Comandanta Yesica: Zapatista Women close Women’s Gathering with a proposal
byCompañeras and sisters: We want to share a few words with you as we close this Second International Gathering of Women Who Struggle. We have…
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.
Critical Voices: The Anarchist Era Collective’s Statement on the Assassination of an Iranian State Terrorist
byQasem Soleimani has long tormented the people and we congratulate the survivors of his crimes in the Middle East, particularly Syria, Iraq and Yemen. And…
Natasha Lennard: Chelsea Manning Spent Most of the Last Decade in Prison. The U.N. Says Her Latest Stint Is Tantamount to Torture.
byON NEW YEAR’S Eve, as personal reflections on the last decade flooded in, Chelsea Manning’s account tweeted that she had spent 77.76 percent of her time since…
Peter Gelderloos: International solidarity when things are not black and white
byThe internationalist left often fails to transcend facile polemics, even when effective solidarity can mean the difference between life and death. We can do…
Kim Kelly: What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants
byWhy do we take prison for granted? Esteemed American author, activist, and professor Angela Davis posed the question in her 2003 treatise Are Prisons Obsolete?,…
The lost images of anarchist Barcelona
byRe-discovered after 80 years, the photographic legacy of the CNT which brings the libertarian revolution in Barcelona back to life, is now exhibited for…
Margaret Killjoy: How to Live Like the World is Ending
byThe world might be ending. * * * There’s a commonly replicated piece of anarchist folk art that means a lot to me. I…
Natasha Lennard: How the Prosecution of Animal Rights Activists as Terrorists Foretold Today’s Criminalization of Dissent
by“You see the train coming, but it hits you anyway,” said animal rights activist Josh Harper. “They just went down the list and it…
Refuse Fascism: An Open Letter a Call to Action From an anonymous anarchist
byThis letter is a call to action to all my comrades. The first call to action is to keep an open mind and get…
Carwil Bjork-James: From Seattle to Bolivia – My Journey from Protest Participant to Ethnographer of Revolution
byTwenty years ago today, I joined a massive direct action protest to stop the World Trade Organization from making neoliberal economic policy into a…