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Author: RanranTitle: ARBEIT MACHT FREITSubtitle: “The illusion of the abolition of work”Date: UnknownNotes: A response to “The Abolition of Work and Other Myths” by Neala Schleuning.Source: Translation of https://www.ne.jp/asahi/anarchy/anarchy/data/myth02.html “Everybody hates work”, “The aversion to work surpasses culture and time, and is an eternal trait of mankind.” Neala Schleuning starts out by saying this and then comes closer to you for a hand shake,...

Author: CLODOTitle: Memory LossSubtitle: Collected Communiques from CLODODate: Summer 2022Notes: Presents a history of the French group CLODO, which attacked and sabotaged computers in the 1980s. The zine contains a timeline of action, two communiques, and an interview of the group. Along with these items, there is a helpful introduction which contextualizes the group and its activities and situations them in relation to other...

Author: Buenaventura DurrutiTitle: Withdrawal in BujaralozDate: 1936Notes: Speech on the withdrawal and loss of positions in the Ebro valley of the anti-national side, August 1936.Source: Abel Paz, Durruti in the Spanish Revolution, CHAPTER VIII. The Durruti Column, 1986. Friends, no one forced you to join the Column. You chose your fate freely and the fate of the first CNT-FAI Column is quite thankless indeed....

Author: Jessica Moran, Barry PatemanTitle: Prison Memoirs of an AnarchistSubtitle: Introduction to 2017 AK Press editionDate: 2017Notes: See also on The anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-prison-memoirs-of-an-anarchist.Source: Scanned from AK Press edition, 2017 Alexander Berkman was released from the Allegheny workhouse in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania on May 18, 1906. He had been there for nine months, since July 1905, and prior to that had spent nearly thirteen years...

Author: Japan TimesTitle: Life of anarchist-feminist revisited 100 years after her murderDate: September 11, 2023Source: Retrieved on january 9, 2025 from https://anarchistnews.org/content/life-anarchist-feminist-revisited-100-years-after-her-murder Sept. 16 will mark 100 years since the brutal killing of Noe Ito, a Japanese anarchist, author and social critic of the Meiji and Taisho eras, who was targeted and killed in the massacres that followed the Great Kanto Earthquake. Although opinions...

Author: Isaac PuenteTitle: The Society of the Future: Anarchic CommunismDate: 1933Source: Retrieved on January 9, 2025 from https://www.portaloaca.com/pensamientolibertario/textosanarquismo/isaac-puente-compilacion-de-escritos/ The global economic crisis, a symptom of the death of capitalist society The same thing happens to social forms as to human beings: they are born with difficulty, struggling with numerous obstacles and threats; they grow and develop until they reach a certain limit, and, from...

Author: Isaac PuenteTitle: Concepts of libertarian communismDate: 1936Source: Solidaridad Obrera, Barcelona, February 26, 1936. DEFINITION — Libertarian Communism is a form of social organization in which the government of men is replaced by the collective administration of things. Although this definition is very clear, it requires explanations. It is about finding the bases of social coexistence that guarantee the fundamental rights of man: the...

Author: Carl Tobias FrayneTitle: Individualist Anarchism in France and its LegacyDate: 2022Notes: PhD Thesis. Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. University of Cambridge, 2022.Source: Retrieved on 2023-08-11 from <repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332807>   À mon grand-père, Un homme de lettres, de racines et d’histoires. Abstract This thesis rehabilitates an understudied branch of the libertarian movement, namely French individualist anarchism, which was most active during the Belle Époque....

Author: Federica MontsenyTitle: Definition of anarchismDate: 1931Source: Retrieved on January 8, 2025 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/anarchist-beginnings/federica-montseny-definicion-del-anarquismo-1931/ Comrades and friends: The intelligent core of comrades organizing this Athenaeum has been kind enough to honor me by appointing me to explain what the anarchist ideal is to the good wills gathered on this evening of its inauguration. The mission is certainly not easy. It would be, if I...

Author: Erica LagalisseTitle: The Elvis of AnthropologySubtitle: Eulogy for David GraeberDate: October 1, 2020Notes: Published online in The Sociological Review Magazine. DOI: <doi.org/10.51428/tsr.sylg4475>Source: Retrieved on September 30, 2022 from <thesociologicalreview.org/collections/guest-essays/the-elvis-of-anthropology> The feeding frenzy has begun. Everyone was best friends with David Graeber. David would have liked it – he had come to rely on superficial forms of recognition. He would also be mad (so...

Author: PrameńTitle: Trading people like little wrappersSubtitle: Murderers and scammers in exchange for journalists and civil activistsDate: 2 August 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th January 2025 from pramen.io How to release political prisoners is one of the most complex debates of our time. On the one hand, diasporas have little or no power to influence the fate of prisoners, except for support during their time...

Author: PrameńTitle: Destabilization of Russia as a way to freedom in BelarusDate: 3 October 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th January 2025 from pramen.io If you ask Belarusian anarchists today what they think about Russian society and the Russian anarchist movement in particular, you are unlikely to hear positive responses. And although the gap between the movements in BUR (Belarus, Ukraine, Russia) existed before 2022 and...

Author: PrameńTitle: How does Lukashenko’s regime help a German fascist make money?Date: 25 September 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th January 2025 from pramen.io Yesterday the Belarusian opposition media published information that the German far-right politician from the “Alternative for Germany” Jörg Dornau uses slave labor of prisoners, including political prisoners, in production in Belarus. It’s hard to pass by such information and leave it without...

Author: PrameńTitle: Anarchism on the peripherySubtitle: Struggle under conditions of emigration and warDate: 6 November 2024Source: Retrieved on 8th January 2025 from pramen.io This text was written by a small group of Russian anarchists. We are not in Russia and are actively engaged in revolutionary struggle in another country.In this article we examine the current situation of the anarchist movement in the Russian Federation...

Author: Solidarity CollectivesTitle: Ukraine is not the only battleground against imperialismDate: January 7, 2025Source: Retrieved on 8th January 2025 from www.solidaritycollectives.org Ukraine is not the only place in the world where people are waging an armed struggle against the imperialist encroachments of authoritarian regimes. For many decades, the Kurds — the world’s largest stateless ethnic group — have been fighting anyone who tries to...

Author: Emile ArmandTitle: In the World, but Not of the WorldDate: 1901Source: Retrieved on January 8, 2025 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/e-armand-in-the-world-but-not-of-the-world-1901/ …I have given them the word and the world has hated it, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world. I do not ask you to take them from the world, but to preserve them from evil. They are...

Author: Adam GreenfieldTitle: Beyond HopeDate: June 21st, 2024Source: Retrieved on January 7, 2025 from https://illwill.com/beyond-hope As the real impacts of climate change wreak ever greater havoc on our lives, it is increasingly clear that “climate change” has also become an ideological apparatus meant to entrap us in despair, policy paralysis, and reformist horizons. While North America once again bakes in a record-breaking heat wave...

Author: Z. ZoltyTitle: Benjaminain Resistance, Circumnavigating Border Walls, Negating Schmtitian KatechonDate: 01-01-2024Source: https://philpapers.org/rec/ZOLBDV Abstract   The current situation in the United States of America is that Latin immigrants and migrants are mistreated and subjected to gross human rights violations, with entire extensions of the Nation-State being given virtually unlimited power over a powerless populace. The current gap in the literature revolves around Agamben and...

Author: Vadym YakovlevTitle: Interview with an anti-militarist from OdessaDate: 5th Jan 2025Notes: The following interview was carried out by comrades from the Československé anarchistické sdružení – CAS a Czech Internationalist Anarchist Group.Source: https://anarcomuk.uk/2025/01/05/interview-with-an-anti-militarist-from-odessa/ 1)Please introduce yourself briefly to the readers of our magazine. Are you from Ukraine, where you were born and spent your youth? Hi. My name is Vadym Yakovlev, I’m Ukrainian queer...

Author: A.P.Title: Cyprus, the National Issue and NationalismSubtitle: A Libertarian AnalysisDate: 1984Notes: This pamphlet was published in 1984, by an anonymous Cypriot Anarchist and was first published in “FILLA POREIAS” (lit. Drafting Papers), issue 4, edited by Leonidas Christakis, in Athens. It was originally written and discussed with the group that produced the magazine Mavres Pinelies. The translation originates from the Cyprus Movements Archive...

Author: Anselmo LorenzoTitle: The conquerors of breadDate: 1915Notes: Written in his final days in 1914, it was published in a special issue of <em>Tierra y Libertad in 1915. It was accompanied by a note: “He wrote this article a few days before he died to publish it in the bourgeois press, which he was unable to achieve despite his efforts.”Source: Retrieved on January 6,...

Author: Anselmo LorenzoTitle: Against ignoranceDate: 1913Notes: Sociological lecture, read in Pueblo Nuevo on April 20, 1913, under the auspices of the Society of Rational Culture.Source: Retrieved on January 6, 2025 from https://www.portaloaca.com/pensamientolibertario/libros-anarquistas/libro-contra-la-ignorancia-anselmo-lorenzo/ The Rational Culture Society of Pueblo Nuevo, Barcelona, in view of my response to a query from the Workers' Culture Centre of Ferrol, published in Tierra y Libertad, asked me for an...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Every compromise in defense of Mother EarthSubtitle: An anarchist critique of Block Cop City’s nonviolence proposalDate: October 4, 2023Source: Retrieved on 2025-01-04 from <anarchistnews.org/content/every-compromise-defense-mother-earth> “If you think it’s stupid, if you think it’s liberal, you don’t have to come.” – A presenter, “Weelaunee Worldwide: Mass Action Speaking Tour” There is a proposed plan for a single day of nonviolent action on November...

Author: Sascha EngelTitle: Anti-civ Combat Reference Manual (Excerpt)Date: June 2024Source: Oak Distro Anti-civilization approaches, if indeed there are any, may appear well equipped with manuals regarding industrial sabotage, the making and use of incendiary devices, and the strategies and tactics of anti-institutional insurrection. Conversely perhaps, they may also appear to employ a wealth of works advising on withdrawal: guerilla planting, off-grid subsistence, and counter-economics....