By anon (not verified) From Chicago Anarchist Skillshare Let’s take care of each other so we can be dangerous together Join us for a fall Chicago Anarchist CareShare, the weekend before the election on November 1-3! After over a year full of actions, disruptions and more, we are […]
By thecollective From Freedom News On the danger of sacrificing principle for pragmatism ~ George Askaroff ~ When faced with substantial external pressure and uncertainty, principles of liberty are often sacrificed in the name of ‘pragmatism’. But doing so can come at a heavy cost. Tags: russian anarchists […]
By anon (not verified) From anarcoveganismo.info (instagram) October 8, 2024 A month after the murder by a fascist bastard during the march to the general cemetery, propaganda in memory of the anti-authoritarian vegan comrade Alonso Verdejo. “We vindicate you in this way as you would have liked, always […]
By thecollective Just over a decade ago, a small group of anarchist media activists started what they defined as an anarchist PR project—Agency was officially launched. As we develop a vision and plans for the next decade, we want to share how Agency came to be, how it […]
By Cake Boy When I read Troy Southgate’s (the inventor of national anarchism) substack site, I saw that he was intelligent—far more intelligent than all the arrogant, boring, woke anarchists I have met. It’s a pity he made something like national anarchism. Sometimes, an artist makes something, and […]
winter oak Read on blog or Reader Can Bigfoot Save Us? A reflection and Halloween movie recommendation By winter oak on October 25, 2024 by W.D James During the first few months of this year I watched between 50 and 100 low budget Bigfoot (and related creatures) movies, some of […]
By Cake Boy Cake Boy doesn’t per se propagate for pluralist anarchism. I just see it as the only reasonable anarchist system. If you’re an anarchist, then be a pluralist. As I already said, I’m a thinker, not an activist. My way to add to anarchism is to […]
By Brian Williams How can societies maximize equal liberty in the context of the modern sovereign state? While liberal democracy is widely recognized as the type of political regime most conducive to this goal, it fails to offer a vision of life beyond state power and lacks sufficient […]
By Morgan Gibson The centrality of anarchism to the praxis of contemporary anti-systemic social movements has been well documented. From the alter-globalisation movement to Occupy, many contemporary anti-systemic movements are defined by their commitment to some of the central tenets of anarchism, including the pursuit of decentralized, directly […]
Natural Complexity (Reviving Federalism, Part 3) By winter oak on October 23, 2024 by W.D James How can a large, complex society be natural? We can clearly see how a relatively simple tribal type of social structure would be an organic or natural form of social organization. Aristotle gives […]
By Cake Boy Yesterday, I read this Libcom article about the national anarchist movement. I take parts from it and respond to it. https://libcom.org/article/rebranding-fascism-national-anarchists-spencer-sunshine National-Anarchists appropriate leftist ideas and symbols, and use them to obscure their core fascist values. Anarchism is the idea that all social relationships should […]
TOTW: Refinement By thecollective For this TOTW, lets consider the different ways that anarchists interpret “refinement” and respond to it. What do you think about the stereotypes? What do you think about the social norms? What do you think about the concept of refinement itself? Tags: totw topic […]
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 ArtxmisGrahamThoreau Artxmis is joined by Kazimir Kharza, an anarcho-primitivist from Slovenia. He has a Youtube channel under his name, & a website titled “The Revolutionary Primitivist” which is “an online publication dedicated to worldwide propagation of revolutionary primitivism. Tags: Uncivilized Podcast Anarcho-primitivism anti-tech revolution revolution anprim
By anon (not verified) At the end of 2010 an individual act of despair in the town of Sidi Bouzid ignited a daring, enraged, and joyful upheaval that travelled through North Africa into the Middle East and beyond. People defied the oppressive systems they had been immersed in […]
By anon (not verified) From Festival de cine anarquista-bs as (facebook) November 2-3, 2024 Rainbow Hall (CC. Atlantico. Carrera 18 & calle 26, 2nd Floor, Local B9, next to Teatro Juares) Barquisimeto, Venezuela OPEN CALL FOR WORKSHOPS, TALKS, FAIRGOERS, AND ARTISTS. (CONTACT: 412-1583000) CONTRIBUTION: $5 Tags: Venezuela film […]
By thecollective From Ignited in Dark Novatore, in their iconoclastic impulse, was writing to stir and exalt their spirit, to meander in their inner garden and herald its outer sunshine. They were not setting out to become an intellectual figure like Marx or Proudhon; their battles were on […]
By thecollective From Unoffensive animal Since we published about Wildfire 4 being in stock, they have been flying off the shelves. Someone notified us not long ago that the website listed it as Out of Stock, so we did a quick count and realised we had about 20 […]
By thecollective From Act for freedom now The mire of defeatism and misery sucks us in deeper and deeper as we remain passive in the face of repression, terrorism and death sown by States. Tags: attack! explosives solidarity means attack! Greece
By thecollective From Act for Freedom Now! Original title: Text of the anarchist Fotis Tziotzis about his vindictive detention in the garbage dump of Grevena prison (Thessaloniki,Greece) I think that after 5 months of conscious silence, it’s time to say a few words about the general regime of […]
By thecollective From Organise Magazine In March 2020, when the virus raged across the globe but before we in the UK realised how serious and tragically lethal it would become or how much of a long-term problem it would be, Freedom Press published its first Covid-related update on […]
By thecollective From The Brooklyn Rail By Aileen Dowling By the early 1960s, New York’s downtown dance scene had embraced the avant-garde—from John Cage’s indeterminacy and Merce Cunningham’s chance operations, to James Waring’s collage aesthetics. In 1962, a loose collective of dancers, visual artists, and composers banded together […]
By thecollective From Catalan News Spain overturns Francoist death sentence against anarchist Puig Antich after 50 years The 25-year-old was the last prisoner executed by garrote – a device that strangles the victim – in 1974 The Spanish government has overturned the Francoist sentence that condemned the anarchist […]
By thecollective From University Press, Florida Atlantic University student run news Formed in 2020, this student organization says community is its main goal. Tags: Florida university anarchy student organization meetings
By thecollective From Act for Freedom Now! Original title: Forest of Dean, UK: Sabotage attack upon hunting towers in solidarity with anarchist comrade Toby Shone & the pine martins Tags: attack solidarity Toby Shone sabotage UK
By thecollective From Scientific American Original title: Book Review: Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Novel about Utopian Anarchists Is as Relevant as Ever In The Dispossessed, a physicist is caught between societies Tags: Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed review
By anon (not verified) From Athens Indymedia October 11, 2024 We say goodbye with raised fists to the anarchist fighter George Angeletakis, George who with his inexhaustible passion for struggle and life defied death until the last hours before he left us forever. Just as he lived his […]
By thecollective From La Namesi Postponement to January 15 in Perugia (Italy) The preliminary hearing of October 10th in the so-called Sibilla repressive operation, which involves twelve anarchists, including Alfredo Cospito, who is detained under 41 bis prison regime in Bancali prison (Sassari) and connected through videoconference (obligatory […]
By anon (not verified) by Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis I can imagine many people resenting the term Palestinian revolution when reading the title of this article. Some have already written that revolution is one thing and resistance is another, that war is one thing and liberation is another. Tags: Gaza […]
Troy Southgate Oct 16, 2024 HAVE you heard the one about the two left-wing Jews, the German philosopher and the Russian prince? It sounds like it would make a fascinating lunchtime confabulation down at the Old Dog and Duck, or perhaps even an intriguing dinner party, but it […]
Troy Southgate Oct 20, 2024 THE famous twentieth-century Communist, Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), believed that the collapse of the capitalist system takes place once its exponents are no longer able to exploit ‘non-capitalist’ markets. Conversely, according to Frankfurt School ideologue and author of The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown […]
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By Cake Boy The (leftwing) anarchist party I was a member of is a cult. I didn’t know much about cults back then, so after I got out of it, I dug into it to understand. It seems that I was mentally too strong to get sucked into […]
By Cake Boy So, you want to be an anarchist. How do you organize? Let’s examine the different formats of anarchist organization. How do leftist/collectivist anarchists organize? European and American Leftist anarchists have marginal parties that function like hierarchical cults, where people come together to fight for a […]
Social_Anarchism_and_the_Rejection_of_Mo-2 Benjamin Franks Outside philosophy departments, most self-identified anarchists are social anarchists who reject both the legitimacy of the state and private property. By contrast, most anarchist philosophers are of the pro-market variety. As a result, a philosopher has yet to write an analytic defense of social anarchism. […]
winter oak Read on blog or Reader Agreement, Mutual Aid, and Love (Reviving Federalism, Part 2) By winter oak on October 16, 2024 by W.D James Three of the most important factors in the emergence, growth, and maintenance of organic social order are free agreement, mutual aid, and love. Typically, […]
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2024 Nations as such don’t gain or lose from trade; only individual traders do. If the trades into which these people voluntarily enter entice them by the prospect of mutual gain, it simply cannot be the case that the sum total of their transactions amounts […]
By thecollective from Freedom News UK Opening a new activist space in Exarcheia has a significant dimension. This historic district of resistance to the dictatorship, and today to gentrification, is particularly threatened by the Greek government and developers. Squats evicted and migrants controlled, permanent presence of police forces […]
By anon (not verified) From libcom.org September 23, 2024 Masks are off, or the failure of the “anti-authoritarian resistance” myth Yesterday post by a recently appeared internationalist blog. Screensaver with Makhno’s monument during the war is from the translator. Some references are edited on September 27 at the […]
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 podast
Troy Southgate Oct 14, 2024 EXAMINING Schelling’s work in a philosophical context is one thing, but for readers of a political mindset it often throws up concepts that can be applied outside of philosophy itself. One idea, for example, relates to Schelling’s analysis of philosophical fallacy. As Jason […]
Troy Southgate Oct 14, 2024 I DID wonder, at one stage, whether our globalist friends were relying on mounting public dissatisfaction with mask-wearing as a means of encouraging the masses to go sprinting to the nearest vaxx-station in an effort to liberate themselves. On reflection, however, it seems […]
By Cake Boy If anarchism as a mass movement wants to have meaning, it has to be clear in what its goals are. It has to formulate an understandable vision. People have to be able to imagine it right away. People have to be able to see themselves […]
By thecollective From Black Rose Anarchist Federation This is the fourth installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker, #2 with healthcare workers, and #4 with a metal worker. Tags: Black Rose Anarchist Federation labor […]
By anon (not verified) From Crowdfunder Why translate and publish Indonesian anarchist literature in English? Translation and publication of Indonesian anarchist literature into English sheds light on the unique development of anarchism in Indonesia. The dominance of European and American anarchist narratives has led to an imbalance, with […]
By anon (not verified) From Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024 by Andrew/Sunfrog A review of Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019 Is a long-form creative writer from the anarchist tradition an anarchist novelist or an anarchist who writes novels? Is there such […]
By anon (not verified) From Informativo Anarquista October 4, 2024 AGRO-CRUST XIII, May 9-11, 2025 Anticivilization Gathering Camping D.I.Y. in Kan Seitan, Pedrinyá, Pla de l’Estany (Catalonia/Spanish State) Hello friends and compas! Tags: Spain Anarchist Gathering anti-civilization
By anon (not verified) From Anarchist Studies Volume 32 (2024) Issue 2 Paul Dobraszczyk, Architecture and Anarchism: Building without Authority London: Antepavilion in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2021; 248pp; ISBN 978913645175 Tags: Anarchist Studies book review anarchitecture architecture la zad
By anon (not verified) Greetings everyone! In addition to these new zines we ALSO now have a YouTube channel where you can find audio versions of some zines, as well as some video projects we’ve been busy traveling around making! Tags: Warzone Distro zines
By Cake Boy We have studied anarchism for a couple of weeks. I tried to formulate a new anarchism. An anarchism past the dimensions of woke leftism and neoliberal capitalist hegemony. This, then, would be a pluralist anarchism. We have seen that there would be positive sides to […]
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