Red Flag Warning: A Review

From Notes Towards an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism by Javier Sethness

Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country, eds. Dani Burlison and Margaret Elysia Garcia (Chico, California: AK Press, 2025)

Published on East Bay Syndicalists, 8 September 2025

Red Flag Warning is a new collection of essays and interviews dedicated to exploring mutual aid in the face of the wildfires that have devastated Northern California over the past decade.

Rethinking Emma Goldman as an Individualist, Eugenicist, and Nietzsche Apologist

From Notes Towards an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism by Javier Sethness

Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was a complex and protean figure. As described here in a celebratory post from 2013, Goldman was a champion of anarcha-feminism, anarcho-syndicalism, and prison abolition. She courageously opposed U.S. participation in the First World War and suffered deportation to the nascent Soviet Union in retaliation, and then went on to publicly critique the Bolshevik takeover of the Russian Revolution. Later, she would agitate and raise funds for the anarchist CNT-FAI during the Spanish Revolution. She was a supporter of queer and trans* liberation who served the public both as a nurse in New York’s Lower East Side and as longtime editor of Mother Earth.

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