Practical Anarchy - A Guide to Self Determination

This playlist presents the main video series based on Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination. Taken together, these episodes form a connected, cumulative argument rather than a collection of standalone videos. Each part builds on what came before, gradually dismantling familiar assumptions about power, authority, money, work, democracy, punishment, technology and control. Rather than treating anarchism as a political identity or future blueprint, the series approaches it as a practical method of analysis. It asks how authority is normalised, how obedience is learned, and how social systems that present themselves as natural or necessary are historically contingent and actively maintained. The series moves from critique to construction. Early sections expose the myths that underpin the State, markets and hierarchy. Later chapters explore how people already organise life outside those frameworks through mutual aid, informal cooperation, shared resources and non-coercive forms of accountability. The emphasis throughout is on understanding why existing systems fail before asking what might replace them. These videos are designed to be watched in sequence. They assume attention, patience and a willingness to question deeply held beliefs. The aim is not persuasion or recruitment, but clarity – offering tools for thinking about freedom, responsibility and social organisation without rulers.

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Currently Playing: Queer and Trans Anarchism (Part 34)

In this episode of Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination, we explore why anarchism treats queer and trans liberation as inseparable from any serious challenge to power. From sodomy laws and police raids to bathroom bills and medical gatekeeping, the State has long regulated bodies in the name of order. Queer and trans anarchism insists that liberation cannot be partial. There is no dismantling bosses, borders or prisons while patriarchy, heteronormativity and gender policing remain intact. Freedom must reach the body, desire, identity and everyday life — or it is not freedom at all. This episode traces global histories of resistance, from Stonewall to contemporary mutual aid networks, showing how anarchist practice offers tools for survival, joy and defiance in the face of repression. This series follows the structure of the book and builds a connected critique of power, money, the State, work, control, culture and resistance — one section at a time. This project is about: • Exposing hidden systems of power • Reclaiming bodily autonomy • Mutual aid over hierarchy • Life beyond State and gender control 📚 Sections in this episode: 61. Queer and trans anarchism History and early connection Contemporary practices Cross-connections with anarchism Why it matters now? ► Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDT6pJU3_gViYVxWUTl8PcR29sW0GAcQK ► Join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1864387554451463/ ► Buy the book: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=9dOIqr4EMtGT3x43Y9bhrmDaCPKCIzif4Y1dUjMvxgr

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