Chris Dixon: Training for movements
byMany activist spaces these days spend time developing critical analysis through events, writing, and discussion. But as much as we might wish otherwise, sharp…
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.
Lundi Matin: Gilets Jaunes aim to rebuild democracy from below
byEarly last month, between April 5-7, the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) organized a second “Assembly of Assemblies” in Saint-Nazaire, following the first such meeting…
Kim Kelly: Seize the Media
byIt’s time for journalists to really make the news. The current state of digital media in the US is, in a word, tumultuous. It’s…
Tasos Theofilou: “I am not innocent”: writings from a Greek prison
byAnarchist-communist Tasos Theofilou was arrested by the Greek Anti-Terrorist Unit on August 19, 2012. At the Court of First Instance (2013-14), Theofilou was sentenced…
McEver Dugan & Evan Cholerton: Greta Thunberg is right – only a general strike will force action on climate change
byClimate change is hurling humanity towards disaster. There is no more room to question the science, when nearly every climate scientist is in agreement…
Tikva Honig-Parnass: A community in arms: the Indigenous roots of the EZLN
byOn January 1, 1994, several thousand Indigenous Mayan people, organized as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), rose up in Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest…
Crimethinc: Against the Logic of the Guillotine: Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too
by148 years ago this week, on April 6, 1871, armed participants in the revolutionary Paris Commune seized the guillotine that was stored near the…
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca: The Red Summer of 1919, Explained
bySome of America’s most notorious racist riots happened 100 years ago this summer. Confronting a national epidemic of white mob violence, 1919 was a…
Antoine Gimenez: An Italian anarchist’s memories of the Spanish Civil War
by“In 1936 I was what is conventionally referred to nowadays as a ‘marginal’: someone living on the edge of society and of the penal…
Alleen Brown: The Green Scare: How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat
byJoe Dibee’s 12 years on the lam came to an end last August, when Cuban authorities detained the 50-year-old environmental activist during a layover…