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Author: Adi CallaiTitle: The Gaza Ghetto UprisingDate: May 2024Source: <brooklynrail.org/2024/05/field-notes/The-Gaza-Ghetto-Uprising> TO THE HEART OF IT: Gaza has been a free kill zone and a “concentration camp” (to quote Israel’s National Security Director Giora Eiland in 2004), long before October 7. In light of this, the most radical position comes directly from the simplest question: are Palestinians human beings? If your answer is emphatically yes,...

Author: maia arson crimewTitle: anarchism starts in the now: hope for a better futureSubtitle: there is still timeDate: 2024-11-14Source: Retrieved on 2024-11-14 from https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/anarchism-in-the-now/ one: doom "All my siblings wanna swim but it's infested with great whites Tell me if shit changed since Leelah and Blake died Tell me if my best friend's about to be next in line Tell me that I'm brave...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Yintah film review: Anarchists in the blind spotSubtitle: The necessity to write our own historiesDate: November 9th, 2024Source: Retrieved on November 14th 2024 from https://bccounterinfo.org/2024/11/09/yintah-documentary-film-review-anarchists-in-the-blind-spot-or-the-necessity-to-write-our-own-histories/ Yintah is the latest installment of a long tradition of indigenous documentaries speaking truth to power against colonial violence in so-called Canada. The story told is of an anti-pipeline struggle to protect the richness of life that...

Author: Strangers In a Tangled WildernessTitle: Life Without LawSubtitle: An introduction to anarchist politicsDate: Fall 2013, revised 2024Notes: The first edition was published in 2013. This revised edition was published in 2024. Both were published by Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness. This is the 2024 revised edition.Source: Retrieved on November 18th, 2013 from http://www.tangledwilderness.org/life-without-law/ I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to...

Author: FundiTitle: The Consequences to RahtidDate: February 1974Notes: Transcribed from Documents of the Caribbean Revolution (Tunapuna: New Beginning, 1974) by Matthew Quest and Ryan Cecil Jobson.*Source: Retrieved on 2024-11-02 from medium.com/clash-voices-for-a-caribbean-federation-from-below/joseph-edwards-the-consequences-of-rahtid-february-1974-71bdbe7668e6 Joseph Edwards, a Jamaican refrigeration mechanic, spoke of radical labor politics in Rasta idioms. Let’s reason “to Rahtid!” His selected writings have been published as Workers Self-Management in the Caribbean (2014). When we...

Author: FundiTitle: Union Versus MenegementDate: 1970sNotes: Transcribed by Mutt.Source: Retrieved on 2 November 2024 from <organisemagazine.org.uk/2024/11/01/union-versus-menegement-joseph-edwards-theory-and-analysis> This piece, authored by Joseph Edwards—also known as Fundi or the Caribbean Situationist—offers a unique perspective within the anti-authoritarian tradition of the Caribbean left. Assumed to be the first publication of the Trinidadian labor organizing group, The New Beginning Movement (NBM) (1971–1978), this booklet was released as Abeng...

Author: Marianne EnckellTitle: Ronald Creagh, an appreciationDate: 2024Notes: Scanned from original.Source: Anarchist Studies 32.1 (2024) An ‘inimitable singularity’: this is how Ronald Creagh described the American utopian communities he studied for his doctoral thesis. [1] But Ronald himself was also an inimitable singularity. A cosmopolitan by family and culture, with British, Italian, Egyptian roots, he had studied in France and written his MA on...

Author: John ClarkTitle: Ronald Creagh (1929-2023)Date: 2024Notes: Scanned from originalSource: Anarchist Studies 32.1 (2024) Ronald Creagh took great satisfaction from the fact that he was born in Alexandria, Egypt, a historic city that was the centre of ancient learning. He grew up in a multicultural milieu in Port Said, Egypt. He was the offspring of a British-Sicilian father and a Franco-Lebanese mother and was...

Author: Fifth Estate CollectiveTitle: Remembering Ronald CreaghDate: 2023, FallNotes: Accessed October 21, 2024 at https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/414-fall-2023/remembering-ronald-creagh/Source: Fifth Estate #414, Fall 2023 Longtime French anarchist scholar and activist Ronald Creagh died on September 8 at age 94. He was in touch with anarchists and anti-authoritarians on several continents. Those who knew him personally appreciated his broad-minded openness and supportive spirit. Some Fifth Estate staffers were among...

Author: El Libertario editorial collectiveTitle: Neither Chavez nor Carmona: Self-management is the wayDate: April 21, 2002Source: Retrieved on October 24, 2024 from https://www.nodo50.org/ellibertario/descargas/folleto-abril-02.txt Given the political crisis that Venezuela is going through and that was manifested in the events before, during and after April 11, we anarchists consider it necessary to state our position. In this regard, therefore: 1) Hugo Chavez's contradictory policies have...

Author: Alan BarnardTitle: Primitive communism and mutual aidSubtitle: Kropotkin visits the BushmenDate: December 17, 1992Source: Socialism (ASA Monographs); Ideals, Ideologies and Local Practice. Chris M. Hann (editor). <routledge.com/Socialism-Ideals-Ideologies-and-Local-Practice/Hann/p/book/9780415083225> But still we know that when the Europeans came, the Bushmen lived in small tribes (or clans), sometimes federated together; that they used to hunt in common, and divided the spoil without quarrelling; that they never...

Author: Nohara ShirõTitle: Anarchists and the May 4 Movement in ChinaDate: January 1975Notes: Translated by Philip Billingsley.Source: Momoyama Gakuin University Library, Japan: <stars.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/7177/files/KJ00004276158.pdf> & <libcom.org/library/anarchists-may-4-movement-china> Translator’s Note Until the post-Cultural Revolution thaw that began in 1979, Chinese readers found it next to impossible to gain access to information about the strong anarchist influence within their country’s revolutionary movement. From the point of view of...

Author: Rudolf RockerTitle: The Truth About SpainDate: 1936Source: #source This text was retrieved on 2024-10-16 from https://www.scribd.com/document/292981558/Rocker. Clarifications for text which was obscured in the original source were retrieved on 2024-10-27 from https://stars.library.ucf.edu/prism/ If there is any event that can bring about a rediscovery of inner strength on the part of organized labor and the libertarian elements of the world, it is the grand...

Author: AnarkataTitle: Move Like MycorrhizaeSubtitle: Some Suggestions for PraxisDate: 2022Source: 115.-anarkata-move-like-mycorrhizae.pdf What are mycorrhizae? mycorrhizae (pronounced “my-core-ih-zigh”) are mutual relationships between fungi and plant roots. They move nutrients between plants they are connected to. They can also sap nutrients from one part of a fungal network. They spread vastly within an ecosystem in ways that prevent researchers from being able to trace where the...

Author: O Globo, HostisTitle: There is a Third ThingSubtitle: Brazilian capo speaks like a prophet; everything he said is both actual and unsettling.Date: 2017Notes: Taken from O Globo, Translated by Pepe RojoSource: Retrieved on 9/24/2024 from https://incivility.org/2017/07/22/there-is-a-third-thing/. Marcos Camacho, better known by his nickname Marcola, is the leader of a criminal organization in São Paulo, Brazil, called Primer Comando de la Capital (PCC, Capital’s...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Towards Another UprisingDate: Early October, 2024Source: Retrieved on October 19, 2024 from https://anarchistnews.org/content/towards-another-uprising At the end of 2010 an individual act of despair in the town of Sidi Bouzid ignited a daring, enraged, and joyful upheaval that travelled through North Africa into the Middle East and beyond. People defied the oppressive systems they had been immersed in for generations and came together...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Face to Face with the EnemySubtitle: An Introduction to the WCCGT pipeline, PRGT pipeline and Ksi Lisims LNGDate: October 2022Notes: This is from the zine "Between Storms: Anarchist Reflections of Solidarity with Wet'suwet'en Resistance" (2022). Some information regarding ownership over PRGT may no longer be accurate.Source: Retrieved on Sep 23 2024 from https://ia903104.us.archive.org/24/items/ZineArchive/BetweenStorms-read.pdf Many have stood by as our Wet’suwet’en friends and...

Author: Ethel ManninTitle: Bread and RosesSubtitle: An Utopian Survey and BlueprintDate: December 1944Notes: London, December, 1943 — May, 1944.Source: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.213271/page/n7 I. UTOPIA — THE EVERLASTING DREAM Throughout the ages, from the earliest times, men of all nations have dreamed of that ‘ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under perfect conditions’. What constitutes ‘perfect conditions’ is obviously a matter of personal preferences and prejudices, but there...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 1Source: Retrieved on february 29, 2019 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/index/ Children’s Oppression, Rights, and Liberation, by Samantha Godwin Excerpt: academia.edu/2046034/Childrens_Oppression_Rights_and_Liberation (Citations Omitted) The legal, political, scientific and media discourse prevalent in previous generations promoted the idea that race and gender are biologically determinate categories with biologically determined attributes, characteristics, and social roles. Historically, many anthropologists and psychologists believed...

Author: Anonymous, CrimethInc.Title: Ya Ghazze Habibti—Gaza, My LoveSubtitle: Understanding the Genocide in PalestineDate: 2024-10-03Source: Retrieved on October 19, 2024 from https://crimethinc.com/2024/10/03/ya-ghazze-habibti-gaza-my-love-understanding-the-genocide-in-palestine After slaughtering more than 42,000 Palestinians, including 16,500 children, the Israeli military is now invading Lebanon and threatening to go to war with Iran. In the following in-depth account, an anarchist from occupied Palestine reviews the history of Zionist colonialism and Palestinian resistance,...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 3Source: Retrieved on february 29, 2019 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/index/ Young and Oppressed, by Brian Dominick and Sara Zia Ebrahimi While most common oppressions, such as sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism, even speciesism, have been identified, widely acknowledged, thoroughly discussed and deeply analyzed, one oppression remains largely untouched. This fact is astonishing given that the group oppressed by this...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 4Source: Retrieved on february 29, 2019 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/index/ Why We Can’t Wait, by Adam Fletcher “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” I look at the people around me and see the prisons and traps we are all stuck. From an early age we are taught and trained:...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 7Date: Dec 1, 2017Source: Retrieved on 12 June 2021 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/index/ Documents and Depression, by Kris Anne Bonifacio Joaquin Luna’s dream was simple. He wanted to become a civil engineer. But the Texas student’s undocumented status limited his options for the future. Left without hope, the 18-year-old shot himself the day after Thanksgiving last year. In...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 13Date: 12/01/2016Source: Retrieved on May 9, 2022 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/no-issue-13/ Against Parental Rights (Excerpt: academia.edu/19663920/Against_Parental_Rights) Samantha Godwin There is a significant disjunction between child protectionist theory and rhetoric and the extent of parental powers. The extensive deference to parental preference and discretion seems to have little to do with preserving children’s interests and more to do with...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 14Date: 06/02/2016Source: Retrieved on May 9, 2022 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/no-issue-14/ The Pedagogy of ReligionPeter Gelderloos It was my grandfather’s memorial service, and the Dutch Reform pastor took a break from talking about God and Heaven to the members of the congregation, in which I, as a dutiful grandson, was unfortunately included for the moment, in order to...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 15Date: 21/02/2016Source: Retrieved on May 9, 2022 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/no-issue-15/ Mistrust and ThingsLayla AbdelRahim Since the 1950s of Soviet Russia, Lena Alexeevna Nikitina and Boris Pavlovich Nikitin, have been sounding alarm that children’s most vicious enemy is, in fact, adults’ mistrust that begins with holding the child when she walks, helping her up when she falls, forbidding...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 16Date: 07/03/2016Source: Retrieved on May 9, 2022 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/no-issue-16/ I Am DAVID: A younger version of myself waits for the bus after school. My friend starts to tell me some of the jokes about “illegals” he knows. I look visibly uncomfortable and he acknowledges it: “You shouldn’t take it personally” he says with a smirk, “I...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 17Date: 22/03/2016Source: Retrieved on May 9, 2022 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/no-issue-17/ There Is a Better WayVicki Larson The pressures and pace of modern life has made parents and children stressed and miserable. With the rise of dual-earning families, mothers, and increasingly, fathers are struggling with work-life issues, forcing many to lean in or opt out. But is it...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 18Date: 23/04/2016Source: Retrieved on May 9, 2022 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/no-issue-18/ Adult Education (TED Transcript) Adora Svitak Now, I want to start with a question: When was the last time you were called “childish”? For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any...

Author: Benjamin FranksTitle: Between Anarchism and MarxismSubtitle: the beginnings and ends of the schism …Date: 2012Source: Journal of Political Ideologies, Volume 17, 2012 — Issue 2. DOI: 10.1080/13569317.2012.676867 Abstract This paper analyses the development of the schism between Marxism and anarchism and explores two distinct methodological approaches to investigating these apparently discrete ideologies: one is derived from analytic political philosophy; the other is an...

Author: Ausonia Calabrese (T.F.G)Title: The return of the repressedSubtitle: (Anti)religious anarchism and Protestant presuppositionsSource: https://pleroma.noblogs.org/the-return-of-the-repressed-antireligious-anarchism-and-protestant-presuppositions/ This article, foremost, is a response to a critique published on my work Against Individualism by a certain Aleph. In short, Aleph is not convinced of my account of the Creative Nothing and is concerned with a “Christian” basis for my mystical methods — among other minutiae. This, he...

Author: Katja EinsfeldTitle: Anarcho-Communist PlanningDate: 06/2024Source: Retrieved on 2024-10-06 from https://transform-social.org/en/texts/anarcho_communist_planning/ Abstract In recent years, the discussion about economic concepts different from both capitalism and central planning has gotten more interest, new ideas emerged, and old ideas were rediscovered. This paper presents a modern version of the economic concept of anarcho-communist planning, originating from the late 19th century. The proposed idea is based on...

Author: Louve RoseTitle: For a revolutionary queer movement.Date: August 2023Notes: Originally written for the second edition of Première Ligne magazine.Source: https://pink-bloc.info/en/2023/10/30/pour-un-mouvement-queer-revolutionnaire/ Current context The current condition of queer communities is paradoxically one of the best and one of the worst we've seen in modern capitalist Western societies. Sixty years of continuous mobilization by the queer movement (and protoqueer before it, if we consider all...

Author: Thomas SwannTitle: Towards an anarchist cyberneticsSubtitle: Stafford Beer, self-organisation and radical social movementsDate: 2018Source: Retrieved on 2024-10-15 from [https://ephemerajournal.org/contribution/towards-anarchist-cybernetics-stafford-beer-self-organisation-and-radical-social] abstract In the early 1960s, a number of anarchist writers showed an interest in cybernetics, in which they saw the tools for better articulating radical forms of self-organisation. Discussions on the connections between anarchism and cybernetics did not advance very far, however, and by...

Author: Institute For The Study of Insurgent WarfareTitle: On Deep Green Failures or The Problem of Inert StrategyDate: 2014Notes: Published in Insurgencies: A Journal of Insurgent Strategy Vol. 1.Source: Retrieved on 25th May 2021 from libgen.is “We tend to destroy our leaders with criticism, often personal and vicious.” — Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistence Looting the Corpses That Come Before You I’m not here...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: Disruptive ElementsSubtitle: The Extremes of French AnarchismDate: 2014Notes: A dense compendium of old and brand-new translations of a dizzying array of names from the individualist anarchist tendency, mostly from early 20th Century France. New translations from Wolfi Landstreicher, Shawn Wilbur, and Vincent Stone. Anyone who is interested in this tendency, fans of My Own, Enemies of Society, Stirner’s works, etc., will...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 19Date: 31/05/2016Source: Retrieved on May 9, 2022 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/no-issue-19/ Bullying HealthElena Hagopyan As soon as you got any “bigger” health problem, you’re basically in trouble, not only by the things you’re facing by your condition, but actually the opinion is far harder. Today it is better to be some picture perfect child, young person or adult,...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 20Date: 21/06/2016Source: Retrieved on May 9, 2022 from https://stinneydistro.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/no-issue-20/ Condemned and HatedIsis Nelson Adults have consistently ignored young opinions and voices forever. It’s taught to us that we should respect our elders, because they’re old, and not speak unless spoken to by an adults. They constantly fail to protect and help us. The history of our...

Author: JP O’ MalleyTitle: Interview: David Graeber, leading figure of OccupyDate: 3 May 2013Notes: davidgraeber.org & davidgraeber.instituteSource: Retrieved on 15th October 2024 from www.spectator.co.uk The anarchist movement in the United States has had the support of leading libertarian intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky; but it has lacked a figure who could transform its guiding principles into something resembling a political movement. In the autumn...

Author: Qalandar Bux Memon and Zaki AbbasTitle: Prefiguration of a Common DreamSubtitle: An Interview with David GraeberSource: Retrieved on 15th October 2024 from nakedpunch.com Qalandar Bux Memon: Can you explain why you support horizontal organisation, collective assemblies and a dialogical method for organising for social change as opposed to the vertical left party? David Gaeber: I like to make the distinction between forms of...

Author: Arthur De GraveTitle: The era of predatory bureaucratizationSubtitle: An interview with David GraeberDate: 27 January 2016Notes: This interview was originally published in Socialter n°14.Source: Retrieved on 15th October 2024 from legacy.ouishare.net David Graeber is an anthropologist and a well-known anarchist figure. He was one of the initiators of the Occupy movement in 2011. He is the author of a major essay, Debt, the...

Author: Steven DurelTitle: Teach Me if You CanSubtitle: An Interview with David GraeberDate: November 21, 2005Source: Retrieved on 15th October 2024 from towardfreedom.org David Graeber: It’s not really Yale’s leadership so much as the Department of Anthropology and senior faculty who decided to cut me off. For a long time I really tried to avoid getting involved in campus politics. I thought that I...

Author: Ross WolfeTitle: The movement as an end-in-itself?Subtitle: An interview with David GraeberDate: February 2012Notes: Published in Platypus Review 43.Source: Retrieved on 15th October 2024 from platypus1917.org On December 16, 2011, Ross Wolfe interviewed David Graeber, Reader at Goldsmiths College in London, author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004), and central figure in the early stages of the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. What...

Author: Suzi WeissmanTitle: The Rise of Bullshit JobsSubtitle: An interview with David GraeberDate: June 30, 2018Source: Retrieved on 15th October 2024 from jacobin.com In his latest book, David Graeber, the best-selling author of Debt: The First 5000 Years, argues that many jobs today are essentially pointless — or, as the book’s title calls them, Bullshit Jobs. Jacobin Radio’s Suzi Weissman sat down with Graeber...

Author: JP O’ MalleyTitle: The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber InterviewDate: 1st April 2015Notes: JP O’ Malley interviews anthropologist, activist, anarchist and author, David Graeber, who was one of the early organisers of Occupy Wall Street.Source: Retrieved on 15th October 2024 from bellacaledonia.org.uk In a compelling new book of essays entitled The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy,...

Author: Making Sen$eTitle: Why America’s favorite anarchist thinks most American workers are slavesDate: April 17, 2014Source: Retrieved on 15th October 2024 from www.pbs.org Editor’s Note: Conservative proponents of the guaranteed income want a lump sum payment (Charles Murray suggests about $11,000 to all adults) to replace existing social welfare programs and downsize American bureaucracy. But some leftists oppose those government welfare agencies, too, London...

Author: Elias IsquithTitle: “I found myself turning into an idiot!”Subtitle: David Graeber explains the life-sapping reality of bureaucratic lifeDate: March 5, 2015Source: Retrieved on 15th October 2024 from www.salon.com David Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, is a man who wears many hats. He’s an academic, of course — and a respected one at that. But he’s also an...

Author: Noam Chomsky & Radical Anthropology JournalTitle: Human nature and the origins of languageDate: 2008Source: Radical Anthropology Journal, Issue #2. <radicalanthropologygroup.org/journal> Noam Chomsky ranks among the leading intellectual figures of modern times and has changed the way we think about what it means to be human, revolutionising linguistics and establishing it as a modern science. He agreed to discuss just some of his ideas...

Author: AryanamTitle: A Philosophy for AnarchismDate: October 4th 2024Source: https://asranarshism.com/1403/07/13/a-philosophy-for-anarchism-en/ Philosophy is nothing but a landscape of perspectives, worldviews, and paths, some meandering and some straightforward, some solitary and some crisscrossing with the neighboring paths, some long and some short, some trekked in multitude and some in solitude, some forgotten and some revered, some new and some ancient, all to understand and nourish the...

Author: Zosia BromTitle: An Eastern Europe mythbusterDate: 24/07/2022Notes: This article first appeared in the Summer-Autumn edition of Freedom journal.Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/07/24/an-eastern-europe-mythbuster/ “Apparently, for the Western left, it is totally fine to publicly self-fellate over Kurdish, Palestinian or Irish self-determination, but just try bringing an Eastern European one to the table …” ~ Eastern European Leftist Proverb, medium: Telegram One of the more frustrating aspects of...