Political Media Review

Maria Nikiforova, ‘Marusya,’ an early 20th century Ukrainian Anarchist is an elusive figure in the history of the Russian Revolution and the Ukrainian Civil War. As the only published book in English about Maryusa, Atamansha by Malcom Archibad is dedicated to providing her story to the English-Speaking world.

Derrick Jensen just won’t quit, that’s for sure. The word “prolific” doesn’t really do Jensen’s output justice; this guy is like an anarcho-primitivist version of Stephen King. And much like Stephen King, he’s constantly finding new ways to evoke a feeling of terror in his readers.

AAARRRGGGGHHHH, Matey! I was one of the kids who grew up thinking that pirates were, well, cool as shit. Swashbucklers had evil-looking flags and tattoos, they wore eyepatches, they were fearless bandits, hedonistic drunks, and nationless nomads.

Contemporary introductions to anarchism are rare considering the veritable explosion of interest in anarchism since the Battle of Seattle (when a loose coalition of trade unionists, environmentalists, anarchists, animal advocates, and many others shut down the World Trade Organization’s conference in 1999).

To many anarchists, the idea of an “ethnographic study of the global justice movement” may seem problematic. Whether it be matters of security culture or the question of an outsider coming into a culture and telling the rest of the world about them, people I’ve talked to, without knowing Graeber’s work, often seemed skeptical.

As I watched Sacco and Vanzetti, an 80-minute-long documentary by Peter Miller, it drew me to the point of grabbing my pen, and paper and rewinding the film over and over again so not to miss an important fact, interview, or scene about one of the most famous political trials in U.S. history.