By William T. Hathaway “May you live in interesting times” was a curse the ancient Chinese hurled at their adversaries, wishing them strife, oppression, and struggle. It applies to us now because for all the uncertainties a Trump presidency holds, it will certainly be an interesting time, filled […]
By William T. Hathaway Let’s welcome our new Commander in Chief by demonstrating how little he knows about the Constitution of the United States. Each incoming president is required on inauguration day to take the oath of office, affirming to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.” But Trump […]
If only the libertarian left showed this much zeal for overthrowing the government all the time. Maybe we need to elect “fascist” presidents more often. By William Gills Center for a Stateless Society One of the more annoying things about our norms of discourse is that we tend […]
Some thoughts on what it would take for “anarchist success” to be achieved. A good point of reference is the history of revolutions. In the 18th and 19th centuries, there was a wave of revolutions (American, French, 1848, etc) that essentially pitted the Enlightenment against the Ancient Regime, […]
By DangerNixon Ancapistan Jacob Levy recently wrote an essay airing his teary-eyed dismay that so many of his libertarian friends are cheering on Britain’s bow down from EU membership. This comes to no surprise, since BHL seems to be bent on presenting us with the “libertarian case” for […]
The Free Thought Project Last week, a few dozen Native Americans showed up to protest the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile-long pipeline that would cross right through their sacred land. As word spread, however, the few dozen turned into more than 2,500 native Americans. Because of the large turnout, a […]
In honor of the September 9, 1971 Attica prisoner uprising, a nationally coordinated prisoner work stoppage has begun today. Reports say that a full work stoppage has occurred at Holman prison in Alabama. Chelsea Manning has also begun a hunger strike. Other strikes and actions have been reported […]
By Kirkpatrick Sale Of all the phenomena the 2016 election year has demonstrated, none is greater than the proof that this nation is deeply and probably irretrievably split into two political camps with very, very little in common. It is more than blue states and red states, it […]
By The Collective Anarchist News From Black Rose Anarchist Federation This essay is an argument for moving towards national organization in the United States and was published in April 2013 during the opening of the process that led to the founding of what became Black Rose/Rosa Negra. It […]
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By Keith Preston Last month, I wrote about how many of the predictions that I have been making over the past decade or so have come true during the course of recent events. In particular, the current U.S. presidential election represents the fulfillment of some of these predictions. […]
By Tom Slater Spiked Online “Brexit is a fake revolt’, writes Paul Mason in the Guardian this week: ‘Working-class culture is being hijacked to help the elite.’ A withering article in Vice agrees. ‘Brexit is the upper classes in revolt’, writes Sam Kriss. ‘They see an undemocratic and […]
It looks like ATS ideas are becoming increasingly closer to the mainstream. I am seeing more and more writing like this all the time. By Tim Bryant The Last American Vagabond Anyone paying even the slightest attention to the 2016 Presidential Election can see that this election cycle […]
By Chris Shaw I’ve made it clear that I don’t see the EU referendum as particularly important. The major economic questions surrounding the modern world, from banking fragility and capital creation, to huge levels of private and sovereign debt and politico-economic centralisation are not remotely addressed within this […]
By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Though we have nearly four weeks yet of campaigning, I find it hard to believe that the European Referendum will end in other than a crushing defeat for the Leave Campaign. For many on our side, this will be the end of their […]
By Chris Shaw The concept of a libertarian party should be simple. A collection of multiple strands of libertarian and anarchist ideologues, thinkers and activists coming together to present multiple alternatives to the current statist world. Simple, right? Not so for the modern Libertarian Party of America. It […]
The “troll” accusation is fair enough. By Stuart Sudekum One of the problems with the so called “alt right” is that it is founded on the “left/right” political paradigm and assumes an argumentative political stance as its starting point. Though conservatism as a worldview is ultimately tied to […]
By Glyn Moody Arstechica Þingvellir National Park, the site of the first Alþingi, founded in 930. Tanya Hart The Pirate Party of Iceland will receive a major funding boost from the state as a result of its high levels of public support. As the Pirate Times site explains, […]
In the early to middle 2000s I produced a number of documents that I still consider to be the core theoretical foundations of the ATS philosophy and strategy. These documents contained a number of predictions concerning domestic US politics and international relations, so it is interesting to revisit […]
My latest take on the presidential contest (not to be confused with an actual endorsement of any of the candidates). Some polls now show Sanders actually having a better chance of beating Trump than Clinton. Up until ten years ago, maybe even more recently, it would have impossible […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right Virtually all the reporting about this fall’s presidential election focuses on the candidates and the question of who is going to win nomination and election. That is to be expected. But it misses what really matters. The likelihood that either the nominating […]
LibertarianHeathen.Com A practical guide for success, in the moment we have all been waiting for. By: Ryan Ramsey Chairman, Bradford County Affiliate State Executive Committee Representative, Region 4 Libertarian Party of Florida Since 1971, Libertarians have dreamed of this day. The moment enough members of the one party system’s […]
Martin speculates upon the lumpen part of the working class and praises it’s dynamism
If the LP continues to grow in this manner, then it may be an excellent for pan-anarchist/pan-secessionist entryism. By Barry Donegan Truth in Media The unexpected, meteoric rise of celebrity presidential candidate Donald Trump has torn the Republican Party asunder, causing many leading GOP politicos that once represented the […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Here in Britain, the main effect of the Brussels bombings will be to speed passage of the Investigatory Powers Bill. This will require communications service providers to store all our Internet activity for a year, and to make it available to the […]
Meanwhile, the neocons are planning a third party strategy of their own. If either of these two third party schemes were to become a permanent reality, it would essentially render the Red Tribe incapable of gaining a national electoral majority, which would ensure permanent Blue Tribe dominance. However, […]
A map of future secessionist enclaves? View at the New York Times
If this poll is at all accurate it would seem to confirm what I’ve been saying for a while, i.e. that the US has leaped sharply leftward over the past decade, as evidenced by the apparent fact that a self-proclaimed socialist or a woman who personifies 70s feminism […]
A must read. By Andrew Walker Peruse your Facebook or Twitter feed over the last couple of days and you’ll probably find a liberal friend or two snickering about “#YallQaeda.” Dig a little deeper and you’ll even find people muttering about domestic terrorism, sedition, and the need to […]
By William T. Hathaway As the viciousness of capitalism engulfs ever more of us, our yearnings for change are approaching desperation. The system’s current leader, Barack Obama, has shown us that the only change we can believe in is what we ourselves create. To do that, we need […]
By Jason Adams Radical Archives The future of anarchism must be appraised within a global context; any attempt to localize it is bound to yield a distorted outcome. The obstacles to anarchism are, in the main, global; only their specifics are determined by local circumstances.” – Sam Mbah […]
Great interview with Augustus by Lana Lokteff. Listen here. Augustus Invictus is an attorney and community leader in Orlando, Florida who is a candidate in the 2016 US Senate election. Best known as a radical philosopher and infamous social critic, he is Managing Partner of Imperium, P.A., the […]
Reflecting on the Presidential election that’s coming up this year, it seems there are really only four possible scenarios. Scenario A: One of the neocon errand boys seeking the GOP nomination wins, and U.S. military aggression in the Middle East escalates once again, while no progress whatsoever is […]
Opinion polls show these numbers pretty consistently. The question is how do we awaken this sleeping giant? Countercurrents News A startling new study reveals that more than 1 in 4 Americans now believes that the government is the enemy of its very citizens. The Pew Research Center concluded that […]
A critique of Bookchin from a classical anarcho-syndicalist/anarcho-communist perspective. By Wayne Price Anarchism Needs a Working Class Revolution Murray Bookchin was an influential and prolific writer and thinker on anarchism. Recently his work has been in the news. While he made significant contributions, he made a major error […]
A talk from anarcho-communist Wayne Price. He’s half-way there. Add to Price’s statement this statement from a libertarian group: “Right/Left, small “L” and big “L” libertarians are welcome. Libertarian Socialists. Ancaps, Ancoms, and other anarchist types are welcome, as well. Objectivists, Agorists, Georgists… Constitutional and Conservative libertarians …As […]
A recent lecture by Chomsky. Presented by Haymarket Books and the Schools of Public Engagement (http://www.newschool.edu/public-engag…) at The New School (http://www.newschool.edu), Noam Chomsky discusses the persistent and largely invariant features of U.S. foreign policy — in the words of U.S. planners, “the overall framework of order” — and […]
Kievan Rus’: 11/17/15-Keith Preston, Attack the System, American Indian Moverment, Black Panther Party, New Left, Rainbow Coalition, Anarcho-Communists, left Anarchists, White Panthers, Young Patriots, Neo-Confederates, Anarcho-Capitalists, Paleo-Libertarians, National Association for the Advancement of White People, Mississipi Peace & Freedom Democratic Party, Young Lords, Nicaragua Contras, Arab Spring, Identity […]
A reply to “Anti-Fascist News“: An uninformed lay person reading the pathetically ignorant and barely literate bromide against Attack the System recently issued by “Anti-Fascist News” would hardly know anarchism is a vast tradition in modern political philosophy with roots in the radical Enlightenment more than two centuries […]
These are the currents that will need to emerge within the context of North American anarchism if the movement is to eventually become politically competitive. A general consensus will need to develop in favor an an ecumenical approach that recognizes the legitimacy of the many different forms of […]
By John Whitehead Rutherford Institute “Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”—Gore Vidal The countdown has begun. We now have less than one year until the 2016 presidential election, and you can expect to be […]
Fifteen years into the fight, American Revolutionary Vanguard and Attack the System has made remarkable progress. When I first started this website in January, 2001, I certainly did not expect that someday our representatives would be regularly interviewed on international television and radio, speak to conferences with hundreds […]
Here’s an interesting thought experiment. Suppose an ATS associated had been the fifth participant in this debate. What should an ATSer say in response to the two sides being presented? One friend suggests something like the following: “Most people viewing this probably see two radically opposing positions that […]
At the National Policy Institute gathering, Sam Dickson remarked during the press conference segment that the United States needs its own Mikhail Gorbachev that will dissolve the American Empire in a peaceful and humane but thorough and effective manner. Is this man a candidate for the American Gorbachev?
In this episode of teleSUR’s The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky. Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary “extravaganza,” the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, modern-day libertarianism […]
I have two speaking engagements coming up over the next few weeks. On Halloween I will be speaking to the National Policy Institute at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. My topic will be “American Imperialism vs The Identity of the World’s Peoples.” I will also be […]
These are the folks that anarchists should be paying attention to, not “social justice warriors” or American libertarian kooks. By Carne Ross New York Times Across an empty and arid plain, south of a town in eastern Syria called Tell Brak, there is a long berm marking the […]
What Noam says about Sanders is what I always said about Ron Paul: “Suppose that Sanders won, which is pretty unlikely in a system of bought elections. He would be alone: he doesn’t have congressional representatives, he doesn’t have governors, he doesn’t have support in the bureaucracy, he […]
A discussion with Ian Mayes, Nexus X Humectress, and Keith Preston about how social justice activism has led anarchist movements astray and lots of other stuff. Topics include: Anarcho-pacifism Intentional communities Beyond Social Justice: how historical opposition to valid injustices has now evolved into something absurd. How totalitarian […]
NA-M Conference in Quito (Ecuador) by Welf Herfurth.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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