TOTW: 20 Years of Anarchist News

Topic of the Week – Around 20 years ago the Anarchist News (ANews) website launched on the Internet with the header tagline of “even anarchists get the news.” Since then, a lot has changed with the website, but much of ANews also remains the same. This week we’re celebrating 20 years of Anarchist News and having a conversation about this website, anarchist news, and the Internet.

A "see you later", or maybe a goodbye...

From Voz como arma

Hello to all.

For some time now, we have been internally questioning the real usefulness of this blog for social movements, or revolutionaries, in our environment and beyond. We have tried to revise which were really our contributions to the fight and which, on the other hand, only contributed to the spectacle, the folklore, and a purely aesthetic radicalism. We have wanted to look back, see the changes in the news and materials, the drifts we had taken, a little driven by our own criteria, but also by fluctuations in the type of content that came to us. Through this exercise, we realized that we also had another need. It had to do with the way in which certain movements or spaces of struggle perceived us and did or did not count on us as a space for dissemination of their initiatives, calls, projects or reflections. And this, in turn, led us to the situation we have now.

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