Sara Jaffe: Who Cares?
byThe Baffler, May 2021 THIS WAS THE YEAR EVERYONE DISCOVERED that caring is actually hard work. The New York Times told us “America’s Mothers are In Crisis”…
Critical Voices
Critical Voices is Agency’s platform for amplifying thoughtful commentary on current events that is originally published elsewhere. Not all of these articles are written by anarchists or take an explicitly anarchist point of view. What they have in common is that they call attention to issues of direct concern to anarchists, and do so from a perspective we broadly agree with. We publish them here because they we believe they contribute to the radical and holistic examination of power relations, the state, and capital that’s so important to us as anarchists.
Arielle Angel: The Yiddish Tote Rankling Glasgow Police
byJewishCurrents, July 9, 2021 I’ve been following di rozeve pave (Yiddish for Pink Peacock), a queer, Yiddish, anarchist space in the Govanhill neighborhood in Glasgow, Scotland,…
Robert Hunziker: A World of Total Illusion and Fantasy: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Planet
byCounterpunch, July 12, 2021 FacingFuture.TV founder and executive producer Stuart Scott and co-host Dale Walkonen recently broadcast a wide-ranging interview with Noam Chomsky about…
Josie Duffy Rice & Mariame Kaba & Reina Sultan: What Does Accountability Look Like Without Punishment?
byYes! Magazine, May 25, 2021 When most people are introduced to abolition, they first want to know how prison–industrial–complex abolitionists propose handling violence in a…
Nick Tilsen: Redefining Democracy this Fourth of July
byAtmos Magazine, June 30, 2021 The Frontline talks to Nick Tilsen, president and CEO of NDN Collective, on the lies we tell ourselves every Independence…
Scott Campbell: Polyvalent Power – A Review Of The “Power” Issue Of Perspectives On Anarchist Theory
byIt’s Going Down, June 28, 2021 During the height of the movement against neoliberal globalization in the U.S., numerous chants and sayings emerged or…
Javier Sethness Castro: Salvaging the Future: A Review of The Ministry for the Future
byIAS, Perspectives, June 7, 2021 After the basics of food and shelter that we need just as animals, first thing after that: dignity. Everyone…
Jaydra Johnson: The Future is Mutual
byAtmos, July 1, 2021 The pandemic showed us the value of mutual aid, but don’t be fooled. Mutual aid is not a trend—and it…
Rick Noack and Sandra Mehl: “This is a Food Bank Now” – Workers seized a McDonald’s in France
byWashington Post, June 24, 2021 The MacDonald’s restaurant in the 14th district of the southern French city of Marseille has been closed for over…
Amber Cortes & Carl Nelson: The Emergency We’ve Accepted
byHow the pandemic is exacerbating America’s homelessness crisis. The Nib, May 10, 2021 Read more