Category Archives: Commentary

black anarchism

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. James Baldwin, Down at the Cross The Anarchist movement in North America is overwhelmingly white, middle class, and for the most part, pacifist so the question … Continue reading

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COVID-1984: Power, control and the struggle for freedom

From antimidia (brazil) posted with koletiva.media … The struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic has been used by different governments to implement a variety of means of social control and to increase the powers of the police. Yes, the threat of … Continue reading

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Mutual Aid in Cape Town

Mutual aid is a response to crisis born within the cracks of regimes of State-Capital. It is also that which allows the creation of ties and bonds, of social relations, outside commodity and spectacle mediation. It is that which can … Continue reading

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United States: Facing counter-insurgency in times of riots

Counterinsurgency: dousing the flames of Minneapolis Peter Gelderloos (Roarmag 04/06/2020) As people rise up against police violence and structural racism, what counterinsurgency techniques is the state deploying to attack and undermine the movement? The uprising that has spread across the … Continue reading

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From riot to revolution: Protest as self-defense and mutual aid

Reflecting on the protests following the murder of George Floyd and as an historical example of mutual aid in African-American political history, a moment from the history of the Black Panther Party.

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Racism, from Minneapolis to Portugal

(https://www.instagram.com/olhosesfomeados/) On racism … Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be … Continue reading

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Against police violence, revolution

From the CrimethInc. Collective (31/05/2020), a reflection on a question that has so often been raised in the past, and that reappears again in the wake of the George Floyd police murder in Minneapolis … What Will It Take to … Continue reading

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A.C.A.B.: A Manifesto

MANIFESTO AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE / PUSSY RIOT x LASTESIS This manifesto is co-written and co-performed byfeminists from Mexico, Chile and Russia. We unite ourforces to stop police violence. In solidarity we trust.Pussy Riot x LASTESIS. PART 1. LASTESIS a feminist … Continue reading

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Solidarity With The Rebels In Minneapolis

An anonymous contribution to the understanding of a rebellion, posted on It’s going down (28/05/2020) … The Following Editorial Looks At The Recent Revolt In Minneapolis In The Context Of Both The COVID-19 Pandemic And The Overall Social War In … Continue reading

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Tomás Ibáñez: Anarchism as a way of life

A new way of life, not a new faith…. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist To speak of anarchism as a way of life, as an ethics, takes us to difficult questions about what it is to be, to act, as an anarchist. And … Continue reading

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