120 years after her death, the hero of the Paris Commune continues to inspire Freedom News In the Hôtel Oasis in Marseille, the French anarchist, feminist, and Communard Louise Michel passed away on January 9, 1905. By this time, she was one of the most prominent figures of contemporary anarchism and was often mentioned in ..read more

By The Moscow Times Staff A man in southern Russia’s Rostov region was found dead in a pre-trial detention center, the independent news outlet Mediazona reported Friday, citing prison authorities. Roman Shvedov, 39, a self-described anarchist, was sentenced to 16 years in prison earlier this week for setting fire to a district administration building in the Rostov ..read more

On the Collapse of Assad, the Future of Russia, and the Looming Turkish-Backed Invasion The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest ..read more

Organisations’ joint declaration calls for “robust resistance” to build “a popular, collective alternative” and oppose the government from below By Sonia Muñoz-Llort, December 17, 2024 A year after the election of Javier Milei, four of Argentina’s anarchist organisations have released an analysis of his government’s “turbo-capitalist” program to “profoundly change the social, economic and political ..read more

Dorothy Day is one of the most prominent Catholic Social Justice figures. Even in death, she has been profoundly influential among Catholic activists. By Rachel Knight, December 14, 2024 Dorothy Day lived nontraditionally for a Catholic, yet she has a profound influence on many Catholics today. She is even being considered for canonization. She founded ..read more

The UnitedHealthcare CEO’s assassination is a good time to observe the history of class warfare, grievance, and the classic anarchist militancy of “the propaganda of the deed” Published by Prism “Who is it that provokes the violence? Who is it that makes it necessary and inescapable? The entire established social order is founded upon brute ..read more

A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility. By Jennifer Szalai In the weeks after the November election, encountering the energetic optimism contained in the new essay collection by the activist and anthropologist David Graeber is something of a surreal experience. Graeber ..read more

By Reyko Huang How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory and the work of the late, great James C Scott n the summer of 1999, with nowhere to go between my second and third year in college, I decided to stay with my sister who was living with a couple ..read more

By Danny Dorling, November 18th, 2024 The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is a collection of previously published articles, almost all sole authored by the academic, activist and anarchist, David Graeber. Graeber’s philosophy is that everyone is an anarchist at heart: none of us like being bossed around. Though he has a point, this idea risks ..read more

Truthout, November 12, 2024 When Trump was elected in 2016, the ACLU’s website featured a photo of him and the words “We’ll See You in Court.” They also rolled out an online campaign asking people to take an oath pledging to defend the Constitution (no specifics about how to do that). It was a pivotal moment — so many ..read more