Category Archives: Commentary

Lessons for Anarchists About the Ukraine War from Past Revolutions

We share a historical-political essay on the war in Ukraine, by Wayne Price, from the latest edition of the Black Flag Anarchist Review. Lessons for Anarchists About the Ukraine War from Past Revolutions Wayne Price (BlackFlag Anarchist Review Volume 3 … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Cherán, Mexico: Building self-governing autonomy

On April 15th, 2011, a popular uprising began in Cherán, involving a process of wagering on a system based on community self-government, communal goods and autonomy; no political parties, no police and no organized crime. What follows (in text and … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Thinking through anarcho-primitivism

Thus all you small landowners, whether isolated or joined in communes, are indeed weak against those who try to enslave you—the land grabbers who are after your small plot of land and the authorities who try to take all the … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

France: The desire for revolution

Every revolution begins when Society has outgrown the view of life on which the existing forms of social life were founded, when the contradictions between life such as it is, and life as it should be, and might be, become … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

A Coup d’État in Israel?

From the CrimethInc. collective (27/03/2023) … A Coup d’État in Israel?: The Bitter Harvest of Colonialism On Sunday, March 26, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister in an attempt to consolidate power over the country, precipitating spontaneous mass demonstrations. … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

France: Crowds against Pathology

From the Ill Will collective comes a translation of a short text by Josep Rafanell i Orra on the protests against pension reform in france (23/03/2023) … Crowds against Pathology That the president of any republic would invoke Gustave Le … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , | Leave a comment

France: The Movement against the Pension Reform

From the CrimethInc. collective (22/03/2023) … France: The Movement against the Pension Reform – On the Threshold of an Uprising? In France, a new surge of protest activity has erupted against the government of Emmanuel Macron in response to an … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Giorgio Agamben: Political power and anarchy

In a series of four short essays – in some sense, a summary of much more extensive earlier work -, Giorgio Agamben unveils the anarchy that lies at the centre of sovereign, political power, split between the constitution/state and the … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Édouard Jourdain: The savage and the political

Over a series of video recorded interviews, the lundimatin collective has recently engaged with a number of writers to explore the relationships between philosophy, anthropology and anarchism. The series began with Catherine Malabou and her critical reflection on the fragility … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Annie Le Brun: For a communism of darkness

A secret harmony exists between the earth and the peoples whom it nourishes, and when reckless societies allow themselves to meddle with that which creates the beauty of their domain, they always end up regretting it. In places where the … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary | Tagged | Leave a comment