This is the epoch of the gadding mind. The mind ‘not at home’ but given to something else, occupied with alien ‘causes’ is of the normal order, and as such must be held accountable for that contemning of the lonely occupant of the home—the Self—which is the characteristic of the common m…

Old man Rivoli had a wall. This wall ran along a road, and it was crumbling badly. The rains and the road mender’s pickax had undermined the base. The stones, having come loose, hardly held together any longer, and cracks were opening up. It was beautiful, however, having the look of an ancient ru…

A few leagues from my cottage, in one of the most fertile areas in France, there lies a certain immense property. For only the past ten years the place has belonged to a well-known banker, but it isn’t used for hunting parties. The chateau was partly demolished during the first revolution. Nothing…

Mr. Poivret got down from his wagon in front of the shop owned by his son-in-law Pierre Gasselin, tied the horse to a thick iron ring and, after three times checking the tightness of the tether’s knot, he entered the butcher shop cracking his horse-whip. “Anyone there?” he yelled. A dog, sleep…

Motteau gave his testimony as follows: “There you have it, your honor. You’ve listened to all these people —my good neighbors and my good friends. They haven’t cut me any slack, and that’s fair enough. They felt uncomfortable as long as I was in Boulaie-Blanche, and as long as there were n…

Abstract The State and its governmental institutions have been dignified in the environmentalist mainstream as palliative forces to face and solve the excesses and failures of capitalism and neoliberalism towards a proper environmental management. But this environmental state falls into evident cont…

INTRODUCTION 1. The following paragraphs are intended to deal with misconceptions about anarchism and to clear up semantical misunderstandings that stand in the way of a good and clear image of the matter. One of the greatest misbeliefs — for example — is that anarchists hate capitalism. That do…

What is a lesbian? A lesbian is the rage of all women condensed to the point of explosion. She is the woman who, often beginning at an extremely early age, acts in accordance with her inner compulsion to be a more complete and freer human being than her society — perhaps then, but certainly later…

Freedom has its forms. However personalized, individuated or dadaesque may be the attack upon prevailing institutions, a liberatory revolution always poses the question of what social forms will replace existing ones. At one point or another, a revolutionary people must deal with how it will manage…

The Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici (Federation of Anarchist Communists) completes its 25th year of existence, making it the longest-lived anarchist communist political organization in Italy ever. With the experiment that was the Organizzazione Rivoluzionaria Anarchica (ORA), following the aband…

I — General Art.1 — The Internal Regulations — as per Art.29 of the Statute — complete the Statute and provide further detail, and are designed to be a more flexible and adaptable instrument of self-regulation for the various phases in the growth of the organization. Art.2 — The Internal R…

The situation in Italy’s universities is somewhat untypical compared with other areas of the public sector, and in particular in relation to schools. Faced with progressive disinvestment on the part of the State’s central administration, responsibility has gradually and with difficulty moved to…

In Italy, there is a clear deterioration in the levels of democracy in the country, which can be seen both at institutional level and in general within society: in the concentration of power in the executive, with the consequent authoritarian tendency to rely more and more on executive orders and de…

The neo-liberal myth of unstoppable development linked to the spread of the market has evaporated, leaving a painful trail of contracted markets, only apparently resolvable through a sharpening of competition and international social dumping. Thus, while capitalism is re-designing its geography, it…

“Their Policy in this is very wise, and has nothing Barbarous in it. For, since their preservation depends upon their union, and since it is hardly possible that among peoples where license reigns with all impunity — and, above all, among young people — there should not happen some event capab…

Within the broad anarchist movement, we stand in the tradition advocating the need for an organized and disciplined anarchist political organization The “Alliance” in the First International was an early example of this model, but it was one of many such forces. In 1926, Nestor Makhno, Peter Ars…

Preface This is the story of the International Anarchist Congress that was held at the Plancius Hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 26 to 31 August 1907. The previous anarchist congress had been back in 1881 in London and was an attempt to re-launch the old International, though it inaugurated…

With its barriers, islands, peninsulas, marshes and inlets, the Gulf Coast of the United States is known for its rich ecosystem and vast wildlife inhabiting the Gulf Coastal Plain. The region attracts many tourists who sightsee and fish along the marshlands in Louisiana, and enjoy the white sands sp…

Possibly the most exciting book on ecology or environmentalism to be published in several years, David Owen’s Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability challenges the conventional wisdom of the environmental movement and uses as a model of…

I understand completely why someone might want to write a book about the “myths” of vegetarianism. We live in a world where capitalism has this amazing ability to co-opt anything and everything (you’ve almost got to admire what a good job capitalism does at that). “Green” capitalism is a c…

Dear comrades, It appears that a brief communique on our 12th conference has been badly misunderstood by a few international comrades. A rumor is circulating saying that NEFAC decided to take a position in favor of Quebec independence. We are surprised to learn this! If we indeed adopted a discussio…

Boston has a rich history of anarchism and class warfare. Unfortunately, at least until recently, the days of anarchist influence within labor struggles was exactly that: a relic of the past. The last time an anarchist had played an influential role in a successful Boston-based labor struggle was in…

U.S. “normalization” of relations with Vietnam ignores the slaughter of the war and continues the myth of the MIA/POW. Why did President Clinton (whose opportunistic-draft dodging was the only worthy thing he’s ever done) lift the almost twenty-year ban on trade with Vietnam in February, begin…

Anarchists are materialists. We understand that there is a real and concrete basis for the way society is organised right now:why here are rich and poor, why there are order-givers and order-takers, why there is starvation and misery on a massive scale — and we understand how this can be changed…

Since the 1980’s, the Anarchist movement has experienced a steady increase in numbers and activism. Much of this growth has been spontaneous and inspiring. With that growth we have seen strides in virtually all strains of Anarchism, but the one that has perhaps had the greatest impact on modern An…