The following was originally published in French by La Horde on November 3, 2023, translated and published here with kind permission of the author and La Horde. (Thanks to Sally Strange for editing help!) Yesterday, November 2, in the Monastiraki subway station, right next to the Acropolis and the touristy…

The following was originally published in French by La Horde on November 3, 2023, translated and published here with kind permission of the author and La Horde. On November 2, a group of 40 neo-Nazis ambushed anarchists and refugees in a subway as they were returning from a demonstration, and…

I hadn’t yet started my last year of primary school when that fruitful period of my life was suddenly interrupted. What I had anticipated and feared finally happened: a year after my mother died, my stepfather started a new relationship and the rest of us had to leave. Our old…

The internal disintegration of the Third Republic undoubtedly helped strengthen the anarchist movement a great deal. The situation in France was completely different from Germany and most of Eastern Europe, where people were not yet acquainted with bourgeois democracy or a genuine parliamentary system of governance, and could therefore still…

I was about 13 years old the first time I read a purely socialist pamphlet. It was called Der Zeitgeist by E.K. and it was published in the 1870s, though it was later banned under Germany’s Anti-Socialist Law. A young beginner couldn’t have had a better introduction to socialist thought…

The following is the latest installment from my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker’s memoirs. This section is Rocker’s heartbreaking account of the death of his mother, when Rocker was only about 12 or 13 years old (ca. 1886). Last week, I posted a brief excerpt about the death of his…

This excerpt is tellingly short: Rocker was very young when his father died, so he didn’t have a lot of memories of him. Still, much of Rocker’s later worldview seems to have been formed by growing up in a supportive extended family and in a city where, in his view…

I’m working on a book-length translation of Rudolf Rocker’s memoirs for PM Press. Rocker (1873–1958) was a labor organizer, orator, and leading early theorist of anarcho-syndicalism. The text below is the first draft excerpt that I’m publishing here. I intend to publish additional drafts at least once a week until…

In eight years of working together, the Antifa International collective has engaged in an astonishing range of projects. They’re the ones who organize the International Antifascist Defense Fund as well as the International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners, a T-Shirt of the Month project to support local groups around…