On the face of it, one of the more inexplicable elements of humans is our tendency to not only accept suffering, but to give it out to others. One can find an example in the cases of tradesmen bullying apprentices – many of the bullies were themselves bullied when they […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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By Honey Christensen and Robbie Mason. The mass media propagates an illusory sense of freedom. The belief that the media is an integral cog in democracy, holding governments and multinational corporations accountable, unequivocally benign, has a soporific effect. It makes the populace susceptible to the inculcation of values that encourage […]
Despite a ban by the Supreme Court, hundreds of people gathered at Taylor Square in Sydney, Saturday, to protest against Mark Latham’s anti-trans bill, and reject political censorship under the false guise of COVID-19 restrictions. One Nation’s Mark Latham has introduced a bill in the New South Wales parliament that […]
In order for anarchists to win the majority of working people over to the ideas of anarchism, it is sensible that they organise and propagandise in the most viable mass political organisations of the class: unions. This is not only because unions provide an immediate platform to conduct these arguments. […]
Political economy is the study of production and distribution of the material means necessary for society to function. Anarchist communism specifically advocates for a stateless, classless society featuring democratic control of the means of production, where goods are distributed by the principle “from each according to ability to each according […]
“It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working.” So said Dr David Graeber, the esteemed American anthropologist who passed away on Wednesday 2 September, aged just 59. Graeber was born in New York on February 12, 1961, to […]
The capitalist media in Australia are full of news and opinion designed to create fear and suspicion of China and its so-called “communist” government. To advance this agenda, many real and alleged instances of bad behaviour by Beijing are cited. This is having the desired effect. Public opinion is shifting […]
In Paris in 1851, the artist Gustave Courbet provoked fury in the upper classes merely by displaying paintings that featured the French peasantry as subjects. In the midst of intense class struggle, Courbet’s work came at a time where his art reflected an affront to the upper classes’ political power, […]
Social media giant Facebook today banned dozens of anarchist, anti-fascist and anti-capitalist pages after announcing a new crackdown against “anarchist groups that support violent acts”. This crackdown against anarchists comes in the context of the largest uprising against police violence in the United States in a generation. United States President […]
Abraham Guillén’s name is not well known in the Anglosphere, but this CNT partisan and exile turned journalist, economist and theorist of guerrilla warfare is an often unsung hero of the libertarian movement. [This article in other languages: Español] Editorial Note: While we recognise Guilléns excellent contributions to libertarian military […]
In October, 1917 the Russian working class made history. The embryonic forms of workers’ democracy in the Soviets gave a landslide mandate to the Bolshevik Party, under a platform of “Peace, Bread and Land.” Acting swiftly and in conjunction with other revolutionaries, including many anarchists, the Bolsheviks captured the Winter […]
Note: This article is a short summary of the revolution in the Ukraine, written to be introductory. Perhaps no other period of revolutionary activity has been as besmirched by historians both Liberal and Marxist alike. We highly recommend reading the Anarchist FAQ section on the Russian and Ukrainian revolutions, which […]