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Imagine…

Imagine a North American United Revolutionary Front consisting of anarchists from across the spectrum of anarchist opinion, plus sympathetic or allied groups from the left, right, and center: libertarians, communitarians, paleos, populists, progressives, decentralists, greens, socialists, and (non-statist) nationalists. Imagine such an alliance organizing around a few basic […]

Monarchists, Neo-Reactionaries and Neo-Fascism

Unfortunately, some folks on the rightist end of libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, or “anarchism of the right” have been veering off into this neo-reactionary, nostalgic monarchist, or neo-fascist stuff just as some on the left end of anarchism and libertarianism have veered off into social democracy (Chomsky), totalitarian humanism (the […]

To Paul Krugman: Thou Art the Man

Kevin Carson takes down the Progressive’s favorite economist, though I appreciate Sean’s effort to provide some nuance in his introduction. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Paul Krugman, in denouncing the excessive market power of Amazon (“Amazon’s Monopsony is Not OK,” New York Times, October 19), […]

When Women Become Men at Wellesley

By Ruth Padawer New York Times Hundreds of young women streamed into Wellesley College on the last Monday of August, many of them trailed by parents lugging suitcases and bins filled with folded towels, decorative pillows and Costco-size jugs of laundry detergent. The banner by the campus entranceway […]

Obama Is a Republican

The most sensible analysis of the Obama presidency published yet. By Bruce Bartlett The American Conservative illustration by Michael Hogue Back in 2008, Boston University professor Andrew Bacevich wrote an article for this magazine making a conservative case for Barack Obama. While much of it was based on […]

If You Vote, Then Vote Third Party

Given that elections are coming up soon, I would suggest either one of two possible approaches for anarchists, libertarians, decentralists, secessionists, or dissidents and enemies of the system generally. One of these is to simply not vote at all. Boycotting a corrupt system has the effect of de-legitimizing […]

The Neocons — Masters of Chaos

By Robert Parry Consortium News Exclusive: America’s neoconservatives, by stirring up trouble in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, are creating risks for the world’s economy that are surfacing now in the turbulent stock markets, threatening another global recession, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry If you’re nervously […]

The Kurdish Question: Through the lens of Anarchist Resistance in the Heart of the Ottoman Empire 1880–1923

By Michael Schmidt and Lucien Van der Walt Anarchist Library Introduction: Second-Generation Anarchism in Anatolia: The Kurdish National Question Back to the Beginnings: Alexandre Atabekian and the Rise of Anarchism in the Ottoman Empire The “Black International” and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Anarchist Anti-Imperialist Guerrillas in Thrace: Mikhail […]

Anarchy in Kurdistan?

By Jesse Walker Reason.Com The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has been active in the Kurdish parts of Turkey since the ’70s. It has a sometimes sordid history: Its politics were Marxist-Leninist, and its willingness to kill prisoners and civilians earned a rebuke from Amnesty International. Its leader, […]

The Real Resistance to ISIS

Navid Nasr Sukant Chandan: “Here you can see a rough sketch of how nato has mobilised death squads from around the world & subjected Syria to these rapists, slavers of women, mutilators & generally nato’s razor blades against our peoples. They are being fought back by a formal […]

My Positions on Economic Questions

This was originally posted on the Libertarian Alliance blog. The general theory of political economy I hold to is roughly the same as Carson’s, and I wrote an essay for LA back in 2008 outlining my perspective. Since you don’t like links, I won’t provide one. But it’s […]