Candace Falk: Love, anarchy, and Emma Goldman
byEmma Goldman’s beliefs have always been considered radical. It was daring, and often illegal, to lecture on homosexuality (“the intermediate sex” in the day’s…
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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.
Shane Burley: Portland Anti-Fascist Coalition Shows Us How We Can Defeat the Far Right
byThe far-right “western chauvinist” street gang known as the Proud Boys is already talking about a follow-up rally next month in Portland, Oregon, following…
Democracy Now: Portland Rejects Proud Boys & Other Ultra-Right Groups as Trump Tries to Criminalize Antifa [Video]
byA crowd of white nationalists took to the streets of Portland, Oregon, over the weekend for what they dubbed the “End Domestic Terrorism” rally….
Leonidas Oikonomakis: Zapatistas announce major expansion of autonomous territories
byIt all started, in typical Zapatista fashion, with the publication of four new communiqués signed by Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano (formerly known as Marcos) between…
Arun Gupta: Riotlandia: Why Portland Has Become the Epicenter of Far-Right Violence
byPortland, Oregon is bracing for a storm of far-right violence. In July, Joe Biggs, a former staffer at the far-right conspiracist site Infowars announced…
April Glaser: Another Network is Possible
byIndymedia defined an early era of networked protest — and showed us another way the web could work. The streets that night were carless. They were…
Nicola Paris: But we aren’t activists
byI started focusing full time on supporting nonviolent resistance when I saw the impact that a small amount assistance could have on a community…
Rose City Antifa: Statement on the Far-Right’s Attempt to Criminalize Protest of Concentration Camp Deaths and Hate Groups
byOn July 18, 2019, two U.S. Senators introduced a resolution attempting to designate “antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization. In a week that saw…
Natasha Lennard: An Unshakeable Abhorrence for Injustice
byAn imprecise description can be as misleading as a false one. It is, for example, imprecise to say that Willem Van Spronsen was killed…
Spencer Sunshine: Ted Cruz’s “Antifa Are Terrorists” Resolution Seeks to Stifle the Left
byThe non-binding Senate resolution introduced this week in an effort to label “antifa” as “a domestic terrorist organization” is the product of years of…