Ⓐ El Ejército Negro de Majno | The Black Army of Makhno

Song: Hey, There's the Village (ukrainian folk-song)
The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Революційна Повстанська Армія України, Revolyutsiyna Povstanska Armiya Ukrayiny), also known as the Black Army, was an anarchist army formed largely of Ukrainian and Crimean peasants and workers under the command of the famous anarchist leader Nestor Makhno during the Russian Civil War.
The Black Army numbered between 15,000 and 110,000 men and was organized on conventional lines, with infantry, cavalry, and artillery units; artillery batteries were attached to each infantry brigade. Makhnov's cavalry incorporated both regular and irregular horse-mounted (guerrilla) forces, and was considered to be among the best trained and most capable of any of the cavalry units deployed by any side in the Russian Civil War.[3] The Black Army was frequently referred to at the time by the Bolshevik Communist government and Red Army commanders as Makhnovist forces, since they pointedly declined to accord the Ukrainian anarchists the status of having either an army or a legitimate political movement. One source described the Insurrectionary Black Army of the time (less its cavalry, which normally ranged far afield) as follows:

"The infantry, when it was not fighting, led the march of the army...[The Black Army also used horse-drawn carts or] tachankas. Each of these vehicles, which were drawn by two horses, carried the driver on the front seat and two soldiers behind them. In some sections a machine-gun was installed on the seat between them. The artillery brought up the rear. A huge black flag floated over the first carriage. The slogans Liberty or Death and The Land to the Peasants, the Factories to the Workers were embroidered in silver on its two sides."

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Insurrectionary_Army_of_Ukraine
http://www.nestormakhno.info

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• majno
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• anarchy
• revolution
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• анархия
• анархизм
• анархистов
• революції
• чорний
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[BritishSocialism]

What's the name of the song?

[ObreroLibertario]

Is a ukrainian folk song, but don't know the name.

[evilmick66]

The Soviet and other commie nations were power hungry empires that exploited the plight of the working class! Makhno, Durruti, and other anarchists were the only true proletarian heroes.

[Dynkin]

Fuck the Politics, Long Life to Anarchy

[MrViTopol]

@gheorghitaz no highways, no cars, no planes in an anarchist society. best examples - somalia.

[chimimac1]

@laconically

That's bullshit, go read some books before arguing

[w35m4n]

@evilmick66 If only people would recognize that anarchism is the true realization of communism and that statist, authoritarian "communism" isn't really communism at all. Communism means no heirarchy or classes.... which is basically the opposite of the Soviet Union and other so-called "communist" countries.

[MsOKZS]

@evilmick66 Do you know what was Makhno's Army flag said: "Freedom of Ukraine or death."

[gerymonkey]

@claudiamanja El cambio... de un dictador a otro.

[claudiamanja]

El anarquísmo es producto de la flojera del pensamiento que deja todo al espontaneísmo antiestatal. solo la revolucion marxista es cambio.

[claudiamanja]

@Dynkin Estás bien pendejo, la anarquía es un espontaneísmo, solo la revolución marxista-leninista es cambio!

[Choclonauta]

Estos registros audovisuales tienen un aire épico... rememorando las filas del comunismo libertario y la autodeterminación de todo un pueblo que luchó contra la tiranía y el autoritarismo de terratenientes y soviéticos traidores.

Decenas de años después, aún recordamos la historia silenciada del anarquismo... ¡QUE VIVA LA ANARQUÍA!

[meusisto]

@gheorghitaz

I'm not an anarchist but i think it all can be made in a way or other in an anarchist society, specially the last ones in your list. But i'd ask myself the same about police.