Longest Railway Shutdown in Canadian History Entering its 8th day
byTYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police invaded Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia on February 5th, 2020 to enforce a court injunction to…
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.
Yan Shenkman: As repression rises in Russia, so does solidarity
byDmitry Pchelintsev’s parents are often told that prison breaks people. “That’s not what’s going to happen to our lads,” Pchelintsev’s dad says. And It’s…
Shane Burley: Amid Crackdown on Activists, Support Groups Help Resistance Continue Behind Bars
by“I have a confession to make: I’m an antifascist, and I’m going to jail for it,” David Campbell wrote the night before he reported to Rikers…
Os Keyes: A Better Body Is Possible. These Anarchist Biohackers Want to Build It
byWalking into “Please Try This At Home” meant walking into a conference nothing like any I’d been to before. Instead of a bright, shiny…
Black Rose Federation: Why MLK Should Be Remembered As A Revolutionary
byWith the passing of each holiday in his remembrance, the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. becomes further absorbed into a liberal narrative of…
Molly Crabapple: The Attack on Exarchia, an Anarchist Refuge in Athens
byBefore dawn on August 25th, Rafi jolted awake to the sounds of police outside Spirou Trikoupi, a building where he was squatting, in the Athens…
Rebecca Centeno: We Can’t Obtain Immigration Justice in a World of Borders and Nations
byWe can’t reckon with the extreme inequalities and inherent injustices of immigration policy without an analysis of how borders, the state and capitalism function…
David Graeber: The Center Blows Itself Up: Care and Spite in the ‘Brexit Election’
byPolitics, in wealthy countries, is increasingly becoming a war between the generations. While the support for smaller parties in the UK (Liberal Democrats, Greens,…
Crimethinc: 2019: The Year in Review
byThe beginning of a new year offers us an opportunity to look back over our accomplishments and the things we stand to learn from…
Shane Burley: Debbie Bookchin Talks About Direct Democracy, Building Community, and How We Can Fight for Rojava
byIn the weeks after the U.S. committed one of its most profound betrayal to the people of the autonomous region of Northeastern Syria, often…