An interview, from Crimethinc. (13/10/2025) Beginning with the toppling of the president of Sri Lanka in 2022 and the 2024 uprising in Bangladesh, a new revolutionary ferment has begun to spread around the world, gaining momentum with the uprising in Indonesia in August 2025 … Continue reading →| Autonomies
From Sidecar/New Left Review (16/10/2025) The gallery of grotesques assembled by Trump – only the toga was missing in his rendering of the Roman Emperor Nero – at Sharm-el-Sheikh, the Egyptian resort synonymous with luxury and despotism, dutifully celebrated ‘Peace … Continue reading →| Autonomies
“An age of barbarism is beginning, and science will be at its service.” The age of barbarism is not yet over, and Nietzsche’s diagnosis is now being confirmed. The sciences are so attentive to satisfying and even anticipating every demand … Continue reading →| Autonomies
From Ill Will (07/10/2025) Continuing the reflections begun in “Why War?,” “Political Conditions of a New World Order,” and “The Impasses of Western Critical Thought,” philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato argues that the shape of the next phase of history will not … Continue reading →| Autonomies
Ah ! saleté ! le mauvais droit ne vaut-il pas le bon?/Ah, crap! Isn’t Wrong worth the same as Right? Alfred Jarry, Ubu roi We fascists are the only true anarchists, naturally, once we’re masters of the state. In fact, … Continue reading →| Autonomies
The theory of the revolution certainly does not depend on the sole area of properly scientific ideas, and still less on the construction of a speculative achievement, or on the aesthetic of that fiery manner of speech that contemplates itself … Continue reading →| Autonomies
From Checkpont 300 (2017)| Autonomies
From lundimatin #490, 01/10/2025 I am nothingand my words are fleetinglike me,among people but passing through, that is whyI speak of you. Bassam Hajjar Is it absolute madness that has taken hold of Zionism, driving this ideology born in the … Continue reading →| Autonomies
Pouvoir et puissance – Refuser de parvenir: une joie pure/Power and potentiality – To refuse to reach for a goal: a pure joy[1] Sébastien Charbonnier lundi matin #487, 09/09/2025 The philosopher Sébastien Charbonnier has just published his remarkable book Pouvoir … Continue reading →| Autonomies
BOAB Bologna Anarchist Bookfair September 5, 6, and 7, 2025 After many years of interruption of the major anarchist book fairs in Italy, such as the one that was periodically organized in Florence with its debates and book exhibitions, some … Continue reading →| Autonomies
Until the environment is collectively dominated, there will be no real individuals — only specters haunting the objects anarchically presented to them by others. In chance situations we meet separated people moving randomly. Their divergent emotions neutralize each other and reinforce their solid environment of boredom. As long as we are unable to make our own history, to freely create situations, our striving toward unity will give rise to other separations. The quest for a unified activit...| Autonomies
Christian Ferrer’s work on anarchism is among the most erudite and eloquent that we know. Refusing to limit himself to merely describing anarchist acts of militancy, or to fruitless ideological debates, he unearths what we could call the “longue durée” of anarchism’s history; its subterranean movements that were fed and feed still so much more than the spectacle of political commentary would lead us to believe.| Autonomies
Marc Chagall, On the way, On the Road or The Wandering Jew/En route, Sur le chemin ou Le Juif errant, 1925| Autonomies
From The Wonders of Creation by Zakariya ibn Muhammad Qazwini, circa 1283. Source: Library of Congress| Autonomies
Monthly Archives: August 2025 | autonomies.org
September 28, 1982 To my Arab Jewish brothers and sisters oppressed in Israel: My brothers, my sisters, I am writing to you from the depths of this prison where I am held as a revolutionary by this…| Autonomies
we seek beyond historyfor a new and more possible meeting. Audre Lorde The image of two men aspiring to absolute national power and imperial expansion meeting to discuss the parcelling out of a cou…| Autonomies
A reflection on the necessary uselessness of radical thought-practice, published with Lobo suelto! (11/08/2025) Produce or die is the motto of the West. Pierre Clastres They want to force us to gov…| Autonomies
A grounded reflection on “anarchist ways” from the Seattle Solidarity Network, published with CrimethInc. (10/07/2025) Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network In…| Autonomies
A reflection on Fascism, by Alessandro Stella, published with Lundimatin #402, 06/11/2023. Many people, unfortunately, have an outdated image of fascism, made up of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and ot…| Autonomies
