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Tomás Ibáñez: Anarchisms at the crossroads

Redes Libertarias (06/06/2026) Tomás Ibáñez’s essay, “Anarchism at the crossroads”, is an intervention in a debate in the Spanish anarchist milieu, but the controversy is neither uniquely Spanish nor novel. What kind of organisation does anarchist politics call for? Must … Continue reading

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Confessions of a communard: Meeting the people where they are

From Freedom News (09/07/2026) Our strategy for 2027 has been about visible grassroots initiatives which announce our presence Wren Albion At the end of 2026 A Commune in the North (ACitN… pronounced “a kitten”) became the focus of a ‘Live Project’, where … Continue reading

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Herbert Read: The philosophy of anarchism (1940)

Ts’ui Chii said to Lao Tzu, “You say there must be no government. But it there is no government, how are men’s hearts to be improved?” “The last thing you should do,” said Lao Tzu, “is to tamper with men’s … Continue reading

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The utopian dimension

Miquel Amorós Redes Libertárias, nº 5, Spring 2026/online 23/06/2026 It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and … Continue reading

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The new Palmer Raids

How Trump’s war on dissent borrows from America’s darkest playbook Joel Sucher, Freedom News (29/06/2026) History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes – and right now, the rhyme scheme is terrifyingly familiar. In the winter of 1919-1920, Attorney General A. … Continue reading

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Mikhail Bakunin: A vital, overflowing life

From Freedom News (01/7/2026) Marking 150 years since the death of the great revolutionary, whose vision of anarchism remains more relevant than ever Nikolay Gerasimov The political and cultural birth of Russian anarchism occurred at the turn of the 20th … Continue reading

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The highest expression of the organisation. Origin and development of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)

Julián Vadillo Muñoz From Redes Libertarias no. 5 (Spring 2026)/on line 11/06/2026 With a PhD in History from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Julián Vadillo Muñoz is a secondary school teacher and a professor of contemporary history at the … Continue reading

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The transatlantic war on freedom

From Freedom News (29/06/2026) Moving a box of zines can now get you 30 years in Trump’s America, echoing the UK’s crackdown on protest punkacademic On Tuesday, while England played Ghana in the World Cup, down in Texas nine people each … Continue reading

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Victory for Prosfygika!

From Freedom News (27/06/2026) Historical Athens squatting community saved from redevelopment after hunger strikes and popular campaign Gabriel Fonten The Prosfygika squatted community in Athens has declared victory in its struggle against redevelopment, publishing a statement on 25 June titled … Continue reading

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Alexander Berkman on prisons and abolition

From Freedom News (28/06/2026) His arguments are no less salient in the face of contemporary threats Søren Hough We often think of Alexander Berkman as one of the preeminent anarchist communist thinkers of his time. After all, he did write Now and … Continue reading

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