“Revolution means, in the historical sense of the word, the radical reform of institutions, achieved rapidly by the violent insurrection of the people against existing power and privileges; and we are revolutionaries and insurrectionists because we do not just want to improve existing institutions but to destroy them completely, abolishing every form of domination by […]

This article by Lynda V. Mapes is a reminder of how any emphasis on consumerist veganism as a strategy, or shaming people for their diets, is ineffective and, considering the opportunity cost, actively counter-productive. It’s not enough to stop eating fish, to convince all of your friends and family to stop eating fish, to boycott […]

Fifty-one years ago today, Chicago police and FBI assassinated Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panthers. If it happened in Central America, we’d call it “a right-wing death squad,” but it happened in the middle of Chicago, so today it would be called a “police-involved shooting.” FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had said […]

“What most pacifists do not seem to understand is that free speech does not empower us, and it does not equal freedom. … Free speech is only free as long as it is not a threat and does not come with the possibility of challenging the system. The most freedom of speech I have ever […]

No less alarming is the fact that we must drastically revise our traditional notions of what constitutes an environmental pollutant. A few decades ago it would have been absurd to describe carbon dioxide and heat as pollutants in the customary sense of the term. Yet both may well rank among the most serious sources of […]

“It is not merely humans that are the victims of State, capitalist, and – more generally – hierarchical destruction: the common victims of this complex of domination are ultimately all forms of life on Earth. Peter Kropotkin once said: “Equality in all things, the synonym of equity, this is anarchism in very deed.” It seems […]

How can we be good enough for our own ideals and still win? We want to do away with private ownership and authority, which is to say we are out to expropriate those who cling to the land and capital, and to overthrow government, and place society’s wealth at the disposal of everyone so that […]