A Radical Bookstore in Southern Appalachia: Firestorm Books & Coffee
Firestorm Books & Coffee is a collectively-owned radical bookstore and community event space in Asheville, North Carolina. Since 2008, Firestorm has supported grassroots movements in southern Appalachia while developing a workplace on the basis of cooperation, empowerment and equity. What’s your favorite section of the store? Jazmin: I like our Family & Relationships section and […]
OPB, “‘What If They Want You Dead?’ Leftists Bear Arms In Self-Defense”
With the threat of right-wing violence on the rise, some activists on the left are taking a page out of the 1960s civil rights movement: armed self-defense. At Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge Women’s March in January, Ross Eliot brought up the rear, more concerned with what might be happening behind the group than keeping pace […]
Neither Dictatorship Nor Democracy, Our Proposal Is Conflict: Statement by Anarchists in #Venezuela
I Today we await a new chapter of the historical cycle opened by the insurgency of the crowds at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one against the offensive of the warlike-spectacular society in the territory controlled by the Venezuelan state. The meeting point of contradictions and conflict was called […]
Morris Brodie: Salvaging the Revolution – Anarchist Historiography on the Spanish Civil War
Until relatively recently, there has been little scholarly attention paid to the anarchist contribution to the Spanish Civil War in a positive sense. Anyone who has read general histories of the civil war period will be familiar with the trope of the anarchists in Spain either as hopelessly idealistic dreamers or, paradoxically, as bloodthirsty butchers […]
Big Think, “5 flavors of anarchy”
It may come as a surprise to some to find that anarchism comes in as many flavors as Ben ‘n Jerry’s. Anarchists are often typecast in popular opinion as black-clothed bomb-throwers. However, many would be surprised by the number and identities of different anarchists. What’s more, anarchist beliefs aren’t simply that the state should be […]
NME, “There should be an anarchist’s drop of blood in each of us”
Killer Mike, one half of bombastic rap duo Run the Jewels, has made a six-episode Netflix documentary series you should stream directly into your eyeballs at your nearest convenience. Trigger Warning sees the musician embark on a journey through modern America, trying out various social experiments. He tries to live solely within the black community, only […]
71 Republic, “Acorn Community: American Anarchism at its Apex”
For more than a quarter-century, Acorn Community has thrived in rural Virginia as an example of a society that truly practices anarchism. America, since its founding, has strongly valued the need for a government to satisfy needs. Rule of law, freedom, and checks and balances are ideals that many of us grow up believing in. […]
Big Think, “Noam Chomsky: Writer, linguist… anarchist?”
What comes to mind when we think of an anarchist? Most likely, it’s some punk wearing a bandana throwing Molotov cocktails at riot-control officers. We don’t typically imagine anarchists as elderly, soft-spoken professors, but there’s probably more of the latter than one would think. Best known for his revolutionary work in linguistics and cognitive science, […]
J20 Protest Simulator
In November 2016, Donald Trump is elected President of the United States on an explicitly authoritarian, racist, and Islamophobic platform. This shocks you out of your Obama-induced slumber. Things are going to hell in the United States. A couple days after the election, you see a dramatic video calling for actions in Washington, DC on […]
The Daily Beast, “Even Anarchists Don’t Like the Government Shutdown”
If the government shutdown has any fans (besides President Donald Trump), one might assume it’s anarchists. Anarchists want a stateless society and the government shutdown is already the longest in U.S. history. But four weeks into the shutdown, anarchists are just as fed up as the rest of the country. “A girl can dream, right?” […]