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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....

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: 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...