Crimethinc: We Can Block the Wall! A Call to Create a Real National Emergency for Trump
byTrump has announced that he will declare a state of emergency to fund his border wall. The proposed wall and additional security measures will…
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.
Zapatista Army of National Liberation: Letter from Zapatista Women to Women who Fight all over the World
byFebruary 2019. To: women who fight all over the world. From: Zapatista women. Sister, comrade: What we want to say or warn you is…
Courtney E. Martin: Coming of age in cohousing
byAt the last minute, Kathryn McCamant had to take her 4-year-old daughter Jessie along with her to a meeting. The story of her life,…
Neither Dictatorship Nor Democracy, Our Proposal Is Conflict: Statement by Anarchists in #Venezuela
byI Today we await a new chapter of the historical cycle opened by the insurgency of the crowds at the end of the last…
Morris Brodie: Salvaging the Revolution – Anarchist Historiography on the Spanish Civil War
byUntil relatively recently, there has been little scholarly attention paid to the anarchist contribution to the Spanish Civil War in a positive sense. Anyone…
Shane Burley: Fractured Far Right Escalates Harassment Against Left in Portland
byOn the evening of January 17, members of the far-right groups Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer surrounded a small house-turned-office on the busy East…
David Graeber: America’s Kurdish allies risk being wiped out – by Nato
byRemember those plucky Kurdish forces who so heroically defended the Syrian city of Kobane from Isis? They risk being wiped out by Nato. The…
Andalusia Knoll: The Zapatistas Have Been Revolutionary Force in Mexico for Decades
byIt was New Year’s Day of 1994. As dawn was about to break, a group of indigenous Mayan guerrillas launched a coordinated attack on…
Assembly of Assemblies in Commercy: Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) “Assembly of Assemblies” calls for massive strike
byWe, Gilets Jaunes of the roundabouts, parking lots, squares, assemblies and demonstrations, gathered on January 26 and 27 for an “Assembly of Assemblies”, which…
Kim Kelly: “Why I Booked an Anti-Fascist Metal Festival”
byTomorrow marks the first day of Black Flags Over Brooklyn 2019, an anti-fascist, anti-racist extreme metal festival that I’ve been working on with a…