New on the blog from Sam Murray "So there are no shortcuts. No ‘one weird trick’, whether electoral opportunism, Leninist putschism or insurrectionary individualism. The crackpots building bunkers in the hills will be waiting a long time with their beans. The environmental struggle is much like any other struggle. Reforms can be won and progress made, but there can never be a green capitalism, and final safety for t…

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Red Black Notes
@redblacknotes
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
133subscribers
-4 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001303927195 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @redblacknotes |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/redblacknotes |
Topic
Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 1 October 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2026, 16:40 | 133 | +1 |
| 1 Oct 2026, 21:38 | 132 | -4 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 05:54 | 136 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 23:15 | 137 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:13 | 137 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 19 July 2022 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 26 May 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
https://www.redblacknotes.com/2025/02/13/popular-power-or-class-power/
https://www.redblacknotes.com/2024/07/17/support-fighting-unions-fight-for-the-cfmeu/
The following statement has been collectively published by Geelong Anarchist Communists, Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group and Anarchist Communists Meanjin. "On the 1st of May, 1886, unions in Chicago influenced by the American anarchist movement went on strike for the eight hour day. A worker was shot dead by a cop, leading to a protest on the 4th. An unidentified person threw a bomb and the police started shoot…
https://melbacg.au/may-day-2024/
New on the blog, "Palestine, platitudes and silence" Tony Lawson speaks up on anarchists staying silent. https://www.redblacknotes.com/2023/11/16/palestine-platitudes-and-silence/
Also, Join Red & Black Notes and Troy Kokinis, author of Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labour and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, on 22nd October at 3pm AEST for an online book talk! Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83718001382#success
New on the blog: Juan Verala Luz reviews Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay 1956-1976. https://www.redblacknotes.com/2023/10/09/lessons-in-struggle-from-uruguayan-anarchists/
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group has issued the following statement on the situation in Palestine https://melbacg.au/statement-on-gaza/ The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group extends its solidarity to the Palestinian resistance against Israeli apartheid. Contrary to statements made by Israel’s apologists, the attacks by Hamas militants in Southern Israel were not ‘unprovoked’. Palestinians have been provok…
New stickers up at Garage Press: https://garagepressdistro.bigcartel.com/product/anti-transphobia-action-sticker-10pk
Responding to David Glanz of Solidarity (AU) on Spain and Anarchism. And really, responding to the same lazy talking points that the descendants of the Socialist Workers Party (UK) have been trotting out for decades. https://www.redblacknotes.com/2023/07/23/fictitious-splits-over-the-spanish-revolution/
New article from the Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group https://www.redblacknotes.com/2023/07/16/ukraine-no-war-but-the-class-war/
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @redblacknotes. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Red Black Notes” (@redblacknotes), 133 subscribers as measured 12 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/redblacknotes.
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