Perpetual War is the Price of the State’s Existence

From No Selves, No Masters: Nondominational Dharma

I have been doing a deep dive on Mikhail Bakunin‘s philosophy. The Political Philosophy of Mikhail Bakunin, by G.P. Maximoff is an excellent resource. Most of Bakunin’s theoretical writings are scattered throughout various articles, letters, manifestoes and half-finished manuscripts, and as a result his theoretical contributions to anarchism are often overlooked. Maximoff’s book is a sort of “Bakunin mixtape” which collects and organizes all of his theoretical writings into a relatively coherent narrative.

On the Trail of the Struggle: Lambros Fountas Present

From Abolition Media by Marianna Manoura & Dimitra Zarafeta

On March 10, 16 years ago, Lambros Fountas, a member of the Revolutionary Struggle organization, was shot dead by the police. The murder of the anarchist comrade took place during the preparatory action of the organization in Dafni during an armed clash with the police forces.

International Week of Action for Ampelokipoi Case, and in Memory of Ximitris

from anon

Dear comrades, Following our last email regarding an International Week of Action in solidarity with the imprisoned comrades for Ampelokipoi case and in memory of the armed fighter Kiriakos Ximitiris, we write to you in order to inform you about the beginning of the trial on Wednesday 1st of April, 9am at the Court of Appeal of Athens, Greece.

Interview with anarchist prisoner Francisco Solar

From Dark Nights - Chile

In this fourth interview, we engaged in a dialogue with our anarchist comrade Francisco Solar, acting as a bridge to spread his words and delve deeper into various topics and contexts of interest. His perspective and participation in grassroots projects are vitally important, as they break with the inaction that prison seeks to impose. Throughout this conversation, we address not only aspects related to his personal experience in prison, but also broader political reflections on the ongoing struggles and challenges facing anarchist circles.

FIRE TO PRISONS, STATES AND PALACES – DOWN WITH PATRIARCHY

From Act for Freedom Now! - Athens, Greece

For the past year and a half, our comrades Marianna Manoura and Dimitra Zarafeta have been imprisoned behind the bars of Korydallos, accused of participation in a terrorist organization, awaiting their trial. On October 31, 2024, an explosion in an apartment cost the life of our friend and comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris and seriously injured Marianna. This marked the beginning of the “Ampelokipoi case” and the subsequent witch hunt against anarchists. Despite being severely injured, Marianna was arrested and taken to prison just one day after her surgery, while Dimitra turned herself in to the Greek authorities a few days after the incident (comrades Dimitris, Nikos Romanos, and A.K. were also arrested). The imprisonment of our comrades is the result of yet another poorly constructed scenario by the anti-terrorism police, aimed at targeting anarchist action and thought, repressing solidarity, criminalizing comradely relationships, and spreading a climate of fear and repress anyone who chooses to struggle.

Fredy Perlman’s Chronicle of the World Changers

From Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025

Forty years after his untimely death in 1985, Fredy Perlman’s last work has been published, a second volume of his novel, The Strait, which he left in handwritten form.

In 1986, the anarchist activist/historian (and FE contributor) David Porter commented in the journal Kairos... “Fredy’s special talent was to demonstrate the variety of its political forms,” a dialectic he described in his essays and books, in which “accumulation of unequal power leads to the privilege of a few and the degradation of the others.” Moreover, resisting tended to produce its own feedback “Every major step toward apparent liberation produces further domination…”

Who Can Still Cultivate the Uncomfortable? - Scrutiny #2: An Anarch Journal of Review

Scrutiny is a lucidity pact. Not an ideology, but a form which we take towards all things. To our own ideas. To the past. To the numb future. In these pages the rampant contradictions and divergences have a thin veil of warfare. Even at the smallest level there must be violence against the culture, against the image, against the robot, against its knowledge and its material. Who are the last agents who can still summon this near-exterminated, irrational violence? Who can still cultivate the uncomfortable? Scrutiny is the engine, powering us towards the receding cliffs of rupture.

Iwona Goriaczko (1958 - 2025)

From CIRA de Marseille
February 2026

Her accent, her laugh...

Iwona was born on August 10, 1958, in Wieruszow, Poland. She lived with her parents and two brothers in Wroclaw (formerly Breslau, a German city until 1945). In 1978, she left Poland and its Red Star dictatorship to join Jean-Luc, her lover, in Albi, France. They married that same year, and she obtained French citizenship. They then left Albi and settled in Toulouse.

TOTW: Veganarchy from Inside

Some of the household names of veganarchy are Warzone Distro, Animal Liberation Front, Unoffensive Animal, and some manifestations of Food not Bombs. They express a wide variety of ideas of veganism, but generally align in the concept of Veganarchy: Not just being anarchist and vegan, but that veganism is essential to the anarchist critique and veganism finds its highest expression in anarchy (as opposed to say, liberal vegans). Veganarchy is often synonymous with Total Liberation. As Steve Best puts it, “it is imperative that we no longer speak of human liberation, animal liberation, or earth liberation as if they were independent struggles, but rather that we talk instead of total liberation” (The Politics of Total Liberation, 2014, as quoted in Total Liberation, from Signal Fire & Active Distribution).

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.

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