William C. Anderson: Assassination: Anarchism and the Birth of the FBI
by“The anarchists were reflex to an evil history which penetrated their own remarkable and macabre achievements.”– Cedric Robinson Offshoot Journal, September 6, 2022 The…
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.
Austin C. McCoy: Democracy Can’t Be Reduced to Voting in 2022 — It’s Also About Building the Future We Want
byTruthout | September 12, 2022 In a moment of rising living costs, climate emergencies and infrastructure failures in Jackson, Mississippi, Baltimore and Kentucky, two recent polls from NBC News and Quinnipiac found…
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs: Law-and-Order Policies Make Us Less Safe. The Trajectory of the ’90s Shows Why.
byTruthout, September 13, 2022 Across the United States, Democratic politicians are renewing their commitments to 1990s-era crime policies. From New York City Mayor Eric…
Robert Evans: How Portland Stopped the Proud Boys
byPortland, Oregon, witnessed early versions of the Proud Boys events that culminated in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021; years of…
Alex Gallo-Brown: For American Labor, the Past Isn’t Past
byCan learning labor history give us hope for the future of unions? Yes Magazine, May 18, 2022 Organized labor is having a moment. In the…
Martin Winiecki and Alnoor Ladha: We Celebrate 10 Years of Rojava: A Visionary Social Experiment Under Threat
byThe people of Rojava pose a core threat to any existing government—especially those with imperialist ambitions—by showing the world a viable model of peaceful…
CrimethInc.: Russia: The Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization
byAn Interview with a Clandestine Anarchist Group August 22, 2022 When the Russian military invaded Ukraine at the end of February 2022, anarchists and other anti-war…
Ella Fassler: Mutual Aid Groups That Arose During COVID Gather to Build Power Regionally
byTruthout | July 10, 2022 More than two years after ad-hoc networks of collective care sprouted from the cracks of state neglect during the…
Nicole Froio: The Future of Work Is No Work
byActivists have long suggested that oppressive institutions should be abolished rather than reformed. The same could be said about labor. Yes! Magazine, August 16, 2022…
Ill Will: Dispatches from Sri Lanka
byBy Anonymous, August 10, 2022 On July 9, hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans stormed and occupied a number of key government buildings, forcing…