When dealing with difficult ideas and unfamiliar terminology, it can be helpful to use an analogy or take a word out of its familiar context in order to theorize it. Taken out of its typical context and made into an analogy, the concept of the political line can be made more readily available to anarchist […]
Read More The Political LineA 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 […]
Read More The Voice of an Especifismo Militantby 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 […]
Read More Not Everything that Shines Leads to Popular PowerWe 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.
Read More Without a consistent revolutionary theory, tactics and strategy are easily confusedWe have to consider more than just what people believe; we have to consider what they do.
Read More The difference between comrades and enemies might seem obvious, but in practice it’s never as clear as it is in theoryWe 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.
Read More Political organization: how, why, and to what endsWe see social force as the potential for carrying out the revolutionary project to its intended goal.
Read More Producing reality through a process of ruptureRevolutionary strategy has to make sense and be consistent enough to follow even as the situation evolves. It must be sustainable and coherent to effectively hold things together and “prevent unraveling”.
Read More Different from what’s produced by the immediate situation, and different from what’s reproduced by the systemRacism, xenophobia, misogyny, etc. are persistent forces acting against the political solidarity of the oppressed classes.
Read More A new kind of protagonismMilitant style is not a final product or a glossy presentation. It consists of daily tasks that have a strategic direction.
Read More How do we deal with the inevitable zigzagging?
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