There has been increasing interest in anarchism, with people
around the globe writing and talking about it. A whole new
generation is beginning to discover anarchists from the past
like Emma Goldman and Alexeyevich Kropotkin and a new
documentary is in the works. The word anarchy is swimming
through twitter feeds and Facebook shares, coursing through
avenues of the public mind. Ideas of mutual aid and voluntary
association are becoming more and more relevant as the world
stands in dire need of solutions to the current ballooning
crisis of economic and political corruption. Interestingly, the
word is bandied about by governments with a very different
meaning. On one side, the security apparatus of the US has
generated a demonized version of ‘anarchist’ to promote fear
within the general public by equating it with chaos and
violence. ‘Black Bloc’, ‘terrorist’ and other loaded terms are
associated with anarchism to engender fear and justify
repression. Recently, the FBI raided Northwest activists and
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