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Every Cook Can Abolish Governance, Part 3: Sobriety and Sabotage

by Lena Kafka, via Filler PGHFor the print-ready pdf of this zine, click HEREEvery Cook Can Abolish Governance (Part 1) can be read online hereEvery Cook Can Abolish Governance (Part 2) can be read...

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Never turn off the phone: A new approach to security culture

In the 80s, an anarchist who wanted, for example, to burn some building, developed his/her plan and at the same time looked to see if there were no listening devices in his/her house. In the late 90s,...

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Take Your Pick: Law or Freedom

From CrimethInc.We saw you last night among thousands of other anti-Trump demonstrators around the US. Their signs proclaimed, “No one is above the law.” You were the one with the sign reading “I love...

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A Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Imaginary Party

From The Transmetropolitan Reviewtl;dr: you don’t need or want the people who you know aren’t “with you” to be with you. really, you don’t -Wendy Trevino, Revolutionary Letter, 2018A Brief Introduction...

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In November We Remember Those Who Gave Everything

From Black Rose Anarchist FederationVeteran Tariq Khan reflects on the hollow legacy of Veterans Day and connects the history of November 11 to remembering those who fought for a better world.By Tariq...

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Bonds Not Ballots

via IT'S GOING DOWNAs another election year spectacle has come and gone, and as we inch closer to irreversible, cataclysmic shifts in our climate, we are reminded that our hope is in each other, in...

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Small is ugly: the uncomfortable anti-authoritarian micro-politics of...

via Freedom NewsThis text explores the problem of emergence of authoritarianism within groups on the radical left. It is based on the reflections of participants from the Occupy ICE activist camp that...

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Fascism, Ecology, and the Tangled Roots of Anti-Modernism

From It's Going Down by Edelweiss PiratesAnnouncing the release of a new green anarchist pamphlet from Edelweiss Pirates (authors ofOf Indiscriminate Attacks and Wild Reactions). The PDF for pamphlet...

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The Megamachines Are False Specters — A Response To Gelderloos

From C4SS by William Gillis November 26th, 2018I think it’s a shame that anarchists don’t write more on either geopolitics or analyses of the future; over the last two centuries our greatest successes...

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Popular Power In a Time of Reaction: Strategy for Social Struggle

via Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa NegraEditorial Note: This piece builds upon and updates the strategy and analysis document “Below and Beyond Trump” we released in late...

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The Anarchism of Blackness

From Anarkismo by Wayne PriceReview of Zoe Samudzi & William C. Anderson, “As Black as Resistance; Finding the Conditions for Liberation.”There are almost no books on anarchism and African-American...

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On the Gilets Jaunes: Dispatches from France

via communists in situThe following is a collaborative effort of translated analyses from France focused on the Gilets Jaunes movement between Agitations, Carbure, Otto Mattick & Ediciones...

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A Brief Note on the Yellow Vest Movement

via IT'S GOING DOWNThe Yellow Vest Movement presents something of a conundrum for anarchists. To quote The BBC, “It is quite clear there were agitators or “casseurs” at the sharp end of the clashes...

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Nothing to Syndicate: Against the Democracy of Work & the Work of Democracy

From IGD“We begin to see how Marxism suffers from a kind of conceptual anxiety. There is a desire for socialism on the other side of crisis, a society that does away not with the category of worker,...

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Review: Superintelligence — Paths, Dangers, Strategies

From C4SS by William GillisNo, no, no. What if we’re not doomed that way?Nick Bostrom is one of my favorite academic philosophers; beyond pairing rigor with audacity, he’s one of the few to grasp and...

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The Trial of Dr. Bones

From philobarbarasTo those who are annoyed that they can’t understand all the allusions, or who even admit that they have no idea of what I’m really getting at, I will merely reply that they should...

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The Shape of Anarchist History

From The Libertarian LabyrinthRetracing steps I took in my research 20-25 years ago is a fascinating and frequently rewarding experience, particularly now that I’m working with some figures who are...

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The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet

From infoshop.org by David Graeber (via La Monde, December 7th, 2018)If one feature of any truly revolutionary moment is the complete failure of conventional categories to describe what’s happening...

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Decolonize the Frontiers: The Mississippi Delta

From Black Rose Anarchist FederationBy BRRN Radical Ecology CommitteeCoastal Louisiana is home to 41% of the United States coastal wetlands and is the world’s seventh largest delta ecosystem. The...

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Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?

From NY Times by Todd MayThere are stirrings of discussion these days in philosophical circles about the prospect of human extinction. This should not be surprising, given the increasingly threatening...

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