Žižek’s 360 Degrees of Liberal Hegemony This essay is a critique of Slavoj Žižek's essay in Underground Theory (2023), and by extension, of a number of his statements regarding the war…
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement - Akinyele Omowale Umoja Akinyele Omowale Umoja demonstrates how black armed resistance was critical to the…
The Failure of Gelderloos: is violence necessary for liberation? A paper critiquing the second book by Peter Gelderloos on nonviolence, The Failure of Nonviolence.
The New World Disorder, Wars And Pacifism Right from the start of the war in Ukraine, Western imperialism has insisted it is all about an aggressor and a victim, and the defence of…
Non-Activity From Wikipedia: "Non-Activity" is an 1893 article by Leo Tolstoy and also the term used to describe Tolstoy's form of anarchist and pacifist thought. This thinking of Tolsoty's was…
The First Step An 1891 work espousing complete nonviolence, stemming from vegetarianism, this essay was translated in 1909 by Aylmer Maud. Note that there are many "slightly altered" versions of this essay…
The Other White Vigilante - Peter Gelderloos Peter Gelderloos looks at the harmful role of “progressive” white vigilantes in resistance movements.
No Justice, No Peace - Asad Haider Asad Haider explores the concepts of peace and justice in the thought of Martin Luther King. This article was first published by Viewpoint…
Counterinsurgency: dousing the flames of Minneapolis As people rise up against police violence and structural racism, what counterinsurgency techniques is the state deploying to attack and undermine…
Against Pacifism Of the many utopian positions widespread in the left today, some of the most persistent – and misguided – are various manifestations of pacifism. At its core, this type of thinking can be…
Aristophanic pacifism The late WILBUR BURTON’s article first appeared in the Autumn 1951 issue of Retort, the anarchist journal which used to be published at Bearsville, New York by Holley Cantine and Dachine Rainer, by whose kind permission it is reprinted.
Why pacifists aren't as bad as Peter Gelderloos says they are A critical review Peter Gelderloos' How Nonviolence Protects the State, a much-read but rarely…
