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Author: John ZerzanTitle: He Means it — Do you?Date: 2002Source: Retrieved on May 2024 from archive.org Today opposition is anarchist or it is non-existent. This is the barest minimum coherence in the struggle against an engulfing totality. And while ten years ago the milieu generally called anti-authoritarian was largely syndicalist, those leftist residues are fading out altogether. Very few now find a vista of...

Author: Robert P. HelmsTitle: How to find Your Local Wobbly HistoryDate: 2000Notes: Published in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #28, Spring 2000.Source: Retrieved on 15th May 2024 from www.katesharpleylibrary.net One can find the forgotten Wobbly names and faces, strike stories, union halls and martyrs’ graves in any city where the IWW earned its legendary reputation. It is easy to find thorough information on the luminaries, such as...

Author: Robert P. HelmsTitle: ​Doctors and Druggists Among the Early Philadelphia AnarchistsDate: September 2006Notes: An earlier, much shorter version of this article, “Anarchists in Medicine and Pharmacy: Philadelphia, 1889–1930,” appeared in Clamor Magazine #6 (Dec. 2000/Jan. 2001), and had previously been posted on both the Guinea Pig Zero and Dead Anarchists websites.Source: Retrieved on 15th May 2024 from www.deadanarchists.org In the City of Philadelphia...

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: On Domesticity, Jealousy, and AbortionSubtitle: A Private Letter to Samuel H. GordonDate: 1897Notes: Edited and introduced by Robert P. Helms.Source: Retrieved on 15th May 2024 from www.deadanarchists.org ​Introduction Voltairine de Cleyre, by far Philadelphia’s brightest anarchist light, was 30 years old when, during the late summer or fall of 1897, she wrote the following letter in London. The letter was...

Author: Geelong Anarchist-Communists, Tommy LawsonTitle: All Eyes on RafahDate: May 15th, 2024Notes: The following article is a transcript of a speech given by Geelong Anarchist Communists member Tommy Lawson at an Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) ‘Rally for Rafah’ held on Saturday 11th of May. Its content is supported unanimously by Geelong Anarchist Communists. We have decided to publish it today, on the...

Author: CrimethInc.Title: How To Justify Workplace TheftDate: 14th April 2020Source: Retrieved on 9th September 2020 from archive.org/details/workplacetheft-web Whether aware of it or not, your boss is stealing from you every paycheck. Employers profit off of the “excess” wealth that you, as an employee, produce. There are two ways to get paid in America: make money off the work you do, or make money off...

Author: Anne ArchetTitle: Sirventès of the BeastDate: 2014/06/27Notes: Printed in Return Fire vol.6 chap.6 (spring 2024). PDFs of Return Fire and related publications can be read, downloaded and printed by visiting returnfire.noblogs.org or emailing returnfire@riseup.net I am no citizen I am no consumer I am no tax-payer I am no employee I am no convict I am no beneficiary I am no person of...

Author: Anonymous, Return FireTitle: The ‘Green’ Farce Everywhere & Nowhere ElseSubtitle: towards destroying electric mobility & decarbonizing liesNotes: Printed in Return Fire vol.6 chap.6 (spring 2024). To read the articles referenced throughout this text in [square brackets], PDFs of Return Fire and related publications can be read, downloaded and printed by visiting returnfire.noblogs.org or emailing returnfire@riseup.net [ed. – Taken from the German-language website SwitchOff.noblogs.org,...

Author: Cello Latini Pfeil, Bruno Latini PfeilTitle: An Anarchist Historical Analysis of Body Inscriptions in Modern Western SocietyDate: 02.22.2024Source: Original translation of “Uma análise histórica anarquista das inscrições corporais na sociedade ocidental moderna”, published in Revista História em Reflexão 18(35), 2024. Retrieved on 05/07/2024 from https://doi.org/10.30612/rehr.v18i35.16476 Abstract In this paper, we aim to analyze the processes of stigmatization and pathologization to which certain categories...

Author: Agnes HenryTitle: Anarchist Communism in its Relation to State SocialismDate: June 1896Notes: Original text split between two consecutive monthly publications, with a misprint in the latter citing the first entry as having been published in July rather than June; transcribed from Liberty: A Journal of Anarchist Communism (June 1896) and Liberty: A Journal of Anarchist Communism (July 1896) on the Internet Archive.Source: Liberty:...

Author: Sophie Scott-BrownTitle: Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday AnarchyDate: 2022Notes: Routledge Studies in Radical History and PoliticsSource: <doi.org/10.4324/9781003100409> Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy is the first full account of Ward’s life and work. Drawing on unseen archival sources, as well as oral interviews, it excavates the worlds and words of his anarchist thought, illuminating his methods and charting the...

Author: Boy Igor & Phil MailerTitle: And Yet It Moves (Updated Edition)Subtitle: The Realization and Suppression of Science and TechnologyDate: 1985Notes: A situationist critique of science and technology published in New York in 1985. This version is a new edition that was published on the 'Endangered Phoenix' website and credited to Phil Meyler. The Endangered Phoenix website is dead now, and I can’t find...

Author: AnarchyNouveauTitle: We Don’t Need a “Plethora of Tactics”, We Need a Climate StrategySubtitle: An anarchist-communist’s response to Freedom NewsDate: March 20, 2024Source: Retrieved on 5/10/2024 from https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/03/23/we-dont-need-a-plethora-of-tactics-we-need-a-climate-strategy-an-anarchist-communists-response-to-freedom-news/ In Freedom Anarchist Journal’s Winter 2023-2024 issue, Matthew Azoulay submitted an article introducing readers to Murray Bookchin’s ideas of the communalist assembly[1] which disturbed and surprised me for how much it was outdated. The means it...

Author: Chen JiongmingTitle: A Proposal for the Unification of ChinaDate: 1927Source: Published in Chen Jiongming and the Federalist Movement by Leslie H. Dingyan Chen. The Political Capability of the Chinese People There are some who doubt that the Chinese people are capable of creating a truly democratic state. We emphatically disagree. The political environment in any country is created by its leaders. The perceptions...

Author: Gustav LandauerTitle: Are These the Words of a Heretic?Notes: Translated from the German Daniel Wortel-London, originally entitled "Sind das Kertzergendanken?" ("Are These Heretic Thoughts?"). Originally published in Von Judentum (On Judaism) in 1911 by the Bar Kokhba League of Jewish Students.Source: Retrieved on May 14th, 2024 from:https://x.com/dlondonwortel/status/1787470614107763006 A characteristic of our time is that much is accomplished in spirit but little is accomplished...

Author: sacred black and redTitle: BonkSubtitle: University of California Office of the President AttackedDate: May 14, 2024Source: Retrieved on 14 May 2024 from indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/14/18866217.php “The beginning of every revolution is an exit, an exit from the social order that power has enshrined in the name of law, stability, public interest, and the greater good.” - Basel al-Araj With the Aurora Borealis above us and...

Author: Aidan RoweTitle: The Politics of Voices: Notes on Gender, Race & ClassDate: 2013-04-30Source: <wsm.ie/c/anarchism-intersecionality-gender-race-class> As class-struggle anarchists dealing with the relations between gender, race and class, we must, in theory and practice, pick a path between two pitfalls. On one side is economic reductionism – the reduction of all political questions to the social relations of production – which erases the perspectives and...

Author: M. GouldhawkeTitle: Intro to Anarchists & Fellow Travellers on PalestineDate: 2024Notes: Intro to a collection of links to texts by various writers.Source: Retrieved on May 12, 2024 from mgouldhawke.wordpress.com Anarchists over the course of history have never had a unified stance on Palestine and Zionism. Some Jewish anarchists active in the late 1800s and early 1900s, such as Bernard Lazare and Hillel Solotaroff,...

Author: Vernon RichardsTitle: Terrorism In Palestine: “Democracy” at WorkDate: 1937Notes: From ‘Spain and the World’, Vol. 1. No. 22., 27th October, 1937,London, UKSource: Retrieved on April 27, 2024 from mgouldhawke.wordpress.com The tragic events in Palestine have provided yet another happy hunting ground for Mussolini. The Press announces that Arab notabilities in Lybia have sent a message to Mussolini reaffirming their solidarity with the Arabs...

Author: Nsambu Za SuekamaTitle: Red, Black, Green — and Proud (RBG-P)Date: December 26, 2023Source: Retrieved on 31 March 2024 from medium.com/@riptide.1997/red-black-green-and-proud-rbg-p-7a963daec5a6 The RBG-P flag. It has four large triangles: a red one to the left and a green one to the right, a black one at the top, and another black one at the bottom. The bases of all four triangles are on the...

Author: Marcus GrahamTitle: The Issues in the Present WarDate: November 1943Source: Retrieved on 22nd April 2024 from <katesharpleylibrary.net/b8gw4m> Note on the Author Marcus Graham’s name is well known to the militant working class movement in the United States and Canada, but he may need some introduction to English readers. During the last war he spoke at many meetings against conscription and the war in...

Author: decompositionsTitle: The Fate of CompositionDate: April 2024Source: <decompositions.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/03/the-fate-of-composition>, <decompositions.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/10/the-problem-of-composition>, <decompositions.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/17/cacophony-of-communism> Preface Communism seems a dim prospect today. The concept of surplus humanity has achieved a dreadful clarity in the present assault on Gaza. Yet, despite becoming a flashpoint for unprecedented waves of global solidarity actions, the situation in Gaza reveals not the unification of revolutionary activity, but its necessarily fragmented character. On many...

Author: Scott Nicholas NappalosTitle: Collapsing the levels, consolidating Our effortsSubtitle: Assessing 5 years of the intermediate analysis.Date: December 11, 2015Source: Retrieved on April 29, 2024 from recomposition.info Approximately 5 years ago work began on something called the intermediate analysis. A few members of the Recomposition editorial group contributed pieces, worked in groups, and tried to shape their work around the issues raised in the...

Author: LiaoTitle: The Basis & Preliminary Examination for a Theory of Asian AnarchismDate: 04/28/2024Source: https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/the-basis-preliminary-examination-for-a-theory-of-asian-anarchism/ Throughout my time as an anarchist, I have become intimately familiar with many schools and theories of anarchist thought. The most influential to me are that of anarchist communism, individualist anarchism, synthesis anarchism, and Black anarchism. Black anarchism was particularly influential to me for its unique perspective on how...

Author: Kevin A. CarsonTitle: The Desktop Regulatory StateSubtitle: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and NetworksDate: March 2016Source: Retrieved on 8th April 2022 from kevinacarson.org Preface Like every book I’ve written since the first, this book was inspired by ideas I encountered in researching the previous one but was unable to explore and develop as much as I’d have liked within that framework. In writing...

Author: Eric FleischmannTitle: Historical MaterialismSubtitle: A Brief Overview and Left-Libertarian ReinterpretationDate: May 26th, 2022Notes: This piece is part of a series on "red mutualism" at Mutualism Co-op. Read more here: https://c4ss.org/content/59582.Source: Retrieved on 5/26/22 from https://c4ss.org/content/56745. Third (and latest) edition retrieved 11/22/23 from https://www.mutualismcoop.com/contemporary-mutualist-text/zpw18iulpreuh193wk81qb6vsxgvxc. Introduction One of the most famous theories forwarded by Karl Marx is that of historical materialism—although Marx himself apparently never...

Author: FAUDATitle: FAUDA #4Subtitle: Victory is NearDate: April 24th, 2024Source: Retrieved on April 25th 2024 from https://archive.org/details/FAUDA_4 WE HEAR THE CRY OF DEFEATING THE ENEMY The past month of Ramadan can be considered one of the most proud periods of Palestinian anarchism's struggle against the apartheid of the Zionist regime. Undoubtedly, the efforts of a large number of young people in the West Bank...

Author: Sal RestivoTitle: Red, Black, and ObjectiveSubtitle: Science, Sociology, and AnarchismDate: 2011 Acknowledgements I acknowledge and appreciate that the “I” is – as Nietzsche was among the first to teach us – a grammatical illusion. The “social,” by contrast, is not an illusion. I have drawn on my collaborative writings with Drs. Wenda Bauchspies, Jennifer Croissant, Deborah Sloan, Daryl Chubin, Randall Collins, and Julia...

Author: Kevin A. CarsonTitle: The Desktop Regulatory StateSubtitle: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and NetworksDate: March 2016Source: Retrieved on 8th April 2022 from kevinacarson.org Preface Like every book I’ve written since the first, this book was inspired by ideas I encountered in researching the previous one but was unable to explore and develop as much as I’d have liked within that framework. In writing...

Author: CrimethInc., AnonymousTitle: Report from within the Cal Poly Humboldt Building OccupationSubtitle: The Occupation of Siemens HallDate: April 23 2024Source: https://crimethinc.com/2024/04/23/report-from-within-the-cal-poly-humboldt-occupation-the-occupation-of-siemens-hall On April 22, 2024, inspired by the resilience of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University and other demonstrations around the country, students at Cal Poly Humboldt campus in Arcata, California occupied a building in solidarity with Palestinians, precipitating a showdown with police...

Author: Iain MacSaorsaTitle: Braveheart and Scottish nationalismDate: 1995Notes: Published in the Scottish Anarchist #3, pp. 3-4 and 17-18, titled “Braveheart”.Source: Retrieved on 21st December 2021 from libcom.org. There is no denying Braveheart’s power. It is a good film, very moving in parts, with a cracking story-line and excellent acting which makes it feel far less than its 3 hours length. The historical inaccuracies are...

Author: Ricardo MellaTitle: IdearioDate: 1926Notes: Collected articles (1895-1915) from the anarchist press by Ricardo Mella (1861-1925), originally published under the title Ideario by Imprenta “La Victoria” in Gijón, 1926 (Spanish original available online at www.libertarian-labyrinth.org). Translation by Stephen Luis Vilaseca, 2020 (published under the title Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: A Ricardo Mella Anthology).Source: Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: A Ricardo Mella...

Author: Mother EarthTitle: If We Must Fight, Let It Be For The Social RevolutionDate: 1914Notes: From 'Mother Earth', October 1914, New York City, published by Emma Goldman, edited by Alexander BerkmanSource: Retrieved on April 21, 2024 from mgouldhawke.wordpress.com Society has plunged into a world-wide war, but we Anarchists, we cannot shed tears over its horrors, as do the Socialists and other so-called philanthropists. WE...

Author: Ramon ElaniTitle: Essays From The Tiger's LeapDate: 2015-2017Source: <web.archive.org/web/20190309164316/https://thetigersleap.wordpress.com/> Fallen Skies The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how...

Author: Rene FarbenTitle: Destroy All MonstersSubtitle: A Complete Guide for ChildrenDate: 1895Notes: First published by Scipion Pinel Press, 1895. Retranslated by Dr. Jeckil Kegloff and reprinted in 1999 by Love Bunni Press. Reprinted in 2018 by Enemy Combatant Publications. “One of the oldest, most rigid, and seemingly instinctual thought-patterns is the figure of the monster. Instilled in us since childhood, the Monster has imprinted...

Author: Iain MacSaorsaTitle: Chile, capitalism and liberty for the richDate: ca. 1998Source: Retrieved on 20 April 2024 from www.spunk.org. Doesn't Chile prove that the free market benefits everyone? This is a common right-wing "Libertarian" argument, one which is supported by many other supporters of "free market" capitalism. Milton Friedman, for example, stated that Pinochet "has supported a fully free-market economy as a matter of...

Author: Yesenia Barragan, Mark Bray & Álvaro D. MárquezTitle: Ricardo Flores Magón & the Anarchist Movement in El Monte, CaliforniaDate: 2 December 2013Source: Retrieved on 20 April 2024 from tropicsofmeta.com. “Forward, comrades! Soon you will hear the first shots; soon the shout of rebellion will thunder from the throats of the oppressed…Land and Liberty!” These were the prophetic words of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo...

Author: Daniel TalamantesTitle: Anarchist Groups in Early Twentieth Century El Monte, CaliforniaSubtitle: Luz Libertaria de El Monte, Tierre y Fraternidad de El Monte, Acracia de Puente, and Regeneración de San GabrielDate: ca. 2022Notes: Published online at East of East by the South El Monte Arts Posse (SEMAP) as "Anarchists Groups: Luz Libertaria de El Monte, Tierre y Fraternidad de El Monte, Acracia de Puente,...

Author: ScholiumTitle: The Hollowing of Anarchy: GentrificationDate: 2019Source: https://scholium.noblogs.org/post/2019/02/22/the-hollowing-of-anarchy-gentrification/ Anarchy can differ from other anti-capitalist ideologies in being a lived practice. If anarchy is the end goal, then it must be the means as well. This often turns out looking like working as little as possible, living communally with friends, getting by using scams, and experimenting with social relationships. Unfortunately, these more interesting and...

Author: AnonymousTitle: April 2018: one hundred year anniversary of the beginning of Bolshevik terrorDate: April 2018Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20181023132448/https://anarchistnews.org/content/april-2018-one-hundred-year-anniversary-beginning-bolshevik-terror It's April 1918. On the 12th, the Cheka unleashes a ferocious assault on 26 anarchist locales in Moscow, killing dozens and arresting 500. The political situation this repressive operation goes down in is extremely important. The second revolution occurred only half a year ago. Since then, the...

Author: AnonymousTitle: An Anarchist’s Guide To DuneDate: 21 March 2024Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com. There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. -Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 Introduction A long time ago in a place called Olympia, Washington, there were a bunch of anarchists, just like today. However, back around 1999, there were certain anarchists of Olympia who enjoyed...

Author: A. W. ZurbruggTitle: Emma Goldman and Reginald Reynolds on PalestineSubtitle: Some notes on anti-Semitism and Zionism before World War TwoDate: 24 March 2024Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from anarchiststudies.noblogs.org. However shocking are recent events in and around Gaza, they do not arise like lightning on a clear day and out of blue skies and may be seen in historical context. This text...

Author: Daniel TalamantesTitle: Anarchist Kinships in California’s San Gabriel ValleyDate: 13 March 2024Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from anarchiststudies.org. Early twentieth-century San Gabriel Valley, California was an ideal location for Mexican migrants seeking work opportunities and hoping to escape the Mexican Revolution. Initially, they were seen as a convenient source of labor to fill a void left by the Johnson Reed Act of...

Author: Luigi CelentanoTitle: On Violence and RebelsDate: 17 January 2024Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from anarchiststudies.org. On Wednesday, February 24, 1932, at 1:32 p.m. the car carrying Investigations Police Captain Luis Pardeiro Sontie, driven by the assigned chauffeur José Chebel Seluja, was ambushed at the intersection of Artigas Boulevard and Monte Caseros Street, in downtown Montevideo. The scene looked like mob work: around...

Author: David GoodwayTitle: Not protest but direct actionSubtitle: Anarchism past and presentDate: 1 March 2012Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from historyandpolicy.org. Executive Summary The media and other commentators in the UK constantly employ 'anarchists' and 'anarchism' as smear words unworthy of rational consideration, yet they refer to a long-established way of looking at the world which has a distinctive and impressive intellectual history....

Author: David GoodwayTitle: Anarchism and the welfare stateSubtitle: The Peckham Health CentreDate: 1 May 2007Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from historyandpolicy.org. Executive Summary Anarchists are normally regarded as a fringe element in British public life but they did engage with mainstream economic, medical and health issues, especially around what they saw as the exemplary experiment of the Peckham Health Centre in the 1930s...

Author: Tommy LawsonTitle: Co-operatives or class struggle?Date: 28 August 2023Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from redblacknotes.com. Every so often the question of co-operatives is raised in the revolutionary socialist movement. Optimistic positions suggest that co-ops can form the basis for replacing capitalism with a new economy based on solidarity and labour where workers have ‘control’ and even suggest they are a vital part...

Author: Mujeres LibresTitle: Proposal for the Creation of a Wedding FactoryDate: March 1937Notes: Originally published as “Proyecto para la creación de una fabrica de bodas en serie (Churros auténticos)” in Mujeres Libres, no. 7. Translation and introduction by Martha A. Ackelsberg.Source: “Appendix C.” in Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women. Essays about sexual issues were generally more...

Author: Jan Willem Stutje, Emanuela Minuto and Constance BantmanTitle: Charismatic Leadership and Networks in AnarchismSubtitle: The Cases of Pietro Gori and Jean GraveDate: 6 December 2017Source: International Review of Social History Volume 62, Issue 3; pp. 421-423, DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000335 (Stutje); pp. 425-450, DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000359 (Minuto); pp. 451-477, DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000347 (Bantman). An Introductory Note (Jan Willem Stutje) The terms “Marxist” and “Marxism” have a problematic history. Their use...

Author: Carmen Cañete QuesadaTitle: Gitanos during the war (1936–1939)Date: 2020Notes: Excerpted from “The memory of Spanish Gypsies: Scholarship, oral history, and archive research” Romani Studies 5, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2020), 15–47. ISSN 1528–0748 (print); 1757–2274 (online). doi: doi.orgSource: Retrieved on 8th April 2024 from www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk Tracking down scholarly material about the Gitanos during the turbulent years of the war is a difficult task....