Category Archives: Commentary

Lucio Urtubia: An anarchist life

Anarchism has historically been essentially comprised of those who sought to live a world without authority and exploitation.  The forms that this desire took, and continue to take, have varied greatly ideologically, organisationally, practically.  The desire though has remained constant; … Continue reading

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Wassyla Tamzali: The “arab spring”, feminism and islam

Encounters between feminism and islam, in the wake of the arab spring, are the themes of an interview given by the algerian lawyer and feminist activist Wassyla Tamzali to the spanish newspaper, Periódico Diagonal (03/06/2016).  Whatever differences we may have … Continue reading

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Scenes from the class struggle in spain

The protagonists of class struggles are many, as are the stages upon which they are enacted and re-enacted.  What defines them is not historically pre-determined; revolutionaries and reactionaries playing out the assigned roles of objective social contradictions are all fictions … Continue reading

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Breaking up the european union

The british referendum to quit the european union, driven by populist nationalism, racism, xenofobia; a referendum organised by a right-wing political party and imagined by all others;  the fantasy of substituting one authoritarian capitalism by yet another more vile: none … Continue reading

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From Crimethinc: The democracy of the reaction, 1848-2011

With the Crimethinc. collective’s series on democracy in the background, which we have been sharing, a complementary article has been recently posted, authored by b. traven, which  again we believe merits consideration.

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Nuit Debout: Interventions by the revolutionary erotic committee

We believe, without any doubt, that it is when each anonymous being gains consciousness of her/his pure potential and capacity to act, it is then when the wheel of dissidence begins to turn. It is then that it is unstoppable.  … Continue reading

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The intangibility of anarchy

Anarchism as non-substantive, as something not reducible to a completed ideology, or organisation; anarchism not as a closed space to be defended, protected against an outside; anarchism as no-thing, as the refusal of any sovereignty; anarchy rather than anarch-ism; in … Continue reading

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Reclaiming life in insurrection

Je me révolte, donc nous sommes. Albert Camus, L’Homme révolté What follows below is a rich reflection on insurrection originally published in Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, N° 70/71 and 72/73 (04/06/2016).  The essay, authored by Lupus Dragonowl and entitled … Continue reading

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Undercommoning within, against and beyond the university-as-such

We share below a text from The Undercommoning Collective against the contemporary neoliberal-capitalist university, originally published with Roarmag (05/06/2016).  The Collective is an evolving network of radical organizers within, against and beyond the neoliberal, (neo)colonial university, presently concentrated in North … Continue reading

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Nuit Debout: To live the commune – To live the revolt

Nuit Debout in Paris and elsewhere in france continues to occupy public squares, after now two months.  The “movement’s” resilience testifies to agencies and virtues that are quickly passed over or ignored by far too many.  This is of course … Continue reading

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