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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...