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Author: Dorothy DayTitle: Personalist: Peter MaurinDate: 1953Source: Retrieved on March 16, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/170-html/ In 1932, Peter Maurin, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was working at hard manual labor at Mount Tremper, New York, at a boys’ camp where he mended roads, cut ice, and did other chores winter and summer and received his living, not a very munificent one, in return. As...

Author: Jim ForestTitle: What is the Catholic Worker?Date: 1997Notes: This essay was written by Jim Forest on the Catholic Worker Movement for The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History to be published by the Liturgical Press.Source: Retrieved on March 16, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/forest-history-html/ The Catholic Worker movement was founded in 1933 during the Great Depression by Dorothy Day at the urging of Peter Maurin. It...

Author: The Combat Organization of Anarcho-CommunistsTitle: Three Years of Resistance to Imperialism and the Struggle for AutonomySubtitle: The View of the BOAC MilitantDate: 2025/02/25Notes: Note: I am not the author, I simply translated this text—Alexander HarrisSource: https://boakmirror.noblogs.org/post/2025/02/25/%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b8-%d0%b3%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%b2%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%8f-%d0%b8%d0%bc%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bc%d1%83/#more-2 Three years ago, a full-scale invasion of the troops of the fascist Russian state into Ukraine began. For the entire modern anarchist and revolutionary left movement in...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: What is Rent?Date: 13 March 2025Source: Retrieved on 14 March 2025 from revoluciana.net This post is part of a series that deals with basic leftist concepts and terminology. It is also a living document and subject to change on revoluciana.net. Rent is an economic concept with a broad set of applications. The existence of rent and rent-seeking behavior is a key sticking...

Author: Anonymous, Albert MeltzerTitle: Question and answer on Anarchism [Anti-Imperialism]Date: 1987Notes: Anonymous but we believe written by Albert Meltzer.Source: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/k0p4ff | Black Flag no. 170 (11/5/1987) Q. What do you understand by anti-imperialism? A. This is a word that is undergoing a sea-change. When Imperialism was understood as powerful Nation-States building up by colonial expansion, the meaning of anti-imperialism was clear. Its support came...

Author: Aotearoa Workers Solidarity MovementTitle: The Betrayal of Donbas; No War But Class WarDate: February 22nd, 2025Source: https://awsm4u.noblogs.org/post/2025/02/22/the-betrayal-of-donbas-no-war-but-class-war/ The war between Russia and Ukraine is often presented as a clear-cut narrative of imperial aggression versus national defence. In mainstream discourse, Russia is portrayed as the sole aggressor, with Ukraine as a victim bravely defending its sovereignty. However, this oversimplified framing serves the interests of...

Author: WulfinnaTitle: The Anti-Binary Reality And Its Invalid DefamersDate: 01 Mar 2025Source: https://ignitedindark.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/anti-binary-reality-invalid-defamers/ There exists now in our time a special strain of that same addictive venom against all things free, true, intelligent and decent that had ravaged all the developments of human life since our first infantile reaches out of all-encompassing despotism ... barreling straight ahead back into its maw. There exists now...

Author: Roberto de las CarrerasTitle: The husband and the loverDate: 1902Notes: Excerpts from Amor libre: interviews voluptuosos con Roberto de las Carreras, published in La Rebelión on August 25, 1902.Source: El amor libre. Eros y anarquía, Osvaldo Baigorria. Page 59–63. For four long years I subjugated a nervously passionate woman, a magic potion of corrosive lust, a human cantharides, a Berber woman of my...

Author: Evelio BoalTitle: Women and free loveDate: 1922Source: El amor libre. Eros y anarquía, Osvaldo Baigorria. Page 37–38. There is generally a very erroneous idea about this point of the libertarian ideal, which it would be useful to clarify. Currently, free love cannot, or is very difficult to, develop all the conditions under which a woman’s life unfolds. To bring this act to a...

Author: Mikhail BakuninTitle: Letter to Nikolaj OgarevDate: 1869Notes: In Switzerland, Mikhail Bakunin wrote a letter to his Russian friend Nikolaj Ogarev about his complex relationship with his wife, and how she had a relationship with a dear friend of his, an Italian anarchist militant. She became pregnant with his child, and Bakunin was willing to raise the children as his own.Source: Retrieved on March...

Author: La Voz de la MujerTitle: Let’s love? No. Let’s fight!Date: 1896Notes: Article by Argentine anarchist and feminist activist Pepita Gherra in issue 2 of La Voz de la Mujer on January 31, 1896.Source: Retrieved on March 12, 2025 from https://www.marxists.org/espanol/gherra/1896/amemos-luchemos.htm What’s the matter, tender and innocent child? Why does the blush cover your cheeks? Why are you agitated and ashamed? What’s the matter?...

Author: Federica MontsenyTitle: Feminism and humanismDate: 1924Source: La Revista Blanca, 1-10-1924, page 12–14. A kind and anonymous friend sent me a copy of a newspaper, saying, “In case you’re interested”. The newspaper sent was El Pueblo, from Valencia, and the sender pointed it out and I saw an article titled “The Third Sex” and signed by Antonio Dubois. The article, of course, speaks of...

Author: Emma GoldmanTitle: Social situation of womenDate: 1936Source: Retrieved on March 11, 2025 from https://es.anarchistlibraries.net/library/emma-goldman-situacion-social-de-la-mujer Human progress is very slow. It has been said that for every step forward, humanity has taken two steps toward slavery. Only over the centuries has it freed itself from its attitude of submissive worship of the Church, the divine right of kings, and the power of the ruling...

Author: AnonymousTitle: The Undying Appeal of White NationalismSubtitle: Neofascism in the Cultural, Artistic, and Ecological MovementsDate: 2015Source: https://nycantifa.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/undying-appeal-of-white-nationalism/ The earth is firmly enveloped in crisis. This crisis is at once material and existential. The economy can no longer support the human weight that bends it at its foundation. Can not, or will not. The aftermath of the recession has produced only one reality: an...

Author: AnonymousTitle: #FreeCaseyNowSubtitle: On Casey Goonan and the Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine MovementDate: 1/1/2025Source: https://unravel.noblogs.org/freecaseynow-on-casey-goonan-and-the-abandonment-of-political-prisoners-in-the-pro-palestine-movement/ Casey Goonan is the only US political prisoner from the 2024 pro-Palestine student encampments. They are an abolitionist and anarchist who has dedicated themselves to multiple forms of prisoner support work and directly engaging with incarcerated comrades. The impact they’ve made inside is prevalent, as indicated...

Author: Anarchist Communist Group, Czechoslovak Anarchist AssociationTitle: Interview with Ukrainian War ResisterDate: March 3rd, 2025Source: https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2025/03/03/interview-with-ukrainian-war-resister/ In December 2024 some media sites reported on the rescue of a Ukrainian man and his kitten in the mountains in Romania after crossing the border from Ukraine[1]. They failed to mention the reasons why he fled. The Czechoslovak Anarchist Association (ČAS) contacted him for an interview. An...

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: The Dawn-Light of AnarchyDate: 1887Notes: The events of May 4, 1886 were a major influence on the oratory of Voltairine de Cleyre. Following the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs on November 11, 1887, she gave an annual address to commemorate the date of their sacrifice. The following memorial speech was first delivered in Chicago on November 11, 1901. It was...

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: Modern Educational ReformDate: 1910Notes: Speech given at a conference in New YorkSource: Retrieved on March 8, 2025 from https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voltairine-de-cleyre/unknown/modern-educational-reform.html Questions of genuine importance to large masses of people, are not posed by a single questioner, nor even by a limited number. They are put with more or less precision, with more or less consciousness of their scope and demand by...

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: The Gates of FreedomDate: 1891Notes: Address delivered before the Liberal Convention at Topeka, Kan., March 15, ‘89‘.Source: Retrieved on March 8, 2025 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/the-sex-question/voltairine-de-cleyre-the-gates-of-freedom-1891/ “They have rights who dare maintain them.” This is my text. And the purpose of my lecture is threefold. First to state the facts concerning the actual status of woman in relation to society as a...

Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: A Side View of Ikkyu’s “Insanity”Date: 1970Source: Retrieved and Translation finished on 3/6/2025 from https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/19/1/19_1_59/_pdf/-char/ja 1. In Ikkyu Sojun’s anthology of poems, the word “furyu” (風流) (henceforth, Elegance) can be seen innumerable times (152) with various meanings, while the word “fukyou” (風狂) (henceforth, Insanity) can only be found in two places — “An Insane Visitor Stirs Up a Raging Wind” (風狂の狂客、狂風を起す)...

Author: Augustin SouchyTitle: The Cuban Libertarians and the Castro DictatorshipDate: 1975Notes: Original text: Akratie No. 4, Autumn 1975.Source: Retrieved on March 6, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/augustin-souchy/7270-augustin-souchy-die-kubanischen-libertarios-und-die-castro-diktatur The beginnings of the anarchist movement in Cuba go back to the last century. When the island was still a Spanish colony, anarchists who had immigrated from Spain propagated the ideas of the First International: “The liberation of the...

Author: Amaterasu SolarTitle: The Third Option: Anarcho-AbundancismSubtitle: A beacon between anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communismDate: 04-7-2024Notes: There are images but it seems they cannot be added here....Source: odysee.com So My frenemy dropped a link to an article entitled, Bridging the Divide: Anarcho-Capitalism vs. Anarcho-Communism — A Debate on Stateless Societies and Human Nature. Needless to say, I was intrigued. He is so on Me about being...

Author: rowanTitle: Revolutionary Trans Politics and the Three Way FightDate: 6/4/23Source: https://threewayfight.org/revolutionary-trans-politics-and-the-three-way-fight-an-interview-with-rowan/ 3WF: Trans and other gender-nonconforming people have become a major target of right-wing political attacks in recent years, and they continue to be major targets of systemic oppression and physical violence in U.S. society. How do you apply a three way fight framework to help us understand the contending forces in this...

Author: Sergei StepniakTitle: Underground RussiaSubtitle: Revolutionary Profiles and Sketches from LifeDate: 1883Notes: Cover Photograph of Sergius Stepniak (Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky) by Elliott & Fry.This work is in the public domain.Source: <archive.org/details/undergroundruss00lavrgoog> Preface The Socialist and Revolutionary movement in Russia could not fail to attract the attention of Western Europe. It is only natural, therefore, that in every European language a somewhat extensive literature should be...