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Author: David Graeber & Nika DubrovskyTitle: Cities made differentlySubtitle: Try imagining another urban existenceDate: November 22nd, 2024Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/22/cities-made-differently-try-imagining-another-urban-existence/ In thousands of ways, we are taught to accept the world we live in as the only possible one, but thousands of other ways of organizing homes, cities, schools, societies, economies, and cosmologies have existed and could exist. We started a project called Made Differently: designed...

Author: Jack MurrayTitle: Dual power and climate breakdownDate: 6th November 2024Source: retrieved on November 16th, 2024 from <libcom.org/article/dual-power-and-climate-breakdown> While this article addresses the “revolutionary” turn in Roger Hallam’s rhetoric, it is more intended as a broader comment on anarchist organisational strategy in the time of climate breakdown. For context, Roger Hallam is the co-founder of the mass climate movement, Extinction Rebellion and the direct...

Author: Tomás IbáñezTitle: Negativity and positivity in anarchism: An inextricable but contradictory dualitySubtitle: My initial purpose was to reflect on the unavoidable, and often undervalued, negative dimension of anarchism—but I soon realised this forced me to leave aside its entire positive aspectDate: December 2nd, 2024Notes: Edited machine translation. Original text in Spanish (published on November 30th, 2024): https://redeslibertarias.com/2024/11/30/redes-libertarias-no-2/Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/02/negative-and-positive-in-anarchism/ When I turned on my...

Author: IgnatiusTitle: If We Go, We Go On FireSubtitle: On Grief and Social WarDate: 12/7/2024Source: Long Leaf Distro I. Coming Up for Air If I hand you the knife Would you carve me gills So that I might finally breathe In this brackish mud It is early December, 2024. Everything I have written in the last year has started with the same contextual notes....

Author: Leila Al ShamiTitle: Our dream of an Assad-free Syria has returned with Aleppo rebel advanceDate: 2 December 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th December 2024 from www.newarab.com Eight years after Aleppo was subjected to a brutal starvation siege, pounded by the Assad regime, Russian and Iranian bombs and thousands of its residents massacred or forcibly displaced, the Free Syria flag flies over the citadel. The...

Author: Tekoşîna AnarşîstTitle: We Carry a New World in Our Hearts!Date: 7 December 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th December 2024 from tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org The regime has fallen, the war continues. The revolutionary dreams of millions of Syrians that flooded the streets in 2011 has finally become reality: the regime has fallen. After decades of Assad’s dynasty, today we woke up in a Syria without functional central...

Author: Zoe BakerTitle: Means and EndsSubtitle: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United StatesDate: 2023Notes: Cover design by John Yates | www.stealworks.com // Cover photographs (top) courtesy of Centro Studi Libertari // Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli, Milan, Italy (bottom) courtesy of Abel // Paz Fund, Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation Archive (CNT) [See also attached PDF for the author’s preferred pagination for citation.] Dedication...

Author: MuttTitle: Traces of anarchism In Zambia & UgandaDate: November 19th, 2024Source: https://muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/19/mutt-traces-of-anarchism-in-zambia-uganda/ [[https://muntjacmag.noblogs.org/files/2024/11/Willstar-Choongo-AWSM-Zambia-1998.jpg][AWSM Zambia, 1998]] Historically, it’s been hard to find any information of anarchism in central Africa, there was the short lived Anarchist & Workers’ Solidarity Movement (AWSM) in Zambia led by Willstar Choongo, Zambia in the mid nineties had a very small “left” and Willstar came up through organising his fellow...

Author: Jérôme BaschetTitle: The Reorganization of Zapatista AutonomyDate: November 14th, 2024Source: https://illwill.com/the-reorganization-of-zapatista-autonomy "The Reorganization of Zapatista Autonomy" is excerpted from Jérôme Baschet’s The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy, out this fall with AK Press. Although the book was first published in Mexico in 2019, the English translation contains new material not in the Spanish original, including a valuable description of the reorganization of...

Author: Pëtr KropotkinTitle: Municipal SocialismDate: 1902Source: Act For Yourselves, Articles from Freedom 1886–1907. Freedom Press In the early beginnings of Freedom, some sixteen years ago, there was in our paper an article, entitled ‘Local Action’, which attracted at that time a good deal of attention in Socialist circles. Till then, the workers had been told that the socialisation of the factories, the mines and...

Author: Pëtr KropotkinTitle: Anarchism a definitionSource: Encyclopedia Britannica ANARCHISM (from the Gr. an and archos, contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government – harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various...

Author: Zoe BakerTitle: Anarchist Counter Culture in SpainDate: 2022/12/01Source: anarchozoe.com People are often drawn to the study of labour history because they want to understand how to change the world. It is thought that the history of class struggle contains within itself not only a series of events and dates laid out in chronological order but also lessons. Through studying the history of class...

Author: Lee CicutaTitle: Intimate AuthoritarianismSubtitle: The Ideology of AbuseDate: January 11, 2023Source: Retrieved on 12 January 2023 from butchanarchy.medium.com/intimate-authoritarianism-the-ideology-of-abuse-797843da226b For far too long have radical communities and their discourses treated domestic violence and abuse as external from the considerations of revolutionary struggle. Abuse is seen as simply an interpersonal issue, springing from individual pathology which we must address by correcting certain behaviors and teaching...

Author: Ram Ashish GiriTitle: Cultural anarchismSubtitle: The consequences of privileging languages in NepalDate: 2010Notes: Published in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 31(1), pp. 87–100. doi:10.1080/01434630903398103.Source: Retrieved on 1st December 2024 from www.tandfonline.com Nepali, the official language of administration of Nepal, has been privileged through systematic political manoeuvres throughout its history. English also enjoys special status and privileges, and despite the fact that...

Author: Conor McCarthyTitle: James Connolly and SyndicalismDate: 2021Notes: Excerpted from “James Connolly: Labor, Empire, Ireland”.Source: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism By the early 1900s, James Connolly, with the Irish Socialist Republican Party still struggling to make an impression on the Irish political scene, had become aware of the American Socialist Labor Party, which seemed to be attaining some successes under the energetic...

Author: Tekoşîna AnarşîstTitle: We Are Not Afraid of Ruins!Subtitle: Statement from Tekoşîna Anarşîst on Developments in SyriaDate: 3 December 2024Notes: Introduction written by Black Rose Anarchist Federation.Source: Retrieved on 6th December 2024 from www.blackrosefed.org Background On November 27th the loose coalition of forces that has been engaged in a years-long military conflict with the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, broke out of a...

Author: Eduardo de GuzmánTitle: Revolutionary GymnasticsSubtitle: Juan García Oliver’s Response to the Manifesto of the ThirtyDate: 3 October 1931Notes: Originally published in La Tierra. English translation by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. Juan García Oliver gave a lecture at a union hall in the El Clot district to an exclusively worker audience on the parallels between Socrates and Christ’s...

Author: Federica MontsenyTitle: The Confederation’s Internal and External CrisisDate: 18 September 1931Notes: Originally published in El Luchador. English translation by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. A series of events have occurred between the publication of my article “A Circular and its Consequences” and the present. In the first place, a group of militants—which the bourgeois press, Macià, and Companys...

Author: Buenaventura DurrutiTitle: Response to the Manifesto of the ThirtyDate: 2 September 1931Notes: Originally published in La Tierra by Eduardo de Guzmán. English translation by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. We anarchists will respond in an energetic but noble way to the attack made upon us by some members of the Confederation. I hope it’s clear that this is...

Author: Francisco AscasoTitle: Our AnarchismDate: 1937Notes: Published by the Peninsular Committee of the FAI in 1937. Translation by Stuart Christie.Source: We, the Anarchists! A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927–1937 by Stuart Christie Our movement is often criticized for its lack of ideological content and this objection is perhaps not without foundation. Nevertheless, we are victims of a lack of understanding and...

Author: Frank Ascaso, Enrique Guerrero-López, Patrick Berkman, Adam WeaverTitle: The Lure of ElectionsSubtitle: From Political Power to Popular PowerDate: April 2, 2018Source: Originally published at truthout.org. Republished at blackrosefed.org. In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, the gravitational pull of electoral politics has gripped the left with renewed intensity. Fueled by the popularity of Sen. Bernie Sanders, discontent with political elites and the...

Author: James F. Morton Jr.Title: Exempting the ChurchesSubtitle: An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional PracticeDate: 1916Source: Retrieved on 18th November 2024 from www.gutenberg.org “No person shall be required to support any ministry or place of worship against his consent” — The accepted American principle. “To relieve the property of a church from taxation is to appropriate money, to the extent...

Author: James F. Morton Jr.Title: Is It All A Dream?Date: June 1900Notes: Published together with Anarchy by Errico Malatesta, in volume no. 5 of the Free Society Library.Source: Retrieved on 18th November 2024 from archive.org The old cry that Anarchists are haters of mankind, and apostles of wholesale destruction, is beginning to die out. The educational propaganda of today is making its influence felt...

Author: Kike García FrancésTitle: Justicieras, Solidarias and NosotrasSubtitle: Women in the Anarchist Action GroupsDate: June 2017Notes: Original translation. Published in Rojo y Negro, no. 313.Source: Retrieved on 16th November 2024 from rojoynegro.info The hard period of pistolerismo was between 1917 and 1923, the time of Martínez Anido, the time of the legalisation of extrajudicial murders through the infamous Ley de Fugas, the time of...