Category Archives: Commentary

The Road to Prairieland

From the CrimethInc. collective (13/02/2026) The Crackdown on Anti-ICE Activists in Texas Reflects a Pattern of Intensifying Repression On July 4, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility imprisoning immigrants facing deportation … Continue reading

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Nate Holdren: Against The Border Power

The article that follows was originally posted here, at buttondown.com (05/02/2026) and subsequently here, at libcom.org (10/02/2026). As I’ve mentioned a while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it … Continue reading

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Tomás Ibáñez: Some contributions to anarchism from contemporary critical thought

Holding to critical thinking in the turbulent waters of anarchism From Redes Libertarias, 27/01/2026 From the moment that political anarchism took its first steps in the second half of the 19th century, it has always been open to incorporating contributions … Continue reading

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For Philippe Gaulier (1943–2026): The anarchy of clowning

There is no pool … which has not some dead leaves floating on its surface, no human soul upon which there do not settle habits that make it rigid against itself by making it rigid against others … Henri Bergson, … Continue reading

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Basic Banalities Concerning the January 31 Demonstration in Turin

From the CrimethInc. collective (07/02/2026) Reflections on Conflict Following a Night of Street Fighting in Italy On December 18, 2025, police evicted the historic Askatasuna social center in Turin, which had been squatted since 1996. After an initial demonstration called … Continue reading

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Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The law of fire

From Ficción de la razón (21/01/2026) 1. In a short text dedicated to his daughter Anima entitled Land and Sea, the German jurist Carl Schmitt proposed the term nomos of the land to refer to the “original appropriation of space” … Continue reading

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The anarchic culture of the commons

By Regino Martínez, of the Montevideo based magazine, Anarquía The ground of a subversive collective imagination Let us begin with the obvious: in capitalism, common issues are rarely resolved by the people directly involved. While the hegemonic relationships in our society—those … Continue reading

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For Frank Fernández (1932–2026)

Cuba and the anarchists have a long history of the pursuit of freedom. The early labour struggles, the important contributions to Cuban independence from Spain, their protest against U.S. interventions, their critical attitudes toward social problems during the two republics, … Continue reading

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Phil A. Neel: Lies You Will Be Told

From Ill Will (25/01/2026) The frozen city is under siege. In the long cold winters at the heart of the Midwest the air can get so cold it hurts to breathe. Masked mercenaries in unmarked vehicles rove through the snowbanks, … Continue reading

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Daniel Colson: Reflections on anarchism

We share below an interview with Daniel Colson for the French magazine, Ballast (02/02/2015). Recently deceased, Colson’s philosophical readings of the anarchist tradition are among the most significant of the post-May 68 generation.

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