By Janet Biehl New Compass February 3-5, 2012, a a conference was organized in Hamburg, Germany. The theme was “Challenging Capitalist Modernity: Alternative concepts and the Kurdish Question.” The following text was delivered as a speech to the conference. … In February 1999, at the moment when Abdullah […]
By Michael Schmidt and Lucien Van der Walt Anarchist Library Introduction: Second-Generation Anarchism in Anatolia: The Kurdish National Question Back to the Beginnings: Alexandre Atabekian and the Rise of Anarchism in the Ottoman Empire The “Black International” and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Anarchist Anti-Imperialist Guerrillas in Thrace: Mikhail […]
Channel 4 News Brian Whelan The PKK could play a key role in the battle against Islamic State, but their roots as Marxist guerrillas leaves the west wary. Channel 4 News looks at how the group is pursuing a Kurdish Spring. After over 30 years of an anachronistic […]
Rafael Taylor RoarMag.Org As the prospect of Kurdish independence becomes ever more imminent, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party transforms itself into a force for radical democracy. Excluded from negotiations and betrayed by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne after having been promised a state of their own by the World […]
By Jesse Walker Reason.Com The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has been active in the Kurdish parts of Turkey since the ’70s. It has a sometimes sordid history: Its politics were Marxist-Leninist, and its willingness to kill prisoners and civilians earned a rebuke from Amnesty International. Its leader, […]
Yes! The Bookchinites of Kurdistan are making their mark. By Alia Malek’ Al-Jazeera Members of the PKK wait to greet the body of a slain Iraqi Kurdish PKK fighter on the road from Erbil.Ayman Oghanna for Al Jazeera America ERBIL, Iraq — The body of Zanyar Kawa is […]
Resolved:Opposition to so-called “victimless crimes” or “consensual crimes” has long been a hallmark of libertarian and anarchist thought. It’s time the ball started rolling a little bit faster on this question. These kinds of laws are the primary reason why the U.S. police state has grown dramatically in […]
By David D’Amato Center for a Stateless Society In a new article for Rolling Stone, “Inside the Koch Brothers’ Toxic Empire,” Tim Dickinson attempts to present the frequently demonized brothers Koch as essentially hardline libertarians, whose radical free market ideology is thoroughly mixed into their business philosophy and […]
Russia Today Image from facebook.com/Azad.Onepercenter Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have received a surprising accession. While allied forces refuse to take part in military action on the ground, several German bikers have reportedly joined the fight against the jihadists. Kawan A., the club […]
By Wendy Call Yes Magazine Javier Sicilia stopped writing poetry after his son was murdered by drug traffickers. He has turned his attention full time to protesting the drug wars. Seattle’s South Park neighborhood has seen its share of drug-related crime and violence. Many of its residents are […]
I think that ARV-ATS has to a great degree developed to the point where we are ready to enter a new stage of our development. Over the years, I have made an effort to assess the limitations of previously existing anarchist movements, and to formulate a new theoretical […]
By Eric Draitser New Eastern Outlook In the midst of the war against ISIS (Islamic State) now taking place in both Iraq and Syria, a possible shifting of alliances that could fundamentally alter the balance of power in the region is taking place, and no one seems to […]
Navid Nasr Sukant Chandan: “Here you can see a rough sketch of how nato has mobilised death squads from around the world & subjected Syria to these rapists, slavers of women, mutilators & generally nato’s razor blades against our peoples. They are being fought back by a formal […]
Anarkismo.Net What you read below is the experience of my visit, for a couple of weeks in May this year, 2014, to the North-East of Syria or Syrian Kurdistan (West of Kurdistan) with a close friend of mine. Throughout the visit we had the total freedom and opportunity […]
By Kevin Carson Counterpunch.Org The Obama administration recently announced a policy of limited intervention in Iraq, using drone strikes to stave off conquest of Kurdish autonomous areas by ISIS. The main US ally on the ground is Massoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Regional Government, and US support against ISIS is […]
This was originally posted on the Libertarian Alliance blog. The general theory of political economy I hold to is roughly the same as Carson’s, and I wrote an essay for LA back in 2008 outlining my perspective. Since you don’t like links, I won’t provide one. But it’s […]
Some observations from “Ian B.” at the Libertarian Alliance blog. ————————— My major problem Keith is that I don’t think any form of separatism or communitarianism is going to work. The problem with any proposed alternative to the [current dispensation] is actually getting the chance to implement it. […]
How many anarchists even know that the PKK is an anarchist group whose main influence is Murray Bookchin. Anarchists the world over need to rally behind the PKK. Form protests outside Turkish embassies and consulates everywhere. BBC News An F-4 Phantom jet: Turkey says the bombing was a […]
I was so ahead of my time, lol. Yahoo News The Hague (AFP) – The Dutch public prosecutor said on Tuesday that motorbike gang members who have reportedly joined Kurds battling the Islamic State group in Iraq are not necessarily committing any crime. “Joining a foreign armed force […]
From the Libertarian Alliance blog. The discussion that follows is interesting. By Keith Preston I am going chance the risk of offending everyone by offering a defense of both the National Policy Institute and C4SS. I spoke to an NPI gathering a few years ago, and I am […]
By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Note by Sean Gabb: I prefer to avoid commenting on foreign affairs that do not immediately concern my own country. One exception is things that happen in the United States, which is our imperial overlord. Things that happen in other member states of […]
By David Graeber The Guardian Demonstrators hold flags of Kurdistan and a flag with a portrait of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan outside the UN headquarters in Geneva. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters In 1937, my father volunteered to fight in the International Brigades in defence of the Spanish Republic. […]
It’s always a good plan to consider weaknesses in one’s own position. By Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative Rich Koele / Shutterstock.com Ron Paul has stirred a media buzz by praising Scotland’s secession effort—an effort the Scots themselves rejected. Dr. Paul’s views are shared by many libertarians and […]
If only the cause of overthrowing the Empire would proceed as rapidly as gay marriage. Richmond Times-Dispatch Gov. Terry McAuliffe today signed an executive order that directs state agencies to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s action that legalized same-sex marriage in Virginia. The governor signed Executive Order […]
Daniel McCarthy tells what is basically the truth about America’s founding. It was led by continental imperialists who resented the British for getting in the way of their own expansionist designs on the Indian lands. Leftist historians like Howard Zinn have long pointed this out. By Daniel McCarthy […]
By Yasmin Nair Alternet The United States has five percent of the world’s population, but houses 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Conventional wisdom has it that it is the systemic, widening, and tightening grip of conservatives, particularly racist Republicans and Southern Democrats, over the years that led […]
It seems like Joel Kotkin and I are pretty much on the same page in terms of our analysis of the present state of U.S. class relations. By Joel Kotkin An Excerpt from Joel Kotkin’s Forthcoming book The New Class Conflict available for pre-order now from Telos Press […]
Is nothing sacred? CNN.Com A man is suing the TSA after he says he opened his suitcase to find his mother’s ashes dumped out.
This is long but well worth the read. There are some fantastic nuggets of data and analysis in this. Among other things, this argues pretty convincingly that the left/right red/blue Democrat/Republican divide in the U.S. is a much stronger conflict and a much greater source of outgroup hostility […]
We at AttacktheSystem.Com are working on the possibility of an online event for October 24 in honor of Free Nations Day, an annual event some of our colleagues began a couple of years ago as a counter to United Nations Day. Anyone who is involved with secessionist, independence, […]
This was originally posted on the “Points to Consider” discussion thread, but the comments are important enough that I’m making them into a feature post. Take notes, readers. By Julius Ebola One of the basic aspects of real cadre is a major personal commitment to a movement. Unfortunately, […]
As it should be. Resistance to the police state is by far the most important domestic issue in the United States, much more so than competing economic philosophies, or the “Who’s Most Oppressed?” pissing contest. By Matt Agorist Free Thought Project After a 9 hour deliberation, a jury […]
Defend all enemies of the state! If this man is convicted, then there should be Ferguson-style uprisings until he is released. By Scott Shackford Reason.Com Attempting to serve a search warrant by entering a house through a window got Killeen, Texas, Police Detective Charles Dinwiddie shot in the […]
This should ruffle some feathers. I should qualify that I am not necessarily taking Hoppe’s side in this argument, which is a growing argument in libertarian and anarchist milieus, concerning whether anti-statism is more compatible with a leftist or rightist worldview. As those who are familiar with the […]
Some damn good points. The Daily Caller http://launch.newsinc.com/?type=VideoPlayer/Single&widgetId=1&trackingGroup=69016&siteSection=dailycaller&videoId=27129557 Last May, one of the most influential conservative and religious intellectual leader in America gave a somber speech in Washington, declaring it to be “Good Friday in America for Christians.” In this exclusive two part video interview, Princeton’s Robert P. […]
The Supreme Court represents the values of the ruling class at any particular time. This has been true throughout American history. For instance, the Dred Scott decision represented the conservative wing of the ruling class during the ante bellum era. The Locher decision represented the values of the ruling […]
Ah! Much better. By Petr Mach Reason.Com Dalibor Roháč wrote an interesting Reason piece where he argues that despite all its flaws, the European Union (E.U.) is the best real scenario that European libertarians can have and, therefore, should accept it. Roháč enumerates many of the E.U.’s weaknesses—and […]
“Victory for the Eurosceptic forces would likely be a victory for protectionism, economic nationalism, immigration barriers, and Putin.” They say that like it’s a bad thing. I always did think Reason tended to be a bit neoconnish and this illustrates it. Support for “free trade” (globalization) is definitely […]
The new city-state system begins to rise. By Misha Glenny BBC News Hundreds of mayors are getting together to build a global network that could shift the balance of power and create a new force to be reckoned with. Tousle-haired and enthusiastic Mayor Eberhard van der Laan welcomes […]
By Parag Khanna The Atlantic Last week, the world’s most globe-spanning empire until the mid-20th century let its fate be decided by 3.6 million voters in Scotland. While Great Britain narrowly salvaged its nominal unity, the episode offered an important reminder: The 21st century’s strongest political force is […]
Maria C. Werlau World Affairs When mass protests against the government erupted in Venezuela early in February, murder rates in the country were already shocking—close to twenty-five thousand people dead in the previous year, with ninety-seven percent of cases going unsolved. They would soon get worse, as motorcycle […]
By Nathan Goodman Center for a Stateless Society A new report from the Open Society Justice Initiative documents the overuse of pretrial detention around the globe. The report estimates that around 3.3 million people are currently incarcerated awaiting trial. These people have yet to be convicted of any crime, […]
By Graeme Wood The Atlantic On a clear morning this past February, the inmates in the B Yard of Pelican Bay State Prison filed out of their cellblock a few at a time and let a cool, salty breeze blow across their bodies. Their home, the California prison […]
Dr. Gabb is interviewed by Dan and Cait Greene. Listen here Dr Sean Gabb is a writer and broadcaster and academic. He is the author of twenty books, which include ten novels and three volumes of poetry. He has been commercially translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Slovak, Hungarian […]
The Sunni and Shiites of the Middle East or the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland have nothing on anarchists.
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The End of Capitalism This is one of the most striking and intelligent articles I’ve ever read, encouraging a total reconfiguring of how to view capitalism and revolution. Russell Means was a leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM) of the 1960s and 70s, and remains one of […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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