Crimethinc: Minneapolis: Now This Fight Has Two Sides. What the Riots Mean for the COVID-19 Era
byMay 28, 2020 The demonstrations this week in Minneapolis mark a historic watershed in the COVID-19 era. As we argued in March, there are some…
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.
PReP: Emancipatory mutual aid: from education to liberation
byRoar Magazine, May 21, 2020 A New Orleans radical mutual aid group organizes with and within communities to help transform the conditions that created…
David Campbell: Stick-up on Rikers Island
byHard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life, May 1, 2020 It started with the phones. A few minutes before 9:30 on Saturday morning, mid-conversation with…
Alicia Kennedy: Working Class Veganism and the Connections Between All Struggles for Liberation
bySpeaking with Raechel Ann Jolie about her refreshingly candid new memoir, ‘Rust Belt Femme’ Tenderly, May 1, 2020 Looking back, I am shocked they…
Kim Kelly: The History of the Black Radical Group MOVE and Its Infamous Bombing by Police
byAnd how Philadelphia became “the city that bombed itself.” Teen Vogue, May 14, 2020 In 1985, an armed standoff between Philadelphia police and members…
Jesse Bernstein: Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City
byHard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life, May 13, 2020 One of my last conversations at Ladders Services was with the Medical Examiner’s office after…
Arundhati Roy: Our Task is to Disable the Engine
byThe coronavirus pandemic has brought the machine of capitalism to a grinding halt. Progressive International, May 11 2020 While the human race is momentarily…
Alexis Shotwell: The Virus is a Relation
byCOVID-19 is a virus; it’s also a relationship. Whether people live or die when they get sick depends on webs of social relations, the history of…
Daniel A. Medina: As Amazon, Walmart, and Others Profit Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Their Essential Workers Plan Unprecedented Strike
byAn unprecedented coalition of workers from some of America’s largest companies will strike on Friday. Workers from Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, and FedEx…
George Packer: We Are Living in a Failed State
byThe coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken. When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and…