Category Archives: Commentary

10 years of neighbourhood anarchism: The FAGC

We translated and published our first post dedicated to the Federación Anarquista Gran Canaria in May of 2013. We have since tried modestly and from a distance to follow the remarkable activity of those who have made the Federación and … Continue reading

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Anarchy among india’s farmers: The story of an insurrection against the state

From the CrimethInc. collective (19/11/2021) … In the following report, Pranav Jeevan P1 explores the conflict between the farmers and the far-right government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the character of the movement that the farmers initiated, and the means by … Continue reading

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The “forgotten fight” for prison abolition in France

I am often asked — What reforms of prison I should propose; but now, as twenty-five years ago, I really do not see how prisons could be reformed. They must be pulled down. Peter Kropotkin, Prisons: Universities of Crime There … Continue reading

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Leo Tolstoy: Reading the ecological crisis as the sign of slavery

Electric lights and telephones and exhibitions are excellent, and so are all the pleasure-gardens, with concerts and performances, and all the cigars, and match-boxes, and braces, and motor cars, but they may all go to perdition, and not they alone, … Continue reading

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Solidarity with Gabriel Pombo da Silva and all anarchist prisoners

‘There is nothing to reform’ (words from Gabriel Pombo da Silvia via culmine, translated by war on society and published with the Anarchist Library): I am not so naive as to believe that what I am living here is something exceptional… and since “the … Continue reading

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For Albert Camus

I love beauty, happiness! That’s why I hate tyranny. How can I explain it to them? The revolution, of course! But a revolution for life, to give people a chance at life, understand? Albert Camus, The Just With rebellion, awareness … Continue reading

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The Legacy of Peter Kropotkin

Disorder is the blossoming of the most beautiful passions and the greatest of devotions, it is the epic of supreme human love. Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel Struggle! To struggle is to live, and the fiercer the struggle the … Continue reading

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Attica is all of us: 50 years after the rebellion

We are firm in our resolve and we demand, as human beings, the dignity and justice that is due to us by our right of birth. We do not know how the present system of brutality and dehumanization and injustice … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (VII)

(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) Beyond Kronstadt … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (VI)

(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) Kronstadt, an … Continue reading

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