~the-anarchist-libra | Bookmarks (176)

Author: WulfinnaTitle: Black and Red RagsDate: 3 Oct 2024Source: https://ignitedindark.wordpress.com/2024/10/03/black-red-rags/ For me, I take the black rag over the red rag because I refuse to spill my blood for the right to be a worker, and instead practice negativity against every parcel of the world we have known for generations. The black rag represents fighting spirit, critical self-thought and innovative audacity. The red rag...

Author: Ş. Tekoşer PilingLorenzo OrsettiTitle: Last Journals and Writings of Şehîd Tekoşer PilingDate: 2024Source: <tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/last-journals-and-writings-of-s-tekoser-piling-lorenzo-orsetti-5-years-anniversary> Preface 18th March 2019 Heval Tekoşer Piling fell şehîd in battle in Baghouz Fawqani, in Deir Ezzor region. He was a great friend to all of us and an incredibly brave soldier. From Afrin to Deir Ezzor, he was always the last to leave. We all carry the legacy...

Author: Logan Marie GlitterbombTitle: Communizing Society With Consumer CooperativesDate: September 28th, 2024Source: https://c4ss.org/content/59900 Within anarchist circles, there is a split between those who advocate markets and those who advocate forms of decentralized planning such as participatory economics or federated communes. While the work of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek has pointed out the numerous issues with centralized state planning, much of the same...

Author: Elisha Moon WilliamsTitle: Feet On The Ground!Subtitle: Anarchism and the Labor Struggle TodayDate: October 2nd, 2024Source: https://medium.com/@elisha1542/feet-on-the-ground-3182bd113c6f When I first started my journey as an anarchist, I was incredibly privileged in both my environment and upbringing. I had grown up in a very upper-middle class suburb, neither knowing economic struggle nor of want when it came to my basic needs. I was, at...

Author: Some Communist Study GroupTitle: Ripples and WavesSubtitle: Notes on Ukraine in the Long CrisisDate: May 11th, 2022Source: Retrieved on 9/27/24 from haters.noblogs.org/post/2022/05/11/ripples-and-waves-notes-on-ukraine-in-the-long-crisis This long-form essay was sent to us for publication by “some communist study group“. It discusses the historical role of Ukraine in the contemporary political economy, the response from radicals in the West towards the Russian invasion, and the material effects...

Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: Book Review: “We Are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle”Date: 2024/09/25Source: https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2024/09/25/book-review-we-are-forests-inhabiting-territories-in-struggle-cambridgepolity-2023/ Jean-Baptiste Vidalou, “We Are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle” (Cambridge: Polity, 2023) It’s shameful. The original French publication of We are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle by Jean-Baptiste Vidalou was in my hands since April 2018. Frequently described as “the French Seeing Like a State,” the book explores the art...

Author: Ethel ManninTitle: Bread and RosesSubtitle: An Utopian Survey and BlueprintDate: December 1944Notes: London, December, 1943 -May, 1944.Source: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.213271/page/n7 I. UTOPIA — THE EVERLASTING DREAM Throughout the ages, from the earliest times, men of all nations have dreamed of that ‘ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under perfect conditions’. What constitutes ‘perfect conditions’ is obviously a matter of personal preferences and prejudices, but there is...

Title: Enemy of the State: An Interview with John ZerzanDate: September 1, 1998Source: Retrieved on December 11, 2020 from <derrickjensen.org/1998/09/enemy-state-interview-john-zerzan> DJ: What is Anarchism? JZ: I would say Anarchism is the attempt to eradicate all forms of domination. This includes not only such obvious forms as the nation-state, with its routine use of violence and the force of law, and the corporation, with its...

Author: Carne RossTitle: Anarchy is LoveDate: Summer 2024Source: Dope 26 I used to think that anarchism was “just” a political philosophy. I was wrong. It is much, much more than that. By political philosophy, I mean a way of thinking about politics, institutions and decision-making. How people arbitrate their business with one another, theories of government – or self-government – or the abolition of...

Author: P. B.Title: The Making of the Spanish CNT-IWA (2010–2024)Date: September 21, 2024Source: Retrieved on 23rd September 2024 from libcom.org It is about 7 years since the spanish CNT-AIT organisation came into existence. Despite its name, which claims a historical trajectory, it is a split from the CNT. A split of almost an entire internal current which fought for control of the Confederation by...

Author: Beltrán Roca MartínezTitle: Anarchism, anthropology and AndaluciaSubtitle: An analysis of the CNT and the ‘new capitalism’Date: 2006Notes: Published in Anarchist Studies 14.2, pp. 106–130. Translated by Sharif Gemie.Source: Retrieved on 19th September 2024 from libcom.org ABSTRACT Systems theory can show us how organizations develop, allowing them to survive changes in their environments. Such analyses also demonstrate why the CNT is passing through such...

Author: David S. D’AmatoTitle: Separation PerfectedSubtitle: Domination and Alienation in Stirner and DebordDate: September 19, 2024Source: Retrieved on September 19, 2024 from https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/19/333777/ We have allowed the American ruling class[1]to abstract themselves almost entirely from their substantive political positions and practices. So deeply engrossed are we in their branding as products of consumption, in their spectacular representations, that we seem to have no capacity...

Author: Jon Las Heras and Beltrán RocaTitle: New practices in industrial relationsSubtitle: Radical unionism in the European peripheryDate: 2023Notes: Published in Work and Employment Relations in Southern Europe, pp. 137–162.Source: Retrieved on 18th September 2024 from www.researchgate.net Introduction: Radical critique as a forward strategy Neoliberal globalization has substantially transformed the landscape in which organized labour sought to advance its interests during Fordism. The scaling...

Author: WulfinnaTitle: What Is A WomanSubtitle: A Short Gender Egoist SimplificationDate: 17 Sep 2024Source: https://ignitedindark.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/what-is-a-woman/ Any feminine-aligned adult individual who develops self-content within womanhood, female identity/conventions which vary from cultural region to cultural region. Any individual who activates certain — but not strictly all — social aesthetics and conduct in order to be in line with traits conventionally associated with women. Any individual who...

Author: n1xTitle: SubmersionDate: 2019Source: Retrieved on 2024-09-14 from https://www.sum.si/uploads/downloads/SUM-12_single-O.pdf AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT; AND DEATH AND HELL DELIVERED UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN THEM: AND THEY WERE JUDGED EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. REVELATION 20:13 EPIPELAGOS All the wretched creatures of the earth wish to return to the sea. This I am now certain of....

Author: Ad BusterTitle: brandalism in the NetherlandsSubtitle: the vandalism of capitalist propagandaDate: 21-8-2024Notes: based on local experience advertisement shits in your head brandalism noun /ˈbrændəlɪzəm/ /ˈbrændəlɪzəm/ 1. the vandalism of capitalist propaganda 2. subvertising; parodies of advertisements 3. protest art to hide advertisement. Our main goal is removing advertisement from the public space. As citizens we should have a say in how our public...

Author: Feminist Collective Kores XapolytesTitle: Two years after the victims were foundSubtitle: Text by feminist group about the handling of the femicide cases by the state and the policeDate: 2021Notes: This leaflet was written by the Cypriot Feminist Collective Kores Xapolytes in June of 2021 and was distributed at a protest outside the Cypriot Attorney General's office that took place on the 18th of...

Author: Andrea TeruelTitle: An Anarchist ConjurationSubtitle: The Benjamin-Bataille Meeting and the Critique of Left-Wing ProgressismDate: 2022Source: revistas.unc.edu.ar Abstract The article explores the theoretical complicities between the thought of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille. Taking as a starting point the anecdote of the Book of Passages, according to which Benjamin would have entrusted this manuscript to the care of Bataille, questions are raised about the...

Author: Mikhail BakuninTitle: On the Question of the Right of InheritanceSubtitle: in Speeches to the Basle CongressDate: 1871Notes: Translation by Robert M. Cutler. ISBN 13: 978-0-87975-745-8 ISBN 10: 0-87975-745-0Source: The Basic Bakunin: Writings, 1869-1871 There is but a simple difference between the standpoint of those collectivists who believe that it is useless to vote to abolish the right of inheritance after having voted "for...

Author: Autonomous ActionTitle: Anti-war statementDate: 29 August 2024Source: Retrieved on 2nd September 2024 from avtonom.org We have stated from the very start that the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 is an imperialist aggression of the Russian state. That is still true. Our position on the war in Ukraine “Autonomous Action” is not on the side of the Ukrainian...

Author: IDIOTEQ, Warzone Distro, Flower BombTitle: BURNING DOWN THE WORLDSubtitle: IDIOTEQ interviews Warzone DistroDate: SEPTEMBER 2, 2024Source: https://idioteq.com/burning-down-the-world-anarchy-veganism-and-total-liberation-with-warzone-distro/ Born in 2013, WARZONE DISTRO free zine project, stands at the intersection of nihilist, anti-civilization anarchy, and total liberation, bridging gaps between veganism, straight edge, and insurrectionary thought. WARZONE DISTRO is dedicated to challenging the very foundations of oppression, wherever it festers, and in whatever form....

Author: WulfinnaTitle: BiasDate: 09-09-2024Source: https://ignitedindark.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/bias/ Along the horridly neglected path out of being commanded and subjected, from the stinking bowels of the societies of oiled gears, permanent emissions, bright screens, information haze and ceaseless masturbation to worn-out sensibility, there arises a shrill hissing of such stupid nature, of such whining entitlement, that the lone rebel catches herself snickering — then nearly dying laughing ....

Author: A.X.Title: Blackness and Democratic ModernityDate: January 10, 2023Source: https://harbinger-journal.com/issue-2/blackness-and-democratic-modernity/ “Modernity as a concept means time, the present. There are different moderns, depending on the age. From Sumerian modernity to Roman modernity, and even before and after them, there have been…many examples of modernity.” Abdullah Öcalan, The Sociology of Freedom “The Negro’s revolutionary history is rich, inspiring, and unknown. Negroes revolted against the slave...

Author: Antonis PastellopoulosTitle: Cypriot Anarchist Ideology in the Post-Partitioned Republic of Cyprus (1985 to 1994)Subtitle: “Cyprus Belongs to its Mouflons”Date: 2017Notes: This is an undergraduate dissertation submitted at the Department of Sociology of the University of Glasgow in 2017.Source: Retrieved on 24rd August 2024 from archive.org Abstract This dissertation examines the structure of Cypriot anarchist ideology and the way it challenges Greek Cypriot ethnic...