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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...

Author: Julian LangerTitle: White Supremacist Nativism Is Not Anti-ColonialSubtitle: We need to affirm that “the English” are not an indigenous culture and diasporic folk are not colonisersDate: 12/8/2024Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/12/white-supremacist-nativism-is-not-anti-colonial/ Being unfit to travel, I watched as the spectacle of British white supremacism unfolded on my computer and phone. My revolt and horror led to spreading information and challenging this ideology as best I can....

Author: Julian LangerTitle: Fossil Stories and White SupremacyDate: 31/5/2024Source: https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2024/08/05/fossil-stories-and-white-supremacy/ A friend communicates to me that they believe that the presence of racism within the riots that have been seen across these isles these past few days is overstated, suggesting that this is largely spectacle and that most of the rioters are taking opportunities to vent some existential despair; voicing that they are more...

Author: Dorothy DayTitle: Dorothy Day Holds ForthDate: 1971Notes: In this interview with Jeff Dietrich and Susan Pollack, originally published in the December 1971 Catholic Agitator, Dorothy Day discusses her journey from socialism to anarchism and Catholicism, highlighting how her early readings of Jack London and Upton Sinclair influenced her political views. Day emphasizes the spiritual and practical aspects of anarchism, rooted in the belief...

Author: Dorothy DayTitle: Personalist: Peter MaurinDate: 1953Source: Retrieved on March 16, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/170-html/ In 1932, Peter Maurin, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was working at hard manual labor at Mount Tremper, New York, at a boys’ camp where he mended roads, cut ice, and did other chores winter and summer and received his living, not a very munificent one, in return. As...

Author: Jim ForestTitle: What is the Catholic Worker?Date: 1997Notes: This essay was written by Jim Forest on the Catholic Worker Movement for The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History to be published by the Liturgical Press.Source: Retrieved on March 16, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/forest-history-html/ The Catholic Worker movement was founded in 1933 during the Great Depression by Dorothy Day at the urging of Peter Maurin. It...

Author: The Combat Organization of Anarcho-CommunistsTitle: Three Years of Resistance to Imperialism and the Struggle for AutonomySubtitle: The View of the BOAC MilitantDate: 2025/02/25Notes: Note: I am not the author, I simply translated this text—Alexander HarrisSource: https://boakmirror.noblogs.org/post/2025/02/25/%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b8-%d0%b3%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%b2%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%8f-%d0%b8%d0%bc%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bc%d1%83/#more-2 Three years ago, a full-scale invasion of the troops of the fascist Russian state into Ukraine began. For the entire modern anarchist and revolutionary left movement in...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: What is Rent?Date: 13 March 2025Source: Retrieved on 14 March 2025 from revoluciana.net This post is part of a series that deals with basic leftist concepts and terminology. It is also a living document and subject to change on revoluciana.net. Rent is an economic concept with a broad set of applications. The existence of rent and rent-seeking behavior is a key sticking...

Author: Anonymous, Albert MeltzerTitle: Question and answer on Anarchism [Anti-Imperialism]Date: 1987Notes: Anonymous but we believe written by Albert Meltzer.Source: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/k0p4ff | Black Flag no. 170 (11/5/1987) Q. What do you understand by anti-imperialism? A. This is a word that is undergoing a sea-change. When Imperialism was understood as powerful Nation-States building up by colonial expansion, the meaning of anti-imperialism was clear. Its support came...

Author: Aotearoa Workers Solidarity MovementTitle: The Betrayal of Donbas; No War But Class WarDate: February 22nd, 2025Source: https://awsm4u.noblogs.org/post/2025/02/22/the-betrayal-of-donbas-no-war-but-class-war/ The war between Russia and Ukraine is often presented as a clear-cut narrative of imperial aggression versus national defence. In mainstream discourse, Russia is portrayed as the sole aggressor, with Ukraine as a victim bravely defending its sovereignty. However, this oversimplified framing serves the interests of...

Author: WulfinnaTitle: The Anti-Binary Reality And Its Invalid DefamersDate: 01 Mar 2025Source: https://ignitedindark.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/anti-binary-reality-invalid-defamers/ There exists now in our time a special strain of that same addictive venom against all things free, true, intelligent and decent that had ravaged all the developments of human life since our first infantile reaches out of all-encompassing despotism ... barreling straight ahead back into its maw. There exists now...

Author: Roberto de las CarrerasTitle: The husband and the loverDate: 1902Notes: Excerpts from Amor libre: interviews voluptuosos con Roberto de las Carreras, published in La Rebelión on August 25, 1902.Source: El amor libre. Eros y anarquía, Osvaldo Baigorria. Page 59–63. For four long years I subjugated a nervously passionate woman, a magic potion of corrosive lust, a human cantharides, a Berber woman of my...

Author: Evelio BoalTitle: Women and free loveDate: 1922Source: El amor libre. Eros y anarquía, Osvaldo Baigorria. Page 37–38. There is generally a very erroneous idea about this point of the libertarian ideal, which it would be useful to clarify. Currently, free love cannot, or is very difficult to, develop all the conditions under which a woman’s life unfolds. To bring this act to a...

Author: Mikhail BakuninTitle: Letter to Nikolaj OgarevDate: 1869Notes: In Switzerland, Mikhail Bakunin wrote a letter to his Russian friend Nikolaj Ogarev about his complex relationship with his wife, and how she had a relationship with a dear friend of his, an Italian anarchist militant. She became pregnant with his child, and Bakunin was willing to raise the children as his own.Source: Retrieved on March...