Category: Anarchism/Anti-State

James C. Scott (1936-2024)

By thecollective From Freedom News UK Researcher and author James C. Scott passed away in his Connecticut home on July 19. He was 87 years old. His seminal works include The Moral Economy of the Peasant, Weapons of the Weak, Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Seeing Like […]

By thecollective From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos Over the last two to three decades, anarchist movements the world over have achieved major gains. Tags: Peter Gelderloos book Detritus Books organization community

By thecollective From ArtReview James C. Scott, the political scientist, anthropologist and anarchist thinker, whose work has had an increasing footprint in the artworld, has died. Tags: obituary James C. Scott J.C. Scott

Unknown Anarchisms

By thecollective Topic of the Week – This week we are peering into the unknown void to reconceptualize the history and theory of anarchism by shedding a light on unknown anarchisms. Unknown anarchisms and anarchists are way-points without a history that can be found on the obfuscated outskirts […]

ABC No Rio Rises Again

By thecollective From The City by Melanie Marich – July 16, 2024 Original title: ABC No Rio, a Home for Anarchist Artists, Rises Again on the Lower East Side Years after its demolition, ABC No Rio will get a new energy-efficient headquarters on the same site of its […]

Abraham Lesperoglou, 1955-2024…

By anon (not verified) From Athens Indymedia July 4, 2024 Happy Forays into the Valleys of Silence Abraham Lesperoglou invaded our landscape, the young insurgent anarchists in the 1980s, after the Battle of Gyzi and the death of Christos Tsouchouvis. He was one of the “two trapped, still […]

Especifismo Before its Critics

By thecollective From Black Rose Anarchist Federation We present here a translation of an article which appeared on July 7, 2024 in the recently revived Spanish anarchist journal Regeneración Libertaria. The journal describes itself as “a portal for the revolutionary anarchist tendency, concretely of the especifista current, adapted […]

Focus on Rojava

By thecollective From Class War The devastating effects of the lesser evil and anti-imperialism in anarchist circles (II) Why a focus on Rojava in 2024? Both because of random discussions, but also because the most widespread form of military-revolutionary mythology about Rojava has reappeared as an ideological support […]

Announcing Warlike, Howling, Pure

By thecollective From Contagion Press by Areïon Given the failure and inadequacy of secular attempts to bring about revolution, Warlike, Howling, Pure offers an insurrectionary and devotional approach to anarchy that expands the uprising into spiritual and religious dimensions. This book of four essays delves into the animism […]

Train To Nowhere

By anon (not verified) From de.indymedia.org Call for a week of world wide action and solidarity against the North Bothnia Line in northern Sápmi, August 11th to 17th, 2024! Tags: anticolonial international ecology autonomy

Uncivilized Podcast 53 – Discussion with Julian Langer Part 4

By ArtxmisGrahamThoreau Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmNQyutjIHs Artxmis is joined by Julian Langer, guest from Episodes 9, 15, 19. He recently wrote “Revolting: Eco-Absurdist Rebellion” (Active Distributions) His other works are the three “Feral” books, short stories such as “Mesodma”, several essays and poems. We discuss existentialism, absurdism, Julian’s thoughts on […]

Rest in power, Julien.

By anon (not verified) From CGT July 4, 2024 In the last few hours, and through colleagues and related organizations at an international level, we have been able to learn about the departure of Julien Terzics. The redskin band ‘Brigada Flores Magon’, of which he was a part […]

The Advantage of Panarchy

Paul Bonneau The Advantage of Panarchy (2014)     Note A presentation of Panarchy, highlighting the fact that, as conception and practice, it is a method of personal and social organization that is good and convenient for everybody (except those who want to control and exploit others).   […]

Panarchy, Subsidiarity and Me

Paul Bonneau Panarchy, Subsidiarity and Me (2012)     Note Panarchy as subsidiarity to the level of the individual.     When I first started writing on this subject (see here), I was mostly shooting in the dark. Subsequent reading has yet again proven the old saying, from Ecclesiastes, […]

Key Features of Anarchy

James Herod Key Features of Anarchy (2023)     Note An exhaustive clarification of the basic tenets of anarchy as developed by many anarchist thinkers and activists.     A Definition of Anarchy.  A decentralized world full of directly democratic, self-governing, cooperative communities connected together through horizontal networks […]

We Need To Rethink School

By thecollective From YouTube by Andrewism Our current way of schooling isn’t working. Due to its history, the education system carries persistent problems to the present day. Let’s look at some solutions to revolutionise our approach to education for a liberated future. Tags: school for the kids Andrewism […]

New Zine: Destroy the Gender Marker

By anon (not verified) From Space City Anarchist Organization June 18, 2024 This zine goes into how changing gender markers for trans people might seem like a reasonable reform, but ultimately is another tool of oppression in our current system. Content Warning: Discussion of trans genocide, and transphobia […]

Why Stop at Removing Biden?

By thecollective From CrimethInc. The Center Cannot Hold It would seem like a heavy-handed metaphor if it weren’t our actual reality. A doddering patriarch, representing a collapsing centrist political project, refuses to step aside even as it becomes certain that he faces defeat at the hands of an […]