From the CrimethInc. collective (10/02/2026)
Burmese Anarchists within and without the Revolution: An Interview
We present a interview with Htet Khine Soe, an activist who organized in Burma1 for more than 20 years before relocating to Mae Sot in Thailand at the end of 2021. The interview was carried out by Ban Ge, a Chinese anarchist who has come back and forth to Mae Sot and worked closely with Burmese activists after the coup.
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From Ill Will (13/02/2026), by anonymous authors
Yesterday, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, which brought several thousand ICE and CBP agents to the streets of Minnesota over the past few months. While this drawdown may appear as a victory in the sense that it was made possible by the scale and tenacity of the resistance, it can also be seen as a tactically advantageous retreat of an occupying force that had become mired in a battle that was spiraling out of control.
As with our previous article, the present text emerged from within the heat of that battle. It was first circulated in print format in the weeks immediately following the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal agents. While the compromise it foretold has indeed come to pass, it still holds value in warning against the temptation of returning to normal, and the consolidation of counter-revolutionary forces.
As the dust begins to settle on the situation, it is our hope that the text can contribute to a better understanding of how the “insurgency” unfolded, and what felt possible to certain participants within it.
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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 proceedings. When the police responded, gunfire erupted, with one officer reportedly being injured. Today, nineteen people—some of whom apparently neither participated in the demonstration nor set foot anywhere near the Prairieland Detention Center—are accused of “providing material support for terrorism” as well as rioting, carrying an explosive, firearms, attempted murder of a federal employee, and other charges. Eighteen of them remain in jail.
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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 as something like slavery and think of those of us opposing deportation as something like 19th century abolitionists. I talked about this a bit last time I was on Death Panel. If anything, I’ve only gotten more convinced that we in the US should think of ourselves as in a position analogous to the US in the 1850s, and think of the border and slavery as similar institutions. Among other things, I think it’s clarifying if we take things said about border enforcement and translate them into statements about slavery in the 1850s. Suppporting ICE is like supporting slave-catchers. Calling for opposition to stay civil is like saying be polite to slavers. And so on. I’ve written a short pamphlet getting into this in more detail and trying to explain how the border is a racist and racializing institution. The text of that is below. If anyone’s interested in a printable version, I made a primitive one using my very rudimentary abilities. That’s at this link tinyurl.com/borderpower along with the text as a text only file.
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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 from critical thought that were attuned to its own tenets and that were susceptible to nourish its theoretical and practical work. It was precisely this openness towards was elaborated around it, along with what emanated from its own struggle against domination, that prevented it from stagnating in petrified forms and allowed it to remain in permanent movement.
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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, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (1900)
Indeed, form-of-life, properly human life, is that which renders inoperative the specific works and functions of the living thing and causes them to, so to speak, idle, and in this way opens them up to possibility.
Giorgio Agamben, Pulcinella or, Entertainment for Kids in Four Scenes (2015)
What does it mean to you to be an anarchist?
It means, fuck you! To say, fuck you, to every authority.
from an interview with Philippe Gaulier
In Plato’s dialogue, the Symposium, we are presented with an image of Socrates as the absentminded philosopher, as someone who ignores social decorum by stopping to think, to reflect, seemingly oblivious to those about him, when etiquette presses.
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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 immediately after the eviction, a call circulated for a second major demonstration on January 31.
Newspapers report that 50,000 people took the streets. In Corso Regina Margherita, the street where the social center was located, clashes with the police continued for several hours. An armored vehicle went up in flames; videos circulated on social media showing a policeman who, left alone, was beaten by participants in the demonstration. In general, the march was characterized by an intensity of confrontation that is extraordinary in Italy today.
Something is changing in the Italian landscape. The pro-Palestinian movement that erupted in support of the flotillas that sailed for Gaza in fall 2025 drew millions of participants into the streets, including a new generation that had not previously participated in direct action. The events in Turin last month show that this momentum has not abated. While authoritarianism is gaining power all around the world, we are also seeing signs of ungovernable rage in the general population.
Here, we present a reflection on the demonstration of January 31 that recently appeared in Italian.
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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” upon which a specific legal and political order is built. According to Schmitt, who interpreted the Greek term nomos (Law) as a “land seizure”, the history of the nomos coincides, era after era, with that of the natural elements identified by Aristotle to explain the order of the cosmos. Thus, for a long time, the nomos of the land would predominate, based not only on “land seizure” but also on the configuration of the legal and political order over terrestrial space, leaving maritime space as res nullus. For Schmitt, from the Roman Empire to the Hispanic Empire opened up by the “discovery of the New World,” both were built upon the foundation of the terrestrial element.
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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 that shape the dominant social models—are structured on the basis of political domination, they are not, however, the majority relationships. The majority relationships are what we could call, in broad political terms, anarchist relationships; that is, relationships not mediated by command and obedience.
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Christian Laval: Total war as a neo-fascist mode of government
From the Verso Books Blog (03/02/2026)
Christian Laval, co-author of The Choice of Civil War, on the escalation of the neoliberal order through the Trump administration’s total war.
Trump is carrying out a protracted coup d’état right before our eyes, making his own contribution to the dismantling of liberal institutions and the rule of law. The US president is doing this through a continuous process, made up of abuses of power and transgressions of the legal order, all done in the name of an ‘emergency’, which itself corresponds to a civil-war logic. With ICE’s actions, the United States has, in fact, entered a new period of open civil war consciously waged by the federal government. We pointed toward these developments in our book, The Choice of Civil War. Indeed, the ingredients for this war had already arrived with the rise of neoliberalism. It is impossible to understand Trumpism if we detach it from the past, as some are tempted to do when they contrast the good-old multilateral neoliberalism, which supposedly respected the international order, with a bad new nationalist and imperialist capitalism that does not.
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