TOTW: Saint Luigi

Topic of the Week - I am writing a review of John H. Richardson’s 2025 Luigi: The Making and the Meaning. The back cover is a mural of him, out of London, depicting him in saintly fashion. Larger than life, solemn face, and a golden halo circling his head. The back cover also includes a quote from the book: “For a growing group of Americans who seem to be vibrating with existential anxieties, he became a screen onto which they projected their fears and dreams.” For anyone with interest in the fields of psychology , sociology, and history as applied to religion, this is nothing new

An Anarchist Critique of Post-Modernism and Post-Anarchism

From Dark Nights

AN ANARCHIST CRITIQUE OF POSTMODERNISM AND POST-ANARCHISM

The 20th century, which began as a revolutionary whirlwind, ended with a collapse of emancipatory ideas, from anarchism to socialism, which were “defeated” by a capitalism that would mutate and transform itself according to its needs.

A Statement of Solidarity and Refusal

We stand with those who took the streets of Sydney against the genocide in Palestine. We stand with those who refused the visit of a representative of a settler-colonial ethno-state. We stand with those met not by dialogue, but by pepper spray, intimidation, and police violence. For many, this repression came as a shock. In Australia, brutality is meant to happen elsewhere. Dissent here is supposed to be polite, fragmented, exhausted. What unfolded was no error. No excess. No failure. It was the state recognising a refusal it could no longer safely ignore.

On November 5th, Gabriella Bergamaschini died in Gattinara

From Biblioteca Anarchica L'idea

On the morning of September 17, 1983, a firefight occurred in Milan with the occupants of a passenger car. The driver was killed, a companion managed to escape only to be arrested, and a woman managed to lose her trail. Investigators later claimed that the woman was Gabriella and searched everywhere for her to no avail.

Call for submissions for first Montreal Anarchist Day of Critique, Response, etc

Call for submissions for the first Montreal Anarchist Day of Critique, Response, Analysis, and Provocation, which will happen during Constellations this year on Monday, May 18th.

This year's theme is technology.

Using tools and technics to extend the will is no novel concept, just ask the crow, but the tangle of a primate desire to hammer and the ever increasing number of nails is a fair bit more complicated than that of our avian fellows. Join us to dissect these desires, and discuss the various anarchist relationships to, or assessments of, technology.

Reinventing Green Anarchy

From Free Range Egghead by Andrew McLaverty-Robinson

Anarchism, degrowth, and food sovereignty: exploring overlaps and tensions, by Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Degrowth Journal 3, 2025.

This article tries to show the ways in which anarchism is both useful and not useful for the two related fields of degrowth and food sovereignty. These are both broadly speaking ecological movements/issues.

Claire Fontaine at Art Basel Qatar

From &&& by Noor Ben-Ami

For the better part of this 21st century, we have all been expected to come to terms with what is essentially a lie—that the international art world is a place representative of moral superiority, of a heightened way of being, a place where utopias can be imagined (then abandoned), and activism comes at no personal cost.

Poster in solidarity with the Indonesian anarchists

From Act for Freedom Now! - London, UK

Original title: "“While they call for peace, we call for fuck everything!” poster in solidarity with the Indonesian anarchists"

The struggle of the Indonesian anarchists breaks through borders and prison walls. May every revolt go all the way. Insurrection everywhere!

Not So Comic Criminalization

From Fifth Estate #417, Winter 2025

A review of Down By Law: Criminalization, Solidarity and Survival in Europe Edited by the CrimScapes Research Group. PM Press/Kairos, 2025

Graphic novels (GNs) and anthologies very often effect personal experiences, and for that matter, the non-fiction shelf is comparatively thin. The GN treatment of homeless and semi-homeless people, even amidst the world-wide explosion of that hard-hit slice of humanity, remains almost invisible.

Gianpiero Bottinelli (1946-2025)

From Umanità Nova

A few days after his 79th birthday, long-time partner and friend Gianpiero Bottinelli passed away at his home. After completing an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk, in 1970 he moved with his family to Lausanne to obtain a diploma in social work, a profession he would pursue until retirement. In Lausanne, he attended and participated in the activities of the International Centre for Research on Anarchism (CIRA), where he met Marie-Christine Mikhaïlo and Marianne Enckell. In 1972, he was among the organizers of the commemoration of the Anti-Authoritarian International in Saint-Imier.

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