The Foundation-Up Populist Revolution is Working
People have finally woken up to the fact that they need local and regional civic coordination to erode the dregs of the old neocons.
Today’s “Wayward Puritans” of the Academic “Elect”
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The American mentality is unabashedly elitist. Indeed, mediocrity is anathema to the American way of life. Much of the Americans’ ire toward communism has nothing to do with its tyranny, but with their animus toward equality. John Steinback had it right: Americans see […]
It’s Time to Break Up New York State
By Nicolas Gregoris Mises Institute Neil Sedaka said it best – “breaking up is hard to do”. Ask any 16-year-old and they’ll tell you that’s certainly true, but Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) recently made headlines when she suggested not just a breakup, but a “National Divorce” on […]
They’re Not Going To Leave Us Alone
By Peter R. Quiñones I hope that you understand, or are at least beginning to, that the radical Left is not going to stop. Many people have pointed out that their belief in equity for all, which really means the destruction of the status quo and the lifting […]
Agora #34: Kevin Carson
Kevin Carson is by far the best contemporary left-anarchist economist. His ideas on economics are more or less what I think the dominant mode of production would look like in a world where anarchist movements achieved political hegemony on a cultural and intellectual level. Although, like Noam Chomsky, […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends | Henry Williams (“The Gravel Teens”)
This week’s guest, Henry Williams, gives us a look into how he and the Gravel Institute team have built a major digital platform to spread leftist ideas and debunk reactionary claims. As a Columbia undergrad, Henry helped to launch and run the campaign of Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel, […]
A Lancashire village self-regenerating—via community centre, library, shop, pub—is good to see. But not every place has enough capital, human or financial, to succeed
The Alternative We’re always on the hunt for stories of community self-determination – people stepping over the line of bureaucracy (and passivity) to seize the development of their towns and locales. (One of our most popular blogs in 2021 were the activists in Maryhill, Glasgow seeking to develop […]
Sea-Ceding in Florida
By Joe Quick, Seasteading Institute A new nation based on freedom and natural rights is currently being founded right in your backyard! If you are ready to stop arguing and start seasteading, join Atlas Island and be a part of sea-cession. Atlas Island is a clear three stage […]
Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century
By Kevin Carson, Anarchist Library Reviews Abstract Preface Part One: Background Chapter One: The Age of Mass and Maneuver I. A Conflict of Visions II. The Triumph of Mass in the Old Left III. The Assault on Working Class Agency IV. Workerism/Laborism Chapter Two: Transition I. Drastic Reductions […]
When Revolutionary Moments Arise Again — and They Will — What Will We Do?
By Anton Woronczuk, Truthout The world is in a prolonged period of global unrest. Since the financial crisis of 2008, every region of the planet has experienced levels of mass protest unprecedented in recent history, from the Arab Spring in the Middle East and Black Lives Matter in the U.S., to […]
County board to act on 2nd amendment sanctuary next week
I am for every political, cultural, ideological, economic, identity, or issue-based group there is forming “sanctuaries” of their own. By JENNIFER BAILEY JBAILEY@DANCOMNEWS.COM A group of local citizens called the Vermilion County Constitutionalists have been trying since last year to have Vermilion County become Illinois’ 68th Second Amendment […]
Secession might seem like the lesser of two evils. It’s also the less likely.
By Stephen Marche, Washington Post When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) talks about a “National Divorce,” as she did again in a tweet on Wednesday, she may be advancing the cause of secession or she may just be seeking attention. Either way, she knows what she’s doing — […]
A New Year One for Gotham
By Joel Schlosberg, Garrison Center As “the city that never sleeps” turned the calendar to 2022 with the inauguration of Eric Adams just after midnight, partygoers didn’t need Frank Sinatra’s reminder to “start spreading the news” heard on the New Year’s broadcast from Times Square. New Yorkers were […]
Tactics: Conceptions of Social Change, Revolution, and Anarchist Organisation
By Dana Williams Tactics are the techniques and actions used by social movements that implement strategies for the purpose of achieving goals. For anarchist movements, tactics can assume a reactive, diagnostic, or destructive force for opposing hierarchy, repression, and inequality. Tactics can also assume a proactive, prognostic, or […]
Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a City?
By Olúfémi O. Táíwò The Nation Elite economists have been promoting a model of governance resembling nothing so much as a game of Monopoly. If you’re in the market for a banana republic, have I got a deal for you. Head on down to the digital offices of […]
Organization, Repression, Burnout, Action: A Discussion with CrimethInc
It’s Going Down In this latest episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are joined with a participant of the CrimethInc. collective as we spend several hours broadly discussing contemporary anarchist history and organization, the impact of both material conditions and repression on those organizational forms, how […]
Pacifism, Nonviolence, and the Reinvention of Anarchist Tactics in the Twentieth Century
By Benjamin Pauli This article highlights the ways in which anarcho-pacifists in the years during and after World War II reconceptualized anarchist tactics like “propaganda of the deed” and “direct action” in a manner that reconciled them with principles of nonviolence. In order to contextualize this extraordinary shift […]
The Shock of Victory
This is a 2009 article from the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber, who died last year, and who was probably as influential as any anarchist in the 21st century so far. I am posting this because the third section of this piece, the discussion of anarchism in the […]
Gen Z TikTokers SCREW With Kellogg’s For Anti-Union Policy
Krystal and Saagar look at the methods used by Gen Z activists on TikTok and other social media platforms to fight the effort by Kellogg’s to shut down striking union workers.
What Is Mutual Aid?
Anarchist News Mutual aid has been in the spotlight recently in light of the current crisis, but what exactly does it mean? And what makes it a powerful form of anarchist praxis unique from charity and volunteering? Well, ‘mutual aid’ is essentially the very radical notion that co-operation, rather […]
Libertarian Leninism: Learning From Our Enemies
By Byron Libertarianism Something that Libertarians often fail to do is to learn from our enemies. It is unquestionable that many different ideologies have had much greater success in the 20th century than libertarianism or classical liberalism. No matter how repressive these ideologies may be, it’s worth studying […]
Springtime of Nations: The Burmese Separatists
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations “Independence is not the kind of thing you can get by begging for it from other people. You should proclaim it yourselves. The Japanese refuse to give it? Very well then, tell them that you will cross over to someplace like Twante […]
A Brief History of the Zapatista Movement
By VoltDeCleyre Springtime of Nations The Porfiriato To understand the neo-zapatistas, one must not overlook the importance of Mexican history itself. Before we get to the eponymous Zapata, let us look towards the conditions that made the Mexican people turn to him in the first place. The man […]
A History of Cuban Independence Part 1
By VoltDeCleyre Springtime of Nations The nation of Cuba faces an exciting new development: A movement for liberty. Cuba has a history of being sought after, belonging to the Spanish, invaded by the British, traded to the USA, and independent yet carefully watched over by first the USA […]
Libertarian Unity: What It Is and How to Implement It
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations The worldwide culture war between what we call the “left” and “right” has by now infected all political discourse, and Libertarianism is no exception. “Right-Libertarians” have socially conservative mores and favor more hierarchical forms of economic and social organization, while “Left-Libertarians” are […]
Springtime of Nations: Puerto Rico
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations The face of socialism in America is the fiery Puerto Rican congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. One of her many publicity stunts involved attacking Donald Trump and the Republicans for the lethargic pace of cleanup and aid efforts after Hurricane Maria struck the […]
California plans to be abortion ‘sanctuary’ if Roe overturned
Here we go. Another step toward Civil War Two. By ADAM BEAM, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the OK next year, California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature […]
Anarchy and its Allies: The United Front and Groupings of Tendency
By Tommy Larson, LibCom An article introducing the concepts anarchists have used to frame collaboration with other tendencies during struggle. Including the United Front, Popular Front, Workers Alliance and the Combative Tendency. Anarchism in the Oceanic region is entering a new stage of development. The birth of several […]
Sanctuary Cities: The Way Forward for Pan-Anarchism and Pan-Secessionism?
The article below seriously advocates for “pro-choice” sanctuary cities. Meanwhile, there are now at least 41 “pro-life sanctuaries” in existence. Pro-gun sanctuaries now include 1200 localities. About 40% of local jurisdictions in the US are now marijuana sanctuaries. Over 500 jurisdictions in the US are immigration sanctuaries. Efforts […]
Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization
Anarchist News From CrimethInc. 22 Years after N30—What It Can Teach Us Today Twenty-two years ago today, anarchists and other protesters successfully blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. This was the dramatic debut of what journalists dubbed the “anti-globalization movement”—in fact, […]
How to Become a Ruler
Ever thought about ruling your own nation? Well of course you have! And you’re not the only one…
Libertarian Strategy From The Jacksonians w/Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop
Just as I am for many different forms of libertarianism or anarchism, I am also for many different strategies. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
Why ‘The Free State Project’ Will Succeed w/ Jeremy Kauffman
It’s really hard to criticize what the FSP has done. This is the ultimate Hoppean exercise (minus the helicopters lol)
Breakup! A Freedom Lover’s Guide to Surviving the End of Empire
Tom Woods Show Matt Asher discusses the prospects for American breakup, and what we should do while we wait. LISTEN HERE
Chris Hedges | It’s Not The Poor Who Make Revolution
This is an interesting discussion from 2013. Obviously, things are even further along now than they were then. I agree with much of what Hedges says here although it’s a little too reformist for my tastes.
Jeff Deist and Tom Woods on What Must Be Done
Tom Woods At the Mises Institute‘s supporters summit over the weekend, Institute president Jeff Deist and I had an informal discussion after dinner in front of the assembled attendees, and reviewed Hans Hoppe’s essay “What Must Be Done” as the springboard for our discussion. Warning: zingy. READ MORE
The Boogaloo Path to a New Rainbow Coalition
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Fred Hampton had a dream. It was a little more militant than Doctor King’s, but no less ambitious. The young chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party dreamed of a grand coalition of revolutionaries spanning […]
Secession: The Constitutional, Historical, and Moral Case
Now that pan-secessionism has entered the mainstream discourse, at least on a casual level, the next step for those of us with a more radical perspective is to keep pushing the envelope toward more radical viewpoints, away from Democratic Partyism and Republican Partyism toward the intellectual framework associated […]
The Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party Would Now Have 100 Million Sympathizers
Some years back, I rolled out the idea of a “pan-secessionist meta-party” as a means of implementing the wider ATS “anarcho-populist” strategy that I outlined some years before that. The most recent polling data, involving a poll taken by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, indicates that […]
Majority of Trump Voters Want to Split the Nation Into ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Halves
Approximately 52% of Trump voters (about 38 million of 74 million people) and 40% of Biden (about 32 million of 80 million people) now hold at least casual pan-secessionist sympathies. My guess is that the percentage of non-voters (about another 80 million) with a favorable view of pan-secession […]
Reagan Admin’s David Stockman Lays Out a Program for Freedom
Tom Woods Show You and I complain a lot, and rightly so, but we do of course have a positive program. I asked David Stockman, who was director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan Administration, to outline what specifically we should do if the […]
David French’s New Book Arguing That the U.S. Will Break Apart Is Too Optimistic
David French, a Bill Kristol flunkie, is concerned an American breakup will ruin the neocons’ plans for world domination. He outlines a proposal for “federalism” without an actual breakup, and a leftist writer from Slate points out some of the practical problems associated with pan-secessionism along with common […]
The Boogaloo movement has a new strategy
These guys appear to be an actual on-the-ground, pan-anarchist, pan-secessionist movement. And whether left-wing anarchists like these guys or not, left-wing anarchists who are developing mutual aid networks of their own or creating separatist movements like CHAZ are in the club as well. I suspect that as pan-secessionist […]
Break It Up!
This is not a scientifically conducted study using a neutral sample, but these numbers are still interesting.
‘California Secessionist’ campaigner Louis Marinelli set for Calexit comeback
Make it happen. By Greg Russell The National HE is a controversial figure in some parts of the US, choosing to spend most of his time at his home in Russia, however Louis Marinelli is set to return to California as the voice of its independence movement Calexit […]
Texas Nationalists See Secession Looming. Does Anyone Else?
Secessionist sympathy has nearly doubled in the last decade. Micro-level and intermediate-level secessionist actions have taken place. But macro-level secession is still on the margins in terms of on-the-ground action. That is what needs to change. How do we get this ball rolling? By Patrick Strickland Dallas Observer […]
Is This Where Secession Begins?
The earliest polls concerning the popularity of modern secessionist movements began in the late 2000s at the end of the George W. Bush era. At that time, about 1 in 5 Americans expressed a casual sympathy for secession. Now it’s up to almost 2 in 5. However, no […]
How Weed Legalization Represents Pan-Secessionist Success
We now have a number of test models for the pan-secessionist concept. Many ATS readers are younger people who likely do not recall how intense the “war on drugs” propaganda was in the 1980s and 1990s. At that time, the war on terrorism hadn’t yet begun, and the […]
Class Reductionists, Red/Brown Alliancers, and Maximal Culture Warriors are All Strengthening Pan-Secessionism
It’s like ATS now has a de facto mass army of inadvertent troops, comprised almost entirely of folks who have never heard of us and wouldn’t like us if they had. As most readers know, I have long been an advocate of a political realignment along decentralist vs. […]
Councils and Revolution: Participatory Democracy in Anarchist Thought and the New Social Movements
By Shmuel Lederman Anarchism is often considered to have inspired the New Social Movements emerging in the last few decades. The 2011 mass demonstrations in Spain, Israel, the United States, and other places seem to confirm that what is often called “new” or postanarchism indeed inspires the visions […]
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