Author: Alex Gorrion Title: We Want to Be Great Like Our Crime Subtitle: The Criminal Ego and the Struggle in Society Date: June 20, 2010 Source: The Anvil Review On Isabelle Eberhardt's “Criminal” and Renzo Novatore's “Toward the Creative Nothing” Quotes refer to the Eberhardt Press edition and the Venomous Butterfly Publications edition, respectively. Crime In “Criminal,” Isabelle Eberhardt's memoir of land colonization in Algeria written around the turn of the last century, the farmer Mohammed Achouri cuts an interesting figure. A “tall thin old man with the face of an ascetic, his hard f ..read more

Author: Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vochek Title: Letters of Insurgents Date: 1976 Notes: Published by Black and Red Press, Detroit, 1976. Yarostan’s first letter Dear Sophia, Forgive me for addressing you familiarly, as a friend; I have no way of knowing if you’re still the person I once knew. I can’t remember the sound of your voice, the shape of your face or the feel of your hand. I vaguely remember admiring the energy and intelligence in someone so young, but I regret that you didn’t leave a lasting mark, you didn’t become my guide in my journey through hell. I wouldn’t even remember yo ..read more

Author: Ameed Faleh Title: I Don’t Want a State, and I Never Did Date: July 16, 2024 Source: Retrieved on July 21, 2024 from https://hello.goodshepherdcollective.org/sendy/w/v763892xRCuLgGPl4ovANruMOA/wcJf7Kvgs9eSy6JDl2qKuQ/9Be3XcAljVwc892eDWMhTjUQ It was the early spring of 2017, and I stood in line for the daily school routine. We did the usual routine of standing up for the Palestinian anthem and the obligatory start-of-the-week fingernail check. The inspector will hit your hands with a wooden stick if you do not cut your fingernails every week. After the morning routine, we saw our sports ..read more

Author: Various Authors Title: Towards an Especifista Feminism in North America Date: 2022 Source: Scanned from a zine. Introduction TO BEGIN... “We recognize that the feminist camp has made great efforts, by revealing the mechanisms that oppress women and dissidence, and by naming issues that used to be invisible. However, this does not mean that the concepts and categories, and therefore the theoretical frameworks, are all equally valid. As especifist anarchists we task ourselves with taking from these theoretical productions, the concepts and categories that are consistent with our own id ..read more

Author: Leo Tolstoy Title: Three Deaths Date: 1859 Notes: Translated by Robert Nisbet Bain and published in 1902. Source: <revoltlib.com/anarchism/three-deaths-bain-translation-tolstoy-leo> I. It was Autumn. A carriage and a calesche were proceeding at a sharp trot along the high-road. In the carriage sat two women. One of them was the mistress, thin and pale. The other was the maid, smug, florid, and buxom. Her short dry tresses peeped forth from under her faded bonnet, her pretty hand in her torn glove readjusted them from time to time; her swelling bosom, covered by a rug, was full o ..read more

Author: Anonymous Title: Words and History Mean Things Subtitle: A Response to “Addicted to Losing” Date: 2024-05-02 Source: Retrieved on 2024-07-16 from https://bbnews.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/02/words-and-history-mean-things-a-response-to-addicted-to-losing/ Most of what comes out in the text “Addicted to Losing” is not new. Black anarchists and anti-authoritarians have been critiquing black non-profits, Black academics, Black activists and black authoritarians for years before the 2020 uprising. Black anarchists who have been active PRIOR to 2020 have been deeply aware of these critiques ..read more

Are you in and/or from South Asia and literate in a South Asian language? 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 an Arabic, Farsi, and Hungarian anarchist libraries. Please contact us to get in touch with these initiatives ..read more

Author: Tony Parker, Jane E Ferrie Title: Health and welfare Subtitle: rejecting the state in the status quo — examples of an Anarchist approach Date: December 2016 Source: International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 45, Issue 6, December 2016, Pages 1754–1758, DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx001 For most of the 20th century, all mainstream political parties in Western Europe coalesced around the idea that, ultimately, the state should be the chief provider of social welfare and instrument of social reform. Although Feminist, Anti-Racist, Neo-Marxist, Green and other left-leaning critiques were pu ..read more

Author: Anonymous Title: Stop Block Cop City! Date: 10/25/23 Source: https://berkmananarchy.noblogs.org/post/2023/10/26/stop-block-cop-city/ Tire fire barricade at the AirBnBs! Throw a molotov at the PowerPoint Presentations! Dump a smelly bucket of shrimp on the peaceful protest! We’re going to Stop Block Cop City!! Why? Because I’m mad that they wasted my time with their awful presentation/book-report/thinly-veiled-business-management-double-speak that tried to sell me and a bunch of other anarchists a program of non-violent civil disobedience to stop the police training facility from being ..read more

Author: Nim Thorn Title: Traveler’s Guide to the Acronym Wasteland Subtitle: Tankies and Authoritarian Entryist Groups in Philadelphia Date: July 10, 2024 Notes: From the original post: A general, group-by-group overview of some tankie and authoritarian entryist Left orgs in Philly (though partly relevant to other contexts; many are national groups), to help more autonomous, uncontrollable rebels better understand and defend against their manipulations. Includes some reflections and propositions at the end (‘Anti-Social Social War?’). pdf for reading pdf for printing Source: Retrieved on July ..read more