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Author: Ōsugi SakaeTitle: Marx and BakuninSubtitle: Socialism and AnarchismDate: 1922Source: Retrieved on February 22, 2025 from https://www.ne.jp/asahi/anarchy/anarchy/data/osugi03.html#12 I In every capitalist country, socialists and anarchists are always portrayed as madmen, robbers, murderers, or spies used by the state itself. This is because the most effective method for a government is to make the people doubt the character of its enemy. However, this governmental method...

Author: Surveillance Self Defense CollectiveTitle: Surveillance Self Defense #1Subtitle: Things to Consider About VPNsDate: 2/21/2025 What is a VPN? A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, technically speaking, is a private network of computers connected over an encrypted protocol. Depending on how it is implemented, computers may talk to each other, the VPN server, and even networks outside of the VPN by routing traffic over...

Author: Rudolf RockerTitle: On the Concept of the Petty BourgeoisDate: 1953Source: Retrieved on February 21, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/rudolf-rocker/206-rudolf-rocker-ueber-den-begriff-des-kleinbuergers Proudhon. I have read not only all of his works, but also his 14 volumes of correspondence with great benefit. I still have a complete collection of all of his daily newspapers, from which one can gain a true picture of him and his time. Anyone...

Author: Peter ArshinovTitle: The Two OctobersDate: October 1927Notes: Written for the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, from Dielo Truda, No. 29, October 1927.Source: Written in 1927, first published in Dielo Truda ; Alexandre Skirda, Les Anarchistes dans la révolution russe, 1973, op. cit., pp. 185–195. The October of Workers and Peasants The victorious workers’ and peasants’ revolution of 1917 has been defined as...

Author: Peter ArshinovTitle: Constructive Problems of the Social RevolutionDate: 1923Notes: Translated by A W Zurbrugg. Peter Arshinov, from Anarkhitchchesky Vestnik, Berlin, August and September-October, 1923; see also Alexandre Skirda, Les Anarchistes dans la révolution russe, 1973, op. cit., pp. 197–215; an article by Clot in Le Libertaire, 1 April 1927, and in Pensiero e Voluntà, 1 November 1924. Peter Arshinov went on to contribute...

Author: Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste RévolutionnaireTitle: The Charter of LyonSubtitle: Adopted by conferences of the CGT-SR, Lyon, 1–2 November 1926Date: November 1926Notes: Translated by A W Zurbrugg.Source: Le Combat Syndicaliste, December 1926.   [This text is a founding document, it situates the thinking of Pierre Besnard and the French Revolutionary-Syndicalists (Confédération Générale du Travail Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire or CGT-SR). The CGT-SR organised several thousand workers,...

Author: Alexander DunlapTitle: The state is colonialism: Debating infrastructural colonization and the roots of socioecological catastropheDate: 2023Source: Political Geography Journal, Volume 107, p1-4 Abstract: Replying to criticism to the term infrastructural colonization, this commentary article discusses the colonial and how colonization is conceived. Infrastructural colonization, as opposed to colonialism, takes a literal approach to territorial control, landscape and socio-cultural change, exploring the literal colonization...

Author: RevolucianaTitle: Facing Fascism: SabotageDate: 31 Jan 2025Source: Retrieved on 19 Feb 2025 from revoluciana.net I’ve been meaning to write this post for the last week or two, but I’ve been so relieved to see that in the interim, so many people are already aware of a resource I’m about to discuss, and they have been sharing it widely in my social media channels....

Author: Johann MostTitle: The Free SocietyDate: 1887Source: Retrieved on February 18, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/johann-most/8027-johann-most-die-freie-gesellschaft The greatest happiness that a person can achieve is a state in which everyone achieves the most complete satisfaction of all his needs with the least possible effort. The closer one comes to this relationship, the more definitely one will find one’s individual freedom preserved. For the shorter the period...

Author: Johann MostTitle: Long live tyrannicide!Date: 1881Notes: Leading article in the “Freiheit” Vol.III (1881), No. 12 (March 19), p. 1, edited by Most, under the title: “Finally!” The starting point is the successful assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander II. The authorship of Most, who largely wrote his leading articles himself, is also easily recognizable linguistically.Source: Retrieved on February 18, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/johann-most/7271-johann-most-es-lebe-der-tyrannenmord «Grab this...

Author: Bob MyersTitle: Against Ethnic Cleansing In The Former YugoslaviaSubtitle: How to take you back to the winter of '92Notes: This article is included as a chapter in the book Restructuring and Resistance in Western Europe, Diverse Voices of Struggle, edited by Kolya Abramsky, published by Resres Books in 2001.Source: accessed January 16, 2025 at https://struggle.ws/inter/seattle/yugoslavia.html It's very hard now, probably impossible, to capture...

Author: Jwana AzizTitle: We Are Not Pawns, We Are the People Who Rose Against the RegimeDate: December 18th 2024Notes: This article by Syrian writer Jwana Aziz reflects on the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Jwana examines the conditions that precipitated the 2011 uprising, the years of civil war, and the difficulties that now lay ahead for the Syrian people, while also holding open the...

Author: Simón Royo HernándezTitle: The timeliness of anarchismDate: 15/11/2024Notes: From Redes Libertarias (15/11/2024)Source: Retrieved on 15 February 2025 from https://autonomies.org/2024/12/simon-royo-hernandez-the-timeliness-of-anarchism/ When we look at what remains of the glorious and spectacular anarchist movement, the fullness of which we can situate between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, sadness and nostalgia come over us, for it...

Author: Sam WeinerTitle: Working with G. P. MaximoffDate: (July-August, 1950)Notes: Sam Dolgoff writing as Sam Weiner, Malcolm Archibald translatorSource: Delo-Truda Probuzhdenie #33 , pp. 13–14. Those who knew our late comrade Maximoff and his endeavors in spreading our ideas in Russia and other European countries, his contributions to our theoretical and practical problems, his work on the consolidation of the anarcho-syndicalist movement in Russia...

Author: Mikhail BakuninTitle: CommunismDate: 1843Source: Retrieved on February 14, 2025 from https://ru.anarchistlibraries.net/library/mihail-bakunin-kommunizm#fn_back3 The latest issue of the Observer<ref>The newspaper in question was Der Schweizerischer Beobachter (The Swiss Observer), which was published in Zurich and expressed the views of the conservative party.</ref> contains an article, or rather the beginning of an article, on Communism, which has struck us very pleasantly. It is written with a...

Author: Albert JensenTitle: Bolshevik imperialismDate: 1948Source: Retrieved on February 14, 2025 from https://sv.anarchistlibraries.net/library/albert-jensen-bolsjevikisk-imperialism Today’s situation gives cause for reflection for everyone, not least for all libertarian socialists. What is threatening humanity today? It is the spread of a state totalitarian system of government that makes all people slaves under a layer of politically powerful tyrants. Under this system, people are ruled day and night...

Author: Mikhail BakuninTitle: God or freedom?Date: 1868Notes: Speech at a congress of the League for Peace and Freedom held in Berne in 1868Source: Retrieved on February 14, 2025 from https://sv.anarchistlibraries.net/library/mikhail-bakunin-gud-eller-frihet It has been alleged that we are enemies of free speech because we oppose all religious ideas, but this assertion is in every respect incorrect. We are consistent and principled enemies of every authority,...

Author: Nhat HongTitle: Still Crazy After All These YearsSubtitle: Interview with Sam and Esther DolgoffSam & Esther Dolgoff 60 Years of AnarchismAn Interview by Nhat Hong, Parts 1 and 2Date: Spring 1982Notes: Interview in 1980 or 1981, second part part was unpublished.Source: Soil of Liberty Volume 8, No. 2 Editorial Note: This is the complete interview Nhat Hong conducted for the Minneapolis-based anarchist magazine,...

Author: Nicolas PalumboTitle: Recuperative RhetoricsSubtitle: A Novel Framework for Rhetorical AnalysisDate: 8-15-2024Notes: A thesis submitted to the College of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in ENGLISH by Nicolas Anthony Palumbo, August 2024. Graduate Thesis Chair: Dr. Lizbett TinocoSource: https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/masters_theses/26/ Abstract This thesis details the creation of the...

Author: Sam WeinerTitle: Fascist America?Date: March 1935Notes: Sam Dolgoff (writing as Sam Weiner).Source: Published in Vanguard, Volume 2, No. 1, March 1935, p.12–14. Five years of economic depression have produced a profound change in the attitude of large sections of our population toward the economic and political structure of American society. Millions of people are now more or less permeated with the feeling that...

Author: Sébastien FaureTitle: Voter, listen up!Date: 1919Source: Retrieved on February 11, 2025 from https://fr.m.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%89lecteur,_%C3%A9coute Voter, listen! Every time the powers of the Chamber of Deputies expire, there is a unanimous cry: “At last! This infamous Chamber will disappear! The country will be rid of this cursed Parliament!” This language expressly translates the successive feelings: disappointment, weariness, disgust that have been born in the public...

Author: Sébastien FaureTitle: The AnarchistsSubtitle: What they are, what they are notDate: 1920Source: Retrieved on February 11, 2025 from https://fr.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Anarchistes_ce_qu%E2%80%99ils_sont,_ce_qu%E2%80%99ils_ne_sont_pas Little is known about anarchists, and what is worse, they are poorly known. Question a hundred people in the street and ask them what they know about anarchists. Many will respond by spreading their arms or shrugging their shoulders, expressing their ignorance. Others, not...

Author: Good Night Imperial PrideTitle: An anarchist on fighting for UkraineSubtitle: “There are values that we place above states”Date: 14.01.2025Notes: Follow and support Good Night Imperial Pride: https://t.me/gnimperialpride instagram.com twitter.com facebook.comSource: telegra.ph Since the first day of the full-scale invasion, anarchist D. has been part of the Ukrainian armed resistance against russia. He joined the anti-authoritarian platoon as a volunteer and then served as...

Author: Abraham GuillenTitle: Decalogue of self-managementSource: Retrieved on February 7, 2025 from https://www.marxists.org/espanol/guillen/decalogo.htm Self-management: do not delegate popular power. Autonomy of initiatives: unite the whole and the parts in a federative socialism. Federation of self-managed organizations. Socialism must not be chaotic, but a coherent unity of the whole and its parts, of the region and the nation. Direct action: anti-capitalism, anti-bureaucratism, so that the...