This interview is with social movement veterans who have sacrificed much, and learned a great deal, in trying to change the world. Each in their own way have gained valuable insights into the personal, interpersonal, and structural dynamics at play when confronting established power and … Read more
Anarchist Kinships in California’s San Gabriel Valley
Early twentieth-century San Gabriel Valley, California was an ideal location for Mexican migrants seeking work opportunities and hoping to escape the Mexican Revolution. Initially, they were seen as a convenient source of labor to fill a void left by the Johnson Reed Act of 1917 … Read more
ORGANIZING OCCUPY WALL STREET: THIS IS JUST PRACTICE (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) by Marisa Holmes
Of the many words and images to come out of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the twelve years since it emerged (several of which I reviewed way back in Perspectives 2012 ‘Care’ issue), Marisa Holmes’s account stands out for several reasons. First, it’s unique in … Read more
Occupy as Rupture: An Interview with Matt Peterson
The decade we have left behind, the 2010s, was described by the British journalist Paul Mason as a time where “it’s kicking off everywhere.” What began with the Arab Spring protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere, against the dictatorial regimes that ran those countries … Read more
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?
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
Sustain the Riot: From “Defund the Police” to Revolutionary Abolitionism after the George Floyd Uprisings
“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
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
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
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
