Let’s start with the assumption that you want to be free. That’s a good assumption, because if you didn’t want to be free, you wouldn’t be reading my drivel; you’d be watching cute kitten videos on YouTube. So, you want to be free. You want to live in a world where you have authority over...
So far this summer, 27 people have been killed, 10 million hectares of bush, forest and national park have burned, and more than 1800 houses have been destroyed. As of Saturday there were 130 fires still burning across Australia, more than 50 of those fires remained uncontained. The destruction we are experiencing today is the...
Author: Federation of Anarchism EraTitle: Statement condemning the war-mongering governmentsSubtitle: A statement by the Anarchist Front of Iran and AfghanistanDate: June 13 2025Source: Retrieved on June 18 2025 from https://cnt-ait.info/2025/06/16/statement-iran-en/ We, the Anarchist Front of Iran and Afghanistan, once again reaffirm our unwavering and principled stance: Every war-at any scale and under any pretext-that is...
Statement of the Anarchist Group of Sudan From our deep understanding of social revolution as anarchists and our revolutionary duty, we present our perspective and proposals for solutions concerning our beloved homeland and its people. We have witnessed how political forces, alongside their ally, the Janjaweed, and the same forces that conspired with them to...
The 11th of June is the International day of solidarity with long term Anarchist prisoners. On this day we make a call for solidarity and to keep the light of revolution alive. Mutual support, care and unity are our strengths to bring down capitalism and keep our communities organised. Prison solidarity is not just a...
Title: Anarchy or Chaos. M. P. T. Acharya and the Indian Struggle for Freedom Author(s): Laursen, Ole Birk Published: London 2023: Hurst & Co. Extent: 343 S. Price: £45.00 ISBN: 9781787389489 Reviewed for H-Soz-Kult by Leonie Wolters, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam There is no shortage of biographies of world-travelling Interwar Indian revolutionaries, but...
In December, Syrians breathed a collective sigh of relief as the Assad regime was finally deposed. The following weeks were filled with celebration: the green flag of the revolution flew at gatherings across the country, and family chat groups buzzed with news of long-exiled relatives planning their return to Syria. Six months on, cautious optimism...
Yup, you guessed it, the title of this essay parodies “The Economic Calculation Problem in the Socialist Commonwealth” by Ludwig von Mises. The following text doesn’t attempt to address that particular work, although a comprehensive debunking of the ECP by socialist economist Robin Cox can be found here. Briefly though… Ancaps love to misconstrue that...
The dismissal of the working classes is currently popular among “radical” intellectuals. Some of the stupidest political ideas and outlooks maybe found among primitivists (back-to-the caves) and post-modernists. A few individuals mistakenly believe themselves to be avant garde anarchist thinkers or philosophers. Post-modern ‘anarchists’ (a tiny clique embedded in the academy) believe class analysis is...
The co-operation established between Carlo Rosselli and his Giustizia e Libertá (GL) movement on the one hand and Italian and Spanish anarchists on the other during the early days of Italian antifascist volunteer service in the Spanish Civil War is broadly familiar. However, to date, researchers have given a lot less attention and thought to...
The communists and Veronese-Muscovite syndicalists accuse us of carrying out the work of the counterrevolution because we criticize Bolshevik policies at the very moment when the Russian revolution needs all the solidarity it can muster from Western vanguard parties, as it finds itself threatened by the reactionary politics of the Entente and plunged into the...
In a letter to Gambuzzi (Locarno, 6 November 1870), Bakunin wrote that he was happy [to hear] that the former had returned to Naples to try to get elected as a deputy, and added: You will perhaps be surprised to see me, a determined and passionate abstentionist, pushing my friends to get elected as deputies...
In a recent series of exchanges between Slavoj Žižek and Simon Critchley, the spectre of anarchism has once again emerged. In querying Critchley’s proposal in his recent book Infinitely Demanding (2007) for a radical politics that works outside the state – that take its distance from it – Žižek (2007a) says: The ambiguity of Critchley’s...
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk subordinate the United States government to their pursuit of totalitarian power, their opponents remain in a defensive posture, accusing them of lawlessness. But neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of...
Note: In this piece, I will be using ‘‘leftism’ and ‘identity politics’ more or less interchangeably, due to their often heavy overlap. I grew up in a liberal household to liberal parents, and I had always had a preoccupation (some might say an obsession) with justice. From a young age, I would rage against the...