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Author: Mark AntliffTitle: Review of Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of ResistanceDate: February 2024Source: Retrieved on March 23 2025 from https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/adcs/article/view/22195/10130 M. Testa’s (a pseudonym) Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance is a rare thing, an historical overview of a dimension of European antifascism written specifically with activists in mind. It is a book that will both educate and in some instances inspire...

Author: Ba JinTitle: IWW and Chinese WorkersDate: 1921Notes: First published in Banyue No. 21, Chengdu, June 21, 1921. Even though we currently spread our rhetoric about the “labor movement,” what relevance does it ultimately have for Chinese workers? We proclaim that “labor is sacred,” but workers have never been happy about it. For some years now, the words “May Day Festival” have become familiar...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Radical antinatalism manifestoSubtitle: On the Helsinki sperm bank attackDate: 2024Source: https://antinatal.org/ Our world is full of suffering, inequality and environmental disasters. Is life really an unconditional good that should be passed on to one and all? If you create a new sentient (capable of suffering) being — they will definitely experience suffering: at least because of increasing global warming, disease and complexity;...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: Is atheism immoral?Source: Retrieved on March 22, 2025 from https://www.anarchisme.nl/namespace/is_het_atheisme_onzedelijk A frequent accusation that is brought against atheism is that it is immoral. The reasoning underlying this accusation is this: Without religion there can be no morality and therefore where atheism has broken with all religion, morality has been undermined to collapse completely. But where is the proof? People simply...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: My farewell to the churchDate: 1879Source: Retrieved on March 22, 2025 from https://www.anarchisme.nl/namespace/mijn_afscheid_van_de_kerk At the express request of several listeners I have proceeded to publish these two speeches. They are therefore dedicated to my listeners, as a reminder of a time that has ended. May they contribute to strengthening their principles, and above all to translating them into actions. September...

Author: Peter MaurinTitle: The sit-down techniqueDate: 1937Source: The Catholic Worker, Volume 4, Number 12, April 1937 1. On Gandhi lines Strike news doesn’t strike me, but the sit-down strike is a different strike from the ordinary strike. In the sit-down strike you don’t strike anybody either on the jaw or under the belt, you just sit down. The sit-down strike is essentially a peaceful...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: The libertarian educationDate: 1899Notes: This is a brochure based on a speech given by Domela Nieuwenhuis in Paris in 1899.Source: Retrieved on March 22, 2025 from https://www.anarchisme.nl/namespace/de_libertaire_opvoeding Thus spoke the great expert on the human heart, Goethe, and he is right. The Jesuits, who have studied human nature and especially its weak side — and therein lies the whole secret...

Author: Combahee River CollectiveTitle: The Combahee River Collective StatementDate: 1977Source: Retrieved on 2025-03-21 from <blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977> We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive...

Author: The Catholic WorkerTitle: Aims and PurposesDate: 1939Source: The Catholic Worker, Volume 6, Number 10, 1 May 1939 We repeat again and again that our work is to bring men back to Christ. The workers of the world are lost to the Church, Pope Pius XI said. We are of the workers, they are our brothers, we are all members or potential members of...

Author: Dorothy DayTitle: Catholic Worker ProgramDate: December 1, 1933Notes: Recalls her prayer at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception that God show her a way to use her talents to help labor, Peter Maurin’s appearance and inspiration, and the notion of personal responsibility–“Every one can help.” Thanks all who have supported the work.Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/277-html/ ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS...

Author: Alan AlbonTitle: Anarchism and AgricultureDate: 1964Notes: First published in Anarchy magazineSource: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://libcom.org/library/anarchism-agriculture For the Father of AgricultureGave us a hard calling: he first decreed it an artTo work the fields, sent worries to sharpen our mortal witsAnd would not allow his realm to grow listless from lethargy.Before Jove’s time no settlers brought the land under subjection;Not lawful...

Author: Tom CornellTitle: Usury and the KingdomDate: 2008Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://homiliessermonsharangues.blogspot.com/2008/11/usury-and-kingdom.html?m=1 Today’s Gospel parable can be confusing. But before we get to that, a married deacon can hardly let pass our first reading from Proverbs. It reads like a song, doesn’t it? The valiant women, the worthy wife brings her family increase by her labors and reaches her hands out...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: Backs Against the WallSubtitle: What happens when the punishment is the same for violence and non-violence?Date: 17 March 2025Source: Retrieved on 18 March 2025 from revoluciana.net You’re drenched in sweat, but you don’t have time to think about that right now. You round the corner, almost knocking someone over who looks almost exactly like your sweet (but racist) old landlady. Actually, you...

Author: AndrewismTitle: Humanity Is Not A ParasiteDate: 11th May 2022Source: Retrieved on 18th March 2025 from https://youtu.be/j42RbUjofm0?si=JYWDMX93To7QDH5p Introduction “Humanity is a Plague”, “Humanity is a Poison”, “Humanity is the real virus”, “Humanity is a parasite”. The “Human Parasitism” narrative has grown increasingly common in day-to-day discourse, with folks casually confessing their simmering misanthropy. You don’t have to look very hard to figure out why...

Author: Errico MalatestaTitle: Manual and intellectual workDate: 1922Notes: Published in Umanità Nova, n. 181, 10 August 1922.Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://www.panarchy.org/malatesta/lavoro.html The origin of this division of men into “intellectuals” (who are often simply idle without any intellectuality) and “manuals” can be found in the fact that in times and circumstances in which producing enough to largely satisfy one’s own needs...

Author: Sébastien FaureTitle: La RucheSubtitle: A work of solidarity: an attempt at educationDate: 1914Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://www.panarchy.org/faure/ruche.html Brief Information: This charity of solidarity and education, located in Rambouillet (Seine-et-Oise), was founded and is directed by Sébastien Faure. It raises around forty children of both sexes. There are no rankings; no punishments, no rewards. Its Program: Through outdoor life, a regular...

Author: Ammon HennacyTitle: Public demonstration against the payment of taxesDate: 1965Source: Retrieved on March 17, 2025 from https://www.panarchy.org/hennacy/taxes.html Why do you, a sensible person, now believe that war and the Atomic Bomb are necessary? Why are poor Oriental peasants who have seldom eaten a square meal in their lives choosing to fight us? Why does Communism appeal to so many people? Is it because...

Author: Ammon HennacyTitle: Tax StatementDate: 1950Source: Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist, Ammon Hennacy (1954) Now on Jan. 14, 1950 I mailed a statement to Mr. Stuart, Collector of Internal Revenue in Phoenix explaining why I was refusing to pay my income tax. It said: As a non-church Christian Anarchist and a follower of Gandhi the man of the Half-Century, I refuse to pay my...

Author: Ammon HennacyTitle: Tax returnDate: 1949Notes: Letter written to a tax collector. Later printed by the Catholic Worker.Source: The Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist, Ammon Hennacy (1954) I am writing this preliminary statement of my reasons for not paying my income tax in advance, as I was recently informed by your office that I would be imprisoned for my continued refusal to pay it....

Author: Peter MaurinTitle: What the Catholic Worker BelievesDate: October 1, 1933Notes: Peter Maurin’s “Easy Essay” outlining the program of the Catholic WorkerSource: Retrieved on March 16, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/what-the-catholic-worker-believes/ The Catholic Worker believes in the gentle personalism of traditional Catholicism. The Catholic Worker believes in the personal obligation of looking after the needs of our brother. The Catholic Worker believes in the daily practice...

Author: Julian LangerTitle: White Supremacist Nativism Is Not Anti-ColonialSubtitle: We need to affirm that “the English” are not an indigenous culture and diasporic folk are not colonisersDate: 12/8/2024Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/12/white-supremacist-nativism-is-not-anti-colonial/ Being unfit to travel, I watched as the spectacle of British white supremacism unfolded on my computer and phone. My revolt and horror led to spreading information and challenging this ideology as best I can....

Author: Julian LangerTitle: Fossil Stories and White SupremacyDate: 31/5/2024Source: https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2024/08/05/fossil-stories-and-white-supremacy/ A friend communicates to me that they believe that the presence of racism within the riots that have been seen across these isles these past few days is overstated, suggesting that this is largely spectacle and that most of the rioters are taking opportunities to vent some existential despair; voicing that they are more...

Author: Dorothy DayTitle: Dorothy Day Holds ForthDate: 1971Notes: In this interview with Jeff Dietrich and Susan Pollack, originally published in the December 1971 Catholic Agitator, Dorothy Day discusses her journey from socialism to anarchism and Catholicism, highlighting how her early readings of Jack London and Upton Sinclair influenced her political views. Day emphasizes the spiritual and practical aspects of anarchism, rooted in the belief...

Author: Dorothy DayTitle: Personalist: Peter MaurinDate: 1953Source: Retrieved on March 16, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/170-html/ In 1932, Peter Maurin, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was working at hard manual labor at Mount Tremper, New York, at a boys’ camp where he mended roads, cut ice, and did other chores winter and summer and received his living, not a very munificent one, in return. As...

Author: Jim ForestTitle: What is the Catholic Worker?Date: 1997Notes: This essay was written by Jim Forest on the Catholic Worker Movement for The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History to be published by the Liturgical Press.Source: Retrieved on March 16, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/forest-history-html/ The Catholic Worker movement was founded in 1933 during the Great Depression by Dorothy Day at the urging of Peter Maurin. It...

Author: The Combat Organization of Anarcho-CommunistsTitle: Three Years of Resistance to Imperialism and the Struggle for AutonomySubtitle: The View of the BOAC MilitantDate: 2025/02/25Notes: Note: I am not the author, I simply translated this text—Alexander HarrisSource: https://boakmirror.noblogs.org/post/2025/02/25/%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b8-%d0%b3%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%b2%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%8f-%d0%b8%d0%bc%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bc%d1%83/#more-2 Three years ago, a full-scale invasion of the troops of the fascist Russian state into Ukraine began. For the entire modern anarchist and revolutionary left movement in...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: What is Rent?Date: 13 March 2025Source: Retrieved on 14 March 2025 from revoluciana.net This post is part of a series that deals with basic leftist concepts and terminology. It is also a living document and subject to change on revoluciana.net. Rent is an economic concept with a broad set of applications. The existence of rent and rent-seeking behavior is a key sticking...

Author: Anonymous, Albert MeltzerTitle: Question and answer on Anarchism [Anti-Imperialism]Date: 1987Notes: Anonymous but we believe written by Albert Meltzer.Source: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/k0p4ff | Black Flag no. 170 (11/5/1987) Q. What do you understand by anti-imperialism? A. This is a word that is undergoing a sea-change. When Imperialism was understood as powerful Nation-States building up by colonial expansion, the meaning of anti-imperialism was clear. Its support came...

Author: Aotearoa Workers Solidarity MovementTitle: The Betrayal of Donbas; No War But Class WarDate: February 22nd, 2025Source: https://awsm4u.noblogs.org/post/2025/02/22/the-betrayal-of-donbas-no-war-but-class-war/ The war between Russia and Ukraine is often presented as a clear-cut narrative of imperial aggression versus national defence. In mainstream discourse, Russia is portrayed as the sole aggressor, with Ukraine as a victim bravely defending its sovereignty. However, this oversimplified framing serves the interests of...

Author: WulfinnaTitle: The Anti-Binary Reality And Its Invalid DefamersDate: 01 Mar 2025Source: https://ignitedindark.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/anti-binary-reality-invalid-defamers/ There exists now in our time a special strain of that same addictive venom against all things free, true, intelligent and decent that had ravaged all the developments of human life since our first infantile reaches out of all-encompassing despotism ... barreling straight ahead back into its maw. There exists now...

Author: Roberto de las CarrerasTitle: The husband and the loverDate: 1902Notes: Excerpts from Amor libre: interviews voluptuosos con Roberto de las Carreras, published in La Rebelión on August 25, 1902.Source: El amor libre. Eros y anarquía, Osvaldo Baigorria. Page 59–63. For four long years I subjugated a nervously passionate woman, a magic potion of corrosive lust, a human cantharides, a Berber woman of my...

Author: Evelio BoalTitle: Women and free loveDate: 1922Source: El amor libre. Eros y anarquía, Osvaldo Baigorria. Page 37–38. There is generally a very erroneous idea about this point of the libertarian ideal, which it would be useful to clarify. Currently, free love cannot, or is very difficult to, develop all the conditions under which a woman’s life unfolds. To bring this act to a...

Author: Mikhail BakuninTitle: Letter to Nikolaj OgarevDate: 1869Notes: In Switzerland, Mikhail Bakunin wrote a letter to his Russian friend Nikolaj Ogarev about his complex relationship with his wife, and how she had a relationship with a dear friend of his, an Italian anarchist militant. She became pregnant with his child, and Bakunin was willing to raise the children as his own.Source: Retrieved on March...

Author: La Voz de la MujerTitle: Let’s love? No. Let’s fight!Date: 1896Notes: Article by Argentine anarchist and feminist activist Pepita Gherra in issue 2 of La Voz de la Mujer on January 31, 1896.Source: Retrieved on March 12, 2025 from https://www.marxists.org/espanol/gherra/1896/amemos-luchemos.htm What’s the matter, tender and innocent child? Why does the blush cover your cheeks? Why are you agitated and ashamed? What’s the matter?...

Author: Federica MontsenyTitle: Feminism and humanismDate: 1924Source: La Revista Blanca, 1-10-1924, page 12–14. A kind and anonymous friend sent me a copy of a newspaper, saying, “In case you’re interested”. The newspaper sent was El Pueblo, from Valencia, and the sender pointed it out and I saw an article titled “The Third Sex” and signed by Antonio Dubois. The article, of course, speaks of...

Author: Emma GoldmanTitle: Social situation of womenDate: 1936Source: Retrieved on March 11, 2025 from https://es.anarchistlibraries.net/library/emma-goldman-situacion-social-de-la-mujer Human progress is very slow. It has been said that for every step forward, humanity has taken two steps toward slavery. Only over the centuries has it freed itself from its attitude of submissive worship of the Church, the divine right of kings, and the power of the ruling...

Author: AnonymousTitle: The Undying Appeal of White NationalismSubtitle: Neofascism in the Cultural, Artistic, and Ecological MovementsDate: 2015Source: https://nycantifa.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/undying-appeal-of-white-nationalism/ The earth is firmly enveloped in crisis. This crisis is at once material and existential. The economy can no longer support the human weight that bends it at its foundation. Can not, or will not. The aftermath of the recession has produced only one reality: an...

Author: AnonymousTitle: #FreeCaseyNowSubtitle: On Casey Goonan and the Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine MovementDate: 1/1/2025Source: https://unravel.noblogs.org/freecaseynow-on-casey-goonan-and-the-abandonment-of-political-prisoners-in-the-pro-palestine-movement/ Casey Goonan is the only US political prisoner from the 2024 pro-Palestine student encampments. They are an abolitionist and anarchist who has dedicated themselves to multiple forms of prisoner support work and directly engaging with incarcerated comrades. The impact they’ve made inside is prevalent, as indicated...

Author: Anarchist Communist Group, Czechoslovak Anarchist AssociationTitle: Interview with Ukrainian War ResisterDate: March 3rd, 2025Source: https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2025/03/03/interview-with-ukrainian-war-resister/ In December 2024 some media sites reported on the rescue of a Ukrainian man and his kitten in the mountains in Romania after crossing the border from Ukraine[1]. They failed to mention the reasons why he fled. The Czechoslovak Anarchist Association (ČAS) contacted him for an interview. An...

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: The Dawn-Light of AnarchyDate: 1887Notes: The events of May 4, 1886 were a major influence on the oratory of Voltairine de Cleyre. Following the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs on November 11, 1887, she gave an annual address to commemorate the date of their sacrifice. The following memorial speech was first delivered in Chicago on November 11, 1901. It was...

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: Modern Educational ReformDate: 1910Notes: Speech given at a conference in New YorkSource: Retrieved on March 8, 2025 from https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voltairine-de-cleyre/unknown/modern-educational-reform.html Questions of genuine importance to large masses of people, are not posed by a single questioner, nor even by a limited number. They are put with more or less precision, with more or less consciousness of their scope and demand by...

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: The Gates of FreedomDate: 1891Notes: Address delivered before the Liberal Convention at Topeka, Kan., March 15, ‘89‘.Source: Retrieved on March 8, 2025 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/the-sex-question/voltairine-de-cleyre-the-gates-of-freedom-1891/ “They have rights who dare maintain them.” This is my text. And the purpose of my lecture is threefold. First to state the facts concerning the actual status of woman in relation to society as a...

Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: A Side View of Ikkyu’s “Insanity”Date: 1970Source: Retrieved and Translation finished on 3/6/2025 from https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/19/1/19_1_59/_pdf/-char/ja 1. In Ikkyu Sojun’s anthology of poems, the word “furyu” (風流) (henceforth, Elegance) can be seen innumerable times (152) with various meanings, while the word “fukyou” (風狂) (henceforth, Insanity) can only be found in two places — “An Insane Visitor Stirs Up a Raging Wind” (風狂の狂客、狂風を起す)...

Author: Augustin SouchyTitle: The Cuban Libertarians and the Castro DictatorshipDate: 1975Notes: Original text: Akratie No. 4, Autumn 1975.Source: Retrieved on March 6, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/augustin-souchy/7270-augustin-souchy-die-kubanischen-libertarios-und-die-castro-diktatur The beginnings of the anarchist movement in Cuba go back to the last century. When the island was still a Spanish colony, anarchists who had immigrated from Spain propagated the ideas of the First International: “The liberation of the...

Author: Amaterasu SolarTitle: The Third Option: Anarcho-AbundancismSubtitle: A beacon between anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communismDate: 04-7-2024Notes: There are images but it seems they cannot be added here....Source: odysee.com So My frenemy dropped a link to an article entitled, Bridging the Divide: Anarcho-Capitalism vs. Anarcho-Communism — A Debate on Stateless Societies and Human Nature. Needless to say, I was intrigued. He is so on Me about being...

Author: rowanTitle: Revolutionary Trans Politics and the Three Way FightDate: 6/4/23Source: https://threewayfight.org/revolutionary-trans-politics-and-the-three-way-fight-an-interview-with-rowan/ 3WF: Trans and other gender-nonconforming people have become a major target of right-wing political attacks in recent years, and they continue to be major targets of systemic oppression and physical violence in U.S. society. How do you apply a three way fight framework to help us understand the contending forces in this...

Author: Sergei StepniakTitle: Underground RussiaSubtitle: Revolutionary Profiles and Sketches from LifeDate: 1883Notes: Cover Photograph of Sergius Stepniak (Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky) by Elliott & Fry.This work is in the public domain.Source: <archive.org/details/undergroundruss00lavrgoog> Preface The Socialist and Revolutionary movement in Russia could not fail to attract the attention of Western Europe. It is only natural, therefore, that in every European language a somewhat extensive literature should be...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: Social Democratic and Anarchist AntimilitarismDate: 1908Notes: In his book on “Militarism and Antimilitarism,” Dr. Liebknecht made lengthy, partly open, partly hidden attacks against our Dutch comrade Domela Nieuwenhuis. The latter published his reply in the Flemish monthly “Ontwaking,” which was sent to Liebknecht long before he began his sentence in the fortress. Comrade N. complied with our request and request...

Author: Les U. KnightTitle: Why Real Anarchists Don’t BreedDate: March 30, 2002Notes: Special edition newsletter for VHEMT information table at The San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair March 30, 2002. Note: A wide range of political orientations exists within The Movement. Although I personally favor anarchy, many Volunteers and Supporters do not. Les.Source: https://www.vhemt.org/anobreed.htm Why Real Anarchists Don’t Breed We anarchists have many reasons to...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: To the resistance societiesDate: 1903Source: La Huelga General, year 2, num. 14, 5-3-1903 and La Huelga General, year 2, num. 16, 5-4-1903 To the resistance societies (March 5, 1903) Since our reappearance we have been encouraging the study of society on the day after the triumph of the revolutionary strike. For the corresponding section we have received something, very little; but...