Anarchist Organisation – Practice as Theory Actualised
by AnarchoAnarchist Writers 5/05/2016“organisation, that is to say, association for a specific purpose and with the structure and means required to attain it, is a necessary aspect of social life. A...
View ArticleBook Review: Unruly Equality: US Anarchism in the 20th Century by Andrew Cornell
Unruly Equality: US Anarchism in the 20th Century. Andrew Cornell. University of California Press. 2016.In Unruly Equality: US Anarchism in the 20th Century, the US anarchist and educator Andrew...
View ArticleA Socialist On City Council: A Look At The Career Of Kshama Sawant
By Michael Reagan Black Rose FederationThe case of Kshama Sawant shows that no matter how good the candidate, business as usual rules in elected office.This article is part of an ongoing series called...
View ArticleRojava: Democracy and Commune
CrimethInc blog May 19th, 2016In 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...
View ArticleSur negro / No Borders: new antiauthoritarian Web Series goes live
1st Season: social struggles in the USAThe Anarchist Radio Berlin presents the "No Borders" project of the video collective "Sur Negro"!'No Borders, Social Struggles across the world' (Sin Fronteras,...
View ArticleThe Democracy of the Reaction, 1848-2011
by b. traven Jun 23rd, 2016 CrimethIncWhat harm could possibly come of using the discourse of democracy to describe the object of our movements for liberation? We can answer this question with a fable...
View ArticleDemocracy: The Patriotic Temptation
by CrimethIncIn this installment in our series exploring the anarchist critique of democracy, guest author Uri Gordon discusses the attractions and risks of democratic discourse.Like most political...
View ArticleThe Economics of Anarchy
by Robert GrahamAfter a bit of a break, I’m continuing with the installments from the “Anarchist Current,” the Afterword to Volume Three of my anthology of anarchist writings from ancient China to the...
View ArticleElectoral politics is not a gateway drug
By Scott JayLibcom.org July 13, 2016Rather than leading to more militant and radical forms of resistance, electoral politics typically leads only to more electoral politics.In what should be a surprise...
View ArticleKropotkin (and Malatesta and Lenin) on war
By Anarcho Anarchist Writers July 12, 2016Well, the UK has – narrowly – voted to leave the EU. It was, in many ways, two-fingers to a system (neo-liberalism) which has failed so many across the UK –...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky on Anarchism, Communism and Revolutions
By C.J. Polychroniou TruthoutAs global capitalism, with neoliberalism being a necessary accompaniment, has covered now the entire globe, it is extremely useful to revisit some of the great radical...
View ArticleAnarchism for a Mainstream Audience
by Logan Glitterbomb Center for a Stateless Society July 14th, 2016If anarchism is to get anywhere as a movement, it requires us to build the world we wish to see. To paraphrase the classic wobbly...
View ArticleAn Anarchist FAQ after 20 years
by AnarchoAnarchist Writers July 18, 2016It 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...
View ArticleAgainst all odds, village republics take hold in Syria
by Robin Yassin-Kassab The National July 25, 2016You may think Syrians are condemned to an unpleasant choice between Bashar Al Assad and the jihadists. But the real choice being fought out by Syrians...
View ArticleFighting 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...
View Article“Anarcho-capitalism,” “Free Markets,” Jumbo Shrimp, and Other Oxymorons
by Tools of ControlLately, I have been having endlessly frustrating debates with people who call themselves “anarcho-capitalists” or “ancaps” and who seem to be stuck in the McCarthy Era as they still...
View ArticlePolicing as Counterinsurgency: An Interview with Tom Nomad
From subMediasubMedia: Hey Tom, how the fuck are you?Tom Nomad: Good generally, and overjoyed that this convention nonsense is finally over. What many people from outside convention cities do not grasp...
View ArticleAnarcha-Feminisms
by Michelle Renee MatisonsAnarchist StudiesIn most anarchist circles it’s commonly acknowledged that North American anarchist ideas are underdeveloped. The good news is that things are looking up. The...
View Article8th Annual North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference — Call for Papers
By AK Press August 17, 2016 Call for Papers – North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN) The North American Anarchist Studies Network is currently seeking presentations for our eighth annual...
View Article100 in Anarchist Years
by Paul Messersmith-Glavin CounterPunch August 30, 2016 The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) has received applications for writing grants throughout various waves of organizing over the last two...
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