The Dirty South is a counter-info site that focuses on anti-colonial and anti-authoritarian action in the geographic southeast of the so-called U.S. In service of this, we accept and repost communiques, reportbacks, analysis, research, calls to action, art, events, and publications, as well as mainstream news articles about unclaimed attacks.
Who is this resource for?
This resource is for those interested in rupturing the settler-colonial project—those fighting it, those seeking inspiration, and those craving to learn and share new ways of struggle. We especially want to provide a platform for struggles in the geographic southeast of turtle island—the region that carries the historical baggage of the “South”. This area roughly refers to occupied lands south of the appalachian foothills of so-called northern kentucky, west of the so-called atlantic ocean, east of the so-called mississippi river, north of the so-called gulf (so-called florida and louisiana) and so-called texas.
Why we think this is worthwhile:
The counter-info site Scenes from the Atlanta Forest, which published actions, educational resources, discourse, and calls to action relating to the struggle against Cop City in so-called atlanta from 2021-2024, was an important resource for our region (and for the anarchist movement more broadly). The decision of the Scenes admins to end the project this past November left anarchist and anti-authoritarian militants without a regionally-specific platform to anonymously share communiques and other information. We feel called to step up and fill this role.
The “South” often has the reputation of being a particularly reactionary, fascistic, and hostile place. But the brutality of this region has always been always been matched by the fierceness of those fighting against the social order from below. We seek to ground contemporary insurrectionary struggles in legacies of Black and Indigenous resistance and attack: the countless wars fought by Indigenous peoples against colonial expansion; the maroon communities which provided avenues of escape, survival, attack, and revenge against the plantation system; the slave rebellions that brought to life the darkest nightmares of the slaveholding class; the labor strikes and class warfare carried out by the most downtrodden workers; the riots and liberatory struggles of the sixties; and more recent prison riots and uprisings against the carceral system. An unbroken lineage of resistance carries us into the present moment and our struggle to stem the tide of fascism, and to thwart the intensifying efforts of the forces of domination to stamp out any possiblity of a free life.
In solidarity,
Dirty South Admins
