An important place to start is to say that our collective doesn’t have a monopoly on anarchy in the Bournemouth area and that writing anything about the state of movements where autonomy is such a key feature is always going to be vulnerable to missing out things that others are doing but we can only […]
Maybe you’ve read Hwang Dongyun’s book “Anarchism in Korea,” or George Katsiaficas’ essay Peter Kropotkin and People’s Uprisings: From the Paris Commune to the Kwangju Uprising. However, as abundant as such examples of past attempts are, those who called themselves anarchists often did not act like one, and those who did, did not claim to […]
When asked to write this article, I accepted enthusiastically and without hesitation. Admittedly, I love to write and leapt at the chance to work on something other than an instagram caption. (I was of course more eager for an opportunity to reflect on our work). Reflection is something we do everyday as a small team […]
For a year now, we have been publishing regular reports on the situation in Syria and our assessment of it. Even when you are in the region, it is often difficult to untangle the web of events unfolding there — a year ago, we called it 4D chess. And that is still how it feels […]
Every year around July I start asking fellow anarchists around the world what they think is the state or health of Anarchism, globally and locally. Partially this is a prompt for submissions to Spindrift, however deeper than that, it’s become my own annual tradition to gauge what’s going on globally and locally. A time in […]