Arun Gupta: Riotlandia: Why Portland Has Become the Epicenter of Far-Right Violence
byPortland, Oregon is bracing for a storm of far-right violence. In July, Joe Biggs, a former staffer at the far-right conspiracist site Infowars announced…
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.
April Glaser: Another Network is Possible
byIndymedia defined an early era of networked protest — and showed us another way the web could work. The streets that night were carless. They were…
Nicola Paris: But we aren’t activists
byI started focusing full time on supporting nonviolent resistance when I saw the impact that a small amount assistance could have on a community…
Rose City Antifa: Statement on the Far-Right’s Attempt to Criminalize Protest of Concentration Camp Deaths and Hate Groups
byOn July 18, 2019, two U.S. Senators introduced a resolution attempting to designate “antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization. In a week that saw…
Natasha Lennard: An Unshakeable Abhorrence for Injustice
byAn imprecise description can be as misleading as a false one. It is, for example, imprecise to say that Willem Van Spronsen was killed…
Spencer Sunshine: Ted Cruz’s “Antifa Are Terrorists” Resolution Seeks to Stifle the Left
byThe non-binding Senate resolution introduced this week in an effort to label “antifa” as “a domestic terrorist organization” is the product of years of…
Aurora Santiago-Ortiz and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo: Puerto Rico’s Multiple Solidarities: Emergent Landscapes and the Geographies of Protest
byOn July 17, 2019, between 400,000 and 500,000 people took to the streets in Puerto Rico to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló….
Final Message from Anarchist Antifascist Fighter Will Van Spronsen, Killed in Combat on 13.07.19
byHere is the final message the anarchist fighter Will Van Spronsen left for his comrades before carrying out an armed attack against the Northwest…
Crimethinc: On Willem Van Spronsen’s Action against the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma
byOn July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while apparently taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest…
Burning Books & Page One: How to Write U.S. Political Prisoners [video]
byThis is a brief instructional video, outlining how to write U.S. political prisoners, including a brief history of the Anarchist Black Cross. It’s intended…