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Against the Logic of the Guillotine : Why the Paris Commune Burned the...
148 years ago this week, on April 6, 1871, armed participants in the revolutionary Paris Commune seized the guillotine that was stored near the prison in Paris. They brought it to the foot of the...
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Remembering Tatiana Bakunin : And All the Other Invisible Figures in History
To observe the 204th anniversary of her birth, we remember Tatiana Bakunin, sister of the revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. On the basis of all the available information, Tatiana and her sisters...
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The Speech of Russian Anarchist Alexei Polikhovich in Moscow : For Which He...
In Moscow, at the end of August 10, plainclothes police officers arrested the anarchist Alexei Polikhovich on his way home from Russia’s largest opposition demonstration since 2011. A local Moscow...
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Call for Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners in Russia : A Call for...
In Russia, the Russian Federal Security Service—the FSB, which is descended from the KGB—has set a new precedent for extracting false confessions from arrestees by means of torture, threats, and...
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Belarus: Anarchists in the Uprising against the Dictatorship : An Interview
Starting on the night of Sunday, August 9, in response to an election widely considered to be rigged, a massive protest movement has broken out in Belarus against Aleksandr Lukashenko, the strongman...
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A Poem by Kenneth Rexroth, Painted across the Rooftops of the World : On the...
To celebrate the birthday of Kenneth Rexroth, poet and anarchist, we have prepared this photoessay presenting his poem “Noretorp Noretsyh” painted across the walls and rooftops of three continents....
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Two Letters from Russia : On the Protests of January 23
We have received the following reports from anarchists in Russia, describing the situation there during the protests of January 23, in which tens of thousands across the country rallied in response to...
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The Kronstadt Uprising: A View from within the Revolt : On the 100-Year...
In March 1921, an uprising on the island fortress of Kronstadt shook Russia, starkly illustrating the conflicts within the Russian revolution. To observe the 100-year anniversary of the revolt, we...
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Who Were the Kronstadt Rebels? : A Russian Anarchist Perspective on the Uprising
Who were the Kronstadt rebels? Disciples of Lenin and Trotsky have largely founded their efforts to rationalize the violent suppression of the Kronstadt uprising on their leaders’ allegations regarding...
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Maggots and Men : Building a Queer and Trans Utopia from the Memory of Kronstadt
What is revolution? Is it a moment in time, a cataclysmic break with the past, an ongoing dynamic process of transformation? Is it the overthrow of an oppressive government, the seizure of the means of...
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June 30, 1876: Peter Kropotkin Escapes from Prison : A Tale of Derring-Do on...
Born on December 9, 1842 into an aristocratic family in Tsarist Russia,1 Peter Kropotkin developed radical ideas in the course of his scientific research. In 1874, a few hours after he presented a...
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The Uprising in Kazakhstan : An Interview and Appraisal
A full-scale uprising has broken out in Kazakhstan in response to the rising cost of living and the violence of the authoritarian government. Demonstrators have seized government buildings in many...
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Ukraine: Between Two Fires : Anarchists in the Region on the Looming Threat...
In hopes of providing crucial background on the current tensions between Russia, Ukraine, the United States, and other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), we present the...
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War and Anarchists: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives in Ukraine
We present this article composed by anarchists in Ukraine to give context for how some participants in social movements there see the difficult events that have played out there over the past nine...
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Against Annexations and Imperial Aggression : A Statement from Russian...
This statement appeared in Russian on avtonom.org, a media project that grew out of the libertarian communist network Autonomous Action.“No War Between Nations! No Peace Between Classes!” A mural in...
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Russia and Ukraine: Grassroots Resistance to Putin's Invasion
In this hasty update, we review some of today’s efforts to resist the Russian invasion of Ukraine—from both Russians within the repressive conditions of Russian society and Ukrainians experiencing the...
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Spring Is Coming: Take to the Streets against the War : A Call from Russia...
The following call to action originally appeared in Russian on avtonom.org, the platform that emerged from the Russia-wide anarchist network Autonomous Action.Our Russian colleagues report that, under...
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War in Ukraine: Ten Lessons from Syria : Syrian Exiles on How Their...
In March 2011, protests broke out in Syria against the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Assad turned the full power of the military against the ensuing revolutionary movement; yet for some time, it appeared...
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Global Solidarity: Against the States and the Militarization of the Planet :...
With the Anti-Authoritarian Movement Athens and Nosotros EKX, we co-hosted a video presentation in which anarchist organizers from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia speak about how people are experiencing...
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AntiJob: The Russian Anarchist Labor Site that Terrifies the Bosses : An...
Since 2001, the collectively-run website Antijob.net has provided a “blacklist of employers,” offering a space for laborers in Russia to report on their negative experiences at work. As Russian media...
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