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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...

Author: Lee CicutaTitle: The Coercive Control of Israeli Settler ColonialismDate: May 28, 2024Source: Retrieved on 4 December 2024 from butchanarchy.medium.com/the-coercive-control-of-israeli-settler-colonialism-3c4431e9fb9a Coercive control, a framework originally conceptualized in Evan Stark’s Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Everyday Life and widely utilized in domestic violence theory, is one that can be expanded to understand the tactics and underlying values of all forms of authoritarian control....