Protest Nostalgia

A review of 'Red Squared Montreal' by Norman Nawrocki

The 2012 student strike deserves its own literature, and Red Squared Montreal succeeds at least in capturing the dizzy heights of the protests. As both anarchist and poet, Nawrocki often knows just the right words to capture the elation, camaraderie, and terror of marching in the street and facing off against contemptuous police. However, the lack of curiosity about the people behind the conflict means the novel ultimately fails to communicate the stakes and experiences of the 2012 strike in human terms.

Earthseed for Anarchists

From C4SS by Locusts and Wild Honey

Science fiction has always been an important playground of radical politics for anarchists, libertarians, and socialists alike. My personal favorite is Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents (the two completed novels of her Earthseed series), which tell the story of a United States of the 2030s in the midst of economic collapse, and fascistic rule,  corporate dominance as well as the struggle to build new communities amid this chaos—not to revive the dying empire but to build something new and better from its ashes.

Radon Journal Issue #4 available now

Radon Journal Issue 4 (May 2023) is out! Read 10 spectacular short stories and 10 powerful poems all with unique, endless depth that comes only from a Radon story.

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A long time ago in a revolution far, far away

From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos

Revolutionary Organizing, Lumpen, and Anarchy in Andor

What are the politics of Andor? It would be obtuse to expect any representation to be meaningful in a society in which action is constantly divorced from belief. Nonetheless, we can engage in cultural criticism to take a look at what kind of fantasies the culture industry feels a need to contemplate and domesticate.

An Anarchist Short Fiction and Essay Collection- Omelas, Fifty Years On

From Anarres Project for Alternative Futures About the Anarres Project by Joseph Orosco

Invitation for new short works of creative anarchist fiction: It has been fifty years since Ursula K. Le Guin took us to Omelas with her 1973 short story about the ambiguous utopia and the child who suffers greatly for the pleasures of the many.

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