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Title: Debate in the Earth First! Journal about ‘The Parable of the Tribes’Date: 1985—1987Notes: A friendly debate is started when Earth First! editor John Davis (writing under his favorite pseudonym) reviewed an important book which contradicts the anarchistic tendencies of both the libertarian “rednecks for wilderness” and the more communitarian green anarchists. This sets off the first (and last) extended debate on social philosophy...

Author: Devon PriceTitle: There is no safe sex. There is no safe life.Subtitle: Fucking, transitioning, and resisting the state all require admitting risk into your life.Date: August 15 2024Source: Retrieved on Aug 20 2024 from https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/there-is-no-safe-sex-there-is-no. I had to get a gonorrhea shot not too long ago. Dealing with gonorrhea was a pain in the ass — the intramuscular injection hurt, and my arm...

Author: Antiauthoritarians-Internationalists of Southern CyprusTitle: A Small Contribution to the non-resolution of the Cyprus ProblemDate: 1989–1990Notes: This article was written by people who were active in the anti-authoritarian scene of Limassol (Cyprus) and was published in the Greek anarchist newspaper ‘Enantia’ in January-December 1989–1990. It was signed by the ‘Antiauthoritarians-Internationalists of Southern Cyprus’.Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:other:unclassified:milisi A two-day meeting of Greek Cypriots (GC) and Turkish Cypriots...

Author: Mario LopezTitle: A letterDate: August 3, 2013Source: <web.archive.org/.../actforfree.nostate.net/?p=15058>. Retrieved on 28/08/2024 from lib.anarhija.net. Comrades, It’s time I used my typewriter, considering the requests from many compas from different areas of the world, including Mexico, who repeatedly asked me to tell them what situation I was going through. I’d like to start by apologizing for not giving news for many months, more than 6...

Author: Jason Lee Byas and Billy ChristmasTitle: Methodological AnarchismDate: August 1, 2022Source: <routledge.com> I. Introduction Anarchists all share the same basic public policy proposal: abolish public policy. With regard to foreign policy, their position is to abolish the military. With regard to education policy, abolish state schools. With regard to law enforcement policy, abolish the police. And so on and so forth.[1] Given this...

Author: Duane Rousselle and Süreyyya EvrenTitle: Post-Anarchism: A ReaderDate: 2011 Preface Post-anarchism has been of considerable importance in the discussions of radical intellectuals across the globe in the last decade. In its most popular form, it demonstrates a desire to blend the most promising aspects of traditional anarchist theory (centrally, the attitude of hostility in the face of representation) with developments in post-structuralist and...

Author: Georges BatailleTitle: The Problem of the StateDate: 1933Source: « Le Problème de l’État », paru dans le n° 9 de la Critique Sociale (Septembre 1933). In contradiction to the evolution of the 19th century, current historical trends appear to be moving in the direction of state coercion and hegemony. Without prejudging the ultimate value of such an assessment — which may later prove...

Author: It's Going DownTitle: The Election Cycle as Counter-InsurgencyDate: 08/12/2024Source: Retrieved on 08/22/2024 from https://itsgoingdown.org/the-election-cycle-as-counter-insurgency/ It has been four years since a deadly pandemic ripped through the social terrain and the George Floyd uprising brought millions out into the streets, as those in power responded by telling us all to go back to work and sending in the National Guard. Months later, tens of...

Author: Dimitris ChatzivasileiadisTitle: The Palestinian Revolution and the Rift in the International MovementDate: 10/07/2024Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1631163/ I can imagine many people resenting the term Palestinian revolution when reading the title of this article. Some have already written that revolution is one thing and resistance is another, that war is one thing and liberation is another. I chose this title, being literal, precisely because it would...

Author: Wally CongerTitle: Agorist Class TheorySubtitle: A Left-Libertarian Approach To Class Conflict AnalysisDate: 2006Notes: There are quite a number of different versions of this text floating around on the Internet, such as on the website of the Center for a Stateless Society. This version, taken from Scribd, is the most complete one I could find.Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/57719648/Teoria-de-Clase-Agorista Dedication This work is dedicated to Sam, who...

Author: Hans SherrerTitle: Voting is an Act of ViolenceDate: 1999Source: https://forejustice.org/vote/voting_is_an_act_of_violence.htm Voting is the most violent act someone can commit in their lifetime. This little noted anomaly about voting is directly related to the modern conception of the State as an entity deriving its grant of authority to act from the consent of the governed. The aura of legitimacy surrounding the government’s actions is...

Author: Transgender Revolt!Title: The Revolution is Now!Date: 2024/07/23Source: https://transgenderrevolt.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/23/the-revolution-is-now/ Anarchy is Back! The age of revolutions is far from over. The common sentiment is that the world is fucked. Unfortunately, this recognition of a world in slow decay has been met by the utmost complacency. Much of the left has abandoned the dream of revolution for an unquestioning faith in the electoral process. The...

Author: Perspektive SelbstverwaltungTitle: On Palestine and IsraelDate: May 5th, 2024Notes: Original text is in English.Source: https://perspektivesv.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/05/on-palestine-and-israel/ For seven long months, we have been watching an intensification of absolutely horrific carnage, death, and destruction in Palestine. The region has turned into a stage on which genocidal rhetoric and practice, the indiscriminate killing of civilians, do not only take place, but also stream live the abyss...

Author: Internationalist Anarchists LeipzigTitle: Our Silence Pisses Us Off!Date: August 26th, 2024Source: https://internationalistanarchistsle.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/26/our-silence-pisses-us-off/ Whether Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Bangladesh or the Polish-Belarusian primeval forests and Europe’s outsourced borders in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia – terrible news of countless crimes and unimaginable suffering are coming from everywhere. Germany, truly a picture-book national power of the 21st century, is deeply involved in all these atrocities economically,...

Author: Seb BonetTitle: What do resource pipelines and building cranes have in common?Date: May 19, 2014Source: Retrieved on November 2nd 2024 from https://www.thevolcano.org/2014/05/19/pipecranes/ In colonial British Columbia, there is a lot riding on the answer to this question. The elites want us to think they represent the latest and most visible symbols of prosperity for all. But to many people who are Indigenous or...

Author: Seb BonetTitle: Our veins run with water, not oilSubtitle: Fighting for our lives against capitalism and colonialism across Turtle IslandDate: Feb 12Source: Retrieved on November 2nd 2024 from https://www.thevolcano.org/2017/02/12/our-veins-run-with-water-not-oil/ In 1971, Eduardo Galeano published The Open Veins of Latin America. His iconic title refers to the colonial extraction of resources from Pachamama. And the book’s subtitle, ‘Five Centuries of the Pillage of a...

Author: anonymousTitle: Targets that exist everywhereSubtitle: – a strategic proposal for building a common front against the profiteers of war and repressionDate: 2021Notes: This is the introductory text for a zine compiling many claimed insurrectionary actions, ending with the proposal-claim Direct Action Cells: Public Proposition for the Constitution of a Network of Revolutionary Violence (available at https://en.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/direct-action-cells-public-proposition-for-the-constitution-of-a-network-of-revolutionary-viole). We have posted it here for reference...

Author: anonymousTitle: Targets That Do Not Exist Anywhere ElseSubtitle: a counter-proposal to Targets That Exist Everywhere & another critique of the militarisation of the anarchist attackNotes: from Zündlappen: Anarchist Journal from NowhereSource: https://scenes.noblogs.org/files/2023/11/TargetsThatDoNotExist.pdf Who would’ve thought? You would like to finally achieve something, would like to finally kick off the social revolution with your own actions. So you go out at night, alone, in...

Author: Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizTitle: “A sense of hope and the possibility of solidarity”Subtitle: Colonialism, capitalism, and Native liberationDate: Winter 2016–2017Notes: Transcribed by Michelle Ward. Published in International Socialist Review #103, Winter 2016–2017, a publication of the Center for Economic Research and Social Change (CERSC).Source: International Socialist Review #103, Winter 2016–2017, Retrieved on November 11, 2024 from isreview.org In 2014, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz published An Indigenous Peoples’...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: On Captive Clienteles and EnshittificationDate: November 12th, 2024Source: Retrieved on November 12th, 2024 from https://c4ss.org/content/53835 In a column four years ago, I recounted the experience of a friend in academia with the godawful “learning management software” which her institution required for designing exams. She complained that she was trying to create a midterm exam and “blackboard is complete fucking garbage. No...

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: Margaret KilljoyTitle: The Sky is Falling; We’ve Got ThisSubtitle: or: yes it’s bad, no we need not despairDate: 11/6/24Source: https://substack.com/home/post/p-151285900 I can’t tell you things are fine. I can’t tell you that hard times aren’t coming. I can’t tell you that hard times aren’t already here. Things can always get worse. That seems like, more or less, a constant in this universe: things...

Author: Martha F. LeeTitle: Earth First!Subtitle: Environmental ApocalypseDate: 1995Notes: Michael Barkun is the book series editor. Cover photo: Earth First! demonstrates against the timber industry, Ft. Bragg, Calif. Photography by Michael Schumann/SABA.Source: <archive.org/details/earthfirstenviro0000leem> Syracuse University Press is pleased to introduce a new series, Religion and Politics, with the publication of Earth First! by Martha F. Lee. Contemporary religious movements constitute a wide spectrum of...

Author: Bager NûjiyanTitle: The Seeker of TruthSubtitle: who insisted on another worldDate: 2020Source: <https://internationalistcommune.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/English.pdf> Michael Panser1988 — ∞ Introduction Our friend, internationalist revolutionary and guerrilla fighter Michael Panser, Bager Nujiyan (also Xefil vTyan) died and became immortal on December 14, 2018 in a Turkish air raid on the Medya defence areas in Southern Kurdistan. Our hearts are full of pain, our heads are full...