Al Jazeera, “Refugees in Greece work together and build communities”
About one in 10 of the 60,000 refugees in Greece do not live in government camps or NGO shelters, but in squats such as disused schools which operate under the protection of the anarchist movement. Continue Reading
Now Toronto, “How Toronto Pig Save’s Anita Krajnc, inspired by Tolstoy, mobilized animal rights activists worldwide in 2016”
Kranjc, a PhD graduate in political science from the University of Toronto and self-described “anarcho-pacifist,” founded Pig Save in 2010, inspired by the works of Tolstoy (who promoted vegetarianism), and started holding vigils with a handful of activists outside Toronto slaughterhouses. Continue Reading
Wired, “Anonymous’ Barrett Brown Is Free—and Ready to Pick New Fights”
Of all those books, he found particular inspiration in the autobiography of Emma Goldman, the anarcho-communist agitator who served two prison terms in the 1890s and 1910s, and was eventually deported to Soviet Russia by J. Edgar Hoover’s Justice Department. Her life, he says, serves as a reminder that a mere single prison stint doesn’t […]
Connect Savannah, “Year in Review: Music”
“The Oakland warehouse fire occurred in a radical leftist commune rife with HIV, drugs, and alternative lifestyle degeneracy,” a thread on the website 4chan decreed. “These communes are known as ‘DIY spaces’ to the bums, anarchists, and drug addicts who populate them.” What can you do to support your local DIY scene in these uncertain […]
Forbes, “Frank Immigration Talk”
Back in the day the U.S. responded by shutting out the world. The Wilson Administration’s Justice Department took the most flagrant action, instituting the Palmer Raids. Rounding up several thousand anarchists and communists–confirmed or suspected–the department actually deported 249 of them to Russia on the U.S.S. Buford. With enormous support from lawmakers three Presidents signed […]
Spin, “In 2016, Emo Entered Another Green World”
But beyond challenging fans sonically and visually (to put it mildly), the Hotelier put themselves on the line politically, working out their evolving anarcho-punk credo in real time: “I don’t know” was the album’s most frequently used phrase. It’s a lot harder to express what you stand for rather than what you stand against, and […]
Westword, “DIY Solidarity Shines at Denver’s Ghost Ship Fire Benefit”
Mala Mente, an anarchist, anti-racist power-violence hardcore band led by a mixed-race crew of musicians, railed against the “white-cis-hetero-patriarchy,” the Denver Police Department and the forces of gentrification that displace poor people of color. Continue Reading
The Economist, “What is populism?”
Spain’s Podemos, an anarchist-socialist populist party, pushes to seize vacant buildings owned by banks and distribute them to the poor, and attacks “la casta” (the elite caste). Continue Reading
The Atlantic, “The Ankara Shooting Won’t Start World War III”
In September 1898, the Empress of Austria—on holiday in Geneva, Switzerland—was stabbed and murdered by an Italian anarchist. The killing stunned Europe. Forty years later, the novelist Rebecca West still recalled her shock at the news. She explained her surge of emotion to a puzzled housemaid: “Assassinations lead to other things.” But do they? Continue […]
Burlington Free Press, “Artists, anarchists and Christmas Eve in Barre”
While almost everyone in Barre has heard of Elia Corti, fewer know of Luigi Galleani, the anarchist-polemicist who helped enflame partisans on both sides of social issues through his controversial newspaper, Cronaca Sovversiva, (The Subversive Chronicle). His Italian language weekly was published in Barre for nine years and had an international audience. Contributors included world […]