Questioning rape.
Questioning Rapeby AnonymousComing To TermsHow do you begin to say, “I think we’ve been going about this all wrong?” How do you get out of a dead-end without going in reverse?It seems like in the last...
View ArticleOccupy: Democracy versus Autonomy
from CrimethInc.The story goes that the very first gathering of Occupy Wall Street began as an old-fashioned top-down rally with speakers droning on—until a Greek student (and perhaps—an anarchist?)...
View ArticleThe End is a Good Start: Activism in the Context of Collapse
By Kevin Tucker from Earth First! Journal, Winter 2015-16Let’s be honest, Earth First!. Despite the fact that the green anarchist and Earth First! worlds have always run parallel to each other, and...
View ArticleA New Vision or a New Reformism?
From Anarkismo by Wayne Priceworkers' democracy from the perspective of revolutionary eco-anarchismThere is a new approach on the U.S. Left, which rejects both capitalism and state socialism. In...
View ArticleThere Never Was a West
From The Anarchist Library by David GraeberOr, Democracy Emerges From the Spaces In Between What follows emerges largely from my own experience of the alternative globalization movement, where issues...
View ArticleSome Unimaginative Anarchists Think the May Day Smashfest Is Going to Be Awesome
By Ansel HerzRiot porn is how some Seattle anarchists are promoting May Day, which is next Sunday:(VIDEO HERE) The anarchist march is set to begin at Westlake Park at 6 p.m."Let's smash these...
View ArticleAnarchism's Mid-Century Turn
Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century, By Andrew Cornell, University of California Press, 2016, 300 pages.Part OneTransitionsNo matter how one feels about it,...
View ArticleIs “Riot Privilege” ruining Seattle May Day marches?
ver since I moved to Seattle, I’ve avoided May Day affairs wholesale.Why? Most news coverage of May Day focuses on wanton violence by anarchists who want smash stuff and fight the police. More...
View ArticleFuck Everything About May Day in Seattle
by Ansel Herz Fuck El Comite.Fuck another tame immigrants rights march parade, organized by local group El Comite and welcomed by police, while the federal government maintains a for-profit gulag...
View ArticleRevolutionary Shop Stewards and Workers Councils in the German Revolution
If Ralf Hoffrogge were writing within an American context rather than a German one, he would be situated between two important developments in the United States. A new cohort of social movement...
View ArticleNihilism: A Lie In Service To The Existing
From Human IterationsTalking about nihilism, much less attempting to define and critique it, is an exhausting sort of task, akin to talking to a mischievous toddler who has learned some empty...
View ArticleWild Reaction responds to “Destruye las prisiones”
The following article is an English translation of a text by Reacción Salvaje [Wild Reaction] from February 26, 2015 and constitutes an important contribution with regards to the development and...
View Article“A discussion from the future”…
or, “imprisoned anarchists and intermediate claims (university studies with electronic surveillance, licenses, suspensions)’ by Christos Tsakalos of CCF/FAI-IRFThey say, in prison, that the most...
View Article"Gotovo je!" Reflections on Direct Democracy in Slovenia
From CrimethInc. blogThis is part of our series exploring the role of democracy in the struggles of the past decade.Cold winter night. The smells of smoke and pepper spray are mixing in the air. From...
View ArticleBorn in Flames, Died in Plenums
From CrimethInc. blogComposed by comrades nearby in the Balkans, through repeated visits to Bosnia and ongoing dialogue with participants in the 2014 uprising, this text is part of a series exploring...
View ArticleChallenging the Nation State in Syria
Syria's current borders were drawn up by imperial map makers a hundred years ago in the midst of World War I as part of a secret accord between France and Britain to divide the Mideast spoils of the...
View ArticleBut What The Fuck Is May Day?
https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/but-what-the...In the 1880s, U.S. anarchists, socialists, and unions sidestepped the stale reform-versus-revolution debate by fighting for...
View ArticleOn the Good Use of Anti-religious Racism
On the Internet in the spring of 2000, the first disinformation campaign aimed at giving credence to the idea of religious racism in Europe was developed. It made a strong contribution to the...
View ArticleRojava: reality and rhetoric
When people take matters into their own hands in order to survive, they open up the possibility of social change.What has been going on in Rojava since 2012 is an attempt at social change, notably...
View ArticleRojava: Democracy and Commune
From CrimethInc. blogIn the latest installment in our series exploring the anarchist critique of democracy, guest author Paul Z. Simons offers us a meditation on revolutionary forms of organization....
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