Natasha Lennard: This Is Not a Time for Civility
byOn his application to hold a demonstration in Washington, DC, to mark the anniversary of last year’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, white-supremacist…
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.
Renée Feltz: For Some Migrant Families, a Second Separation Awaits
byLongtime Rio Grande Valley immigration lawyer Carlos Garcia now ends many of his days at the office by driving to the Port Isabel detention…
Janine Jackson: Mainstream Media Coverage of the J20 Case Has Been Sloppy, When Present at All
byJanine Jackson interviewed Sam Menefee-Libey about a J20 prosecution update for the June 22, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript….
Eric Laursen: The Young Anarchist and Future Joy of Sex Author Who Sparred with George Orwell Over World War II”
byThe summer of 1943 found George Orwell, English socialist man of letters, reaching the end of his patience with his job at the BBC….
Chris Steele: Violence as a Way of Life: An Anarchist Analysis of Gun Control and State Power in the US
byTuesday, April 17, 2018 By Chris Steele, Truthout According to an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force memo, author and activist scott crow is “……
Crimethinc: La ZAD: Another End of the World is Possible
byOn January 17, 2018, the French government announced on television, via the voice of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, that it had given up on…
Crimethinc: Remembering Paul Z. Simons, An Unyielding Anarchist, Author and Rebel
byWe’re saddened to announce the passing of Paul Z. Simons, longtime anarchist, journalist, and author. Paul was an anarchist writer with a playful spirit,…
Natasha Lennard: Anti-Fascist Practice and Impossible Non-Violence
byBetween spells of January drizzle, in the midst of scattered street protests, on a particularly bad afternoon in Washington D.C., Richard Spencer got punched…
Colin Jenkins: Race Traitors Wanted: Apply Within
byThe term “white working class” captured much of the media analysis which sought to explain Trump’s meteoric rise and subsequent victory to the highest…
Crimethinc: We Will Remember Freedom
byWhy It Matters that Ursula K. Le Guin Was an Anarchist I’ve never liked the part of the story when the mentor figure dies…