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Author: Elias IsquithTitle: “I found myself turning into an idiot!”Subtitle: David Graeber explains the life-sapping reality of bureaucratic lifeDate: March 5, 2015Source: Retrieved on 15th October 2024 from www.salon.com David Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, is a man who wears many hats. He’s an academic, of course — and a respected one at that. But he’s also an...

Author: Noam Chomsky & Radical Anthropology JournalTitle: Human nature and the origins of languageDate: 2008Source: Radical Anthropology Journal, Issue #2. <radicalanthropologygroup.org/journal> Noam Chomsky ranks among the leading intellectual figures of modern times and has changed the way we think about what it means to be human, revolutionising linguistics and establishing it as a modern science. He agreed to discuss just some of his ideas...

Author: AryanamTitle: A Philosophy for AnarchismDate: October 4th 2024Source: https://asranarshism.com/1403/07/13/a-philosophy-for-anarchism-en/ Philosophy is nothing but a landscape of perspectives, worldviews, and paths, some meandering and some straightforward, some solitary and some crisscrossing with the neighboring paths, some long and some short, some trekked in multitude and some in solitude, some forgotten and some revered, some new and some ancient, all to understand and nourish the...

Author: Zosia BromTitle: An Eastern Europe mythbusterDate: 24/07/2022Notes: This article first appeared in the Summer-Autumn edition of Freedom journal.Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/07/24/an-eastern-europe-mythbuster/ “Apparently, for the Western left, it is totally fine to publicly self-fellate over Kurdish, Palestinian or Irish self-determination, but just try bringing an Eastern European one to the table …” ~ Eastern European Leftist Proverb, medium: Telegram One of the more frustrating aspects of...

Author: Daniel GuérinTitle: Proudhon In the ClosetSubtitle: The homophobia and misogyny of Pierre-Joseph ProudhonDate: Originally written in 1969 & translated in 2013.Notes: Translated by Jesse Cohn. A reinterpretation of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s well-known misogyny as a symptom of repressed homosexual desires. Daniel Guérin (1904–1988), was also author of Homosexualité et révolution (1953) and the widely read Anarchism: From Theory to Practice (1965/1970).Source: Originally published in...

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: Civil or SubversiveSubtitle: Individualist Writings from the UKDate: 2016Notes: A Dark Matter CollectionSource: PDF provided by publisher Originally published as Anarchism: Civil or Subversive published under creative commons darkmatter.noblogs.org 325.nostate.net This publication is dedicated to Alfredo Cospito, Nicola Gai, Olga Ekonomidou and the memory of Renzo Novatore, beautiful rebels... Contents Introduction by DMP Subversive Disassociation by L Beyond the Movement —...

Author: Zosia BromTitle: COVID-19 UK Mutual Aid groups: a listDate: 13/03/2020Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2020/03/13/covid-19-uk-mutual-aid-groups-a-list/ As the global COVID-19 pandemic is upon us, a number of mutual aid groups have started forming across the country. The groups aim at providing community support to those who are more at risk from the virus: be it help with running errands or cooking. COVID-19 is a novel virus most affecting...

Author: Zosia BromTitle: It’s spelt Sisterhood, not Cis-terhoodDate: 22/05/2018Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2018/05/22/its-spelt-sisterhood-not-cis-terhood-statement/ The signatories of this letter strongly condemn the actions and doctrines of the Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs)*. This strain of feminism recently gained notoriety due to their problematic opposition of the proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (these reforms proposes to allow trans and non- binary people to self- declare their...

Author: Mother EarthTitle: Observations and Comments on Kropotkin and the European WarDate: 1915Notes: An untitled excerpt and letter from ‘Mother Earth’, January 1915, New York City, published by Emma Goldman, edited by Alexander BerkmanSource: Retrieved on October 9, 2024 from https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/observations-and-comments-on-kropotkin-and-the-european-war-mother-earth-1915/ Of all the terrible features brought to light in the European War, there is one which no doubt will cause rejoicing in the...

Author: Pëtr KropotkinTitle: A Letter on the Present WarDate: October 1914Notes: Published in Freedom vol. XXVIII, no. 306.Source: Retrieved on 7th October 2024 from freedomnews.org.uk [Our comrade P. Kropotkin, having been asked by the Swedish Professor G. Steffen[1] to give his opinion upon the present war, gave it in a letter which we reproduce, with the additions he made to it in the three...

Author: WulfinnaTitle: Black and Red RagsDate: 3 Oct 2024Source: https://ignitedindark.wordpress.com/2024/10/03/black-red-rags/ For me, I take the black rag over the red rag because I refuse to spill my blood for the right to be a worker, and instead practice negativity against every parcel of the world we have known for generations. The black rag represents fighting spirit, critical self-thought and innovative audacity. The red rag...

Author: Ş. Tekoşer PilingLorenzo OrsettiTitle: Last Journals and Writings of Şehîd Tekoşer PilingDate: 2024Source: <tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/last-journals-and-writings-of-s-tekoser-piling-lorenzo-orsetti-5-years-anniversary> Preface 18th March 2019 Heval Tekoşer Piling fell şehîd in battle in Baghouz Fawqani, in Deir Ezzor region. He was a great friend to all of us and an incredibly brave soldier. From Afrin to Deir Ezzor, he was always the last to leave. We all carry the legacy...

Author: Logan Marie GlitterbombTitle: Communizing Society With Consumer CooperativesDate: September 28th, 2024Source: https://c4ss.org/content/59900 Within anarchist circles, there is a split between those who advocate markets and those who advocate forms of decentralized planning such as participatory economics or federated communes. While the work of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek has pointed out the numerous issues with centralized state planning, much of the same...

Author: Elisha Moon WilliamsTitle: Feet On The Ground!Subtitle: Anarchism and the Labor Struggle TodayDate: October 2nd, 2024Source: https://medium.com/@elisha1542/feet-on-the-ground-3182bd113c6f When I first started my journey as an anarchist, I was incredibly privileged in both my environment and upbringing. I had grown up in a very upper-middle class suburb, neither knowing economic struggle nor of want when it came to my basic needs. I was, at...

Author: Some Communist Study GroupTitle: Ripples and WavesSubtitle: Notes on Ukraine in the Long CrisisDate: May 11th, 2022Source: Retrieved on 9/27/24 from haters.noblogs.org/post/2022/05/11/ripples-and-waves-notes-on-ukraine-in-the-long-crisis This long-form essay was sent to us for publication by “some communist study group“. It discusses the historical role of Ukraine in the contemporary political economy, the response from radicals in the West towards the Russian invasion, and the material effects...

Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: Book Review: “We Are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle”Date: 2024/09/25Source: https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2024/09/25/book-review-we-are-forests-inhabiting-territories-in-struggle-cambridgepolity-2023/ Jean-Baptiste Vidalou, “We Are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle” (Cambridge: Polity, 2023) It’s shameful. The original French publication of We are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle by Jean-Baptiste Vidalou was in my hands since April 2018. Frequently described as “the French Seeing Like a State,” the book explores the art...

Author: Ethel ManninTitle: Bread and RosesSubtitle: An Utopian Survey and BlueprintDate: December 1944Notes: London, December, 1943 -May, 1944.Source: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.213271/page/n7 I. UTOPIA — THE EVERLASTING DREAM Throughout the ages, from the earliest times, men of all nations have dreamed of that ‘ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under perfect conditions’. What constitutes ‘perfect conditions’ is obviously a matter of personal preferences and prejudices, but there is...

Title: Enemy of the State: An Interview with John ZerzanDate: September 1, 1998Source: Retrieved on December 11, 2020 from <derrickjensen.org/1998/09/enemy-state-interview-john-zerzan> DJ: What is Anarchism? JZ: I would say Anarchism is the attempt to eradicate all forms of domination. This includes not only such obvious forms as the nation-state, with its routine use of violence and the force of law, and the corporation, with its...

Author: Carne RossTitle: Anarchy is LoveDate: Summer 2024Source: Dope 26 I used to think that anarchism was “just” a political philosophy. I was wrong. It is much, much more than that. By political philosophy, I mean a way of thinking about politics, institutions and decision-making. How people arbitrate their business with one another, theories of government – or self-government – or the abolition of...

Author: P. B.Title: The Making of the Spanish CNT-IWA (2010–2024)Date: September 21, 2024Source: Retrieved on 23rd September 2024 from libcom.org It is about 7 years since the spanish CNT-AIT organisation came into existence. Despite its name, which claims a historical trajectory, it is a split from the CNT. A split of almost an entire internal current which fought for control of the Confederation by...

Author: Beltrán Roca MartínezTitle: Anarchism, anthropology and AndaluciaSubtitle: An analysis of the CNT and the ‘new capitalism’Date: 2006Notes: Published in Anarchist Studies 14.2, pp. 106–130. Translated by Sharif Gemie.Source: Retrieved on 19th September 2024 from libcom.org ABSTRACT Systems theory can show us how organizations develop, allowing them to survive changes in their environments. Such analyses also demonstrate why the CNT is passing through such...

Author: David S. D’AmatoTitle: Separation PerfectedSubtitle: Domination and Alienation in Stirner and DebordDate: September 19, 2024Source: Retrieved on September 19, 2024 from https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/19/333777/ We have allowed the American ruling class[1]to abstract themselves almost entirely from their substantive political positions and practices. So deeply engrossed are we in their branding as products of consumption, in their spectacular representations, that we seem to have no capacity...

Author: Jon Las Heras and Beltrán RocaTitle: New practices in industrial relationsSubtitle: Radical unionism in the European peripheryDate: 2023Notes: Published in Work and Employment Relations in Southern Europe, pp. 137–162.Source: Retrieved on 18th September 2024 from www.researchgate.net Introduction: Radical critique as a forward strategy Neoliberal globalization has substantially transformed the landscape in which organized labour sought to advance its interests during Fordism. The scaling...

Author: WulfinnaTitle: What Is A WomanSubtitle: A Short Gender Egoist SimplificationDate: 17 Sep 2024Source: https://ignitedindark.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/what-is-a-woman/ Any feminine-aligned adult individual who develops self-content within womanhood, female identity/conventions which vary from cultural region to cultural region. Any individual who activates certain — but not strictly all — social aesthetics and conduct in order to be in line with traits conventionally associated with women. Any individual who...