anarchy
Life Advice from Spain's Real Life Robin Hood
83-year-old Lucio Urtubia has spent his life fighting capitalism by robbing banks and forging travellers cheques.
Bangladesh Rising
VICE News was on the streets of Dhaka in the lead up to Bangladesh's enforced elections, to witness democracy at its most questionable.
Meet the Legends of the Lower East Side
Throughout the past year, Clayton Patterson has written about the crucial figures and courageous artists of the Lower East Side. He honored them this week at the Acker Awards. I spoke to Clayton to learn more about the legends, the ceremony, and how he...
What Is it Like To Be Tear-Gassed in Istanbul?
After enjoying a pleasant vacation in Istanbul last month, I recommended a friend go and visit, so he could eat thinly sliced eel and legally drink beer on the street. Unfortunately he went during the heat of the protests and got tear gassed seven...
Jeff Berwick, the Founder of Bitcoin ATM, Says His Machine Is the Real Deal
The founder of Bitcoin ATM wastes no time on a bitcoin-paved information superhighway.
How I Divided the Royal Family and Brought Down New Labour
After almost getting run over by the Popemobile.
Greece's New Anarchist Generation Is Being Tortured by Police
A group of eight people armed with AK-47s attempted to rob a bank and a post office in the Greek town of Velventos. Although bank-robbing anarchists armed with AK-47s might not seem like individuals deserving of pity, the police tortured them so badly...
Meet the Nihilist-Anarchist Network Bringing Chaos to a Town Near You
The FAI is a nihilist-anarchist organization whose members aren't out to protect anybody from the ruthless grip of inequality. They are not Hugo Chavez or Vladimir Lenin—they don’t care that your plight isn’t represented if you're just standing by with...
Leah-Lynn Plante and Portland's Anarchist Grand Jury Resistors
The federal government has never accused the Portland anarchists of committing a crime—in fact, Leah-Lynn was not even in Seattle at the time of the May Day protests. Instead, each of the subpoenaed activists was granted immunity from criminal charges...
Would You Rather Live in a Fascist Nation or Complete Anarchy?
You have two choices. Either you live in a fascist state, where your leader slaughters thousands of innocents. Or, you live in total anarchy, where the street you once played on as a child is now a smoldering wreck, just like your crushed memories.
Do Not Try This in London: A Video Guide to 'The Anarchist Cookbook'
From Cairo to Vancouver to Anonymous to London, breaking the system apart is what the cool kids are doing this summer. Forty years ago, angst over domestic turmoil left behind by the Vietnam War led an American named William Powell to write a guidebook...
Pissing In The Wind
Once upon a time, English punk meant violence, passion, political engagement and an old-fashioned approach to personal hygiene. It did not mean the guy from the Automatic, his iPhone app tie-in deal and the Krazy Tent Tour sponsored by Monster (or...