The Abolition Of Rulership Or The Rule Of All Over All
From C4SS - by William GillisThis piece is the lead essay in the June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium: “Anarchy and Democracy.”Fighting over the definitions of words can sometimes seem like a futile and...
View ArticleReview of Jonathan Matthew Smucker, Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals
From Alpine AnarchistReview of Jonathan Matthew Smucker, Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals (Chico et al.: AK Press, 2017)There is much to admire in Jonathan Matthew Smucker’s Hegemony How-To: A...
View ArticleWho Are the Anarchists and What is Anarchism?
From Black Rose Anarchist FederationBy Thomas Giovanni In the wake of the use of militant street tactics at the Trump inauguration protests, the controversial shut down of two prominent right-wing...
View ArticleAn Introduction to the Affinity Group
From Plain WordsFrom 1890’s Spain to present day Bloomington, anarchists of varying stripes organize ourselves and take action together in what’s called an “affinity group.” Central to anarchy is not...
View ArticleNow and the anarchy of destituent power: Reading politics with the invisible...
From Autonomies… they wanted to reinvent everything, each day; to make themselves masters and possessors of their own lives.Guy DebordIf to constituent power corresponds revolutions, uprisings and new...
View ArticleAnarchy Vs Yoga
Have we just got gently fucked by Yoga, and its evermore affluent soft power?The biggest and most successful cult these days, next to Capital of course, is Yoga. Yoga isn't only practice, but religion...
View ArticleThe First International and the Development of Anarchism and Marxism
From Anarkismo by Wayne PriceAnarchism originated in the 1st International, through the Marx-Bakunin split.There are recent histories of the First International researched from anarchist perspectives,...
View ArticleAn Attack on All of Us
From CrimethInc.How the Right Hopes to Use the Shooting in AlexandriaThose who wish to carry out acts of violence always seek to frame themselves as victims. If they are perceived as victims, this can...
View ArticleYour Freedom Is My Freedom: The Premise Of Anarchism
From Human Iterations by William GillisYour Freedom Is My Freedom: The Premise Of Anarchism Sometimes words are just words — interchangeable and discardable — but sometimes a word belies a knot in our...
View ArticleA Response to “Beyond Bash the Fash”
originally published on It's Going DownThis is a response to the IGD podcast, “Beyond Bash the Fash.” I want to state clearly that I encourage people to listen to the podcast and I not only enjoyed the...
View ArticleReturn to Post-Anarchism
From Ding PolitikI believe that scholars of anarchist theory have misunderstood the innovation of post-anarchist theory. Post-anarchism began as a critique of some of the presuppositions of traditional...
View ArticleAnarchists Failed Philando Castile and They Have Failed Black Americans
From Gods and Radicals by Dr. BonesWhen I put two rituals in my book to hex the police some people said I had gone too far. I had to talk with a team of editors about possible re-writes, had to discuss...
View ArticleEmbracing the Antinomies
From C4SS by Shawn P. WilburThis piece is the twelfth essay in the June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium: “Anarchy and Democracy.” It is written partially in reply to this contribution by Gabriel...
View ArticleBeing the subMedia
From Mask MagazineFrank Lopez aka “The Stimulator” has been making explosive anarchist videos since the early 2000s. Together with his collective subMedia.TV, he recently launched the new documentary...
View ArticleTaking on the G8 in Scotland, July 2005: A Retrospective
From CrimethInc.In 2005, when the rulers of the eight most powerful countries in the world gathered in Scotland, capitalism seemed invincible and eternal. Most protesters limited themselves to begging...
View ArticleIndividualist Anarchism vs. Social Anarchism
From C4SS by Wayne PriceThis piece is the fifteenth essay in the June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium: “Anarchy and Democracy.” It is written in reply to this contribution by Grayson English.This C4SS...
View ArticleAn apology for communism: The invisible committee’s Now
From AutonomiesI am large, I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman, Leaves of GrassThe real problem is not that of restoring a Marxist or Leninist or Maoist truth, nor that of remaking an organisation with...
View ArticleWhat’s a Justin Trudeau? On Canadian Nationalism and Social Peace for...
From nocanada.infoLike most people, I don’t pay much attention to Canadian politics. This is true even of those of us who live in the territory it controls. Especially these days, with an evil clown in...
View ArticleCultural Terrorism: Poetic Potential for Subversion
from https://radicalartreview.com/2017/07/06/cultural-terrorism-poetic-potent...By Julian Langer“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs” Guy DebordIn The Revolution of...
View ArticleFree Speech, Democracy, and “Repressive Tolerance”
From Anarkismo by Wayne PriceThere has recently been controversy on the Left over "free speech" for right-wingers (not necessarily fascists). Should it be supported or physically opposed? Some leftists...
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