Malcolm Archibald: 50 years of Black Cat Press
In this interview (conducted by Sean Patterson) the founder of Edmonton’s anarchist publishing house, Malcolm Archibald, looks back on its legacy.
In this interview (conducted by Sean Patterson) the founder of Edmonton’s anarchist publishing house, Malcolm Archibald, looks back on its legacy.
From It's Going Down by It's Going Down
Social struggles south of the border in so-called Mexico held a somewhat uncomfortable space on IGD. One obvious reason being the language barrier which we sought as a project to overcome, translating voices directly from the ground, collectives, communities, and barrios in resistance in different parts of so-called Mexico. Another factor, one more difficult to face, yet one at the heart of doing international solidarity and media work, is the differing social, political, economic, cultural, and historical contexts throughout so-called North America, and throughout so-called Mexico, which make mutual aid and mutual understanding between spaces and movements more complex.
From Fifth Estate
#415, Summer 2024
by Bill Brown
Why did I translate Raoul Vaneigem’s La Résistance au christianisme: Les Héresies des origines au xviiie siècle, originally published in 1993 by Editions Fayard, into English? This is a fair question because, after all, the book is more than 600 pages long, not counting the bibliography and the index, and it’s about a fairly esoteric subject: the so-called heresies that were identified (sometimes even fabricated), publicly denounced and ruthlessly persecuted by the Christian Church over the course of nearly 2,000 years.
Via Dark Nights
Once again we find ourselves around the campfire, in another rebellion. Time passes, but reality makes us feel that we are as if we were stopped in time; governments are still here and there, as are capitalism, religions, patriarchal culture, extractivism and individual and social authority. Sometimes it’s like running on a treadmill, we run, we sweat, we have the sensation of moving forward, but we don’t do it. That does not take away our desire and will to keep fighting, to get up and keep trying to break the treadmill, without giving up.
From Jewish Currents
May 10, 2024
Introduced and translated from the Yiddish by Eyshe Beirich
An exchange in the anarchist newspaper Di fraye arbeter shtime after the 1929 Hebron massacre offers a case study in Jewish discourse and political reaction after immense violence.
Via Dark Nights
What I just cannot understand, or at least it is not so clear to me, is what do these gentlemen think they are doing with us? The anarchists, regardless of our imprisoned status, will continue to document, to print leaflets and newspapers. And even when they are forced to flee, they will do so in the shadows. So, I feel like saying, keep us as long as you like. This will not change.
This newspaper is an expression of solidarity to the comrades under investigation and subjected to precautionary measures in the ”op. Scripta scelera”. [...] Leitmotiv, is the name we wanted to give this single issue of the paper as it traces and follows the same themes and lines as the internationalist anarchist fortnightly Bezmotivny.
From A las barricadas, translated by Freedom News UK
After reading a few Marxist criticisms of Graeber and Wengrow’s book, I decided to take a look because if something displeases a Marxist, it will surely make me laugh. After a cursory glance, I understood the rejection.
From The Local Kids
All has changed yet everything remains the same. Several shocks have reverberated through society over the last years and changed our reality profoundly. At the same time, the monotony of daily life continues to impose itself relentlessly. Whether this observation is frightening or comforting speaks volumes about one’s perspective or mood.