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Category Archives: Commentary
Ghassan Salhab: Trompe-l’œil
From Lundi Matin #441, 02/09/2024. What if old words like ‘genocide’ (and why not ‘colonisation’) were false friends? What if the new technologies that subjugate our emotions when we think we’re expressing them were also betraying us? And what if … Continue reading
Not just sex: Talking about Alex Comfort with Eric Laursen
From Freedom News (30/08/2024). When I discovered the Freedom Press collection of Alex Comfort’s anarchist and anti-militarist writings, I’d already known him for 15 years as the author of The Joy of Sex. This pioneering couples’ manual, which featured ‘aesthetic’/’tasteful’ illustrations … Continue reading
Anti-war statement
From avtonom.org (29/08/2024). We have stated from the very start that the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 is an imperialist aggression of the Russian state. That is still true. Our position on the war … Continue reading
Through war, despotism and social change: Russia’s Anarchist Black Cross
From avtonom.org and Freedom News (30/08/2024). For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under Putin’s regime and their work during the … Continue reading
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Tagged anachism, anti-prison, call of solidarity, russia
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Colin Ward and Martin Buber: Society and the State
We return to Colin Ward through the work of Martin Buber, in parallel essays addressing the nature of and the relation between the State and Society. For both authors, the relation between the two – in Buber’s terms, the relation … Continue reading
Queer Wanderings through the Other Germany and the Anti-Nazi Underworld: An Invocation
From the CrimethInc. collective (19/08/2024). An Invocation The laws targeting queer and trans people that are proliferating across the United States are a symptom of a much deeper and more insidious reaction, the inevitable outgrowth of a deeply repressive and … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Cahun, Daniel Guérin, Guy Hocquenghem, Ian Young, LGBTQ+, Robert Desnos, Stefan George, Suzanne Malherbe, Walter Benjamin
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Colin Ward: Anarchism as anarchy
The important question is … not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society. Colin Ward, … Continue reading
Charlottesville, Revisited—2017 to 2024
From the CrimethInc. collective (11/08/2024). What Can a Moment of Peril Tell Us about Our Own Dangerous Times? Seven years ago, anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the “Unite the Right” rally. The organizers of the … Continue reading
Amedeo Bertolo: An apology for anarchism
In a 1983 article for Volontà that we share below, Amedeo Bertolo endeavoured to critically diagnose the anarchist movement of his time in a remarkably direct and lucid manner; a diagnoses which we may help us to see through our … Continue reading
Yellow Vests, One More Effort in Favor of the Living!
The NOT BORED! journal collective has once again generously shared with us their tireless work of translating situationist and situationist inspired texts, for which we are grateful. On this occasion, it is a very recent piece (July 2024) by Raoul Vaneigem, dedicated to … Continue reading →