Germany: Turning Veterans Day into a Political Disaster

From Kontrapolis
June 2, 2025

Full Title: Turning Veterans Day into a political disaster – Continuity & Perspective – When a paint bag hit a German wartime foreign minister 26 years ago

26 years ago today, the then Foreign Minister of War, Fischer, was hit with a paint bag :-).

Popularizing Autogestión: Punk, Zapatismo, & Anarchist Ethics in Mexico City

From AnthroSource

Autogestión (self-management), has been a popular articulation of radical politics since its emergence in the 1960s. This article examines how Mexico City's anarcho-punk scene transformed autogestión in the 1990s from an anarcho-syndicalist principle into a unique ethical practice detached from industrial material production. It was then popularized and made more mainstream through university rock festivals. As these were Zapatista benefit concerts, autogestión became inadvertently attached to Zapatismo and detached from anarchism and punk. This history is a crucial one for understanding the political development of an entire generation of the political left in Mexico City who were young in the 1990s.

The Anarchy of the Peripheries: Preliminary Notes to a Study of Rebel Peripheries

From Muntjac

In the internal peripheries of various States in the former Third World, State power cannot fully cohere and territorialize. Usually situated among mountainous formations, these internal peripheries have long defied civilizational imposition. James C. Scott described it in the Zomian highlands of mainland Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, peoples would routinely escape the Spanish colony by practicing *remontar* or escaping to the mountains.

Emma Goldman, High Priestess of Anarchy, Visited Milwaukee Many Times

From Shepherd Express, Milwaukee's Alternative News Source by Larry Widen

Goldman visited Milwaukee a dozen times between 1895 and 1920 and used her talents as a writer and charismatic speaker to advocate for worker’s rights, freedom for women

Philly’s forgotten history as a hub of anarchism with a thriving radical Yiddish press

From The Conversation

On a late summer day in 1906, a small group of newly arrived Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia took a streetcar across town to Fairmount Park. Several miles from the cramped row houses and oppressive sweatshops of the immigrant quarter of South Philly, the neighborhood now known as Queen Village, they enjoyed a sunny picnic.

Piecing Together Anarchist History

From Kate Sharpley Library

Thanks to friends and supporters of the Kate Sharpley Library we recently managed to acquire a fascinating collection of mainly British anarchist ephemera ranging from the 1890s to the 1920s. It consists of fliers advertising meetings, leaflets explaining anarchism and fliers in support of anarchists and others who are in the hands of the state. There is also a collection of cards that advertise public meetings or act as tickets bought to attend those meetings. There is more (songs, poetry, etc. etc.).

The ‘Finest library on Anarchy’ : Georges Pilotelle, and anarchist print culture

From Kate Sharpley Library

Anarchist libraries sometimes arise from a personal collection of books and papers, and sometimes such collections end up within an institution. In June 1903 reports appeared of the purchase of the ‘Finest library on Anarchy – Books, Pamphlets and Flaming Posters of the Most Violent Character Secured by Columbia.'

The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival: An Unofficial History

From Fifth Estate, #416, Spring 2025

Despite being one of the most misunderstood political ideologies of our times, anarchism has a long and beautiful history of developed political thought, well-organized and vast social movements, and a rich culture of art, literature, film, music, and theatre. Non-commercial, non-bourgeois, anarchist theatre. Well beyond any off-Broadway and off-Fringe. Intoxicating anarchist theatre, steeped in freedom and equality, humanity and hope for all.

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