Kim Kelly: General Strikes, Explained
The word strike seems to be on everyone’s lips these days. Workers across the world have been striking to protest poor working conditions, to…
Crimethinc: Anarchist Resistance to the Trump Inauguration: Understanding the Events of January 20, 2017
Two years have passed since the demonstrations against Donald Trump’s inauguration. Thanks to an epic legal struggle, all the charges have been resolved or…
J20 Protest Simulator
In November 2016, Donald Trump is elected President of the United States on an explicitly authoritarian, racist, and Islamophobic platform. This shocks you out…
Crimethinc: I Was a J20 Street Medic and Defendant: How We Survived the First J20 Trial and What We Learned along the Way
During the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, DC police arrested over 200 people and indiscriminately charged all of them with eight…
The Daily Beast, “Even Anarchists Don’t Like the Government Shutdown”
If the government shutdown has any fans (besides President Donald Trump), one might assume it’s anarchists. Anarchists want a stateless society and the government…
Ella Mendoza: Climbing The Ladder: Brown Politicians Will Not Save Us
Watching bisexual senator Kyrsten Sinema get sworn in while placing her hand on a copy of the U.S. Constitution was a sobering moment for…
The New York Times, “I Put My Baby Daughter in Dinosaur Overalls. Am I an Anarchist?”
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — “It’s a new era in Brazil: Boys wear blue and girls wear pink,” our new minister of women, family and…
Claire Ehrlich: The Lost World of Yiddish Anarchists
On Sunday, January 20, YIVO will host Yiddish Anarchism: New Scholarship on a Forgotten Tradition, a day-long conference. Claire Ehrlich sat down with scholars…
The Guardian, “How Alice Nutter went from Chumbawamba to prestige TV”
She spent two decades in the anarchist band who drenched John Prescott at the Brits. Now she’s writing big-budget shows starring Hilary Swank. The…
Daniel McGowan: What the Government Shutdown Really Means for Federal Prisoners
Last week, USA Today ran a hit piece on federal prisoners with the tabloid headline, “Government shutdown: Federal inmates feast on Cornish hens, steak…