Slate, “Exile From Exarchia”
When Alireza, a 26-year-old Iranian fleeing political troubles, arrived in Athens, Greece, in August 2018, he had nowhere to go. For the first three…
The Guardian, “The Government of No One by Ruth Kinna review – the rise of anarchism”
The first suicide bomber in English literature is a crazed anarchist professor in Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent who stalks around London wired…
Candace Falk: Love, anarchy, and Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman’s beliefs have always been considered radical. It was daring, and often illegal, to lecture on homosexuality (“the intermediate sex” in the day’s…
Shane Burley: Portland Anti-Fascist Coalition Shows Us How We Can Defeat the Far Right
The far-right “western chauvinist” street gang known as the Proud Boys is already talking about a follow-up rally next month in Portland, Oregon, following…
Democracy Now: Portland Rejects Proud Boys & Other Ultra-Right Groups as Trump Tries to Criminalize Antifa [Video]
A crowd of white nationalists took to the streets of Portland, Oregon, over the weekend for what they dubbed the “End Domestic Terrorism” rally….
Leonidas Oikonomakis: Zapatistas announce major expansion of autonomous territories
It all started, in typical Zapatista fashion, with the publication of four new communiqués signed by Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano (formerly known as Marcos) between…
HuffPost, “Proud Boys, Outnumbered By Anti-fascists, Get Police Escort After 30-Minute Rally”
A few hundred fascists once again invaded Portland for a much-anticipated rally Saturday, but this time were mostly deprived of the violent spectacle they…
Arun Gupta: Riotlandia: Why Portland Has Become the Epicenter of Far-Right Violence
Portland, Oregon is bracing for a storm of far-right violence. In July, Joe Biggs, a former staffer at the far-right conspiracist site Infowars announced…
ITV News, “Is it right to brand 2019 clashes in UK and Hong Kong anarchy?”
From the summer protest-led chaos across UK cities to the ongoing violent clashes in Hong Kong, scenes of anarchy appear alive in 2019. Demonstrators…
CNN, “What happened to Christiania’s dream of becoming Denmark’s hippie paradise?”
Seen from a boat drifting along Copenhagen’s wide canals, the neighborhood of Christiania is a verdant enclave tucked beneath a thick canopy of trees….