Category Archives: Commentary

Memory and History: On the Poverty of Remembering and Forgetting the Judeocide

From the Verso Books Blog (19/06/2026) On what would have been Arno Mayer’s 100th birthday, we’re republishing Arno Mayer’s Memory and History, an expanded speech defending his practice of history, featured as afterword to Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

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Gays, Crazies, and Motherfuckers: Anarchists in the Stonewall Uprising

From the CrimethInc. collective (17/06/2026) Towards a Queer History of Riots and Affinity Group Organizing What can today’s rebels learn from the Stonewall riots? Why did the uprising have such an impact? To answer these questions, we explore the previously … Continue reading

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The Revolution Nationalists Cannot Join

From Ill Will (21/06/2026) In this conversation, Ralf Ruckus talks to Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020), about the emergence of nation states, the construction of the “migrant,” the role … Continue reading

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Under the starry sky, a summer’s night; Reflections on anarchy and revolution

Pascal once said, in his magnificent style: “The universe is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”[1] Could there be a more striking image of infinity? After him, let us say, a little more precisely: the universe … Continue reading

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Virgilia D’Andrea: The poet anarchist

We alone are the vehicle for our Idea, and only through our work will it one day become an indispensable part of life.[1] Virgilia D’Andrea Before the myriad torments of the world – of poverty, slavery, hunger, imprisonment, torture, murder … Continue reading

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Sabina Guzzanti: How Tiring Democracy Is!

Embrace diversity.Unite-Or be divided,robbed,ruled,killedBy those who see you as prey.Embrace diversityOr be destroyed. Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower We propose to risk making a statement of the basic and interrelated principles of anarchism (basic principles from which all … Continue reading

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Agustín García Calvo: Socrates’ despair for us

Socrates: At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and … Continue reading

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Israel’s Long War on Lebanon

From the CrimethInc. collective (14/05/2026) A Joint History of the Zionist and Lebanese Entities In the following analysis, Ayman Makarem of the From the Periphery media collective reviews a century of colonial violence in Palestine and Lebanon to illuminate the current Israeli … Continue reading

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Ben Morea in Exarchia

From the CrimethInc. collective (13/05/2026) A Eulogy and Paean to Freedom Ben Morea has passed away. Known for his participation in Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the self-styled “street gang with an analysis” active in the Lower East Side of Manhattan … Continue reading

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The continuing necessity of Black anarchism

We can work with others, but we must be able to speak for ourselves Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, Freedom News, 17/05/2026 I have identified myself as an anarchist since 1969 when I met Martin Sostre, a well-known Black political prisoner and … Continue reading

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