Official news is elsewhere. Society broadcasts to itself its own image of its own history, a history reduced to a superficial and static pageant of its rulers — the persons who embody the apparent inevitability of whatever happens. The world … Continue reading →| Autonomies
Sylvain George From lundi matin #486, 01/09/2025 A few months ago, the Madleen was intercepted by the Israeli army a few kilometres off the coast of Gaza. On August 31, a flotilla of several dozen boats set sail for the … Continue reading →| Autonomies
The first step in a political strategy worthy of the name is therefore the search for a way out of the false relationships into which power has placed people in order to govern them. But this is precisely not easy, because a false relationship is precisely one from which there is no visible way out. Something like a way out becomes possible only if we understand that the false relationship is the very form of power, that to be in a false relationship is to be in a relationship of power. That ...| autonomies.org
Christian Ferrer One In every city in the world, no matter how small, there is at least one person who calls themselves an anarchist. This solitary and unusual presence must conceal a meaning that transcends the order of politics, just … Continue reading →| Autonomies
Christian Ferrer What will remain of the word “anarchists” in a future dictionary? A footnote, the conceptual definition of a sect of conspirators, the cardiogram that recorded the historical ups and downs of an extreme idea, the silhouette of an … Continue reading →| 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
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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
From Freedom News (17/08/25) The co-producer of the landmark documentary film reflects on its legacy amid today’s challenges Joel Sucher Anarchism in America is the title of a documentary produced way back in 1980; a time when the world was a … Continue reading →| Autonomies
Continuing from our previous post: “A meeting between Ubu kings“. Anarchism and Nationalism: On the Subsidiarity of Deconstruction Uri Gordon Anarchists are against nationalism; everyone knows that. Instead of solidarity across borders and anti-hierarchical antagonism within them, nationalism engenders loyalty … Continue reading →| 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