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It is Time to Kiss the Earth Again

“We can never recover an old vision, once it has been supplanted. But what we can do is to discover a new vision in harmony with the memories of old, far-off, far, far-off experience that lie within...

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An Anarchist FAQ after 20 years

From anarchist writersIt is now 20 years since An Anarchist FAQ (AFAQ) was officially launched and six years since the core of it was completed (version 14.0). Its has been published by AK Press as...

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VOID NETWORK "On the tragic and the farcical of the British referendum"

From Void Network“The parliamentary regime leaves everything to the decision of majorities; how shall the great majorities outside parliament not want to decide? When you play the fiddle at the top of...

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Trump and the Legacy of the Anti-Globalization Movement

From Agency: An anarchist project by B. Traven (CrimethInc.)Really, Mr. Trump, it’s been surprising to hear some of the language you’ve been using in your Presidential campaign: globalization is a bad...

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Topic of the Week: The Politics of Personal Responsibility and Anarchism

The politics of personal responsibility has been around for a few decades now. What first was a tense term, mostly used as an insult by the right, of politically correct has morphed into a mainstream...

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Fighting for the future: The necessity and possibility of national political...

From Black Rose Anarchist FederationThis essay is an argument for moving towards national organization in the United States and was published in April 2013 during the opening of the process that led to...

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Primitivism and the "Regressive Left"

Among the weak arguments against Progress, there is the peculiar case of dominant ideologies hosting factions that reject it in the name of dominant values. The so-called “regressive left” is an...

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Making sense of the 2016 summer of terror

From Al JazeeraBoth anarchist violence of the past century and ISIL today have sought to bring radical change to the global order.How does one connect the murder of a French priest, Jacques Hamel, in...

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Building a revolutionary anarchism

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation by Colin O’Malley This article speaks on the failures of the anarchist movement to grow, despite numerous social movements, and how models of anarchist political...

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Whither anarchy: ownness as a form of freedom

From The Conversation - by Saul NewmanThis article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking...

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Anarcha-Feminisms

From Anarchist Studies - by Michelle Renee MatisonsIn most anarchist circles it’s commonly acknowledged that North American anarchist ideas are underdeveloped. The good news is that things are looking...

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Warlike: A review of Black and Green Review No. 3

from Desde el instinto original in SpanishBlack and Green Review is a U.S magazine that is the most recent project of John Zerzan and Kevin Tucker. Mr. Zerzan needs no introduction in anti-civ circles...

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A Gang of Individuals Against Totality

All too often anarchism as a movement and a discourse is oriented towards collectivist ideology. I mean this in a literal sense of an ideology. Much of what is called anarchism seems to be more of a...

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Violence, Counter-Violence, and the Question of the Gun

Devon Douglas-Bowers and Colin Jenkins In June 2016, the Democrats had a sit-in on the House floor to push for gun legislation that had been blocked. It has been noted by numerous writers the myriad of...

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I Apologize In Advance: Anarchism, the Occult, and Identity Politics

From Gods and RadicalsI apologize in advance.I know there are two ways to read this article and two very different types of people who will respond to it. One’s going to get it and the other is going...

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The Olympics: a reflection of society under capitalism

The Olympic games are here again and while it’s sold to us a demonstration of peace and solidarity and the finest humans have to offer, it is often anything but that. In fact, in many ways, it is a...

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Toward Savagery:

It was called the Chichimeca War, and it began near the moment of Hernan Cortes’s death (1547), symbolically closing the “first” conquest of Mexico. The new war, fought in the vast wilderness...

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A LETTER TO: “HALPUTTA HADJO”

Thank you much for your recent compiling of the Calusa record and for bringing to light in the anarchist/anti-civilization milieu yet another cultural adaptation which those of us resisting...

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Interpreting Insurrectionary Corpora: Qualitative-Quantitative Analysis of...

From Michael Loadenthal Qualitative-Quantitative Analysis of Clandestine CommuniquésIt is with great pleasure that I can announce the release of a new journal article. This article appears in the...

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A Statement in Support of September 9th from Anarchist Prisoner Sean Swain

From SeanSwain.org“Where the conditions for revolution are not present, they must be manufactured.” -George JacksonPrison officials recently placed Siddique Abdullah Hasan, a death row prisoner held at...

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