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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....

Author: Emma Goldman and Mariano R. VázquezTitle: The Fall of BarcelonaSubtitle: Letters exchanged by Emma Goldman and Mariano R. Vázquez after the Spanish Civil WarDate: February-March 1939Notes: These letters were exchanged by Emma Goldman, foreign representative of the CNT-FAI in London, and Mariano R. Vázquez, Secretary General of the CNT in February and March 1939. Following the fall of Catalonia, hundreds of thousands of...

Author: Stuart WhiteTitle: Making anarchism respectable?Subtitle: The social philosophy of Colin WardDate: February 2007Source: Journal of Political Ideologies (February 2007), 12(1), 11–28. <cyberdandy.org> ABSTRACT Anarchism suffers from a respectability deficit, a problem of achieving a threshold level of credibility in the eyes of non-anarchists. One anarchist thinker who has grappled persistently with this problem over 60 years of activism is the influential post-war British...

Author: Carl NoldTitle: A Reminiscence of Alexander BerkmanDate: July 25, 1897Source: The Firebrand vol. 3 nos. 25–26 Much has been said, from diverse quarters, regarding Alexander Berkman and his deed, yet he himself, for obvious reasons, has not been heard. In the following I venture to give his sentiments concerning his action, as he gave them to me in the first year of our...

Author: Santbir Singh PannuTitle: An Anarcha-Sikhī ManifestoDate: 2021Notes: Excerpted from The Divine Light of Anarchy: A Socio-Political Analysis of Conflicting Sikh Historical Narratives, pp. 183–186.Source: Retrieved on 14th April 2024 from yorkspace.library.yorku.ca Anarcha-Sikhī is anti-authoritarian. While the Gurū is the master of all Sikhs, the nature of the Gurū in a post-1699 and 1708 world means that there neither is—nor should there be—any one...

Author: AnonymousTitle: The Next EclipseSubtitle: A Vision for Regional AutonomyDate: 2018Source: Retrieved on July 25th, 2018 from https://thenexteclipse.wordpress.com/. An invitation and a challenge The Next Eclipse is an invitation to shift our perspective on southern Illinois. Rather than seeing it as a dying region waiting for outside interests to save it, we propose that what makes it special is rooted in its status of...

Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: The Direction of Ecological InsurrectionsSubtitle: Political Ecology Comes to Daggers with FukuokaDate: 21 January 2020Notes: Special thanks to the Journal of Political Ecology.Source: Journal of Political Ecology 27(1), 988-1014, doi:10.2458/v27i1.23751 Abstract This article proposes a political ecology of resistance. This is done by putting forward insurrectionary political ecology as a lens of research and struggle, through the confluence of the complementary...

Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: Recognizing the “De” in DegrowthSubtitle: An Anarchist and Autonomist Engagement with DegrowthDate: December 2, 2020Notes: This was originally published at Undisciplined Environments (sans preface).Source: <https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/12/02/recognizing-the-de-in-degrowth/> Preface Does degrowth have any relevance to anarchism? Taking an academic and popular public stance against capitalist growth or, more accurately, the degrowing total material and energy throughput of techno-capitalism is extremely relevant to anarchism, green...

Author: Alexander Dunlap, Mariel Aguilar-StøenTitle: Wind Energy Development, Conflict & ResistanceDate: 20 Sep 2019Source: Retreived on 4 Jun 2020 from rowmaninternational.com/blog/wind-energy-development-conflict-resistance. Alexander Dunlap talks about his new book Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance with Professor Mariel Aguilar-Støen. MAS: I would like to start by asking if you can tell us a little bit about you? AD: Ouuuhhh... I am a dirty...

Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: Ecological Authoritarian ManeuversSubtitle: Leninist Delusions, Co-optation & Anarchist LoveDate: October 2022Source: <https://forged.noblogs.org/files/2022/10/dunlap-ecological-authoritarian-maneuvers.pdf> Forward This text emerges because of the lack of critical appraisal, if not deserved hostility, towards eco-Leninism. This excepts highlights the bad faith, academic dishonesty and shameless Leninist manipulations employed by Andreas Malm, which—in Leninist fashion—seeks to disarm and discredit anarchists and, to a lesser degree, (anti-state) Indigenous land...

Author: Colin WardTitle: Autonomy, Solidarity, PossibilitySubtitle: The Colin Ward ReaderDate: September 30, 2011Source: <files.libcom.org/files/Colin-Ward-reader.pdf> Preface and Acknowledgements Colin Ward, who died in February 2010 at the age of eighty-five, was Britain’s most persistent and articulate defender of the libertarian Left in the second half of the twentieth century. For over six decades, this gentle anarchist bucked conventional wisdom by arguing that those who wish...

Author: Colin Ward​​​​​​​Title: Fringe BenefitsNotes: Colin Ward’s weekly column in the journal New Statesman and Society called Fringe Benefits. Many of the titles should be read as having the words 'Fringe Benefits:' before it, so 'Fringe Benefits: Back Pages', i.e. the fringe benefits of back pages.Source: 1. Introduction from Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow. <https://archive.org/details/Seeds_Beneath_the_Snow_9781604866674> 2. Colin Ward is Alarmed As the City of...

Author: AnonymousTitle: The Anarchists of DuneDate: February 18, 2024Source: Retrieved on March 2, 2024 from thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com. “The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.” -Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 Across the world, the movie-watching public will soon behold the Fremen of Dune sack and destroy the Empire, starting on their homeworld of Arrakis. This irresistible moment, where the rebels actually win, is sure...

Author: Adam QuinnTitle: Chronicling subversionSubtitle: The Cronaca Sovversiva as both seditious rag and community paperDate: 30 November 2018Source: Radical Americas Volume 3, Issue 1, DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2018.v3.1.011. Abstract The Cronaca Sovversiva (Subversive Chronicle) was an anarchist newspaper, known today for the views of editor Luigi Galleani, whose ideas are associated with multiple bombings carried out in the United States throughout the 1910s and 1920s, the...

Author: Thomas SwannTitle: ‘Anarchist technologies’Subtitle: Anarchism, cybernetics and mutual aid in community responses to the COVID-19 crisisDate: 2 May 2022Source: Organization Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 193-209, DOI: 10.1177/13505084221090632. Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic that gripped the world since the end of 2019 has been felt most immediately both as a health crisis and an economic, social and political crisis. Secondary impacts of social distancing...

Author: AnonymousTitle: The Next EclipseSubtitle: A Vision for Regional AutonomyDate: 2018Notes: https://thenexteclipse.wordpress.comSource: Retrieved on July 25th, 2018 from https://thenexteclipse.wordpress.com/ An invitation and a challenge The Next Eclipse is an invitation to shift our perspective on southern Illinois. Rather than seeing it as a dying region waiting for outside interests to save it, we propose that what makes it special is rooted in its status...

Author: Constance BantmanTitle: Louise Michel’s London yearsSubtitle: A political reassessment (1890–1905)Date: 1 March 2017Source: Women's History Review Volume 26, Issue 6, pp. 994-1012, DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2017.1294393 ABSTRACT This article proposes a political reassessment of the long period of time spent in London by the French Communard-turned-anarchist Louise Michel (1890–1905). It emphasises the breadth of her militant repertoire as well as her very concrete engagement in...

Author: Abolition MediaTitle: Abolition Media Statement on Editorial Decisions Regarding Palestine and Anti-Colonial ResistanceDate: February 23rd, 2024Source: Retrieved on March 29th, 2024 from https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/23/abolition-media-statement-on-editorial-decision-regarding-palestine-and-anti-colonial-resistance/. As a news source for revolutionary movements we consider it vital to spread the perspectives and action reports of anti-colonial resistance groups, regardless of whether we, as anarchists, are in complete agreement with their politics. In regards to Palestine, the...

Author: Maria Sierra & Juan ProTitle: Gypsy AnarchismSubtitle: Navigating Ethnic and Political IdentitiesDate: September 28, 2022Notes: Corresponding author: Maria Sierra, Departamento de Historia Contemporanea, Facultad de Geografa e Historia Universidad de Sevilla, C/ Dona Maria de Padilla, s/n 41004 — Sevilla, Spain. E-mail: msierra@us.esSource: European History Quarterly Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 593–612, DOI: 10.1177/02656914221097011 Abstract One of the many stereotypes included in the...

Author: Sophie Scott-BrownTitle: Acting Local, Thinking Global in Post-War British AnarchismDate: 2 November 2022Source: Global Intellectual History, DOI: 10.1080/23801883.2022.2136100 ABSTRACT Internationalism has always been a major strand of anarchist political thought where it works on several levels. It has described their commitment to dynamic cosmopolitanism but also dictated revolutionary strategy and structured their social alternatives. In the post-war years, however, many anarchist thinkers, confronting...

Author: Henry BrownTitle: “¡Vivan las tribus!”Subtitle: Persecution, resistance and anarchist agency in the Popular Army during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9)Date: 24 November 2023Source: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies Volume 29, Issue 3 ("Dossier: Iberian Anarchism in Twentieth-Century History"), pp. 357-379, DOI: 10.1080/14701847.2023.2282836 ABSTRACT The anarchist participation in the Popular Army during the Spanish Civil War has largely been subsumed into wider...

Author: Julian LangerTitle: Racism, Nationalism and RevoltDate: 30/3/24Source: https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2024/03/30/racism-nationalism-and-revolt/ “The idea that an understanding of the genocide, that a memory of the holocausts, can only lead people to want to dismantle the system, is erroneous. The continuing appeal of nationalism suggests that the opposite is truer, namely that an understanding of genocide has led people to mobilize genocidal armies, that the memory of holocausts...

Author: John Markoff, Hillary Lazar, Benjamin S. Case and Daniel P. BurridgeTitle: The Anarchist Turn in Twenty-First Century Leftwing ActivismDate: 14 March 2024Source: <https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009495219> Summary Leftwing activism of recent decades exhibits an anarchist turn evident in quantitative indicators like mentions of anarchists in news reports and by activists adopting anarchist modes of organization, tactics, and social goals-whether or not they claim that label. The...

Author: Nolan BennettTitle: The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison AnarchismDate: 28 September 2023Source: American Political Science Review, DOI:10.1017/S0003055423000965 Abstract Alexander Berkman’s 1912 Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist is a significant book in the development of American anti-prison politics, not despite, but because of its ambivalent approach to prisons. I trace through Berkman’s book and archive an unresolved tension between two approaches to the prison:...

Author: Carissa HoneywellTitle: Anarchism and the British Warfare StateSubtitle: The Prosecution of the War Commentary Anarchists, 1945Date: 22 July 2015Source: International Review of Social History Volume 60, Issue 2 (August 2015), pp. 257-284, DOI:10.1017/S0020859015000188 Abstract{1} The arrest and prosecution in 1945 of a small group of London anarchists associated with the radical anti-militarist and anti-war publication War Commentary at first appears to be a...

Author: Warzone Distro, GutaTitle: Burning the BordersSubtitle: Total Liberation & Individualist, Nihilist Perspectives Within the Colonized Territory Known as MexicoDate: 2024Notes: For more info on other projects related to ENINPAACF, check out their website! https://eninpaacf.noblogs.org/ For any questions either about this interview or ENINPAACF in general, feel free to reach out! email: encuentroanarquico@riseup.netSource: https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/03/burning-the-borders-total-liberation-individualist-nihilist-perspectives-within-the-colonized-territory-known-as-mexico/ This interview between Warzone Distro & Guta – one of...

Author: Susan HinelyTitle: Charlotte Wilson, the “Woman Question”, and the Meanings of Anarchist Socialism in Late Victorian RadicalismDate: 5 January 2012Source: International Review of Social History Volume 57, Issue 1 (March 2012), pp. 3-36, DOI:10.1017/S0020859011000757 Summary Recent literature on radical movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has re-cast this period as a key stage of contemporary globalization, one in which ideological...

Author: Henry BrownTitle: The Anarchist in UniformSubtitle: The Militarisation of Anarchist Culture during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)Date: 26 July 2022Source: Contemporary European History Volume 33, Issue 1 (February 2024), pp. 305-322, DOI:10.1017/S0960777322000285 Abstract During the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish anarchist movement became not only the driving force behind a social revolution but an active participant in an increasingly modern conflict which would...

Author: Ryan EssexTitle: Anarchy and Its Overlooked Role in Health and HealthcareDate: 9 January 2023Source: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Volume 32, Issue 3 (July 2023), pp. 397-405, DOI:10.1017/S096318012200072X Abstract In this paper, I will argue that a number of well-known health interventions or initiatives could be considered anarchist, or at the very least are consistent with anarchist thinking and principles. In doing this...

Author: Ruth Kinna, Alex Prichard and Thomas SwannTitle: Occupy and the constitution of anarchyDate: 13 June 2019Source: Global Constitutionalism Volume 8, Issue 2 (July 2019), pp. 357-390, DOI:10.1017/S204538171900008X Abstract This article provides the first comparative reading of the minutes of the General Assemblies of three iconic Occupy camps: Wall Street, Oakland and London. It challenges detractors who have labelled the Occupy Wall Street movement...

Author: Anarchist Black Cross DresdenTitle: Anarchist Black Cross Dresden is now a Left Extremist Organization in SaxonyDate: February 20, 2014Source: Retrieved on 1st April 2024 from abcdd.org In 2023 we accidentally found a classification of our collective as left-wing extremist in one of the reports of the Saxonian secret police (Verfassungsschutz). Later, a questionnaire from one of the local parliamentarians shed some light on...

Author: Max AutonomyTitle: A Brief Introduction: Individualist-AnarchismSubtitle: Individualist-AnarchismDate: 28/03/2024Source: https://www.freespiritanarchist.com/post/a-brief-introduction-individualist-anarchism? Private Property has crushed true individualism, and set up an individualism that is false, it has debarred one part of the community from being individual by starving them. It has debarred the other part of the community by putting them on the wrong road and encumbering them. - Oscar Wilde The first time I...

Author: The Rock Bloc CollectiveTitle: Stick It To The ManarchyDate: March 7, 2001Source: Retrieved on 30 March 2024 from web.archive.org Manarchy: Aggressive, competitive behavior within the anarchist movement that is frighteningly reminiscent of historically oppressive male gender roles. Such behavior includes acting macho, holier than thou, and elitist. Manarchy often results in exclusivity. We feel obliged to share our discomfort with manarchy as it...

Author: George WoodcockTitle: AnarchismDate: 1987Source: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (edited by Steven Durlauf & Lawrence E. Blume), DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_633-1 A doctrine whose nature is suggested by its name, derived from the Greek an archos, meaning ‘no government’. The term anarchist appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense during the English Civil War, against the Levellers, one of whose enemies...

Author: Matthew S. AdamsTitle: Utopian civic virtueSubtitle: Bakunin, Kropotkin, and anarchism’s republican inheritanceDate: 18 October 2019Source: Political Research Exchange Volume 1, Issue 1, DOI: 10.1080/2474736X.2019.1668724 ABSTRACT Civic virtue is a core concept in the republican tradition. Its associations with duty and sacrifice indicate that it is temperamentally incompatible with anarchism, an ideology typically defined by its commitment to maximizing freedom. Presenting an original reading...

Author: Jesse SpaffordTitle: An Anarchist Interpretation of Marx’s “Ability to Needs” PrincipleDate: 13 July 2019Source: The Journal of Value Inquiry Volume 54, Issue 2, pp. 325–343 (June 2020), DOI: 10.1007/s10790-019-09698-1 1 Introduction In “Critique of the Gotha Program,” Karl Marx presents what is generally considered to be the most developed statement of his positive vision of communist society. Notably, this account includes a principle...

Author: Return FireTitle: Open letter from Return Fire magazine to the International Anti-Prison / Anti-Repression GatheringDate: March 27, 2024Source: Retrieved on March 27, 2024 from https://returnfire.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/25/open-letter-from-return-fire-magazine-to-the-2024-03-29-31-international-anti-prison-anti-repression-gathering/ “The event aims to be an informal and self-organised gathering of activists, representatives and delegates from groups active in the prisoner solidarity / anti-prison / anti-repression struggle, one focused on the consolidation of international solidarity…” – second call-out...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Writing For The RevolutionSubtitle: Novels, Nihilism, NudityDate: 28 May 2019Source: Retrieved on 22 March 2024 from thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com. NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1906 This story is about so-called Canada, although it begins deep in Imperial Russia over one hundred years ago. This is...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Who The Hell Is Jack London?Date: 21 April 2021Source: Retrieved on 22 March 2024 from thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com. Who the hell is Jack London? That’s a complicated question. If you superficially glance through the Google Search results for Jack London, it’s easy enough to find out that he was a socialist. If you dig a little bit deeper, you’ll see he also wrote horribly...