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Author: AnonymousTitle: A Poem by Kenneth Rexroth, Painted across the Rooftops of the WorldSubtitle: On the Occasion of His BirthdayDate: 2020Notes: Reformated as a supplement to Return Fire vol.6 chap.5 (spring 2023). PDFs of Return Fire and related publications can be read, downloaded and printed by visiting returnfire.noblogs.org or emailing returnfire@riseup.netSource: https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/22/a-poem-by-kenneth-rexroth-painted-across-the-rooftops-of-the-world-on-the-occasion-of-his-birthday (includes original photo selection) Note from Return Fire: This essay was released...

Author: AnonymousTitle: An Attempt at Interdependence Storytelling / WorldmakingDate: 2017Notes: Taken from Entanglement: on Anarchism & Individualism. Reprinted in Return Fire vol.6 chap.5 (spring 2023). 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 Things I was taught in school: Species are self-contained....

Author: Paul AvrichTitle: Interview with Laurance LabadieDate: 1995Notes: Gathered in 1975 and published by Paul Avrich in his book Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America.Source: Retrieved 3/28/2023 from https://c4ss.org/content/58253. My father, as you know, was an anarchist in Detroit. Mother was a devout Catholic, but gentle and undomineering, “Don’t do this” or “Don’t do that,” but let me develop in my...

Author: The Final Straw Radio, M, B, HadleyTitle: Earthbound Farmers' Almanac & Food Autonomy In BulbanchaDate: 2022Notes: Printed in Return Fire vol.6 chap.5 (spring 2023). 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. – This concerns the publication in recent years...

Author: Laurance LabadieTitle: The History of a PrognosticationDate: 1967Notes: This piece was published in 1967 in Vol. 23, No. 3 and 4 of the School of Living’s A Way Out. Brackets used to mark small grammatical and spelling corrections where possible.Source: Retrieved 3/27/2023 from https://c4ss.org/content/58248. In 1886, at the request of the editor of North American Review, [Benj]. R. Tucker wrote his famous essay,...

Author: This is America podcast, It's Going DownTitle: 'Not Fighting The Same Fight'Date: 2019Notes: Printed in Return Fire vol.6 chap.5 (spring 2023). 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. – A transcript from This Is America #92, a podcast from...

Author: Peter GelderloosTitle: On A Comet’s TailSubtitle: Migration, Revolution, MovementDate: 2023Notes: Published on the Substack account Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos. Printed in Return Fire vol.6 chap.5 (spring 2023). 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 I’m starting this newsletter just...

Author: juniper camerynTitle: A Differentiationist Anarchism ManifestoSubtitle: Towards a Resolution of the Conflicts of Individualism and CollectivismDate: March 27, 2023Source: https://junipercameryn.com/2023/03/27/a-differentiationist-anarchism-manifesto/ Many social, cultural, and political conflicts revolve around a friction that is inherent to the human psyche: The desire to individuate and to belong to oneself, and attachment needs, or the desire to have closeness with others. There is no way to reconcile...

Author: Edvin DahlgrenTitle: Militant Unions – The Backbone Of “Movement Socialism”Date: 2023-03-21Notes: This article is a short version of an essay originally published in Swedish. The Swedish essay was first published in the union paper Arbetarenin 2018. Thereafter published on the website Anarkism.info in 2022 (slightly updated). The author is a member of the Swedish syndicalist union SAC. Photo below: Pixabay.Source: https://anarkism.info/2022/07/13/att-rosta-eller-inte-rosta/ Swedish trade...

Author: Andrew FialaTitle: Political Skepticism and Anarchist Themes in the American TraditionDate: 2013Notes: Andrew Fiala, « Political Skepticism and Anarchist Themes in the American Tradition », European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy [En ligne], V-2 | 2013, mis en ligne le 24 décembre 2013, consulté le 24 mars 2023. URL : journals.openedition.org ; DOI : doi.orgSource: journals.openedition.org A radical pragmatist is a happy-go-lucky...

Author: Anarchist Federation of Rio de JaneiroTitle: Thoughts on Commitment, Responsibility and Self-disciplineNotes: Translated from Portuguese by Jonathan Payn Related Link: http://farj.org/Source: Retrieved on March 24th, 2023 from https://zabalazabooks.net/2014/03/05/thoughts-on-commitment-responsibility-and-self-discipline/ “A subject who has a Libertarian Ethic knows why they are struggling and can explain the ideological reasons for the struggle, having the commitment and self-discipline to carry out the tasks assumed” - Ideal Peres...

Author: Jeff SteinTitle: Black WobbliesSubtitle: Hubert Harrison and Ben FletcherDate: 2022, SpringNotes: a review of Jeffrey B. Perry, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Columbia University Press, 2009. Jeffrey B. Perry, Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927. Columbia University Press, 2021. Peter Cole, Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly. PM Press, Oakland, 2021.Source: Scanned from Anarcho-Syndicalist Review...

Author: CrimethInc.Title: Disasters of State: On the Earthquakes in Turkey and SyriaDate: 16.03.2023Notes: Kurdish: Felaketên Dewletê: Li ser Erdhejên Tirkiye û Sûriyê Turkish: Devletin Felaketleri: Türkiye ve Suriye'deki Depremler HakkındaSource: Retrieved on 19th March 2023 from crimethinc.com On February 6, 2023, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.7 hit southern Turkey and Northern and Western Syria, inflicting tremendous damage. The death tolls are currently...

Author: Errico MalatestaTitle: Communists and FascistsDate: 1924Notes: Translation by João Black. Originally published as "Comunisti e fascisti" in the journal Pensiero e Volontà (May 1, 1924).Source: Tranlsated on March 2022 from www.eleuthera.it (pg.104) We are not scandalized by the violence and electoral plots [pastette elettorali] of fascism. Workers must face the matter. The communist conception of electoral and parliamentary tactics does not logically exclude,...

Author: CrimethInc.Title: Disasters of State: On the Earthquakes in Turkey and SyriaDate: 16.03.2023Notes: Kurdish: Felaketên Dewletê: Li ser Erdhejên Tirkiye û Sûriyê Turkish: Devletin Felaketleri: Türkiye ve Suriye'deki Depremler HakkındaSource: Retrieved on 19th March 2023 from crimethinc.com On February 6, 2023, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.7 hit southern Turkey and Northern and Western Syria, inflicting tremendous damage. The death tolls are currently...

Author: Notes From BelowTitle: IllegalismDate: January 18, 2010Source: Retrieved on March 6, 2012 from web.archive.org The recent arrest of Alfredo Bonanno on suspicion of an alleged bank robbery in Greece has exposed the risks and reopened the controversy surrounding the tactic of political expropriation. Whilst criminality remains in the arsenal of the movement on the continent, its use in the UK is rare. It...

Author: Matt StoneTitle: On the Steppes of Central AsiaDate: 1992Notes: Edited by Richard D. Fuerle.Source: Retrieved on 13th March 2023 from www.anarchism.net Chapter 1 At the time this all happened I was a journalism major in my junior year at Harvard. I was an editor of the Crimson, the student newspaper, and had ambitions to be an investigative reporter, like Woodward and Bernstein. “Smell...

Author: Laurance LabadieTitle: In a Pickle!Date: January 29, 1965Source: Retrieved 03/17/2023 from unionofegoists.com I don’t know of any party, sect, or movement with whom I couldn’t be ascribed to, not by those in any particular group, but by their rivals. In the same sense, I could not be identified with any group === a non-labeling which fits me precisely. I am indeed a “minority...

Author: David S. D’AmatoTitle: Language & the Construction of Economic PowerDate: 12/5/22Source: Retrieved on March 13, 2023 from https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/language-and-the-construction-of The language we use in large part creates our social reality. The character of our social institutions emerges from the things we say about them, and injustices can hide in plain sight if the accretions of euphemism around them are sufficiently compelling. Consider that the...

Author: Flower BombTitle: ADULTHOOD IS A TRAPSubtitle: Anti-Natalism, Youth Liberation, and a Refusal to SurrenderDate: 2023Source: https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/files/2022/07/Adulthood-Is-A-Trap_Anti-Natalism-Youth-Liberation-and-a-Refusal-to-Surrender.pdf If life is to be understood as the free-flowing heartbeat of adventure, emotions, and experiences, then adulthood is similar to a clogged artery; an emotional constipation of desire and imagination. Adulthood resembles an alter-ego socially assigned the task of maintaining a work-over-play ethic, creating a nostalgic longing...

Author: Gabriel KuhnTitle: Anarchism & sportsDate: 29 march 2022Source: www.youtube.com Anarchism and sports. Isn’t that a contradiction? Isn’t sports characterised by competition, commercialism, conservative body norms, nationalist frenzy? Isn’t it an opiate of the masses? Yes. But sports is also characterized by community, inclusivity, social learning, empowerment, and last but not least fun. The anarcho-syndacalist writer Albert Camus, in his youth a talented football...

Author: Carlo SalzaniTitle: Unauthorized FreedomSubtitle: Agamben’s Anarchism à l’Épreuve of the PandemicDate: March 28, 2022Source: https://parisinstitute.org/unauthorized-freedom-agambens-anarchism-a-lepreuve-of-the-pandemic/ I. Unauthorized Freedom HIJACKED by the varied and composite galaxy opposing state measures against COVID-19, the word “freedom” has become a flag waved on a battlefield. Every limitation to individual liberties—particularly measures such as mandatory vaccination and the vaccine pass—has been described by these groups as an act...

Author: Darren AllenTitle: Goodbye Mr. MarxSubtitle: An Anarchist Critique of MarxismDate: 5 Oct 2021Source: Retrieved on 21st October from www.expressiveegg.org The great mistake of the Marxists and of the whole of the nineteenth century was to think that by walking straight on one mounted upward into the air. Simone Weil Marx’s theories are well known enough to need little more than a summary. He...

Author: Daniel ColsonTitle: Belief, anarchism and modernityDate: 2007Notes: Translated by Sharif Gemie, edited by Ruth Kinna with assistance from Paul Chambers and Patricia ClarkSource: Anarchist Studies Journal, Vol. 15 ABSTRACT This essay was originally published in the French-language journal Réfractions 14 (Spring 2005 pp43-52), which was a special issue on religions, values and identities. It considers the contemporary responses of the French left to...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: The Thermidor of the ProgressivesSubtitle: Managerialist Liberalism’s Hostility to Decentralized OrganizationDate: 2010Notes: Center for a Stateless Society Paper No. 9 (Second Quarter 2010)Source: Retrieved 03/18/2023 from c4ss.org I. Background Twentieth century liberalism had its origins as the belief system of what C. Wright Mills called the New Middle Class.[1] The corporate revolution of the post-Civil War period and the associated rise...

Author: Notes From BelowTitle: COP15: Notes From BelowDate: November 29, 2009Source: Retrieved on November 13, 2011 from web.archive.org This December (ten years since the alter-globalisation movements took to the streets of Seattle to oppose the world trade organization) activists from across the globe will be descending on Copenhagen to protest the COP15 round of discussion. Has the UK Direct Action movement changed in the...

Author: Giorgio AgambenTitle: On Anarchy TodayDate: February 26, 2023Notes: First published in Una Voce. Translated by Ill Will.Source: Retrieved on 2023-03-16 from <illwill.com/on-anarchy-today> If, among those who think about politics, anarchy has never ceased to be relevant, given that it constitutes its extreme focal or vanishing point, it is so additionally today given the unjust and vicious persecution to which an anarchist is being...

Author: Barbarie MetodicaTitle: The Terror of VisibilitySubtitle: Demoni Danzanti No.3Date: 2023Notes: This text is the English version of zines in Italian that are distributed at free parties in Sicily. It is written in the context of the new 633bis law, pushed by the neo-fascist Italian government in 2023 and that makes possible sentences of up to 6 years in jail for organising illegal free...

Author: Arnold RollerTitle: The Social General StrikeDate: 1905Notes: Preface by Max Baginski.Translated from the German by F. K.Published by the Debating Club No. IChicago, June 1905. Arnold Roller is the pseudonym for Stephen NaftSource: Retrieved 03/07/2023 from books.google.com PREFACE. THERE were two especial reasons that prompted the publication of this translation of Arnold Roller’s pamphlet “The Social General Strike” (written and published in German,...

Author: Daniel ColsonTitle: Nietzsche and AnarchismDate: 2002Notes: In Lignes 2002/1 (n° 7), pages 170 to 185.Source: www.cairn.info Nietzsche’s work has been the object of a large number of interpretations: an extreme right-wing interpretation, for example, but also a Christian interpretation, or even, very early on, an anarchist interpretation and, more recently, a reading that could be called libertarian, linked to the revival of this...

Author: Daniel ColsonTitle: Nietzsche and AnarchismDate: 2002Notes: In Lignes 2002/1 (n° 7), pages 170 to 185.Source: www.cairn.info Nietzsche’s work has been the object of a large number of interpretations: an extreme right-wing interpretation, for example, but also a Christian interpretation, or even, very early on, an anarchist interpretation and, more recently, a reading that could be called libertarian, linked to the revival of this...

Author: Daniel ColsonTitle: Anarchist Readings of SpinozaDate: 1998Notes: Article published in Réfractions, No. 2 (Summer 1998) pp. 119–148.Source: 1libertaire.free.fr I. Bakunin and Proudhon As the number of publications attests, one can observe, for quite a few years now, a renewed interest in Spinoza. This rediscovery is not only academic and, to a large extent, contrasts sharply with the rationalist and idealist interpretation that, in...

Author: Daniel ColsonTitle: Daniel Colson : Anarchism is Extremely RealisticSubtitle: (An Interview with Ballast Review)Date: 02 Feburary 2015Notes: Posted on February 02, 2015 in Philosophy by Ballast.Source: https://www.revue-ballast.fr/daniel-colson-lanarchisme-est-extremement-realiste/ To open the ball, Daniel Colson, sociologist, essayist (one thinks of course of his Petit lexique philosophique de l'anarchisme, de Proudhon à Deleuze), specialist of the labor movement and bookseller. You put forward the idea that...

Author: Gayr NeşriyatıTitle: Exploring the Intersection of Anarchism and Buddhist OntologyDate: 9 March 2023Source: Retrieved on 10th March 2023 from gayrnesriyat.substack.com Introduction This essay aims to investigate the potential for mutual enrichment between anarchist political philosophy and Buddhist ontology. Anarchism advocates for the elimination of hierarchical power structures and prioritizes individual liberty, whereas Buddhist ontology aims to comprehend the nature of reality and the...

Author: Alfredo CospitoTitle: Last LetterDate: March 7th, 2023Notes: Translated by Ill WillSource: Retrieved on 2023-03-09 from <illwill.com/last-letter> Ill Will: Below is a translation of what we note, with deep sorrow, may be Alfredo Cospito’s last letter. It was circulated on March 1, 2023 following a relentless hunger strike that led him to lose more than 50kg, and after the Court of Cassation decreed his...

Author: Earl C. Ford & William Z. FosterTitle: SyndicalismDate: 1912Source: Retrieved 03/07/2023 from archive.org INTRODUCTION THE SITUATION—ITS CAUSE AND CURE. The American workingman who arouses himself from the customary state of indifference characterizing workingmen and gazes about him in a critical mood, must be struck by the great inequalities in the conditions of the beings surrounding him. On the one hand, he sees vast...

Author: Alfredo CospitoTitle: I Am Ready To DieDate: 5th March 2023Source: Retrieved on 2023-03-07 from <organisemagazine.org.uk/2023/03/05/alfredo-cospito-i-am-ready-to-die> Organise!: For a year, Alfredo Cospito has been isolated and tortured under the Italian state’s 41-bis prison regime, in violation of his human rights to a fair trial, private life and correspondence. In the face of this criminal denial of life, Cospito had no option but to respond...

Author: Jeff ShantzTitle: Benjamin TuckerDate: 2001Source: Sabcat Born into a wealthy liberal family in New Bedford, Massachusetts and raised in a climate of radical Protestantism and Painite individualism, Benjamin Tucker’s personal experiences convinced him that people, following their own reason in a community of fellowship, could govern themselves without recourse to instituted authorities such as the state. Tucker was the first prominent American thinker...

Author: Mikhail BakuninTitle: The Political Philosophy of BakuninSubtitle: Compiled and edited by G. P. MaximoffDate: 1953Notes: From the scattered writings of Bakunin, G.P. Maximoff has selected those pertinent theoretical sections that give the reader a complete statement of Bakunin’s politics in Bakunin’s own words. In addition to Bakunin’s text, the book contains a definitive biographical sketch of Bakunin written by Max Nettlau, an introduction...

Author: El Libertario editorial collectiveTitle: Anarchism in Venezuela, past and presentDate: April-May 2008Source: Retrieved on 2020-04-06 from libcom.org The profile of anarchism in Venezuelan history has been less pronounced than in other parts of Latin America, where it has vigorously manifested itself through collective struggles, publications, personalities and ideological debate. It is, however, worth pointing out that it has also influenced our social and...

Author: Dmitri PrietoTitle: Cuba in the Central American and Caribbean Anarchist FederationDate: 22 April 2015Source: Retrieved on 5th March 2023 from havanatimes.org A new anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian organization has been created in Latin America: the Central American and Caribbean Anarchist Federation. The federation’s inaugural congress was held in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, some weeks ago, and a representative of Cuba’s Alfredo Lopez...

Author: Alfredo López Libertarian WorkshopTitle: Anarcho-capitalism? No thanks!Date: 26 April 2018Notes: Original translation.Source: Retrieved on 5th March 2023 from f-anarquista-cc.blogspot.com The Alfredo López Libertarian Workshop is a collectivity whose purpose is to promote the libertarian self-organisation of society on the basis of autonomy, equity, and the elimination of economic exploitation. We consider that full social freedom can only be founded on common work, explicit...

Author: Anarchist Federation of Central America and the CaribbeanTitle: The Anarchist Federation of Central America and the Caribbean has been born!Date: 27 March 2015Source: Retrieved on 5th March 2023 from libcom.org After several months of preparation and preliminary discussions, a congress took place which approved the founding of the Anarchist Federation of Central America and the Caribbean (FACC). We, comrades from various countries and...

Author: Guillaume DavrancheTitle: 1917–1921: And paedophilia brought down Sébastien FaureDate: 28 February 2023Notes: Original translation.Source: Retrieved on 3rd March 2023 from unioncommunistelibertaire.org The question was evaded by his contemporaries, and only skimmed over by historians. Was it police slander? There were indications to the contrary, but no one bothered to dig. But recent revelations leave no room for doubt: this internationally renowned anarchist activist,...

Author: Rasmus HästbackaTitle: Six myths about union actionSubtitle: Notes from SwedenDate: April 28, 2021Notes: This article was published in Swedish on April 28, 2021 in the union paper Arbetaren. It has been translated for this library by the author. Therafter published by the Industrial Worker in a slightly different version.Source: Retrieved on July 6, 2022 from www.arbetaren.se “The primary source of union strength is...

Author: Hillary LazarTitle: Until All Are FreeSubtitle: Black Feminism, Anarchism, and Interlocking OppressionDate: December 15, 2016Source: Retrieved on 2 March 2023 from anarchiststudies.org/until-all-are-free-hillary-lazar If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression. —The Combahee River Collective We are all feminists, united in our recognition...

Author: Benjamin FranksTitle: AnarchismDate: 2013Notes: Published in The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. There is a considerable amount of confusion, even among Socialists, as to the real meaning of words that run off the end of our tongues every time we speak of the revolutionary movement. Take, for instance, the words Socialist, Communist, Collectivist, Social Democrat, Anarchist, and collect the opinions of the first...

Author: Geoffrey OstergaardTitle: AnarchismDate: 1993Notes: Published in The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social and Political Thought, pp. 12–14. Repudiation of rulers is at the core of anarchism. In developing this negative notion, modern anarchists, broadly classifiable as either individualist or socialist, reject the state, hold that social order is possible in its absence and advocate moving directly towards ‘society without a state’. The first...

Author: Geoffrey OstergaardTitle: AnarchismDate: 1983Notes: Published in A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, pp. 21–23. The doctrine and movement which rejects the principle of political authority and maintains that social order is possible and desirable without such authority. Its central negative thrust is directed against the core elements that make up the modern state: its territoriality with the accompanying notion of frontiers; its sovereignty, implying...

Author: Revolutionary Anarchist FrontTitle: Clarification of the Revolutionary Anarchist FrontDate: 20 December 2008Notes: Original translation.Source: Retrieved on 1st March 2023 from cedema.org In view of the socio-political hustle and bustle at the end of the year, we met once again to share fraternally among all those who have acted so far, to share in the same way with comrades who have now returned to...