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Author: Albert CamusTitle: Create DangerouslySubtitle: A Lecture by Albert CamusDate: December 14th 1957Source: https://brendanhart.com/content/files/2022/06/Create-Dangerously-2.pdf An Oriental wise man always used to ask the divinity in his prayers to be so kind as to spare him from living in an interesting era. As we are not wise, the divinity has not spared us and we are living in an interesting era. In any case, our...

Author: Katerina GogouTitle: AnarchyDate: 1993Notes: This poem was found after the 1993 death of Katerina Gogou, Greek poet, anarchist, and actress.Source: https://standupandspit.wordpress.com/2019/06/18/anarchy-katerina-gogou/ Don’t you stop me. I am dreaming. We lived centuries of injustice bent over. Centuries of loneliness. Now don’t. Don’t you stop me. Now and here, for ever and everywhere. I am dreaming freedom. Though everyone’s All-beautiful uniqueness To reinstitute The harmony...

Author: Hein Htet KyawTitle: The Marxist Roots of Classical FascismSubtitle: Genuine Anti-Fascism Begins with Understanding FascismDate: 15-02-2025Source: libcom.org Background Story: Within Burmese antifascist circles, an eye-opening event unfolded when certain self-proclaimed leftists—or individuals with a superficial attraction to leftist ideology—unknowingly worked together (including shared drinks) with members of Casa Pound within the Karen Struggle, even finding common ground with them. This situation prompts a...

Author: Albert CamusTitle: The GuestDate: 1957Notes: Translated by Justin O’Brien.Source: https://users.scc.spokane.edu/jroth/Courses/World%20Masterpieces%20272/MASTER%20DOCS/the%20guest%20by%20albert%20camus.pdf 1 The schoolmaster was watching the two men climb toward him. One was on horseback, the other on foot. They had not yet tackled the abrupt rise leading to the schoolhouse built on the hillside. They were toiling onward, making slow progress in the snow, among the stones, on the vast expanse oft...

Author: Toby Shone, Elizabeth VasilevaTitle: Wildfires will beginSubtitle: An interview with Toby ShoneDate: June 1st, 2025Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/01/wildfires-will-begin-an-interview-with-toby-shone/ The former political prisoner talks about his anarchism, the 325 project and resisting the physical and mental jails that surround us all. ~ Interviewed by Elizabeth Vasileva ~ You recently spoke about the importance of solidarity and connections, between prisoners and with their supporters on the outside....

Author: Sarah HarpyTitle: So Long As the Father Is the Law, Mothers Must Be OutlawsSubtitle: What does the rise of pro-natal fascism demand of radical mothers and our communities?Date: 4/30/25Source: https://harpies.substack.com/p/so-long-as-the-father-is-the-law I see it every day. Feminist advice for the current regime. Don’t, under any circumstances, have children right now. No matter how the regime tries to bribe you, no matter the social pressure,...

Author: Sarah HarpyTitle: Arm the DollsSubtitle: What does “protection” mean in this patriarchal civilization?Date: 4/24/2025Source: https://harpies.substack.com/p/arm-the-dolls On April 16th, 2025, the supreme court of the united kingdom ruled that the categories of female and male would be defined by one’s assigned sex at birth. Just a single step behind the united states in the sprint towards trans genocide, Terf Island has placed trans women...

Author: Leonardo CaffoTitle: Ye as Metaphorical AnarchySubtitle: 30 ThesesDate: 30 may 2025Source: https://caffocabinetofcuriosities.blog/2025/05/30/ye-as-metaphorical-anarchy-30-theses/ Identity: The Annihilation of the Self “Ye” is the Primary Act of Destitution. Not a name change, but a symbolic assassination. It’s the calculated obliteration of the bourgeois identity, the proper noun as a brand, in favor of a pronoun – a collective “you.” This is the first strike of anarchic...

Author: Monique WittigTitle: The Straight MindDate: 1978Notes: This text was first read in New York at the Modern Language Association Convention in 1978 and dedicated to American lesbians.Source: Wittig, Monique (1992). The straight mind and other essays. Boston: Beacon Press. In recent years in Paris, language as a phenomenon has dominated modern theoretical systems and the social sciences and has entered the political discussions...

Author: Alexander AtabekyanTitle: Alexander AtabekyanSubtitle: Selected works on anarchismDate: 2025Notes: Translated by Leon AslanovSource: https://files.libcom.org/files/2025-04/Atabekyan_Selected_works_on_anarchism.pdf INTRODUCTION The preponderance of the state as a political vehicle to manage societies across the globe is ingrained in our political cultures to such an extent that imagining a life without the rules, regulations, directives and, indeed, the ideology of the state seems virtually impossible. Both the command economy-based...

Author: TrymTitle: Why Anarchism?Date: 2019Source: Retrieved on May 26, 2025 from https://kristenunderjord.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/trym-varfor-anarkism/ The Christian underground project has flirted with anarchism from the beginning. More recently, explicitly anarchist perspectives have taken up more space, since this is closer to us who write. For example, I do not stand for a kind of anarchism but for Anarchism, but why and how do I reconcile that with...

Author: Jason BrownTitle: The Zion/Babylon dualism in Mormonism and AnarchismDate: 2008Source: Retrieved on May 26, 2025 from https://themormonworkerdotnet.wordpress.com/past-issues/mw-issue-3/the-zionbabylon-dualism-in-mormonism-and-anarchism/ What sets the anarchist critique of society apart from other political projects is the view that, because the state is as an inherently hierarchical, and therefore oppressive institution, the project of human liberation must necessarily do away with all forms of economic and political oppression, not...

Author: Jason BrownTitle: Cooperation: A Common Principle of Mormonism and AnarchismSource: Retrieved on May 26, 2025 from https://themormonworkerdotnet.wordpress.com/past-issues/mw-issue-2/cooperation-a-common-principle-of-mormonism-and-anarchism/ In the late 1800’s, the Mormon pioneers, exiled to the Utah territory, implemented one of the largest experiments in cooperative living that the United States has ever known. They wanted to create a society with no rich and no poor. This society would be built, among...

Author: DemanarchieTitle: Who the hell is Marcel Lefebvre?Date: 1997Notes: First published in Demanarchie, Vol. 3, no. 2, February 1997.Source: Retrieved on May 26, 2025 from http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/44/161.html Right-wing Catholics continue to play an important role in the Quebec fascist milieu. In fact, along with “French Canadian” nationalism, traditional Roman Catholicism is one of the defining features of the far-right in this province. Some reactionary Catholics...

Author: Albert CamusTitle: The Human CrisisDate: March 28, 1946Source: https://pdfcoffee.com/the-human-crisis-albert-camus-lecture-pdf-free.html Introduction: Ladies and Gentlemen: when I was invited to give a series of lectures in the United States of America, I felt some doubt and hesitation. I am really not old enough to give lectures, and I am more at ease with the process of thinking than I am making categorical statements... since I...

Author: Bob McGlynnTitle: Anarchist rally in ChattanoogaDate: Winter 1994Source: Retrieved on May 24, 2025 from archive.org/details/ajoda-39/page/20 Ninety anarchists from a dozen cities attended a march and rally in Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 11, to confront a planned Ku Klux Klan anti-gay and pro-killer-cop demonstration, to protest the 23 known murders of blacks in police custody there over the last two decades (seven since 1990), and...

Author: Alfredo CospitoTitle: What international?Subtitle: Interview and dialogue with Alfredo Cospito from the prison of FerraraDate: Autumn 2018Notes: The following interview is dialogue between anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who is currently imprisoned at Ferrara Prison, and the editors of the Italian anarchist newspaper Vetriolo [Vitriol]. To request copies of Vetriolo, they can be contacted via vetriolo[at]autistici.orgSource: Originally published in in the anarchist newspaper “Vitriol”...

Author: John O’ReillyTitle: The Art of the “One-on-One”Subtitle: John O’Reilly reflects on this fundamental organizing tool, and how to do it rightDate: December 18, 2018Notes: Addendum, from organizing.work: This piece was written by a former member of the IWW, who quit the organization after being asked to by a member whom he had sexually assaulted. For journalistic reasons, I don’t believe in either now...

Author: Ole Martin MoenTitle: The Unabomber's EthicsDate: 2018Source: This is a peer-reviewed article published in the journal Bioethics (2018). DOI: 10.111/bioe.12494. <olemartinmoen.com/wp-content/uploads/unabomberpaperbioethics.pdf> Abstract In this paper I present and criticize Ted Kaczynski’s (‘The Unabomber’) theory that industrialization has been terrible for humanity, and that we should use any means necessary, including violent means, to induce a return to pre-industrial ways of living. Although Kaczynski’s...

Author: AnonymousTitle: A Tale of Nihilist LoversDate: 4/25/2025 They couldn't catch us. Madison, Wisconsin. Do you remember the feeling of being consumed by maniacal laughter after our first intercourse with illegality? Nah, it won't change the world and most wouldn't think much of it. And it certainly has nothing to do with revolution, The Movement, or Marxism. But it...felt incredible! It all started out...

Author: Leonardo CaffoTitle: The Transformative Intersection of Anarchy and Migration in Fluid Geopolitical RealitiesSubtitle: Draft Paper x 20th Annual International Conference on PhilosophyDate: 2025Source: https://www.academia.edu/129434481/The_Transformative_Intersection_of_Anarchy_and_Migration_in_Fluid_Geopolitical_Realities_ <strong>The Transformative Intersection of Anarchy and Migration in Fluid Geopolitical Realities Draft Paper x 20^th Annual International Conference on Philosophy</strong> <strong>LEONARDO CAFFO Naba University of Fine Arts Milano</strong> Abstract This paper delves into the application of anarchist theory to...

Author: Harry HootonTitle: The Politics of ThingsDate: 1955Source: http://takver.com/history/aia/aia00024.htm Society is sick; and the politicians as usual have the cure. Only we don’t want it. The cure is worse than the disease. In fact, the cure is the disease ... We are sick to death of the attempts of the political medicine men to make us better. Human beings are quite all right as...

Author: Morten SøndergaardTitle: The Anarchists from the White MountainsDate: August 2021Notes: Original title: Anarkisterne fra de hvide bjerge. Translator: Christopher Sand-Iversen. Published by RSS Press. Original Danish version first published in Pist Protta no. 84, edited by Anna Maria Orrù, Morten Søndergaard, Jesper Rasmussen, Åse Eg Jørgensen and Jesper Fabricius.Source: RSS Press www.rssprss.net 1. The mountains are the first thing you notice. They look...

Author: Ted GrimsrudTitle: “Saving” the Joshua story?Subtitle: An anarchistic readingDate: 2014Source: Retrieved on May 15, 2025 from https://thinkingpacifism.net/2014/11/13/saving-the-joshua-story-an-anarchistic-reading/ One of the more challenging passages in the Bible is the story told in the book of Joshua. God’s chosen people enter the “promised land,” meet with opposition from the nations living there, and proceed—with God’s direction and often miraculous support—the kill or drive out the...

Author: William H. DouglasTitle: Ancient Biblical Anarchy In The Law Of MosesDate: 2021Source: Retrieved on May 14, 2025 from https://thelatterdayliberator.com/ancient-biblical-anarchy-in-the-law-of-moses/ A few weeks back I wrote an article using a recent address by President Dallin H. Oaks wherein he lays out five principles of government which he teaches are inspired of God. Building on his argument in my article I explain how consensual governments...

Author: William Van WagenenTitle: An Introduction to Mormon AnarchismDate: 2007Source: Retrieved on May 14, 2025 from https://themormonworkerdotnet.wordpress.com/past-issues/archive/an-introduction-to-mormon-anarchism/ Introduction In this paper I wish to show that the consistent application of the principles expounded in Mormon scripture, should lead a person to become an anarchist. In other words, every Mormon should look forward to the abolition of government and the building of a socialist society...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 26.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: August 4, 1888Notes: Whole No. 130. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on May 14, 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: Kevin CarsonTitle: Exit and VoiceDate: May 7th, 2025Source: Retrieved 05/12/2025 from c4ss.org Mainstream right-libertarianism has a long history of tending to prioritize what Albert O. Hirschman called “exit” (i.e., the ability to escape governance through relocation or circumvention) over “voice” (having a say in the governance process that one lives under). Now, there’s nothing wrong with the notion of exit as such. Under...

Author: Leroy MaisiriTitle: Zimbabwe: Why does the state persist when its outputs are poverty, violence and humiliationDate: 22 April 2025Source: Retrieved on 11th May 2025 from mg.co.za As Zimbabwe commemorates 45 years of independence, the spectacle of celebration orchestrated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a dilapidated and waterlogged stadium serves as a metaphor for the trajectory of the postcolonial state. The accumulation of rainwater...

Author: cavegirlTitle: Dropping OutSubtitle: (for students)Date: 2001Source: <https://crimethinc.com/zines/dropping-out> Contents In here you’ll find... Part One: An introduction to the radical idea of dropping out. Why I’m doing this How it all began (my story) And now... Part two: Doing it yourself! Getting the hell out of there Free food and stuff Dumpster diving Scavenging Shoplifting Other stuff Sleeping and traveling. Self-defense Beyond survival And...

Author: Leroy MaisiriTitle: Burkina Faso: Revolution, authoritarianism and the crisis of African emancipation politicsDate: 8 May 2025Source: Retrieved on 2025-05-09 from <mg.co.za/thought-leader/2025-05-08-burkina-faso-revolution-authoritarianism-and-the-crisis-of-african-emancipation-politics> There was a time when Robert Mugabe stood as the towering figure of African liberation. Raised fists, Pan-Africanist banners, and chants of self-rule marked Zimbabwe’s emergence from white settler colonialism. Mugabe, like many of his generation, represented the victory of the oppressed...

Author: Tsuji JunTitle: Notsudoru NudoruSource: Retrieved on 01/10/2024 https://ja.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tsuji-jun-notsudoru-nuudoru Translator’s Preface: This is my first time translating anything into English from Japanese so there are bound to be more than a few mistakes in this translation. I’m also pretty stupid so there may be parts where I have misinterpreted the meaning of a sentence and warped it into something completely different. But I think...

Author: Decolonize AnarchismTitle: Anti-imperialism of the IdiotsSubtitle: How Western Campists and Tankies Align with the Axis of ResistanceDate: January 25, 2025Source: Retrieved on May 8, 2025 from muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2025/01/24/decolonize-anarchism-anti-imperialism-of-the-idiots/ Following Iran’s rocket and drone strikes on the Israeli apartheid regime on April 13th, authoritarian leftists in the Global North once again turned a blind eye to the struggles of oppressed peoples. Instead of focusing on...

Author: Muntjac CollectiveTitle: Muntjac Magazine #2 Insurgency & Counter-InsurgencyDate: 02/05/2025Source: Retrived on 05/05/2025 from https://muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/02/muntjac-issue-2/ <strong>Contents</strong> Mutt. — Editorial Zhachev — They Who Returned to the Rock Sidiq — Pengar / Hangover Mar — this poem is dedicated to uncle Margeret Kimblerly & Roddy Rod — Martinique’s History of Resistance Simoun Magsalin — The Anarchy of the Peripheries: Preliminary Notes to a Study of...

Author: Laurance LabadieTitle: Infantile RadicalismDate: 1949Notes: Published in Vol. 8 No. 3 of the anarchist journal Resistance. Brackets used to mark small grammatical and spelling corrections where possible.Source: Retrieved on 4/3/23 from https://c4ss.org/content/58262 A mature person is one who has outgrown childish emotional impulses. He has learnt about himself and his environment thru personal experience, and has become able to control his emotional feelings...

Author: Osamu DazaiTitle: About FactionsDate: 1948Notes: Translated by the Panty Sniffers InternationalSource: https://ja.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dazai-osamu-totou Factions are governments. By the looks of things, governments also seem to be power. Well if that’s the case, then maybe factions are organizations created with power as an objective. What’s more is that such power possibly only finds hope within the “majority,” at the end of the day. Nevertheless, in...

Author: Laurance LabadieTitle: Is Credulity Sweeping the World?Date: 1937Notes: Originally published in Vol. 1 No. 6 of Labadie’s own publication Discussion: A Journal of Free Spirits. Brackets used to mark small grammatical and spelling corrections where possible.Source: Retrieved on 5/6/25 from https://c4ss.org/content/60239 Somewhere in his book, What is Property[?], Proudhon tells of a Parisian of the 17th century who heard it said that in...

Author: E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe) and George Bradford (David Watson)Title: Blood and Soil IdeologiesSubtitle: Excerpt-ReprintDate: 2018, SummerSource: Accessed May 5, 2025 at https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/401-summer-2018/blood-and-soil-ideologies/ The following is an excerpt from an article commenting on the 1993 Palestine Liberation Organization/Israel peace agreement, “The PLO/Israeli Treaty: Another Defeat for the Palestinians,” from Fifth Estate #343, Fall/Winter 1993. ( https://www.fifthestate.org/343-fall-winter-1993/the-plo-israeli-treaty/ ) Few realize that in the 45 years...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 24.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: July 7, 1888Notes: Whole No. 128. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on May 5, 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: HaraamiTitle: Follow the FiresSubtitle: Insurgency Against IdentityDate: June 2024Source: https://livingandfighting.net/Follow-the-Fires “Unlearn the identity and ally politics you learned at colleges and non-profits, or from people who work at colleges and nonprofits. They are tools of counterinsurgency and make you really fucking annoying.” —Wendy Trevino 1. BIPOC radicalism is an imprecise name for a number of slippery dynamics and tendencies that foster repressive habits,...

Author: The Peer ReviewTitle: Ten Theses on Science and RadicalismDate: 2025Notes: Issue #2 of The Peer Review zine. Letter from the Editor The anarchist response to the emergence of COVID-19 put divisions in the movement into stark relief. On the one hand, many recognized its severity and the resulting need for quarantine, social distancing, and vaccination. There was a strong moral imperative to protect...

Author: Simoun MagsalinTitle: Rebel PeripheriesDate: May 1, 2025Source: Muntjac Magazine. Retrieved on May 3, 2025 from <muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/02/rebel-peripheries> and <bandilangitim.xyz/library/simoun-magsalin-rebel-peripheries-en>.   ~Dedicated to the anarchists and abolitionists in the Philippines that we’ve met along the way, including those who have moved on or fallen out of touch   When anarchism (or any other idea for that matter) is brought into new contexts, it necessarily enters...

Author: Organise!, Peter Ó MáilleTitle: Mayday 2025. Some Thoughts.Date: May 1st, 2025 (May Day)Source: https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/05/01/mayday-2025-editorial/ “It is not murder, however, of which you have convicted me. The judge has stated that much only this morning in his resume of the case, and Grinnell has repeatedly asserted that we were being tried not for murder, but for anarchy, so the condemnation is—that I am an...

Author: Gáspár Miklós TamásTitle: Communism on the Ruins of SocialismDate: 2012Notes: Transcribed from a lecture given at "The Idea of Communism" conference, 2012Source: https://isr.press/Tamas_Communism/index.html Our beloved heroine has said our choice is ‘socialism or barbarism.’ It is quite clear what she meant. Capitalism threatens to annihilate civilisation. Socialism took it upon itself to save it. By ‘socialism’ we should understand ‘the real movement’ –...

Author: Ted GrimsrudTitle: The anarchistic appeal of the BibleSubtitle: A needed story for human wellbeingDate: 2021Source: Retrieved on May 1, 2025 from https://thinkingpacifism.net/2021/02/16/the-anarchistic-appeal-of-the-bible-a-needed-story-for-human-wellbeing-theological-memoir-11/ I would say that I got politicized in the mid-1970s, about the time I finished college. I grew up paying attention to the news. My dad was a high school social studies teacher, so keeping up on current affairs was part...

Author: Ted GrimsrudTitle: John Howard Yoder and anarchismDate: 2013Source: Retrieved on May 1, 2025 from https://thinkingpacifism.net/2013/07/10/john-howard-yoder-and-anarchism/ A number of years ago when I read George Woodcock’s classic history of Anarchism, I found the thinking he described quite attractive. I spent some time considering how compatible anarchism would be with my Christian pacifism. I have believed it would be, but never quite found time to...

Author: The Peer ReviewTitle: Ten Theses on Science and RadicalismDate: 2025Notes: Issue #1 of The Peer Review zine. First things first What is critical thinking… Some writers and philosophers have approach defining it broad strokes: Robert Ennis, who spent six decades writing about the topic, claimed that critical thinking is simply “reasonable reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do.”...

Author: Muntjac CollectiveTitle: What is Anarchism?Subtitle: Everything you need to know about anarchism, its connection to decolonisation and how you can join the movementDate: April 17, 2025Source: Retrieved on 2025-05-01 from <shado-mag.com/know/what-is-anarchism> What is anarchism? Anarchism is the unity between means and ends, fighting for freedom in freedom. Anarchism is a philosophy, social movement, lens of analysis, and way of life built on the...

Author: Basel al-ArajTitle: Exiting Law and Entering RevolutionDate: 2024Notes: Translated by Bassem SaadSource: https://www.thebadside.net/tbs-2-exiting-law Foreword by The Bad Side The assassination of Basel al-Araj in 2017—caught on camera and shared, proudly, by the official Twitter account of the IDF—silenced one of the most fearless, inventive voices on the Palestinian radical left. He was thirty-one. A writer, teacher, and militant opponent of the Zionist state,...

Author: William Lloyd GarrisonTitle: Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace ConventionDate: 1838Source: Retrieved on April 30, 2025 from https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/declaration-of-sentiments-adopted-by-the-peace-convention/ ASSEMBLED in Convention, from various sections of the American Union, for the promotion of peace on earth and good-will among men, we, the undersigned, regard it as due to ourselves, to the cause which we love, to the country in which we live, and...