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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...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: Principles of scientific moralityDate: 1907 To the teaching staff: With our thoughts fixed on the teachers of the rationalist schools, we have written Principles of Scientific Morality, with the conviction that, without their cooperation, the fruit of this humble work of mine would be small. I earnestly ask my colleagues not to forget that all reading should be commented on so...

Author: Jamie GrahamTitle: Why I Left FightbackSubtitle: or, now, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)Date: June 23, 2022Notes: Note that Socialist Fightback has rebranded itself in so-called “Canada” as the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). It is part of the International Marxist Tendency.Source: Retrieved on February 26 from archive.ph/5FW0k In early 2018, I joined Fightback/La Riposte Socialiste, the Canadian section of the International Marxist Tendency. I...

Author: K. C. SinclairTitle: Clarity Contra ComplicityDate: February 25, 2025Source: Retrieved on February 26, 2025, from historyiswhat.noblogs.org One year ago today, Aaron Bushnell, a member of the American Air Force, self-immolated in response to American complicity in Israeli colonialism. This article serves both as an overview of some particular responses to that action at the time and as a critique of one response specifically....

Author: Max NettlauTitle: FragmentDate: 24 August — 5 September 1902Notes: Collected in Max Nettlau Papers, inventory number 1777, of the International Institute of Social History. Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.Source: Retrieved on 24th February 2025 from www.libertarian-labyrinth.org All my arguments are based on the fact that men are different from one another, so that the same thing cannot be known to the same...

Author: L’en dehorsTitle: Short Statements on the Anarchist EntenteDate: 1928Notes: Working translations by Shawn P. Wilbur.Source: Retrieved on 24th February 2025 from www.libertarian-labyrinth.org Not one penny,Not one line,Not one listenerFor the drudge-work of anarchist discord. L’en dehors 7 no. 140 (fin Juillet 1928): 4. The possibility in the anarchist milieu, of association between individualists or communists, for the purposes that please them, according to...

Author: Emma Goldman and Max NettlauTitle: Letters to “l’en dehors”Date: 1922Notes: Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.Source: Retrieved on 24th February 2025 from www.libertarian-labyrinth.org Vienna, July 22, 1922. My dear friend, … I am very happy to hear that your misfortunes have ended — at least until they want to strike again the spirit “en dehors” that you are. As for me, I vegetate...

Author: Fernand FortinTitle: Anarchist Unity or Linkage?Date: 1934Notes: Originally published in Revue Anarchiste No. 21 (Octobre-Décembre 1934): 23–24. Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.Source: Retrieved on 24th February 2025 from www.libertarian-labyrinth.org From all sides there are nothing but calls to Unity. Syndical unity. Unity of socialist-communist action. United front. “Common front” giving way, in order to attract the radicals, to the “Popular Front,” which...

Author: Esther DolgoffTitle: White Collar Worker Bemoans Her FateDate: October 1985Notes: Editorial Note: Esther Dolgoff wrote this for Wobble: Bulletin of the Rank-and File Organizing Committee. The ROC was an ad-hoc network of IWW members (1983–1985) who subscribed to the ideas Sam Dolgoff had advocated in Notes for a Discussion on the Regeneration of the IWW.Source: Wobble, No. 13 Last September 28, 1985 an...