AGITATE PRESS

To agitate is to believe the world can burn and bloom again, but only if we light the flame.

Agitation as in, anti-capitalist because it unmasks the theft, the wage, the rent, the debt, the cage.

Agitation as in, anti-authoritarian because it denies the right to overseers.

No cops, no boss, no state above the people.

FEATURED ZINES

Another Word for Settle
A Response to Rattachements and Inhabit
by MTL Counter-Info
February 2021
When we acknowledge the kinds of lives that settler colonialism continues to produce for settlers and try to find the causes for the clear disparity, we equip ourselves with the knowledge of our context necessary to change it in effective ways. When we flee the feelings produced by this disparity by rejecting a label, we may come to believe we can think or magic our way out of real structures. It is the conditions that need to be fought, not the emotions they produce…
Confidence. Courage. Connection. Trust.
A proposal for security culture
by North Shore Counter-Info
November 2019
I want to have the kinds of security practices that allow me to be open while knowing that Ive assessed the risk I face and am taking smart steps to minimize it. Security culture should make openness more possible, not less. This proposal for security culture is based on reframing: on shifting our focus from fear to confidence, from risk aversion to courage, from isolation to connection, and from suspicion to trust.
A Critique of Ally Politics
Excerpt from Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism (AK Press, 2015)
by M. – Sprout Distro
August 2015
This zine is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the anarchist magazine “Rolling Thunder” and that was subsequently republished in the anthology “Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism.” It offers a solid and devastating critique of ally politics, relating both personal experiences and examples of the limits of ally politics alongside larger political arguments. It is a very important piece and one that should be read and discussed widely.