By Deric Shannon
Over the summer I had the pleasure of staying in Madrid with my brother. Most of my time was spent relaxing and recovering from work, but I did take some time to meet up with local comrades …
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25th Anniversary of the Hormel Strike
Some 25 years ago, the workers at the Austin, Minnesota plant of the Hormel Corp. embarked on a long and brave fight. A fight which was not only right but fought “from below”. This fight and the rank-and-file efforts to …
Read moreLet’s Talk About Another Burning Color: Black Flame vs. Red Fire Extinguisher?
by Nate Hawthorne
In this article I discuss the treatment of marxism in a recent book on the anarchist tradition, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. I argue that the book’s treatment of marxism is …
Read moreVacant Hotel Occupied
by Tom Wetzel
On July 19th members of Direct Action to Stop the Cuts occupied a vacant 41-room hotel in San Francisco’s Mission District. The action was intended to demonstrate the city’s inaction on housing. While thousands of people sleep …
Read moreBlack Bloc-Headed
By Steven Fake
In the wake of the G8/G20 economic summit protests in Toronto, Canada this past weekend, black bloc demonstrators have once again sparked discussion on the left and hysterics in the corporate media. Closely linked to anarchism, the …
Read moreVictory in Fight for Union Freedom in Germany
The German Free Workers Union (FAU) has won its appeal on the right to call itself a “union”. The appeals court based its decision on freedom of speech, that people have a right to express their opinion of what a …
Read moreReview: International Socialist Review on “Contemporary Anarchism”
by Tom Wetzel
The word “anarchism” is a rather vague word that covers such a wide variety of political views and approaches it is often hard to see how they have anything in common. This means it is also probably …
Read moreThe BP Oil Spill
By Kevin Limiti and Frank Rizal
Sometimes we spend so much time focusing on past events that we forget the alarming and most damning evidence against Capitalism and the State is right in the headlines of the New York Times. …
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