Category Archives: Commentary

Re-thinking our Thinking

There is a view sometimes found among anarchists, anti-authoritarians that racism, sexism, environmental destruction can be eradicated without undermining the essential aspects of capitalism: the development of markets requires the constant expansion of the number of buyers and a certain … Continue reading

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Testimonials from a revolution in Rojava

The Autonomies Collective has assumed no open position on the “Rojava Revolution” for reasons of ignorance. In the absence of consistent information on what is happening in the region, as well as its complexity, we have abstained from judging or … Continue reading

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To change everything: An anarchist appeal

We share below a post that appeared on anarchistnews.org, regarding an initiative from the anarchist group crimetheInc to diffuse, spread, the ideas of anarchism.  The written and video material are excellent and in solidarity, we reproduce the gesture.

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Charlie Hebdo Reaction Spectacle

The following comments are meant to situate the popular reactions to the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo within the overall defensive mechanisms our societies use to keep themselves together. To do this I will be approaching the issue in a … Continue reading

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Laughing with Charlie Hebdo

We vomit on all these people who suddenly say they are our friends. Bernard Holtrop The killings at Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere, over the course of the last week in france, have become spectacle, culminating in the multitudinous demonstrations throughout … Continue reading

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There is no god in any language

the sacred as violence against thought: god and the sacred inverted ideals of fear and helplessness are projected to the skies as a psychotic formation. religion is thought that fears itself. as weapons overcome the body, the sacred overcomes the … Continue reading

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Forms of politics: Anarchism and organisation

S’organiser n’a jamais voulu dire s’affiler à la même organisation. S’organiser, c’est agir d’après une perception commune, à quelque niveau que ce soit. Dormir, se battre, manger, se soigner, faire la fête, conspirer, débattre, relèvent d’un seul movement vital.  La … Continue reading

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Rethinking Anarchism: Carlos Taibo (4)

The following is a translation of “Chapter 4” of Carlos Taibo’s Rethinking Anarchy: Direct Action, Self-Management, Autonomy (La Catarata, Madrid, 2013).  We have already translated and posted the “Prologue” and the “Chapter 1″ of this work (Click here), “Chapter 2” … Continue reading

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Rethinking Anarchism: Carlos Taibo (3)

The following is a translation of “Chapter 3” of Carlos Taibo’s Rethinking Anarchy: Direct Action, Self-Management, Autonomy (La Catarata, Madrid, 2013).  We have already translated and posted the “Prologue” and the “Chapter 1″ of this work (Click here) and “Chapter … Continue reading

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With a little help from my friends

Je est un autre. Rimbaud Friendship, this relationship without dependency, without scenes, yet full of life’s simplicity, implies an acknowledgement of mutual strangeness that does not allow us to speak of our friends but only to them, not turn them into subjects of conversation … Continue reading

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