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Author: Miguel Brea, miltante de LizaTitle: We Are Anarchists — A Plea Against Political IndefinitionSubtitle: A Plea Against Political IndefinitionDate: 11/01/2024Source: https://www.regeneracionlibertaria.org/2024/01/11/alegato-contra-la-indefinicion-politica/ We Are Anarchists. A Plea Against Political Indefinition. Talking with some comrades from the libertarian movement and sharing the ideas and practices that guide our activism, the question has arisen more than once as to whether it is necessary to define ourselves...

Author: Liza — Plataforma Anarquista de MadridTitle: Popular Power and Especifist AnarchismDate: 29/05/2024Source: www.regeneracionlibertaria.org Ideas for Creating the Revolution to Come: Popular Power and Specifist Anarchism The objective of this article is to reflect on Popular Power as an emancipatory strategy and examine how it relates (to a greater or lesser extent) with different revolutionary trends and currents, particularly those associated with the libertarian...

Author: RegueTitle: The Trap of HorizontalismDate: 13/02/2024Source: https://www.regeneracionlibertaria.org/2024/02/13/la-trampa-de-la-horizontalidad/ The Trap of Horizontalism, within anarchism, has been a burden for nearly half a century. It’s time now to shed that weight in order to move forward. Experiential and activist anarchism has emphasized personal experience, navigating between the individual and the small community. Experimentation as a means to “live anarchism” here and now. And in doing...

Author: Miguel BreaTitle: Occupy and Resist?Date: 11/04/2024Source: www.regeneracionlibertaria.org On March 13, La Ferroviaria, a self-managed social center (CSO) in Madrid, awoke surrounded by state repressive forces ensuring its eviction, despite the dozens of activists from various currents and organizations gathered at its doors. In Sabadell and Zaragoza, the same scene played out at the social centers L’Obrera and Loira. A week later, the threat...

Author: Miguel BreaTitle: From the Outside?Subtitle: A Reading of Fifty Shades on BonannoDate: 18/04/2024Source: www.regeneracionlibertaria.org In March of this year, Miquel Amorós published Reading Fifty Shades of Bonanno with Calumnia—a work of research and critique on the thought of the Italian author who passed away just six months ago. While reading it, we couldn’t help but repeatedly think about two things: first, the striking...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 11.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: December 31, 1887Notes: Whole No. 115. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on March 30, 2025 from http://www.readliberty.org “For always in thine eyes, O Liberty! Shines that high light whereby the world is saved; And though thou slay...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: The PoliceDate: 1904Source: Retrieved on March 30, 2025 from https://sv.anarchistlibraries.net/library/ferdinand-domela-nieuwenhuis-polisen Besides the high lords of justice, who do the fine work, the existing society has at its disposal persons who have been commissioned to do the dirty work. These are called policemen. And it is remarkable that these persons, who themselves are disgusted with their work — which is best...

Author: The Catholic WorkerTitle: The Beliefs, Values, and Commitments of the L.A. Catholic WorkerDate: 2023Notes: The following statement of beliefs, values, and commitments from the June 2023 Catholic Agitator (newspaper of the L.A. Catholic Worker) offers another take on how different Catholic Worker communities frame what they do.Source: Retrieved on March 30, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/the-beliefs-values-and-commitments-of-the-l-a-catholic-worker/ Beliefs and Values Eucharistic Spirituality · Mystical Body ·...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: How to Distribute Radical ShitSubtitle: Don’t Trust Your PrinterDate: 28 March 2025Source: Retrieved on 30 March 2025 from revoluciana.net Have you ever wondered why your printer is always out of yellow ink, even when you print only in black and white? There’s a reason why this always happens. Your printer is a homing beacon for law enforcement– even offline. OPSEC and why...

Author: CrimethInc.Title: SurvivalSubtitle: A Story about Anarchists Enduring Mass RaidsDate: 2025-03-25Source: Retrieved on 2025-03-25 from https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/21/survival-a-story-about-anarchists-enduring-mass-raids Introduction In November 1919, United States President Woodrow Wilson launched mass raids against the entire anarchist movement in the United States. Police simultaneously arrested thousands of anarchists in many different parts of the country, shutting down their newspapers, organizations, and meeting halls. If similar raids were to take...

Author: Spencer BeswickTitle: From the Ashes of the OldSubtitle: Anarchism Reborn in a Counterrevolutionary Age (1970s-1990s)Date: 2022Notes: Author website: <emptyhandshistory.com>Source: Anarchist Studies (London), Vol. 30, Iss. 2, (2022): 31–54. ISSN 2633 8270. <doi.org/10.3898/AS.30.2.02> Abstract After almost a century of Marxist predominance, how did anarchism develop from a marginal phenomenon into a force at the centre of the anti-globalisation movement? This article explores how anarchism...

Author: L’Espagne NouvelleTitle: Durruti on the militarisation decreeDate: November 1936Notes: Published in L’Espagne Nouvelle. Translated by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. Forced to choose between submitting to the new law or laying down their arms and leaving the militias, most of the fighters will refuse to do either. They believe that either option would be destructive to the revolution...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 10.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: December 17, 1887Notes: Whole No. 114. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on March 27, 2023 from http://www.readliberty.org “For always in thine eyes, O Liberty! Shines that high light whereby the world is saved; And though thou slay...

Author: E. H. HeywoodTitle: The Labor PartySubtitle: An address delivered before the Labor Reform League, of Worcester, Mass., at its first public meeting, in Horticultural Hall, Monday evening, Jan. 20, 1868Date: 1868Source: Retrieved on March 28, 2025 from https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008896519 MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN :— Having met to initiate organized effort in behalf of labor reform, it is proper to explain the reasons which...

Author: Pedro Morais, Peter Gelderloos, other participantsTitle: ‘The Temple Was Built Before the City’Date: 2021Notes: This edition to supplement Return Fire vol.6 chap.7 & 8 (winter 2024–2025) PDFs of this & all other Return Fire magazines & supplements can be read, downloaded & printed from returnfire.noblogs.org Note from Return Fire: What follows is a transcription from a recording (contributed to us recently by a...

Author: Johann MostTitle: On the heretic — trial against MostDate: 1878Notes: In January 1878, Most was tried for “blasphemy” and “insulting the entire clergy.”Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/johann-most/22-zum-ketzer-prozess-wider-most-1878 (Defense speech of the defendant) Gentlemen! If one has read the pompous announcements in the official newspapers of the time when this trial was brought, one will certainly be very astonished today to...

Author: Johann MostTitle: The VegetarianDate: 1875Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/johann-most/7272-johann-most-die-vegetarianer A small sect of comical enthusiasts lets its little light shine here and there to show poor, misguided humanity the way that leads to where coolies and Hindus have long since arrived; and to give the matter a learned air, its believers call themselves “vegetarians.” It certainly doesn’t occur to me...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Why am I not allowed to own a Canadian?Date: 2010sNotes: Laura Schlessinger is a US radio host who gives advice to people who call in to her show. Recently, she stated, as a devout Christian, that homosexuality cannot be condoned under any circumstances, as it is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22. The following text is an open letter from a US...

Author: FangTitle: Is the Koran the same as “Mein Kampf”?Subtitle: Mahmud Taha: The example of a libertarian interpretation of the QuranDate: 2001Notes: Published in Graswurzelrevolution Nr. 263, November 2001.Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/religionskritik/islam-und-islamismus/6508-mahmud-taha-beispiel-einer-libertaeren-koran-interpretation War is a teacher, but in a completely different sense than the war supporters hoped for: it divides the ranks within the former left. In times of war,...

Author: taller ahuehueteTitle: Capital and the CoyoteSubtitle: The Land of the Free and the Home of the BraveDate: July 13th, 2022Source: https://ahuehuete.substack.com/p/coyote The entrance into the land of the free is, naturally, not free of charge. The criteria vary vastly. It would not be far-fetched to claim that, when it comes to some aspirants, fine print materializes from thin air under each condition onto...

Author: Mark Van SteenwykTitle: Inbreaking Unkingdom of GodSubtitle: A Primer on Christian Anarchism, Part 5Date: 2012Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/inbreaking-unkingdom-of-god-a-primer-on-christian-anarchism-part-5 There is a very real temptation, when exploring the intersection of Christianity and anarchism to simply force one category into the other. I see this all the time. There are those who simply believe that their Christian tradition is so inherently...

Author: Mark Van SteenwykTitle: TensionsSubtitle: A Primer on Christian Anarchism, Part 4Date: 2012Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/tensions-a-primer-on-christian-anarchism-part-4 In working through this series (where I’ve oh-so-briefly explored the complementarity of the way of Jesus and anarchism and the way the anarchic impulse has been expressed in Christian scriptures and history), I’ve realized a few things. Firstly, so much more work needs to...

Author: Mark Van SteenwykTitle: Anarchist Threads in ScriptureSubtitle: A Primer on Christian Anarchism, Part 3Date: 2011Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/anarchist-threads-in-scripture-a-primer-on-christian-anarchism-part-3 For most Christians, there is one big reason for rejecting anarchism: it isn’t biblical. Or is it? A superficial reading of the Bible reveals a God who thinks of himself as a sort of Warrior King, who sanctions state-enacted genocide, and...

Author: Mauro MarioTitle: Religion and politicsDate: 1957Notes: A pamphlet from the Argentine anarcho-communist organization FORA (Fifth Congress) Introduction The FORA, fulfilling a long-cherished desire to expand its propaganda to a deeper and more fruitful level, publishes this first Pamphlet, a collaboration with Comrade Mauro Mario, addressing an inexhaustible and ever-interesting topic, Religion and Politics. If we consider that the dissemination of our propaganda on...

Author: Martin SostreTitle: Martin Luther King Was A LawbreakerSubtitle: A Tribute to his Memory on the Second Anniversary of his MurderDate: 1970Notes: Special Supplement, April 1970, Black NewsSource: https://www.martinsostre.com/archive A Note on Black News Black News was a newspaper edited and published by Martin Sostre from Wallkill Prison in 1970, with logistical support from the Workers World Party (WWP). Sostre intended the paper to...

Author: Valerie DavidsonTitle: Urbanity Without CivilizationSubtitle: An Informal Vision of Post-Left GeographyDate: March 26, 2025Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from postgeography.wordpress.com Introduction The notion of urbanity we reckon with is one that is, in many ways, determined by neoliberalism, by planners, geographers, and enthusiasts who have a vision of the world that is defined by the ways industries use space, whether or not...

Author: Mark Van SteenwykTitle: Anarchist Threads in Church HistorySubtitle: A Primer on Christian Anarchism, Part 2Date: 2011Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/anarchist-threads-in-church-history-a-primer-on-christian-anarchism-part-2 In my previous article, I tried to offer some introductory definitions of “anarchism” and “Christianity”–which are both too complex to define. This, therefore, presents some challenges in presenting a simple description to “Christian anarchism.” In part two, I’ll briefly trace...

Author: Mark Van SteenwykTitle: A Divine ImpossibilitySubtitle: A Primer on Christian AnarchismDate: 2011Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/a-divine-impossibility-a-primer-on-christian-anarchism Generally, Jesus Radicals exists to explore the intersection of Christianity and anarchism. Most people think such a combination is an impossibility (or a delusion). It would be a mistake to suggest that bringing the two together is mere novelty. Most of the negative reactions...

Author: Joanna ShenkTitle: On Practicing a Mystical Anarchist EthicDate: 2017Notes: Sermon preached at First Mennonite Church of San Francisco and originally posted at Radical Discipleship.Source: Retrieved on March 26, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/on-practicing-a-mystical-anarchist-ethic Isaiah 58:1–12 When my older brother went to college, I remember being taken aback when he said his roommate’s mom was an anarchist. I felt so sorry for his roommate and figured...

Author: Gaston LevalTitle: Libertarian Socialist! Why?Date: 1956Source: Retrieved on March 25, 2025 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/gaston-leval-libertarian-socialist-why-1956-2/ For the series of publications that he envisions, Louis Louvet has asked me to write about the aims of the Libertarian Socialist Group and the movement that we are striving to establish. I begin this work by noting that I necessarily orient my presentation by taking into account the fact...

Author: Mark AntliffTitle: Review of Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of ResistanceDate: February 2024Source: Retrieved on March 23 2025 from https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/adcs/article/view/22195/10130 M. Testa’s (a pseudonym) Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance is a rare thing, an historical overview of a dimension of European antifascism written specifically with activists in mind. It is a book that will both educate and in some instances inspire...

Author: Ba JinTitle: IWW and Chinese WorkersDate: 1921Notes: First published in Banyue No. 21, Chengdu, June 21, 1921. Even though we currently spread our rhetoric about the “labor movement,” what relevance does it ultimately have for Chinese workers? We proclaim that “labor is sacred,” but workers have never been happy about it. For some years now, the words “May Day Festival” have become familiar...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Radical antinatalism manifestoSubtitle: On the Helsinki sperm bank attackDate: 2024Source: https://antinatal.org/ Our world is full of suffering, inequality and environmental disasters. Is life really an unconditional good that should be passed on to one and all? If you create a new sentient (capable of suffering) being — they will definitely experience suffering: at least because of increasing global warming, disease and complexity;...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: Is atheism immoral?Source: Retrieved on March 22, 2025 from https://www.anarchisme.nl/namespace/is_het_atheisme_onzedelijk A frequent accusation that is brought against atheism is that it is immoral. The reasoning underlying this accusation is this: Without religion there can be no morality and therefore where atheism has broken with all religion, morality has been undermined to collapse completely. But where is the proof? People simply...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: My farewell to the churchDate: 1879Source: Retrieved on March 22, 2025 from https://www.anarchisme.nl/namespace/mijn_afscheid_van_de_kerk At the express request of several listeners I have proceeded to publish these two speeches. They are therefore dedicated to my listeners, as a reminder of a time that has ended. May they contribute to strengthening their principles, and above all to translating them into actions. September...

Author: Peter MaurinTitle: The sit-down techniqueDate: 1937Source: The Catholic Worker, Volume 4, Number 12, April 1937 1. On Gandhi lines Strike news doesn’t strike me, but the sit-down strike is a different strike from the ordinary strike. In the sit-down strike you don’t strike anybody either on the jaw or under the belt, you just sit down. The sit-down strike is essentially a peaceful...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: The libertarian educationDate: 1899Notes: This is a brochure based on a speech given by Domela Nieuwenhuis in Paris in 1899.Source: Retrieved on March 22, 2025 from https://www.anarchisme.nl/namespace/de_libertaire_opvoeding Thus spoke the great expert on the human heart, Goethe, and he is right. The Jesuits, who have studied human nature and especially its weak side — and therein lies the whole secret...

Author: Combahee River CollectiveTitle: The Combahee River Collective StatementDate: 1977Source: Retrieved on 2025-03-21 from <blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977> We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive...

Author: The Catholic WorkerTitle: Aims and PurposesDate: 1939Source: The Catholic Worker, Volume 6, Number 10, 1 May 1939 We repeat again and again that our work is to bring men back to Christ. The workers of the world are lost to the Church, Pope Pius XI said. We are of the workers, they are our brothers, we are all members or potential members of...

Author: Dorothy DayTitle: Catholic Worker ProgramDate: December 1, 1933Notes: Recalls her prayer at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception that God show her a way to use her talents to help labor, Peter Maurin’s appearance and inspiration, and the notion of personal responsibility–“Every one can help.” Thanks all who have supported the work.Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/277-html/ ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS...

Author: Alan AlbonTitle: Anarchism and AgricultureDate: 1964Notes: First published in Anarchy magazineSource: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://libcom.org/library/anarchism-agriculture For the Father of AgricultureGave us a hard calling: he first decreed it an artTo work the fields, sent worries to sharpen our mortal witsAnd would not allow his realm to grow listless from lethargy.Before Jove’s time no settlers brought the land under subjection;Not lawful...

Author: Tom CornellTitle: Usury and the KingdomDate: 2008Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://homiliessermonsharangues.blogspot.com/2008/11/usury-and-kingdom.html?m=1 Today’s Gospel parable can be confusing. But before we get to that, a married deacon can hardly let pass our first reading from Proverbs. It reads like a song, doesn’t it? The valiant women, the worthy wife brings her family increase by her labors and reaches her hands out...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: Backs Against the WallSubtitle: What happens when the punishment is the same for violence and non-violence?Date: 17 March 2025Source: Retrieved on 18 March 2025 from revoluciana.net You’re drenched in sweat, but you don’t have time to think about that right now. You round the corner, almost knocking someone over who looks almost exactly like your sweet (but racist) old landlady. Actually, you...

Author: AndrewismTitle: Humanity Is Not A ParasiteDate: 11th May 2022Source: Retrieved on 18th March 2025 from https://youtu.be/j42RbUjofm0?si=JYWDMX93To7QDH5p Introduction “Humanity is a Plague”, “Humanity is a Poison”, “Humanity is the real virus”, “Humanity is a parasite”. The “Human Parasitism” narrative has grown increasingly common in day-to-day discourse, with folks casually confessing their simmering misanthropy. You don’t have to look very hard to figure out why...

Author: Errico MalatestaTitle: Manual and intellectual workDate: 1922Notes: Published in Umanità Nova, n. 181, 10 August 1922.Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://www.panarchy.org/malatesta/lavoro.html The origin of this division of men into “intellectuals” (who are often simply idle without any intellectuality) and “manuals” can be found in the fact that in times and circumstances in which producing enough to largely satisfy one’s own needs...

Author: Sébastien FaureTitle: La RucheSubtitle: A work of solidarity: an attempt at educationDate: 1914Source: Retrieved on March 18, 2025 from https://www.panarchy.org/faure/ruche.html Brief Information: This charity of solidarity and education, located in Rambouillet (Seine-et-Oise), was founded and is directed by Sébastien Faure. It raises around forty children of both sexes. There are no rankings; no punishments, no rewards. Its Program: Through outdoor life, a regular...

Author: Ammon HennacyTitle: Public demonstration against the payment of taxesDate: 1965Source: Retrieved on March 17, 2025 from https://www.panarchy.org/hennacy/taxes.html Why do you, a sensible person, now believe that war and the Atomic Bomb are necessary? Why are poor Oriental peasants who have seldom eaten a square meal in their lives choosing to fight us? Why does Communism appeal to so many people? Is it because...

Author: Ammon HennacyTitle: Tax StatementDate: 1950Source: Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist, Ammon Hennacy (1954) Now on Jan. 14, 1950 I mailed a statement to Mr. Stuart, Collector of Internal Revenue in Phoenix explaining why I was refusing to pay my income tax. It said: As a non-church Christian Anarchist and a follower of Gandhi the man of the Half-Century, I refuse to pay my...

Author: Ammon HennacyTitle: Tax returnDate: 1949Notes: Letter written to a tax collector. Later printed by the Catholic Worker.Source: The Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist, Ammon Hennacy (1954) I am writing this preliminary statement of my reasons for not paying my income tax in advance, as I was recently informed by your office that I would be imprisoned for my continued refusal to pay it....

Author: Peter MaurinTitle: What the Catholic Worker BelievesDate: October 1, 1933Notes: Peter Maurin’s “Easy Essay” outlining the program of the Catholic WorkerSource: Retrieved on March 16, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/what-the-catholic-worker-believes/ The Catholic Worker believes in the gentle personalism of traditional Catholicism. The Catholic Worker believes in the personal obligation of looking after the needs of our brother. The Catholic Worker believes in the daily practice...