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Author: La Voz de la MujerTitle: Let’s love? No. Let’s fight!Date: 1896Notes: Article by Argentine anarchist and feminist activist Pepita Gherra in issue 2 of La Voz de la Mujer on January 31, 1896.Source: Retrieved on March 12, 2025 from https://www.marxists.org/espanol/gherra/1896/amemos-luchemos.htm What’s the matter, tender and innocent child? Why does the blush cover your cheeks? Why are you agitated and ashamed? What’s the matter?...

Author: Federica MontsenyTitle: Feminism and humanismDate: 1924Source: La Revista Blanca, 1-10-1924, page 12–14. A kind and anonymous friend sent me a copy of a newspaper, saying, “In case you’re interested”. The newspaper sent was El Pueblo, from Valencia, and the sender pointed it out and I saw an article titled “The Third Sex” and signed by Antonio Dubois. The article, of course, speaks of...

Author: Emma GoldmanTitle: Social situation of womenDate: 1936Source: Retrieved on March 11, 2025 from https://es.anarchistlibraries.net/library/emma-goldman-situacion-social-de-la-mujer Human progress is very slow. It has been said that for every step forward, humanity has taken two steps toward slavery. Only over the centuries has it freed itself from its attitude of submissive worship of the Church, the divine right of kings, and the power of the ruling...

Author: AnonymousTitle: The Undying Appeal of White NationalismSubtitle: Neofascism in the Cultural, Artistic, and Ecological MovementsDate: 2015Source: https://nycantifa.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/undying-appeal-of-white-nationalism/ The earth is firmly enveloped in crisis. This crisis is at once material and existential. The economy can no longer support the human weight that bends it at its foundation. Can not, or will not. The aftermath of the recession has produced only one reality: an...

Author: AnonymousTitle: #FreeCaseyNowSubtitle: On Casey Goonan and the Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine MovementDate: 1/1/2025Source: https://unravel.noblogs.org/freecaseynow-on-casey-goonan-and-the-abandonment-of-political-prisoners-in-the-pro-palestine-movement/ Casey Goonan is the only US political prisoner from the 2024 pro-Palestine student encampments. They are an abolitionist and anarchist who has dedicated themselves to multiple forms of prisoner support work and directly engaging with incarcerated comrades. The impact they’ve made inside is prevalent, as indicated...

Author: Anarchist Communist Group, Czechoslovak Anarchist AssociationTitle: Interview with Ukrainian War ResisterDate: March 3rd, 2025Source: https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2025/03/03/interview-with-ukrainian-war-resister/ In December 2024 some media sites reported on the rescue of a Ukrainian man and his kitten in the mountains in Romania after crossing the border from Ukraine[1]. They failed to mention the reasons why he fled. The Czechoslovak Anarchist Association (ČAS) contacted him for an interview. An...

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: The Dawn-Light of AnarchyDate: 1887Notes: The events of May 4, 1886 were a major influence on the oratory of Voltairine de Cleyre. Following the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs on November 11, 1887, she gave an annual address to commemorate the date of their sacrifice. The following memorial speech was first delivered in Chicago on November 11, 1901. It was...

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: Modern Educational ReformDate: 1910Notes: Speech given at a conference in New YorkSource: Retrieved on March 8, 2025 from https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voltairine-de-cleyre/unknown/modern-educational-reform.html Questions of genuine importance to large masses of people, are not posed by a single questioner, nor even by a limited number. They are put with more or less precision, with more or less consciousness of their scope and demand by...

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: The Gates of FreedomDate: 1891Notes: Address delivered before the Liberal Convention at Topeka, Kan., March 15, ‘89‘.Source: Retrieved on March 8, 2025 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/the-sex-question/voltairine-de-cleyre-the-gates-of-freedom-1891/ “They have rights who dare maintain them.” This is my text. And the purpose of my lecture is threefold. First to state the facts concerning the actual status of woman in relation to society as a...

Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: A Side View of Ikkyu’s “Insanity”Date: 1970Source: Retrieved and Translation finished on 3/6/2025 from https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/19/1/19_1_59/_pdf/-char/ja 1. In Ikkyu Sojun’s anthology of poems, the word “furyu” (風流) (henceforth, Elegance) can be seen innumerable times (152) with various meanings, while the word “fukyou” (風狂) (henceforth, Insanity) can only be found in two places — “An Insane Visitor Stirs Up a Raging Wind” (風狂の狂客、狂風を起す)...

Author: Augustin SouchyTitle: The Cuban Libertarians and the Castro DictatorshipDate: 1975Notes: Original text: Akratie No. 4, Autumn 1975.Source: Retrieved on March 6, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/augustin-souchy/7270-augustin-souchy-die-kubanischen-libertarios-und-die-castro-diktatur The beginnings of the anarchist movement in Cuba go back to the last century. When the island was still a Spanish colony, anarchists who had immigrated from Spain propagated the ideas of the First International: “The liberation of the...

Author: Amaterasu SolarTitle: The Third Option: Anarcho-AbundancismSubtitle: A beacon between anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communismDate: 04-7-2024Notes: There are images but it seems they cannot be added here....Source: odysee.com So My frenemy dropped a link to an article entitled, Bridging the Divide: Anarcho-Capitalism vs. Anarcho-Communism — A Debate on Stateless Societies and Human Nature. Needless to say, I was intrigued. He is so on Me about being...

Author: rowanTitle: Revolutionary Trans Politics and the Three Way FightDate: 6/4/23Source: https://threewayfight.org/revolutionary-trans-politics-and-the-three-way-fight-an-interview-with-rowan/ 3WF: Trans and other gender-nonconforming people have become a major target of right-wing political attacks in recent years, and they continue to be major targets of systemic oppression and physical violence in U.S. society. How do you apply a three way fight framework to help us understand the contending forces in this...

Author: Sergei StepniakTitle: Underground RussiaSubtitle: Revolutionary Profiles and Sketches from LifeDate: 1883Notes: Cover Photograph of Sergius Stepniak (Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky) by Elliott & Fry.This work is in the public domain.Source: <archive.org/details/undergroundruss00lavrgoog> Preface The Socialist and Revolutionary movement in Russia could not fail to attract the attention of Western Europe. It is only natural, therefore, that in every European language a somewhat extensive literature should be...

Author: Ferdinand Domela NieuwenhuisTitle: Social Democratic and Anarchist AntimilitarismDate: 1908Notes: In his book on “Militarism and Antimilitarism,” Dr. Liebknecht made lengthy, partly open, partly hidden attacks against our Dutch comrade Domela Nieuwenhuis. The latter published his reply in the Flemish monthly “Ontwaking,” which was sent to Liebknecht long before he began his sentence in the fortress. Comrade N. complied with our request and request...

Author: Les U. KnightTitle: Why Real Anarchists Don’t BreedDate: March 30, 2002Notes: Special edition newsletter for VHEMT information table at The San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair March 30, 2002. Note: A wide range of political orientations exists within The Movement. Although I personally favor anarchy, many Volunteers and Supporters do not. Les.Source: https://www.vhemt.org/anobreed.htm Why Real Anarchists Don’t Breed We anarchists have many reasons to...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: To the resistance societiesDate: 1903Source: La Huelga General, year 2, num. 14, 5-3-1903 and La Huelga General, year 2, num. 16, 5-4-1903 To the resistance societies (March 5, 1903) Since our reappearance we have been encouraging the study of society on the day after the triumph of the revolutionary strike. For the corresponding section we have received something, very little; but...

Author: Augustin SouchyTitle: Why?Date: 1915Source: Retrieved on March 4, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/augustin-souchy/7674-augustin-souchy-warum-antimilitaristisches-flugblatt-1915 The great European war lasted a year. Up to now the situation is, on the whole, such that we cannot yet say when peace will be made. Thousands, millions of human lives: young, flourishing, hopeful people, along with millions and millions more material values, have been destroyed in the current war. Countless...

Author: Augustin SouchyTitle: Experiences from Revolutions of the 20th CenturyDate: 1981Source: Retrieved on March 4, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/augustin-souchy/6196-souchy-erfahrungen-aus-erlebten-revolutionen-des-20-jahrhunderts A violent revolution can overthrow an authoritarian system of rule and pave the way for freer forms of society, but it can also usher in an even harsher dictatorship. Beware of victorious revolutionary leaders. They usually become autocratic dictators! A free society cannot be established by...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: Coercion always comes from above; for the General Strike it will come from belowDate: 1902Source: La Huelga General, year 2, num. 8, 25-1-1902 Under the current capitalist regime, workers are subjected to constant coercion. The manufacturers begin by firing the initiators of all social movements with the sole purpose of coercing those who try to continue their association plans. If, despite...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: Three thousand workers at the burial of a victim; none to hold the perpetrator accountableDate: 1902Source: La Huelga General, year 2, num. 9, 5-2-1902 The workers who are currently on strike are ill advised. And it is not because they did not foresee in the columns of the La Huelga General that if the strikers appealed only to the Civil Government,...

Author: Francisco FerrerTitle: EnvyDate: 1885 Letter to Mr. Ricardo Fajarnes Dear friend: When I was very young, I understood that the farces of religion were detrimental to the progress and well-being of humanity, so in 1885 I conceived the idea of putting into discourse all those things about sins, eternal punishments, commandments of the church, articles of faith, etc., and I thought of writing...

Author: CNTTitle: Comrade Durruti SpeaksDate: 6 October 1936Notes: Originally published in the newspaper CNT. Translated by Chuck Morse.Source: Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. We make the war and the revolution at the same time. Militiamen are fighting for the conquest of the land, the factories, bread, and culture... the pickaxe and the shovel are as important as the rifle. Comrades, we...

Author: Kanzan KitsuneTitle: The Garden PathDate: Spring 2018Notes: Re-printed and annotated in Return Fire vol.6 chap.2 (winter 2020-2021). To read the article referenced in this text in [square brackets], PDFs of Return Fire and related publications can be read, downloaded and printed by visiting returnfire.noblogs.org or emailing returnfire@riseup.netSource: Backwoods #1 Sudajii (Castanopsis cuspidata var. sieboldii): Ample moss-covered trunk rooted firmly on the ridge line...