The Voice of an Especifismo Militant

A Response to Daniel Rashid’s “Popular Power or Class Power” by Carl Eugene Stroud Note: This is the original text of a Spanish translation that was published by Regeneración Libertaria and can be found here: https://regeneracionlibertaria.org/2025/07/03/la-voz-de-un-militante-del-especifismo/ Ideas move, especially influential ones. Translation is part of this movement, as is education. Of course, some ideas end […]

Self-Management: Guillén’s Alternative

Translation note:The following is a translation by Carl Eugene Stroud of a chapter from the biography by Jose Luis Carretero titled Abraham Guillén Guerrilla y autogestión. In his last major works (“Economía libertaria”, “Socialismo libertario”, and “Economía Autogestionaria”), Abraham Guillén makes a final summary of his basic economic perspective, leading up to his main theoretical […]

Not Everything that Shines Leads to Popular Power

by Sergio HkBk, Carla Morato, and Miguel Brea (anarcho-syndicalists and platformists) translated by CES and comrades Organized and non-institutional political spaces are at a historical impasse. They’re quickly approaching a theoretical ‘boiling point’. Between this political cycle finally drawing to a close and the new one just starting to emerge, lots of different projects with […]

The Trans Response to the Right’s Attacks: Analysis and Proposals

Translator introduction As a trans person and committed anarchist living through the right-wing’s rapid and effective assault on trans existence in the United States, it’s clear that the need for powerful and effective mass organizing is of life and death urgency. Yet, for the most part, the responses I see tend to mirror those criticized […]

¡hacia la recuperación del vector social!

Without a consistent revolutionary theory, tactics and strategy are easily confused

We understand strategy as a framework with a specific content. It makes general guidelines within a broad context. These are parameters for action at different fronts and between different camps. This is why strategy, for us, is fundamentally about coordination over time.

The difference between comrades and enemies might seem obvious, but in practice it’s never as clear as it is in theory

We have to consider more than just what people believe; we have to consider what they do.

Political organization: how, why, and to what ends

We have to focus our reflections on concrete needs we have because, if we don’t clearly name the needs, a specific organization risks becoming a depoliticizing, essentializing and time-consuming space.

Producing reality through a process of rupture

We see social force as the potential for carrying out the revolutionary project to its intended goal.

The Passion and Martyrdom of the Middle Class

by Jose Luis Carretero Miramar translated by the Center for Especifismo Studies [1] The Spanish middle class is languishing, or at least that social group that called itself “middle class” for the last fifty years. Its main outlets for development and growth are looking less and less reliable (academic degrees, public employment, the Welfare State, […]