Texas SECEDING? GOP Pushes 2023 Referendum To Leave The Union
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss Texas Republican’s push for a referendum on the state’s secession from the US.
It’s Beyond Time for a National Divorce
By Matthew Arostegui Mises Institute It’s been about six years since Michael Malice wrote his article “The Case for American Secession,” for the Observer. Since then, the talk of a disuniting of the American Empire has been discussed by people on the right, left, and the middle. There […]
Abortion “sanctuary cities”
Whether anyone likes it or not, pan-secessionism is indeed happening. Sanctuaries for everyone and everything. Axios Two layers of security fences have been added to the Supreme Court since the leak last month of a draft abortion opinion. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Some local officials in liberal […]
Wingnuts vs. Factions: The two theories of American government—one fantasy, one reality
One of the best descriptions of the mechanics of domestic US politics I have seen to date from Michael Lind. By Michael Lind, Tablet If the Republicans retake Congress in the midterm elections of 2022, as many expect, a lament will be heard in 2023 and 2024 from […]
Michael Malice on Roe vs. Wade and National Divorce
Tom Woods Show Michael Malice joins us to talk about the surprising news regarding Roe v. Wade and what it means both for the 2022 midterms and for the prospects of national divorce. LISTEN HERE
‘The Palm Republic’: Group plans to ‘declare independence’ from South Carolina
By Tim Renaud ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (WCBD) – Some Isle of Palms residents are expected to “declare independence” from South Carolina as they look to form “The Palm Republic.” It stems from when a small group opposed Gov. Henry McMaster’s decision to close the beaches at the […]
Atlanticism vs. Eurasianism and Its Implications for Anarcho-Pluralists and Pan-Secessionists
By Keith Preston The Russian war in Ukraine has accelerated the rising trend toward multipolarity (or even a multi-order order) within international relations. The Western retaliatory sanctions against Russia have pushed the BRICS nations and their economic allies closer together. The conventional wisdom is that the 21st century […]
Growing the Numbers of Pan-Anarchists: Reflections on Propaganda Techniques
This piece I wrote a few years ago has been republished at Nowhere News. By Keith Preston About 20 years ago, I began to formulate ideas for the development of what I now call a “third wave” anarchist movement, with the “first wave” being the era of classical […]
Making Pan-Secessionism Global: The Way Forward for Anarchists
The video below raises many interesting points that are highly relevant to many of the things that have been discussed at ATS over the years. The speakers in the video are Marxist-Leninists (“tankies”) who understand that the various forms of what I call “totalitarian humanism” (“woke,” “political correctness” […]
Trucker Convoy MOCKED As Protestors Circle DC Beltway
Deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, details the outcome of the People’s Convoy in Washington, D.C.
How It Might Should Be Done
This guy gets it. Some of his talks are available on YouTube. Idris Robinson, Ill Will August 16th, 2020 The following is a transcript of a talk delivered in Seattle on July 20, 2020, lightly-edited by the author for readability. A video recording produced by Red May is […]
On Race Traitors, Identity Politics, and Revolutionary Horizons Since the Uprising w/ Idris Robinson
Idris Robinson revisits and expands upon his seminal essay “How It Might Should Be Done.” In the aftermath of the CHAZ occupation in downtown Seattle, “How It Might Should” was a public talk surveying the horizon of revolutionary potential uncovered by the George Floyd Rebellion during the hot […]
The First Phase Is Now Mainstream
Why the Trucker Convoy WON And What it Means
Krystal dives into the reasons why the Trucker Convoy appears to have won their fight for Canada to loosen covid restrictions and how it has contrasted with mass left wing movements
Moving Right Along
Justin Trudeau’s Ceauşescu Moment
By Matt Taibbi Denouncing truckers for “unacceptable views,” Canada’s Prime Minister skipped town rather than face evidence of his own unpopularity. Is neoliberalism finally cracking? On the morning of the 21st of December, 1989, Romanian General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu was in a foul mood. The Berlin Wall had […]
Ron Perlman Calls for Secession: ‘You Don’t Wanna Live in My World and I Certainly Don’t Want to Live in Yours’
By David Ng, Breitbart Left-wing Hollywood star Ron Perlman has given up on the United States, calling for secession in the form of a national divorce between red and blue states. Perlman laid out his proposal in a typically gruff tweet on Thursday. “It’s time that every state […]
CIA analyst turned Democratic Rep says Canada’s Freedom Convoy is an ‘effective’ protest, believes we’ll see a trucker rally in the US SOON and urges Trudeau to reach agreement to let traffic cross the border
By Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter and Andrea Cavallier and Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com Rep. Elissa Slotkin, from Michigan, suggested the Canadian government say ‘uncle’ to the truckers in a bid to get trade going again Six auto factories across Michigan and Canada are closing or partially closing Toyota […]
Should the United States Stay United?
By Jessica Suriano, The Nation A conversation with Richard Kreitner about rethinking the history and the meaning of secession. The United States has never been an equal, peaceful, or functional nation, despite what the history textbooks say. It was built from genocide, slavery, and stolen land. This year, […]
California county on track to be run by militia-aligned group
By Dani Anguiano The Guardian Shasta county’s recall efforts highlight how distrust in the government has led to increasing extremism in local politics. A retired police chief and self-described Reagan Republican with decades of public service, Leonard Moty checked all the boxes to represent his community in one […]
Cops Turn On Cops Over Canadian Trucker Protest
The Police Chief in Ottawa held a press conference to insist that no officers on the Ottawa police force have been aiding and abetting the protesting truckers who have all but shut down the Canadian capital. Of course, his declaration merely fueled speculation that cops are, in fact, […]
The Case for Secession
By Michael Warren Davis, The American Conservative The best reason for breaking up the states is also the most obvious: there’s way too many of them. The idea that one government can effectively govern 300 million people spread over 4 million square miles and worth about $23 trillion […]
German-speaking Covid denialists seek to build paradise in Paraguay
By William Costa, The Guardian A 1,600-hectare (4,000-acre) gated community, dubbed El Paraíso Verde, or the Green Paradise, is being carved out of the fertile red earth of Caazapá, one of Paraguay’s poorest regions. The community’s population – consisting mainly of German, Austrian and Swiss immigrants – will […]
Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities
J. Xie, S. Sreenivasan, G. Korniss, W. Zhang, C. Lim, and B. K. Szymanski Phys. Rev. E 84, 011130 – Published 22 July 2011 We show how the prevailing majority opinion in a population can be rapidly reversed by a small fraction p of randomly distributed committed agents […]
The Supreme Court, and the Prospects for National Divorce
While Jeff Deist may theoretically be in favor of a “national divorce,” he was opposed to CHAZ/CHOP leftist enclave when it emerged in Seattle. Fortunately, Walter “Defending the Undefendable” Block called him out on that. The bottom line is that if there is going to be a “national […]
The Evidence is Clear that Pan-Secessionism is a Viable Strategy
The Foundation-Up Populist Revolution is Working
People have finally woken up to the fact that they need local and regional civic coordination to erode the dregs of the old neocons.
It’s Time to Break Up New York State
By Nicolas Gregoris Mises Institute Neil Sedaka said it best – “breaking up is hard to do”. Ask any 16-year-old and they’ll tell you that’s certainly true, but Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) recently made headlines when she suggested not just a breakup, but a “National Divorce” on […]
They’re Not Going To Leave Us Alone
By Peter R. Quiñones I hope that you understand, or are at least beginning to, that the radical Left is not going to stop. Many people have pointed out that their belief in equity for all, which really means the destruction of the status quo and the lifting […]
Yale history professor Timothy Snyder told Insider he fears American democracy may not survive another Trump campaign
Timothy Snyder’s viewpoint is interesting. Of course, he is a Yale academic, and therefore a high priest among the new clerisy, and his main concerns are both preserving the empire and achieving the hegemony of the Blue Tribe within the empire. His main fear is the emergence of […]
Agora #34: Kevin Carson
Kevin Carson is by far the best contemporary left-anarchist economist. His ideas on economics are more or less what I think the dominant mode of production would look like in a world where anarchist movements achieved political hegemony on a cultural and intellectual level. Although, like Noam Chomsky, […]
Sea-Ceding in Florida
By Joe Quick, Seasteading Institute A new nation based on freedom and natural rights is currently being founded right in your backyard! If you are ready to stop arguing and start seasteading, join Atlas Island and be a part of sea-cession. Atlas Island is a clear three stage […]
Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century
By Kevin Carson, Anarchist Library Reviews Abstract Preface Part One: Background Chapter One: The Age of Mass and Maneuver I. A Conflict of Visions II. The Triumph of Mass in the Old Left III. The Assault on Working Class Agency IV. Workerism/Laborism Chapter Two: Transition I. Drastic Reductions […]
When Revolutionary Moments Arise Again — and They Will — What Will We Do?
By Anton Woronczuk, Truthout The world is in a prolonged period of global unrest. Since the financial crisis of 2008, every region of the planet has experienced levels of mass protest unprecedented in recent history, from the Arab Spring in the Middle East and Black Lives Matter in the U.S., to […]
County board to act on 2nd amendment sanctuary next week
I am for every political, cultural, ideological, economic, identity, or issue-based group there is forming “sanctuaries” of their own. By JENNIFER BAILEY JBAILEY@DANCOMNEWS.COM A group of local citizens called the Vermilion County Constitutionalists have been trying since last year to have Vermilion County become Illinois’ 68th Second Amendment […]
Modern America’s Most Successful Secessionist Movement
By Antonia Hitchens The Atlantic In rural Oregon, voters fed up with their state’s leftward turn have embraced a simple and outlandish idea: What if we were just Idaho? In the summer of 2015, a chimney sweep in Elgin, Oregon, redrew the map of the American West. “Imagine […]
Secession might seem like the lesser of two evils. It’s also the less likely.
By Stephen Marche, Washington Post When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) talks about a “National Divorce,” as she did again in a tweet on Wednesday, she may be advancing the cause of secession or she may just be seeking attention. Either way, she knows what she’s doing — […]
A New Year One for Gotham
By Joel Schlosberg, Garrison Center As “the city that never sleeps” turned the calendar to 2022 with the inauguration of Eric Adams just after midnight, partygoers didn’t need Frank Sinatra’s reminder to “start spreading the news” heard on the New Year’s broadcast from Times Square. New Yorkers were […]
Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for Civil War
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
Tactics: Conceptions of Social Change, Revolution, and Anarchist Organisation
By Dana Williams Tactics are the techniques and actions used by social movements that implement strategies for the purpose of achieving goals. For anarchist movements, tactics can assume a reactive, diagnostic, or destructive force for opposing hierarchy, repression, and inequality. Tactics can also assume a proactive, prognostic, or […]
Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a City?
By Olúfémi O. Táíwò The Nation Elite economists have been promoting a model of governance resembling nothing so much as a game of Monopoly. If you’re in the market for a banana republic, have I got a deal for you. Head on down to the digital offices of […]
Nebraska becomes the first state to say they will NOT comply with Biden’s snooping plan to have banks report every transaction over $600 to the IRS
More pan-secessionism in action. So far this hasn’t passed. By Morgan Phillips, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com ‘If the Biden administration sues me, we will take it all the way to the Supreme Court,’ state treasurer John Murante said The proposal, backed by $79 billion in additional funding, would […]
Congresswoman Openly Advocates End To American Democracy
Have we pan-secessionists found our leader? If the person who gets the pan-secessionist ball rolling turns out to be this illiterate fruitbat, so be it. “Marjorie Taylor Greene is a troll. But it’s not either or. She can be a troll, and she can be a serious threat to […]
The case for empowering Americans to vote with their feet
By Ilya Somin The Week Realistically, your ballot doesn’t matter. ‘Foot voting’ does. American democratic institutions are in crisis. One of the worst flaws of the status quo is the near-powerlessness of the individual voter over the policies which determine so much of daily life. Closely related is […]
The Shock of Victory
This is a 2009 article from the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber, who died last year, and who was probably as influential as any anarchist in the 21st century so far. I am posting this because the third section of this piece, the discussion of anarchism in the […]
What Is Mutual Aid?
Anarchist News Mutual aid has been in the spotlight recently in light of the current crisis, but what exactly does it mean? And what makes it a powerful form of anarchist praxis unique from charity and volunteering? Well, ‘mutual aid’ is essentially the very radical notion that co-operation, rather […]
New Caledonia holds final referendum on independence from France
By Grayson Quay The Week Voters in the French territory of New Caledonia vote Sunday on whether to remain a part of France, The Associated Press reports. New Caledonia, an archipelago in the South Pacific with a population of around 250,000, became a French colony in 1853, gained […]
Libertarian Leninism: Learning From Our Enemies
By Byron Libertarianism Something that Libertarians often fail to do is to learn from our enemies. It is unquestionable that many different ideologies have had much greater success in the 20th century than libertarianism or classical liberalism. No matter how repressive these ideologies may be, it’s worth studying […]
Springtime of Nations: The Burmese Separatists
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations “Independence is not the kind of thing you can get by begging for it from other people. You should proclaim it yourselves. The Japanese refuse to give it? Very well then, tell them that you will cross over to someplace like Twante […]
Springtime of Nations: Tigray
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations When Classical Liberalism first gained prominence as a political movement in Europe and the Western Hemisphere in general, the ideology was closely tied to national struggles for independence against large empires. Aside from the liberal nature of the American Revolution, the wars […]
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