By Art & Anarchy, April 12, 2024 Despite well-documented evidence of its origin, numerous fanciful speculations persist, including within anarchist circles and many libertarian historiographies that explore the symbol’s origin. It’s essential to clarify that we are concerned with the history of an anarchist symbol rather than a specific design. While representations of the letter A enclosed within a circle have certainly existed for centuries, they held no connection to anarchism. Here are a few true and false statements about the circled A. → The circled A has always part of ana ..read more

By David Israel, April 12, 2024 Two foreign anarchists who were agitating in the area south of Mount Hebron and entered a closed military area several times were deported from Israel this week and their entry visas were denied for the foreseeable future, HaKol HaYehudi reported on Thursday. The two anarchists, an Englishman and a French woman, were arrested a few days ago after they had entered the security area of the Mitzpe Yair settlement in the south of Mount Hebron, which was closed to civilians as a designated military zone. The two activists confronted a military force from th ..read more

By William Sampson, April 12, 2024 Chris Schwarz talks about a fundamentally different attitude toward woodworking that eschews automation and even most mechanized tools to obtain a different value from the process. In this video, he offers a thoughtful discussion of his history as a woodworker, a woodworking journalist, and publisher of books that cater to a different kind of woodworking. Read more The post Wooworking Network, “Different approach to woodworking: The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” appeared first on Agency ..read more

By Ryan Fatica, March 22, 2024 Tijuana, Mexico — Where the United States, the Pacific Ocean, and Mexico meet, a place sometimes referred to as “the corner of the world,” a sprawling 18-foot-tall barrier stretches out into the salt water, marking the international border. Waves crash against its concrete foundations and, at high tide, against the bollards themselves that stretch out more than 100 feet into the ocean. Here, on the evening of January 25, a group of about 50 anarchists from around the world gathered and, in a symbolic act of disrespect and disobedience, projected films u ..read more

Resilience.org | February 5, 2024 We are entering can era of severe scarcity in which centralised and top-down systems will fail to provide for us and we will have to develop cooperative and self-sufficient localized economies. The achievements of the Spanish anarchist workers collectives in the 1930s show what miracles ordinary people can do. One of the strong beliefs reinforcing the acceptance of consumer-capitalist society is the assumption that it has to be run by authorities up there somewhere, by governments, bureaucracies, corporations, experts, CEOs, via big complex systems that ordina ..read more

Sen. Tom Cotton demands the Pentagon root out leftist extremism. By Ken Klippenstein, March 7, 2024 Aaron Bushnell’s death by self-immolation in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington last month has provoked nationwide soul-searching about the war in Gaza. For the U.S. government though, the airman’s death excites a different kind of search: for so-called extremists, particularly left-wing ones.  Last Wednesday, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., former Army officer and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asking why and ..read more

By Aliki Kraterou, March 6 2024 A twisted far-left militant group has been spreading chaos across Germany for over a decade – with its most recent focus being Elon Musk. The extremist Vulkan Group claimed responsibility for the arson attack in Tesla’s gigafactory in Brandenburg which followed other strikes on Tesla cars and charging stations. The Vulkangruppe, or “Volcano group” has been on Berlin’s radar since it was founded in 2011. German authorities listed it as a left-wing extremist organisation, operating in the capital and Brandenburg, according to a 2019 report. Rea ..read more

February 29, 2024 On February 25, Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire at the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC as an act of protest against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Hostile critics have attempted to shrug off Aaron’s action as the consequence of mental illness. On the contrary, Aaron’s choice was a political action arising from his deeply held anarchist convictions. In the following collection, we share Aaron’s own summary of his politics, followed by testimony from three of Aaron’s close friends. As Aaron recounted to his comrades in a mutua ..read more

February 27, 2024 Aaron Bushnell died for Palestine. Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. Sunday afternoon after declaring that he would “no longer be complicit in genocide.” As the flames consumed him, a police officer pointed a gun at Bushnell, who yelled out the words “Free Palestine” in pained screams until his voice fell silent.  Despite the fact that Bushnell died while engaging in what he called “an extreme act of protest,” multiple major news outlets ran headlines that dep ..read more

By Richard Luscombe, Feb 27, 2024 A uniformed airman who burned himself to death in protest over the US’s role in Israel’s military strikes in Gaza was an anarchist who grew up in a strict religious sect with links to a school in Canada that “controlled, intimidated and humiliated” students, it was reported on Tuesday. Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty US air force senior airman from San Antonio, Texas, died in hospital on Sunday several hours after he doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. Bushnell, 25, livest ..read more