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Author: David GraeberTitle: The Wisdom of KandiaronkSubtitle: The Indigenous Critique, the Myth of Progress and the Birth of the LeftDate: 2019Notes: Article publié le 28 septembre 2019 Pour citer cet article : David Graeber , « La sagesse de Kandiaronk : la critique indigène, le mythe du progrès et la naissance de la Gauche », Revue du MAUSS permanente, 28 septembre 2019 [en ligne].Source:...

Author: Margaret KilljoyTitle: Anti-Communist communistsSubtitle: Or: on capitalization and capitalismDate: August 28, 2024Source: Retrieved on 29th August 2024 from margaretkilljoy.substack.com It feels like two years ago but it was probably five. I drove from one side of North Carolina to another side of North Carolina because the “neo-confederates” were planning some kind of armed march through some small town and we needed all the...

Author: Fritz BrupbacherTitle: Bakunin and his ConfessionDate: 1929Notes: Original title: *Bakunin e la sua Confessione Fritz Brupbacher Témoins, III, n. 10–11, autunno-inverno 1955–56 via: finimondo.org/node/2118 Michael Bakunin: Der Satan der Revolte by Fritz Brupbacher First published in 1929Source: Retrieved on August 28, 2024 from https://www.elephanteditions.net/library/bakunin-and-his-confession?v=1724822630 I For most contemporaries, Michail Bakunin is unknown. If a certain number of people only know him by name,...

Author: Aragorn EloffTitle: Do Anarchists Dream of Emancipated Sheep?Subtitle: Contemporary Anarchism, Animal Liberation and the Implications of New PhilosophySource: Chapter from ‘Anarchism and Animal Liberation: Essays on Complementary Elements of Total Liberation’ (ISBN: 0786494573). <academia.edu> Everything fits together, from the bird whose brood is crushed to the humans whose nest is destroyed by war. —Louise Michel In this essay I explore the relations between...

Author: LiaoTitle: The Equality SocietySubtitle: A Preliminary Archival Reconstruction of The Chinese American Anarchist MovementDate: 8/20Source: https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/the-equality-society-a-preliminary-archival-reconstruction-of-the-chinese-american-anarchist-movement/ “Anarchism is still the most beautiful ideal, and I think someday it will come,” wrote Lau Chung-Si (Ray Jones) from a small apartment in San Francisco. At the time he put these words to paper in 1974, he was a relic of another time. Jones was a...

Author: Uchiyama GudōTitle: Thoughts During ImprisonmentDate: Oct 26, 1909Source: Nihon Rekishi Issue 131 (1951) It is government suppression. It is tyranny. Even until now, I am unable to give a viewpoint on whether the ending of a human life is a good or bad thing, regardless of someone giving me a good or bad name for it. Daring to be brief about whether or...

Author: BOAKTitle: Our Сomrade, Anarchist-Internationalist from Russia, Vladislav Iurchenko (“Pirate”), Became a Martyr Defending the Peoples of UkraineDate: August 19, 2024Source: Retrieved on 20th August 2024 from telegra.ph and t.me Another fighter became a martyr. On August 9, our comrade and anarchist-internationalist from Russia, Vladislav Iurchenko (nom de guerre “Pirate”), was killed in battle. He was 22 years old. Vladislav was part of the...

Author: AnarchistsTitle: The Hooligans, the Stingies, the Starved People and the Bad AssesDate: 1985Notes: This is a translation of a leaflet written in 1985 by anarchists frequenting the Chrysallida social space in Limassol, Cyprus.Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:leaflets:xrisalllida:kakakakathkia The football league is over; the mass rallies of July have also passed. The Cuéllar initiative froze, as usual, and everything indicated that Cypriot society would remain for about...

Author: AnonymousTitle: A Friend of Mine or a Friend of Ours?Subtitle: An Essay On VouchingDate: 2024/08/15Source: https://unravel.noblogs.org/a-friend-of-mine-or-a-friend-of-ours-an-essay-on-vouching/ Vouching means different things to different anarchists. For some, to vouch for a person means the vouchee is felt to be trustworthy and competent enough for an action. For others, vouching means that the voucher has concrete evidence of the trustworthiness and competence of the vouchee, and...

Author: Margaret KilljoyTitle: Why I Joined the Industrial Workers of the WorldDate: August 14, 2024Source: Retrieved on 17th August 2024 from margaretkilljoy.substack.com Back in probably 2004, maybe 2005, I was working in Portland, Oregon as a landscaper. It was a small crew, just three of us and our boss. Our boss was, for the most part, pretty cool. He didn’t work us to the...

Author: ZhachevTitle: Anarchy and the Mythic PathDate: 08/09/2024Source: https://zhachev.substack.com/p/anarchy-and-the-mythic-path Fluctuations within a continuum can be generated from diverging narratives. Uncertain climes, alternative timelines. Chronoflipping, retroswitching, taleshifting. An alterverse created via timeforge. Terra incognita. Narratives serve the function of temporal modulators, unbound by the shackles of progress and linearity. Vectors of radivergence. Distorting, disrupting, and corrupting conventional chronologies, conduits to alternative realities proliferate with every...

Author: Unsalted Counter InfoTitle: Red Flags: Before You Join That Org…Subtitle: A Primer on Authoritarian & Vanguard Communist Groups & What You Can Do InsteadDate: June 3, 2024Source: Retrieved on 10 August 2024 from unsalted.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/RedFlags_Web1.pdf Intro When we pay attention to the amount of injustice in the world, we find ourselves wanting to do something about it. And we don’t want to do just...

Author: Bill TemplerTitle: From Mutual Struggle to Mutual AidSubtitle: Moving Beyond the Statist Impasse in Israel/PalestineDate: 2003Source: Borderlands volume 2 number 3, 2003. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20180123112424/http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol2no3_2003/templer_impasse.htm What about a no-state solution? Self determination for everyone, no borders, police, or soldiers. A right-of-return for both Jews and Palestinians. —Pirate Prentice (2002) The regime that will succeed the nation-state will not be the fruit of preconception...

Author: David S. D’AmatoTitle: Fury of a Rebel PoetSubtitle: The Anarchism of Joseph DéjacqueDate: August 2, 2024Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/02/fury-of-a-rebel-poet-the-anarchism-of-joseph-dejacque/ The French firebrand Joseph Déjacque lived a short life defined by a wild and beautiful struggle against authority, a life of intense passion for freedom and genuine class war. Unlike many of the seminal figures of the anarchist movement, Déjacque was truly of the working class....

Author: Antiauthoritarians-InternationalistsTitle: Minimal Contribution for Communicating to the Turkish Cypriot Revolutionary Internationalists the Hypocrisy of The ‘Rapprochement’ Elite of the Greek Cypriot State Intellectuals and Social PatriotsDate: 1989Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:leaflets:unclassified:antieksousiastes_epanaprosegisi Until today, we knew that the mechanisms of repression of the state and capital were the army, the police, the schools, the psychiatric hospitals. Now we know that along with them have been added the...

Author: nvpTitle: Is there a non-colonial language in Cyprus? And if yes, should we all speak Eteo-Cypriot?Date: 2017Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:digital:kontrasousta:kontrasousta_language_nvp No one can argue that language is not, at a certain level of analysis, a political tool. People in Cyprus intuitively know this, and that’s why I won’t go into the theory, but instead focus on the practical. Language is political, and we, as individuals...

Author: AntifascistsTitle: On the expulsion of fascists in FaneromeniDate: 2013Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:digital:unclassified:faneromeni_fasistes The provocative show which took place two weeks ago, by members of ELAM (who also have a 5-year temporary contract working for the Cypriot national army) wearing Golden Dawn t-shirts in a cafe in Faneromeni square in Nicosia, could only get a dynamic antifascist response. By the time they were spotted in the...

Author: anonymousTitle: Get a Job!Subtitle: On the Usefulness of Jobs and Small Businessess for Illegalist AnarchistsDate: 08/08/2024Source: https://unravel.noblogs.org/the-unemployment-problem/ Anarchists sometimes need money: we need to pay our cell phone bills; buy bus tickets to the hopout; get enough money to buy the squat that we’re about to get evicted from. Some things are just hard to steal, like guns, or are only available online,...

Author: Mx. FlowTitle: Buddhist Anarchism: Theory and PracticeSubtitle: A Vision for a Buddhist AnarchismDate: August 12, 2024Source: Retrieved on August 15th 2024 from dhammaflow.org “Is it possible to exercise rulership righteously: without killing and without instigating others to kill, without confiscating and without instigating others to confiscate, without sorrowing and without causing sorrow?” -The Buddha, SN 4.20 [1] Introduction Buddhist Anarchism is a synthesis...

Author: Duane RousselleTitle: Preface to Turkish Edition of “Post-Anarchism and Psychoanalysis”Date: 2024Source: duanerousselle.medium.com The following is a preliminary draft of the preface to the Turkish edition of my book Post-Anarchism and Psychoanalysis, which will be published in a few months. This book is the result of spoken improvisations that occurred during a strange period of wandering. I was removed from my position as Professor...

Author: Grandizo MunisTitle: Unions Against RevolutionDate: 1960Notes: Unions Against Revolution is a translation of a work by G. Munis written in 1960 and reprinted in France after the events of May 1968. The English version appearing here is from Internationalism No. 3. Black and Red, DetroitSource: Retrieved on August 11, 2024 from Black and Red Press PDF No contradiction can exist between the economic...

Author: Roderick McMillanTitle: Can Stoicism Be Reconciled With Anarchy?Subtitle: A comparative examination of Anarcho-StoicismDate: 10th August 2024Source: Retrieved on August 10, 2024 from https://morewretchthansage.substack.com/p/how-can-stoicism-be-reconciled-with How can Stoicism, a philosophy that has largely come down to us from the hierarchical, centralised, statist, Roman Empire and whose most famous adherent was an absolute Monarch, be reconciled with Anarchy? At first consideration Anarchy and Stoicism seem unlikely...

Author: Nicola GaiTitle: Declaration at the trialDate: November 11, 2013Source: <actforfree.nostate.net/?p=15519>. Retrieved on 19/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. Declaration at the trial (October 30 2013) for the wounding of Ansaldo Nucleare managing director Roberto Adinolfi ‘Nobody can judge me Not even you The truth hurts you, I know.’ C. Caselli A few words to make a few simple points before the ‘truth’ is pronounced by the...

Author: DSA Libertarian Socialist CaucusTitle: A Letter to the Libertarian LeftDate: 8/8/2024Source: Retrieved on 8/8/2024 from https://dsa-lsc.org/2024/08/08/a-letter-to-the-libertarian-left/ “The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.” - The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin We in the Libertarian Socialist Caucus (LSC) of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) recognize that our formation has dual obligations,...

Author: Anti-Authoritarian Autonomous ActionTitle: ABOUT ISRAELI WAR ON GAZADate: 2009Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:leaflets:aftonomidrasi:aftonomidrasi_gaza The number of Palestinian causalities is so high compared to previous Israeli attacks, 385 killed and more than 1750 injured (these numbers are valid at 31 December). The majority of Arab masses is only observing what is going on, with lot of outrage and anger, this is due mainly to the general atmosphere...

Author: C. L. JamesTitle: AnarchySubtitle: A Tract for the TimesDate: 1886Source: Retrieved on 2nd August 2024 from archive.org I claim credit for no originality on account of the pages which follow, except such as may be implied in putting together the discoveries of my predecessors so that they may support and illustrate each other better than this has been done previously. Anarchy, from the...

Author: C. L. JamesTitle: Origin of AnarchismDate: 1902Source: Retrieved on 3rd August 2024 from archive.org Anarchism, it can hardly be necessary to say, is not a conspiracy for the assassination of kings and such-like. It is not an armed movement of the proletariat or of a part of them. It is not a secret organization. Notions of its nature such as people of information...

Author: Industrial Workers of the WorldTitle: Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the WorldDate: January 1, 2022Source: https://www.iww.org/constitution/ Preamble The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of...

Author: Nsámbu Za SuékamaTitle: Deixis and the Queer/Trans StruggleSubtitle: A Missive from a Dialectical TransfeministDate: May 13, 2024Notes: Author’s note: a straight-through read would make 200+ minutes. Please take your time with such a hefty work. Breaks are encouraged. If you are Black, trans/queer, and operating in good faith, feel free to highlight passages you would like to learn more about. Medium allows authors...

Author: Some Imprisoned AnarchistsTitle: Concerning the anti-judicial positionDate: October 28, 2014Source: Greece – Dialogue between Kontra newspaper and imprisoned anarchist comrades concerning the stance of the comrades in the terror-trials. <web.archive.org/web/20160409234906/http://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=18034>. Retrieved on 19/07/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. BELOW ARE THE TRANSLATIONS OF A SERIES OF TEXTS THAT WERE WRITTEN BY ANARCHIST COMRADES AFTER THE CRITICISM OF LEFTIST NEWSPAPER “KONTRA” ABOUT THE ANTI-JUDICIAL POSITION THAT SOME...

Author: Julian LangerTitle: Enough! Dance!Date: 18/7/24Source: https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2024/07/18/enough-dance/ 1 The ghost of Turgenev crying “Enough!” Is in my ears My activities are glorious While several seasons Fighting disease Living closely with personal existential uncertainty My body is marked There is a thin line Across my left eyelid A scar from where it was removed I am tired of this There is a book Being written...

Author: IgnatiusTitle: Fist Full of ConcreteSubtitle: Some Thoughts Towards InsurrectionDate: 2023Notes: Published by Long Leaf Distro 2023 Longleaf_distro@protonmail.com Reproduce to your heart’s content.Source: Retrieved on 4 July 2023 from ia800301.us.archive.org/4/items/zines-anarchism/Fist_Full_of_Concrete-screen.pdf It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way, You Know There is a beauty that creeps in under the plastic blinds, covering the window, in the form of sunlight. A beauty that seems an attempt...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Ridin’ Dirty: A Basic Reference for Freight HoppingDate: 07/20/2024Source: https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/20/ridin-dirty-a-basic-reference-for-freight-hopping/ A Few Words From the Distro Riding freight is a core skill for anti-work, anti-school, individualist anarchists, lifestylists, nomads, oogles, crust punk dirty kids, and travelers. Hate your job? Quit and go train hopping! Sick of school? Drop out and go train hopping! Feeling suicidal with no fun and excitement in your...

Author: Delfina Vannuci & Richard SingerTitle: Come Hell or High WaterSubtitle: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone AwryDate: 2010Notes: Originally published by AK Press. ISBN-13: 9781849350181,Source: AK Press PREFACE Welcome to the collective book on collective process! Over the course of the twenty or so years that AK Press has been publishing and distributing anarchist and radical literature, we've gotten a lot of requests...

Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: The Problem Of Buddhist Socialism in JapanDate: 1970Source: Retrieved on 7/31/24 from https://noselvesnomasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ichikawa-hakugens.pdf (1) The formation of Buddhist socialism in Japan made a belated start and its influence was little compared with that of Christian socialism in Europe, or even with the revolutionary movement (1851-1864) which occurred in the period of “idle peace” started by Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全) in China. The...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Hamas, anarchists in the West and Palestine solidaritySubtitle: An analysisDate: July 15th 2024Notes: Anonymous author from Stoking the Embers CollectiveSource: Retrieved on August 1, 2024 from https://libcom.org/article/hamas-anarchists-west-and-palestine-solidarity-analysis In the West, it is practically impossible to speak publicly about Hamas in any way that isn't an outright and total condemnation. Behind such remarkable limitation of the spectrum of public debate lies the idea...

Author: Tom NomadTitle: On Why Dr John Drury Is A Collaborationist AssholeSubtitle: A Review of Cop-Out: The Significance of AufhebengateDate: 2013, MaySource: Retrieved on July 29, 2021 from <theanvilreview.org/print/aufhebengate> On many levels it seems almost pointless to write yet another text on Aufhebengate, especially a review about a book on the scandal and the controversies and collaboration-sympathizing that occurred in the vain, and inexplicable,...

Author: LiaoTitle: A Catalyst for Fascist ReactionDate: 7/20/2024Source: https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/a-catalyst-for-fascist-reaction/ The fallout from the attempted assassination on United States presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump, will bring an increase in fascist propaganda and reactionary attitudes, while also having serious societal repercussions for marginalized groups and political dissidents. While anarchists typically, and rightfully, disparage engagement in electoral politics, the occurrence of this event will likely have effects...

Author: AnonymousTitle: From a Matter of Principle to a Matter of TacticsDate: 07/26/2024Source: https://unravel.noblogs.org/from-a-matter-of-principle-to-a-matter-of-tactics/ From a Matter of Principle to a Matter of Tactics Anarchists who want to take action, when confronted with the choice of tactics, often default to large mass actions, like black bloc. Imagination is ceded to tactical hegemony; autonomy diminishes; creativity recedes; resistance is franchised with stale, processed, prepackaged ideologies...

Author: Anarchistische Büchermesse Berlin-Kreuzberg, The Friends of the Class WarTitle: When the exhaustion of concepts intensifiesDate: 2024Notes: Source in German: https://anarchistischebuechermesse.noblogs.org/?p=231 English translation: The Friends of the Class WarSource: https://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/abmb-when-the-exhaustion-of-concepts-intensifies/ As we are unfortunately repeatedly confronted with groups that support the Ukrainian side in the war between Russia and the Ukraine from an allegedly “anarchist” position, and as an article appeared in April (When...

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...