Tag Archives: anarchism

Geopolitics for 2024

We share a critical essay by Peter Gelderloos on the on the probabilities of state power or revolution (07/02/2024). Skip the first section if you want to go straight to the conflicts and changes I think we should be paying … Continue reading

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Breaking Borders: Report On Anarchist Organizing In Solidarity With Migrants In Chicago

A critical report, reflection, and analysis on anarchist organizing in Chicago, IL in solidarity with migrants, largely from Venezuela. (From It’s Going Down, 24/01/2024) A deepening economic crisis resulting from U.S. sanctions, colonial extractivism, and inter-imperial disputes has been fueling … Continue reading

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Rhiannon Firth: Disaster Anarchy

From Void Network (09/01/2024) … The growth of autonomous disaster relief efforts, grassroots anarchist initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, and collective responses to climate change, both in the UK and in the US. Written by Rhiannon Firth, author of Disaster Anarchy: Mutual … Continue reading

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Peter Gelderloos: Ecosystems of Revolt

From Ill Will (29/07/2022) … As the struggle to defend the Atlanta forest against the construction of a new police training facility stages its fourth week of action, we are publishing an excerpt from Peter Gelderloos’s recent book, The Solutions … Continue reading

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Leo Tolstoy and the resistance to war

A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced two men to years in prison for taking part in the recital of verses against the Ukraine campaign during an anti-mobilisation protest last year. Artyom Kamardin, 33, received a seven-year sentence for reciting a poem, and … Continue reading

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Catherine Malabou: Being an Anarchist

From Ill Will (23/12/2023) … The government of man by man (under whatever name it be disguised) is oppression. Society finds its highest perfection in the union of order with anarchy. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? (1840) The question I … Continue reading

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Ian Alan Paul: Anaesthetic Violence

Ill Will has published the second part of an earlier reflection on the current Israeli violence against Palestinians, by Ian Alan Paul, this time offering an analysis of the politics of death in Palestine. Both essays are excellent and as … Continue reading

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Argentina: “So-Called Neoliberalism and Its False Critics”

From the CrimethInc. collective (15/12/2023) … Argentine Anarchists on the Election of Javier Milei On December 10, the self-described “anarcho”-capitalist Javier Milei took office as president of Argentina, having campaigned on a promise to eliminate the Central Bank of Argentina … Continue reading

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After the Social Explosion: An Interview with the Anarchist Federation of Santiago

In the wake of the rejection by Chilean voters of the proposed “right-wing” constitution (17/12/2023) – the country’s second constitutional referendum in just over a year, with the previous referendum (04/09/2022) ending with the rejection of a “left-wing” constitution, thereby … Continue reading

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For Alfredo M. Bonanno (1927-2023)

Being an anarchist does not mean one has reached a certainty or said once and for all, ‘There, from now on I hold the truth and as such, at least from the point of view of the idea, I am … Continue reading

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