Why no political party is worthy of Bhagat Singh’s legacy

Edit DNA India 24 Mar 2016
-->. No Indian political party should try to appropriate Bhagat Singh's legacy. We’ve done some terrible things over the years to Bhagat Singh’s legacy ... I mean somewhere up there in heaven Bhagat Singh is going ... (Read ... S Irfan Habib, wrote ... Inspired by the writings of Mikhail Bakunin, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, Bhagat Singh gravitated towards the idea of anarchy which must overthrow the government ... He added ... ....

Sanders’ Socialism: Neutering a Radical Tradition

Edit CounterPunch 29 Feb 2016
... socialism, as advocated by revolutionaries such as American unionist Eugene Debs, or Russian socialist-anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, or scores of other radicals throughout history ... Travelling further back in history, the Russian socialist and anarchist Mikhail Bakunin spoke in similar terms about the need for revolution during the late 1860s....

New Atheism, Worse Than You Think

Edit CounterPunch 29 Jan 2016
In the years since the so-called “New Atheism” burst onto the scene in the mid 2000s, the movement has not lacked for critics among nonbelievers and agnostics ... The Politics of a Modern Movement (262 pages) ... “… many faint with toil/ That few may know the cares and woe of sloth.” The anarchist writings of the philosopher William Godwin and the many European and Russian atheistic anarchists who came later (for example, Mikhail Bakunin ... ....

What is anarchism all about?

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 11 Nov 2015
Whenever public protests ignite into violent behaviour, the mainstream media are often quick to refer to “anarchy” and to “anarchists”. Those who are referred to as anarchists are protesters who burn tyres or engage in battles with the police ... The latest example is the in London on November 5 ... Key anarchist thinkers include Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Peter Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, Emma Goldman, and Max Stirner ... Read the ....

The Quiet Haunting

Edit Huffington Post 21 Oct 2015
Moonrise, 1884 Stanislaw Maslowski. A little over two years ago, I went to the closet where I kept a hidden stash of pills, carefully packed them among my things into a small weekend suitcase, made reservations at an inn I had stayed at with my mother when I was a teenager and left for the beach town of my childhood without telling anyone ... So I could remember ... Take the pills or throw them away into the sea ... ••• ... Alvarez ... - Mikhail Bakunin....

Seriously, Syriza Wins Greek Elections Again?

Edit The Daily Beast 21 Sep 2015
On the streets of Athens you learn folks still hate the old parties, and still think Alexis Tsipras leads a new one. One bystander wears a T-shirt bearing the words. “Save the planet. Kill yourself.” It seems to encapsulate the somber mood ... You see graffiti everywhere in Exarchia ... I arrive in the late morning ... Just across the road, pasted onto a wall, are posters of Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian revolutionary anarchist ... “Save the planet....

‘Anarchism could help to save the world’

Edit The Guardian 03 Jul 2015
David Priestland. State socialism has failed, so has the market ... Flying the flag. Photograph ... And once in exile from Russia (persecuted for his revolutionary activity), he devoted himself to reconciling his deep moral outrage at social inequality with his love of science by developing a coherent anarchist vision – marking him out from his less intellectually ambitious anarchist predecessors, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin ... ....

The Life, Loves, Wars and Foibles of Edward Abbey

Edit CounterPunch 15 May 2015
Fifty-three years ago, long before I had heard of Edward Abbey and Abraham Polonsky, I saw a film titled “Lonely are the Brave” that was based on Polonsky’s adaptation of Abbey’s novel “” ... its wilderness ... Arguably they had as much of an impact on the 1960s as the Old Left ... Not only do I have deep affection for both of these personalities, I was reminded of divisions that go back to the days of Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin ...   ....

Ignatius: Bin Laden's last plans revealed

Edit Herald Tribune 07 May 2015
WASHINGTON ... This picture of a cagey, quirky bin Laden, directing a terrorist "great game" from his secret lair in Abbottabad, Pakistan, emerges in eight documents released a few months ago. They were declassified to bolster the U.S ... The documents deserve a closer look ... officials said it was buckling ... Bin Laden speaks in the aristocratic voice of a terrorist-intellectual, a Muslim version of the 19th-century anarchist Mikhail Bakunin ... ....

Bin Laden’s last plans included another attack in US

Edit Stars and Stripes 06 May 2015
This picture of a cagey, quirky bin Laden, directing a terrorist “great game” from his secret lair in Abbottabad, Pakistan, emerges in eight documents released a few months ago. They were declassified to bolster the U.S ... The documents deserve a closer look ... officials said it was buckling ... Bin Laden speaks in the aristocratic voice of a terrorist-intellectual, a Muslim version of the 19th-century anarchist Mikhail Bakunin ...  . ....

Ethan Hawke: ‘I’ve always thought of having a lot of money as a bit embarrassing’

Edit The Irish Times 10 Apr 2015
In Good Kill, Ethan Hawke essays a drone pilot who lives and works out of suburban Las Vegas, even though his primary duties involve surveying and bombing Afghanistan ... “The director Andrew Niccol and I did a sci-fi movie together,” says Hawke ... Good Kill review ... He spent more than six months at New York’s Lincoln Centre playing Mikhail Bakunin in an eight-hour-long production of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy play The Coast of Utopia ... “No....

Where The Anarchists Go In Athens

Edit Huffington Post 09 Apr 2015
By LAURA SECORUN PALET, OZY. “I haven’t seen so much graffiti in my life,” says Emily Tsai, a tourist from Taiwan ... But what it lacks in photo ops, Exarcheia makes up for in dynamism ... “Everybody is welcome here ... Meanwhile, bookworms will enjoy the dozens of independent publishers who reprint the works of Russian revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin and alternative bookstores selling essays on “LSD, Marijuana, Yoga & Hypnosis.” ... ....

Brazilian Government Attacks on Anonymous Rio

Edit Revolution News 03 Jan 2015
The prosecution process became a joke for having Mikhail Bakunin as one of the suspects, but was also very alarming, since it showed that the state is not concerned with truth or legality to choke and intimidate ... Die Staatsanwaltschaft Prozess wurde ein Witz Michail Bakunin als einer der Verdächtigen haben, aber war auch sehr alarmierend, da sie ......
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