Tag Archives: united states

Is there a future for Anarchism in America?

From Freedom News (17/08/25) The co-producer of the landmark documentary film reflects on its legacy amid today’s challenges Joel Sucher Anarchism in America is the title of a documentary produced way back in 1980; a time when the world was a … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, Film | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Picking Fights

A grounded reflection on “anarchist ways” from the Seattle Solidarity Network, published with CrimethInc. (10/07/2025) Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network In the following reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have learned in … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Victor Artola: Los Angeles, or the End of Assimilation

From Ill Will (14/06/2025) As we entered the fifth month of the second Trump era, the explosive social movements that marked the close of the 2010s seemed like a distant memory. The fifth anniversary of the burning of the Third … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Fire and Ice: Lessons from the Battle of Los Angeles

An anonymous text, published at Ill Will (14/06/2025) A printable zine version can be downloaded here. I think I’ll stay on this earthquake fault near this still-active volcano in this armed fortress facing a dying ocean & covered w/dirt while … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Don’t Let LA Stand Alone: A Message to the Gathering Resistance

From It’s going down, 13/06/2025 Over the past week, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Los Angeles, fighting to defend their neighborhoods and family members from ICE, facing off with the National Guard to demand those imprisoned … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

New Order?

From Side Car/New Left Review (10/04/2025) New Order? Steve Maher & Scott Aquanno On 2 April, Donald Trump announced the imposition of sweeping tariffs on countries across the world, hitting allies and enemies alike with massive trade barriers, in what amounted to … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged | Leave a comment

Disposable

From Side Car/New Left Review (11/04/2025) Disposable JoAnn Wypijewski I’ve seen disposable razors on mountaintops outside San Diego. I’ve seen plaid flannel shirts caught on the branches of low trees, trembling in the breeze near Bisbee. I’ve watched a pink … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Government by executive order: A lesson in contemporary authoritarianism

If Trump’s electoral success is due in part to the far right’s ability to create a lifeworld shaped around his persona, the left must pursue a countervailing project. Its aim should be to transform the world people organically experience through … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Against the behemoth

The scandal that is Donald Trump’s administration – from the gutting and/or paralysing of federal government agencies, justified in the name of eliminating and controlling government waste of public monies due to indulgent, corrupt government workers and government policies, to … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The Day the Émigrés Struck Back

From the CrimethInc. collective (05/02/2025) Remembering the General Strike of May Day 2006 In 2006, students around the United States engaged in spontaneous walkouts protesting the repression of undocumented people, culminating on May Day in the first great general strike to take … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , | Leave a comment