THE COMMONER.

FEBRUARY 22. 2025

Bureaucratic Realism

What is the bureaucracy, that sphinx so tantalizing to the authoritarian mind? It is the naturalized, the realist, the alienated, the Spectacular form of life, against which we must resist.

JANUARY 31. 2025

An Anarchist Spy Story: Reviewing Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

Highlighting the anarchist themes present in Cyberpunk 2077's new expansion.

JANUARY 4. 2025

Forging Ahead with Resolve: A 2024 Retrospective

Reflections on our 2024 and our hopes for the future.

DECEMBER 7. 2024

Organising Anarchists amidst Authoritarian Consolidation in Indonesia: An interview with Perhimpunan Merdeka

The Commoner interviews the Perhimpunan Merdeka, an Indonesian anarchist group and perhaps one of the largest in the Global South.

NOVEMBER 26. 2024

A Critique of Filial Piety and the Traditional East Asian Family Model

In a continuation of articles articulating Asian Anarchism, Liao critiques the foundation of East Asian family model and extrapolates those critiques to East Asian State society at large.

NOVEMBER 22. 2024

The First Strike

A piece of historical fiction inspired by the record of a strike in Egypt in 1157BCE, under the reign of Ramses III.

AUGUST 28. 2024

Dune Part Two: A Film of Anti-Muslim Erasure

Villeneuve's hit retelling of Herbert's Dune erases Islam and MENA cultures from the speculative future.

AUGUST 20. 2024

The Equality Society: A Preliminary Archival Reconstruction of The Chinese American Anarchist Movement

Piecing together the history of the Chinese American anarchist movement and its involvement in the revolutionary struggle for anarchy.

JULY 30. 2024

Cosmic Anarchy and the Law of Increasing Complexity

Nature is ever growing in complexity. Humans can either embrace that complexity or have it imposed on them by the order of the universe.

JULY 20. 2024

A Catalyst for Fascist Reaction

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump will bring an increase in fascist propaganda and reactionary attitudes, likely targeted at marginalised groups and political dissidents.

JUNE 17. 2024

Invertidos y Rompepatrias/Queers Wreck the State - An Interview with the Author, Part Two

The second part of an interview with the author of Invertidos y Rompepatrias, an impressive panorama of sexual and gender dissent in the Spanish State during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

MAY 13. 2024

We Carry a Free Territory in Our Hearts: How Wikipedia Fabricated an Anarchist State

Was the name “Free Territory” something used by contemporaries of anarchist leader Nestor Makhno, or a modern fabrication? In the spirit of debunking widespread myths and misconceptions in anarchist history, a Wikipedian uncovers the secret history of the making of the “Free Territory.”

MAY 6. 2024

Tin Can Beach

Through the rain and fog, it wasn’t even possible to see across the harbour from Tin Can Beach. It was silent except for the rolling wind and the occasional horn coming through the fog and rain.

APRIL 29. 2024

The Basis & Preliminary Examination for a Theory of Asian Anarchism

Liao demonstrates the need and utility of Asian anarchism, a new theoretical framework which will unite strands of Asian and Asian diasporic thought.