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Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: The state is colonialism: Debating infrastructural colonization and the roots of socioecological catastropheDate: 2023Source: Political Geography Journal, Volume 107, p1-4 Abstract: Replying to criticism to the term infrastructural colonization, this commentary article discusses the colonial and how colonization is conceived. Infrastructural colonization, as opposed to colonialism, takes a literal approach to territorial control, landscape and socio-cultural change, exploring the literal colonization...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: Facing Fascism: SabotageDate: 31 Jan 2025Source: Retrieved on 19 Feb 2025 from revoluciana.net I’ve been meaning to write this post for the last week or two, but I’ve been so relieved to see that in the interim, so many people are already aware of a resource I’m about to discuss, and they have been sharing it widely in my social media channels....

Author: Johann MostTitle: The Free SocietyDate: 1887Source: Retrieved on February 18, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/johann-most/8027-johann-most-die-freie-gesellschaft The greatest happiness that a person can achieve is a state in which everyone achieves the most complete satisfaction of all his needs with the least possible effort. The closer one comes to this relationship, the more definitely one will find one’s individual freedom preserved. For the shorter the period...

Author: Johann MostTitle: Long live tyrannicide!Date: 1881Notes: Leading article in the “Freiheit” Vol.III (1881), No. 12 (March 19), p. 1, edited by Most, under the title: “Finally!” The starting point is the successful assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander II. The authorship of Most, who largely wrote his leading articles himself, is also easily recognizable linguistically.Source: Retrieved on February 18, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/johann-most/7271-johann-most-es-lebe-der-tyrannenmord «Grab this...

Author: Bob MyersTitle: Against Ethnic Cleansing In The Former YugoslaviaSubtitle: How to take you back to the winter of '92Notes: This article is included as a chapter in the book Restructuring and Resistance in Western Europe, Diverse Voices of Struggle, edited by Kolya Abramsky, published by Resres Books in 2001.Source: accessed January 16, 2025 at https://struggle.ws/inter/seattle/yugoslavia.html It's very hard now, probably impossible, to capture...

Author: Jwana AzizTitle: We Are Not Pawns, We Are the People Who Rose Against the RegimeDate: December 18th 2024Notes: This article by Syrian writer Jwana Aziz reflects on the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Jwana examines the conditions that precipitated the 2011 uprising, the years of civil war, and the difficulties that now lay ahead for the Syrian people, while also holding open the...

Author: Simón Royo HernándezTitle: The timeliness of anarchismDate: 15/11/2024Notes: From Redes Libertarias (15/11/2024)Source: Retrieved on 15 February 2025 from https://autonomies.org/2024/12/simon-royo-hernandez-the-timeliness-of-anarchism/ When we look at what remains of the glorious and spectacular anarchist movement, the fullness of which we can situate between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, sadness and nostalgia come over us, for it...

Author: Sam WeinerTitle: Working with G. P. MaximoffDate: (July-August, 1950)Notes: Sam Dolgoff writing as Sam Weiner, Malcolm Archibald translatorSource: Delo-Truda Probuzhdenie #33 , pp. 13–14. Those who knew our late comrade Maximoff and his endeavors in spreading our ideas in Russia and other European countries, his contributions to our theoretical and practical problems, his work on the consolidation of the anarcho-syndicalist movement in Russia...

Author: Mikhail BakuninTitle: CommunismDate: 1843Source: Retrieved on February 14, 2025 from https://ru.anarchistlibraries.net/library/mihail-bakunin-kommunizm#fn_back3 The latest issue of the Observer<ref>The newspaper in question was Der Schweizerischer Beobachter (The Swiss Observer), which was published in Zurich and expressed the views of the conservative party.</ref> contains an article, or rather the beginning of an article, on Communism, which has struck us very pleasantly. It is written with a...

Author: Albert JensenTitle: Bolshevik imperialismDate: 1948Source: Retrieved on February 14, 2025 from https://sv.anarchistlibraries.net/library/albert-jensen-bolsjevikisk-imperialism Today’s situation gives cause for reflection for everyone, not least for all libertarian socialists. What is threatening humanity today? It is the spread of a state totalitarian system of government that makes all people slaves under a layer of politically powerful tyrants. Under this system, people are ruled day and night...

Author: Mikhail BakuninTitle: God or freedom?Date: 1868Notes: Speech at a congress of the League for Peace and Freedom held in Berne in 1868Source: Retrieved on February 14, 2025 from https://sv.anarchistlibraries.net/library/mikhail-bakunin-gud-eller-frihet It has been alleged that we are enemies of free speech because we oppose all religious ideas, but this assertion is in every respect incorrect. We are consistent and principled enemies of every authority,...

Author: Nhat HongTitle: Still Crazy After All These YearsSubtitle: Interview with Sam and Esther DolgoffSam & Esther Dolgoff 60 Years of AnarchismAn Interview by Nhat Hong, Parts 1 and 2Date: Spring 1982Notes: Interview in 1980 or 1981, second part part was unpublished.Source: Soil of Liberty Volume 8, No. 2 Editorial Note: This is the complete interview Nhat Hong conducted for the Minneapolis-based anarchist magazine,...

Author: Nicolas PalumboTitle: Recuperative RhetoricsSubtitle: A Novel Framework for Rhetorical AnalysisDate: 8-15-2024Notes: A thesis submitted to the College of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in ENGLISH by Nicolas Anthony Palumbo, August 2024. Graduate Thesis Chair: Dr. Lizbett TinocoSource: https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/masters_theses/26/ Abstract This thesis details the creation of the...

Author: Sam WeinerTitle: Fascist America?Date: March 1935Notes: Sam Dolgoff (writing as Sam Weiner).Source: Published in Vanguard, Volume 2, No. 1, March 1935, p.12–14. Five years of economic depression have produced a profound change in the attitude of large sections of our population toward the economic and political structure of American society. Millions of people are now more or less permeated with the feeling that...

Author: Sébastien FaureTitle: Voter, listen up!Date: 1919Source: Retrieved on February 11, 2025 from https://fr.m.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%89lecteur,_%C3%A9coute Voter, listen! Every time the powers of the Chamber of Deputies expire, there is a unanimous cry: “At last! This infamous Chamber will disappear! The country will be rid of this cursed Parliament!” This language expressly translates the successive feelings: disappointment, weariness, disgust that have been born in the public...

Author: Sébastien FaureTitle: The AnarchistsSubtitle: What they are, what they are notDate: 1920Source: Retrieved on February 11, 2025 from https://fr.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Anarchistes_ce_qu%E2%80%99ils_sont,_ce_qu%E2%80%99ils_ne_sont_pas Little is known about anarchists, and what is worse, they are poorly known. Question a hundred people in the street and ask them what they know about anarchists. Many will respond by spreading their arms or shrugging their shoulders, expressing their ignorance. Others, not...

Author: Good Night Imperial PrideTitle: An anarchist on fighting for UkraineSubtitle: “There are values that we place above states”Date: 14.01.2025Notes: Follow and support Good Night Imperial Pride: https://t.me/gnimperialpride instagram.com twitter.com facebook.comSource: telegra.ph Since the first day of the full-scale invasion, anarchist D. has been part of the Ukrainian armed resistance against russia. He joined the anti-authoritarian platoon as a volunteer and then served as...

Author: Abraham GuillenTitle: Decalogue of self-managementSource: Retrieved on February 7, 2025 from https://www.marxists.org/espanol/guillen/decalogo.htm Self-management: do not delegate popular power. Autonomy of initiatives: unite the whole and the parts in a federative socialism. Federation of self-managed organizations. Socialism must not be chaotic, but a coherent unity of the whole and its parts, of the region and the nation. Direct action: anti-capitalism, anti-bureaucratism, so that the...

Author: Erich MühsamTitle: State and churchDate: 1927Source: Retrieved on February 9, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/erich-muehsam/152-erich-muehsam-staat-und-kirche The struggle that Mexican President Calles is waging to free the state from the overwhelming influence of the clergy offers no reason at all for the exuberant enthusiasm with which revolutionaries all over the world celebrate the victory of freedom over the enslavement of the spirit. Certainly the forms of...

Author: Erich MühsamTitle: Tolstoy’s legacyDate: 1928Source: Retrieved on February 9, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/erich-muehsam/8078-erich-muehsam-tolstois-vermaechtnis Today’s revolutionaries would not have worried about Leo Tolstoy’s centenary if he had died at the moment when he saw his poetic work completed and cursed the time and effort it had cost him, since he felt it was stolen from his work for truth and for the freedom of mankind....

Author: Your anarchist comrades in NESTitle: Diaries of the new dawn of a new SyriaSubtitle: A collection of analysesDate: 09.02.25 Introduction The dictatorship of the Assad regime collapsed after more than 50 years. Although its downfall appears to be an overnight event, it is a complex result of many contradictions, balance of forces, geopolitical shifts and Syrian people’s struggle for freedom. There is much...

Author: AnarchblrTitle: Notes and Commentary on Du BoisDate: April 28, 2020Notes: Edited for a better reading.Source: Retrived on February 7 2025 from https://anarchblr.tumblr.com/post/616684192587186176/dubois-and-anarchism and https://anarchblr.tumblr.com/post/665316247138893825/to-what-extent-and-in-what-ways-do-you-think Du Bois and Anarchism I think my biggest reservation towards Du Bois in particular is his view that there’s a redeemable part of the United States, that liberty can coexist with the US due to the ideals which it,...

Author: Camillo BerneriTitle: Anarchism and anticlericalismDate: 1936Source: Extracted from Anarchism and Politics. The “Minimum Program” of the Libertarians of the Third Millennium, by Stefano d’Errico. Published as “Anarchismo e anticlericalismo” in L’Adunata dei Refrattari, N. Y., 18-1-1936. The Esperantist magazine Herezulo has published a “letter from Russia” dated 20-5-1935, from which I reveal the following extract: “Perhaps you might be interested to know that...

Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: Universal SufferingDate: 1/27/1964Source: Retrieved from https://hu.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/846 and translation finished on 1/31/2025 Translator’s Note: After seeing a humble comrade putting a note on a Tsuji Jun piece, I was inspired to follow suit. This is an amateur translation. I put months of effort into making it as easy a read as possible but it is a decently heady philosophy piece so I...

Author: Z. ZoltyTitle: Benjaminian Resistance, Circumnavigating Border walls, Negating Schmittian KatechonDate: 1, 1, 2024Source: https://philpapers.org/rec/ZOLBDV Abstract The current situation in the United States of America is that Latin immigrants and migrants are mistreated and subjected to gross human rights violations, with entire extensions of the Nation-State being given virtually unlimited power over a powerless populace. The current gap in the literature revolves around Agamben...

Author: Sudan Anarchist Gathering, CNT-AIT France, and their friendsTitle: HopeSubtitle: Issue #1Date: Jan 2025Notes: This is the first issue of a paper "الأمل", meaning 'hope', also published with the name "Espoir". Four A4 page paper, two of which are English, two are Arabic. The English portion is here.Source: Retrieved from original Sudan: they are not satisfied with this blood! After nearly two years of...

Author: Iberian Anarchist FederationTitle: Statutes of the FAIDate: 1937Source: Retrieved on January 30, 2025 from https://acracia.org/historico/Acracia/Documentos-1937_Estatutos_de_la_FAI.html The Iberian Anarchist Federation has been the most important specific organization of Spanish anarchism. Since its foundation in 1927, it has withstood the attacks of all the enemies of anarchism who, adhering to an imaginary conspiracy theory, have tried to blame it for the hegemony of the anarchists...

Author: Zac LarkhamTitle: Finding Joy in Queer ActivismSubtitle: An AutoethnographyDate: 01/05/2024 #notes so this is my undergrad dissertation. a lot of people have been asking me to read it and i do think i can be genuinely useful, it won an award so it must be half decent. I’ve put it here in full but please don’t feel you have to read in full...

Author: Sebastian KalichaTitle: Christian anarchismDate: 2013Source: Retrieved on January 28, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/religionskritik/christliche-religionen/7760-sebastian-kalicha-christlicher-anarchismus Class struggle, anti-fascism and the peace movement A succinct characterization of Christian anarchism could be as follows: Christianity is understood in a way that ultimately amounts to something in political and social questions that political activists in the labor movement of the late 19th century began to call "anarchism" or "libertarian...

Author: Heiner KoechlinTitle: Christianity, Church and AnarchismDate: 1974Notes: Akratic contribution to a Christian confrontation. Slightly modified lecture given in the Catholic Franciscan community in Riehen near Basel.Source: Retrieved on January 28, 2025 from https: https://www.anarchismus.at/religionskritik/christliche-religionen/8215-heiner-koechlin-christentum-kirche-und-anarchismus Dear attendees, I would like to thank you for your kind invitation. At the same time, I would like to express the hope that your confrontation with anarchism will...

Author: Alfonso Martínez RizoTitle: 1945Subtitle: The advent of libertarian communismDate: 1932 Brief introduction I think that before starting the novel I should give the reader a brief explanation of certain points, because I fear that if I do not make things clear from the beginning, I will be unpleasant from the beginning of the book. The aim is to perform an educational function that...

Author: Dubian AdeTitle: Black Is Crime: Notes on BlaqillegalismDate: 12 March 2022Source: Retrieved on 2025/01/28 from https://afanarchists.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/black-is-crime-notes-on-blaqillegalism/ “As long as I’m alive I’ma live illegal, and once I get on I’ma put on all my people” – Prodigy “The fugitive nature of Blackness, the inherent outlawing of our bodies by the state and our positionality as being already outside of the law, gives rise...

Author: Lucas PoyTitle: The Swan Song of Latin American Anarcho-SyndicalismSubtitle: The Asociación Continental Americana de TrabajadoresDate: 2020Source: Excerpted from “Working Class Politics and Labour Internationalism in Latin America: An Overview of Labour International Organisations in the Region During the Interwar Period (1919–1939)” In May 1929, while communist trade unionists got together in Montevideo to create the CSLA, another founding congress was taking place across...

Author: Johann MostTitle: Godlessness: A Critique of the Idea of GodDate: 1870Source: Retrieved on January 28, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/religionskritik/christliche-religionen/6734-johann-most-die-gottlosigkeit-eine-kritik-der-gottes-idee 1. From Faith Many things are believed about God, while in fact nothing is known about him. For belief is a negation of knowledge; one only believes what one does not know; what one does know one no longer needs to believe. One can suspect...

Author: Noam Deguerre, CrimethInc. Writers’ BlocTitle: Fighting for Our LivesSubtitle: An Anarchist PrimerDate: 2002-09-18Source: <crimethinc.com/2017/11/28/fighting-for-our-lives-an-anarchist-primer> Overture: A True Story We dropped out of school, got divorced, broke with our families and ourselves and everything we’d ever known. We quit our jobs, violated our leases, threw our furniture out on the sidewalk, and hit the road. We sat on the swings of children’s playgrounds until...

Author: Soe NoireTitle: Three Black Women, Why Did They Die?Subtitle: An Anarkata ZineDate: January 22 2025Source: https://www.soenoire.com/shop/p/3bwwdtd This pamphlet was created by Soe Noire, inspired by the 1979 pamphlet created by the Combahee River Collective. It was created for Black Women. If you are not a Black Woman, please read it and share it with a Black Woman. In a country that does not...

Author: Z. ZoltyTitle: Benjaminian Resistance, Circumnavigating Border Walls, Negating Schmittian KatechonDate: 01-01-2024Source: https://philpapers.org/rec/ZOLBDV Abstract   The current situation in the United States of America is that Latin immigrants and migrants are mistreated and subjected to gross human rights violations, with entire extensions of the Nation-State being given virtually unlimited power over a powerless populace. The current gap in the literature revolves around Agamben and...

Author: Conor KostickTitle: The Biggest General Strike in Irish HistoryDate: 9/1/2020Source: Retrieved on 26/1/2025 from https://independentleft.ie/irelands-biggest-general-strike/ On Tuesday 13 April 1920 a general strike took place in Ireland that was by far the greatest strike in Irish history. All over the country there was a complete stoppage and not only that, in some regions and towns the workers took over the running of society,...

Author: Conor KostickTitle: Evasions on the Left over UkraineDate: 26/04/2022Source: Retrieved on 26/1/2025 from https://independentleft.ie/ukraine-evasions/ Evasions on the Left over Ukraine Wars are not light topics that can be dispensed of with simple formulas. I, for one, cannot imagine how the success of Russia would further the cause of democracy and socialism around the world. If you do, then say so, openly, so it...

Title: Hoods Hoods Klan InterviewDate: 30/5/2023Source: Retrieved on 26/1/2025 from https://independentleft.ie/hoods-hoods-klan-interview/ I met Eugene at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, 2023. He came by the event and gave an impromptu talk at a panel on challenging imperialism. Afterwards, he agreed to meet me to be interviewed for the Independent Left website about his experiences with the Arsenal Kyiv, Hoods Hoods Klan, who have been the...

Title: Ireland and Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence 1916–23Notes: A discussion of the similarities and differences of the respective struggles of Ireland and Ukraine for independence, 1917-1923.Source: Retrieved on 26/1/2025 from https://independentleft.ie/ireland-and-ukraine/ Ireland and Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence 1916 – 23 Ireland and Ukraine had similiar challenges in the period 1916 – 1923. Conor Kostick, Irish writer and historian based in Dublin and Vladyslav Starodubtsev,...

Author: Conor KostickTitle: The Dawn of AnarchismSubtitle: Some bittersweet thoughts inspired by David Graeber & David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything.Date: December 2024Source: Irish Anarchist Network Magazine Some bittersweet thoughts inspired by David Graeber & David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything. Let’s start with a very plausible, almost mundane scene. A young mother is pushing a buggy on the canal path. It’s a cool...

Author: An AnarchistTitle: On TiqqunismDate: Nov 14, 2023Source: <underworldclearinghouse.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/14/on-tiqqunism-definitive-best-edition> We have to hate with intelligence and love with intelligence. —Marge Piercy, City of Darkness, City of Light, 1996 I: The Torah In February of 1999, a journal titled Tiqqunappeared in France. Its subtitle was Organe conscient du Parti Imaginaire (Conscious Organ of the Imaginary Party), followed by Exercices de Metaphysique Crtique (Exercises in Critical...

Author: Anonymous AnarchistTitle: Regarding the persecution and imprisonment of Kenan AyasDate: 11/2024Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:digital:unclassified:kenan_anarchist Kenan Ayas was extradited by the cypriot to the german state, where he is now being charged for being involved with a terrorist organisation. Kenan was not late in realising the brutal reality of injustice and dominance, since from his teenage years he was displaced by the fascist Turkish state, while...

Author: Tsuji JunTitle: Notsudoru NudoruSource: Retrieved on 01/10/2024 https://ja.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tsuji-jun-notsudoru-nuudoru Translator’s Preface: This is my first time translating anything into English from Japanese so there are bound to be more than a few mistakes in this translation. I’m also pretty stupid so there may be parts where I have misinterpreted the meaning of a sentence and warped it into something completely different. But I think...

Author: Johann MostTitle: Gun control in the United StatesDate: 1885Source: The science of revolutionary warfare, 1885. General military armament has now been introduced in a number of ways. However, this cannot be achieved everywhere at the same time; it is also not possible to fire at all, except in cases where there is a fire; as with many similar cases, there is no specific...

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Author: Buenaventura DurrutiTitle: Self-discipline in the Workers’ MilitiaDate: 24 July 1936Notes: Originally published in Guerrilleros confederales by José Mira. English translation by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: I’ve been an anarchist my whole life and the fact that I’m responsible for this human collectivity won’t change my convictions. It was...

Author: Buenaventura DurrutiTitle: Speech from the Bujaraloz Town HallDate: 27 July 1936Notes: Speech given to the Durruti Column in Bujaraloz, after several militiamen ran away from their comrades during an aerial attack. The speech was reconstructed by Abel Paz from testimonies given by Liberto Ros and Pablo Ruiz, who described it as “a lesson in revolutionary combat.” English translation by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in...

Author: Robert EvansTitle: We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?Subtitle: How to navigate the future without a map.Date: January 21, 2025Source: Retrieved on 21st January 2025 from shatterzone.substack.com I don’t know where we go from here. Neither does anyone else. On the morning I wrote this I woke up groggy from my chemically assisted sleep to a barrage of horrors....