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Author: Conor KostickTitle: The Biggest General Strike in Irish HistoryDate: 9/1/2020Source: Retrieved on 26/1/2025 from https://independentleft.ie/irelands-biggest-general-strike/ On Tuesday 13 April 1920 a general strike took place in Ireland that was by far the greatest strike in Irish history. All over the country there was a complete stoppage and not only that, in some regions and towns the workers took over the running of society,...

Author: Conor KostickTitle: Evasions on the Left over UkraineDate: 26/04/2022Source: Retrieved on 26/1/2025 from https://independentleft.ie/ukraine-evasions/ Evasions on the Left over Ukraine Wars are not light topics that can be dispensed of with simple formulas. I, for one, cannot imagine how the success of Russia would further the cause of democracy and socialism around the world. If you do, then say so, openly, so it...

Title: Hoods Hoods Klan InterviewDate: 30/5/2023Source: Retrieved on 26/1/2025 from https://independentleft.ie/hoods-hoods-klan-interview/ I met Eugene at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, 2023. He came by the event and gave an impromptu talk at a panel on challenging imperialism. Afterwards, he agreed to meet me to be interviewed for the Independent Left website about his experiences with the Arsenal Kyiv, Hoods Hoods Klan, who have been the...

Title: Ireland and Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence 1916–23Notes: A discussion of the similarities and differences of the respective struggles of Ireland and Ukraine for independence, 1917-1923.Source: Retrieved on 26/1/2025 from https://independentleft.ie/ireland-and-ukraine/ Ireland and Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence 1916 – 23 Ireland and Ukraine had similiar challenges in the period 1916 – 1923. Conor Kostick, Irish writer and historian based in Dublin and Vladyslav Starodubtsev,...

Author: Conor KostickTitle: The Dawn of AnarchismSubtitle: Some bittersweet thoughts inspired by David Graeber & David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything.Date: December 2024Source: Irish Anarchist Network Magazine Some bittersweet thoughts inspired by David Graeber & David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything. Let’s start with a very plausible, almost mundane scene. A young mother is pushing a buggy on the canal path. It’s a cool...

Author: An AnarchistTitle: On TiqqunismDate: Nov 14, 2023Source: <underworldclearinghouse.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/14/on-tiqqunism-definitive-best-edition> We have to hate with intelligence and love with intelligence. —Marge Piercy, City of Darkness, City of Light, 1996 I: The Torah In February of 1999, a journal titled Tiqqunappeared in France. Its subtitle was Organe conscient du Parti Imaginaire (Conscious Organ of the Imaginary Party), followed by Exercices de Metaphysique Crtique (Exercises in Critical...

Author: Anonymous AnarchistTitle: Regarding the persecution and imprisonment of Kenan AyasDate: 11/2024Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:digital:unclassified:kenan_anarchist Kenan Ayas was extradited by the cypriot to the german state, where he is now being charged for being involved with a terrorist organisation. Kenan was not late in realising the brutal reality of injustice and dominance, since from his teenage years he was displaced by the fascist Turkish state, while...

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: Johann MostTitle: Gun control in the United StatesDate: 1885Source: The science of revolutionary warfare, 1885. General military armament has now been introduced in a number of ways. However, this cannot be achieved everywhere at the same time; it is also not possible to fire at all, except in cases where there is a fire; as with many similar cases, there is no specific...

Are you in and/or from South Asia and literate in a South Asian language? We are still looking for people to make the South Asian Anarchist Library up and running! Check out the Initiative for a South Asian Anarchist Library and contact us in our chatrooms. Also check out our guide on how to add a new language library. There are also initiatives for...

Author: Buenaventura DurrutiTitle: Self-discipline in the Workers’ MilitiaDate: 24 July 1936Notes: Originally published in Guerrilleros confederales by José Mira. English translation by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: I’ve been an anarchist my whole life and the fact that I’m responsible for this human collectivity won’t change my convictions. It was...

Author: Buenaventura DurrutiTitle: Speech from the Bujaraloz Town HallDate: 27 July 1936Notes: Speech given to the Durruti Column in Bujaraloz, after several militiamen ran away from their comrades during an aerial attack. The speech was reconstructed by Abel Paz from testimonies given by Liberto Ros and Pablo Ruiz, who described it as “a lesson in revolutionary combat.” English translation by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in...

Author: Robert EvansTitle: We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?Subtitle: How to navigate the future without a map.Date: January 21, 2025Source: Retrieved on 21st January 2025 from shatterzone.substack.com I don’t know where we go from here. Neither does anyone else. On the morning I wrote this I woke up groggy from my chemically assisted sleep to a barrage of horrors....

Author: Peter Ó MáilleTitle: Opposing War: What Shall Be Done?Subtitle: ReportbackDate: 16th January 2025Source: Retrieved on 18th January 2025 from organisemagazine.org.uk I wasn’t going to write anything, I went to listen and learn. “Opposing War. What should be done?” was an online public meeting organised by the Anarchist Communist Group [ACG], with talks by members of the Old Moles Collective, and a variety of...

Author: Emma GoldmanTitle: Why and How the Poor Should Not Have Many ChildrenDate: Early 20th CenturySource: Original transcription Every normal man and woman loves children and wants to have them. Children complete and beautify our lives. But it requires no argument to prove that society as it is constituted day is a wretched place for the children of the poor. And therefore poor people...

Author: AnafentosTitle: Neither Davos nor non-DavosSubtitle: Or Why we are indifferent to the schemes of all kinds of clowns of power:Date: 1988Notes: This text was written by the Cypriot anarchist group Anafentos (literary: without a master) in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1988. It was originally written in Greek and the English translation originates from the Cyprus Movements Archive. It deals with the Cyprus Problem from...

Author: Pëtr KropotkinTitle: An Open Letter of Peter Kropotkin to the Western WorkingmenDate: 1917Notes: From The Railway Review, London, UK, 29 June 1917, page 4. A redundant and/or inaccurate translation from Russian (Pochin, 1918, https://oldcancer.narod.ru/anarchism/PAK-olwew.htm) back into English was previously published for unknown reasons at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-open-letter-to-western-european-workersSource: Retrieved on 2021-02-25 from <peterkropotkin.org/an-open-letter-of-peter-kropotkin-to-the-western-working-men> Dear Comrades and Friends, — After having worked in your midst for 40...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Abortion Pill SafetySubtitle: Adapted from the Doctors Without Borders Self-managed Abortion Video Series and Chicago Abortion Fund Abortion ResourcesDate: 1/10/2025Notes: Visit HowToUseAbortionPill.org for more information Before and after abortion resources For some people, having an abortion is an easy decision. For others, it is a difficult decision. Every person should have the right and autonomy to determine their own health and life,...

Author: Soheil Arabi, Federation of Anarchism EraTitle: I am ThirstySubtitle: Two short statements from anarchists in Iran on the current uprisingDate: 2021Notes: Translated by Hasse-Nima GolkarSource: Retrieved January 12, 2025 from https://libcom.org/article/i-am-thirsty-statements-soheil-arabi-and-federation-anarchism-era-uprising-iran Soheil Arabi: I am thirsty! The People Want to Overthrow this System! Listen. Listen. This is a peaceful demonstration; why are you shooting at us? No one has taken the water away...

Author: Rudolf RockerTitle: Declaration of the Principles of SyndicalismDate: 1919Notes: Lecture by the comrade Rudolf Rocker on the occasion of the 12th syndicalist congress, held from 27–30 December 1919 in the „Luisenstädtisches Realgymnasium“{1} Berlin, Dresdener Straße. Translated by Cord-Christian Casper in 2019. Translator's note: This is a translation of Rudolf Rocker’s ‘Prinzipienerklärung des Syndikalismus’ (1919), an influential document in the history of anarchist syndicalism....

Author: anonymousTitle: States of SiegeDate: February 19th, 2024Source: https://illwill.com/states-of-siege I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. —Thomas Paine The present, due to its staggering complexities, is almost as conjectural as the past. We must prove our predictions about the future with action. —George Jackson On February 8th, 2024, a...

Author: Jonathan SlykTitle: Legend of the Squamish FiveDate: 2002Source: Anarchy, A Journal of Desire Armed, Number 53, Spring / Summer 2002. <archive.org/details/anarchy-53-direct-action-001/> At precisely 1:30 a.m. on the morning of May 31, 1982, four shunt reactors at the B.C. Hydro Cheekeye-Dunsmuir power transmission substation near Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island exploded with such a thunder that it woke area residents up for ten miles...

Author: Lake Effect CollectiveTitle: Seattle is Never Coming BackSubtitle: Reflections on the DNCDate: 09/07/2024Source: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2024/09/07/seattle-is-never-coming-back/ The Democratic National Convention descended on Chicago during the last week of August, bringing with it swarms of police and politicians who quickly rendered the city uninhabitable. In response, Chicago’s major Palestine-sympathetic organizations coordinated marches and demonstrations, and seemingly thousands of out-of-town activists came to visit, some of whom...

Author: Lake Effect CollectiveTitle: Reflections on the UChicago Popular University for Gaza EncampmentDate: 08/01/2024Source: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/01/reflections-on-the-uchicago-popular-university-for-gaza-encampment/ The final Gaza solidarity encampment to fall in the city of Chicago was pitched on June 8th at Buckingham Fountain, directly adjacent to Lake Shore Drive and within sight of the expanse of Lake Michigan. An hour and forty minutes into a small rally, a group of participants hurriedly...