For thousands of years us human beings have lived in patriarchal societies. These societies are ones in which men monopolize wealth and power. Patriarchal societies don't have to be as extreme as, for instance, Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Even in western liberal democracies men occupy the highest positions
Every year in October, the International Workers' Association (IWA-AIT), a global federation of anarcho-syndicalist organizations, launches its annual campaign against wage theft. This year's campaign will take place from October 12th to October 16th. Officially launched in 2020 and celebrating its 6th anniversary this year, this campaign
Plan work carefully before diving in. Acting like a reckless, blind bull only hurts yourself while leaving obstacles untouched. To truly break a barrier, strike at its foundations.
Published under the pseudonym "Wildcat Wob," this memoir sheds light on the internal dynamics of Melbourne's anarcho-syndicalist movement and the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (ASF) during the 1990s. While externally structured in the style of fiction and appearing exceptionally vivid, fluent, and well-composed, it appears deeply one-sided and
A brief critique of Marxist theories of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat', 'vanguardism', and 'moral-idealism'.
Recently unauthorized activities by the AI agents of the top artificial intelligence companies such as hacking third parties and escaping guardrails have brought conversations about the risk to humanity posed by AI into the public spotlight. Perhaps strangely it is top AI researchers and investors in AI that are sounding
“Democracy can be more than two wolves and a sheep voting on who will become dinner. It can also be, through a grueling process of rotating consensus-building, become one wolf voting with the sheep against the other wolf over who will become dinner, or the sheep, worn down by constant
I would like to start by quoting one of the most important journalists of today, Julian Assange, who was asked about the character of the state I come from: He said that, like several other countries, Serbia is place where the future happens first. That being said, it is important
Despite massive rejection since it was proposed, the revision of the Indonesia Military Law (RUU TNI) was still enacted on March 20, 2025. After the enactment, the rejection from the people escalated and gave birth to massive #TolakRUUTNI (literally translated to reject the revision of the Indonesia Military Law) demonstrations
Anarchism is the political philosophy that calls for replacing all relations of domination with relations of free association. We call for this because we understand that human beings sustain ourselves through free cooperation. When we dominate each other the dominated experience the domination as an alienating force that excludes them
When the Spanish Section of CIT decided to bring multiple lawsuits against the CNT-AIT some years ago, it was very important how they did it. The Secretary of the CNT-CIT, Enrique Hoz, hired a lawyer who filed these suits – without the mandate of the organization to do it. This says
Anarchism, plain and simple.
On September 11 2001 hijackers took control of four flights; flying two planes into the world trade center buildings and another into the Pentagon building, with the fourth intended to be crashed into the capitol building being taken over by passengers and crashing in an open field. Nearly 3000 people
It has already been explained in dozens of texts that the history of human civilization is essentially the history of class struggle. Ever since the breakdown of primitive communist society, the existence of two opposing classes—the exploiters and the exploited—has become inevitable. Although the form of this exploitative
BANGLADESH : The Hilly Valley Awaiting Promised Liberation
Background of Structural Transformation and Theoretical Struggle At every turning point in human history, particularly in the liberation struggle of exploited and oppressed working people, theoretical clarity has always played a central role. In the current capitalist and bureaucratic world order, merely transferring state power or capital cannot bring about
Watchdoc’s investigative documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) explicitly and undeniably dismantles the deeply rooted blood ties between military institutions, the state apparatus, and the circulation of capital in Papua. In this heart wrenching film, it is made perfectly clear how the expansion of New Autonomous Regions (DOB) in Papua
Film dokumenter investigatif Pesta Babi garapan Watchdoc dengan sangat telanjang membongkar relasi darah yang mengakar kuat antara institusi militer, aparatus negara, dan sirkulasi modal di tanah Papua. Dalam dokumenter yang menyayat hati tersebut, diperlihatkan dengan gamblang dan tak terbantahkan bagaimana pemekaran Daerah Otonomi Baru (DOB) di Papua (yang kerap dibungkus
In the long and complex intellectual trajectory of political and social movements, a fundamental question has always come to the fore: which party, religion, philosophy, or ideology is genuinely capable of liberating human beings? In the realm of philosophical practice, the dialectical currents of the East and the West have
Marx's corpus not only produced the most detailed critical analysis of capitalism to ever be produced, but it immediately spawned, with the help of his collogue Friedrich Engels, a new system of thought and practice that would become dominant in the radical labor movement through the second international
In my article on the Russian Revolution I explained the process by which the first communist state in world history came into existence. In 1922 this state became known as the Soviet Union. Those who embrace the official ideology that ultimately took root within it think of it as a
The basics of Rule and Anti-Rule
From the dawn of human civilization to the complex geopolitical and information-technology-driven era of the twenty-first century, "religion" has never remained confined within a bounded circle of belief or formal ritualistic phenomena; rather, it has established itself as the most influential psychological driving force of human existence, the
The Russian Revolution was one of the most earth shaking events in human history. It created the first ever communist state in the world and thereby gave rise to a new international communist movement that ascended to power throughout the global south and Eastern Europe. For Anarchists the Russian Revolution