By Shannon Brincat This essay deals with a peculiar problem that has plagued anar- chist thought throughout its history: how to develop and main- tain an anarchistic civil society that at once ensures the freedom of all its members and overcomes all threats of domination within it but […]
By thecollective From Bitter Winter, A magazine on religious liberty and human rights, by Massimo Introvigne A museum in Sala and a book on his magazine “Il Convito” help understanding the different aspects of the extraordinary career of the Swedish artist. Tags: art religion anarchist painter
By anon (not verified) From Anarchistická federace November 8, 2024 The autumn issue of Existence magazine was dedicated to the topic of anarchist pedagogy. After 20 years, we are once again trying to stir up a discussion about the relationship between anarchism and education. We consider this topic […]
By anon (not verified) From Act for freedom now The main value of these texts, published in Italy last March, is undoubtedly the commitment of the authors to the fate of the struggle of the colonized, imprisoned and massacred Palestinian population, and, additionally, the fact that their position […]
By thecollective From The Guardian by Rebecca Solnit, Nov. 7 ‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had […]
By thecollective From Ekathimerini Greek anarchists have reacted to the death of a man killed in an explosion last week apparently caused by the accidental detonation of a homemade bomb in an apartment in central Athens. Authorities identified the deceased from the dismembered remains found at the scene, […]
By thecollective From The Berkeley Beacon By Ryan Yau, Nov. 3 Since 2011, the Boston Anarchist Bookfair has provided a physical space for anarchism and wider leftist thought, hosting book retailers, vendors, and organizational groups. This year’s fair was held at the Cambridge Community Center on Oct. 19 […]
By thecollective From Dark Nights Full title: Chile: A death in action is an eternal call to struggle. Letter to the comrades of Kyriakos and Marianna. Kyriakos has left us, he died in an apartment last Thursday. Marianna is seriously wounded in the Evangelismos hospital. Both anarchist comrades […]
By thecollective From Freedom News by Jonathan Eibisch A fascist in the White House, and the ‘traffic lights’ go out in Germany The promised turning point is clearly coming much louder than many would have expected. Why do anarchists care who is in government, one might ask. In […]
By thecollective From Act for Freedom Now! The anti-authoritarian comrade Kevin Garrido was captured by the Chilean dirty police on November 19, 2015, after placing and detonating an artisanal explosive device at one of the entrances to the San Bernardo gendarmerie school. After his capture, he was also […]
By anon (not verified) From Texas Observer by Michelle Pitcher. September/October 2024 issue Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay. Julio “Alex” Zuniga ends the messages he sends from his prison cell with the signoff “Solidarity […]
From Dark Nights Some things don’t surprise us and for sure the recourse to judicial options I find distasteful but expedient. Anarchism is either illegal or it is not anarchism as our dear comrade Gustavo Rodriguez reminds us. Nevertheless, over the past few months my lawyers were able […]
ToTW: Ancestry By thecollective Who are your anarchist ancestors, and how disappointed are they in you? Tags: totw topic of the week ancestry forebears antinomianism define ancestor define disappointment
Troy Southgate Nov 10, 2024 HAVING explained how Absolute Idealism could work in relation to radical decentralisation (see National-Anarchism: Continuing the Romantic Tradition), I now intend to address two accusations that are often levelled at Hegel’s own interpretation of this philosophy. Firstly, it is claimed that he was […]
By Cake Boy The left is rightwing phobic, Preston said to me. The left is more concerned with fighting the right than with fighting actual imperialism, he said. Yes, so the thing is. As you know, I’m in favor of free speech. So, Preston should say everything he […]
Troy Southgate Nov 08, 2024 AT the turn of the century, when I was still formulating my National-Anarchist ideas, I made a point of saying that our communities must be based around a central or unifying vision and I still believe this to be the case. As someone […]
Troy Southgate Nov 07, 2024 OVER the last few years I have tried to draw a number of interesting comparisons between National-Anarchism and Eastern philosophy, the most notable of these being Taoism and Zen Buddhism. A further example of this comes to us by way of Masuno Shunmyō […]
Troy Southgate Nov 06, 2024 I WAS recently having a debate in which somebody told me they did not believe that National-Anarchism could work. My reply to this was that many people associated with National-Anarchism already have smallholdings and allotments, educate their children at home, live in squats […]
By thecollective From ANews Podcast Welcome to the ANews podcast. This podcast covers anarchist activity, ideas, and conversations from the previous week. Tags: anews podcast podcast
TOTW: Silence By thecollective Humans have long revered silence, yet we break it continually. Tags: totw topic of the week silence
By thecollective From Organise! Magazine UK by Elisha Moon Williams When I first started my journey as an anarchist, I was incredibly privileged in both my environment and upbringing. I had grown up in a very upper-middle class suburb, neither knowing economic struggle nor of want when it […]
By thecollective From DSA LSC by Jesse M. A critical and personal account of working inside of and attempting to organize within the Democratic Party in Nevada. Tags: DSA the left anarchist beginings voting
By anon (not verified) From gofundme Disgraça – a story about an anarchist social centre 9 years ago, we decided to break the boredom that haunted our routines and get together to open an anti-authoritarian space. A space where we could discuss and create collective solutions to problems […]
By anon (not verified) From squat.net In Germany and many other countries, militarism is gaining strength in the face of the new and old wars and genocides of recent years, and the structures and ideas associated with it are taking space at various levels. Tags: Anarchist Gathering Germany […]
By anon (not verified) From Fifth Estate, #415, Summer 2024 a review of Chevengur by Andrei Platonov. NYRB 2023 (Originally published 1929) In his 1920 essay, “Anarchists and Communists,” journalist, engineer and author Andrei Platonov wrote “True Anarchy is the understanding that all power and authority on Earth […]
By thecollective from Surviving Leviathan by Peter Gelderloos Tags: anti-electoralism talking points elections voting anti-voting
By thecollective From Freedom News by bob ness ~ This warts-and-all bio of Nestor Makhno is folksy and refreshing Tags: book review Nestor Makhno biography history lopping off heads
By thecollective From Freedom News by Sean Patterson In this interview, the founder of Edmonton’s anarchist publishing house looks back on its legacy Tags: interview anarchist publishing Canada black cat press
By thecollective From Anarchist Studies Early September in Belfast can be surprisingly sunny and balmy. It was so sunny even, that the closing plenary after three days of conferencing at Ulster University happened outside, in the sunshine – providing a physically open space as an opportunity for open […]
By anon (not verified) From Fifth Estate, # 415, Summer 2024 by Norman Nawrocki Imagine if more people believed in the power and the magic of collective creativity, what a crazy wonderful new anarchist world we could build. Under capitalism, any form of creativity is usually seen as […]
By thecollective from The New Statesman by Ken Worpole, photo by The Estate of Colin Ward The New Statesman columnist and anarchist was a proponent of radical social change that put the most vulnerable first. Tags: journalism urban studies recent history Freedom UK childhood
By anon (not verified) Sudan has been witnessing a brutal war that has entered its second year, with millions of Sudanese displaced both internally and externally. Millions are without homes or work to meet their most basic needs, and millions of children are without education. The calamities continue […]
By Cake Boy Keith Preston recently issued a response to a short letter we wrote a while back asking him to stop calling himself an anarchist because of his racism, misogyny, and support for libertarian variants. Yes, so the thing is, Preston is an intelligent person. But I […]
By Cake Boy A lot of leftist anarchists these days use the following sentence to describe anarchism. They say that anarchism is against all unjust hierarchies. We have seen that the pluralist anarchism/federalism (whatever you want) I talk about is a little bit different. The leftist anarchists base […]
Troy Southgate Oct 30, 2024 I HAVE discussed the correlation between Vedanta, Neoplatonism and Absolute Idealism on many occasions in the past and was recently exploring the ideas of an Indian thinker by the name of Mahatapasvi Shri Kumarswamiji (1909-1995), who was once invited to Rome to explain […]
By Cake Boy I don’t know why I write so much these days, but anyway. I hope you like my work. It’s meant to make anarchism serious again. I wonder if that is possible. I try to think with you. Not to ‘attack the system’ or anything (I’m […]
re:FUSE Congress (Germany) Thu Oct 31 to Sat Nov 2 Medellín & Bogotá Anarchist Film Festivals (Colombia) Fri Nov 1 to Tue Nov 5 Chicago Anarchist Skillshare Fri Nov 1 to Sun Nov 3 Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair (UK) Sat Nov 2 Barquisimeto Anarchist Film Festival (Venezuela) […]
By anon (not verified) From The Daily Item October 28, 2024 SUNBURY — Federal Bureau of Investigation officials say two Massachusetts residents involved in the Oct. 19 release of hundreds of mink in Northumberland County are tied to anarchist groups in New England. According to an amended criminal […]
By anon (not verified) From Fifth Estate #415, Summer 2024 a review of Poetic Reason in the Age of Digital Control by Jesús Sepúlveda. Bad Idea Publishing, 2023 Jesús Sepúlveda’s Poetic Reason in the Age of Digital Control addresses some of today’s most pressing threats and sketches out […]
By thecollective From Act for freedom now received by mail/ Thursday 3 October 2024 As part of the transnational days of action against militarism and nationalism proposed at the end of the anarchist book fair in the Balkans 2024, we chose to attack a power supply point of […]
By thecollective From It’s Going Down Statement from Mexican anarchist prisoner, Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel, arrested on December 8, 2022, and sentenced to seven years and six months in prison on fabricated charges. Hey Compas, Tags: anarchist prisoners Jorge Esquivel appeal letter
By ArtxmisGrahamThoreau Youtube Spotify Artxmis and Brady discuss the upcoming American election, anarchist perspective(s) on elections, and the issues involved. Mentioned / relevant links:
By thecollective From Anathema, A Philadelphia Anarchist Periodical Anathema: Volume 10 Issue 2 released Tags: Philadelphia Anathema PDF
By thecollective From Distinctively Dionysian Bonsoir, lovelies. Yesterday, on Max Stirner’s birthday, we finished printing the first round of Distinctively Dionysian’s Halloween issue. Inside the spooker edition, you will find mischief, mayhem, the macabre, Mallarmé, German Expressionist Cinema et Theatre, and a riot of Cabaret magic, with new […]
By thecollective Humans have long revered silence, yet we break it continually. Tags: totw topic of the week silence
By thecollective From ANews Podcast Welcome to the ANews podcast. This podcast covers anarchist activity, ideas, and conversations from the previous week. Tags: anews podcast podcast
By Cake Boy As we have seen, anarchism can have two meanings: an ontological meaning and a constructive social meaning. There are two anarchisms: individualist anarchism, which Emile Armand followed/lived/wrote about, and constructive anarchism, which people like Bakunin and Rothbard worked on. The individualist tradition has always resonated […]
By thecollective From CrimethInc. A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and […]
By thecollective From Usufruct Collective The commons are resources self-managed by communities who need and use them. Commons are managed through dialogue, deliberation, and collective-decision-making as well as through mutual aid to meet needs. Commoning refers to the process of developing commons. Commons can include land, water-ways, fields, […]
By thecollective From Organise! by Spindrift Its very easy to feel as though anarchism is in decline. What we hardly ever discuss is what success looks like. Maybe it’s a bit too neo-liberal to form a focus group and discuss how we measure success. A decade ago, I […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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