T H Livingstone and James Sherriff It is no exaggeration to say that we are at a turning point in history. Our collective response to the global crises we are now facing will determine our success in not only the next few years, but the next few decades – perhaps […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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. Editorial Note: While we recognise Guilléns excellent contributions to libertarian military theory, we categorically reject the strategy […]
The concept of federalism is one that appears time and time again in anarchist literature and in anarchist activity, yet in the present day, it is rarely elaborated upon – at least in English. You’re more likely to hear people talk about “direct democracy”, “decentralisation”, “horizontalism” and other slightly different […]
Recently a number of people who once called themselves anarchists have joined the newly formed Australian Communist Party. The ACP itself is a new split from the Communist Party of Australia over vague accusations of bureaucratism and an inability of the CPA to ‘relate to youth.’ The current CPA however […]
This article was first published as ‘The Plague’ in The Anvil, Vol. 9 No. 2, April 2020. The coronavirus pandemic started in a market in Wuhan late last year. It grew into a crisis through bureaucratic suppression of bad news by local “Communist” Party authorities. It has now become a […]
The following are a set of notes prepared for a talk presented at Students of Sustainability on 13 Jan 2020, originally titled “Anarchism 201: There is no parliamentary road to climate justice”. So far this summer, 27 people have been killed, 10 million hectares of bush, forest and national park […]
On 28 April this year, animal rights activists launched an impressive series of direct actions across eastern Australia as part of a campaign to promote the film ‘Dominion’. The resulting furor highlighted, once again, the confusion of ideas that exist at the intersections of anarchist and animal rights movements. The […]
“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth”. Commonly attributed to Lucy Parsons The closest thing to a likely source for the above quote is a speech that Lucy Parsons gave to the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago 1905. […]
