A mature person is one who has outgrown childish emotional impulses. He has learnt about himself and his environment thru personal experience, and has become able to control his emotional feelings in a rational manner. He has emerged from the sheltered dream world of childhood and been weaned to face reality. His reactions to people,...
Factions are governments. By the looks of things, governments also seem to be power. Well if that’s the case, then maybe factions are organizations created with power as an objective. What’s more is that such power possibly only finds hope within the “majority,” at the end of the day. Nevertheless, in the case of government,...
Somewhere in his book, What is Property[?], Proudhon tells of a Parisian of the 17th century who heard it said that in Venice they had no king. This struck him as so absurd and ridiculous that he nearly killed himself from laughing. He wondered, I suppose, what sort of chaos existed in that king-forsaken city....
The following is an excerpt from an article commenting on the 1993 Palestine Liberation Organization/Israel peace agreement, “The PLO/Israeli Treaty: Another Defeat for the Palestinians,” from Fifth Estate #343, Fall/Winter 1993. ( https://www.fifthestate.org/343-fall-winter-1993/the-plo-israeli-treaty/ ) Few realize that in the 45 years of Israeli existence, fewer than 700 Israeli civilians have been killed by Palestinian guerrillas....
“For always in thine eyes, O Liberty!Shines that high light whereby the world is saved;And though thou slay us, we will trust in thee.”John Hay. On Picket Duty. A man can have no more despicable enemies than those who, pretending to be his “warm friends and admirers,” make their praise the vehicle of insidious attempts...
“Unlearn the identity and ally politics you learned at colleges and non-profits, or from people who work at colleges and nonprofits. They are tools of counterinsurgency and make you really fucking annoying.” —Wendy Trevino 1. BIPOC radicalism is an imprecise name for a number of slippery dynamics and tendencies that foster repressive habits, discourses, and...
Translator’s Preface Will Tsuji Jun ever get out of the mental hospital? Will he ever get a job and stop being an intelligensia tramp? Will he ever finally reach enlightenment? Unfortunately, we all know the answers to these questions. After the war was lost, the dogs of the state took over Japan and forced poor...
Friends in the Kurdish-speaking Anarchist Forum (KAF) have recently received this communication from an anarchist comrade in Sudan. We wanted to share here, so people can know the situation for anarchists in Sudan. Why Would You Become an Anarchist in Sudan? This question has always haunted me at many moments in a country of ideological,...
Two accounts of a solidarity rally for Abdifatah Ahmed and its aftermath. The GoFundMe for Abdifatah’s family is here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-abdifatah-ahmed-support-his-familys-fight ‘What does materially acting in solidarity for Black life look like?’ There was a moment of rupture that was defused at the Justice for Abdifatah Ahmed afternoon rally on Tuesday 22nd of April. This is...
“We argued that the role of white people – just like our role vis a vis the Vietnam War was to find ourselves in alliance with the Vietnamese, in alliance with the black struggle, for self-determination. Not just for an end to the war, but the right to determine their own future.”– Bill Ayers, Ex-Leader...
Introduction Our world is on fire. In a sense, it always has been—there hasn’t ever been a time when there weren’t some systems of oppression in place, causing harm to someone. But this is a personal essay, and I have to admit that, through the entirety of my adult life, things have typically felt like...
Letter from the Editor The anarchist response to the emergence of COVID-19 put divisions in the movement into stark relief. On the one hand, many recognized its severity and the resulting need for quarantine, social distancing, and vaccination. There was a strong moral imperative to protect those who were immunocompromised, elderly, or at heightened risk,...
~Dedicated to the anarchists and abolitionists in the Philippines that we’ve met along the way, including those who have moved on or fallen out of touch When anarchism (or any other idea for that matter) is brought into new contexts, it necessarily enters into dialogue with the histories and traditions of that new...
“It is not murder, however, of which you have convicted me. The judge has stated that much only this morning in his resume of the case, and Grinnell has repeatedly asserted that we were being tried not for murder, but for anarchy, so the condemnation is—that I am an anarchist!” — Louis Lingg addressing the...
May Day honours the Chicago Haymarket anarchists who were martyred by the State of Illinois in 1887 in the struggle for the eight-hour day and communist anarchism. A couple of years before they were executed, the Chicago anarchists had honoured some of the social rebels martyred before them, including Louis Riel, a leader of the...