by Tristan Wright The Deaf community is a sociolinguistic minority in the United States. While most people are familiar with terms like “racism,” “sexism,” “white supremacy,” or “patriarchy,” they are unlikely to have heard the word used to describe oppression of d/Deaf people: “audism.” The oppression … Read more
by John Michael Colón, Mason Herson-Hord, Katie S. Horvath, Dayton Martindale, and Matthew Porges I. Power and Social Change Today’s political situation is a crisis, in which nothing fundamentally changes despite a seemingly endless series of catastrophes. Even in allegedly democratic nations, the institutions that channel … Read more
Direct Action for Kids, By Kevin Doyle
Introduction In her book Staying with the Trouble (1), wise earthling and “multispecies feminist theorist” Donna Haraway counsels us that the key to collectively surviving our catastrophic times is to look neither to a distant future—whether “apocalyptic or salvific”—or to a mythologized past. Rather, it … Read more
By Bender Translated from German “They got gloves, they got sticks, they got masks, they got everything: An-TIFA.” (Donald Trump) First, we need a short explanation of the term fascism. It’s important to note that the German Nazis never called themselves fascists. The term came from the Italian … Read more
Connecting Our Struggles: Border Politics, Antifascism, and Lessons from the Trials of Ferrero, Sallitto, and Graham
In January 1940 Marcus Graham, editor of Man!: A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement, triumphantly declared in a note to the readers that despite six years of routine government harassment and political persecution, “our journal has endured … our modest voice of truth … Read more
by The Perspectives Editorial Collective THE WORLD IS ON FIRE. It has been, for quite some time. If you’ve done any organizing, you’ve felt it—that sense of racing about, extinguishing this flare up or that, spending precious energy and resources surviving the immediate emergency and … Read more
Banks Not Tanks: How to Take Over a Government 2.0
A Review of Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017), by George Katsiaficas On July 5, 2015, with their government bankrupt and every bank closed, the people of Greece voted overwhelmingly … Read more
Anarchism’s Possibilities
The Perspectives collective is committed to making anarchist ideas accessible and widely understood. As part of this we aspire to include a brief “What is Anarchism?” type essay in future print issues. We approached Kim Stanley Robinson about writing one for us, and he referred us to … Read more
(“All about New York” by Eric Drooker) by Alexander Riccio Revolutions happen alongside massive escalations of collective imagination.(1) Thankfully, a number of leftist thinkers are doing their part to inspire revolutionary imaginations. Among them, Walidah Imarisha recognizes every effort to build a better world as an … Read more
(Solidaridad Con La Minga image by Roger Peet) In 2020, thanks to the US Presidential election, we’re all going to be thinking about power. Who has it? What is it? How does it work? How do we, as antiauthoritarians, relate to the established political system during a … Read more
