Smash the System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance

Jim Donaghey (Editor), Will Boisseau (Editor), Caroline Kaltefleiter (Editor), Participants in the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective, Kevin C Dunn, Rodolfo Montes de Oca, Luke Ray Di Marco Campbell (Translator), Antônio Carlos de Oliveira, João Batista de M Bittencourt, Tiago de Jesus Vieira, Mariana Gabriela Calandra, Maxwell Woods, Asel Luzarraga, Ondřej Daniel, Marko Vojnić, Christos Marneros, Yannis N Kolovos, Jay Kerr, Casey Robertson, M Rizky SasonoJames D Letson, Nathanel Amar

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Abstract

Smash the System! offers a snapshot of anarchist punk as a culture of resistance across the globe. In these diverse and internationalist chapters we witness struggles against racism and colonialism in South Africa, resistance to neo-liberalism and state oppression in Latin America, resistance to police brutality and capitalism in Western, Central and Southeast Europe, struggles for equality and against patriarchy in the US, and anarchist resistance against injustice and authoritarianism in Asia. The common theme is that anarchist punks have consistently sought to SMASH THE SYSTEM, whether that system is capitalism, state socialism, authoritarian communism, the police state, patriarchy, racism, ethno-nationalism, fascism, homophobia, colonialism, neo-liberalism, or the military industrial complex. In doing so anarchist punks have built thriving and diverse cultures of resistance and revitalised the anarchist movement across the world.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationKarlovac, Croatia
Number of pages434
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - 1 Jan 2023

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