Briarpatch: Gord Hill’s anti-colonial, anti-fascist comics
byFor over two years, Gord Hill – the author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book, and The Antifa Comic Book – has…
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.
Jim Donaghey: ‘It’s Going to be Anarchy’ (Fingers Crossed): Anarchist Analyses of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
byThis article critiques a selection of the wide range of anarchist responses to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic so far,[1] and discusses the currency of anarchist ideas…
Eleanor Goldfield: Disunited States: Government Failure to Address Coronavirus is Sparking a Mutual Aid Revolution
byAs state and local authorities struggle and the federal government focus on saving Wall Street, a volunteer-driven mutual aid revolution is taking hold in…
Kitty Stryker: I’m an Anarchist Who’s Always Prepared for Crisis — Now It’s Here
byThis moment proves we can’t rely on the government. We need to take care of each other. When I saw an urgent call from…
Crimethinc: And After the Virus? The Perils Ahead Resistance in the Year of the Plague
byHow will our society emerge from the COVID-19 crisis? Does the pandemic show that we need more centralized state power, more surveillance and control?…
Gene Ray & George Sotiropoulos: Feeding Dual Power: Food Sovereignty, Anti-Fascism and other Pandemic Struggles
byWe watch in horror, as the global explosion of the Sars-CoV-2 virus continues. The spreading medical emergency starkly reveals the real wages of neoliberalism…
My Friends Do The Coolest Sh%t, Episode 5: scott crow
byscott crow and a handful of friends snuck into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. What started as a search for a missing friend grew…
Kelly Hayes: How to Fight Fascism While Surviving a Plague
byHow can we fight fascism as public health restrictions tighten? Kelly talks with Shane Burley about organizing for survival and the analysis of state…
Black Rose Anarchist Federation: Coronavirus Sparks Wave of Walkouts and Wildcats
byCoronavirus is sparking more than fear and rent strikes but also unleashing a wave of walkouts and shutdowns by workers – all around the…
Ella Fassler: Incarcerated Anti-Fascists Report Targeted Beatings by Guards
byThe Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is targeting Eric King, an unapologetically vocal anti-fascist, yogi and poet who has been incarcerated since September 2014, for his…