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Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: Social Democratic and Anarchist AntimilitarismDate: 1908Notes: In his book on “Militarism and Antimilitarism,” Dr. Liebknecht made lengthy, partly open, partly hidden attacks against our Dutch comrade Domela Nieuwenhuis. The latter published his reply in the Flemish monthly “Ontwaking,” which was sent to Liebknecht long before he began his sentence in the fortress. Comrade N. complied with our request and request...

Author: Les U. KnightTitle: Why Real Anarchists Don’t BreedDate: March 30, 2002Notes: Special edition newsletter for VHEMT information table at The San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair March 30, 2002. Note: A wide range of political orientations exists within The Movement. Although I personally favor anarchy, many Volunteers and Supporters do not. Les.Source: https://www.vhemt.org/anobreed.htm Why Real Anarchists Don’t Breed We anarchists have many reasons to...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: To the resistance societiesDate: 1903Source: La Huelga General, year 2, num. 14, 5-3-1903 and La Huelga General, year 2, num. 16, 5-4-1903 To the resistance societies (March 5, 1903) Since our reappearance we have been encouraging the study of society on the day after the triumph of the revolutionary strike. For the corresponding section we have received something, very little; but...

Author: Augustin SouchyTitle: Why?Date: 1915Source: Retrieved on March 4, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/augustin-souchy/7674-augustin-souchy-warum-antimilitaristisches-flugblatt-1915 The great European war lasted a year. Up to now the situation is, on the whole, such that we cannot yet say when peace will be made. Thousands, millions of human lives: young, flourishing, hopeful people, along with millions and millions more material values, have been destroyed in the current war. Countless...

Author: Augustin SouchyTitle: Experiences from Revolutions of the 20th CenturyDate: 1981Source: Retrieved on March 4, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/augustin-souchy/6196-souchy-erfahrungen-aus-erlebten-revolutionen-des-20-jahrhunderts A violent revolution can overthrow an authoritarian system of rule and pave the way for freer forms of society, but it can also usher in an even harsher dictatorship. Beware of victorious revolutionary leaders. They usually become autocratic dictators! A free society cannot be established by...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: Coercion always comes from above; for the General Strike it will come from belowDate: 1902Source: La Huelga General, year 2, num. 8, 25-1-1902 Under the current capitalist regime, workers are subjected to constant coercion. The manufacturers begin by firing the initiators of all social movements with the sole purpose of coercing those who try to continue their association plans. If, despite...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: Three thousand workers at the burial of a victim; none to hold the perpetrator accountableDate: 1902Source: La Huelga General, year 2, num. 9, 5-2-1902 The workers who are currently on strike are ill advised. And it is not because they did not foresee in the columns of the La Huelga General that if the strikers appealed only to the Civil Government,...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: EnvyDate: 1885 Letter to Mr. Ricardo Fajarnes Dear friend: When I was very young, I understood that the farces of religion were detrimental to the progress and well-being of humanity, so in 1885 I conceived the idea of putting into discourse all those things about sins, eternal punishments, commandments of the church, articles of faith, etc., and I thought of writing...

Author: CNTTitle: Comrade Durruti SpeaksDate: 6 October 1936Notes: Originally published in the newspaper CNT. Translated by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. We make the war and the revolution at the same time. Militiamen are fighting for the conquest of the land, the factories, bread, and culture... the pickaxe and the shovel are as important as the rifle. Comrades, we...

Author: Kanzan KitsuneTitle: The Garden PathDate: Spring 2018Notes: Re-printed and annotated in Return Fire vol.6 chap.2 (winter 2020-2021). To read the article referenced in this text in [square brackets], PDFs of Return Fire and related publications can be read, downloaded and printed by visiting returnfire.noblogs.org or emailing returnfire@riseup.netSource: Backwoods #1 Sudajii (Castanopsis cuspidata var. sieboldii): Ample moss-covered trunk rooted firmly on the ridge line...

Author: Arc Up Anarchist CommunistsTitle: Where does the power to end genocide come from?Date: 25/07/2024Source: https://arcup.org/2024/07/25/where-does-the-power-to-end-genocide-come-from/ The modern Palestinian Resistance movement is the perfect demonstration of the chasm between the will of social movements and their power. Despite huge mobilisations and actions taken by people in solidarity around the world since October 2023, the genocide continues to be carried out with active support from...

Author: Arc Up Anarchist CommunistsTitle: Where to for the Tamil struggle?Date: 19/05/2024Source: https://arcup.org/2024/05/19/where-to-for-the-tamil-struggle/ 15 years ago the national liberation war came to an end, with the destruction of the de-facto Tamil Eelam state and the mass slaughter of at least 169,796 Tamils by the genocidal Sri Lankan government. Now, even commemorating the Tamil dead, both civilian and soldier alike, is met with police repression....

Author: Anna TsingTitle: Unruly EdgesSubtitle: mushrooms as companion speciesDate: 2012Notes: Re-printed and annotated in Return Fire vol.6 chap.7 (winter 2024-2025). To read the articles referenced throughout this text (for example, in [square brackets] or in footnotes), PDFs of Return Fire and related publications can be read, downloaded and printed by visiting returnfire.noblogs.org or emailing returnfire@riseup.netSource: Environmental Humanities 1 [ed. – Another selection we have...

Author: Andy Robinson, The Brilliant podcast, Aragorn!Title: 'The Position Of The Excluded'Date: 2017Notes: Transcribed, annotated and printed in Return Fire vol.6 chap.8 (winter 2024-2025). To read the articles referenced throughout this text in [square brackets] or footnotes, PDFs of Return Fire and related publications can be read, downloaded and printed by visiting returnfire.noblogs.org or emailing returnfire@riseup.netSource: https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-58-exclusion-iv/ [ed. – An interview conducted in 2017...

Author: Leo TolstoyTitle: The Gospel in BriefDate: 1887Source: Original text from RevoltLib.com, 2021.   An account (Confession) of the course of my own life and of the thoughts which led me to the conviction that the Christian teaching contains the truth. An examination of the Christian teaching: first according to its interpretation by the Orthodox Russo-Greek Church, then according to its interpretation by the...

Author: Paul Z. SimonsTitle: Social War: Anarchist ArchaeologyDate: 2014Notes: All grammatical and spelling decisions, formatting, and errors have been left unedited as the original author is now deceased.Source: The BASTARD Chronicles 2014, a small pocketbook of texts and conversations from the 2014 BASTARD Conference on social war published by Little Black Cart. Social War, Subjects, and Consciousness As the author of the first Social...

Author: SENKATitle: Community, Not Nation!Subtitle: Platform of the Radical Antinational TendencyNotes: A Pamphlet from the radical anti-national tendency, the capitalized letters of the Serbo-Croat version of the sentence “Self-management is the essence of our communism/anarchy” (Samouprava je Esencija Naleg Komunizma/ Anarhije) form the word SENKA, which is the name of the collective that signs this text, and is the Serbo-Croatian word for “shadow”: OCR’d...

Author: Sam DolgoffTitle: Gandhi and Indian FreedomDate: April 1931Notes: By Sam Dolgoff [and Road to Freedom Editor]Source: Road to Freedom, April 1931, vol. 7 #8, p. 6 The truce reached between the Viceroy of India and Gandhi, in which the latter agreed not to press the charges against the police for the slaughter of thousands of India’s bravest spirits, to call off the boycott...

Author: Julian LangerTitle: Avian FluDate: 2/3/2025Source: https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/avian-flu/ Culling birds Not changing the culture Ending the industries Addressing the conditions That spread diseases The fowl plague Of systematised slaughter The fowl plague Of systematised slaughter Murdering captives Within agri-industrial machines Specicidal annihilation Conserve trade Kill the birds The fowl plague Millions killed The fowl plague More culled The fowl plague Mass murder Rationalised under Rhetoric...

Author: Ricardo Flores MagónTitle: To the patriotic proletariansDate: 1916Notes: First published in Regeneración on October 30, 1916.Source: Retrieved on February 28, 2025 from https://www.memoriapoliticademexico.org/Textos/6Revolucion/1916-PP-FM.html Patriots, listen to some healthy words, some words quite different from those you are used to hearing. They are new words for you, but they contain the truth. Listen then carefully, and, if possible, learn by heart what I am...

Author: AndrewismTitle: What If We Ran The Economy?Subtitle: How Library Economies WorkDate: 3 February 2025Source: Retrieved on 2025/02/28 from https://youtu.be/vW5EVNT--DA Imagine walking out of your local library with a tent, a telephoto lens for your camera, and the keys to an offroader. Or if camping isn’t your style, what if you could check out a breadmaker, a fancy teapot, and a few lawn chairs...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: God or the State: No The General Strike: YesDate: 1901Source: La Huelga General, year 1, num. 2, 25-11-1901 There is not a person of good faith, however little enlightened, who does not confess that religion, whether Catholic, Protestant, Mohammedan or Buddhist, has achieved peace and well-being for men. No politician, of any party or of any independence, can assure that his...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: The General Strike will enrich the poor without impoverishing the richDate: 1901Source: La Huelga General, year 1, num. 3, 5-12-1901 The belief that the rich make the poor live and that without them there would be even more misery is so deeply rooted that it will take a lot of work to convince people of the falsity of this belief. Neither...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: First regional, then we will see.Date: 1901Source: La Huelga General, year 1, num. 5, 25-12-1901 Let us libertarians not be affected by the general strike by what the Portuguese republicans were affected by by the political revolution, who said and say they were ready to do it, but who are waiting for the Spanish republicans to carry it out by common...