“Modern Slavery” is the general term for the collection of all the institutionalized forms of enslavement which provide foundations for each of the local regimes of Modern Civilization.
Continue reading »Paul Z. Simons (May 3rd, 1960 – March 30, 2018)
Our friend and comrade Paul Z. Simons (El Errante) has passed away apparently from a heart attack. He is survived by his 5 children, Nina, Hannah Simons, Max Errickson, and Tristan and Jack Simons. He was born in Utah. He […]
Continue reading »Dispatches from São Paulo: Ayahuasca, Good Work and Santo Daime
El Errante The man in the white shirt holds out the ceramic cup, I take it and drink. The ayahuasca tea tastes like maple syrup, with some fine grit and an earthy aftertaste. I return to my seat and […]
Continue reading »Pure Black: An Emerging Consensus Among Some Comrades?
Paul Z. Simons The term “black” anarchist has been thrown around recently in a number of international milieux and journals. Indeed during the last few years of my travels throughout North and South America and Europe I have noted […]
Continue reading »Raoul Vaneigem: The Other Situationist
Jason McQuinn (Note: The following essay was written as an introduction to the 2012 LBC Books edition of the 1983 Donald Nicholson-Smith translation of Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations under the new title of Treatise on […]
Continue reading »Dispatches from Greece Three: Notes from two months in Exarcheia
El Errante “Come and get food, Motherfuckers!” The call, in a slight accent, echoes down the marble steps of the squat—the daily common meal is ready. In many ways this call for food encapsulates the nature of squatting in Greece. […]
Continue reading »Dispatches from Greece Two: The Exarcheia Commune Rises and Defends Itself, a Review of the Battle
El Errante “Ons Danse le Lachrymo…” Graffiti, France, July 2016 (transl. “We Dance the Teargas”) “Comrade, will you watch these while I throw one?” He is tall, masked from head to toe in black, and is known to me. […]
Continue reading »Dispatches from Greece One: Vox, and Crossing the Rubicon
El Errante (All material in this dispatch was approved for release by the relevant parties) “We were in an Assembly at the Polytechnic discussing solidarity with political prisoners, and many were interested in helping with money and support. No one […]
Continue reading »Max Stirner: mixed bag with a pomo twist
A review by Jason McQuinn Max Stirner edited by Saul Newman (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2011) 223 pages, $90.00 hardcover. One more sign of the ongoing revival of interest in the still-generally-ignored seminal writings of Max Stirner is the appearance […]
Continue reading »Lessons from Rojava: Democracy and Commune; This and That
El Errante Democracy—”a system of government in which all the people of a state or polity … are involved in making decisions about its affairs, typically by voting to elect representatives to a parliament or similar assembly,” (a:) “government by […]
Continue reading »In a moral Universe, there are no anarchists; Hakim Bey, Robert P. Helms, and leave out the liberal
El Errante (Before you continue, know that this article is wholly my responsibility, that Hakim Bey has neither seen, read, nor is aware of its existence. I take full responsibility for its content.) Better late than never. It’s been a […]
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