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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...

Author: Sam DolgoffTitle: Cuba: Dellinger Returns from Animal FarmDate: Summer 1964Source: Views and Comments, No. 47, Summer 1964, pp. 24–25 David Dellinger, an editor of the Pacifist-Libertarian monthly, Liberation, attended the May Day celebration in Cuba as a guest of the Castro government. The first lengthy installment of his report has appeared in Liberation. It reminds us of the glowing, equally “objective” accounts of...

Author: Sudanese Anarchists GatheringTitle: Dispatches from KhartoumDate: January 18 2022Notes: Published by Organize MagazineSource: Retrieved on Feb 23 2025 from https://www.anarchistfederation.net/sudanese-anarchist-gathering-dispatches-from-khartoum/ Dispatch From Khartoum #1 To our anarchist comrades, a short note on what happened in the demonstrations of January 17. There were violations and (tactics of) excessive repression practiced by the government forces against the defenseless peaceful revolutionaries. This led to the martyrdom...

Author: Hippolyte HavelTitle: Kropotkin the revolutionistDate: 1912Source: Retrieved on February 23, 2025 from https://libcom.org/article/volume-7-issue-10 Of the thousands of congratulations and good wishes conveyed to-day to Peter Kropotkin by his admirers, friends and sympathizers, none will, I am sure, find in his heart such a responsive echo as those expressed—most of them in silence—by the simple workers in the Anarchist movement, the men who are...

Author: Eusebio C. CarboTitle: The Fraudulent Bankruptcy of MarxismDate: 1941Source: Retrieved on February 23, 2025 from http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/coldoffthepresses/carbo/index.html BY WAY OF A PROLOGUE In the Spanish-language bibliography — so copious in other respects — there is very little sharp criticism of Marxism. On the other hand, there have been some very notable vivisections on it in the public forum. It is a pity that some...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: Walks Like a Duck, Salutes Like a NaziDate: 23 Feb 2025Source: Retrieved on 23 Feb 2025 from revoluciana.net I can’t y’all. Revoluciana screenshot from Mastodon, Image Alt Text: I’m so tired of liberals who are like, wow, I don’t want to sound crazzzy but that’s eerily similar to whispers the Nazis. Y’all, they look like Nazis bc they are Nazis. It looks...

Author: Gustav LandauerTitle: From MarriageDate: 1910Source: Retrieved on February 23, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/gustav-landauer/7144-gustav-landauer-von-der-ehe In his essay “Women’s Rights”, comrade Erich Mühsam has taken a stand on which I do not wish to follow him. In the statements against which he is undoubtedly entitled to object, even if he is completely wrong, I have not mentioned women’s rights in the slightest. Of course, women should...

Author: Erich MühsamTitle: Women’s rightsDate: 1910Source: Retrieved on February 23, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/erich-muehsam/7145-erich-muehsam-frauenrecht Among the countless problems that the liberal and social democratic press tends to churn out until they have become completely flat, one of the most popular is the “women’s question,” that is to say, the assessment of women’s rights in the present state or in a future society. It cannot be...

Author: Ōsugi SakaeTitle: Marx and BakuninSubtitle: Socialism and AnarchismDate: 1922Source: Retrieved on February 22, 2025 from https://www.ne.jp/asahi/anarchy/anarchy/data/osugi03.html#12 I In every capitalist country, socialists and anarchists are always portrayed as madmen, robbers, murderers, or spies used by the state itself. This is because the most effective method for a government is to make the people doubt the character of its enemy. However, this governmental method...