I Am An Anarchist
American anarchist Lucy Parsons writes on what it means to be an anarchist in 1913. I am an anarchist. I suppose you came here, the most of you, to see what a real, live anarchist looked like. I...
View ArticleThe Great Regression: Ponderings from the United States of Terrorism
The Great Regression: Ponderings from the United States of Terrorism Jonathan Gillis 19 March – 5 April 2013 When every aspect of a way of life is managed, a way of life which itself is, or rather was,...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky — ‘Everyday Anarchist’: The Modern Success Interview
Everyone knows what one looks like. They’ve got the leather boots. Maybe some chains. Trench-coats. They wait in dark alleys with perfectly-spherical bombs. A lot of ‘em like to spike up their hair, or...
View ArticleAnarchism In Egypt — An Interview From Tahrir Square
I met Mohammed Hassan Aazab earlier this year over tea at a table of young anarchists in downtown Cairo. The anniversary of the revolution had just passed with massive protests and the emergence of a...
View ArticleAnarchism in Egypt, after the Brotherhood – Interview with Mohommed Mahmoud...
The morning after the June 30 uprising that brought down Mohammed Morsi, I did an interview with Mohammed Hassan Aazab as he helped hold down four anarchist tents in one of Cairo’s major sit-ins....
View ArticleAnarchism and the English Language
Kristian Williams George Orwell, in his classic essay, “Politics and the English Language,” makes the case that “the English language… becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but...
View ArticleGrassroots Social Change: Lessons from an Anarchist Organizer
Chris Crass, Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2013) Many progressives around the world look at the United...
View ArticleThe Government Shutdown — An Anarchist Dream?
In his complaints against the wing of the Republican Party that engineered the present government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid derided his opponents as “Tea Party anarchists.” It’s hard...
View ArticleA Brief Interview with Noam Chomsky on Anarchy, Civilization and Technology
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Lev Chernyi, Toni Otter, Avid Darkly and Noa Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, April 1, 1991 This very brief interview was obtained immediately after Noam Chomsky arrived...
View ArticleAnarchism, Voting Abstention and Russell Brand
Russell Brand’s recent editorial in the New Statesman and his subsequent appearance on Newsnight has attracted a significant amount of scrutiny this week. Brand had a lot to say on his ‘disenchantment’...
View Article“A People Centered Society”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v-rrXjYi-Uw Bridgewater, MA “Noam Chomsky will talk about social justice and a people-centered movements when he speaks on Thursday at the...
View ArticleOn Anarchy & Anarcho-Syndicalism
Interview on anarcho-syndicalism: what it is, how it arises, and how it can be applied by people that want to affect positive change in the world
View ArticleEl Libertario: Beware Venezuela’s False ‘Anarchists’
Before expressing our solidarity, we should be clear who it is we are supporting
View ArticleEcology, Ethics, Anarchism
Interview on the present and future role of anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, and indigenous struggle in terms of the profound ecological crisis we confront today as a result of capitalist hegemony
View ArticleBookchin: Living legacy of an American revolutionary
Interview with Debbie Bookchin, who provides valuable insights into her father’s political legacy
View ArticleMr. Anarchist, we need to have a chat about colonialism
Western anarchists still prefer to retreat into their own ideological ivory towers and claim superior knowledge and righteousness through empty statements about the “spineless” radicalism of other...
View ArticleAnarchism?!
Anarchism has a whole lot going for it and could well become the main 21st century source of movement inspiration and wisdom in the effort to make our world a much better place
View ArticleAnarchism, Marxism, And Victor Serge
A review of Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908-1938, ed. and translated by Mitchell Abidor
View ArticleThe Anarchist Century: A Response to Gabriel Kuhn
A response to the article “What Happened to the Anarchist Century?”
View ArticleWhat Happened to the Anarchist Century?
Overall, anarchism’s historical influence has been much greater than often assumed, even by anarchists themselves
View ArticleHow anarchist architecture could help us build back better after COVID
It’s in places like allotments that the otherwise radical nature of alternative possibilities is seen. Therein lies the hope of building an emancipatory, inclusive, ecological and egalitarian future....
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Mutual Aid Groups That Arose During COVID Gather to Build Power Regionally
More than two years after ad-hoc networks of collective care sprouted from the cracks of state neglect during the pandemic, mutual aid organizers across the U.S. are convening in Indiana this July to...
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Enclaves of Democracy
Congratulations to some of Labour’s leading figures, who have begun to discover some 19th Century proposals for political reform. Proportional representation, devolution from the centre, abolition of...
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How Free Stores Fight Waste, Connect Communities And Foster Resilience
For many people, the daily reality is dire: As of May 2022, 58 percent of Americans (approximately 150 million adults) are living paycheck to paycheck. Inflation recently hit a 40-year high, with...
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Preparing for the Apocalypse the Rational Way
Preparedness, especially when it’s called ‘prepping’, has a bad name, and for good reason. The prevalent image of the prepper is a right-wing, white, middle-class cis man in his 40s or 50s who...
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(R)evolution in the 21st Century?
The word syndicalism is borrowed from French. Directly translated it simply means a movement of labor unions, but syndicalism is not just any union movement. Syndicalists aim for a vision beyond both...
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A Practical Guide to Revolution
We need a social revolution to build a better future. But how is that process carried out? What tactics and strategies are needed to fundamentally transform the socioeconomic and political order? How...
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It is Always Darkest Before the Dawn: How Russian Anarchists Today Struggle...
While it might seem that the neoliberal consensus has broken in some Western countries, in the post-socialist space discourses of privatization and individualization are so strong that we can hardly...
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Ursula Le Guin’s Radical Utopias Still Resonate Today
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution.” This is the core of the message that the anarchist Shevek proclaims to a mass demonstration of...
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Is Another Anarchism Possible?
Matthew Wilson teaches at Prifysgol Abertawe (Swansea University) where he lectures on People, Organisation and Business. He is an active participant in the UK cooperative movement and is the author of...
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