Lois Beckett: ‘A system of global apartheid’ – author Harsha Walia on why the border crisis is a myth
byThe Guardian, April 7, 2021 The rising number of migrant children and families seeking to cross the US border with Mexico is emerging as…
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.
Kristian Williams: Intelligence Report on “Extremism” Equates Anarchists With Right-Wing Militias
byTruthout, April 7, 2021 Mainstream Democrats are in a hawkish mood when it comes to “domestic terrorism.” That is bad news for the left. Immediately upon taking office, President Biden “tasked…
Elias Rodriques: Abolition Is a Collective Vision – An Interview With Mariame Kaba
byThe Nation, March 29, 2021 A conversation about how the pandemic has raised the stakes for the abolition movement, collective care, and a world…
George Katsiaficas: A Response to “Spontaneous Combustion”
byThe Institute for Anarchist Studies, March 16, 2021 Jason Del Gandio and AK Thompson, eds. Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution (Albany: SUNY Press,…
Eleanor Finley: Summer of Fire: Municipalism and the George Floyd Uprising
byMinim, March 29, 2021 The summer and fall of 2020 brought a reckoning on racialized violence in the US at a scale unseen in…
Paul Messersmith-Glavin and Hillary Lazar: Love and Rage – The Eros Effect and Spontaneous Combustion
byInstitute for Anarchist Studies, March 16, 2021 “Today the fight for life, the fight for Eros, is the political fight.” (Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization, 1966) “Eros…
Freedom News: Reflections on the riot in Bristol
byMarch 22, 2021 Yesterday Bristol erupted into rioting in what is likely to amount to the first instance of new forms of resistance to…
Bristol AFed: What Actually Happened in Bristol – and How a Narrative is Built
byAnarchist Federation, March 22, 2021 It’s easy to get a sense of deja-vu when you get home and start reading press reports and twitter…
Jason Wu: More Policing Is Not the Solution to Anti-Asian Violence
byTruthout, February 18, 2021 Asian Americans are crying out against an escalation of anti-Asian attacks in San Francisco, San Jose, New York, and all…
Roar Magazine: Remembering the Commune – March 18, 1871 – May 28, 1871
byRoar Magazine, March 2021 The Commune at 150. A special ROAR series commemorating the historic revolutionary episode of the 1871 Paris Commune. From the…