Terminally Online

One goal for this series was to describe key developments in English-speaking anarchist thought as it resurged after World War II. Originally, the plan was to choose an anarchist who represented a recognizable tradition and demonstrate how they were informed by the thinking around them to prompt discussion. What we created instead was less tradition-centered and more history-centered.

The Enemy Within

By the mid-2000s, things were changing again. In 1999, anarchists helped shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle. The battle wasn't just against trade policy, but against the system itself. Unionists linked arms with environmentalists, crust punks with clergy. Black blocs moved through clouds of tear gas. Activists made puppet parades and lockdowns part of the new playbook. For a moment, it felt like something real had cracked. But even as global summits became zones of disruption, the movement was already facing burnout, fragmentation, and a coming wave of repression.

From the Academic Pulpit to the Empty Trenches: The Crossroads of Contemporary Anarchism

From Agência de Notícias Anarquistas

Criticism of the paralysis of anarchism in Brazil is not new, but it remains urgent. As capitalism advances, the State tightens its grip, and inequalities deepen, part of the local anarchist movement seems to have enclosed itself in a bubble of infinite theorizing. This “reflexive paralysis,” as some call it, reveals a disconnect between intellectual production and direct action. It is not a question of rejecting theory—essential for radical critique—but of questioning why so many anarchist collectives and individuals are content to talk about revolution while reproducing the hierarchical and passive dynamics typical of academia.

To Attack Is to Begin Again

Continuing on: But the stability didn’t last...

By the late 1960s, the world began to convulse. In Paris, students built barricades and workers occupied factories. In Mexico City, the army opened fire on demonstrators days before the Olympics. In Prague, tanks rolled in to crush socialism with a human face. In Berkeley, the free speech movement collided with riot police. Across Vietnam, the U.S. war machine burned villages in the name of freedom.

What Kind of Anarchism Survives the 20th Century?

Continuing on from https://anarchistnews.org/content/new-column-anarchism-21st-century

In a steel mill outside Newark, a man loses three fingers when a safety valve fails. He’s sent home with half pay and a fresh union pin. In Detroit, a worker in the paint shop organizes with younger comrades—until he’s reassigned to janitorial overnight. In Chicago, a union vote passes, but the women on the line get little in return.

Mark Lance: Against Anarchist Theory

From Center for Anarchist Theory

Mark Lance is a professor in the philosophy department, and the program on peace and justice, at Georgetown University. He works mostly in the areas of philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology, and philosophical logic, but also writes on pragmatism, feminism, meta-ethics, the foundations of mathematics, anarchist theory, and applied issues of social justice activism.

Three years paradox-a.de – Some thoughts

submitted anonymously

I have been running the blog project paradox-a.de for three years now. Originally I started the blog to have a place to publish my texts and to give a contact possibility at my lectures. In the meantime, I have gained a manageable readership and have been able to somewhat influence the German-language debate on anarchist theory.

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