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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...

Author: Erich MühsamTitle: State and churchDate: 1927Source: Retrieved on February 9, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/erich-muehsam/152-erich-muehsam-staat-und-kirche The struggle that Mexican President Calles is waging to free the state from the overwhelming influence of the clergy offers no reason at all for the exuberant enthusiasm with which revolutionaries all over the world celebrate the victory of freedom over the enslavement of the spirit. Certainly the forms of...

Author: Erich MühsamTitle: Tolstoy’s legacyDate: 1928Source: Retrieved on February 9, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/anarchistische-klassiker/erich-muehsam/8078-erich-muehsam-tolstois-vermaechtnis Today’s revolutionaries would not have worried about Leo Tolstoy’s centenary if he had died at the moment when he saw his poetic work completed and cursed the time and effort it had cost him, since he felt it was stolen from his work for truth and for the freedom of mankind....

Author: Your anarchist comrades in NESTitle: Diaries of the new dawn of a new SyriaSubtitle: A collection of analysesDate: 09.02.25 Introduction The dictatorship of the Assad regime collapsed after more than 50 years. Although its downfall appears to be an overnight event, it is a complex result of many contradictions, balance of forces, geopolitical shifts and Syrian people’s struggle for freedom. There is much...

Author: AnarchblrTitle: Notes and Commentary on Du BoisDate: April 28, 2020Notes: Edited for a better reading.Source: Retrived on February 7 2025 from https://anarchblr.tumblr.com/post/616684192587186176/dubois-and-anarchism and https://anarchblr.tumblr.com/post/665316247138893825/to-what-extent-and-in-what-ways-do-you-think Du Bois and Anarchism I think my biggest reservation towards Du Bois in particular is his view that there’s a redeemable part of the United States, that liberty can coexist with the US due to the ideals which it,...

Author: Camillo BerneriTitle: Anarchism and anticlericalismDate: 1936Source: Extracted from Anarchism and Politics. The “Minimum Program” of the Libertarians of the Third Millennium, by Stefano d’Errico. Published as “Anarchismo e anticlericalismo” in L’Adunata dei Refrattari, N. Y., 18-1-1936. The Esperantist magazine Herezulo has published a “letter from Russia” dated 20-5-1935, from which I reveal the following extract: “Perhaps you might be interested to know that...

Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: Universal SufferingDate: 1/27/1964Source: Retrieved from https://hu.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/846 and translation finished on 1/31/2025 Translator’s Note: After seeing a humble comrade putting a note on a Tsuji Jun piece, I was inspired to follow suit. This is an amateur translation. I put months of effort into making it as easy a read as possible but it is a decently heady philosophy piece so I...

Author: Z. ZoltyTitle: Benjaminian Resistance, Circumnavigating Border walls, Negating Schmittian KatechonDate: 1, 1, 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...

Author: Sudan Anarchist Gathering, CNT-AIT France, and their friendsTitle: HopeSubtitle: Issue #1Date: Jan 2025Notes: This is the first issue of a paper "الأمل", meaning 'hope', also published with the name "Espoir". Four A4 page paper, two of which are English, two are Arabic. The English portion is here.Source: Retrieved from original Sudan: they are not satisfied with this blood! After nearly two years of...

Author: Iberian Anarchist FederationTitle: Statutes of the FAIDate: 1937Source: Retrieved on January 30, 2025 from https://acracia.org/historico/Acracia/Documentos-1937_Estatutos_de_la_FAI.html The Iberian Anarchist Federation has been the most important specific organization of Spanish anarchism. Since its foundation in 1927, it has withstood the attacks of all the enemies of anarchism who, adhering to an imaginary conspiracy theory, have tried to blame it for the hegemony of the anarchists...

Author: Zac LarkhamTitle: Finding Joy in Queer ActivismSubtitle: An AutoethnographyDate: 01/05/2024 #notes so this is my undergrad dissertation. a lot of people have been asking me to read it and i do think i can be genuinely useful, it won an award so it must be half decent. I’ve put it here in full but please don’t feel you have to read in full...

Author: Sebastian KalichaTitle: Christian anarchismDate: 2013Source: Retrieved on January 28, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/religionskritik/christliche-religionen/7760-sebastian-kalicha-christlicher-anarchismus Class struggle, anti-fascism and the peace movement A succinct characterization of Christian anarchism could be as follows: Christianity is understood in a way that ultimately amounts to something in political and social questions that political activists in the labor movement of the late 19th century began to call "anarchism" or "libertarian...

Author: Heiner KoechlinTitle: Christianity, Church and AnarchismDate: 1974Notes: Akratic contribution to a Christian confrontation. Slightly modified lecture given in the Catholic Franciscan community in Riehen near Basel.Source: Retrieved on January 28, 2025 from https: https://www.anarchismus.at/religionskritik/christliche-religionen/8215-heiner-koechlin-christentum-kirche-und-anarchismus Dear attendees, I would like to thank you for your kind invitation. At the same time, I would like to express the hope that your confrontation with anarchism will...

Author: Alfonso Martínez RizoTitle: 1945Subtitle: The advent of libertarian communismDate: 1932 Brief introduction I think that before starting the novel I should give the reader a brief explanation of certain points, because I fear that if I do not make things clear from the beginning, I will be unpleasant from the beginning of the book. The aim is to perform an educational function that...

Author: Dubian AdeTitle: Black Is Crime: Notes on BlaqillegalismDate: 12 March 2022Source: Retrieved on 2025/01/28 from https://afanarchists.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/black-is-crime-notes-on-blaqillegalism/ “As long as I’m alive I’ma live illegal, and once I get on I’ma put on all my people” – Prodigy “The fugitive nature of Blackness, the inherent outlawing of our bodies by the state and our positionality as being already outside of the law, gives rise...

Author: Lucas PoyTitle: The Swan Song of Latin American Anarcho-SyndicalismSubtitle: The Asociación Continental Americana de TrabajadoresDate: 2020Source: Excerpted from “Working Class Politics and Labour Internationalism in Latin America: An Overview of Labour International Organisations in the Region During the Interwar Period (1919–1939)” In May 1929, while communist trade unionists got together in Montevideo to create the CSLA, another founding congress was taking place across...

Author: Johann MostTitle: Godlessness: A Critique of the Idea of GodDate: 1870Source: Retrieved on January 28, 2025 from https://www.anarchismus.at/religionskritik/christliche-religionen/6734-johann-most-die-gottlosigkeit-eine-kritik-der-gottes-idee 1. From Faith Many things are believed about God, while in fact nothing is known about him. For belief is a negation of knowledge; one only believes what one does not know; what one does know one no longer needs to believe. One can suspect...

Author: Noam Deguerre, CrimethInc. Writers’ BlocTitle: Fighting for Our LivesSubtitle: An Anarchist PrimerDate: 2002-09-18Source: <crimethinc.com/2017/11/28/fighting-for-our-lives-an-anarchist-primer> Overture: A True Story We dropped out of school, got divorced, broke with our families and ourselves and everything we’d ever known. We quit our jobs, violated our leases, threw our furniture out on the sidewalk, and hit the road. We sat on the swings of children’s playgrounds until...

Author: Soe NoireTitle: Three Black Women, Why Did They Die?Subtitle: An Anarkata ZineDate: January 22 2025Source: https://www.soenoire.com/shop/p/3bwwdtd This pamphlet was created by Soe Noire, inspired by the 1979 pamphlet created by the Combahee River Collective. It was created for Black Women. If you are not a Black Woman, please read it and share it with a Black Woman. In a country that does not...

Author: Z. ZoltyTitle: Benjaminian Resistance, Circumnavigating Border Walls, Negating Schmittian 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...