FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2024 Shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom. – Adlai Stevenson HORNBERGER’S BLOG September 27, 2024 A Magnificent Little Libertarian Book As president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, people send me books or […]
Peter Seyferth, 2009, Contemporary Anarchist Studies. An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy (Ed. Randall Amster, Abraham DeLeon, Luis A. Fernandez, Anthony J. Nocella II, Deric Shannon) London/New York: Routledge, 2009. pp 280-289 Anarchism_and_Utopia
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 Cake Boy A tactic of Antifa to deal with national anarchists is attacking them. I think this is nonsense. I mean, what do national anarchists want? They want to hang around with white people only. Wanting to only hang with white people is not a problem. It’s […]
By Cake Boy Is national anarchism, an anarchism ? This depends on your definition of the word anarchism. We come in the domain of language here, and there is confusion around language. My anarchism, my definition of anarchism, is a Tuckerite anarchism. So, anarchism is the idea that […]
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By thecollective From CrimethInc. In August 2024, a wave of protests rocked Indonesia, ostensibly in response to political machinations aimed at anointing a successor to President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi. Very little information has circulated about these protests in the English-speaking world. To get a sense […]
By thecollective From Anarcho-Syndicalist Review Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #90 announcement + editorial Tags: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review magazine editorial Jon Bekken
By thecollective From Freedom News UK The anti-fascist combat sports tournament took place in Poznań, Poland ~ Czech Anarchist Federation members ~ “You give a front, back, shovel hook to the liver and then a strong low-kick” was one of the basic combinations that we drilled together with […]
By thecollective From La Nemesi Original title: Alfredo out of 41 bis. Hands off the anarchist publications. Solidarity gathering on the occasion of the preliminary hearing for the Sibilla operation (Perugia, Italy, October 10, 2024) Tags: Italy Alfredo Cospito anarchist prisoners anarchists in trouble Operation Sibilla
By thecollective From Freedom News UK Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the monument has become a symbol of defiance, identity, and hope Tags: Nestor Makhno ukraine Freedom News UK monuments statues remembrance symbols
By thecollective From Act for Freedom Now!, Chile Original title: Communique of Anarco-Nihilist Vegan Straight Edge Prisoners of the Susaron Case Today in this cold season, still locked up in this small phosphorous box that aims to hide the beautiful immensity of the world, we continue to rise […]
By thecollective From Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff When Two Million People Lived In a Horizontal Society Margaret talks with Mia Wong about the deep history of Korean anarchism and how it led to one of the great experiments with antiauthoritarian social structure of the 20th century. […]
By anon (not verified) From Radon Journal | Anarchist Sci-Fi Read the latest emerging talent in anarchist science fiction. In print for the first time! These 20 stories will enthrall you and bring up a black mirror to modern capitalist society. We’re be bringing you 10 short stories […]
By anon (not verified) From Třídní Válka About the Action Week and Anti-War Congress / Prague / May 20-26, 2024 /“Together against capitalist wars and capitalist peace.” First brief attempt of balance sheet of an experience full of promises… but that turned out to be an organizational fiasco […]
ByNathan Jun This chapter draws upon Michael Freeden’s morphological approach to examine the various ways freedom has been conceptualized within the anarchist tradition. It determines how and to what extent these conceptions serve to differentiate anarchism from liberalism and other ideologies that claim freedom as a core concept. […]
By Cake Boy Let’s explain some things. People accuse Preston of being radical right for his pluralist ideas. The thing is, pluralist anarchism is just the outcome of Tuckerite anarchism. We know Tucker’s definition of anarchism : anarchism is the idea that all social relationships should be voluntary. […]
Know your rights. These are your rights. Michael Rectenwald Sep 20, 2024 Today I may upset the Constitutionalists among my readers. Bear with me, please. I was asked recently on X if I support 100-mile Constitution-free zones. My answer was “yes.” I didn’t realize that the poster referred […]
By Cake Boy So, let’s dig a little bit deeper into this idea of pluralist anarchism. Isn’t it farfetched, isn’t it utopian? Anarchists say because centralized power is dangerous, decentralization is the way to go to reduce damage. There will be damage anyway, because humans are imperfect, but […]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024 If one abolishes man’s freedom to determine his own consumption, one takes all freedoms away. – Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., “We Need Medical Freedom” [2024] HORNBERGER’S BLOG September 20, 2024 Being “Antiwar” Is Not Enough for Freedom A popular mantra among libertarians is being […]
Shannon Brincat University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Faculty Member I am a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast. I have been the editor of a number of collections, most recently of the Special Issue of Globalizations ‘Dialectics and World […]
By Cake Boy So this is a song that came out last year. It’s black metal, made by anarchist activists from the UK. It’s very new and what the anarchist scene communicates with the rest of the world. This is who we are, this what we are about. […]
By thecollective How do anarchists have interpersonal conflict with each other, and how can we get better at it? We’ve all seen (or maybe even been a part of) projects de-fanged by the horrible Accountability Process Gone Wrong. Conversely, we’ve all seen projects implode when avoiding conflict in […]
By thecollective From La Nemesi The preliminary hearing in the Sibilla repressive operation has been set for October 10th, at 10 a.m. at the Court of Perugia. On that date, the indictment will be requested for twelve comrades, including Alfredo Cospito (detained under 41 bis regime in the […]
By thecollective From Freedom News UK On the anniversary of Maria Nikiforova’s execution at the hands of the White Army on September 17, 1919, we present a translation of Anatoly Dubovik’s biographical sketch of this unique Ukrainian anarchist Tags: Maria Nikiforova anarchist history
By anon (not verified) From Fifth Estate #415, Summer 2024 by Bill Brown Why did I translate Raoul Vaneigem’s La Résistance au christianisme: Les Héresies des origines au xviiie siècle, originally published in 1993 by Editions Fayard, into English? This is a fair question because, after all, the […]
By anon (not verified) It is one year since the death of Larry, a Greek anarchist partisan whose loss continues to echo– the ripples of this tragedy are not stilled. I didn’t know Larry, but many close to me did, in multiple political and social capacities and of […]
By anon (not verified) From Centro studi libertari – Archivio G. Pinelli Bulletin #63 Harriet Ruth Ward passed away on July 14th. We were bound to her by a long-standing relationship of friendship and collaboration; together with her partner, Colin Ward (1924-2010), she was a fundamental presence and […]
By anon (not verified) Anarchistisches Netzwerk Dresden ANARCHIST DAYS DRESDEN 16.-22.09.2024 Former Libertarian Days in Dresden are now called Anarchist Days! Our fight for freedom knows no peace! Tags: Germany Anarchist Gathering workshops
By thecollective From The Progressive Magazine by Erik Gunn In Terry Stokes’ latest book, the anarchist theologian explores the connections between anarchism and Christianity. Tags: review religion MSM the left
By thecollective From Little | Bigger | Anarchism In this episode of Little | Bigger | Anarchism we chat with Sophie Scott-Brown about individualist anarchism in the 21st century. Tags: Sophie Scott-Brown podcast Little Bigger Anarchism Individualist Anarchism
By thecollective From Act for Freedom Now! by Francicso Solar Original title: Chile) Words of Anarchist comrade Francisco Solar for the Week of International Agitation Against Isolation It’s important to understand that Power is applying isolation as an intra-prison regime to combat anarchism of action in different parts […]
By Adam Godwin This paper covers the basic principles of Anarchism juxtaposed against the growing critique it offers against Marxism. Five major anarchist thinkers–Stirner, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin and Bookchin–are surveyed briefly to give the beginner reader to Anarchism a general understanding of Anarchism. The paper concludes with references […]
By Cake Boy Anarchism is stuck. On the one hand, it’s stuck in a swamp of woke sectarianism, and on the other, it’s stuck in the swamp of neoliberal/libertarian/Javier Milei populism. There needs to be a new anarchist impulse, and anarchism needs to be dragged out of the […]
“The Business of Liberty and the Liberty of Business” WHEN October 24, 2024 6:00 PM WHERE Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA RSVP NOW Join us for a reception and discussion of Robert Nozick’s classic book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, first published fifty years ago. Nozick’s book […]
By Cake Boy I think it’s funny that the FBI staff who follow this site actually read these articles and maybe learn something from it. Personally, I don’t really ‘attack’ the system. On the other hand, they see everything as ‘an attack’ these days. Not taking the vaccine, […]
By Ted Trainer ABSTRACT A sustainable and just world cannot be achieved without enormous structural and cultural change. The argument presented below is that when our situation is understood in terms of resource and ecological limits, it is evident firstly that getting rid of capitalism is not sufficient. […]
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 audio podcast
By thecollective How open are you with others about your anarchist beliefs? What types of people? In what contexts? How do you feel about it? Proud? Ashamed? Tags: totw topic of the week openness transparency privacy pride shame
By anon (not verified) From CIRA Japan July 2024 We have published “The Anarchist Document Center Newsletter No. 69”. The opening page introduces materials selected by Dameren and friends who visited the archives during a tour of Shizuoka to celebrate the publication of the new book. It introduces […]
By anon (not verified) From Centro studi libertari – Archivio G. Pinelli The 40th anniversary of the International Anarchist Meeting held in Venice in 1984 is approaching (for those who were not there, here is the link that gives an account of the many aspects of that event: […]
By anon (not verified) From AKCE.NOLOG.CZ The first AC254 opener On September 11, 254 m² of autonomous space will be opened to the public in Prague’s Holešovice for the first time. Autonomous center 254 aims to continue the tradition of the Clinic, the Milada and Cibulek squats or […]
By anon (not verified) From Anarchistická federace September 10, 2024 In June, two spaces – one closely associated with anti-authoritarian action, the other connected to it only by a single event (namely the Trhlina infoshop and the Žižkostel community centre) – received explicit threats of arson attack, accompanied […]
By thecollective From Anarchist Black Cross Federation Since 1999, prisoners and supporters throughout North America have participated in the annual event known as Running Down the Walls (RDTW) often running or walking simultaneously in many cities and prisons at once. Tags: Running Down the Walls solidarity anarchist prisoners […]
By thecollective From Idioteq Magazine Original title: Burning Down the World: Anarchy, Veganism, and Total Liberation with WARZONE DISTRO Born in 2013, WARZONE DISTRO free zine project, stands at the intersection of nihilist, anti-civilization anarchy, and total liberation, bridging gaps between veganism, straight edge, and insurrectionary thought. WARZONE […]
By thecollective From Freedom News UK Vicente Guedero makes the case for a renewal of an anarchist mythos, a thread of story and imagination for the future that can inspire and challenge capitalism’s carrot/stick of end-times and saviours. Tags: myth mythology surrealism
Troy Southgate Sep 13, 2024 The following is the text of a speech that I delivered at the Second National-Anarchist Movement (N-AM) Conference in East Sussex, England, on 24th June 2018 “Too long the earth has been a madhouse.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, II:22 IT is already a […]
By Cake Boy A question in the current anarchist milieu is whether anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communism are compatible. Is bottom unity ( libertarian unity) possible? The main topic here is land. Both schools, anarcho-communism and anarcho-capitalism, have different perceptions of what land is and what it should be. To […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you South Dakota State Representative Tina Mulally Leads Campaign To Stop Ruling Class Plan To Undermine Local Governance State Representative Tina Mulally does not want South Dakota’s system of local governance to be destroyed by greedy members of […]
By Felipe Corrêa This article by Brazilian anarchist Felipe Corrêa discusses the relationship of anarchism with power, class, and revolutionary social change. Starting from a definition of anarchism it proposes to conceptualize power in terms of asymmetric, or uneven, relationships between social forces. It also puts forward that […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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