Alexander Herbert: Recovering the anarchism of the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion
byThe anarchist roots of the Kronstadt Rebellion have long been denied, but the plurality of anti-Bolshevik resistance in Soviet Russia harbors important lessons for…
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.
Javier Sethness: Communal Tears and Needed Repairs: On the COVID Syndemic in Los Angeles
byOriginally published by Ideas & Action, February 19, 2021 The collision between the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and class society has proven devastating over the…
David Flood: Anarchism in Practice Is Often Radically Boring Democracy
byAnarchists have been an easy scapegoat for violent events in recent months. But anarchism, as a political philosophy, is fundamentally about collective deliberation and…
CrimethInc.: From Punk to Indigenous Solidarity – Four Decades of Anarchism in Brazil
byCrimethInc., February 18, 2021 In the following interview, two longtime anarcho-punks recount the reemergence of anarchism in Brazil after the end of the military…
Jordan Kisner: The Lockdown Showed How the Economy Exploits Women. She Already Knew
bySilvia Federici has been warning for decades of what happens when we undervalue domestic labor. New York Times, February 17, 2021 Prospect Park in…
It’s Going Down: Autonomous Mutual Aid Groups Mobilize In Texas As Death Toll Rises
byIt’s Going Down – February 17, 2021 Massive storms and cold fronts have knocked out power for millions of people across the US and led to…
Kelly Weill: Anarchists to Disney: Cruella de Vil Can’t Sit With Us
byProminent on the poster for the new “101 Dalmatians” prequel: an “A” in a circle. It is not going over well. The Daily Beast,…
Zoltan Grossman: The Resilience Doctrine – Mutual Aid in the Pandemic and Beyond
byCounterpunch, February 4, 2021 Part 4 of a 4-part Primer on Disaster Collectivism in the Climate and Pandemic Crises At The Evergreen State College,…
Ruth Kinna: Mutual aid: Kropotkin’s theory of human capacity
byKropotkin’s theory of mutual aid remains cogent as ever, demonstrating the capacity for revolutionary change even in the harshest, most repressive environments. Roar Magazine,…
Certain Days: Prison Break: A Key For Every Lock
byIt’s Going Down, February 1, 2021 Much has happened in the first few weeks of this new year. Illinois is ending cash bail, pressure continues…