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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...