There is no reason to go back to acronymed formal groups, red guerrilla chauvinism, technicalities which kill the spirit, fear of repression which throws water on the fire, specialisms which stand in the way of the spread of revolt, political-realist skepticism which restrains insurrectional possibility. Not one millimeter back! Once all this has been put […]
Dedicated to all wild spirits facing state violence. They can take paper and books away, but they will never extinguish the fire in our hearts. Table of Contents Preface From February 2019 to September 2021, “Anarchistisches Wochenblatt Zündlumpen” [“Zündlumpen Anarchist Periodical”] was published in Munich, at first on a weekly basis, and at increasingly greater […]
In this reader are collected texts that mainly appeared during the World War Two or shortly thereafter only the last two being recent texts that we included as an appendix. We think that the historic texts do not only have a historical relevance for understanding the WW2 and/or the positions of anarchists in it. Also […]
The battlefield of raw materials To see how power gets and uses its most basic physical resources – and the devastating processes involved – is instructive in itself. This is power, raw and material. But it also profoundly reveals the social relations that the great “march of progress” relies on. These pages will focus on […]
In the United States between 1914 and 1920, the greatest armed revolutionary offensive of the 20th century was unleashed against the governmental, judicial, industrial and financial institutions of the most important capitalist country on the planet. These direct actions weren’t the work of the militant factions of a political party or of a more or […]
Palestine, mon amour, Alfredo M. Bonanno A possible solution would be the dissolution of the Israeli State and the prevention of the birth of the Palestinian State, all parallel to the formation of free communes and other structures selfmanaged by Palestinians and Jews together all with a right to the land and, principally, reciprocal […]
“So, that is my life – the life of a schoolgirl-revolutionary, a student-dreamer, a friend and lover of the great man and poet Aleksandr Iaroslavskii, an eternal wanderer, an itinerant anti-religious lecturer, a writer for Rul, a street newspaper vendor, a thief with a long criminal record, and a traveling fortune-teller.” (from My Autobiography, E. […]
“That is why we will consciously sabotage every capitalist enterprise, we will be a burden to each and every boss. Where we, rebellious youth, have to work, materials, machines and products have to be made unusable. Again and again the gears will jump out of the wheels, the pieces will fly from knives and chisels, […]
This text, since it publication, has inspired many anarchists in their projects, proposals and practice, but it is with no sense of nostalgia that we have reprinted this booklet, rather because we realize that its central questions and critiques are more relevant than ever: how to identify the enemies of freedom, those in the ivory […]
Hourriya n°5 Break ranks. Against war, against peace, for social revolution “Perhaps the world has never been in such great need of the vivifying breath of anarchism; never has the breaking of rules, discipline and the law seemed more necessary.” These words were written by a comrade on the brink of the second world war. […]
Strangely neither Volin, nor Archinov, not to mention other historians like Skirda or Avrich, ever gave Maria Nikiforova a place in their narratives, while Makhno himself recounts multiple episodes which shed some light on her activities. For an anarchist who lived during this revolutionary period in Ukraine, it becomes hard not to notice her: she […]
‘No Bars – Bringing Down the Techno-Prison’ Phone Mast Sabotages in France in the Age of Lockdown A Collection of Texts in Solidarity with Boris Incorporating a full English translation of ‘DES CHAÎNES TECHNOLOGIQUES AUX BARREAUX DES PRISONS’ (May 2022) – PLUS additional updates from 2022-23, translators’ introduction and a bibliography for further reading Living […]
Amulepe taiñ weichan / The struggle continues In the territories home to the Mapuche communities — whose lands have been seized by capitalist investors, disfigured by loggers, ravaged by energy companies, polluted by industrialists and colonized by accomplices of the Chilean state — the last few decades have been marked by unrelenting struggle. The radical […]
“Let us point out immediately, once and for all, that we cangaceiros do not come out of the left, anarchist or otherwise; there isn’t a single ex-militant among us. (…) We have only one form of relationship with political groups and organizations: war. They are all our enemies; there is no exception. We aren’t “on […]
“The final extinction to which we are being dragged by the perpetuation of industrial society has over the last few years become our officially recognized future.” This book examines the attempt by predominantly First World governments and NGOs to utilize the spectre of an environmental apocalypse as an alibi to save “industrial civilization” by imposing […]
Claudio Lavazza, rebel, anarchist, bank robber and gentleman. During the 70s in Italy he participated in the struggle against State and Capital, arms in hand. Contrary to the grave-diggers of subversion, after this experience, he never traded his desire to overthrow the existent for a political career. He never resigned, nor sought refuge in any […]