Attack the System

90 percent of Americans are poorer today than in 1987

Russia Today AFP Photo / Jewel Samad The American Dream is slipping further away from the vast majority of Americans than it has in a quarter century. Now 90 percent of US households are poorer than they were in 1987, according to both a new study and the […]

Richard Spencer vs Totalitarian Humanism in Hungary

This is important stuff regardless of your politics if you’re against the system. It’s an indication of what dissidents from all over the spectrum can expect in the future. Alternative Right Andy and Colin are joined by Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute to talk about his […]

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 […]

Eugene Puryear for Washington, D.C. City Council

If you vote and live in Washington, D.C. consider Eugene Puryear. For those anarchists and libertarians who might look askance at endorsing a leftist and a socialist like Mr. Puryear, I would suggest taking a look at his track record. He’s on the right page concerning the biggest […]

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 […]

Antifa and ISIS – Same, Same but different

By Welf Herfurth When one travels there is a lot of time spent thinking while on long transits between cities and places. Personal things and also the odd political thought. And while I was on a bus traveling in Argentina, I saw a news clip about ISIS, who […]

Bookchin, Öcalan, and the Dialectics of Democracy

By Janet Biehl New Compass February 3-5, 2012, a a conference was organized in Hamburg, Germany. The theme was “Challenging Capitalist Modernity: Alternative concepts and the Kurdish Question.” The following text was delivered as a speech to the conference. … In February 1999, at the moment when Abdullah […]

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 […]

Kurdish spring: what are the PKK fighting for?

Channel 4 News Brian Whelan The PKK could play a key role in the battle against Islamic State, but their roots as Marxist guerrillas leaves the west wary. Channel 4 News looks at how the group is pursuing a Kurdish Spring. After over 30 years of an anachronistic […]

The new PKK: unleashing a social revolution in Kurdistan

Rafael Taylor RoarMag.Org As the prospect of Kurdish independence becomes ever more imminent, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party transforms itself into a force for radical democracy. Excluded from negotiations and betrayed by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne after having been promised a state of their own by the World […]

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, […]

After repelling ISIL, PKK fighters are the new heroes of Kurdistan

Yes! The Bookchinites of Kurdistan are making their mark. By Alia Malek’ Al-Jazeera Members of the PKK wait to greet the body of a slain Iraqi Kurdish PKK fighter on the road from Erbil.Ayman Oghanna for Al Jazeera America ERBIL, Iraq — The body of Zanyar Kawa is […]

The Case for a Coalition Against Consensual Crimes

Resolved:Opposition to so-called “victimless crimes” or “consensual crimes” has long been a hallmark of libertarian and anarchist thought. It’s time the ball started rolling a little bit faster on this question. These kinds of laws are the primary reason why the U.S. police state has grown dramatically in […]

Outside of Libertarianism: Corporate Capitalism Doesn’t Belong to Us

By David D’Amato Center for a Stateless Society In a new article for Rolling Stone, “Inside the Koch Brothers’ Toxic Empire,” Tim Dickinson attempts to present the frequently demonized brothers Koch as essentially hardline libertarians, whose radical free market ideology is thoroughly mixed into their business philosophy and […]

German bikers unite with Dutch comrades in fight against ISIS

Russia Today Image from facebook.com/Azad.Onepercenter Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have received a surprising accession. While allied forces refuse to take part in military action on the ground, several German bikers have reportedly joined the fight against the jihadists. Kawan A., the club […]

Legalization is a Human Rights Issue: Latin America Steps Up Resolve to End the Drug Wars

By Wendy Call Yes Magazine Javier Sicilia stopped writing poetry after his son was murdered by drug traffickers. He has turned his attention full time to protesting the drug wars. Seattle’s South Park neighborhood has seen its share of drug-related crime and violence. Many of its residents are […]

A Survey of Hyphenated Anarchist Tendencies and Their Opposites

I think that ARV-ATS has to a great degree developed to the point where we are ready to enter a new stage of our development. Over the years, I have made an effort to assess the limitations of previously existing anarchist movements, and to formulate a new theoretical […]

Iran and the Proxy War in Kurdistan

By Eric Draitser New Eastern Outlook In the midst of the war against ISIS (Islamic State) now taking place in both Iraq and Syria, a possible shifting of alliances that could fundamentally alter the balance of power in the region is taking place, and no one seems to […]

Thrown to the Lions: Why is it left to Hezbollah & the Syrian army to save Christians in Syria?

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 […]

The experiment of West Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan)

Anarkismo.Net What you read below is the experience of my visit, for a couple of weeks in May this year, 2014, to the North-East of Syria or Syrian Kurdistan (West of Kurdistan) with a close friend of mine. Throughout the visit we had the total freedom and opportunity […]

Obama Wants to Defeat ISIS–But Not That Badly

By Kevin Carson Counterpunch.Org The Obama administration recently announced a policy of limited intervention in Iraq, using drone strikes to stave off conquest of Kurdish autonomous areas by ISIS. The main US ally on the ground is Massoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Regional Government, and US support against ISIS is […]

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 […]

The Fight is a Global Fight

Some observations from “Ian B.” at the Libertarian Alliance blog. ————————— My major problem Keith is that I don’t think any form of separatism or communitarianism is going to work. The problem with any proposed alternative to the [current dispensation] is actually getting the chance to implement it. […]

Turkish jets bomb Kurdish PKK rebels near Iraq

How many anarchists even know that the PKK is an anarchist group whose main influence is Murray Bookchin. Anarchists the world over need to rally behind the PKK. Form protests outside Turkish embassies and consulates everywhere. BBC News An F-4 Phantom jet: Turkey says the bombing was a […]

Keith Preston on The National Policy Institute and The Centre for a Stateless Society

From the Libertarian Alliance blog. The discussion that follows is interesting. By Keith Preston I am going chance the risk of offending everyone by offering a defense of both the National Policy Institute and C4SS. I spoke to an NPI gathering a few years ago, and I am […]

Hungarian State Goes Totalitarian Humanist

By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Note by Sean Gabb: I prefer to avoid commenting on foreign affairs that do not immediately concern my own country. One exception is things that happen in the United States, which is our imperial overlord. Things that happen in other member states of […]

Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria?

By David Graeber The Guardian Demonstrators hold flags of Kurdistan and a flag with a portrait of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan outside the UN headquarters in Geneva. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters In 1937, my father volunteered to fight in the International Brigades in defence of the Spanish Republic. […]

Anarcho-Preference… It All Comes Back To Voluntaryism

Some Problems with Secession

It’s always a good plan to consider weaknesses in one’s own position. By Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative Rich Koele / Shutterstock.com Ron Paul has stirred a media buzz by praising Scotland’s secession effort—an effort the Scots themselves rejected. Dr. Paul’s views are shared by many libertarians and […]

A Look at How Liberals Led America Into Having the Highest Prison Rate in The World

By Yasmin Nair Alternet The United States has five percent of the world’s population, but houses 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Conventional wisdom has it that it is the systemic, widening, and tightening grip of conservatives, particularly racist Republicans and Southern Democrats, over the years that led […]