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Author: Sonia Muñoz Llort and Nerd TeacherTitle: The Power of Having Diverse AnarchismsSubtitle: Building Alternatives Outside Neoliberal GlobalisationDate: 02.01.2025Source: https://morethanthisandthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/the-power-of-having-diverse-anarchisms-building-alternatives-outside-neoliberal-globalisation/?_thumbnail_id=1903 Introduction A Little Bit of Context Reasoning: Persistent Frustrations Organisation Within Our Movements: Building Mutual Care, Accountability, and Collective Responsibility Collaboration in Diversity: The Strength of Heterogeneity Resisting the Triple Supremacy of Globalised Capitalism: IGOs, Corporations, and International Alliances Conclusion Introduction A Little Bit...

Author: Tony SheatherTitle: Personal Stories, Familiar TalesDate: Winter 2019Source: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, #75, Winter, 2019, Page 23 “I can show you the scar, look!” I don’t remember the young chap’s name, I remember he was from an Asian background and he was applying the varnish to our new home extension floor. He was showing me and the house painter, Mickey, where “an artery in my...

Author: Abba GordinTitle: Communism UnmaskedSource: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b591661&seq=16 Book One: Communism ― Emerging Master-Class Ideology I. MARXISM AND MARXIANITY 1. The Double-Faced Mask MARXISM AS A TEACHING is composed of two elements. One is effervescent, volatile. The other is, by comparison, solid matter, sound and sane judgment, if overstatements made by it are overlooked, or, rather understood and, therefore, forgiven. One part of Marxism, if we...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Like Mushrooms After a RainSubtitle: The Jewish Insurrectionary Anarchists of BialystokDate: December 15, 2024Source: https://neversleep.noblogs.org/post/2024/12/19/like-mushrooms-after-a-rain-the-jewish-insurrectionary-anarchists-of-bialystok/ Preface “Groups sprang up like mushrooms after a rain in cities, villages, and hamlets.” —Yuda Grossman, Bialystok anarchist This is an incomplete history of some poor Jewish teenagers who spread a ton of anarchy from one small corner of the Russian Empire between 1903 and 1907. They...

Author: Gabriel KuhnTitle: The United Antifascist Liberation Front.Subtitle: A Fictional AccountDate: 2001Source: https://alpineanarchist.org/r_ualf.html I Aki was hitching. We were waiting three miles down the road. There was a crack in the walkie-talkie. Aki told us a single guy in a pretty fancy Mazda hadn’t picked him up. We took the log and laid it across the road. The Mazda came and stopped. For us...

Author: Bill BeechTitle: I would prefer revolutionary internationalismSubtitle: A response to Wayne Price's ‘Should Anarchists Defend Ukraine? A Response to Bill Beech’Date: 2024Source: https://libcom.org/article/i-would-prefer-revolutionary-internationalism (Black Flag, Autumn 2024, Vol 4.) ‘The struggle for class and self-liberation is not to be compared with national conflicts. It is the function of the impersonal State to squander lives in war, or of a superior class to regard...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Remembering Kate Austin, Missouri anarchist & feministDate: 2024Notes: KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 116, December 2024Source: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/s7h6bc ‘An early freethought and free love advocate, Austin was among those influenced by the legacy of the Haymarket anarchists and became a lifelong anarchist communist. […] In 1901 in the pages of Free Society, Austin joined Emma Goldman in defending Leon Czolgosz’s...

Author: Anarchist Federation of Cyber Communes (AF2C)Title: The Cyber-Anarchist ManifestoDate: 2023Notes: AF2C expects this text will be expanded on in the future.Source: Retrieved on December 20, 2024 from <af2c.org/manifesto.html> The Anarchist Federation of Cyber Communes is another chapter in the struggle against oppression, one which honours and builds on the web’s anarchist traditions. The web is a medium through which we can spread anarchist...

Author: Proletari 56Title: The usual suspects, the usual provocateursSubtitle: Thoughts on anarchism and communismDate: 2002Notes: Translated from Italian to Greek by L., and from Greek to English by the Clydeside Anarchist Noise collective in 2024.Source: https://noisenoisenoise.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1911/2024/12/pdf-zine2.pdf (Clydeside Anarchist Zine Issue #2) Introduction to our translation: I remember coming across this text some years back, translated into Greek for the magazine 'Βίδα', a collective with...

Author: Anonymous, It’s Going DownTitle: Reflections on IGD Mexico, Anarchist Media, and International SolidarityDate: December 20th, 2024Source: https://itsgoingdown.org/reflections-on-igd-mexico-anarchist-media-and-international-solidarity/ Social struggles south of the border in so-called Mexico held a somewhat uncomfortable space on IGD. One obvious reason being the language barrier which we sought as a project to overcome, translating voices directly from the ground, collectives, communities, and barrios in resistance in different parts...

Author: Ricardo MellaTitle: The problem of teachingDate: 1910Notes: Originally published in issue 5 of Acción Libertaria, December 16, 1910.Source: Retrieved on January 1, 2025 from https://www.ricardomella.org/pedagogia.html#articulo1 In contrast to religious education, which is increasingly opposed by people of very diverse political and social ideas, secular, neutral and rationalist education is advocated and implemented. At first, secularism sufficiently satisfied popular aspirations. But when it became...

Author: Antonio SentaTitle: Maria Luisa Berneri Richards (1918-1949)Date: 2019Notes: Patrizia Guarnieri (Editor), Intellectuals Displaced from Fascist Italy. Migrants, Exiles and Refugees Fleeing for Political and Racial Reasons, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2019. Open online publication. Translated by Tom DawkesSource: Accessed October 25, 2022 at https://intellettualinfuga.fupress.com/en//scheda/maria-luisaberneri-richards/2748 They were little girls--Malù was 8 and Giliana was 7--when they began their migrant wanderings in France with their...

Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: Intellectuals and ZenDate: 1968Source: Retrieved/Translation Finished on 12/23/2024 from https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/17/1/17_1_87/_pdf/-char/ja 1. The Buddha renounced his worldly circumstance of birth as well as the maintenance of that lifestyle. He also exhorted the now world-renowned teaching of attaining perfect enlightenment by means of criticism and purification. There are individuals called “friends who lead one to Buddhism by means of teaching” (kaylana-mitra) and the...

Author: AnafentosTitle: Anarchist Cooking Guide for the National Issue [Cyprus Problem]Date: 1987Notes: Article originally published in 1987 in issue 2-3 (double issue) of Cypriot Limassolian anarchist magazine 'Traino stin Poli' [Train in the City]. The original article was in Greek, the translation below originates from the Cyprus Movements Archive.Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:magazines:traino:no_2_3:anafentos_cyprob (A simple and boring explanation for those who do not understand the self-evident). APHRODITE...

Author: Anonymous, CrimethInc.Title: Turkish Anarchists on the Fight for KobanêDate: 2014-2015Source: Retrieved on February 7th, 2015 from http://crimethinc.com/texts/r/kobane/ In summer 2013, we interviewed the Turkish group Revolutionary Anarchist Action (Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet, or DAF) about the uprising that began in Gezi Park. At the end of summer 2014, we learned that DAF was supporting the fierce resistance that residents of the town of Kobanê...

Author: Eric LaursenTitle: Why I Don’t Owe ‘Anonymous’ a LampSubtitle: A reply to the anonymous attack on my book, 'The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the State'Date: 2024 Not long after my book, The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the State, was published in 2021, a review-cum-attack on it started appearing online, first (I think) on itsgoingdown.com, here. The anonymous author says,...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Queer Anarcho CommunismSubtitle: An A-Temporal ApproachDate: 12/16/2024Source: Uploaded from my own computer In this essay, I hope to put forward a queer anarchist communism for the 21st century and beyond through various lenses, particularly of Fredy Perlman, Walt Whitman, Bæden’s Journal of Queer Heresy, and the authors of the anarchist magazine Mother Earth. A queer anarchism: an event gives rise to multiplicities...

Author: Leila Al ShamiTitle: The future of Syria will be decided by the Syrians and nobody elseSubtitle: An interview with Leïla al-ShamiDate: 16 December 2024Notes: Originally publisehd in Lundi Matin #456, 16/12/2024. Translated by Autonomies.Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from autonomies.org Leïla al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab are the authors of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, an important book in which they...

Author: Julius GavrocheTitle: Syria: The dictator has fled, long live the revolutionDate: December 15, 2024Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from autonomies.org In less than two weeks, the Bashar al-Assad regime of Syria collapsed, with his flight to Russia, in the face of a military offensive conducted by a coalition of armed groups led by Hay?at Tahrir al-Sham. If we count his father’s reign,...

Author: Elia AyoubTitle: About the Syrian RevolutionDate: December 13, 2024Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from libcom.org The Syrian revolution started off as a bottom-up, working class uprising from the peripheries organised through local coordination committees. They set up local councils throughout the liberated areas that coordinated to provide services in the absence of a state. They actually experienced life without the state, and...

Author: Mary HansenTitle: A Vision of SacrificeDate: November 1907Notes: Published in Freedom vol. 21, no. 223, p. 67.Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from www.libertarian-labyrinth.org We selected the tallest of the bluffs, and climbed to its edge to view the sunrise. The air about us was thick and moist, the gaunt old trees stood out like ragged giants, while the bluff itself on which...

Author: Mary HansenTitle: Social Organism AgainDate: February 23, 1902Notes: Published in Free Society vol. IX, no. 8 (350), p. 3.Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from blog.fair-use.org That he who uses the social organism analogy does not see clearly, seems plain to me at least. A few weeks ago a prominent Socialist stood before an audience, and by way of proving social interdependence asked:...

Author: Mary HansenTitle: Our PurposeDate: April 1906Notes: Published in Mother Earth vol. 1, no. 2.Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from libcom.org I come, not with the blaring of trumpet,To herald the birth of a king;I come, not with traditional story,The life of a savior to sing;I come, not with jests for the silly,I come, not to worship the strong,But to question the powers...