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Author: Alex GorrionTitle: We Want to Be Great Like Our CrimeSubtitle: The Criminal Ego and the Struggle in SocietyDate: June 20, 2010Source: The Anvil Review On Isabelle Eberhardt's “Criminal” and Renzo Novatore's “Toward the Creative Nothing” Quotes refer to the Eberhardt Press edition and the Venomous Butterfly Publications edition, respectively. Crime In “Criminal,” Isabelle Eberhardt's memoir of land colonization in Algeria written around the...

Author: Ameed FalehTitle: I Don’t Want a State, and I Never DidDate: July 16, 2024Source: Retrieved on July 21, 2024 from https://hello.goodshepherdcollective.org/sendy/w/v763892xRCuLgGPl4ovANruMOA/wcJf7Kvgs9eSy6JDl2qKuQ/9Be3XcAljVwc892eDWMhTjUQ It was the early spring of 2017, and I stood in line for the daily school routine. We did the usual routine of standing up for the Palestinian anthem and the obligatory start-of-the-week fingernail check. The inspector will hit your hands with...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: Towards an Especifista Feminism in North AmericaDate: 2022Source: Scanned from a zine. Introduction TO BEGIN... “We recognize that the feminist camp has made great efforts, by revealing the mechanisms that oppress women and dissidence, and by naming issues that used to be invisible. However, this does not mean that the concepts and categories, and therefore the theoretical frameworks, are all equally...

Author: Leo TolstoyTitle: Three DeathsDate: 1859Notes: Translated by Robert Nisbet Bain and published in 1902.Source: <revoltlib.com/anarchism/three-deaths-bain-translation-tolstoy-leo> I. It was Autumn. A carriage and a calesche were proceeding at a sharp trot along the high-road. In the carriage sat two women. One of them was the mistress, thin and pale. The other was the maid, smug, florid, and buxom. Her short dry tresses peeped forth...

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Author: Tony Parker, Jane E FerrieTitle: Health and welfareSubtitle: rejecting the state in the status quo — examples of an Anarchist approachDate: December 2016Source: International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 45, Issue 6, December 2016, Pages 1754–1758, DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx001 For most of the 20th century, all mainstream political parties in Western Europe coalesced around the idea that, ultimately, the state should be the chief provider of...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Stop Block Cop City!Date: 10/25/23Source: https://berkmananarchy.noblogs.org/post/2023/10/26/stop-block-cop-city/ Tire fire barricade at the AirBnBs! Throw a molotov at the PowerPoint Presentations! Dump a smelly bucket of shrimp on the peaceful protest! We’re going to Stop Block Cop City!! Why? Because I’m mad that they wasted my time with their awful presentation/book-report/thinly-veiled-business-management-double-speak that tried to sell me and a bunch of other anarchists a program...

Author: Nim ThornTitle: Traveler’s Guide to the Acronym WastelandSubtitle: Tankies and Authoritarian Entryist Groups in PhiladelphiaDate: July 10, 2024Notes: From the original post: A general, group-by-group overview of some tankie and authoritarian entryist Left orgs in Philly (though partly relevant to other contexts; many are national groups), to help more autonomous, uncontrollable rebels better understand and defend against their manipulations. Includes some reflections and...

Author: Zoe BakerTitle: What is the Proletariat?Date: 2024/05/10Source: Retrieved on 2024-07-16 from <anarchopac.com/2024/05/10/what-is-the-proletariat> In 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published the Manifesto of the Communist Party. It famously ends by declaring, “let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. Proletarians have nothing to lose in it but their chains. They have a world to win. Proletarians of all countries unite!” (Marx and...

Author: anonymousTitle: Train To NowhereSubtitle: Call for a week of world wide action and solidarity against the North Bothnia Line, August 11th to 17th, 2024!Date: 2024Source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/377193 1. THE NORTH BOTHNIA LINE Why aiming at this beast? This is a call to action against the North Bothnia Line, a railway just beginning to be built along the coast of Swedish-occupied Sápmi. This project is...

Author: AnonymousTitle: “Operation Scripta Manent” in Italy 2016-2019Subtitle: A collection of news, updates letters, texts and communiquesDate: 2019Notes: This pamphlet has been put together by Act for freedom now. Check actforfree.nostate.net for updates in English.Source: <actforfree.nostate.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/SCRIPTA-pdf-2019.pdf>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. Operation ‘Scripta Manent’ is one repressive operation among the many that have already occurred, and continue to occur, against comrades who dare to...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Putting into practiceSubtitle: Adding to the conversation on anarchist activity in MontrealDate: March 21, 2017Source: <actforfree.nostate.net/?p=26705>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. We’d like to respond with our thoughts to a text “Mise en Commun” (Putting in Common) that has been circulated critiquing insurrectionary projects and perspectives in Montreal. We appreciate that the authors of Mise en Common want to elaborate similarities and...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Rain & FireSubtitle: Statement from a UK FAI sectorDate: September 13, 2011Source: <actforfree.nostate.net/?p=6304>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. This text was written during the course of the growing European social war, and our attempts to situate ourselves in the context of that, whilst in the midst of rising fascism, complicity from most of the society and a fractured and divisive anti-capitalist ‘movement’....

Author: Dan FischerTitle: An Essay on Total LiberationSubtitle: Marcusean Insights for Catalyzing TransformationDate: 2024Source: Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation: Stories from the Frontlines of Labor and Animal Rights, edited by Zane McNeill (New York: Peter Lang, 2024) A 2021 study found that 56% of young people across ten countries believed “humanity is doomed.” The researchers rightly warned against narratives of “individualizing ‘the problem’ of...

Author: Antonis PastellopoulosTitle: The Beginnings and Early Ideology of Cypriot AnarchismSubtitle: 'Federation or Death'Date: 2022Notes: Anarchist Studies 30.1Source: https://archive.org/details/05-anarchist-studies-30.1-pastellopoulos Abstract: The article presents a first overview of the emergence and early development of anarchism in the Republic of Cyprus, utilising archival material. It contextualises Cypriot anarchism within the broader wave of political ideas making their appearance after the island’s de-facto partition in 1974, tracing...

Author: Antonis PastellopoulosTitle: Cypriot Anarchist Ideology in the Post-Partitioned Republic of Cyprus (1985 to 1994)Subtitle: “Cyprus Belongs to its Mouflons”Date: 2017Source: Retrieved on 23rd March 2022 from www.grin.com Abstract This dissertation examines the structure of Cypriot anarchist ideology and the way it challenges Greek Cypriot ethnic nationalism, as it developed in the first decade following the partition of the island of Cyprus. It aims...

Author: AnonymousTitle: The only possible administrationSubtitle: The question of citiesDate: October 4, 2018Notes: “L’unica amministrazione possibile. La questione delle città”, “Vetriolo” #1, 2017Source: <actforfree.nostate.net/?p=31586>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. These are times when it seems there are big discussions about the issue of cities, urban areas, about the possibilities of revolt inside them (even of living), of their reformability. Big discussions frequently focused on...

Author: ‘Long live Ilya Romanov’ CellTitle: Explosive/incendiary device against the premises of an electoral committeeSubtitle: In solidarity with Monica Caballero and Francisco SolarDate: November 20, 2013Source: <actforfree.nostate.net/?p=15603>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. We Are not Spectators but Enemies of all Forms of Dominion Today we wanted to give vent to a small anarchist impulse by brandishing the weapons of life and the ideas of...

Author: Margaret KilljoyTitle: On Socialism, Communism, and AnarchismSubtitle: or: an imprecise definition of termsDate: July 3, 2024Source: Retrieved on 4th July 2024 from margaretkilljoy.substack.com One time, maybe ten years back, I was on the DC metro with my family. My brother and I were happily talking about the feminist implications of GI Joe, because my brother is cool as hell, when a stranger looked...

Author: Anna BeniaminoTitle: Right you are… if you think you areSubtitle: Reflections and updates on a trialDate: March 20, 2018Source: actforfree.nostate.net>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. There’s not much to be said about an episode of repression, after all it’s the simple cyclical occurrence of action and reaction – or even on how repression plays dirty – another well-known fact. At most these are...

Author: CCF — Consciousness Gangs — Sole–Baleno CellTitle: Responsibility claim for explosive attack on vehicle of the Koridallos prisons director (Athens)Date: June 10, 2013Source: <actforfree.nostate.net/?paged=174>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. PHOENIX PROJECTFreedom for anarchists of praxis incarcerated in Italy I ‘Return of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire from the ashes’ Only in those moments when our tension for freedom is rejoined with practice...

Author: Cell of Revolutionary SolidarityTitle: Communique for the 12–13 January arson barrageDate: January 27, 2011Source: <actforfree.nostate.net/?p=3553>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. The War Is on Today more than ever, the fortification of Power and it’s attack against the internal enemy becomes an urgent necessity. Under the fear of the oncoming rebellions and the dynamics that have been developed , mainly in the latest years,...

Author: Christos Tsakalos (C.C.F.)Title: Declaration on the Sixth Day of the First CCF TrialDate: 2012Source: <interarma.info/2012/02/02/dilwsi_xristou_tsakalou_synedriasi6/?lang=en>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. According to your court indictment, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire is a terrorist organization. But words were never, nor are or will ever be neutral. Words acquire the meaning given by the person who uses them. We do not speak the language of...

Author: Christos Tsakalos (C.C.F.)Title: Letter about persecutory proceduresDate: May 10, 2011Source: <actforfree.nostate.net/?p=4537>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. On the 27th of April, Christos Tsakalos, for the case of C.C.F. with the upgraded charge of the managerial executive, was transported to the prisons of Koridallos, after a call for appearance at the juridical council, where he denies to appear. Today therefore, Wednesday the 27th of...

Author: CrimethIncTitle: Against the Logic of the GuillotineSubtitle: Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should TooDate: April 8, 2019Source: Retrieved on June 11, 2019 from https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too 148 years ago this week, on April 6, 1871, armed participants in the revolutionary Paris Commune seized the guillotine that was stored near the prison in Paris. They brought it to the foot of the statue...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Dining with VulturesSubtitle: Bristol Anarchists & the UK MediaDate: 2015, FebruarySource: Retrieved on July 13, 2024 from https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/13/dining-with-vultures-bristol-anarchists-the-uk-media/ The purpose of this piece is to better understanding of mass media’s relationship to rebels (including anarchists of all stripes), in general as well as in the context of a repressive atmosphere in Bristol. As well as raising local specifics, it hopes to encourage...

Author: V. S. LozovyiTitle: Far-left agrarianist peasant-centric discourseSubtitle: Makhnovist movementDate: 2021Notes: Excerpted from Party-Political Peasant-Central Discourse in the Day of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917–1921: Ideological Types and Mobilization Possibilites. doi:10.36059/978-966-397-236-7/53-72.Source: Retrieved on 12th July 2024 from eprints.cdu.edu.ua Left and far-left forces dominated the Ukrainian political space. After the February Revolution of 1917, N. Makhno expanded his activities in the south of Ukraine, which turned...

Author: Rasmus HästbackaTitle: Swedish Unions in Crisis – What Solutions Do Syndicalists Offer?Date: July 8, 2024Notes: Article from the websites Znetwork and Counterpunch. Another version of the article was first published in Swedish. Both versions published in 2024. Illustration below from Znetwork.Source: Retrieved on July 11, 2024: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/swedish-unions-in-crisis-what-solutions-do-syndicalists-offer/ Swedish unions are governed from the top down and are therefore bad at serving workers' interests....

Author: Antti RautiainenTitle: What Does Putin Want?Subtitle: The Russian autocrat is not crazy, war is simply a necessity for his power and economic systemDate: 11 July 2024Notes: The original Russian text was published by Autonomous Action. Translated into English for Freedom by Sean Patterson.Source: Retrieved on 11th July 2024 from freedomnews.org.uk Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Putin outlined five...

Author: Warzone Distro, Susaron 4Title: MORE THAN JUST A DIETSubtitle: A Conversation Between Warzone Distro & the Susaron 4Date: July 7 2024Source: https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/04/more-than-just-a-diet-a-conversation-between-warzone-distro-the-susaron-4/ So first and foremost, could you give us and the readers an update? Last many of us heard, one of you was released. So for those who don’t already know about our case and a small update: On November 3, 2022...

Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: Preliminary Conception of Zen Social Ethics (Continued)Subtitle: Problem of "Anjin" (安 心, Peace of Mind)Date: 1965Source: Retrieved on 07/10/2024 from https://noselvesnomasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/hakugen_ethics_2.pdf By "Anjin" is meant here spiritual calmness created by Prajna. Prajna is a unique intuition that sees the true nature of things as they are (Yathabhutam). "Zazen-shin" (坐 禅 箴, Instruction in Zazen) by Dogen (1200 -1253) reads: "A bird...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Some Zapatista Principles & Practices...Date: 2009Source: Scanned from “Sharing Leadership Series Handout 5.6.09” The Zapatista indigenous movement in Chiapas, México has summarized many of their principles into short, accessible sayings that convey big ideas about a different way of leading and building power, which contrast greatly with repressive/oppressive methods of holding power and authority. Mandar Obedeciendo (Lead by Obeying) PRINCIPLE: True leaders...

Author: Margaret KilljoyTitle: A Short and Incomplete Guide For New ActivistsSubtitle: or: how to get started by getting startedDate: May 22, 2024Source: Retrieved on 4th July 2024 from margaretkilljoy.substack.com A couple weeks ago, I was talking to my friends who run the podcast It Could Happen Here. “Summer is coming, and an awful lot of people are newly radicalized. You all should put out...

Author: Christos Tsakalos (C.C.F.)Title: The Direct Urgency of AttackDate: 2013Notes: A contribution by the CCF member, Christos Tsakalos, to the Nihilistic March zine and the counter-information blog Parabellum. Continuing the conversation, started by Italian comrade Nicola Gai. Translated by Inter Arma.Source: <interarma.info/2014/02/13/ellada-amesh-anagkaiothta-ths-epithsis-chts/?lang=en>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. I. The miracle workers of social salvation We live in a dull, predictable and mechanical age. We...

Author: Christos Tsakalos (C.C.F.), Giorgos Nikolopoulos (C.C.F.)Title: Text in Relation to the Summons for the Inflammatory Parcel That Was Sent to BerlusconiDate: 2011Source: <interarma.info/2011/06/23/keimeno-x-tsakalos-g-nikolopoulos-dema-berlusconi/?lang=en>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. ‘Through the sadness of endless mediocrity that suffocates us from everywhere, I console myself that somewhere in a closet several stubborn people struggle to counteract the spoilage.’ [Odysseas Elytis] We are summoned to appear before...

Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: A Preliminary Conception of Zen Social EthicsDate: 1963Source: Retrieved on 7/4/2024 from https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/11/1/11_1_359/_pdf/-char/ja A short poem “Adoring Naivety” by a Christian poet Jukichi Yagi (1827-1927) runs as follows: Rice bread, Whole-rice bread, Fresh and steaming! Whole-rice bread! A bread seller goes about a"Non-acting" (Mu-i 無 爲 akarma) path singing cries of wares, as if in ecstacy over his singing.[1] This verse...

Author: Gerasimos Tsakalos (C.C.F)Title: Individuality and the Anarchist GroupDate: December 2015Source: Web archive capture on 13 Sep 2016 from <web.archive.org/.../325.nostate.net/.../> Instead of a Prologue About the subject of “Individuality and the anarchist group”, one could say that it’s a timeless issue within the anarchist milieu… Is an anarchist individuality subjugated or liberated within a group? How does the individual encounter the collective? Can disagreements...

Author: Kostas SakkasTitle: Political statement at the terror-trial of Koridallos prisonDate: January 14, 2015, anarchists in troubleSource: <actforfree.nostate.net/?p=18709>. Retrieved on 03/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. I am sending the following text to Athens lawyer Dimitrios Katsaris in order for him to deliver it to his client and my co-accused Giorgos Karagiannidis, in order to read it out in the courtroom during the testimony procedure. I realize...

Author: Clarence Lee Swartz, in collaboration with The Mutualist AssociatesTitle: What Is Mutualism?Date: 1927Notes: This is a very interesting and valuable text on Mutualism. It is slightly dated in some points and a bit off the target when dealing with monetary matters. Nevertheless it remains a powerful exposition of the main tenets of Mutualism and a sincere plea in favour of the freedom and...

Author: Sascha EngelTitle: Primitive anarchy and the anti-alphabetDate: Summer 2024Source: Plastic in Utero issue #3 The way I see it, primitive anarchy is a total challenge to the pacified social field. This means that it is multi-faceted and at once constructive and destructive. Sabotaging the horrors of deep sea mining or “artificial intelligence” requires a different approach than the rewilding of everyday life. Inasmuch...

Author: JoshTitle: John Zerzan Is Running on EmptinessDate: September 2008Source: Earth First! Journal, Volume 28, Issue 6, 1 September 2008. <archive.org/details/earth_first_2008/page/n159> Twilight of the Machines, by John Zerzan, Feral House, 2008. John Zerzan’s newest collection of essays is a disappointing one. Unlike his previous books — which balance a primitivist critique of civilization with topics as diverse as labor history and classical music —...

Author: William GillisTitle: What’s In A Slogan? “KYLR” and Militant Anarcha-feminismDate: June 25, 2024Notes: William Gillis: https://twitter.com/rechelonSource: Retrieved on July 4, 2024 from https://c4ss.org/content/59691 An anarchist walks out of a punk show to smoke. On her vest are anarchist patches with various standard slogans, “No Gods No Masters,” “Death To Transphobes,” “Kill Your Local Rapist,” “All Cops Are Bastards,” “Punch Nazis,” “From The River...

Author: MB SundjataTitle: How and Why the US Left Betrayed TigraySubtitle: US organizations like PSL and Black Alliance for Peace cannot be trusted to advocate for Palestine’s liberation after they condemned nearly a million Tigrayans to genocide.Date: June 18, 2024Source: Retrieved from <redvoice.news/how-and-why-the-us-left-betrayed-tigray> on July 3, 2024 I thought further and said: “Why do men lie over problems of such great importance, even to...

Author: The Di fraye arbeter shtime Editorial Board, An Anonymous Group of Polish Anarchists, Eyshe BeirichTitle: Yiddish Anarchists’ Break Over PalestineDate: 1929Notes: An exchange in the anarchist newspaper Di fraye arbeter shtime after the 1929 Hebron massacre offers a case study in Jewish discourse and political reaction after immense violence. Introduced and translated from the Yiddish by Eyshe BeirichSource: Retrieved on 04/07/2024 from https://jewishcurrents.org/yiddish-anarchists-break-over-palestine-1929...

Author: Han RynerTitle: Ethical IndividualismSubtitle: Selected TextsDate: 2019Notes: Translated from French to English by Kirk Watson. Translator’s Introduction At the dawn of the 20th century, Europe hosted a brief blossoming of individualistic thought. Inspired by the great thinkers of the preceding century such as Stirner, Ibsen, Nietzsche, and Spencer, they offered a free-thinking, non-dogmatic alternative to the increasingly powerful Marxists and syndicalists of the...

Author: Lee ShevekTitle: Leave, Or ElseSubtitle: Giving Ultimatums to Abuse VictimsDate: April 10, 2024Source: Retrieved on 2 July 2024 from butchanarchy.medium.com/leave-or-else-a60b0dbac2a6 Abuse is ubiquitous in our society, and as a result there are very few among us, if any, who have not been abused themselves or in proximity to someone else being abused. Myths about why and how abuse occurs run rampant and the...

Author: AryanamTitle: Funeral, Theocracy, & Religious CapitalSubtitle: Observations & Thoughts After a Comrade’s DeathDate: March 10th, 2024Source: asranarshism.com/1402/12/20/funeral-theocracy-religious-capital-en An accident. An accident tore a family apart. An accident took a brave and kind comrade from us. We will remember the date. It was December 2023. Death will come for us all. But, for now, we must put our shattered hearts back together. We need...

Author: Sheffield Action GroupTitle: What is School?Date: February 2024Notes: From Sheffield Action Group’s Troublemakers zine, this important piece stands on its own As students at university, we have a lot more to say about the global and national role of our institutions — this will come at another point. For now we will focus on primary and secondary school. Many reading this will have...

Author: ZnoreTitle: Hermetic AnarchismSubtitle: Othering the Other, Uttering the Otter and Uddering the AuthorDate: 2014Source: groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.com I. Hermetic Anarchism and Othering the Other Imagination is a magic carpet Upon which we may soar To distant lands and climes And even go beyond the moon To any planet in the sky If we came from nowhere here Why can’t we go somewhere there? Sun Ra...

Author: Ersilia CavedagniTitle: The WomanDate: 28 October 1899Notes: Published in The Unstoppable Anarchist Ersilia Cavedagni & Her Selected Writings (pp. 32-34) at <thetransmetropolitanreview.files.wordpress.com> (PDF).Source: Retrieved on 18 March 2024 from thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com. Generally men, rightly or wrongly, claim to have an intellectual and moral superiority over women, in addition to physical superiority. So be it! I want to grant it. Strangely enough, in the vast...