Kim Kelly: Meet the Gun Club Patrolling Seattle’s Leftist Utopia
byThough everyone from Trump to local cops have expressed fear about the idea of anti-brutality activists being armed, they say it’s essential to ward…
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.
John F. Trent: Image Comics Founder Erik Larsen Defends Antifa
byBounding Into Comics, June 2, 2020 Image Comics founder and the creator of Savage Dragon Erik Larsen recently defended Antifa in numerous tweets after…
J. James F.: The Birth of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
byIndustrial Worker, June 10, 2020 In my understanding, an autonomous zone is an area where state authority has been consciously rejected. What makes those…
William C. Anderson: The Disregard of Power in Journalistic “Objectivity”
byImages of the brutalized, dead, and dying can buy awards and recognition for journalists. When the opportunity presents itself, many rush to participate because…
Dread Scott: America God Damn
byThe multidisciplinary artist and social justice activist reflects on the recent protests in response to the killing of George Floyd and the history of…
Black Rose Anarchist Federation: Re-Introducing the Black Anarchism Reader
byA little over four years ago we introduced The Black Anarchism Reader — an expansive collection of texts that span more than 150 years…
Hawzhin Azeez: Police abolition and other revolutionary lessons from Rojava
byDemocratic confederalism, the ideological framework organizing society in Rojava, outlines the features of a post-revolutionary justice system. Roar Magazine, June 6, 2020 Hundreds of…
Leah Donnella: How Much Do We Need The Police?
byNPR, June 3, 2020 One effect of the widespread protests across U.S. cities this week has been to renew discussions of what role the…
Ezra Klein: Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful
byThe author of Between the World and Me on why this isn’t 1968, the Colin Kaepernick test, police abolition, nonviolence and the state, and…
Mike Ludwig: Uprisings Are Driving a Surge in Mutual Aid in Minneapolis and Beyond
byTruthout, June 4, 2020 Mutual aid is flourishing in south Minneapolis, where the police killing of an unarmed Black man and a revolt against…