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Author: Martin SostreTitle: Martin Luther King Was A LawbreakerSubtitle: A Tribute to his Memory on the Second Anniversary of his MurderDate: 1970Notes: Special Supplement, April 1970, Black NewsSource: https://www.martinsostre.com/archive A Note on Black News Black News was a newspaper edited and published by Martin Sostre from Wallkill Prison in 1970, with logistical support from the Workers World Party (WWP). Sostre intended the paper to...

Author: Valerie DavidsonTitle: Urbanity Without CivilizationSubtitle: An Informal Vision of Post-Left GeographyDate: March 26, 2025Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from postgeography.wordpress.com Introduction The notion of urbanity we reckon with is one that is, in many ways, determined by neoliberalism, by planners, geographers, and enthusiasts who have a vision of the world that is defined by the ways industries use space, whether or not...

Author: Mark Van SteenwykTitle: Anarchist Threads in Church HistorySubtitle: A Primer on Christian Anarchism, Part 2Date: 2011Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/anarchist-threads-in-church-history-a-primer-on-christian-anarchism-part-2 In my previous article, I tried to offer some introductory definitions of “anarchism” and “Christianity”–which are both too complex to define. This, therefore, presents some challenges in presenting a simple description to “Christian anarchism.” In part two, I’ll briefly trace...

Author: Mark Van SteenwykTitle: A Divine ImpossibilitySubtitle: A Primer on Christian AnarchismDate: 2011Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/a-divine-impossibility-a-primer-on-christian-anarchism Generally, Jesus Radicals exists to explore the intersection of Christianity and anarchism. Most people think such a combination is an impossibility (or a delusion). It would be a mistake to suggest that bringing the two together is mere novelty. Most of the negative reactions...

Author: Joanna ShenkTitle: On Practicing a Mystical Anarchist EthicDate: 2017Notes: Sermon preached at First Mennonite Church of San Francisco and originally posted at Radical Discipleship.Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/on-practicing-a-mystical-anarchist-ethic Isaiah 58:1–12 When my older brother went to college, I remember being taken aback when he said his roommate’s mom was an anarchist. I felt so sorry for his roommate and figured...

Author: Gaston LevalTitle: Libertarian Socialist! Why?Date: 1956Source: Retrieved on March 25, 2025 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/gaston-leval-libertarian-socialist-why-1956-2/ For the series of publications that he envisions, Louis Louvet has asked me to write about the aims of the Libertarian Socialist Group and the movement that we are striving to establish. I begin this work by noting that I necessarily orient my presentation by taking into account the fact...

Author: Mark AntliffTitle: Review of Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of ResistanceDate: February 2024Source: Retrieved on March 23 2025 from https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/adcs/article/view/22195/10130 M. Testa’s (a pseudonym) Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance is a rare thing, an historical overview of a dimension of European antifascism written specifically with activists in mind. It is a book that will both educate and in some instances inspire...

Author: Ba JinTitle: IWW and Chinese WorkersDate: 1921Notes: First published in Banyue No. 21, Chengdu, June 21, 1921. Even though we currently spread our rhetoric about the “labor movement,” what relevance does it ultimately have for Chinese workers? We proclaim that “labor is sacred,” but workers have never been happy about it. For some years now, the words “May Day Festival” have become familiar...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Radical antinatalism manifestoSubtitle: On the Helsinki sperm bank attackDate: 2024Source: https://antinatal.org/ Our world is full of suffering, inequality and environmental disasters. Is life really an unconditional good that should be passed on to one and all? If you create a new sentient (capable of suffering) being — they will definitely experience suffering: at least because of increasing global warming, disease and complexity;...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: Is atheism immoral?Source: Retrieved on March 22, 2025 from https://www.anarchisme.nl/namespace/is_het_atheisme_onzedelijk A frequent accusation that is brought against atheism is that it is immoral. The reasoning underlying this accusation is this: Without religion there can be no morality and therefore where atheism has broken with all religion, morality has been undermined to collapse completely. But where is the proof? People simply...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: My farewell to the churchDate: 1879Source: Retrieved on March 22, 2025 from https://www.anarchisme.nl/namespace/mijn_afscheid_van_de_kerk At the express request of several listeners I have proceeded to publish these two speeches. They are therefore dedicated to my listeners, as a reminder of a time that has ended. May they contribute to strengthening their principles, and above all to translating them into actions. September...

Author: Peter MaurinTitle: The sit-down techniqueDate: 1937Source: The Catholic Worker, Volume 4, Number 12, April 1937 1. On Gandhi lines Strike news doesn’t strike me, but the sit-down strike is a different strike from the ordinary strike. In the sit-down strike you don’t strike anybody either on the jaw or under the belt, you just sit down. The sit-down strike is essentially a peaceful...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: The libertarian educationDate: 1899Notes: This is a brochure based on a speech given by Domela Nieuwenhuis in Paris in 1899.Source: Retrieved on March 22, 2025 from https://www.anarchisme.nl/namespace/de_libertaire_opvoeding Thus spoke the great expert on the human heart, Goethe, and he is right. The Jesuits, who have studied human nature and especially its weak side — and therein lies the whole secret...

Author: Combahee River CollectiveTitle: The Combahee River Collective StatementDate: 1977Source: Retrieved on 2025-03-21 from <blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977> We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive...

Author: The Catholic WorkerTitle: Aims and PurposesDate: 1939Source: The Catholic Worker, Volume 6, Number 10, 1 May 1939 We repeat again and again that our work is to bring men back to Christ. The workers of the world are lost to the Church, Pope Pius XI said. We are of the workers, they are our brothers, we are all members or potential members of...

Author: Dorothy DayTitle: Catholic Worker ProgramDate: December 1, 1933Notes: Recalls her prayer at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception that God show her a way to use her talents to help labor, Peter Maurin’s appearance and inspiration, and the notion of personal responsibility–“Every one can help.” Thanks all who have supported the work.Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/277-html/ ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS...

Author: Alan AlbonTitle: Anarchism and AgricultureDate: 1964Notes: First published in Anarchy magazineSource: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://libcom.org/library/anarchism-agriculture For the Father of AgricultureGave us a hard calling: he first decreed it an artTo work the fields, sent worries to sharpen our mortal witsAnd would not allow his realm to grow listless from lethargy.Before Jove’s time no settlers brought the land under subjection;Not lawful...

Author: Tom CornellTitle: Usury and the KingdomDate: 2008Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://homiliessermonsharangues.blogspot.com/2008/11/usury-and-kingdom.html?m=1 Today’s Gospel parable can be confusing. But before we get to that, a married deacon can hardly let pass our first reading from Proverbs. It reads like a song, doesn’t it? The valiant women, the worthy wife brings her family increase by her labors and reaches her hands out...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: Backs Against the WallSubtitle: What happens when the punishment is the same for violence and non-violence?Date: 17 March 2025Source: Retrieved on 18 March 2025 from revoluciana.net You’re drenched in sweat, but you don’t have time to think about that right now. You round the corner, almost knocking someone over who looks almost exactly like your sweet (but racist) old landlady. Actually, you...

Author: AndrewismTitle: Humanity Is Not A ParasiteDate: 11th May 2022Source: Retrieved on 18th March 2025 from https://youtu.be/j42RbUjofm0?si=JYWDMX93To7QDH5p Introduction “Humanity is a Plague”, “Humanity is a Poison”, “Humanity is the real virus”, “Humanity is a parasite”. The “Human Parasitism” narrative has grown increasingly common in day-to-day discourse, with folks casually confessing their simmering misanthropy. You don’t have to look very hard to figure out why...

Author: Errico MalatestaTitle: Manual and intellectual workDate: 1922Notes: Published in Umanità Nova, n. 181, 10 August 1922.Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://www.panarchy.org/malatesta/lavoro.html The origin of this division of men into “intellectuals” (who are often simply idle without any intellectuality) and “manuals” can be found in the fact that in times and circumstances in which producing enough to largely satisfy one’s own needs...

Author: Sébastien FaureTitle: La RucheSubtitle: A work of solidarity: an attempt at educationDate: 1914Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://www.panarchy.org/faure/ruche.html Brief Information: This charity of solidarity and education, located in Rambouillet (Seine-et-Oise), was founded and is directed by Sébastien Faure. It raises around forty children of both sexes. There are no rankings; no punishments, no rewards. Its Program: Through outdoor life, a regular...

Author: Ammon HennacyTitle: Public demonstration against the payment of taxesDate: 1965Source: Retrieved on March 17, 2025 from https://www.panarchy.org/hennacy/taxes.html Why do you, a sensible person, now believe that war and the Atomic Bomb are necessary? Why are poor Oriental peasants who have seldom eaten a square meal in their lives choosing to fight us? Why does Communism appeal to so many people? Is it because...

Author: Ammon HennacyTitle: Tax StatementDate: 1950Source: Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist, Ammon Hennacy (1954) Now on Jan. 14, 1950 I mailed a statement to Mr. Stuart, Collector of Internal Revenue in Phoenix explaining why I was refusing to pay my income tax. It said: As a non-church Christian Anarchist and a follower of Gandhi the man of the Half-Century, I refuse to pay my...