A Radical Podcast

Part of the 20th NYC Anarchist Bookfair (2026) https://www.radical-guide.com/anarchist-international-workshops-2026/ A Radical Guide co-hosts with the NYC Anarchist Book Fair Collective the 20th NYC Anarchist Book Fair International Workshops. Nine sessions this year, from the Philippines, Greece, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Support A Radical Guide: https://www.radical-guide.com/ways-to...

Part of the 20th NYC Anarchist Bookfair (2026) https://www.radical-guide.com/anarchist-international-workshops-2026/ Many Struggles, One Fight: Building Autonomous Intercommunal Power, Direct Action Strategies and Revolutionary General Strike NetworksFor generations, the oppressed have been coerced into petitioning, voting, and protesting within a system engineered from its inception to protect wh...

Part of the 20th NYC Anarchist Bookfair (2026) https://www.radical-guide.com/anarchist-international-workshops-2026/ The death of God did not free us from domination. It tore the social fabric, emboldened the profiteers, and left us alone in front of a silent, cold, and indifferent universe: the capitalist universe. Traditional communities were dissolved, and what replaced them was not the insurge...

Part of the 20th NYC Anarchist Bookfair (2026) https://www.radical-guide.com/anarchist-international-workshops-2026/ How do we build a world without masters when we still play the role of master in our private lives? Relationship Anarchy is far more than a dating philosophy, it is a vital form of prefigurative politics. It is the active practice of interrogating how state hegemony, white supremacy...

Part of the 20th NYC Anarchist Bookfair (2026) https://www.radical-guide.com/anarchist-international-workshops-2026/ Well-known radical feminist Silvia Federici will discuss some of her recent work, with an emphasis on the current hunger-strikers in New York City, and others, mostly immigrant women, demonstrating against unjust legislation regarding home health care work.https://nomore24.org/Suppo...

Part of the 20th NYC Anarchist Bookfair (2026) https://www.radical-guide.com/anarchist-international-workshops-2026/ Community organizing has always been a part of counter surveillance. Cop Watching is often considered an activity unto itself whereas, historically, it has been embedded with other forms of community organizing. Chris Robé, author of "Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Acti...

Part of the 20th NYC Anarchist Bookfair (2026) https://www.radical-guide.com/anarchist-international-workshops-2026/ This workshop introduces the Resilient Communities Program (RESCOM), a grassroots framework developed by Mutual Aid Disaster Relief – Search and Rescue (MADR-SAR) to strengthen community autonomy, collective resilience, and mutual aid. While many communities are exposed to a wide ra...

Hosted by the NYC Anarchist Book Fair Collective and A Radical Guide. This year, we hosted nine sessions from the Philippines, Greece, Canada, Mexico, and the United States.https://www.radical-guide.com/anarchist-international-workshops-2026/Support A Radical Guide: https://www.radical-guide.com/ways-to-support/

On February 15, A Radical Guide sat down with organizers from General Strike U.S. to talk about what it takes to build a movement that holds together — through uncertainty, across distance, and toward something bigger than any single action. General Strike U.S. is a decentralized grassroots movement organizing toward a nationwide general strike. They work through local chapters focused on mutual a...

If movements reject hierarchical power, what do they build in its place? In Episode 3 of A Podcast for Radicals, we explore prefigurative politics—the principle that we create the world we want through how we organize today. The future society isn't something we build after winning; it's something we practice now. We examine how worker cooperatives, community land trusts, consensus decisio...

What makes authority legitimate? And what does it mean to reject the logic of power? In this episode, we explore why radicals reject hierarchical domination, the difference between "power over" and "power with," and how movements practice horizontal organizing at a massive scale. We draw on the anarchist tradition - Bakunin, Kropotkin, Malatesta - to understand why revolutionar...

Can hierarchical methods produce liberatory outcomes? Episode 1 of Means and Ends in Radical Action explores why anarchist movements insist that how we organize must reflect what we're fighting to build. We break down four specific ways organizing methods shape what movements can create: 👉Methods develop capacities 👉Methods transform consciousness 👉Methods create precedents 👉Methods build...

In Part 2 of this State of the World Forum “Code Red” segment, Jason Bayless is asked how to connect the dots across so many urgent issues. His response centers on liberation as a question communities return to, and a practice rooted in relationship with each other and the living world. Watch/read the full post (with both clips + full panel): https://www.radical-guide.com/state-of-the-world-forum-...

Jason Bayless speaks at the State of the World Forum panel “The State of Our World: Code Red” on animal cruelty as a lived “code red” condition—one tied to the systems shaping ecological collapse and normalized violence. This is Part 1 of a two-part segment. Watch/read the full post (with both clips + full panel): https://www.radical-guide.com/state-of-the-world-forum-code-red-my-segment-full-pane...

Peter Kropotkin exposed how capitalists used "survival of the fittest" to justify exploitation. 120 years later, we're fighting the same battle. This episode explores mutual aid not as charity or activism, but as our biological reality - and why understanding this changes everything about how we organize. In this episode: The 1800s debate between Kropotkin and Social Darwinists that...

The closing session, The P.I.T , wraps up the day’s international workshops with thanks and collective gratitude. Throughout the event, we heard from organizers, writers, artists, and movement builders across the world — sharing lessons on anarchism, collective care, food sovereignty, degrowth, zero fare transportation, anti-authoritarian publishing, radical art, and mutual aid. From poetry to pan...

This session features Felipe Corrêa and Victor Khaled, coordinators of the Institute for Anarchist Theory and History (IATH) (itha-iath.org) and militants of the Libertarian Socialist Organization (OSL) in Brazil. The talk begins with an exploration of the concept of anarchism, based on Corrêa’s book Black Flag, recently translated and published internationally. From there, the panel traces the re...

This session brings together mutual aid organizers for a virtual panel and teach-in on how to organize a weekly mutual aid space in your neighborhood. Panelists share practical experiences, lessons, and tools for building local networks of care and resistance. The session also includes the announcement of a new movement initiative to support the creation of community-led mutual aid distributions i...

This session with Antonio Román-Alcalá and the Agroecology Research-Action Collective (ARC) looks at the intersections, overlaps, and tensions between anarchism, food sovereignty, and degrowth — with some focus on land reform. The presentation is based on a recent article in the Degrowth Journal but framed to emphasize action, not just theory. After the short talk, participants join a discussion o...

This session features Acción y Liberación (vaccylibv.blogspot.com), a zine/mini-book created through affinity between anarchists, anti-speciesists, and nihilists in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and the U.S. The publication offers perspectives of total and animal liberation, rooted in international collaboration. Launched internationally with Warzone Distro (warzonedistro.noblogs.org), the magazine inc...

This video features readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin, an American poet, organizer, and former Poet Laureate of San Francisco. His work bridges revolutionary critique, memory, and community — tackling issues like incarceration, Black liberation, state violence, and love in movements. Eisen-Martin holds both BA and MA in African American Studies from Columbia University. His poetry collections include...

This workshop with Tyasha/Ty (teamwithty.com/Tyasha/Ty) explores lessons from more than 50 years of grassroots organizing by Black Feminists, Abolitionists, and Anarchists across Turtle Island and beyond. Drawing from the Break the System Archive (breakthesystem.xyz), participants are guided through histories of Black-led movements and connected to today’s organizing with the Free4ALL mutual aid n...

This session features Leo Legirs and Apatrik from the publishing group behind the anti-authoritarian magazine Revista Diógenes (revistadiogenes.substack.com). They introduce their project and the first three editions of the magazine, while discussing the different forms of authoritarianism they confront in daily life — and how anti-authoritarian practices continue to grow in Colombia and around th...

This session features Ben Morea, a longtime activist, artist, and writer, reflecting on his life, organizing, and philosophies. Morea presents his book Full Circle: A Life in Rebellion, tracing his path through art, anarchism, community struggle, and resistance. From his role in the 1960s underground press and collectives to his ongoing commitment to liberation, Morea’s story shows how personal ex...

This session features Manifesto Brutal (manifestobrutal.org) in collaboration with the theatre company Nontantoprecisi (nontantoprecisi.net), a group founded within Italy’s last asylum-concentration camp. Together they explore CONATUS — life that lives, imagining anti-psychiatric living experiments and collective ways of responding to illness, oppression, and the suffocating conditions of the pres...