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“We are thus forced to recognize that each individual, while remaining totally free in his actions, can only act in common, and by this very fact becomes a libertarian communist. But this in no way takes away his title as anarchist, since he acts under no pressure, without any influence, and his labour is freelyContinue reading “Anarchy and Communism – Le Drapeau Noir (1883)”

The Americans have all the qualities of conquerors. A ruling class which, at home, can force workers back to the factories with bayonets, can murder negroes by the hundred, can put forward such filthy propaganda as the film Mission to Moscow has given good proofs that it knows how to rule. For this reason whenContinue reading “The Yankee Peril | The Anarchist Library”

“The military power is the direct enemy of the working class and the support of the cowardly employing class.” Military Power – Industrial Worker (1909)

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Os Cangaceiros was a group of delinquents with nothing but contempt for the self-sacrificial ideology practiced by “specialists in armed struggle”. This uncontrollable band of social rebels wreaked havoc on the French state by attacking the infrastructures of oppression, supporting popular revolts, stealing and releasing secret blueprints for high-tech prisons, raiding the offices of corporateContinue reading “A Crime Called Freedom: The Writings of Os Cangaceiros (Volume One) | The Anarchist Library”

“But it could be summed up in a single act of will by the people, who are shackled in that they are made to believe they are free!” The Conscripts Strike – Louise Michel (1881)

Primary documents from the resistance movement — Read on mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/land-back/

Colonialism emerges as a central theme within the Hainish Cycle. — Read on theconversation.com/the-dispossessed-at-50-ursula-k-le-guins-anarchist-utopia-was-an-anguished-response-to-war-its-political-power-endures-227487

Errico Malatesta (1853–1932) was born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere near to Naples. His family were middle-class tannery owners, and he was not, as the press would have it, a count who conspired with other aristocrats such as Peter Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin. Malatesta lived between the era of the Paris Commune and Russian RevolutionContinue reading “Malatesta: Life and Ideas | The Anarchist Library”