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Black Sheep of all Classes: Fifty Years of Consensus Politics in Christiania

by Tauno Biltsted

Anyone who has been involved in a group project that strives for consensus knows that working shit out together is hard. It’s challenging to collectively do the work of assessing options, making decisions, and executing plans that sometimes carry real individual and collective risks, even … Read more

Living Communism: Theory & Practice of Autonomy & Attack

by Spencer Beswick

May Day, 1987: thousands of black-clad Autonomen (“those who are autonomous”) riot in West Berlin. After a decade spent honing their street-fighting tactics, they stage an offensive against state repression by blocking streets, occupying buildings, and fighting a low-intensity urban war against the police. The … Read more

Place as Message: Anarchist Climate Communication Through Performance

by Taiga Christie

“This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated … Read more

From “Trotsky in Tijuana” to “Chernobyl”: Caution & Reason

by Javier Sethness Castro

The promise of historical and speculative fiction is the reconstruction of the past in the present, or of the present in the past, and the contemplation of what might have been, or of what might still be. As the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud wrote, creative writers … Read more

"ON PSALMS AND BONE," by Holly Hardin (Gallery of the Streets)

Power Within

by Cindy Crabb

“We are in such an unprecedented moment of global uprisings that fall against the backdrop of a global pandemic which is against the backdrop of institutionalized and historical racism and racialized oppression in this country and across the world. In the midst of that, we … Read more

Fundraising Anarchy

by Lake (Chelsea) Roberts

“Put in very blunt terms, they had taken power – not by simply changing the names of existing oppressive institutions but by literally destroying those old institutions and creating radically new ones… Social revolutionaries, far from removing the problem of power from their field of … Read more

The Power of Solidarity and Mutual Aid: Decolonizing Puerto Rico

by Pedro Anglada Cordero

In memoriam Matilde Rodríguez Pérez (1934-2020) Qe los cuentos de la abuela de “en aqeyos tiempos de ante” son los tiempos de aqí alante disfrasaos con ropa nueba. –Joserramón Melendes1 Marcelino and the Never-ending Work Shift In 1918, tobacco represented the second most important … Read more

A group of organizers sitting and standing outside throwing solidarity and peace/vivtory symbols.

The Battlefield is Everywhere

by Jonathan Hutto

“When we look back at the 60’s, one of our greatest shortcomings was, we were emulating the very people we were fighting against, our morals, values and ethics were the morals and values of the society we were struggling to change.” … Read more

Demodernizing Anarchism

by Jesse Cohn

I should begin by acknowledging my positioning: I am writing as a white settler anarchist on land stolen from the Neshnabé (Potawatomi) in so-called Northwest Indiana, and I intend here to address mainly other settler anarchists of North America/Turtle Island. I feel that we are … Read more

Grants for Radical Videographers

Grants for Radical Videographers | Call for proposals | Summer 2022 For a quarter of a century, the Institute for Anarchist Studies has funded creative intellectual work that furthers anarchist ideas and makes them accessible to a broad audience. This grant cycle is dedicated to … Read more