Daniel McGowan: What the Government Shutdown Really Means for Federal Prisoners
byLast week, USA Today ran a hit piece on federal prisoners with the tabloid headline, “Government shutdown: Federal inmates feast on Cornish hens, steak…
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.
Shane Burley: A History of Violence
byBehind every lone wolf there’s a wolf pack. James Alex Fields is a murderer. They are all murderers. For jury deliberation to finish in…
Russell Mayo: The Everyday Anarchism of Peer Tutoring
byApproaching the elongated, ground floor room that has been home to the Great Lakes State University (GLSU, a pseudonym) Writing Center for the past…
Adrienne Maree Brown: 2019, Let’s Resolve to Organize With Love in the Face of Apocalypse
byThis is a time to let love guide each step, but it doesn’t seem like that. It seems like time to obsess over how…
Anti-Fascist News: The Complete Anti-Fascist Reading List
byThe term “fascism” has been thrown around left circles for decades as a proxy for authoritarianism, racism, or both. This inability to properly define…
Crimethinc: The Threat to Rojava: An Anarchist in Syria Speaks on the Real Meaning of Trump’s Withdrawal
byI’m writing from Rojava. Full disclosure: I didn’t grow up here and I don’t have access to all the information I would need to…
Kim Kelly: The grunt work of antifascism
byIn the months leading up to the Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington, D.C., my anti-fascist group spent untold hours preparing for the…
Rebecca Centeno: Stalling Game: What’s Really Happening to Asylum Seekers at the Brownsville Port of Entry
byThis spring, after former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, people watched in horror as children were…
Anton Woronczuk: Until We Confront Capitalism, We Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis
byInternational climate negotiations have failed to curb runaway greenhouse gas emissions since the first UN treaty on emission reductions was adopted in 1992. Consumer-focused…
David Graeber: The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet
byIf one feature of any truly revolutionary moment is the complete failure of conventional categories to describe what’s happening around us, then that’s a…