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Author: ScholiumTitle: The Hollowing of Anarchy: GentrificationDate: 2019Source: https://scholium.noblogs.org/post/2019/02/22/the-hollowing-of-anarchy-gentrification/ Anarchy can differ from other anti-capitalist ideologies in being a lived practice. If anarchy is the end goal, then it must be the means as well. This often turns out looking like working as little as possible, living communally with friends, getting by using scams, and experimenting with social relationships. Unfortunately, these more interesting and...

Author: AnonymousTitle: April 2018: one hundred year anniversary of the beginning of Bolshevik terrorDate: April 2018Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20181023132448/https://anarchistnews.org/content/april-2018-one-hundred-year-anniversary-beginning-bolshevik-terror It's April 1918. On the 12th, the Cheka unleashes a ferocious assault on 26 anarchist locales in Moscow, killing dozens and arresting 500. The political situation this repressive operation goes down in is extremely important. The second revolution occurred only half a year ago. Since then, the...

Author: AnonymousTitle: An Anarchist’s Guide To DuneDate: 21 March 2024Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com. There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. -Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 Introduction A long time ago in a place called Olympia, Washington, there were a bunch of anarchists, just like today. However, back around 1999, there were certain anarchists of Olympia who enjoyed...

Author: A. W. ZurbruggTitle: Emma Goldman and Reginald Reynolds on PalestineSubtitle: Some notes on anti-Semitism and Zionism before World War TwoDate: 24 March 2024Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from anarchiststudies.noblogs.org. However shocking are recent events in and around Gaza, they do not arise like lightning on a clear day and out of blue skies and may be seen in historical context. This text...

Author: Daniel TalamantesTitle: Anarchist Kinships in California’s San Gabriel ValleyDate: 13 March 2024Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from anarchiststudies.org. Early twentieth-century San Gabriel Valley, California was an ideal location for Mexican migrants seeking work opportunities and hoping to escape the Mexican Revolution. Initially, they were seen as a convenient source of labor to fill a void left by the Johnson Reed Act of...

Author: Luigi CelentanoTitle: On Violence and RebelsDate: 17 January 2024Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from anarchiststudies.org. On Wednesday, February 24, 1932, at 1:32 p.m. the car carrying Investigations Police Captain Luis Pardeiro Sontie, driven by the assigned chauffeur José Chebel Seluja, was ambushed at the intersection of Artigas Boulevard and Monte Caseros Street, in downtown Montevideo. The scene looked like mob work: around...

Author: David GoodwayTitle: Not protest but direct actionSubtitle: Anarchism past and presentDate: 1 March 2012Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from historyandpolicy.org. Executive Summary The media and other commentators in the UK constantly employ 'anarchists' and 'anarchism' as smear words unworthy of rational consideration, yet they refer to a long-established way of looking at the world which has a distinctive and impressive intellectual history....

Author: David GoodwayTitle: Anarchism and the welfare stateSubtitle: The Peckham Health CentreDate: 1 May 2007Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from historyandpolicy.org. Executive Summary Anarchists are normally regarded as a fringe element in British public life but they did engage with mainstream economic, medical and health issues, especially around what they saw as the exemplary experiment of the Peckham Health Centre in the 1930s...

Author: Tommy LawsonTitle: Co-operatives or class struggle?Date: 28 August 2023Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from redblacknotes.com. Every so often the question of co-operatives is raised in the revolutionary socialist movement. Optimistic positions suggest that co-ops can form the basis for replacing capitalism with a new economy based on solidarity and labour where workers have ‘control’ and even suggest they are a vital part...

Author: Mujeres LibresTitle: Proposal for the Creation of a Wedding FactoryDate: March 1937Notes: Originally published as “Proyecto para la creación de una fabrica de bodas en serie (Churros auténticos)” in Mujeres Libres, no. 7. Translation and introduction by Martha A. Ackelsberg.Source: “Appendix C.” in Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women. Essays about sexual issues were generally more...

Author: Jan Willem Stutje, Emanuela Minuto and Constance BantmanTitle: Charismatic Leadership and Networks in AnarchismSubtitle: The Cases of Pietro Gori and Jean GraveDate: 6 December 2017Source: International Review of Social History Volume 62, Issue 3; pp. 421-423, DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000335 (Stutje); pp. 425-450, DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000359 (Minuto); pp. 451-477, DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000347 (Bantman). An Introductory Note (Jan Willem Stutje) The terms “Marxist” and “Marxism” have a problematic history. Their use...

Author: Carmen Cañete QuesadaTitle: Gitanos during the war (1936–1939)Date: 2020Notes: Excerpted from “The memory of Spanish Gypsies: Scholarship, oral history, and archive research” Romani Studies 5, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2020), 15–47. ISSN 1528–0748 (print); 1757–2274 (online). doi: doi.orgSource: Retrieved on 8th April 2024 from www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk Tracking down scholarly material about the Gitanos during the turbulent years of the war is a difficult task....

Author: Emma Goldman and Mariano R. VázquezTitle: The Fall of BarcelonaSubtitle: Letters exchanged by Emma Goldman and Mariano R. Vázquez after the Spanish Civil WarDate: February-March 1939Notes: These letters were exchanged by Emma Goldman, foreign representative of the CNT-FAI in London, and Mariano R. Vázquez, Secretary General of the CNT in February and March 1939. Following the fall of Catalonia, hundreds of thousands of...

Author: Stuart WhiteTitle: Making anarchism respectable?Subtitle: The social philosophy of Colin WardDate: February 2007Source: Journal of Political Ideologies (February 2007), 12(1), 11–28. <cyberdandy.org> ABSTRACT Anarchism suffers from a respectability deficit, a problem of achieving a threshold level of credibility in the eyes of non-anarchists. One anarchist thinker who has grappled persistently with this problem over 60 years of activism is the influential post-war British...

Author: Carl NoldTitle: A Reminiscence of Alexander BerkmanDate: July 25, 1897Source: The Firebrand vol. 3 nos. 25–26 Much has been said, from diverse quarters, regarding Alexander Berkman and his deed, yet he himself, for obvious reasons, has not been heard. In the following I venture to give his sentiments concerning his action, as he gave them to me in the first year of our...

Author: Santbir Singh PannuTitle: An Anarcha-Sikhī ManifestoDate: 2021Notes: Excerpted from The Divine Light of Anarchy: A Socio-Political Analysis of Conflicting Sikh Historical Narratives, pp. 183–186.Source: Retrieved on 14th April 2024 from yorkspace.library.yorku.ca Anarcha-Sikhī is anti-authoritarian. While the Gurū is the master of all Sikhs, the nature of the Gurū in a post-1699 and 1708 world means that there neither is—nor should there be—any one...

Author: AnonymousTitle: The Next EclipseSubtitle: A Vision for Regional AutonomyDate: 2018Source: Retrieved on July 25th, 2018 from https://thenexteclipse.wordpress.com/. An invitation and a challenge The Next Eclipse is an invitation to shift our perspective on southern Illinois. Rather than seeing it as a dying region waiting for outside interests to save it, we propose that what makes it special is rooted in its status of...

Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: The Direction of Ecological InsurrectionsSubtitle: Political Ecology Comes to Daggers with FukuokaDate: 21 January 2020Notes: Special thanks to the Journal of Political Ecology.Source: Journal of Political Ecology 27(1), 988-1014, doi:10.2458/v27i1.23751 Abstract This article proposes a political ecology of resistance. This is done by putting forward insurrectionary political ecology as a lens of research and struggle, through the confluence of the complementary...

Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: Recognizing the “De” in DegrowthSubtitle: An Anarchist and Autonomist Engagement with DegrowthDate: December 2, 2020Notes: This was originally published at Undisciplined Environments (sans preface).Source: <https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/12/02/recognizing-the-de-in-degrowth/> Preface Does degrowth have any relevance to anarchism? Taking an academic and popular public stance against capitalist growth or, more accurately, the degrowing total material and energy throughput of techno-capitalism is extremely relevant to anarchism, green...

Author: Alexander Dunlap, Mariel Aguilar-StøenTitle: Wind Energy Development, Conflict & ResistanceDate: 20 Sep 2019Source: Retreived on 4 Jun 2020 from rowmaninternational.com/blog/wind-energy-development-conflict-resistance. Alexander Dunlap talks about his new book Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance with Professor Mariel Aguilar-Støen. MAS: I would like to start by asking if you can tell us a little bit about you? AD: Ouuuhhh... I am a dirty...

Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: Ecological Authoritarian ManeuversSubtitle: Leninist Delusions, Co-optation & Anarchist LoveDate: October 2022Source: <https://forged.noblogs.org/files/2022/10/dunlap-ecological-authoritarian-maneuvers.pdf> Forward This text emerges because of the lack of critical appraisal, if not deserved hostility, towards eco-Leninism. This excepts highlights the bad faith, academic dishonesty and shameless Leninist manipulations employed by Andreas Malm, which—in Leninist fashion—seeks to disarm and discredit anarchists and, to a lesser degree, (anti-state) Indigenous land...

Author: Colin WardTitle: Autonomy, Solidarity, PossibilitySubtitle: The Colin Ward ReaderDate: September 30, 2011Source: <files.libcom.org/files/Colin-Ward-reader.pdf> Preface and Acknowledgements Colin Ward, who died in February 2010 at the age of eighty-five, was Britain’s most persistent and articulate defender of the libertarian Left in the second half of the twentieth century. For over six decades, this gentle anarchist bucked conventional wisdom by arguing that those who wish...

Author: Colin Ward​​​​​​​Title: Fringe BenefitsNotes: Colin Ward’s weekly column in the journal New Statesman and Society called Fringe Benefits. Many of the titles should be read as having the words 'Fringe Benefits:' before it, so 'Fringe Benefits: Back Pages', i.e. the fringe benefits of back pages.Source: 1. Introduction from Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow. <https://archive.org/details/Seeds_Beneath_the_Snow_9781604866674> 2. Colin Ward is Alarmed As the City of...

Author: AnonymousTitle: The Anarchists of DuneDate: February 18, 2024Source: Retrieved on March 2, 2024 from thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com. “The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.” -Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 Across the world, the movie-watching public will soon behold the Fremen of Dune sack and destroy the Empire, starting on their homeworld of Arrakis. This irresistible moment, where the rebels actually win, is sure...