Prefigurative Politics, Catastrophe, and Hope
From Crimethinc - by Uri GordonDoes the Idea of “Prefiguration” Offer False Reassurance?Anarchists such as David Graeber and Cindy Milstein have used the term “prefigurative politics” to describe the...
View ArticleIs The Revolution Your Religion?
by Dr. Bones, via Gods and Radicals“The mass of ordinary Germans did know about the evolving terror of Hitler’s Holocaust, according to a new research study. They knew concentration camps were full of...
View ArticleA Suggestion
From Act for Freedom!A translation in English of the article “une suggestion”, appearing on the latest avis de temepetesChatter makes one blind. It blows up the last bridges that still remain between...
View ArticleA Critique of the Nomadic Hunter / Gatherer Ideal
Source: The Wild Will ProjectContradictions in the ReasoningTed Kaczynski (TK) suggests a nomadic hunter/gatherer (NHG) ideal, because, he claims, a movement needs a positive ideal as much as it needs...
View ArticleA Critique of the Concept of "Leftism"
Source: The Wild Will ProjectNote: Here I will not completely explain the concept of "leftism" as Ted Kaczynski uses it. Readers of this essay should instead refer to "Industrial Society and Its...
View ArticleA Critique of the Concept of "the System"
Source: The Wild Will ProjectTed Kaczynski (TK) repeatedly writes that a revolutionary movement needs an enemy. Variously he names the enemy as “modern technology,” “the industrial system,” “the...
View ArticleIs Elon Musk an Anarchist? More like a Libertarian Lenin
by William Gillis, via C4SSElon Musk is trolling on twitter. A celebrity billionaire wasting his time making inane provocations would hardly be worthy of note but in the process Musk has declared that...
View ArticleSince 2012
by FauvenoirIt can be safely assumed that around the year 2011, we've seen a worldwide momentum of anarchist insurgency. Perhaps we could talk about a 4-years period, or maybe even 7 or 8, that started...
View ArticlePositively Quila Street
From Fifth EstateLima anarchist scene survives official clean up by Bill Weinberg Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018When Lutxo Rodríguez recalls the local punks and social outcasts of the downtown Lima,...
View ArticleI Am Action: Praxedis Guerrero, 1882-1910
From Black Rose Anarchist FederationCourtesy of AK Press and editor/translator Javier Sethness-Castro, we share part of the introduction to the forthcomingI Am Action: Literary and Combat Articles,...
View ArticleDefying Power
From C4SS by Peter GelderloosDifferent Views on How Best to Understand the Evolution of the State (Part II)In Part I of this article, I responded to William Gillis’ review of Worshiping Power: An...
View ArticleAnarchism is movement: Tomás Ibáñez (1)
From AutonomiesWith this post, we begin the publication of an english language translation of Tomás Ibáñez essay, “Anarchism is movement: Anarchism, neoanarchism and postanarchism” (2014). Among our...
View ArticleDispatch from Occupy ICE Philly
via Radical Education Departmentby Arthur BurbridgeIntroOn July 2nd, a coalition of groups in Philadelphia occupied the local ICE office. In what follows I offer a few quick sketches of the occupation....
View ArticleOne Hand Clapping for Kanye West
From The Anvil Review - by Alex GorrionNow that the controversy and indignation over Kanye West's early May comment has been forgotten and replaced by a dozen other moral outrages, each evidently so...
View ArticleCan anarchists give Trump the welcome he deserves?
via Freedom NewsEver since Trump became President of the USA there’s been the prospect of him visiting the UK and the chance for direct action. Anarchist organising is not what it was in London just a...
View ArticleThe State Against Climate Change: Response to Christian Parenti
via Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negrap>A response to Christian Parenti’s assertion that the state is the only way to meet the challenge of the climate crisis.By BRRN...
View ArticleA Handful of Objections
From The Local KidsA Response to a Proposal for DesertionThis is a jotted-down reflection of some thoughts triggered by the reading of An Invitation to Desertion by Bellamy Fitzpatrick; the first...
View Article'The Invention of the Tribe' (English version from Return Fire vol.5)
Translated for Return Fire vol.5 (https://anarchistnews.org/content/online-release-return-fire-vol5) from the French-language anti-civilisation journal La Mauvaise Herbe, Volume 12 no.1. Appears on...
View ArticleAn anarchist report back and some embedded critiques of #OccupyICE Philadelphia
via Philly Anti-CapitalistOriginally published by Philly Anti-Capitalist (Zine in PDF format). Written by some anarchists.REPORT BACK AND SOME EMBEDDED CRITIQUESThe beginning of OccupyICE Philly...
View ArticleOccupy ICE Portland: Policing Revolution?
via Crimethinc.We’ve received the following report from participants in the occupation around the Portland facilities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). While our collective has no official...
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