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.

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.

Myths and the truth about the enemies of our enemies

From Lukas Borl

Let me start by asking a question: Are the enemies of our enemies automatically our friends and allies? This is a question that people have always asked themselves when deciding with whom and how to ally in pursuit of their goals. Even today, questions of this kind are relevant to us. For example: if our enemy is Putin and his supporters, is anyone who takes up arms and uses them against Putin’s supporters automatically our friend and ally? Some may argue that a question posed in this way is too vague to be answered immediately. I will therefore try to be more specific. I will describe a few specific people who have died in the war in Ukraine and have become uncritically glorified martyrs for quite a few people.

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