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  1. Action Will Be Taken
    Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern—it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
  2. Adventures in Marxism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  3. AKPress
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A worker-run book publisher and distributor organized around anarchist principles. Our goal is to make available radical books and other materials, titles that are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the world.
  4. Anarchism
    Or the revolutionary movement of the 21st century

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2004
  5. Anarchism
    Resource Type: Book
  6. Anarchism
    Resource Type: Book
  7. Anarchism
    A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas

    Resource Type: Book
  8. Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Book
  9. Anarchism and Ecology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    This book outlines the history of our slow alienation from environment, and proposes some visionary and yet practical solutions to the global ecological crisis.
  10. Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Barbara Epstein analyzes the influence of anarchism on the history of American social protest, and its role in the anti-globalization resistance movement of the present day.
  11. Anarchism: Ideology or Methodology?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    A discussion of whether anarchism is an ideology or a methodology. The social vs. lifestylism debate.
  12. Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1901
    A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future.
  13. Anarchism and Marxism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Political movements focused on achieving human liberation through political action.
  14. Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2004
    A critique of Marxism, with emphasis on its obsession with economics.
  15. Anarchism.net
    Liberty and Justice for All

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    We believe anarchism is of immense importance to the world and the people living in it. Anarchism is a tradition of freedom, which has the solution to the oppression and repression of mankind by the coercive structures of the state.
  16. Anarchism, Representation, and Culture
    Cohn, Jesse

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2002
    A discussion of the role of anarchism in the formation of modernist avant-garde aesthetics.
  17. Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
  18. Anarchism: What It Really Stands For 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1910
    Anarchsim: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
  19. The Anarchist Collectives
    Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
  20. Anarchist communism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, private property, and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct or consensus democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations, workers' councils, and a gift economy through which everyone will be free to satisfy their needs.
  21. The Anarchist Papers 3
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  22. Anarchist Periodicals: List of anarchist periodicals - Wikipedia
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A chronoligical list of anarchist periodicals.
  23. Anarchist St. Imier International
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An international anarchist organization formed in 1872.
  24. The Anarchists
    The men who shocked an era

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    The history and ideology of anarchism.
  25. The Anarchists
    Resource Type: Book
  26. The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
    Documents of revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  27. Anarchoblogs
    Autonomous Alternatives to the Statist Quo

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Collects articles from many smaller community hubs within the Anarchoblogs network.
  28. Anarcho-pacifism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A form of anarchism which completely rejects the use of violence in any form for any purpose.
  29. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
  30. Anarchy and Art
    From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  31. Anarchy Archives
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An archive of anarchist writings by classic authors such as Rocker, Goldman, Proudhon, and Malatesta.
  32. Anarchy in Action
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    With chapters on the family, topless federations, schools, housing, crime, employment, welfare, deviancy, planning, and more, this is probably the best practical example of anarchist ideas in action.
  33. Anarchy is struggle for life, freedom and dignity
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    A communique by the Circle of Fire anarchist collective and the Anarchist Bulletin BLACK FLAG on the events of May 5th, 2010 in Athens, when three bank workers were murdered by 'anarchist' arsonists. The murders came as an ultimate result of an irrational, meaningless and needless violence which is promoted by an autistic, un-political and anti-social concept that has become a parasite to the anarchist – antiauthoritarian movement, sucking its blood and disparaging it, leading it to criminalisation and social isolation.
  34. Anarkismo.net
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Mulitlingual site featuring news and analysis from an anarchist-communist perspective.
  35. At the Anarchists' Convention and other stories
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 2005
    A collection of short stories.
  36. Audio Anarchy
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A project for transcribing anarchist books into audio format.
  37. Autonomy & Solidarity
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An on-line network for anti-capitalists who believe that revolutionary transformation will come from workers and oppressed people self-organizing from below and not from the top down organizing of any state, party or union bureaucracy.
  38. Bakunin
    The Philosophy of Freedom

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  39. Bakunin on Anarchy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  40. Bakunin on Marx and Rothschild
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1871   Published: 1979
  41. Bakunin vs Marx
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    The debates between Bakunin and Marx transcend petty personal squabbles and embody two diametrically opposed tendencies in the theory and tactics of socialism, the authoritarian and libertarian schools respectively.
  42. Bakunin vs. Marx 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
  43. The Bakuninists at Work
    An account of the Spanish revolt in the summer of 1873

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1873
    This series of articles was written in the wake of the events in Spain during the summer of 1873, which were the culmination of the Spanish bourgeois revolution of 1868-74. Engels focused his attention on the involvement of the Spanish Bakuninists in the abortive cantonal revolts organised in the south and south-east of the country by the Intransigents, an extremist republican grouping that advocated the partition of Spain into independent cantons.
  44. Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1996
    An album of songs written and recorded by Woody Guthrie about the notorious case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and anarchists in the 1920s who were charged and eventually executed after a highly dubious trial for their supposed involvement in a robbery.
  45. Beating Back the Corporate Attack 
    Socialism and the struggle for global justice

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
  46. Berkman, Alexander
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Anarchist known for his political activism and writing.(1870-1936).
  47. Black Bloc
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    People who engage in protests wearing black clothing and masks and engaging in property damage. The tactic was developed in the 1980s by anti-nuclear activist autonomists, and was subsequently adopted by some anarchists, as well as some right-wing groups such as the autonomous nationalists of Europe. Black blocs lend themselves to infiltration by police and agents provocateurs, and it has often been alleged that their primary function, whether intentional or not, is to provide a pretext for police repression.
  48. Black Bloc Provocateurs Set Strasbourg Hotel on Fire
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Legitimate anti-NATO protesters are determined to use non-violent civil disobedience to block the summit. In order to provide an excuse to use batons and rubber bullets against them, agents provocateurs masquerading as Black Bloc anarchists have been dispatched with instructions to burn down hotels and vandalize churches.
  49. The Blackest Streets
    The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  50. Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
  51. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  52. Carnival of Anarchy
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Anarchists of all stripes and colours.
  53. Chomsky on Anarchism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    This collection of essays and interviews paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his life-long involvement with the anarchist community, his constant commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization, and his hopes for a future world without rulers.
  54. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  55. Christian anarchism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Any of several traditions which combine anarchism with Christianity.
  56. Collectives in Spain
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1938   Published: 1945
    A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
  57. Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
  58. Communitas
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1947   Published: 1960
    Anarchist site with news and information for people who are questioning the system which hates them. In English, French, German and Catalan.
  59. The Conflict between Marx & Bakunin
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  60. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  61. The Conquest of Bread
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1906
    A discussion of collectivism and the need to abolish representative government, and monetary systems.
  62. Conspectus of Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1874   Published: 1875
    Marx's notes on Bakunin's recent book Statism and Anarchy.
  63. The Continuing Debate
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    We should subject both Marxism and anarchism to a critical analysis, and thereby start to provide the basis for a libertarian revolutionary movement that relates adequately to the needs and problems of today.
  64. A Critique of Anarchism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Like liberalism, of which it is merely a stronger version, anarchism in reality can only serve as a cloak behind which real goals and real desires can be hidden. Thus when a movement is unsure of itself, it hides behind bland calls for freedom of expression (democracy) and freedom of action (anarchy). This can be as much true for subversive movements as for reactionary movements.
  65. Days of War Nights of Love
    Resource Type: Book
    Essays that assess the ills of modern civilization and attempt to introduce new ways of living.
  66. Dead Anarchists
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The dead anarchists website has been launched in order to supply that extra measure of anarchist history to those who are hopelessly addicted to learning about the men and women who have struggled for centuries, searching for ways to eliminate governments from the Earth.
  67. Death in the Haymarket
    A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The story of the anarchosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers' rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
  68. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  69. Drawing the Line 
    The Political Essays of Paul Goodman

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1979
  70. The Ecology of Freedom 
    The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 2005
    Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
  71. Emma Goldman in Exile
    Resource Type: Book
    The second and final volume of Wexler's life of Emma Goldman tells the story of her forced exile to Russia in 1919, the Spanich Civil War and finally her death in 1940 in Toronto. She became an eyewitness to the new Soviet state but had no qualms about airing her disagreements with their policies. Goldman would become dissolusioned with Lenin and Russia and ended up in political limbo-seen as pariah by the left and courted by the conservatives. The great triumph of the period was the brief time in Barcelona in 1936 when anarchism went from theory to reality. That moment however was fleeting as the communists defeated their leftist allies then themselves were destroyed by Franco. Goldman returned to North America a disappointed woman. As Wexler points however out she was one of the few who spoke out against the purges and massacres while others hid their cowardice behind cant.
  72. The Emma Goldman Papers
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Emma Goldman Papers Project has collected, organized, and edited tens of thousands of documents from around the world by and about Emma Goldman (1869-1940), a leading figure in American anarchism, feminism, and radicalism. In the spirit of Emma Goldman, the EGPP has extended its scholarly research to serve the community-to educate the public about the complexity of engagement in social and political transformation. It has published a microfilm edition of the papers (1991-1993) and A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources (1995).
  73. The End of Dialectical Materialism: An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists.
  74. The Enemies of Anarchy: A Critical Summary
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
  75. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy u. Capitalism and its by-rpoducts -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing apart in the destruction of our ecosystem.
  76. Fictitious Splits in the International
    Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1872
  77. Film and the Anarchist Imagination
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    A survey of the depiction anarchism in film — from the stereotypes of bearded bomb throwers, to the early cinema of Griffith and Rene Clair, to the work of Godard, Wertmuller, and Loach.
  78. The Fire This Time: Burning Bridges
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Some activists hold back from condemning tactics that are politically stupid and destructive, like the recent Ottawa arson attack by a self-proclaimed 'anarchist' group, because of a commitment to the doctrine of a 'diversity of tactics'. However, the original idea behind a diversity of tactics, that is, a variety of approaches to organizing for change, has been appropriated by activists devoted to property destruction as a media spectacle, who feel that they should be exempted from criticism by other activists, no matter how much their tactics serve to undermine the building of a broad-based movement against capitalism.
  79. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
  80. The French Anarchists
    From Chapter 1 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
    Of this hard childhood, this troubled adolescence, all those terrible years, I regret nothing as far as I am myself concerned. I am sorry for those who grow up in this world without ever experiencing the cruel side of it, without knowing utter frustration and the necessity of fighting, however blindly, for mankind. Any regret I have is only for the energies wasted in struggles which were bound to be fruitless. These struggles have taught me that, in any man, the best and the worst live side by side, and sometimes mingle — and that what is worst comes through the corruption of what is best.
  81. From Prince to Rebel
    Peter Kropotkin

    Resource Type: Book
  82. The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
  83. The Historical Failure of Anarchism 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    Day examines anarchism’s failure to genuinely critique itself, understand history or theory, and grasp the conditions in the world today. “Anti-capitalism doesn’t do the victims of capitalism any good if you don’t actually destroy capitalism,” Day writes. “Anti-statism doesn’t do the victims of the state any good if you don’t actually smash the state. Anarchism has been very good at putting forth visions of a free society and that is for the good. But it is worthless if we don’t develop an actual strategy for realizing those visions.
  84. History of the Makhnovist Movement 1918 - 1921
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  85. Individualist anarchism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Refers to several traditions of thought within the anarchist movement that emphasize the individual and his/her will over any kinds of external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems.
  86. Institute for Anarchist Studies
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Provides support to critical scholarship on social domination and the reconstructive vision of a free society.
  87. International Blacklist 1983
    An Anti-Authoritarian Directory

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    An International directory of anti-authoritarian groups and publications. P. 123 has a list of documentation centres on anarchism. P. 139 has publishing houses and disributors.
  88. International of Anarchist Federations
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Founded during an international Anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian federation in French exile.
  89. Introduction to this issue (#3)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
  90. Karl Marx and the Anarchists
    Resource Type: Book
    Shows the continuity of Marx's political theory in the context of different ideological opponents.
  91. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  92. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
  93. Kate Sharpley Library
    Preserving the history of the anarchist movement

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Dedicated to researching and restoring the history of the anarchist movement and regularly publishes information on lost areas of anarchist history. It was named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist.
  94. Kropokin on Mutual Aid — Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1956
  95. Kropotkin, Peter
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Geographer, a zoologist, and one of Russia's foremost anarchists. (1842-1921).
  96. Kropotkin Was No Crackpot
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
  97. Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  98. The last word (Diemer)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
    The movement has no need of self-appointed or any other kind of saviours, not even well-intentioned anarchist ones.
  99. Libcom.org 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for all people who wish to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions. We want to discuss with one another, learn from experiences of the past and develop strategies to increase the power that we, as ordinary people, have over our own lives.
  100. Libertarian League
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A name used by two American libertarian organisations during the twentieth century.
  101. Libertarian Socialism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A group of political philosophies that aspire to create a society without political, economic, or social hierarchies, i.e. a society in which all violent or coercive institutions would be dissolved, and in their place every person would have free, equal access to the tools of information and production.
  102. Listen, Marxist!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1971
    Murray Bookchin takes on the 'Marxist-Leninists' destroying the New Left.
  103. Malatesta, Errico
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Italian anarcho-communist. (1853-1932).
  104. Manifeste de l’Anarchie
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1850
    Le Manifeste est une intervention passionnante contre la folie politique que, sous le nom de démocratie, prétend que nous cédions nos droits à la liberté et à l’autonomie à des représentants élus pour qu’ils fassent ce qu’ils veulent.
  105. Manifesto of the Makhnovists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    We must win – win not so that we may follow the example of past years and hand over our fate to some new master, but to take it in our own hands and conduct our lives according to our own will and our own conception of truth.
  106. Manifesto of the Sixteen
    Wikipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A document drafted in 1916 by eminent anarchists Peter Kropotkin and Jean Grave which advocated an Allied victory over Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War.
  107. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2009
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
  108. Marx, theoretician of anarchism 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    Under the name communism, Marx developed a theory of anarchism; and further, in fact it was he who was the first to provide a rational basis for the anarchist utopia and to put forward a project for achieving it.
  109. Marxism & Anarchism: Documents in the Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Resources on the theory and practice of anarchism and the unity and conflict between Marxists and Anarchists over the past 150 years.
  110. Marxism and the Russian Anarchists
    Resource Type: Book
  111. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  112. Marx's Marginal Notes on the Program and Rules of Bakunin's International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1868
  113. Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
  114. Mother Earth
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature," edited by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, and published. (1907-1917).
  115. The Murray Bookchin Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    This collection offers an overview of Bookchin's political philosophy, known as libertarian municipalism, which draws on the best of both Marxism and anarchism for the emancipatory tools to build a democratic libertarian alternative. Consistent throughout his work is a search for ways in which to replace today's capitalist society with a more rational and humane alternative.
  116. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1902
  117. My Disillusionment in Russia
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1925
    Anarchist Emma Goldman recounts her experiences in Russia during the early years of the Revolution, and her subsequent disillusionment with the Bolshevik regime.
  118. National-Anarchism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    National-Anarchism is a syncretic political current that was developed in the 1990s by former Third Positionists to reconcile anarchism with nationalism and in some cases racial separatism. It has philosophical roots in the writings of Julius Evola and the neo-Spenglerian Francis Parker Yockey, and claims Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Leo Tolstoy, and Max Stirner among its influences. Critics are concerned that national-anarchism may be the potential new face of fascism. They argue that by adopting selected symbols, slogans and stances of the left-wing anarchist movement in particular, this new form of post-war fascism hopes to avoid the stigma of the older tradition, while injecting its core fascist values into the newer movement of anti-globalization activists and related decentralized political groups.
  119. National Catechism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1866
    Bakunin sketches out his vision of a social and political revolution, stating that "in order to prepare for this revolution it will be necessary to conspire and to organize a strong secret association coordinated by an international nucleus."
  120. Notes on Anarchism
    In Daniel Guerin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1970
    Noam Chomsky explores numerous variations and philosophies associated with the anarchist notion. He considers them in a context of historical development and elaborates with his own perspectives, explanations, and general commentary.
  121. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
  122. On Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence
    Resource Type: Book
  123. On Spontaneity and Organisation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
    On the relationship of spontaneityand revolution.
  124. An ongoing debate
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    The Red Menace is meant to be a forum of dissenting views withing the broadly defined boundaries of libertarian socialism.
  125. Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1926
    In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
  126. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  127. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  128. Peter Kroptkin
    From Prince to Rebel

    Resource Type: Book
  129. The Philosophy of Social Ecology
    Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Bookchin addresses questions such as 'What is nature?", "What is humanity's place in nature?", "What is the relationship of society to the natural world?"
  130. Platform
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1926
  131. Point of order
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Letter on dialectical materialism and on lefty language.
  132. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  133. Post Scarcity Anarchism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  134. The Program of the International Brotherhood
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1869
    Bakunin maintains that his revolutionary visions "excludes any idea of dictatorship and of a controlling and directive power." but then goes on to say "It is, however, necessary for the establishment of this revolutionary alliance and for the triumph of the Revolution over reaction that the unity of ideas and of revolutionary action find an organ in the midst of the popular anarchy which will be the life and the energy of the Revolution. This organ should be the secret and universal association of the International Brothers.... a sort of revolutionary general staff, composed of dedicated, energetic, intelligent individuals, sincere friends of the people above all, men neither vain nor ambitious, but capable of serving as intermediaries between the revolutionary idea and the instincts of the people."
  135. Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. (1809-1865).
  136. The Psychology of Political Violence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1917
    Compared with the wholesale violence of capital and government, political acts of violence are but a drop in the ocean. That so few resist is the strongest proof how terrible must be the conflict between their souls and unbearable social iniquities.
  137. Queer Anarchist Network
    Organization profile published 1988

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1988
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  138. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
  139. Radical Digressions 1
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1979
  140. Read before attacking
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Letter: too quick to attack.
  141. Red City, Blue Period
    Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona

    Resource Type: Book
  142. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  143. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  144. Red Pepper
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Independent magazine of the green and radical left.
  145. The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1970
    An attempt to elucidate "classical anarchism," a la Proudhon, Kropotkin, etc., so as to repudiate "neo-anarchism," with its emphasis on "escapist individualism" and "action for the sake of action."
  146. Review: International Socialist Review on "Contemporary Anarchism"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The word "anarchism" is a rather vague word that covers such a wide variety of political views and approaches it is often hard to see how they have anything in common. This means it is also probably not very productive to produce "critiques" of anarchism that lump the many different viewpoints together.
  147. Revolutionary Catechism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1866
    Despite the encouraging revival of the socialist and labor movements, Bakunin saw that the workers were still very far from attaining the necessary revolutionary consciousness. To imbue the masses with this consciousness and to prevent the deformation of the revolution, Bakunin felt that the only alternative was to organize the secret International Fraternity. Bakunin was convinced that this kind of vanguard movement was indispensable to the success of the Social Revolution.
  148. Rocker, Rudolf
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (1873-1958). Anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist.
  149. Rocker, Rudolf
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  150. Sacco and Vanzetti
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1929
    This struggle marks the real history of progress. Its heroes are not the Napoleons and the Bismarcks, not the generals and politicians. Its path is lined with the unmarked graves of the Saccos and Vanzettis of humanity, dotted with the auto-da-fé, the torture chambers, the gallows and the electric chair. To those martyrs of justice and liberty we owe what little of real progress and civilization we have today.
  151. Sacco and Vanzetti
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Labourers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed in Massachusetts in 1927.
  152. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  153. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  154. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  155. So be it
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
    Rejoinder from Sam Dolgoff.
  156. Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
    A Reply to the International Socialist Organization

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
  157. Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
    A Reply to the International Socialist Organization

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
  158. Socialism and Anarchism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1889
    Morris repudiates the anarchist view that freedom from authority means the individual doing what he pleases under all circumstances. This, he says is "an absolute negation of society".
  159. Socialist anarchism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Social anarchism sees "individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid
  160. The Socialist Register 1971
    A survey of movements and ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971
  161. Society of the Spectacle 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 2005
    An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
  162. Some Thoughts on Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    What type of organization should anarchists, libertarian socialists and libertarian Marxists be working towards?
  163. Souchy, Augustin
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    German anarchist, antimilitarist, and journalist. (1892-1984).
  164. The Spanish Anarchists
    The heroic years

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    The seminal history of Spanish anarchism: from its earliest inception to the organizations that claimed over two million members on the eve of the 1936 Revolution.
  165. Spunk Library
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Collects and distributes literature in electronic format, with an emphasis on anarchism and related issues.
  166. Strike! 
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
  167. Talk on Anarchism and Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
  168. The TAZ - Anarchy on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Links to anarchist resources.
  169. Untying the Knot
    Resource Type: Book
  170. The Uses of Disorder
    Resource Type: Book
  171. Vanguard: A Libertarian Communist Journal
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A monthly libertarian communist journal published in New York from 1932-1939.
  172. Voyages To Utopia
    From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
  173. What Bakunin said (Jewell)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Letter quoting Bakunin.
  174. What is anarcho-syndicalism?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Libertarian syndicalism interprets liberty as self-management or control over one’s life, and believes that freedom for the working class requires the elimination of working class subordination to capitalist or state bosses.
  175. Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Whose interests do the violent actions of the black bloc benefit? The interests of the general public in using free speech as a means of political change? Or the interests of the authorities in providing the perfect pretext with which to crush and outlaw that free speech? You can’t overthrow the entire system by smashing one bank and starting a bonfire. Real political change takes generations of struggle, decades of building respected educational platforms, and a gargantuan grass-roots movement focused on taking power on the local level and expanding upwards. Throwing a brick through a window isn’t going to achieve anything other than making the vast majority of the general public despise you even more, and support the very systems of power that you are supposedly opposing. The black bloc sect exist to provide the media with violent footage with which to demonize legitimate protesters.
  176. Why the Leninists Will Win
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.
  177. The William Morris Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A subarchive of the Marxists Internet Archive, featuring the works of the English socialist, writer, and artist William Morris.
  178. Wobblies & Zapatistas 
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
  179. You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship 
    The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1981
    An Australian socialist-libertarian response to terrorism in the aftermath of the 1978 Sidney Hilton bombing, and a meditation on the inferior logic of terrorist-based politics.

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