“The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. The sharper the weapons, the more unrest in the land. The more clever and cunning the people, the stranger the events that occur. The more rules and laws, the more thieves and robbers.” — Lao Ma (13th century BCE) aka Lao Tzu (5th...
The following is a statement written and endorsed by members of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination (CALA) and sibling organizations across the Americas, including Black Rose/Rosa Negra. Violence in the Middle East continues to grow exponentially. The war profiteers, the main partners of neoliberal capitalism, impose death on those below, while they become richer with...
1) When I set out to write this report, even the title gave me pause. „Fleeing“—it wasn’t a word I wanted to use. But it’s the truth. I fled. We fled. We escaped Tehran, running not because we had any connection to the Islamic Republic or to Israel, but simply to survive the bombs falling...
“War thinking is a problem.” “Why would we join a fight where we want both sides to lose?” Aragorn!, The Fight For Turtle Island Throughout the larger portion of my life I have observed the spectacles of war, usually focused on those pertaining to conflicts in the middle east, with horror and revolt. I remember...
A few caveats to begin with: All of the facts you are about to read are true, but not one of the names is real. This story is about a book that will never show up on any traditional bestseller list, will never be carried in a chain bookstore, will never cross Charlie Rose’s desk,...
Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners Less a novel than an exploded manifesto, Days of War, Nights of Love might be just what we need. It certainly might be just what we need. It certainly saved my night when I picked it up. I was expecting an evening of frenzied screamo music...
Over the first half of 2025, the situation has worsened significantly. We’ve seen the capture of government by the most radical and fascistic elements of our political class. We’ve seen a tremendous erosion of civil liberties, and rights and resources for marginalized groups. We’ve watched as masked men abduct and deport our neighbors and loved...
Note I wrote this paper at the request of an anarchist colleague, despite the fact that I do not care much for “anarchist politics.” Despite my better judgment, I had sent it to Anarchist Studies for publication, as an attempt to showcase a practical ‘post-anarchism’ in psychoanalytic working groups within the School of Lacan. It...
“Dominion is a relatively late invention in history and is typically linked with the rise of patriarchy.” — Heide Göttner-Abendroth Let’s be honest—what comes to mind when you hear the word “Stone Age”? Perhaps Fred Flintstone, half-naked in a bearskin, dragging his Wilma by the hair into a cave, or clubbing bison? A cliché, no...
Much has been made of the distinction between charity and mutual aid. Charity is top-down and unidirectional, while mutual aid is supposed to be horizontal, reciprocal, and participatory. In practice, however, the majority of today’s self-described mutual aid projects remain more or less unidirectional efforts to provide goods and services to those in need. This...
Sunday, June 8th, 2025 As rocks, bottles, e-scooters, fireworks & other found objects rained upon California Highway Patrol SUV squad cars parked on the 101 Freeway (a below-grade cement corridor that runs through downtown Los Angeles), it appeared that everyone out on the streets was in agreement. This was fine, keep an eye out for...
It is now June, 2025. Much has changed in recent months but much more has remained the same. The mass death of Palestinians continues to be live streamed on social media as Israel continues to wage genocidal violence in both Gaza and the West Bank. The United States has continued to do everything in its...
Benjamin Tucker considered The General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century Proudhon’s best book—“the most wonderful of all the wonderful books of Proudhon”—and he may well have been right in that judgment. Like many of the greatest works of the last century this “most wonderful book” comes to us from a prison cell:...
Part 1 At some point in the late fifties or early sixties, Pacifica Radio’s Charlie Hayden interviewed the inimitable Robert Anton Wilson on all things anarchism. Wilson waxes poetic on anarchism’s foundations and answers some challenging questions from a presumable skeptic in Hayden. While the exact date of the interview is unknown, the early to...
In Los Angeles, no partisan in the struggle has not been touched by riot, revolt, or localized rebellion. The tip of the spear here has been sharpening itself since the Watts Uprising of 1965, the 1992 LA Riots, and the George Floyd Rebellion of 2020 Nation-States become customs agents of capital. There are no governments,...