Students for a Stateless Society

The time is now for S4SS!

S4SS Admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:36:00 +0000

2012 elections are upon us. We are seeing great divides in the movement amongst libertarian statists and libertarian anarchists. Many are caving further and further into the political process, although everyday we see great losses for liberty using this method.

Once great libertarian organizations are becoming statist and tyrannical in the way that they manage [...]

James Guillaume and the St. Imier International: anarchists against the reds

Xavier Everaert — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:38:52 +0000

In 1923, the war for leadership in the power vacuum of post-Tsarist Russia was decided in favor of the Bolsheviks. The anarchists were prosecuted, banished, sometimes executed. In order to prevent anarchist insurgents from revolting against the newly installed Marxist government in Moscow, Lenin ordered Trotsky to find a way to keep the anarchists “intellectually [...]

Feminism without the facepalms: remembering the life and work of Betty Friedan

Xavier Everaert — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:14:54 +0000

On February 4th, we remember one of the great feminists of our time: the American writer and activist Betty Friedan. She is remembered today as a well-spoken and intelligent defender of women’s rights and approached subjects such as sexism and gender-rolls from a psychological, rather than a sociological point of view. In the sixties and [...]

The Anarcho-poetry of W.H. Auden

Xavier Everaert — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:26:56 +0000

Happy Birthday W.H. Auden!

(To JS/07/M/378) This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be

One against whom there was no official complaint,

And all the reports on his conduct agree

That, in the modern sense [...]

Why We Should Be Able to Opt Out (Once and For All)!

Stacy Litz — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:58:33 +0000

Upon hearing the news that a court ruled in favor of the police discriminating against inducting new officers with high IQs (125, not even that high), I think that the government has royally fucked itself over.

Until now, the government would like you to think that it is made up of the smart individuals who determine and enforce [...]

The SeaFrance case: French State decides workers-owned companies are “neither viable nor acceptable”

Xavier Everaert — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:23:43 +0000

Last Monday, January 9th 2012, the Appellate Commerce Court in Paris liquidated the French ferry firm SeaFrance, after the European Commission ruled the bail-out by the French government to be illegal. A very unfortunate event. Not because of the inability for the French State to nationalize yet another service economy enterprise, but because of the [...]

Remembering Nikolai Tchaikovsky: lessons from the Narodniks

Xavier Everaert — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:07:58 +0000

On January 7th, we remember the birthday of Nikolai Tchaikovsky (1851 – 1926), one of the great Russian anarchist intellectuals and founder of the famous Circle of Tchaikovsky. He was a strong opponent of violence and Bolshevism, and always propagated class reconciliation as a means to achieve a free society, not class warfare.

In the [...]

Happy Birthday Bob Black

Xavier Everaert — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:44:25 +0000

On January 4th we celebrate the birthday of one of the most influential contemporary anarchist thinkers in the US: Bob Black.

Black is mostly known for his contemporary works on anarchist thought and anarchist epistemology such as “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, “Beneath the Underground”, “Friendly Fire” and “After Anarchism”. Anarchists who use [...]

Food for thought: the case of the Muffin man

Xavier Everaert — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:23:49 +0000

Interesting Appellate Court case finally ruled in my native town of Ghent (Belgium) this morning. Last year, 51 year-old Steven De Geynst from Temse was detained by police authorities after staff members of a local supermarket caught him red-handed while he was stealing two bags of muffins from one of the supermarket’s waste containers. He [...]

Remembering Henry Miller and the government’s war on “obscenity”

Xavier Everaert — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:44:59 +0000

Henry Miller (1891 – 1980) was one of the few notable surrealist novelists in America and a revolutionary literary virtuoso. I want to talk to you about his most renowned and controversial novel: “Tropic of Cancer”, first published in France in 1934. Aside from its controversial introduction in the US, the book counts as one [...]