In the summer of 2018 I was at a movie night event with newly acquainted classmates from grad school. We were all still getting to know each other and one of them asked me something about my personal beliefs. I don’t remember the details but I remember admitting I was a Buddhist anarchist. I think the reason I put it in those terms had to do with the context of… …
by Wayne Price **Many people regard anarchism and socialism as contradictory programs. This is based on the conception of “socialism” as state ownership of the economy. Yet historically, anarchists have regarded this program as “state socialism” or “authoritarian socialism.” They have rejected such views in favor of “anarchist-socialism” or “libertarian socialism.” This concept of anarchism as a variety of socialism remains important today in opposition to pro-capitalist “libertarianism” and to… …
AK Thompson’s newest book, Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt, is focused on strategic and analytical insights about how our social movements work, and don’t, and what they yet may be. AK Press interviews Thompson here on some of the ideas that are central to the book. ________________ AK Press (AKP): Let’s start by having you explain the title of the book, Premonitions. You’ve chosen it in relation to the titles… …
We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance appears scattered and incoherent; the global justice movement a shadow of its former self. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason that it’s impossible to… …
Rozbrat, an anarchist squatted space in Poland, has called for solidarity in face of eviction threat. Rozbrat is located in the western Poland city of Poznan. The property was squatted in 1994 and since then it became an alternative politics and cultural centre. It also serves as a home for over 20 people, and is both temporary and permanent shelter for homeless people. The principal idea behind the space is… …
Anarchist Social Struggles in Greece- open public dialogue with anarchist members from Void Network from Athens Friday 25/1/2019–Cowley Club | Brighton Greece became a world news report center during the revolt of December 2008 after the assassination of 15 years old boy Alexis Grigoropoulos, by the Greek police in Exarchia square, the stronghold of anarchists and leftists in Athens for the last 40 years. The global economic crises brought Greece again in global news… …
Christie Books just relaunched the Anarchist Film Archive, an easy to use online streaming, and has a ton of rare and hard to find films, documentaries and historical archives from early 20th century until our days. Check it out now here: Anarchist Film Archive In their own words: “The archive is free to access and contains a growing collection of nearly 1000 difficult-to-find feature films, documentaries, interviews, talks and short… …
Η συλλογικότητα CRIMETHINC από τις Η.Π.Α. σε συνεργασία με το ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ διοργανώνουν μια σειρά ομιλίες στον ελλαδικό χώρο. ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ ΟΜΙΛΙΕΣ- ΑΝΟΙΧΤΕΣ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΣ ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΕΙΣ με την αναρχική εκδοτική και ακτιβιστική κολλεκτίβα CRIMETHINC (Η.Π.Α.) Συντονισμός- εισαγωγική τοποθέτηση: ΤΑΣΟΣ ΣΑΓΡΗΣ / ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ ΑΘΗΝΑ ΠΕΜΠΤΗ 20/9/2018 ΏΡΑ 20.00 ΠΟΛΥΤΕΧΝΕΙΟ- ΑΙΘΡΙΟ Αρχιτεκτονικής ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΟ ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 22/9 ΩΡΑ 20.00 ΚΑΤΑΛΗΨΗ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΕΙ PUNK PARTY διοργάνωση: αναρχικη συλλογικότητα ΟΚΤΑΝΑ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΡΙΤΗ 25/9… …
Γραφει ο o Tάσoς Θεοφίλου: «Στην Αθήνα σήμερα την 27η Μαρτίου 2018, ημέρα Τρίτη και ώρα 14:00 στο κατάστημα της Εισαγγελίας του Αρείου Πάγου, ο Αντεισαγγελέας του Αρείου Πάγου Ιωάννης ΑΓΓΕΛΗΣ κάλεσε εμένα, τον γραμματέα του Ποινικού Τμήματος Γεώργιο Σωφρονιάδη, και μου δήλωσε ότι: Ασκεί αναίρεση ενώπιον του δικαστηρίου του Αρείου Πάγου, σύμφωνα με την διάταξη του άρθρου 505 παρ. 2 ΚΠΔ, κατά της με αριθμό 2186/2017 (2938/16, 3303/16, 518/17,… …
+ [text: ENG/GR] Tribute to Eduardo Colombo Today, March 13th, the sad note of the death of Eduardo Colombo strikes us painfully. With Eduardo, not only disappears a dear and fraternal compañero, but also a first-rate thinker and a militant anarchist of unshakeable convictions. It was in the 1940’s when the young student Eduardo Colombo became intensely involved in the anarchist movement in his native Argentina participating in the anarcho-syndicalist struggles… …
To the editors of la Huelga General in Barcelona. Brussels, Dec. 4, 1901. Corresp. III:238-240. Dear comrades, We have an ingrained habit of exaggerating both our strengths and our weakness. During revolutionary periods, it seems that our most minor actions have incalculably great consequences. On the other hand, during times of stagnation, though we may be totally dedicated to our work, our entire lives seem barren and useless, and we… …
So far this FAQ has been largely critical, focusing on hierarchy, capitalism, the state and so on, and the problems to which they have led, as well as refuting some bogus “solutions” that have been offered by authoritarians of both the right and the left. It is now time to examine the constructive side of anarchism — the libertarian-socialist society that anarchists envision. This is important because anarchism is essentially… …
ZAD (France), Hambach Forest (Germany), Bure (France) Cooperativa Integral (Spain), DIY Internet (Greece) Networks of Resistance / Δίκτυα Αντίστασης 1st European Local Struggles Conference Saturday 24- Sunday 25 June 2017 1ο Πανευρωπαϊκό Συνέδριο Τοπικών Αγώνων Free Self-Organised Theater EMBROS – Riga Palamidi 2 Psiri Area – Athens Ελεύθερο Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Θέατρο ΕΜΠΡΟΣ – Ρήγα Παλαμήδη 2 – Ψυρρή – Αθήνα Program / Πρόγραμμα Day 1: Sat. 24/6 starts 17.00 Introduction, Presentations of… …
Today in three major cities of Belarus – Minsk, Mogilev and Grodno – people took the streets protesting against government attempts to collect tax off the unemployed (details of the story HERE). In Minsk, demonstrations managed to gather more that 1 500 people, in Mogilev and Grodno 1 000 each. These are the biggest protests those cities have seen in decades. It is worth mentioning that most of the protesters… …
The final Presidential debate of 2016 was a gala event in Las Vegas pitting a reality TV star against the latest representative of a political dynasty. It was set up as a symbolic clash between business and politics, with the roles cast so convincingly that it was really possible to imagine the two categories to be at odds. The antagonism of the candidates was still more believable because everyone shares… …
Το 1ο Galopar, το φεστιβάλ της Α.Π. Ροσινάντε, έρχεται από τις 14 έως τις 16 Οκτώβρη, στον χώρο του ελεύθερου αυτοδιαχειριζόμενου θεάτρου Εμπρός (Ψυρρή, Ρήγα Παλαμήδου 2). Με συναυλίες, συζητήσεις, θεατρικές παραστάσεις, εκθέσεις φωτογραφίας, χώρους βιβλίου, workshop και είσοδο με ελεύθερη συνεισφορά. Για την απελευθέρωση της τάξης και την κοινωνική χειραφέτηση ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 14 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ 18:00 Παρουσίαση βιβλίου: «ΤΙΜΑ ΤΟ ΨΩΜΙ ΣΟΥ» ΤΟΥ ΣΤΑΥΡΟΥ ΧΑΤΖΗΣΤΑΥΡΟΥ Βασίλης Γεωρνταμιλής Αθηνά Καρτάλου… …
“The parliamentary regime leaves everything to the decision of majorities; how shall the great majorities outside parliament not want to decide? When you play the fiddle at the top of the state, what else is to be expected but that those down below dance”? – Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, IV (1852) If we take as reliable evidence the anxiety (verging to panic) that spread over the… …
Introduction by Donald LaCoss (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009). When members of the surviving old guard of surrealism declared the movement over in October 1969 in Le Monde, there were many dissenters. International adherents to the idea that surrealism is a state of mind rather than a historical movement affirmed their continued loyalty to its revolutionary principles. Lowy locates these at the intersection of Marxism and anarchism, a mix… …
Conférence Publique SOULEVEMENTS MONDIAUX DU 21e SIECLE du mouvement ‘Occupy’ aux révoltes asiatiques et à la Révolution planétaire avec George Katsiaficas, Sissy Doutsiou, Tasos Sagris, Richard Greeman et Harry Halpin 19h / jeudi 24 juillet au CAIRN 18, rue Victor Massé, 75009 Paris -métro Pigalle Les discutants enquêteront sur la stratégie, la tactique et la théorie à partir des soulèvements mondiaux de 2011 et tenteront de proposer des réponses sur… …
We announce the participation of Void Network writers and cultural activists Tasos Sagris and Sissy Doutsiou to the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair. Through skype conference tool Void Network activists will speak in Sunday 17 April 2011 afternoon sharing questions and answers about Greece, Crisis, Social Revolt and global Anarchist movement. Soon, Void Network will try to upload here video or audio archive for this talk …
Peter Gelderloos is at the right side and left is the Void Network translator during the event “Anarchy in the USA”- March 2007 Peter Gelderloos is an influential young American anarchist writer. He traveled during 2007 for six months in all Europe and he made many efforts (through publications of pamphlets, lectures and organizing) to help the antifascist and anti-homophobic movement in Eastern Europe and Balkans. His ability to build… …