2025: The Year in Review
From CrimethInc.
With a Complete Accounting of Our Efforts
From CrimethInc.
With a Complete Accounting of Our Efforts
From Radical Theory and History by Zoe Baker
In 2022 I wrote an essay called Anarchism and Democracy which summarised what members of the historical anarchist movement thought about democracy and how they made collective decisions (Baker 2022). This essay was subsequently completely misunderstood by both pro-democracy and anti-democracy anarchists as saying things it does not say and which I have never said. Over the subsequent years these distortions and misinterpretations have taken on a life of their own and altered how people read and remember my essay. In parallel to these developments both old and new myths about historical anarchist views on democracy and collective decision-making have continued to spread. In this essay I shall go through these myths one by one and debunk them. Through doing so I shall expand on topics that my previous essay only briefly touched on.
The transformative “new social history” that emerged in the 1960s was a boon to the historical profession, especially for labor and immigrant history—two pillars essential to understanding anarchism in America. Yet, despite its potential, anarchism remained a marginal topic in the history writing of the 1960s and 1970s. The reasons for this neglect are as complex as the movement itself, shaped by ideological biases, linguistic barriers, and internal dynamics among anarchists.
From Act for Freedom Now!
Original title: "Destroying Everything that Destroys Us has Become More Vital than Ever.. A Compilation of Writings from Storm Warnings: Anarchist Bulletin for the Social War"
From Freedom News UK by Thom Holterman
The recently published brochure Anarchistisch Recht explores ‘anarchist law’ as a collective term for furthering critiques of the social and legal order
from Some anarchists from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans via email
From ANews Podcast
Welcome to the ANews podcast. This podcast covers anarchist activity, ideas, and conversations from the previous week.
From The Final Straw Radio
First up, Ian talks with Philadelphia-based cartoonist Ben Passmore about his new book, Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance. They discuss the research and making of the book, Passmores anarchism, the themes of inter-generational struggle, contextualizing history through lived experience, and the pitfalls of mythmaking. In addition, they spend some time discussing Ben’s martial arts practice and the legacy of Assata Shakur in light of her recent passing.
From Abolition Media by Marianna Manoura
As an inmate, you come face-to-face with the judicial apparatus and its bureaucracy at regular intervals, whether you like it or not. Documents that are either late or never come, documents that you don’t expect and turn up or look forward to and don’t come. Folders are closed, opened, plugs added, categories removed. There prevails, especially in the sub-judicial regime, a continuous waiting which sometimes gives motivation and sometimes causes tension. As far as our own case is concerned, the judicial system remains silent. After 13 months, the file was just closed after negative release decisions with ridiculous and non-existent justifications preceding it. The judicial mechanism, as it usually does in such cases, unfolds its vindictiveness in our case while it turns its gaze to the simultaneous systemic crimes.
From Act for Freedom Now! by Nikos Maziotis
Comrades, thank you for your invitation to the International Congress of Political Prisoners that you are organizing. I send you my warmest greetings from Domokos Prison, Greece.
From Gary McGath
Leslie Fish, one of the best-known members of the filk music community, has died. She was talented, opinionated, outgoing, and just weird (in the best sense of the word). I didn’t know her well, but I’d seen, heard, and talked with her on many occasions. Other people who knew her better will write about her, but I should give my perspective here.
From Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2026 Skopje
After fifteen years, the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair returns to Skopje, where it was last held in 2011. It returns to a completely changed city, a transformed region and a radically altered global context. What remains unchanged is the need to meet, organize, exchange, and resist together. The return of BAB to Skopje is not a nostalgic gesture, but a political necessity: to reconnect old and new struggles, to strengthen regional and international ties, and to confront the realities of the present with collective force. A new movement of anarchy is once again being mobilized in this city shaped by contradictions, devastation and survival.
From South Asian Anarchist Library
Welcome to the South Asian Anarchist Library!
From Debate Me, Bro by MK Zariel
a wryly done field guide