Jacques Ellul: The necessary revolution

From Autonomies

Anarchists are prone to political idol worship. Though by no means exclusive to anarchists, their/our susceptibility to them does ill. The agitation of a demonstration that develops into a riot; isolated individual and/or collective gestures of rebellion; the riot or the insurrection that promises revolution; the missing philosophy or ideological expression that will make sense of it all; the revelation of the absent revolutionary subject; the creation of the properly radical organisation; revolutions past: each carries a power of seduction and each taken as privileged renders us blind to the uncertainty and contingency of events.

The Incomparable Anarchist Frankie Moore

The Incomparable Anarchist Frankie Moore

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Like most anarchist women, we know very little about Frances Moore, or Frankie. She walked into history sometime around 1900, a single mother lost in the metropolis of Chicago. We know she was Irish, though not the date she was born, and if the contents of Why? are any indication, it’s possible she resorted to sex-work to feed her three daughters.

A Memorial to Horacio Ricardo Silva

from Libros de Anarres
by Juan Pujalte

On Saturday, January 4, 1919, the confrontations between the Vasena strikers and the police together with the strikebreakers and provocateurs hired by the company intensified. That would be the prelude to the events that have gone down in history under the name of the "Tragic Week," the most bloody and prolonged insurrection in the history of the Argentine working class.

The FAL interviews Alejandro Civantos, author of 'Reading in red...'

Alejandro Civantos, holding the book he wrote 'Reading in red...'

From Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation, English translation by Anarchist News

We interviewed Alejandro Civantos Urrutia, a researcher who specializes in anarchist books. We talked with him about his work "Leer en rojo. Auge y caída del libro obrero (1917-1931)" [Reading in Red: The rise and fall of the worker's book (1917-1931)] , published by the Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation in 2017; an essential book to understand the importance of anarchist books, and the key role of anarchist culture played when it was at its peak.

Report from Tijuana: Building Autonomous Mutual Aid

mutual aid

From It's Going Down

Full title: Report from Tijuana: Building Autonomous Mutual Aid As the Border Continues to Militarize

In this episode, we speak with someone involved with El Comedor, an autonomous mutual aid hub and organizing center in so-called Tijuana, Mexico, which was founded by anarchists and asylum seekers in 2018.

#94: The Uprising in Peru

the ex-worker podcast

From The Ex-Worker podcast

In December 2022, a wave of popular protests led by campesino and Indigenous movements swept across Peru, including a nationwide mobilization in the capital. In response, the government has decreed a state of emergency, and the police have killed more than 60 people and injured thousands. For a direct view of these events, we spoke with Peruvian anarchists, hoping to get perspective on the aspects of this movement that exceed state politics.

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