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…
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.
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…
Comandanta Yesica: Zapatista Women close Women’s Gathering with a proposal
byCompañeras and sisters: We want to share a few words with you as we close this Second International Gathering of Women Who Struggle. We have…
Critical Voices: The Anarchist Era Collective’s Statement on the Assassination of an Iranian State Terrorist
byQasem Soleimani has long tormented the people and we congratulate the survivors of his crimes in the Middle East, particularly Syria, Iraq and Yemen. And…
Natasha Lennard: Chelsea Manning Spent Most of the Last Decade in Prison. The U.N. Says Her Latest Stint Is Tantamount to Torture.
byON NEW YEAR’S Eve, as personal reflections on the last decade flooded in, Chelsea Manning’s account tweeted that she had spent 77.76 percent of her time since…