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Author: Emma GoldmanTitle: Why and How the Poor Should Not Have Many ChildrenDate: Early 20th CenturySource: Original transcription Every normal man and woman loves children and wants to have them. Children complete and beautify our lives. But it requires no argument to prove that society as it is constituted day is a wretched place for the children of the poor. And therefore poor people...

Author: AnafentosTitle: Neither Davos nor non-DavosSubtitle: Or Why we are indifferent to the schemes of all kinds of clowns of power:Date: 1988Notes: This text was written by the Cypriot anarchist group Anafentos (literary: without a master) in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1988. It was originally written in Greek and the English translation originates from the Cyprus Movements Archive. It deals with the Cyprus Problem from...

Author: Pëtr KropotkinTitle: An Open Letter of Peter Kropotkin to the Western WorkingmenDate: 1917Notes: From The Railway Review, London, UK, 29 June 1917, page 4. A redundant and/or inaccurate translation from Russian (Pochin, 1918, https://oldcancer.narod.ru/anarchism/PAK-olwew.htm) back into English was previously published for unknown reasons at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-open-letter-to-western-european-workersSource: Retrieved on 2021-02-25 from <peterkropotkin.org/an-open-letter-of-peter-kropotkin-to-the-western-working-men> Dear Comrades and Friends, — After having worked in your midst for 40...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Abortion Pill SafetySubtitle: Adapted from the Doctors Without Borders Self-managed Abortion Video Series and Chicago Abortion Fund Abortion ResourcesDate: 1/10/2025Notes: Visit HowToUseAbortionPill.org for more information Before and after abortion resources For some people, having an abortion is an easy decision. For others, it is a difficult decision. Every person should have the right and autonomy to determine their own health and life,...

Author: Soheil Arabi, Federation of Anarchism EraTitle: I am ThirstySubtitle: Two short statements from anarchists in Iran on the current uprisingDate: 2021Notes: Translated by Hasse-Nima GolkarSource: Retrieved January 12, 2025 from https://libcom.org/article/i-am-thirsty-statements-soheil-arabi-and-federation-anarchism-era-uprising-iran Soheil Arabi: I am thirsty! The People Want to Overthrow this System! Listen. Listen. This is a peaceful demonstration; why are you shooting at us? No one has taken the water away...

Author: Rudolf RockerTitle: Declaration of the Principles of SyndicalismDate: 1919Notes: Lecture by the comrade Rudolf Rocker on the occasion of the 12th syndicalist congress, held from 27–30 December 1919 in the „Luisenstädtisches Realgymnasium“{1} Berlin, Dresdener Straße. Translated by Cord-Christian Casper in 2019. Translator's note: This is a translation of Rudolf Rocker’s ‘Prinzipienerklärung des Syndikalismus’ (1919), an influential document in the history of anarchist syndicalism....

Author: anonymousTitle: States of SiegeDate: February 19th, 2024Source: https://illwill.com/states-of-siege I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. —Thomas Paine The present, due to its staggering complexities, is almost as conjectural as the past. We must prove our predictions about the future with action. —George Jackson On February 8th, 2024, a...

Author: Jonathan SlykTitle: Legend of the Squamish FiveDate: 2002Source: Anarchy, A Journal of Desire Armed, Number 53, Spring / Summer 2002. <archive.org/details/anarchy-53-direct-action-001/> At precisely 1:30 a.m. on the morning of May 31, 1982, four shunt reactors at the B.C. Hydro Cheekeye-Dunsmuir power transmission substation near Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island exploded with such a thunder that it woke area residents up for ten miles...

Author: Lake Effect CollectiveTitle: Seattle is Never Coming BackSubtitle: Reflections on the DNCDate: 09/07/2024Source: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2024/09/07/seattle-is-never-coming-back/ The Democratic National Convention descended on Chicago during the last week of August, bringing with it swarms of police and politicians who quickly rendered the city uninhabitable. In response, Chicago’s major Palestine-sympathetic organizations coordinated marches and demonstrations, and seemingly thousands of out-of-town activists came to visit, some of whom...

Author: Lake Effect CollectiveTitle: Reflections on the UChicago Popular University for Gaza EncampmentDate: 08/01/2024Source: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/01/reflections-on-the-uchicago-popular-university-for-gaza-encampment/ The final Gaza solidarity encampment to fall in the city of Chicago was pitched on June 8th at Buckingham Fountain, directly adjacent to Lake Shore Drive and within sight of the expanse of Lake Michigan. An hour and forty minutes into a small rally, a group of participants hurriedly...

Author: RanranTitle: ARBEIT MACHT FREITSubtitle: “The illusion of the abolition of work”Date: UnknownNotes: A response to “The Abolition of Work and Other Myths” by Neala Schleuning.Source: Translation of https://www.ne.jp/asahi/anarchy/anarchy/data/myth02.html “Everybody hates work”, “The aversion to work surpasses culture and time, and is an eternal trait of mankind.” Neala Schleuning starts out by saying this and then comes closer to you for a hand shake,...

Author: CLODOTitle: Memory LossSubtitle: Collected Communiques from CLODODate: Summer 2022Notes: Presents a history of the French group CLODO, which attacked and sabotaged computers in the 1980s. The zine contains a timeline of action, two communiques, and an interview of the group. Along with these items, there is a helpful introduction which contextualizes the group and its activities and situations them in relation to other...

Author: Buenaventura DurrutiTitle: Withdrawal in BujaralozDate: 1936Notes: Speech on the withdrawal and loss of positions in the Ebro valley of the anti-national side, August 1936.Source: Abel Paz, Durruti in the Spanish Revolution, CHAPTER VIII. The Durruti Column, 1986. Friends, no one forced you to join the Column. You chose your fate freely and the fate of the first CNT-FAI Column is quite thankless indeed....

Author: Jessica Moran, Barry PatemanTitle: Prison Memoirs of an AnarchistSubtitle: Introduction to 2017 AK Press editionDate: 2017Notes: See also on The anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-prison-memoirs-of-an-anarchist.Source: Scanned from AK Press edition, 2017 Alexander Berkman was released from the Allegheny workhouse in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania on May 18, 1906. He had been there for nine months, since July 1905, and prior to that had spent nearly thirteen years...

Author: Japan TimesTitle: Life of anarchist-feminist revisited 100 years after her murderDate: September 11, 2023Source: Retrieved on january 9, 2025 from https://anarchistnews.org/content/life-anarchist-feminist-revisited-100-years-after-her-murder Sept. 16 will mark 100 years since the brutal killing of Noe Ito, a Japanese anarchist, author and social critic of the Meiji and Taisho eras, who was targeted and killed in the massacres that followed the Great Kanto Earthquake. Although opinions...

Author: Isaac PuenteTitle: The Society of the Future: Anarchic CommunismDate: 1933Source: Retrieved on January 9, 2025 from https://www.portaloaca.com/pensamientolibertario/textosanarquismo/isaac-puente-compilacion-de-escritos/ The global economic crisis, a symptom of the death of capitalist society The same thing happens to social forms as to human beings: they are born with difficulty, struggling with numerous obstacles and threats; they grow and develop until they reach a certain limit, and, from...

Author: Isaac PuenteTitle: Concepts of libertarian communismDate: 1936Source: Solidaridad Obrera, Barcelona, February 26, 1936. DEFINITION — Libertarian Communism is a form of social organization in which the government of men is replaced by the collective administration of things. Although this definition is very clear, it requires explanations. It is about finding the bases of social coexistence that guarantee the fundamental rights of man: the...

Author: Carl Tobias FrayneTitle: Individualist Anarchism in France and its LegacyDate: 2022Notes: PhD Thesis. Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. University of Cambridge, 2022.Source: Retrieved on 2023-08-11 from <repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332807>   À mon grand-père, Un homme de lettres, de racines et d’histoires. Abstract This thesis rehabilitates an understudied branch of the libertarian movement, namely French individualist anarchism, which was most active during the Belle Époque....

Author: Federica MontsenyTitle: Definition of anarchismDate: 1931Source: Retrieved on January 8, 2025 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/anarchist-beginnings/federica-montseny-definicion-del-anarquismo-1931/ Comrades and friends: The intelligent core of comrades organizing this Athenaeum has been kind enough to honor me by appointing me to explain what the anarchist ideal is to the good wills gathered on this evening of its inauguration. The mission is certainly not easy. It would be, if I...

Author: Erica LagalisseTitle: The Elvis of AnthropologySubtitle: Eulogy for David GraeberDate: October 1, 2020Notes: Published online in The Sociological Review Magazine. DOI: <doi.org/10.51428/tsr.sylg4475>Source: Retrieved on September 30, 2022 from <thesociologicalreview.org/collections/guest-essays/the-elvis-of-anthropology> The feeding frenzy has begun. Everyone was best friends with David Graeber. David would have liked it – he had come to rely on superficial forms of recognition. He would also be mad (so...

Author: PrameńTitle: Trading people like little wrappersSubtitle: Murderers and scammers in exchange for journalists and civil activistsDate: 2 August 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th January 2025 from pramen.io How to release political prisoners is one of the most complex debates of our time. On the one hand, diasporas have little or no power to influence the fate of prisoners, except for support during their time...

Author: PrameńTitle: Destabilization of Russia as a way to freedom in BelarusDate: 3 October 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th January 2025 from pramen.io If you ask Belarusian anarchists today what they think about Russian society and the Russian anarchist movement in particular, you are unlikely to hear positive responses. And although the gap between the movements in BUR (Belarus, Ukraine, Russia) existed before 2022 and...

Author: PrameńTitle: How does Lukashenko’s regime help a German fascist make money?Date: 25 September 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th January 2025 from pramen.io Yesterday the Belarusian opposition media published information that the German far-right politician from the “Alternative for Germany” Jörg Dornau uses slave labor of prisoners, including political prisoners, in production in Belarus. It’s hard to pass by such information and leave it without...

Author: PrameńTitle: Anarchism on the peripherySubtitle: Struggle under conditions of emigration and warDate: 6 November 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th January 2025 from pramen.io This text was written by a small group of Russian anarchists. We are not in Russia and are actively engaged in revolutionary struggle in another country.In this article we examine the current situation of the anarchist movement in the Russian Federation...

Author: Solidarity CollectivesTitle: Ukraine is not the only battleground against imperialismDate: January 7, 2025Source: Retrieved on 8th January 2025 from www.solidaritycollectives.org Ukraine is not the only place in the world where people are waging an armed struggle against the imperialist encroachments of authoritarian regimes. For many decades, the Kurds — the world’s largest stateless ethnic group — have been fighting anyone who tries to...

Author: Emile ArmandTitle: In the World, but Not of the WorldDate: 1901Source: Retrieved on January 8, 2025 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/e-armand-in-the-world-but-not-of-the-world-1901/ …I have given them the word and the world has hated it, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world. I do not ask you to take them from the world, but to preserve them from evil. They are...

Author: Adam GreenfieldTitle: Beyond HopeDate: June 21st, 2024Source: Retrieved on January 7, 2025 from https://illwill.com/beyond-hope As the real impacts of climate change wreak ever greater havoc on our lives, it is increasingly clear that “climate change” has also become an ideological apparatus meant to entrap us in despair, policy paralysis, and reformist horizons. While North America once again bakes in a record-breaking heat wave...

Author: Z. ZoltyTitle: Benjaminain Resistance, Circumnavigating Border Walls, Negating Schmtitian KatechonDate: 01-01-2024Source: https://philpapers.org/rec/ZOLBDV Abstract   The current situation in the United States of America is that Latin immigrants and migrants are mistreated and subjected to gross human rights violations, with entire extensions of the Nation-State being given virtually unlimited power over a powerless populace. The current gap in the literature revolves around Agamben and...

Author: Vadym YakovlevTitle: Interview with an anti-militarist from OdessaDate: 5th Jan 2025Notes: The following interview was carried out by comrades from the Československé anarchistické sdružení – CAS a Czech Internationalist Anarchist Group.Source: https://anarcomuk.uk/2025/01/05/interview-with-an-anti-militarist-from-odessa/ 1)Please introduce yourself briefly to the readers of our magazine. Are you from Ukraine, where you were born and spent your youth? Hi. My name is Vadym Yakovlev, I’m Ukrainian queer...

Author: A.P.Title: Cyprus, the National Issue and NationalismSubtitle: A Libertarian AnalysisDate: 1984Notes: This pamphlet was published in 1984, by an anonymous Cypriot Anarchist and was first published in “FILLA POREIAS” (lit. Drafting Papers), issue 4, edited by Leonidas Christakis, in Athens. It was originally written and discussed with the group that produced the magazine Mavres Pinelies. The translation originates from the Cyprus Movements Archive...

Author: Anselmo LorenzoTitle: The conquerors of breadDate: 1915Notes: Written in his final days in 1914, it was published in a special issue of <em>Tierra y Libertad in 1915. It was accompanied by a note: “He wrote this article a few days before he died to publish it in the bourgeois press, which he was unable to achieve despite his efforts.”Source: Retrieved on January 6,...

Author: Anselmo LorenzoTitle: Against ignoranceDate: 1913Notes: Sociological lecture, read in Pueblo Nuevo on April 20, 1913, under the auspices of the Society of Rational Culture.Source: Retrieved on January 6, 2025 from https://www.portaloaca.com/pensamientolibertario/libros-anarquistas/libro-contra-la-ignorancia-anselmo-lorenzo/ The Rational Culture Society of Pueblo Nuevo, Barcelona, in view of my response to a query from the Workers' Culture Centre of Ferrol, published in Tierra y Libertad, asked me for an...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Every compromise in defense of Mother EarthSubtitle: An anarchist critique of Block Cop City’s nonviolence proposalDate: October 4, 2023Source: Retrieved on 2025-01-04 from <anarchistnews.org/content/every-compromise-defense-mother-earth> “If you think it’s stupid, if you think it’s liberal, you don’t have to come.” – A presenter, “Weelaunee Worldwide: Mass Action Speaking Tour” There is a proposed plan for a single day of nonviolent action on November...

Author: Sascha EngelTitle: Anti-civ Combat Reference Manual (Excerpt)Date: June 2024Source: Oak Distro Anti-civilization approaches, if indeed there are any, may appear well equipped with manuals regarding industrial sabotage, the making and use of incendiary devices, and the strategies and tactics of anti-institutional insurrection. Conversely perhaps, they may also appear to employ a wealth of works advising on withdrawal: guerilla planting, off-grid subsistence, and counter-economics....

Are you in and/or from South Asia and literate in a South Asian language? We are still looking for people to make the South Asian Anarchist Library up and running! Check out the Initiative for a South Asian Anarchist Library and contact us in our chatrooms. Also check out our guide on how to add a new language library. There are also initiatives for...

Author: Sonia Muñoz Llort and Nerd TeacherTitle: The Power of Having Diverse AnarchismsSubtitle: Building Alternatives Outside Neoliberal GlobalisationDate: 02.01.2025Source: https://morethanthisandthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/the-power-of-having-diverse-anarchisms-building-alternatives-outside-neoliberal-globalisation/?_thumbnail_id=1903 Introduction A Little Bit of Context Reasoning: Persistent Frustrations Organisation Within Our Movements: Building Mutual Care, Accountability, and Collective Responsibility Collaboration in Diversity: The Strength of Heterogeneity Resisting the Triple Supremacy of Globalised Capitalism: IGOs, Corporations, and International Alliances Conclusion Introduction A Little Bit...

Author: Tony SheatherTitle: Personal Stories, Familiar TalesDate: Winter 2019Source: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, #75, Winter, 2019, Page 23 “I can show you the scar, look!” I don’t remember the young chap’s name, I remember he was from an Asian background and he was applying the varnish to our new home extension floor. He was showing me and the house painter, Mickey, where “an artery in my...

Author: Abba GordinTitle: Communism UnmaskedSource: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b591661&seq=16 Book One: Communism ― Emerging Master-Class Ideology I. MARXISM AND MARXIANITY 1. The Double-Faced Mask MARXISM AS A TEACHING is composed of two elements. One is effervescent, volatile. The other is, by comparison, solid matter, sound and sane judgment, if overstatements made by it are overlooked, or, rather understood and, therefore, forgiven. One part of Marxism, if we...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Like Mushrooms After a RainSubtitle: The Jewish Insurrectionary Anarchists of BialystokDate: December 15, 2024Source: https://neversleep.noblogs.org/post/2024/12/19/like-mushrooms-after-a-rain-the-jewish-insurrectionary-anarchists-of-bialystok/ Preface “Groups sprang up like mushrooms after a rain in cities, villages, and hamlets.” —Yuda Grossman, Bialystok anarchist This is an incomplete history of some poor Jewish teenagers who spread a ton of anarchy from one small corner of the Russian Empire between 1903 and 1907. They...

Author: Gabriel KuhnTitle: The United Antifascist Liberation Front.Subtitle: A Fictional AccountDate: 2001Source: https://alpineanarchist.org/r_ualf.html I Aki was hitching. We were waiting three miles down the road. There was a crack in the walkie-talkie. Aki told us a single guy in a pretty fancy Mazda hadn’t picked him up. We took the log and laid it across the road. The Mazda came and stopped. For us...

Author: Bill BeechTitle: I would prefer revolutionary internationalismSubtitle: A response to Wayne Price's ‘Should Anarchists Defend Ukraine? A Response to Bill Beech’Date: 2024Source: https://libcom.org/article/i-would-prefer-revolutionary-internationalism (Black Flag, Autumn 2024, Vol 4.) ‘The struggle for class and self-liberation is not to be compared with national conflicts. It is the function of the impersonal State to squander lives in war, or of a superior class to regard...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Remembering Kate Austin, Missouri anarchist & feministDate: 2024Notes: KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 116, December 2024Source: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/s7h6bc ‘An early freethought and free love advocate, Austin was among those influenced by the legacy of the Haymarket anarchists and became a lifelong anarchist communist. […] In 1901 in the pages of Free Society, Austin joined Emma Goldman in defending Leon Czolgosz’s...

Author: Anarchist Federation of Cyber Communes (AF2C)Title: The Cyber-Anarchist ManifestoDate: 2023Notes: AF2C expects this text will be expanded on in the future.Source: Retrieved on December 20, 2024 from <af2c.org/manifesto.html> The Anarchist Federation of Cyber Communes is another chapter in the struggle against oppression, one which honours and builds on the web’s anarchist traditions. The web is a medium through which we can spread anarchist...

Author: Proletari 56Title: The usual suspects, the usual provocateursSubtitle: Thoughts on anarchism and communismDate: 2002Notes: Translated from Italian to Greek by L., and from Greek to English by the Clydeside Anarchist Noise collective in 2024.Source: https://noisenoisenoise.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1911/2024/12/pdf-zine2.pdf (Clydeside Anarchist Zine Issue #2) Introduction to our translation: I remember coming across this text some years back, translated into Greek for the magazine 'Βίδα', a collective with...

Author: Anonymous, It’s Going DownTitle: Reflections on IGD Mexico, Anarchist Media, and International SolidarityDate: December 20th, 2024Source: https://itsgoingdown.org/reflections-on-igd-mexico-anarchist-media-and-international-solidarity/ Social struggles south of the border in so-called Mexico held a somewhat uncomfortable space on IGD. One obvious reason being the language barrier which we sought as a project to overcome, translating voices directly from the ground, collectives, communities, and barrios in resistance in different parts...

Author: Ricardo MellaTitle: The problem of teachingDate: 1910Notes: Originally published in issue 5 of Acción Libertaria, December 16, 1910.Source: Retrieved on January 1, 2025 from https://www.ricardomella.org/pedagogia.html#articulo1 In contrast to religious education, which is increasingly opposed by people of very diverse political and social ideas, secular, neutral and rationalist education is advocated and implemented. At first, secularism sufficiently satisfied popular aspirations. But when it became...

Author: Antonio SentaTitle: Maria Luisa Berneri Richards (1918-1949)Date: 2019Notes: Patrizia Guarnieri (Editor), Intellectuals Displaced from Fascist Italy. Migrants, Exiles and Refugees Fleeing for Political and Racial Reasons, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2019. Open online publication. Translated by Tom DawkesSource: Accessed October 25, 2022 at https://intellettualinfuga.fupress.com/en//scheda/maria-luisaberneri-richards/2748 They were little girls--Malù was 8 and Giliana was 7--when they began their migrant wanderings in France with their...

Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: Intellectuals and ZenDate: 1968Source: Retrieved/Translation Finished on 12/23/2024 from https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/17/1/17_1_87/_pdf/-char/ja 1. The Buddha renounced his worldly circumstance of birth as well as the maintenance of that lifestyle. He also exhorted the now world-renowned teaching of attaining perfect enlightenment by means of criticism and purification. There are individuals called “friends who lead one to Buddhism by means of teaching” (kaylana-mitra) and the...

Author: AnafentosTitle: Anarchist Cooking Guide for the National Issue [Cyprus Problem]Date: 1987Notes: Article originally published in 1987 in issue 2-3 (double issue) of Cypriot Limassolian anarchist magazine 'Traino stin Poli' [Train in the City]. The original article was in Greek, the translation below originates from the Cyprus Movements Archive.Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:magazines:traino:no_2_3:anafentos_cyprob (A simple and boring explanation for those who do not understand the self-evident). APHRODITE...

Author: Anonymous, CrimethInc.Title: Turkish Anarchists on the Fight for KobanêDate: 2014-2015Source: Retrieved on February 7th, 2015 from http://crimethinc.com/texts/r/kobane/ In summer 2013, we interviewed the Turkish group Revolutionary Anarchist Action (Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet, or DAF) about the uprising that began in Gezi Park. At the end of summer 2014, we learned that DAF was supporting the fierce resistance that residents of the town of Kobanê...