Tag Archives: anti-capitalism

Mutual Aid Isn’t a Handout — It’s a Framework for Resistance

The co-directors of a new docuseries offer their theory of change for transcending capitalism and the state. by Ella Fassler, Truthout, August 16/08/2026 After neighbors took care of neighbors during the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of mutual aid suddenly catapulted into the … Continue reading

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After July

From Ill Will 13/08/2026 The following article was published anonymously on August 11, 2026. It aims to articulate a position, at once ethical and strategic, in response to the mass sabotage of a construction site in Italy’s Susa Valley on … Continue reading

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Martin Sostre: Follow the Principles that Won My Freedom

The following speech, “Follow the Principles that Won My Freedom,” was delivered by Sostre in 1976 shortly after his release from prison and offers a message of revolutionary optimism about how collective action can succeed—as it did for him—in freeing … Continue reading

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Susan Buck-Morss: Planetary Politics Now

We are at the end of the era of neo- and post-. No neoliberalism, no postcolonialism. Only a planetary imagination, propagated trans-locally, will move us forward. Verso Books Blog (23/07/2026) The meteoric speed with which planetary realities expose themselves today … Continue reading

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Élisée Reclus: To My Brother the Peasant

In 1873, Reclus wrote an article entitled “Quelques mots sur la propriété” for L’Almanach du peuple. He later revised and expanded it, publishing it as a pamphlet under the title A mon frère le paysan (1899). In his “Biographie d’Elisée Reclus” in Les … Continue reading

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Hands Off Prosfygika: Eviction Threat Sparks Hunger Strike and Mass Mobilization

From Unicorn Riot, by Camilla Donzelli (02/04/2026) Athens, Greece — On March 14, more than 4,000 people joined a march organized by the Community of Squatted Prosfygika, a historic occupation in Athens now facing an eviction threat due to a … Continue reading

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The Christmas spectacle

From Freedom News (07/12/2025) Radical Reprint: The Christmas spectacle A curmudgeonly anarchist Christmas rejoinder is in some ways truer now than it was forty-five years ago punkacademic The 8 December 1980 edition of Freedom led with a bold call to action—BOYCOTT CHRISTMAS! … Continue reading

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Mario Tronti: Towards a Critique of Political democracy

Democracy has problems with freedom. if it is true that real democracy is configured as liberal-democracy and that in the end this has been the winning solution, it is precisely  this  conjunction,  binding  together freedom  (or  liberty)  and  democracy,  that … Continue reading

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For Paolo Virno (1952-2025)

Héctor Pávon: For you, what is the meaning of the word revolution today? Paolo Virno: Perhaps we could do without the word revolution because this model was that of taking power and constructing a new State. It may be better … Continue reading

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Counter-Utility: Ideas for avoiding the trap of useful things

A reflection on the necessary uselessness of radical thought-practice, published with Lobo suelto! (11/08/2025) Produce or die is the motto of the West. Pierre Clastres They want to force us to govern, but we will not fall for that provocation. … Continue reading

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