TOTW: Anarchism, Culture, and the Nation

A core principle of anarchism is rejection of nationalism. The view is derived from the principle that nationalism is a false ideology that divides the working classes or suppresses individual expression. But it is easier to levy critiques of dominant nations than oppressed ones. This question is not as irrelevant as many assume: it is dismissed as “it isn’t the 60s anymore” and “irrelevant for anarchists.” Palestine, Ireland, North American Land Back, Euskadi, and other movements for liberation continue. Palestine is obviously the most prominent and anarchists cannot afford to ignore it, whether from a revolutionary practice or a purely analytical perspective. But despite that, anarchists cannot just “go along” with the popular ideas of the times and must think for themselves. How can we engage in these struggles while also being honest about the logical outcome of nationalism, i.e. new states?

TOTW: On the creation of an anarchist culture

Topic of the Week - The our culture of systematic hierarchy and exploitation has permeated every aspect of our way of life to the point where one feel as though they must tread water or drown in it. The infrastructure of this machine of slavery and death is now actively implementing a new greater totalized state of centralization and control. Even within individuals these prisons are being built and rebuilt. On every level the society arounds us seeks to make us expandable pieces in its own mechanized self-perpetuation to the point where every other lifeway is foreclosed upon or recuperated into its function so that not only is going along with the program always easier feeling, but we are rapidly approaching a either such diffused spectacular culture that there are shrinkly few ways not to be a patriot or a brutal and violent reconstruction of the settler-colonial white supremacist core of the empire, at expense of all others. Each of these paths does little to mitigate the problems that spawned them. In this increasing state of normalized exceptions anarchists are pulled into the universalization of this process through the recuperation of their subcultures and the rejection of the now carved out hollow paths of subcultural divergence.

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Brazil: Anarchist Conference on Education & Culture, Sept. 25 & 26

2nd Anarchist Conference on Education & Culture
São Paulo, September 25 and 26, 2025
Faculty of Education of the University of São Paulo (USP)
Scientific and Organizing Committee: João FM Branco (EDA, FE, USP), Luciana Eliza dos Santos (FE, USP) and Rodrigo Rosa da Silva (CECA, UEL)
Organization: Research Group on Anarchism, Education and Culture/GPAEC

ADCS - Vol. 2025 No. 1 (2025): Anarchism in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia

From Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies

This issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies focusses on histories of creativity, rebellion and activism in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Guest edited by Aleksandr Migurskii of the ЭГАЛИТÉ (Egalité) publishing house, articles address a plethora of issues, including invasion and occupation, strategies of resistance, philosophical anarchism, and the liberatory potential of the arts.

Anarchist Antiauthoritarian and Antifascist Cultural Politics

From Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies

Original title: "Vol. 2024 No. 2 (2024): Anarchist Antiauthoritarian and Antifascist Cultural Politics "

This issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies emerges at a fraught time for anarchists specifically and antifascists generally. Its content reminds readers of some of the anti-fascist, antiauthoritarian cultural wars waged against those dark forces that have sought to further segregate people by imposing new authoritarian hierarchies of power both historically and today.

Afghanarchism

from Counterpunch by Nicky Reid

What American Radicals Can Learn From the Pashtuns

There is a narrative commonly held by observers in the west that the Afghans are a people defined by perpetual warfare. Like many stereotypes, this one comes with a cornel [sic] of truth. After all, the people of Afghanistan just got done throttling the bare hind quarters of the greatest empire Satan ever devised for the last twenty years with little more than rusty Soviet junk and raw grit. The rural highlands of southern Afghanistan have certainly fostered a distinctly martial culture that has aided its people in resisting generations of conquest, but to simply sum these people up by the wars they’ve fought completely misses the context of why they fight and what they were fighting for.

Announcing: Rulerless Issue 1

From Rulerless, Rulerless, Issue 1, Summer 2021

A Letter from the Editor

Considering I’m a writer, I always seem to have an astounding lack of ability to come up with what to say in response to amazing events happening to or around me. What I can say is that when I was given the idea for an anarchist poetry magazine in early 2021 (which of course soon expanded into the idea for an anarchist poetry, short fiction, and visual art magazine), I had no idea that just a few months later I would be putting together 25 incredible literary and artistic works into an issue to be released at the start of August that same year.

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