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...
View ArticleNever 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,...
View ArticleTake 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleBonds 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...
View ArticleSmall 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...
View ArticleFascism, 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePopular 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleNothing 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,...
View ArticleReview: 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe “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...
View ArticleDecolonize 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...
View ArticleWould 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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