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Author: WithywindleTitle: Revolutionary Silliness!Date: 10/31/2024Source: Retrieved on November 18th, 2024 from https://beyondresistance.noblogs.org/revolutionary-silliness-by-withywindle/ Intro For the most important time in our lives, when we’re growing up and learning to navigate the world, we’re corralled into bland and sterile cells where we are forced to sit down, shut up, face forward, and listen to the adults in power ramble about various subjects and make sure that...

Author: Jonathan Ned KatzTitle: Almeda Sperry to Emma GoldmanDate: 1912Notes: Sperry’s letters are in Mugar Memorial Libarary, Boston University. Jonathan Ned Katz is grateful to Rosalyn Baxdandall and Alix Kates Shulman for informing him of these letters. OutHistory.org is interested in any additional data about Sperry, and especially interested in a photo.Source: Retrieved on November 18th 2024 from https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/sperry-to-goldman/letters A question from Emma Goldman...

Author: I SteveTitle: The anarchy-narcissistsDate: Posted on August 28, 2018Source: https://slingshotcollective.org/the-anarchy-narcissists/ We all know them, all tried to work with them. The one who insists on being the leader. The one who says everyone who criticizes her is a fed. The manipulative male “feminist.” His close cousin, the serial sexual perpetrator who thinks he’s the hero of the story. They are the narcissists among...

Author: Sonja LavelleTitle: Anarchism’s Least WantedSubtitle: Organizing In Conservative RegionsDate: October 1, 2024Source: https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2024/10/01/anarchisms-least-wanted-organizing-in-conservative-regions-spindrift/ This essay is dedicated to all those who say to us “Why bother? It’s hopeless. Just move away to a more progressive state.” “How shall we begin our action? Just look at an opportunity, and it will soon appear. Everywhere that rebellion can be sensed and the sound of battle...

Author: A.M. Gittlitz, C. Derick VarnTitle: The Undying Appeal of BrunchSubtitle: Everybody wants something like a revolution, but intellectual denunciation cannot sate real hunger.Date: November 18th, 2024Source: https://newintermag.com/the-undying-appeal-of-brunch/ When Trump won again, the last eight years flashed before our eyes. We were returned to how we felt during the collective devastation of November 2016, when we were forced us to face with sober senses...

Author: Ostrava Anarchist FederationTitle: Militarism of some anarchists and its contradictionsSubtitle: We present a reflection on reformist and militarist tendencies in the Czech anarchist movementDate: November 3rd, 2024Notes: Machine translated using DeepL.Source: https://oafed.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/03/militarismus-nekterych-anarchistu-a-jeho-rozpory/. After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, some anarchists (and allied leftists) developed strange pro-war tendencies. Their defence was that they were trying to adapt anarchist ideas to the contemporary...

Author: David Graeber & Nika DubrovskyTitle: Cities made differentlySubtitle: Try imagining another urban existenceDate: November 22nd, 2024Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/22/cities-made-differently-try-imagining-another-urban-existence/ In thousands of ways, we are taught to accept the world we live in as the only possible one, but thousands of other ways of organizing homes, cities, schools, societies, economies, and cosmologies have existed and could exist. We started a project called Made Differently: designed...

Author: Jack MurrayTitle: Dual power and climate breakdownDate: 6th November 2024Source: retrieved on November 16th, 2024 from <libcom.org/article/dual-power-and-climate-breakdown> While this article addresses the “revolutionary” turn in Roger Hallam’s rhetoric, it is more intended as a broader comment on anarchist organisational strategy in the time of climate breakdown. For context, Roger Hallam is the co-founder of the mass climate movement, Extinction Rebellion and the direct...

Author: Tomás IbáñezTitle: Negativity and positivity in anarchism: An inextricable but contradictory dualitySubtitle: My initial purpose was to reflect on the unavoidable, and often undervalued, negative dimension of anarchism—but I soon realised this forced me to leave aside its entire positive aspectDate: December 2nd, 2024Notes: Edited machine translation. Original text in Spanish (published on November 30th, 2024): https://redeslibertarias.com/2024/11/30/redes-libertarias-no-2/Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/02/negative-and-positive-in-anarchism/ When I turned on my...

Author: IgnatiusTitle: If We Go, We Go On FireSubtitle: On Grief and Social WarDate: 12/7/2024Source: Long Leaf Distro I. Coming Up for Air If I hand you the knife Would you carve me gills So that I might finally breathe In this brackish mud It is early December, 2024. Everything I have written in the last year has started with the same contextual notes....

Author: Leila Al ShamiTitle: Our dream of an Assad-free Syria has returned with Aleppo rebel advanceDate: 2 December 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th December 2024 from www.newarab.com Eight years after Aleppo was subjected to a brutal starvation siege, pounded by the Assad regime, Russian and Iranian bombs and thousands of its residents massacred or forcibly displaced, the Free Syria flag flies over the citadel. The...

Author: Tekoşîna AnarşîstTitle: We Carry a New World in Our Hearts!Date: 7 December 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th December 2024 from tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org The regime has fallen, the war continues. The revolutionary dreams of millions of Syrians that flooded the streets in 2011 has finally become reality: the regime has fallen. After decades of Assad’s dynasty, today we woke up in a Syria without functional central...

Author: Zoe BakerTitle: Means and EndsSubtitle: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United StatesDate: 2023Notes: Cover design by John Yates | www.stealworks.com // Cover photographs (top) courtesy of Centro Studi Libertari // Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli, Milan, Italy (bottom) courtesy of Abel // Paz Fund, Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation Archive (CNT) [See also attached PDF for the author’s preferred pagination for citation.] Dedication...

Author: MuttTitle: Traces of anarchism In Zambia & UgandaDate: November 19th, 2024Source: https://muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/19/mutt-traces-of-anarchism-in-zambia-uganda/ [[https://muntjacmag.noblogs.org/files/2024/11/Willstar-Choongo-AWSM-Zambia-1998.jpg][AWSM Zambia, 1998]] Historically, it’s been hard to find any information of anarchism in central Africa, there was the short lived Anarchist & Workers’ Solidarity Movement (AWSM) in Zambia led by Willstar Choongo, Zambia in the mid nineties had a very small “left” and Willstar came up through organising his fellow...

Author: Jérôme BaschetTitle: The Reorganization of Zapatista AutonomyDate: November 14th, 2024Source: https://illwill.com/the-reorganization-of-zapatista-autonomy "The Reorganization of Zapatista Autonomy" is excerpted from Jérôme Baschet’s The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy, out this fall with AK Press. Although the book was first published in Mexico in 2019, the English translation contains new material not in the Spanish original, including a valuable description of the reorganization of...

Author: Pëtr KropotkinTitle: Municipal SocialismDate: 1902Source: Act For Yourselves, Articles from Freedom 1886–1907. Freedom Press In the early beginnings of Freedom, some sixteen years ago, there was in our paper an article, entitled ‘Local Action’, which attracted at that time a good deal of attention in Socialist circles. Till then, the workers had been told that the socialisation of the factories, the mines and...

Author: Pëtr KropotkinTitle: Anarchism a definitionSource: Encyclopedia Britannica ANARCHISM (from the Gr. an and archos, contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government – harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various...

Author: Zoe BakerTitle: Anarchist Counter Culture in SpainDate: 2022/12/01Source: anarchozoe.com People are often drawn to the study of labour history because they want to understand how to change the world. It is thought that the history of class struggle contains within itself not only a series of events and dates laid out in chronological order but also lessons. Through studying the history of class...

Author: Lee CicutaTitle: Intimate AuthoritarianismSubtitle: The Ideology of AbuseDate: January 11, 2023Source: Retrieved on 12 January 2023 from butchanarchy.medium.com/intimate-authoritarianism-the-ideology-of-abuse-797843da226b For far too long have radical communities and their discourses treated domestic violence and abuse as external from the considerations of revolutionary struggle. Abuse is seen as simply an interpersonal issue, springing from individual pathology which we must address by correcting certain behaviors and teaching...

Author: Ram Ashish GiriTitle: Cultural anarchismSubtitle: The consequences of privileging languages in NepalDate: 2010Notes: Published in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 31(1), pp. 87–100. doi:10.1080/01434630903398103.Source: Retrieved on 1st December 2024 from www.tandfonline.com Nepali, the official language of administration of Nepal, has been privileged through systematic political manoeuvres throughout its history. English also enjoys special status and privileges, and despite the fact that...

Author: Conor McCarthyTitle: James Connolly and SyndicalismDate: 2021Notes: Excerpted from “James Connolly: Labor, Empire, Ireland”.Source: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism By the early 1900s, James Connolly, with the Irish Socialist Republican Party still struggling to make an impression on the Irish political scene, had become aware of the American Socialist Labor Party, which seemed to be attaining some successes under the energetic...

Author: Tekoşîna AnarşîstTitle: We Are Not Afraid of Ruins!Subtitle: Statement from Tekoşîna Anarşîst on Developments in SyriaDate: 3 December 2024Notes: Introduction written by Black Rose Anarchist Federation.Source: Retrieved on 6th December 2024 from www.blackrosefed.org Background On November 27th the loose coalition of forces that has been engaged in a years-long military conflict with the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, broke out of a...

Author: Eduardo de GuzmánTitle: Revolutionary GymnasticsSubtitle: Juan García Oliver’s Response to the Manifesto of the ThirtyDate: 3 October 1931Notes: Originally published in La Tierra. English translation by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. Juan García Oliver gave a lecture at a union hall in the El Clot district to an exclusively worker audience on the parallels between Socrates and Christ’s...

Author: Federica MontsenyTitle: The Confederation’s Internal and External CrisisDate: 18 September 1931Notes: Originally published in El Luchador. English translation by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. A series of events have occurred between the publication of my article “A Circular and its Consequences” and the present. In the first place, a group of militants—which the bourgeois press, Macià, and Companys...