Yo! I’m reading the latest (FE #328, Spring 1988) and finding it enjoyable as always, I would like to take issue, however, with your slam on the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL). [See “Even More Minneapolis Anarchy,” FE #328, Spring, 1988.] …
Yo! I’m reading the latest (FE #328, Spring 1988) and finding it enjoyable as always, I would like to take issue, however, with your slam on the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL). [See “Even More Minneapolis Anarchy,” FE #328, Spring, 1988.] …
“If you support this motion, you will not assist the government. You will paralyze it and indeed stand in danger of destroying it” —Jack Jones, veteran trade union leader, pleading with delegates to the convention of the Transport and General …
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on the previous page. To Joe Wojack, first of all, let me emphasize that I was in no way discouraging people from reading the anarchist classics; on …
Related: see “Anarchy, food and sustainability” (theme intro) in this issue. “But what can they hope to gain by attacking the only company that devotes itself exclusively to pure foods? “My guess…Maybe collect data on as many slip-ups as …
The success of the ecological movement in the First World is of vital importance to the movement in the Third. The industrialized societies have always provided the dominant global development model, and unless the paradigm of industrialism is rejected in …
The forces of capital have once again called upon their storm troopers and talking heads to physically and symbolically crush the growing, global anti-capitalist movement. In the United States, building from the tragic embarrassment of September 11 and overreacting to …
What is anarchism? This question continues to crop up as anarchists debate amongst themselves as how to accurately express their perspectives to non-anarchist activists in the antiwar and global justice movements. Subsequently, a new wave of anarchist primers has appeared …
Anarchy as a journey in the human story has a long and crazy road. In fact, it is where the Human Story begins. It is the story of human life before the advent, the institutionalization of the Muthafuckas. (Eldridge Cleaverian …
One Journey into and out of the Anarchist…Black! Read More »
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For too long we have gone on like sleepwalkers as the weapons of total extermination were manufactured and readied. Now it is becoming clear to even the most myopic that nuclear war threatens not only the present configurations of social …