Anarchy Is Not What You Think It Is

From Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement

For most people, the word anarchy conjures chaos. Burning cars, smashed windows, shouting crowds, the collapse of all restraint. It is a word carefully trained to frighten. Politicians invoke it as a threat, newspapers as a warning, and police as a justification. Anarchy, we are told, is what happens when order disappears.

Until All Are Free

From Fifth Estate #417, Winter 2025

A review of “All Will Be Equalized”: Georgia’s Freedom Seekers of the Swamps, Backwoods, and Sea Islands 1526-1890 by Andrew Zonneveld. On Our Own Authority Publishing, 2024

“All Will Be Equalized” (AWBE) is in many ways the right book for the current moment. It is a book of popular history, a synthesis of academic sources for non-academics, written from an explicitly anarchist perspective. It is broad enough to be a great introduction, is relatively short, but well written and full of inspiring stories and historical detail.

Ali Touati (1953 - 2025)

From CIRA of Marseille
February 2026

Ali dropped out of high school after his sophomore year. Close to libertarian ideas, he became involved at a very young age in the anarchist group in Pré-Saint-Gervais, where he met Georges Darbois, May Picqueray, José Morato, and Montsé Turtos. In the mid-1970s, he helped support the bookstore Le Jargon Libre, founded by Helyette Bess and Gilbert Roth on Rue de la Reine-Blanche in the 13th arrondissement. He was also part of the anarchist magazine Commune libre.

Intervention at the offices of “Efimerida ton Syntakton” (EFSYN)

From Act for Freedom Now! - Athens, Greece

This text was published in the course of an intervention at EFSYN in Athens, Greece and translated by the Berlin Assembly in memory of Kyriakos Xymitiris and in solidarity with the persecuted in the Ambelokipi-case.

The Cultural Void of Marxism and European Anarchism

from Kaimataara

If you want your revolution to succeed - look to your ancestors

Marxism and European anarchism are often treated as original political theories, but in reality, they borrow heavily from Indigenous and non-Western social structures. Concepts like communal land, mutual aid, anti hierarchy or dialectical and historical materialism weren’t invented by Marx, Engels, or Bakunin. These systems already existed and endured in Indigenous societies across the world.

International solidarity for the ”Ampelokipoi case” (Greece)

from act for freedom now

Comrades,

We are sending this email to inform you about the current developments regarding the upcoming trial of the imprisoned comrades of Ampelokipoi case and to also share our thoughts about organizing international days of solidarity actions.

Feral Pigs & Anarchy in Hawaii

From Fifth Estate #417, Winter 2025

It’s an hour before sunset and I am sitting between two spindly coffee trees with a larger tree stump in front for a blind to partially hide behind. The brim of my grass hat is pulled low to block a pin hole of sunlight that beams through the canopy of a tall mango tree. Leaves rustle in the breeze blowing up the hill from the ocean a thousand feet below.

An Anarchist’s Guide to Weyerhaeuser

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Back in 1908, an anarchist named Aristide Pratelle wrote an article titled ‘The King of the Forest’ for the French anarchist newspaper Les Temps Nouveaux, detailing the crimes of the Weyserhaeuser lumber company in the United States. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Aristide saw the Weyerhaeuser lumber company for the leviathan it was. At a time when most of the US public knew about the crimes of JP Morgan and JD Rockefeller, the ecocide of Friedrich Weyerhäuser went largely unnoticed, and after devastating the ancient forests of the Midwest, his company began to devour the Pacific Northwest.

We take responsibility for the following arsons

From Act for Freedom Now! - Thessaloniki , Greece

We take responsibility for the 6 following arsons:

• The arson at the Alpha Bank ATM in the early hours of December 31st on Artakis Street
• The arson at an Alpha Bank ATM in the early hours of January 7 on Siniosoglou Street
• The ATM arson in the early hours of January 13 on Antigonidon Street

About This Issue – ARB #11 Winter/Spring 2026

From The Anarchist Review of Books

Welcome to the 11th issue of the Anarchist Review of Books, produced by a collective based in Atlanta, Baltimore, Belfast, Brussels, Chicago, Detroit, Dublin, Exarchia, London, New York, Oakland, and Richmond. We bring you this issue at the heart of a bitter cold winter as U.S. federal troops hunt, detain, deport and murder human beings in the name of the law.

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