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Punk—Dangerous Utopia

From the CrimethInc. collective (13/12/2022). Punk—Dangerous Utopia Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism How did punk emerge out of the countercultures of the 1960s that it claimed to reject? Why did it play such a central role in the … Continue reading

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: A way of seeing, a way of living

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is … Continue reading

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Ukraine: Anarchists organising themselves in the face of war

The Lundi Matin collective in france has initiated a video news series dedicated to meeting and covering resistance movements around the world, to examine the reasons for engagement. We share their first report below. (For those unfamiliar with french – … Continue reading

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Staughton Lynd: Thinking history, doing politics, from below

What we are about is a new set of values, the practice of solidarity. Capitalism developed within feudalism as the practice of the idea of contract. What was imagined was a society in which free and equal members of civil … Continue reading

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In solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Today, outside this cell, I don’t know what is left of this project. After the disillusionment in the Val Susa struggle, many comrades should perhaps reflect on the need to better calculate one’s action and not lower it, but aim … Continue reading

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Anarchism for termites: A manifesto

For Bruno Latour (1947-2022) When we began to write this “Manifesto”, it was to compliment an earlier exercise in manifesto writing – A moss-like anarchist manifesto – and to continue the sceptical exercise of distilling images and concepts from parallel … Continue reading

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Brazil: Between election rounds

Reflections on the Brazilian elections and anarchism, from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation … Anarchism in the Face of Fascism and the Electoral Debate 05/10/2022 By Rafael V. Da Silva, Kauan Willian and Victor Khaled Translated by S Nicholas Nappalos … Continue reading

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B. Traven For Beginners

We share an excellent article dedicated to the remarkable life and work of the anarchist writer B. Traven, published at The Transmetropolitan Review (22/09/2022), in what may be called an act of remembering for our times … Reviews of my … Continue reading

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Chile: From Uprising to Plebiscite: Street Victories, Electoral Defeats

From the CrimethInc. collective (20/09/2022), sharing voices from chile … From Uprising to Plebiscite: Street Victories, Electoral Defeats – Perspectives from Chile on the Constitutional Plebiscite In October 2019, an uprising exploded throughout Chile. For a while, the police and … Continue reading

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Fritz Oerter: Violence or non-violence?

Before the horrors of the First World War and the violence unleashed by the new, post-war German republic against the revolution of 1919-20, the anarchist-syndicalist Fritz Oerter made an impassioned defence of what he called “non-violent socialism”. If for some … Continue reading

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