https://znetwork.org/category/topic/vision-strategy/anarchy/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:02:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/topic/vision-strategy/anarchy/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/socialism-from-bernie-to-mamdani/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/socialism-from-bernie-to-mamdani/#respond Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:50:00 +0000 Dan Chiasson joins me to discuss his combined Bernie and Burlington biography, Bernie for Burlington, and the connections between Bernie’s socialism and Mamdani’s socialism. You can purchase Dan’s book here: https://flyleafbooks.com/book/9780593317495 Here’s Dan’s article about Mamdani: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/06/have-you-met-z-zohran-mamdani/ And we discuss Corey Robin’s piece on socialist excellence: https://coreyrobin.com/2025/11/15/excellence-over-mediocrity-from-mamdani-to-marx-to-food/]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/socialism-from-bernie-to-mamdani/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/anarchist-economic-vision-michael-albert-on-the-circled-a/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/anarchist-economic-vision-michael-albert-on-the-circled-a/#respond Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:26:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289860 American Anarchist author Michael Albert joins yodet to talk about the question of what economics looks like in an anarchist society. We also pay tribute to former Black Panther, Assata Shakur. Music by Lesblackwellmusic.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/anarchist-economic-vision-michael-albert-on-the-circled-a/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-the-future-was-now-prefigurative-politics-and-the-carnation-revolution/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-the-future-was-now-prefigurative-politics-and-the-carnation-revolution/#respond Fri, 02 May 2025 14:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283246 Note from the editors The translation of this article by Raquel Varela and Roberta Della Santa began as a collaboration between Posle and LeftEast in 2024, marking the 50 year anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. We are publishing it now, in 2025, a year marking the independence of Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau as well as the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-the-future-was-now-prefigurative-politics-and-the-carnation-revolution/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dispatches-from-asheville-the-utopia-we-dream-of-becomes-most-visible-in-the-dark/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dispatches-from-asheville-the-utopia-we-dream-of-becomes-most-visible-in-the-dark/#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273686 The following are several dispatches from Firestorm, a radical anarchist community center and cooperative bookstore in Asheville, NC, which in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, has become a growing hub of mutual aid and autonomous disaster relief efforts in the area. September 29 We’re four days into the most significant natural disaster in the recorded [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dispatches-from-asheville-the-utopia-we-dream-of-becomes-most-visible-in-the-dark/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/vote-for-joe-and-overthrow-him-anyway/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/vote-for-joe-and-overthrow-him-anyway/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:05:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268984 It is certain that justice demands of us our labors.  Perhaps, if we were the true and honest laborers of justice, we would make common cause.  Perhaps, in our justifiable action, we would enter The House of the White, and out we would drag Joe Biden.   We would string him up by the feet, a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/vote-for-joe-and-overthrow-him-anyway/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-history-of-class-struggle-anarchism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-history-of-class-struggle-anarchism/#respond Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:46:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268176 Zoe Baker’s book Means and Ends is a comprehensive look at the revolutionary class-struggle anarchist movement as it existed and developed in the period from the International Workingmen’s Association of 1864-78 to the defeat of the anarchist and syndicalist-inspired revolution in Spain in 1939. Although the book is not about the writings of famous anarchist [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-history-of-class-struggle-anarchism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-another-anarchism-possible/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-another-anarchism-possible/#respond Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:12:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264569 Matthew Wilson teaches at Prifysgol Abertawe (Swansea University) where he lectures on People, Organisation and Business. He is an active participant in the UK cooperative movement and is the author of Rules Without Rulers: The Possibilities and Limits of Anarchism. The questions were compiled by Mark Evans who is a member of Real Utopia’s Outreach and Events Team. We [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-another-anarchism-possible/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ursula-le-guins-radical-utopias-still-resonate-today/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ursula-le-guins-radical-utopias-still-resonate-today/#respond Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:06:24 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1256186 “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution.” This is the core of the message that the anarchist Shevek proclaims to a mass demonstration of syndicalist and socialist workers gathered in Capitol Square in the city of Nio Esseia on the planet of Urras in Ursula K. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ursula-le-guins-radical-utopias-still-resonate-today/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-always-darkest-before-the-dawn-how-russian-anarchists-today-struggle-for-revolution/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-always-darkest-before-the-dawn-how-russian-anarchists-today-struggle-for-revolution/#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1238385 While it might seem that the neoliberal consensus has broken in some Western countries, in the post-socialist space discourses of privatization and individualization are so strong that we can hardly speak about a crisis of the neoliberal order. It is even harder to imagine some radical change in the West and almost impossible to speak [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-always-darkest-before-the-dawn-how-russian-anarchists-today-struggle-for-revolution/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/a-practical-guide-to-revolution/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/a-practical-guide-to-revolution/#respond Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:40:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1234044 We need a social revolution to build a better future. But how is that process carried out? What tactics and strategies are needed to fundamentally transform the socioeconomic and political order? How do we combine a range of acts of confrontation, noncooperation, and prefiguration to reshape our world? Let’s find out. Introduction – 0:00 Affinity [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/a-practical-guide-to-revolution/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/revolution-in-the-21st-century/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/revolution-in-the-21st-century/#respond Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1232534 The word syndicalism is borrowed from French. Directly translated it simply means a movement of labor unions, but syndicalism is not just any union movement. Syndicalists aim for a vision beyond both capitalism and nation-states. In their heydays, syndicalists launched general strikes and armed insurrections, especially in the Spanish Revolution of 1936. In Sweden, however [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/revolution-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/preparing-for-the-apocalypse-the-rational-way/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/preparing-for-the-apocalypse-the-rational-way/#respond Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:00:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1223478 Preparedness, especially when it’s called ‘prepping’, has a bad name, and for good reason. The prevalent image of the prepper is a right-wing, white, middle-class cis man in his 40s or 50s who stockpiles guns, food and ammunition, prioritised in roughly that order. You can watch reality TV shows about this guy, or YouTube channels [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/preparing-for-the-apocalypse-the-rational-way/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-free-stores-fight-waste-connect-communities-and-foster-resilience/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-free-stores-fight-waste-connect-communities-and-foster-resilience/#respond Fri, 19 Aug 2022 15:11:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1200027 For many people, the daily reality is dire: As of May 2022, 58 percent of Americans (approximately 150 million adults) are living paycheck to paycheck. Inflation recently hit a 40-year high, with prices for food, rent, energy, and basic consumer goods increasing by the day.  Despite this, the federal minimum wage remains locked in at $7.25 an hour — [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-free-stores-fight-waste-connect-communities-and-foster-resilience/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/enclaves-of-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/enclaves-of-democracy/#respond Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:13:02 +0000 https://zcomm-staging.work/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1067852 Congratulations to some of Labour’s leading figures, who have begun to discover some 19th Century proposals for political reform. Proportional representation, devolution from the centre, abolition of the House of Lords: a few senior Labour politicians are now taking the radical step of daring to contemplate these “radical” innovations. While I have nothing against 19th Century solutions to our [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/enclaves-of-democracy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mutual-aid-groups-that-arose-during-covid-gather-to-build-power-regionally/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mutual-aid-groups-that-arose-during-covid-gather-to-build-power-regionally/#respond Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:29:22 +0000 More than two years after ad-hoc networks of collective care sprouted from the cracks of state neglect during the pandemic, mutual aid organizers across the U.S. are convening in Indiana this July to prepare these networks to face crisis, disasters and survival for the long haul. “To the extent that we engage in this work [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mutual-aid-groups-that-arose-during-covid-gather-to-build-power-regionally/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-anarchist-architecture-could-help-us-build-back-better-after-covid/ 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