Eric Laursen: Why I’m Not Voting
byOn a short visit to Austin, Texas in June, I heard that one of my favorite one-hit wonders from the long-ago British punk-pop scene,…
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.
Chris Steele: The Unmasking Antifa Act: Behind the Mask of History
byOn the 86th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street where anti-fascist Londoners fought and stopped fascists marching through the primarily Jewish section of…
Petr Knava: Nike is Evil. Colin Kaepernick is a Hero Who Deserves Their Endorsement. Both Of These Things Can Be True At The Same Time.
byWhat a peculiar place we find ourselves in 2018. Donald Trump’s abhorrent presidency has sent the world spinning off its axis, dissolving traditional ideological…
Kim Kelly: What the Media Gets Wrong About Antifa
byOn August 12, exactly one year after the Unite the Right neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virigina, left over a dozen of people injured and…
Crimethinc: Tearing Down the Monuments to Thieves
byThe day before classes began at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the state’s flagship public university, a crowd led by students…
Crimethinc: We Don’t Forget. Support Joseph Dibee, Environmentalist Accused of Sabotage
byAfter 12 years of fruitless searching, federal agents have captured Joseph Dibee, accused participant in the Earth Liberation Front. Dibee is charged with arson…
Crimethinc: Perspectives on the August 12 Anti-Fascist Mobilization in DC
byOn August 12, Charlottesville fascist Jason Kessler attempted to hold the sequel to last year’s “Unite the Right” rally in Washington, DC. It did…
Natasha Lennard: This Is Not a Time for Civility
byOn his application to hold a demonstration in Washington, DC, to mark the anniversary of last year’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, white-supremacist…
Renée Feltz: For Some Migrant Families, a Second Separation Awaits
byLongtime Rio Grande Valley immigration lawyer Carlos Garcia now ends many of his days at the office by driving to the Port Isabel detention…
Janine Jackson: Mainstream Media Coverage of the J20 Case Has Been Sloppy, When Present at All
byJanine Jackson interviewed Sam Menefee-Libey about a J20 prosecution update for the June 22, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript….