Classical Wisdom Are there warring factions in any political society? We wonder. Is that where all our problems stem from? The idea that the few, wealthy oligarchs are constantly at odds with the disadvantaged masses is nothing new. In fact, if we were to read Aristotle’s The Politics, […]
The Wikipedia entry on the wave of revolutions that impacted the Communist world in the late 80s/early 90s is generally accurate from a historical perspective, and worth reading. The impression these events made on me at the time was the realization that revolutions could be carried out in […]
This is well worth checking out. This is one of the best descriptions of the condition of Western politics that I have seen to date. Present political conflict is not about class (or race or gender), although such conflicts exist in a way that is subordinated to the […]
By Matthew Blackwell, Quillette Looking out across the yellow-washed angular buildings that clutter the inner city of Phnom Penh in 2016, hindsight fills me with anxiety. Imagining myself here in 1975, I recall the jubilant and cheering crowds in the spring of that year who weren’t privy to […]
By Andrew Hoyt This dissertation tells the story of how a small group of low-profile militants, located on the periphery of industrial America, set in motion a chain of events that led Luigi Galleani to become one of the most notorious Italian anarchist and resulted in the Cronaca […]
By Phillip W. Magness & Alexander William Salter , National Review Washington spends too much, taxes too much, does too much. That’s because of the Constitution, not in spite of it. Thinkpieces lamenting the state of constitutional government are a dime a dozen. If only we embraced a […]
By James Michael Yeoman In the early twentieth century a group of Spanish anarchists settled in the town of Dowlais, South Wales, as part of a wider migration to the area prompted by the town’s ironworks. Over the following fifteen years this community kept in constant contact with […]
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To commemorate the five year anniversary of the passing of Muhammad Ali, Gavin and Zac chat with The Nation’s sports editor Dave Zirin, host of the Edge of Sports podcast, to reflect on Ali’s powerful legacy as a staunch opponent of war and US imperialism and the modern […]
By Michael Lind, Tablet The great civil rights leaders of the 1960s were right to champion universal, inclusive social programs. Americans on the left, right, and center agree that America has too much inequality. They just can’t agree on what kind of inequality to complain about. Unable to […]
For the defense. Two of the books Co-Authors come out Denouncing lead Author of the Black Book of Communism: https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/artic… Wheatcroft: Soviet famine of 1931-1933: http://www.melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/do… Kotkin: Stalinism Triumphant: Famine, Terror, And Hitler’s Shadow, 1929-1941 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev1LF… Settlers wiped out 90% of the present native population when they first […]
For the prosecution. Tom Woods Show Paul Kengor, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism, joins me to discuss the crimes of communism, why people don’t know about them, the “that wasn’t real communism” argument, and a lot more. Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-1909-the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-communism/
By Federico Ferretti This paper addresses an early case in critical and anarchist geopolitics by analysing a body of work from Spanish geographer Gonzalo de Reparaz Rodríguez-Báez (1860-1939). After reconstructing the complex and contradictory figure of Reparaz, a scholar and activist who oscillated between very different political positions […]
By Julián Casanova This article focuses on the various examples of anarchist violence, from terrorist action in the 1890s to anonymous bombs of the first decade of the twentieth century; from the tyranny of the Star pistol in the 1920s to the uprisings and revolutionary terror of the […]
Best comments from the threads: “I just want to let you know that you’re completely forgiven, it wasn’t your fault that Reagan survived the shot. “He tried his best and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters.” “Thank you for trying to kill the antichrist. […]
By Federico Ferretti, Richard J White, and Anthony Ince This paper aims to make a timely and original contribution to the long-standing debates regarding the interrelationships(s) between democracy, anarchism and the state in two key ways. The first is by exploring more fully the work of Errico Malatesta, […]
By Annika Neklason, Smithsonianmag.com For six years, starting in 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti watched from death row as writers argued for their freedom, politicians debated their case, and radicals held protests and set off bombs in their names. They managed to rally support even from people […]
By Eduardo Romanos Historians have traditionally considered Spanish anarchism to be the most successful variant of the international libertarian movement. Most of them also believe that the terminal point of that variant came soon after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and Franco’s dictatorship (1939–1975) came […]
By Lorenza Stradiotti A contribution to histories of women in the interwar transnational antifascist movement, particularly radical exiles, we focus on VirgiliaD’Andrea, a noted Italian anarchist exile from fascist Italy who spent her final exile in New York, 1928–33. An intellectual, writer-poet, and orator belonging to a small […]
By Morris Brodie This article examines the function of anarchist periodicals in the United States during the Great Depression. Periodicals acted as forums for debate, where ideas were constantly challenged and important theoretical issues were aired. This was both within anarchism and between the wider radical movement. In […]
Dr Philip Kiszely has lectured at the University of Leeds for the last 15 years. Philip has been outspoken on identity politics, critical race theory and the activist impulse in the media and institutions. In this episode he talks about his father, who escaped communism in Hungary after […]
By AKSEL BORA ÇORLU This dissertation explores the connections of anarchism and violence, especially in the form of propaganda by the deed. The existing scholarship on this subject either focuses on national/ethnic units, or subsumes it under the dubious heading of “terrorism.” I aim to present an inclusive, […]
By Donnacha DeLong This essay was written as part of my studies in 2010/2011, reading a Masters in PoliticalCommunication in City University, London. The essay was the assessment in the course GlobalCivil Society and answered the question: Compare the relevance of the classical transnational labour movement and the […]
FROM 2013: Today we’re joined by Gary Chartier of the Center for a Stateless Society for a discussion about the life and work of Lysander Spooner. We talk about Spooner’s American Letter Mail Company, his abolitionist activism, and the development of his anarchist philosophy and his arguments against […]
By Richard Gunderman Do you have a work schedule that leaves you with enough time off the clock to rest up and handle your other responsibilities? If so, you might owe something to Robert Owen, a wealthy industrialist who was born in Wales on May 14, 1771. Welsh […]
By Federico Ferretti This paper discusses the relation between early anarchism and republican/nationalist ideas. We will focus on the case of British-based activists grouped around the journal Freedom and their engagement with Irish nationalism during the Age of the Empire. Freedom, founded in 1886, was the most important […]
I don’t disagree with the contents of this article, but it is hardly the case that education was unbiased before social justice crusaders took it over. Educational institutions used to teach the American civil religion. Now they teach the social justice religion, that’s all. By David Randall, Kevin […]
By Álvaro Girón and Jorge Molero-Mesa Recent memories of the 1888 Universal Exhibition could not conceal the poor living conditions and social strife that plagued the city’s working class in November 1889. That month Barcelona hosted the Segundo Certamen Social-ista (The Second Socialist Contest), a competition organized by […]
I’d say it depends on the particular regime. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Kim were the worst. Conventional fascists and parafascists (Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, Peron), Titoism, and revisionist communists less so. Though all of them still sucked. And let’s not forget the centuries-long myriad of crimes carried […]
By Jason Garner As anarchism was never a mass movement in either the United Kingdom or the United States it has often been the victim of equivocal, prejudicial and patronising (often sympathetic) interpretations. Studies of the anarchist ‘phenomenon’ are often more anthropological than strictly historical. The result has […]
By Helen Pluckrose, Areo Magazine Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself. That may sound like a bold or even hyperbolic claim, but the reality is that the cluster of ideas and values at the root of postmodernism have broken the bounds […]
By Elizabeth Yuko, Architectural Digest It’s easy to look back at the many failed American utopian communities that sprung up during the Transcendentalist movement of the 1840s—from the Oneida Community to Brook Farm to Fruitlands—and point out what went wrong. (Typically, some combination of leadership issues, problematic sex […]
By Jesse Walker, Reason When Eldridge Cleaver ascended the Marriott Center stage on June 28, 1981, the Black Panther Party wasn’t quite dead. The organization’s last remnants were running an alternative school in Oakland, California, and that final Panther project didn’t peter out until 1982. But Cleaver, who […]
By Philip Giraldi But Biden gives Israel more weapons even while Gaza is bleeding May 18, 2021 An interesting recent article by international lawyer John Whitbeck suggests that the billions of dollars that the United States gives to Israel annually is not technically “foreign aid” as the Jewish […]
By James Michael Yeoman The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 was one of the most significant moments in the history of anarchism. The outbreak of the conflict sparked a revolution, in which women and men inspired by anarchist ideas took control of the streets of Barcelona and the […]
Author, Ashely Rindsberg, discusses his book “The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History.”
By Laura Galián, Costantino Paonessa Anarchism first appeared in the Southern Mediterranean countries at the end of the nineteenth century with the immigration of European workers and political exiles. Despite the important role anarchists played in introducing radical and revolutionary political thought in Egypt, only historians Anthony Gorman […]
By Matthew Walter, The American Conservative It is somehow absurdly fitting that Joe Biden, who entered the United States Senate in 1973 at the age of 30 as an opponent of racial busing, is presiding over a return to the 1970s. The Seventies are one of the few […]
By Peter Billington Seven North East Lancashire men fought as International Brigade volunteers during the Spanish Civil War. Four came from Burnley, two from Nelson and one from Colne. Two were killed in action, four served with great distinction and one deserted. The pamphlet looks at the North […]
There are three different parts of the world that provide some indication of what the future of the USA will look like. Increasingly, our educated, managerial classes and elites are moving toward the social norms of Western Europe (e.g. support for gay marriage is regarded as the hallmark […]
By Mark Miller, Ancient-Origins The Tuscarora tribe numbered an estimated 25,000 in some 24 villages, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia and North Carolina to the Shenandoah River and the Appalachian Mountains. Their numbers and territory were greatly reduced after contact with British colonists. Eventually the Tuscarora […]
By Chris Ealham This is a study of social protest and repression in one of the twentieth century’s most important revolutionary hotspots. It explains why Barcelona became the undisputed capital of the European anarchist movement and explores the sources of anarchist power in the city. It also places […]
In a one-on-one interview with The Heat, film director Oliver Stone talks about United States foreign policy and the history of U.S. intervention.
Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, Terminal Philosophy, and I will discuss the historical and philosophical roots of the right to bear arms and the practical results that follow.
By Mark G.E. Kelly, TELOS Michel Foucault’s name has never been far from scandal. Indeed, he has proven to be a perennially controversial figure. He rose to prominence in controversy, his ponderously scholarly 1966 book The Order of Things becoming a bestseller because marginal denunciations of humanism and […]
A visual representation of our 80-year history cycles, as laid out in the 1997 book, THE FOURTH TURNING. This book is MIND BLOWING! Explains why and how the Boomers, Gen-X, Millennial, and Gen-Z generations experience & shape the world according to the eras in which they grew up. […]
This video explores how the history of the New Left led to a revival of the old left and presents excerpts from the books Facing Reality and the upcoming Zero Books title Zeitgeist Nostalgia written by Alessandro Gandini.
By Bill Lohman, Richmond Times-Dispatch They hiked into Richmond with sore feet, and then it rained — minor inconveniences considering their reason for being here. Members of The FreeTHEM Walk team, 120 miles into a 900-mile trek to call attention to human trafficking, came through Richmond on Friday, […]
By Tim Briedis This thesis explores a slice of Brisbane’s radical history. I focus on the Self-Management Group (SMG), a revolutionary organisation that flourished from 1971-1977. The SMG formed as Brisbane activism shifted from a politics based around conscience to a revolutionary subjectivity. In 1977, the SMG dissolved. […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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