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Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: Principles of scientific moralityDate: 1907 To the teaching staff: With our thoughts fixed on the teachers of the rationalist schools, we have written Principles of Scientific Morality, with the conviction that, without their cooperation, the fruit of this humble work of mine would be small. I earnestly ask my colleagues not to forget that all reading should be commented on so...

Author: Jamie GrahamTitle: Why I Left FightbackSubtitle: or, now, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)Date: June 23, 2022Notes: Note that Socialist Fightback has rebranded itself in so-called “Canada” as the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). It is part of the International Marxist Tendency.Source: Retrieved on February 26 from archive.ph/5FW0k In early 2018, I joined Fightback/La Riposte Socialiste, the Canadian section of the International Marxist Tendency. I...

Author: K. C. SinclairTitle: Clarity Contra ComplicityDate: February 25, 2025Source: Retrieved on February 26, 2025, from historyiswhat.noblogs.org One year ago today, Aaron Bushnell, a member of the American Air Force, self-immolated in response to American complicity in Israeli colonialism. This article serves both as an overview of some particular responses to that action at the time and as a critique of one response specifically....

Author: Max NettlauTitle: FragmentDate: 24 August — 5 September 1902Notes: Collected in Max Nettlau Papers, inventory number 1777, of the International Institute of Social History. Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.Source: Retrieved on 24th February 2025 from www.libertarian-labyrinth.org All my arguments are based on the fact that men are different from one another, so that the same thing cannot be known to the same...

Author: L’en dehorsTitle: Short Statements on the Anarchist EntenteDate: 1928Notes: Working translations by Shawn P. Wilbur.Source: Retrieved on 24th February 2025 from www.libertarian-labyrinth.org Not one penny,Not one line,Not one listenerFor the drudge-work of anarchist discord. L’en dehors 7 no. 140 (fin Juillet 1928): 4. The possibility in the anarchist milieu, of association between individualists or communists, for the purposes that please them, according to...

Author: Emma Goldman and Max NettlauTitle: Letters to “l’en dehors”Date: 1922Notes: Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.Source: Retrieved on 24th February 2025 from www.libertarian-labyrinth.org Vienna, July 22, 1922. My dear friend, … I am very happy to hear that your misfortunes have ended — at least until they want to strike again the spirit “en dehors” that you are. As for me, I vegetate...

Author: Fernand FortinTitle: Anarchist Unity or Linkage?Date: 1934Notes: Originally published in Revue Anarchiste No. 21 (Octobre-Décembre 1934): 23–24. Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.Source: Retrieved on 24th February 2025 from www.libertarian-labyrinth.org From all sides there are nothing but calls to Unity. Syndical unity. Unity of socialist-communist action. United front. “Common front” giving way, in order to attract the radicals, to the “Popular Front,” which...

Author: Sam DolgoffTitle: Cuba: Dellinger Returns from Animal FarmDate: Summer 1964Source: Views and Comments, No. 47, Summer 1964, pp. 24–25 David Dellinger, an editor of the Pacifist-Libertarian monthly, Liberation, attended the May Day celebration in Cuba as a guest of the Castro government. The first lengthy installment of his report has appeared in Liberation. It reminds us of the glowing, equally “objective” accounts of...

Author: Esther DolgoffTitle: White Collar Worker Bemoans Her FateDate: October 1985Notes: Editorial Note: Esther Dolgoff wrote this for Wobble: Bulletin of the Rank-and File Organizing Committee. The ROC was an ad-hoc network of IWW members (1983–1985) who subscribed to the ideas Sam Dolgoff had advocated in Notes for a Discussion on the Regeneration of the IWW.Source: Wobble, No. 13 Last September 28, 1985 an...

Author: Sudanese Anarchists GatheringTitle: Dispatches from KhartoumDate: January 18 2022Notes: Published by Organize MagazineSource: Retrieved on Feb 23 2025 from https://www.anarchistfederation.net/sudanese-anarchist-gathering-dispatches-from-khartoum/ Dispatch From Khartoum #1 To our anarchist comrades, a short note on what happened in the demonstrations of January 17. There were violations and (tactics of) excessive repression practiced by the government forces against the defenseless peaceful revolutionaries. This led to the martyrdom...

Author: Hippolyte HavelTitle: Kropotkin the revolutionistDate: 1912Source: Retrieved on February 23, 2025 from https://libcom.org/article/volume-7-issue-10 Of the thousands of congratulations and good wishes conveyed to-day to Peter Kropotkin by his admirers, friends and sympathizers, none will, I am sure, find in his heart such a responsive echo as those expressed—most of them in silence—by the simple workers in the Anarchist movement, the men who are...

Author: Eusebio C. CarboTitle: The Fraudulent Bankruptcy of MarxismDate: 1941Source: Retrieved on February 23, 2025 from http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/coldoffthepresses/carbo/index.html BY WAY OF A PROLOGUE In the Spanish-language bibliography — so copious in other respects — there is very little sharp criticism of Marxism. On the other hand, there have been some very notable vivisections on it in the public forum. It is a pity that some...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: Walks Like a Duck, Salutes Like a NaziDate: 23 Feb 2025Source: Retrieved on 23 Feb 2025 from revoluciana.net I can’t y’all. Revoluciana screenshot from Mastodon, Image Alt Text: I’m so tired of liberals who are like, wow, I don’t want to sound crazzzy but that’s eerily similar to whispers the Nazis. Y’all, they look like Nazis bc they are Nazis. It looks...

Author: Gustav LandauerTitle: From MarriageDate: 1910Source: Retrieved on February 23, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/gustav-landauer/7144-gustav-landauer-von-der-ehe In his essay “Women’s Rights”, comrade Erich Mühsam has taken a stand on which I do not wish to follow him. In the statements against which he is undoubtedly entitled to object, even if he is completely wrong, I have not mentioned women’s rights in the slightest. Of course, women should...

Author: Erich MühsamTitle: Women’s rightsDate: 1910Source: Retrieved on February 23, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/erich-muehsam/7145-erich-muehsam-frauenrecht Among the countless problems that the liberal and social democratic press tends to churn out until they have become completely flat, one of the most popular is the “women’s question,” that is to say, the assessment of women’s rights in the present state or in a future society. It cannot be...

Author: Ōsugi SakaeTitle: Marx and BakuninSubtitle: Socialism and AnarchismDate: 1922Source: Retrieved on February 22, 2025 from https://www.ne.jp/asahi/anarchy/anarchy/data/osugi03.html#12 I In every capitalist country, socialists and anarchists are always portrayed as madmen, robbers, murderers, or spies used by the state itself. This is because the most effective method for a government is to make the people doubt the character of its enemy. However, this governmental method...

Author: Surveillance Self Defense CollectiveTitle: Surveillance Self Defense #1Subtitle: Things to Consider About VPNsDate: 2/21/2025 What is a VPN? A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, technically speaking, is a private network of computers connected over an encrypted protocol. Depending on how it is implemented, computers may talk to each other, the VPN server, and even networks outside of the VPN by routing traffic over...

Author: Rudolf RockerTitle: On the Concept of the Petty BourgeoisDate: 1953Source: Retrieved on February 21, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/rudolf-rocker/206-rudolf-rocker-ueber-den-begriff-des-kleinbuergers Proudhon. I have read not only all of his works, but also his 14 volumes of correspondence with great benefit. I still have a complete collection of all of his daily newspapers, from which one can gain a true picture of him and his time. Anyone...

Author: Peter ArshinovTitle: The Two OctobersDate: October 1927Notes: Written for the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, from Dielo Truda, No. 29, October 1927.Source: Written in 1927, first published in Dielo Truda ; Alexandre Skirda, Les Anarchistes dans la révolution russe, 1973, op. cit., pp. 185–195. The October of Workers and Peasants The victorious workers’ and peasants’ revolution of 1917 has been defined as...

Author: Peter ArshinovTitle: Constructive Problems of the Social RevolutionDate: 1923Notes: Translated by A W Zurbrugg. Peter Arshinov, from Anarkhitchchesky Vestnik, Berlin, August and September-October, 1923; see also Alexandre Skirda, Les Anarchistes dans la révolution russe, 1973, op. cit., pp. 197–215; an article by Clot in Le Libertaire, 1 April 1927, and in Pensiero e Voluntà, 1 November 1924. Peter Arshinov went on to contribute...

Author: Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste RévolutionnaireTitle: The Charter of LyonSubtitle: Adopted by conferences of the CGT-SR, Lyon, 1–2 November 1926Date: November 1926Notes: Translated by A W Zurbrugg.Source: Le Combat Syndicaliste, December 1926.   [This text is a founding document, it situates the thinking of Pierre Besnard and the French Revolutionary-Syndicalists (Confédération Générale du Travail Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire or CGT-SR). The CGT-SR organised several thousand workers,...

Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: The state is colonialism: Debating infrastructural colonization and the roots of socioecological catastropheDate: 2023Source: Political Geography Journal, Volume 107, p1-4 Abstract: Replying to criticism to the term infrastructural colonization, this commentary article discusses the colonial and how colonization is conceived. Infrastructural colonization, as opposed to colonialism, takes a literal approach to territorial control, landscape and socio-cultural change, exploring the literal colonization...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: Facing Fascism: SabotageDate: 31 Jan 2025Source: Retrieved on 19 Feb 2025 from revoluciana.net I’ve been meaning to write this post for the last week or two, but I’ve been so relieved to see that in the interim, so many people are already aware of a resource I’m about to discuss, and they have been sharing it widely in my social media channels....

Author: Johann MostTitle: The Free SocietyDate: 1887Source: Retrieved on February 18, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/johann-most/8027-johann-most-die-freie-gesellschaft The greatest happiness that a person can achieve is a state in which everyone achieves the most complete satisfaction of all his needs with the least possible effort. The closer one comes to this relationship, the more definitely one will find one’s individual freedom preserved. For the shorter the period...