Author: Scholium Title: The Hollowing of Anarchy: Gentrification Date: 2019 Source: https://scholium.noblogs.org/post/2019/02/22/the-hollowing-of-anarchy-gentrification/ Anarchy can differ from other anti-capitalist ideologies in being a lived practice. If anarchy is the end goal, then it must be the means as well. This often turns out looking like working as little as possible, living communally with friends, getting by using scams, and experimenting with social relationships. Unfortunately, these more interesting and liberating tendencies based in subverting daily life are receding as gentr ..read more

Author: Mujeres Libres Title: Proposal for the Creation of a Wedding Factory Date: March 1937 Notes: Originally published as “Proyecto para la creación de una fabrica de bodas en serie (Churros auténticos)” in Mujeres Libres, no. 7. Translation and introduction by Martha A. Ackelsberg. Source: “Appendix C.” in Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women. Essays about sexual issues were generally more subdued in Mujeres Libres; “free love” did not appear in its pages at all. The journal did nevertheless contain a few articles explicitly critical of marriage, e ..read more

Author: Tommy Lawson Title: Co-operatives or class struggle? Date: 28 August 2023 Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from redblacknotes.com. Every so often the question of co-operatives is raised in the revolutionary socialist movement. Optimistic positions suggest that co-ops can form the basis for replacing capitalism with a new economy based on solidarity and labour where workers have ‘control’ and even suggest they are a vital part of revolutionary strategy. These positions have both contemporary and historical antecedents and the arguments still continue. However the positive features of ..read more

Author: Mother Earth Title: Observations and Comments on War Chauvinism Date: 1914 Notes: Untitled excerpt from the 'Observations and Comments' section of 'Mother Earth', October 1914, New York City, published by Emma Goldman, edited by Alexander Berkman Source: Retrieved on April 15, 2024 from mgouldhawke.wordpress.com The attitude of the Socialists of Europe in the present war would be a master stroke of the God of Hoax were the situation not so terribly tragic. The Social Democrats of Germany have been solemnly assured by the Kaiser that Germany is merely defending itself against encroachi ..read more

Author: Anonymous Title: An Anarchist’s Guide To Dune Date: 21 March 2024 Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com. There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. -Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 Introduction A long time ago in a place called Olympia, Washington, there were a bunch of anarchists, just like today. However, back around 1999, there were certain anarchists of Olympia who enjoyed targeting nasty, ecocidal institutions, burning down ski resorts, freeing captured animals, all that wonderful stuff. Not every anarchist in Olympia was d ..read more

Author: A. W. Zurbrugg Title: Emma Goldman and Reginald Reynolds on Palestine Subtitle: Some notes on anti-Semitism and Zionism before World War Two Date: 24 March 2024 Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from anarchiststudies.noblogs.org. However shocking are recent events in and around Gaza, they do not arise like lightning on a clear day and out of blue skies and may be seen in historical context. This text goes a little way towards sketching anarchist perspectives on this historical and political conflict. In the 1930s, and at other times, Anarchists were sympathetic to the concerns of div ..read more

Author: Daniel Talamantes Title: Anarchist Kinships in California’s San Gabriel Valley Date: 13 March 2024 Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from anarchiststudies.org. Early twentieth-century San Gabriel Valley, California was an ideal location for Mexican migrants seeking work opportunities and hoping to escape the Mexican Revolution. Initially, they were seen as a convenient source of labor to fill a void left by the Johnson Reed Act of 1917 which barred migration from the Asia-Pacific zone. They were also seasonal workers, so their integration into communities was not considered threateni ..read more

Author: Luigi Celentano Title: On Violence and Rebels Date: 17 January 2024 Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from anarchiststudies.org. On Wednesday, February 24, 1932, at 1:32 p.m. the car carrying Investigations Police Captain Luis Pardeiro Sontie, driven by the assigned chauffeur José Chebel Seluja, was ambushed at the intersection of Artigas Boulevard and Monte Caseros Street, in downtown Montevideo. The scene looked like mob work: around fifty gunshots fired to assassinate two men. The air smelled of revenge, and no wonder, it was. Capt. Luis Pardeiro was the bête noire of Uruguayan an ..read more

Author: David Goodway Title: Not protest but direct action Subtitle: Anarchism past and present Date: 1 March 2012 Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from historyandpolicy.org. Executive Summary The media and other commentators in the UK constantly employ 'anarchists' and 'anarchism' as smear words unworthy of rational consideration, yet they refer to a long-established way of looking at the world which has a distinctive and impressive intellectual history. Anarchists disdain the customary use of 'anarchy' to mean 'chaos' or 'complete disorder': for them it signifies the absence of rulers ..read more

Author: David Goodway Title: Anarchism and the welfare state Subtitle: The Peckham Health Centre Date: 1 May 2007 Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from historyandpolicy.org. Executive Summary Anarchists are normally regarded as a fringe element in British public life but they did engage with mainstream economic, medical and health issues, especially around what they saw as the exemplary experiment of the Peckham Health Centre in the 1930s and 1940s. Soon after the Centre's launch, private donations enabled the construction of a specially-designed building to promote healthy activity: in ..read more