Anonymous submission to North Shore

I just moved to London recently, I was excited to see if any anarchists were still active in this unapologetically beautiful, working-class city. Yet the first thing I see when I come is barely any anarchists (which is kind of what I was hoping for).

I was looking forward to getting away from Ottawa because of the obnoxious (and frankly exaggerated) politics of Ottawa, the YCL stood for compliance and the Punch Up Collective was too cagey to join with. Yet, for some reason, I’m determined to find any fellow anarchists within the bricked and woodland areas of the Forest City (at least it’s called that for now, I hope there will be trees left in the future).

Whilst anarchism has a bit of a reputation for being rough among common people: an anarchist community could be one of the gentlest things London needs. A collective gift economy with no expectations of bringing gifts, yet always providing a welcoming feeling based on concept alone. A place to bring the emotional struggles of people into an honest reflection of citizen struggle, whilst creating a collective ecosystem that influences people through the values of a local subculture. A collective that allies with good-willed local organizations/collectives for the community’s greater good, whilst showing the greater power of collective citizen opinion over direct, intimidating financial control.

Anarchists should not need a set of rules just to be good, rather, a thoughtful vision of the people that they can articulately share with others they value and know will value faithfully. Why should we be fighting each other, when unlike any other political ideology: we don’t need a rationale to tell us what should be good, rather, both objective and emotional visions to innovate the world in agreement with all existing human visions, rather than the ones that claim to come first.

As London’s large ethnic groups are very mixed: representing the views of every human in collective form without dividing by rules is more important than ever before.

Bring kindness, bring intelligence, and a collective with a decentralized identity defined by expression, empathy, and foresight, without dividing the disenfranchised through a fixed dichotomy.

Bring it all out of London, to London.

– M4x0r