served three weeks of that), hundreds of people protested, even in the face of atrocious police brutality - 48 people were arrested in the process, many faced physical and sexual abuse in jail. Dozens of solidarity protests were organized all over the country and abroad. The uproar resulted in bringing the queer community to light, into mainstream discourse”.
