ZNetwork is a relaunch of ZNet and is in broad terms: anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-racist, anti-authoritarian, anarcho-socialist, and heavily influenced by participatory economics, with much content focused on vision and strategy. ZNetwork is dedicated to developing vision and strategic activism, resisting injustice, defending against repression, and fostering liberty, we view the racial, gender, class, political, and ecological dimensions of life as fundamental to understanding and improving contemporary circumstances. ZNetwork is a platform to engage with educational content, vision, and strategic analysis, that aims to assist activist efforts for a better future.

ZNetwork’s name was inspired by the 1969 film Z, directed by Costa-Gavras,which tells the story of repression and resistance in Greece. Comrade Z (a leader of the resistance) has been assassinated and his killers, including the chief of police, are indicted. Instead of the expected positive outcome, the prosecutor mysteriously disappears and a right-wing military junta takes over. The security police set out to prevent “a mildew of the mind,” an infiltration of “isms” or “spots on the sun.” As the closing credits roll, instead of listing the cast and crew, the filmmakers list the things banned by the junta. They include: peace movements, labor unions, long hair on men, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Aeschylus, strikes, Socrates, Ionesco, Sartre, the Beatles, Chekhov, Mark Twain, the bar association, sociology, Becket, the International Encyclopedia, the free press, modern and popular music, the new math, and the letter Z, which has been scrawled on the sidewalk as the film’s final image, symbolizing “the spirit of resistance lives.”