The basic democratic idea is rule by the people. That is democratic politics is politics under the control of some popularly defined grouping. In liberal democratic nation-states that group in who's name the state rules is the legally defined citizen of the nation who is either a descendent
Due to extensive research by labour historian Dmitri Rublev we are able to publish, for the first time in English, letters written by Arshinov to prominent Bolsheviks as well as correspondence between Bolshevik leaders among themselves discussing the efforts of Arshinov to 'decompose' anarchism. In Part Three, we
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AMERICAN CONTINENTAL WORKERS' ASSOCIATION (ACWA) Open Letter of Denunciation and Solidarity To the public, social movements, and workers: The American Continental Workers’ Association (ACWA) strongly denounces the maneuver of the International Confederation of Labor (ICL) in Spain to use the repressive structures of the State to evict the CNT-IWA
Recently, Trump’s DOJ has reported that the Epstein client list doesn’t exist despite the Trump administration's earlier promise to release it. Well, kind of. Trump was actually apprehensive about releasing files on Epstein in an interview a while back. But the news is, Trump is a
Liberté Ouvrière
The connections between the Chicago anarchists and the Metis rebellion may seem like historical footnotes. Indeed, they have been largely overlooked. However, they should be viewed as integral parts of anarchist praxis at the time and reveal more deep understandings of the importance of Indigenous land defense within active working-class
Due to extensive research by labour historian Dmitri Rublev we are able to publish for the first time in English letters written by Arshinov to prominent Bolsheviks as well as correspondence between Bolshevik leaders among themselves discussing the efforts of Arshinov to 'decompose' anarchism. In this letter, Arshinov
Most often when proposing Anarchism to people who are not initiated in revolutionary politics the biggest questions said people have relate to how exactly an Anarchist society would function. All parties to the conversation need to accept that spelling out the institutional detail of a society that replaces capitalism is
For some time now, researchers from the Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (KRAS), the Russian affiliate of the International Workers Association (IWA) have been trawling through the thousands of documents now found in the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History. The documents found thus far provide far greater detail
We are living in an ecological emergency. The combination of greenhouse gas emissions and pollution is rapidly degrading the life-sustaining capacities of earth ecosystems. Eco-degradation is no longer an issue for our grandchildren to worry about as we are bombarded by extreme weather events and a 6th mass extinction of
