#Strategy

Perspectives on Anarchist Theory: Transformations!

Perspectives on Anarchist Theory‘s 33rd issue, Transformations, published by the Institute for Anarchist Studies, is available directly from the IAS, as well as from AK Press, Powell’s Books, or a bookshop near you! Click here to order a copy for yourself, or for your local … Read more

You Say You Want A Revolution?

by James Mumm

There is a centuries-long conversation on how best to achieve transformational change, taken up here in a dialogue between authors with insight and ideas for today’s political revolutionaries. Almost 150 years ago, the Farmers Alliance organized two million people in the United States by rallying … Read more

A women overcome with emotion raises a clenched fist in solidarity with protestors while a women next to her applauds.

Sustain the Riot: From “Defund the Police” to Revolutionary Abolitionism after the George Floyd Uprisings

By Justin A. Lang

“Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.” — George Jackson, Blood in My Eye “A politics of abolition could never finally be … Read more

Interview with a Comrade from Iran

This interview was conducted on October 16th, 2022 and was slightly edited for clarity. Paul Messersmith-Glavin: Tell us about yourself: where you’re from, and your relations with family and friends in Iran. Comrade: I was born in Tehran. And I still have a lot of … Read more

This is How We Heal

by Susan Anglada Bartley and Lexy Kahn

This essay was written collaboratively by two Portland protest community members, Susan Anglada Bartley and Lexy Kahn, and is the result of conversations after participating in protests, both as frontline protestors and as writers and journalists. Throughout the article, we switch italicized and non-italicized fonts (Lexy in … Read more

Silence in Perpetual Noise

by Alayne Ballantine

Prison creates a different picture in the minds of those who have been there and those who send people there. We are indoctrinated to believe the prison system was created to keep our friends and neighbors safe. That prisons exist to help rehabilitate those criminals … Read more

Who’s Processing Whom? Digital Commons, Digital Blinders, and a Fraught Social Future

by Chris Carlsson

“Are You Doing the Processing, or Are You Being Processed?” —Processed World, #1 (1981) This … signals the metamorphosis of the digital infrastructure from a thing we have to a thing that has us. —Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Almost four decades ago I … 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

Joyful Militancy interview

Solecast talks with carla bergman and Nick Montgomery about their Institute for Anarchist Studies/AK Press book Joyful Militancy on their podcast! Joyful Militancy, part of the IAS/AK Anarchist Interventions series, is a critical examination of the toxicity that is so common within activist subcultures. Nick and … Read more

Hillary Lazar on LaborWave Revolution Radio

Artwork by Tararchy

Here’s an interview with writer and activist Hillary Lazar on the connections between border politics and antifascism, applying intersectional frameworks to movement organizing. The discussion begins with a conversation about Lazar’s recent essay, “Connecting Our Struggles: Border Politics, Antifascism, and Lessons from the Trials of Ferrero, Sallito, and Graham,” published in Perspectives on Anarchist Theory (N30, “Beyond the Crisis” issue)