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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...