Shaping Anarchist Narratives

From Anarchist Agency

Why it’s Important to Engage the Mainstream Media

Core to our mission at Agency is to raise the profile of anarchist ideas and the anarchist movement, and to influence the way they are treated in public conversation. Understandably, anarchists have long questioned the value of talking to the corporate-controlled, mainstream media since they so often mischaracterize and misrepresent anarchists and anarchist ideas. So why talk to them?

An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’

From Wired by Ali Winston

As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.

Modern-day anarchism isn’t what it used to be

from The Globe and Mail by Robert Hough.

One thing I’ve found about being a novelist is that the profession, while gluing you to a chair for the majority of your life, can also, on occasion, place you in unusual situations. Case in point: In September I published a novel which dramatizes anarchist Emma Goldman’s plot to assassinate the Gilded Age industrialist Henry C. Frick... As such, I recently found myself with a table at an event called the Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair, which is held every September at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre.

Who’s afraid of a little anarchy?

From new mandala by Mochammad Naufal Rizki - 26 Sep, 2025

The official response to August's protests shows how Indonesia’s small but active anarchist community has become the go-to bogeyman for governments seeking to justify crackdowns. The scapegoating of anarchists has meanwhile undermined the unity and political impact of anti-oligarchic protest movements.

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ICE officers doxxed by antifa, anarchists in Portland, Noem says

From The Oregonian by Maxine Bernstein.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Friday promised swift prosecution of what she called “anarchist and Antifa-affiliated groups” trying to obtain and share personal information of federal immigration officers in Oregon to dox them.

St. Petersburg Bookstore Manager Fined Over Sale of Anarchist Memoir

From The Moscow Times

A St. Petersburg court on Monday fined the manager of the century-old bookstore Podpisniye Izdaniya 20,000 rubles ($254) for selling a copy of a jailed Belarusian anarchist’s memoir.

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