Category Archives: Commentary

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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People are fools

Why is there such complicity with the old Fascism and why such an acceptance of the new Fascism? Because there is – and this is the point – a guiding principle common to both, sincerely or insincerely: that is the … Continue reading

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‘The Mexican Question’ in the Cronaca Sovversiva

From The Transmetropolitan Review (01/05/2026) In the interests of fostering physical print media, the full pamphlet is only formatted for printing. Introduction The involvement of Italian anarchists in the Mexican Revolution of 1910 is a moment in history that remains obscure not … Continue reading

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: On Stupidity

Eichmann was not lago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III “to prove a villain.” Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had … Continue reading

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Anarchism and mysticism: anarchist ecology as respect for the earthly sacred

by Simón Royo Hernández Redes Libertarias, 19/04/2026 That man is just who is informed with and transformed into justice. Meister Eckhart, Sermon Fifty-Nine (Pf 59, Q 39, QT 25) I to myself would live,To enjoy the blessings that to Heaven … Continue reading

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