Category Archives: Commentary

Mike Davis: The Fire Boom

From the Verso books blog. Mike Davis’s essay on LA as a locus of ecological destruction, taken from his classic work Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Mike Davis (14/01/2025) In this excerpt from Mike Davis’s classic … Continue reading

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Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi: Introduction to the Twenty-First century

From Freedom News (10/01/2025). Agents of chaos and agents of the automaton in the horizon of mutation A South African racist named Elon Musk, whom newspapers call the richest man in the world, recently earned another, more interesting, nickname: “an … Continue reading

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The indomitable anarchist of the Iron Column

We say to all workers, revolutionaries, and anarchists: at the front and in the rear, wherever you are, fight against the enemies of your liberties, destroy fascism. And also stop, by the fruits of your endeavors, the return of a … Continue reading

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Remembering Louise Michel: “Now I have only the revolution left”

From Freedom News (09/01/2025) 120 years after her death, the hero of the Paris Commune continues to inspire Maurice Schuhmann In the Hôtel Oasis in Marseille, the French anarchist, feminist, and Communard Louise Michel passed away on January 9, 1905. … Continue reading

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Peter Gelderloos: There Is a Way Through This

From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos (09/01/2025) The Year Ahead in 2025 Peter Gelderloos There is a way through this. But we have to remember who actually cares for us, and who is responsible, who we can trust, and who … Continue reading

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A Nomos of the Stateless

The article that we publish below was generously shared with us by its author, Noah Brehmer, having been previously published with the Blind Field journal (31/12/2024). It is a reflection on Palestinian resistance as a challenge to territorial sovereignty. The … Continue reading

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Gaza as extermination camp

Part of our existence lies in the feelings of those near to us. This is why the experience of someone who has lived for days during which man was merely a thing in the eyes of man is non-human. Primo … Continue reading

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Guy Debord: Between theory and practice

The strength and the weakness of the real anarchist struggle resides in its viewing the goal of proletarian revolution as immediately present (the pretensions of anarchism in its individualist variants have always been laughable). From the historical thought of modern … Continue reading

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Duane Rousselle: Georges Bataille’s Post-anarchism

Pushing against the limits of anarchism, with George Bataille, as read by Duane Rousselle. [Source: The Anarchist Library] Abstract Post-anarchist philosophy has widely been regarded as an attempt to challenge the ontological essentialism of the traditional anarchist discourse. The problem … Continue reading

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Negativity and positivity in anarchism: An inextricable but contradictory duality

Tomás Ibáñez writes on the inherent (contradictory) duality of the anarchist imaginary and anarchist practice, from Redes Libertarias (05/12/2024). When I opened the computer to start writing this text, I was tempted to title it: “In Fiery Praise of the … Continue reading

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