New York Review of Books, “David Graeber, 1961–2020”
David Graeber, the anthropologist and activist, died aged fifty-nine on September 2, 2020. The New York Review, to which he began contributing last year, is collecting…
The Hill, “What do anarchists believe?”
David S. D’amato, September 8, 2020 As myriad commentators have lately observed, conservatives generally and President Trump, in particular, are becoming increasingly preoccupied with anarchists and…
Black Rose Anarchist Federation – Ungovernable: An Interview with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin
Author and independent writer William C. Anderson interviews veteran organizer and former Black Panther and political prisoner Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin on the current political…
Fred Kaplan: Is America in the Early Stages of Armed Insurgency?
One of the world’s leading counterinsurgency experts is alarmed by what he sees. Slate – September 8, 2020 David Kilcullen is one of the…
Mark Bray: Five myths about antifa
The Washington Post – September 11, 2020 Short for “anti-fascist,” the label “antifa” gained notoriety in 2017 over the course of several high-profile conflicts…
Joan Donovan: How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets
Weak organization forced right-wing agitators to rely on video and social media. Now they have a machine to spread a narrative of lawless rioting….
Andrej Grubačić: David Graeber Left Us a Parting Gift — His Thoughts on Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid”
Truthout, September 4, 2020 David Graeber was my mentor and my closest friend for the last twenty years. We have participated in dozens of…
Mother Jones, “Anarchist Activists Say Facebook Banned Them to Placate the Right”
Ali Breland, September 2, 2020 Last month, Facebook finally made an announcement that it had been teasing for weeks. The company said that it would begin…
CNBC, “Trump seeks to cut federal funding to what he calls ‘anarchist jurisdictions’”
Christina Wilkie, September 3, 2020 President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to look for ways to restrict funding to Democrat-led cities, an unprecedented…
Crimethinc: The Shock Of Victory, An Essay by David Graeber—and a Short Eulogy for Him
September 3, 2020 Today, we mourn the passing of our friend and comrade, David Graeber, a tireless, insightful, and wide-ranging thinker. In his honor,…