Author: Sal Restivo Title: Red, Black, and Objective Subtitle: Science, Sociology, and Anarchism Date: 2011 Acknowledgements I acknowledge and appreciate that the “I” is – as Nietzsche was among the first to teach us – a grammatical illusion. The “social,” by contrast, is not an illusion. I have drawn on my collaborative writings with Drs. Wenda Bauchspies, Jennifer Croissant, Deborah Sloan, Daryl Chubin, Randall Collins, and Julia Loughlin. They have been among my most enduring educators and collaborators but have no responsibility for the ways in which I have re-woven and integrated into th ..read more

Author: Kevin A. Carson Title: The Desktop Regulatory State Subtitle: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks Date: March 2016 Source: Retrieved on 8th April 2022 from kevinacarson.org Preface Like every book I’ve written since the first, this book was inspired by ideas I encountered in researching the previous one but was unable to explore and develop as much as I’d have liked within that framework. In writing the material on crisis tendencies of capitalism in Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, the writings by Paul Goodman and Ivan Illich on the hegemony of bureaucratic cul ..read more

Author: CrimethInc., Anonymous Title: Report from within the Cal Poly Humboldt Building Occupation Subtitle: The Occupation of Siemens Hall Date: April 23 2024 Source: https://crimethinc.com/2024/04/23/report-from-within-the-cal-poly-humboldt-occupation-the-occupation-of-siemens-hall On April 22, 2024, inspired by the resilience of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University and other demonstrations around the country, students at Cal Poly Humboldt campus in Arcata, California occupied a building in solidarity with Palestinians, precipitating a showdown with police from throughout t ..read more

Author: Iain MacSaorsa Title: Capitalism is losing its Barings? Date: 1995 Notes: This first appeared in Scottish Anarchist Number 2 (1995) and was written in response to the collapse of Barings Bank. It discusses the issues associated for anarchists and labour with the increased globalisation of capitalism. Some slight changes have been made to fix typos and add references. Source: Retrieved on 22nd April 2024 from anarchism.pageabode.com To lose £75 pounds on the horses is unfortunate. To lose £750 million pounds is slightly different. When Nick Leeson lost 750 million on the Tokyo futures ..read more

Author: Nick Heath Title: Sadako Kurihara (1913-2005) Date: 2020 Notes: A short biography of Japanese anarchist poet Sadako Kurihara Source: Retrieved from https://libcom.org/article/sadako-kurihara-1913-2005 on 23-04-2024 Sadako Kurihara was born Sadako Doi in Hiroshima on March 4th, 1913. She was the second daughter of a peasant family. She started writing poetry and especially tanka (normally a 31-syllable poem written in a single line) at the age of thirteen. She attended Kabe High School from the age of 17 and began writing tanka and western-style poetry there. Returning to Hiroshima in ..read more

Author: Nick Heath Title: Akiko Yagi (1895-1983) Date: 2020 Notes: A short biography of Japanese anarchist and feminist Aki Yagi Source: Retrieved from https://libcom.org/article/akiko-yagi-1895-1983 on 23-04-2024 Akiko, or Aki, Yagi was born on September 6th 1895 at Fukushima-cho in the Nagano Prefecture of Japan. She married at the age of twenty-three, to Rokuro Furuyama and after giving birth to a son, Kenichiro, realised that her increasingly radical outlook was at odds with the thinking of her traditional husband. She divorced him at the age of twenty-seven, leaving him and their child ..read more

Author: Sadako Kuriara Title: Hiroshima: The atomic hecatomb Date: June 1949 Notes: Letter from a Japanese anarchist about the Hiroshima bombing, and the response of self-organisation and mutual aid from the local population following the explosion. From: Le Libertaire (Paris) of 07.10.49. Translated by: Paul Sharkey. Source: Retrieved from https://libcom.org/article/hiroshima-atomic-hecatomb, itself retrieved from http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/0zpd5h, on 23-04-2024 Letter from comrade Sadako Kuriara (Member of the Local Council of the Japanese Anarchist Federation) The horrific explosio ..read more

Author: rekolektiv Title: How to Strangle Anarchists Date: 2017 Notes: An account of the Amakasu Incident where Ito Noe, Ōsugi Sakae, and their six-year old nephew where murdered by police lieutenant Amakasu Masahiko, during the Great Kanto Earthquake. This article appeared on appeared originally on rekolektiv Source: Retrieved from https://libcom.org/article/how-strangle-anarchists on 23-04-2024 Tokyo: September 1st, 1923 — A cataclysmic earthquake rocks the foundation of Japanese political and social life. Tremors, shocks, and a cloud of fire that engulfs the city kill thousands; many more ..read more

Author: Nick Heath Title: Tozaburo, Ono (1903-1996) Date: 2019 Notes: A short biography of Japanese anarchist poet Ono Tozaburo Ono Tozaburo, whose real name was Ono Fujisaburo, was born on the 27th July 1903 in the ward of Minami in the city of Osaka. This city was rapidly industrialising and the emergence of the young working class was accompanied by unrest and the spreading of radical ideas. Born into a wealthy family of merchants, he attended Tenojji Junior High School. He moved to Tokyo in 1921 and attended the Culture Department of Toyo University. However, like many other Japanese anar ..read more

Author: Nick Heath Title: Kyojiro Hagiwara (1899-1938) Date: 2020 Notes: A short biography of Japanese anarchist poet Kyojuro Hagawara. Source: Retrieved from https://libcom.org/article/kyojiro-hagiwara-1899-1938 on 23-04-2024 Kyojiro Hagiwara was the second son of a peasant in the village of Hinataji on 23rd May, 1899. He went to live with his aunt at the age of 12. Enrolled in the Maebashi Junior High School in 1912, he soon revealed his literary talents, producing the magazine Fox Nest in 1916. In 1918 he graduated from the school, the same year that his father died. He founded the literar ..read more