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Author: Margaret KilljoyTitle: Mythmakers & LawbreakersSubtitle: Anarchist Writers on FictionDate: 2009Source: Archive.org Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson THIS BOOK COLLECTS FOURTEEN INTERVIEWS WITH WRITERS who have either described themselves as anarchists, written about anarchists in historical or contemporary settings, or invented fictional cultures that they or others have called anarchist. Each person’s story is different, naturally, and the definitions they have given for anarchism...

Author: Julian LangerTitle: When We Are Human, by John Zerzan – a reviewDate: 17 July 2021Source: <ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2021/07/17/when-we-are-human-by-john-zerzan-a-review> [DISCLAIMER] – following the publication of this review Zerzan has apologised publicly on his radio show for his piece on autism and I personally consider the matter to be resolved, though I can’t speak for anyone else. If you want to hear the apology, the episode can...

Author: Crimethinc, AnonymousTitle: The Only Immigrant Trying to Steal My Job Is Elon MuskSubtitle: A Bus Driver’s Perspective on Elon Musk’s Austerity MeasuresDate: February 24th, 2025Source: https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/24/the-only-immigrant-trying-to-steal-my-job-is-elon-musk-a-bus-drivers-account-of-life-in-the-trump-era Introduction In the following narrative, a bus driver describes how the cuts that Elon Musk is carrying out in the federal government are affecting ordinary public transit workers. There is a poetic opposition between the figure of...

Author: Jean DrezeTitle: Chomsky in IndiaDate: 2014Notes: This is Jean Dreze’s introduction to the book Democracy and Power, by Noam Chomsky (OpenBook, 2014).Source: Democracy and Power Sometime around 1991 I wrote to Noam Chomsky and invited him to give a few lectures in India. It felt like wishful thinking – for one thing, I had no idea how his visit would be financed, if...

Author: David S. D’AmatoTitle: Military Revolution and the New State PowerSubtitle: The Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648)Date: March 30, 2025Source: Retrieved on March 30, 2025 from https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/military-revolution-and-the-new-state Introduction: the Empire and the Thirty Years’ War The dimensions of the modern state are remarkably little well understood given its dominant role in social and economic life today. As Peter Kropotkin argued in The State: Its Historic...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 12.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: January 14, 1888Notes: Whole No. 116. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 1, 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: 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...