This week, we’re pre-releasing an interview with James Stout on his upcoming AK Press book: Against The State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava, due out early January. You may recognize James as a contributor to the Cool Zone podcast It Could Happen Here (including the recent four parter, “Darién Gap: One Year Later” December 1-4th episodes, 2025), distributed by IheartMedia. For this episode, we talk about the idea of anarchist armies, discuss those three conflicts, left libertarian approaches to formalized armed resistance beyond a guerrilla unit, some of the novel technologies and international solidarities that have developed and a lot more.
To hear a longer version of this episode, check out the podcast at our website.
Other podcasts James has worked on
Reports Related To Child Soldiers and Conscription among the SDF
- https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/10/02/northeast-syria-military-recruitment-children-persists
- https://snhr.org/blog/2025/10/08/condemning-the-widespread-detention-for-forced-conscription-by-the-syrian-democratic-forces-in-raqqa-and-deir-ez-zor-since-29-september-2025/
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- Canción de Soldados by Chicho Sanchez Ferlosio from
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