The 1917 Russian Revolution experienced a tremendous rise in worker/peasant self-management. Through the pressures of WWI, Revolution and Civil War, the peoples of that great land mass discovered that with the destruction of one regime came another and that neither functioned in the interests of the…

The Russian Civil War saw the emergence of a large number of spontaneous insurrectional movements affiliated to neither of the two major protagonists. Notwithstanding that some of these rebellions ended up being subordinated to one or the other, out of political opportunism or survival instinct, mos…

You don’t have to join anything – set your own terms of engagement with the milieu. Only give that which you feel comfortable giving. Never tolerate moral pressure to participate in ‘actions’. In response to activist holy-joes say, ‘we should do nothing’ to establish different grounds. T…

Interviewer’s Introduction From 1905 to 1930, anarchists exerted a broad influence on Chinese culture and politics. They were at the center of the emerging social radicalism of that period and their activities left a significant mark on later decade’s revolutionary movements. Arif Dirlik is amon…

We believe that 2020–21 is a period of generalized social struggle that, for the first time in at least five decades, has pushed the so-called United States to the brink of revolutionary transformation. We have been thinking of this struggle as The Great Refusal. We offer these theses as provocati…

This essay is dedicated to the memory of our revolutionary elder, theorist, and warrior Russell Maroon Shoatz This essay was inspired partially by one of our comrades while we were discussing the failures of non-violence as a tactic and philosophy. She said something along the lines of “I was rais…

I have been passed a clipping from Il Martello containing a sort of open letter addressed to me by a comrade signing himself Pardaillan by way of a response to my recent article “Authoritarian Rehashes,” in which I targeted certain authoritarian tendencies evident within our camp. I am always ha…

Let’s skip the “philosophical” definitions, that is, the demanding, confused and… inconclusive ones. The ideal means: that which is desired. The real means: that which exists. Unhappiness with what is, and the constant craving for something better, the aspiration to greater freedom, to more…

It has been noted thousands of times that men, before arriving at the truth, or at least as much relative truth as is attainable at various junctures in their intellectual and social development, are wont to fall into the most widely varying errors in looking at things, now from one side and now fro…

Believing that the attempt to make labor-time a standard for a monetary unit a fallacy and bound to fail in practice, I submit a few questions and observations. Whose labor is to be used as a standard, the efficient or the inefficient man’s? Take any product you may, say shoes. John produces five…

Sporadic acts of sabotage against companies involved in nuclear plant construction began to take place in the region of Toulouse, France in mid-1979. This occurred at the height of vigorous, broad-based regional opposition to the construction of the GOLFECH nuclear power plant on the Garonne River…

When Henry George was conducting his Standard some of his correspondence inveigled him into a discussion of the question of interest, in which he attempted to prove that interest is a vital reality apart from the money monopoly. The editor of Liberty at once took issue with him there; The Standard n…

The Latin American debate and Europe First of all, I would like to acknowledge the invitation from the comrades at Ekintza Zuzena magazine, who, after reading the book Anarchism and Popular Power: South American Theory and Practice, were interested in the present topic and decided to put it up for d…

As someone who has been an anarchist for a few years and who, taking an interest in the subject, has written several books about it and undertaken both historical and cultural research in regard to it, I am not unaware that in many historical and seemingly also current conceptions of particularly so…

I want to live in a world without me and that means nowhere I want to stop being me to be what I never be to be nothing. living in a world without me to be what he never be fill the fullness of empty I’m trapping something – can’t help it to called that: myself. I move in idiomatic spins and r…

In 1844, Max Stirner (the pen name of the radical Hegelian philosopher Johann Kaspar Schmidt) published The Ego and Its Own, a work of astonishing ambition and iconoclasm. Stirner’s book sets out one of the earliest and most comprehensive attacks on several of the philosophies and ideologies today…

1. In its revolutionary struggles, the working class needs organization. When great masses have to act as a unit, a mechanism is needed for understanding and discussion, for the making and issuing of decisions, and for the proclaiming of actions and aims. This does not mean, of course, that all grea…

I What should every class-conscious worker know about the revolutionary commune in the present historical epoch which has on its agenda the revolutionary self-liberation of the working class from the capitalist yoke? And what is known about it today by even the politically enlightened and therefore…

Never a chart-buster, this book, to my amazement, just won’t go away. I brought out the “first edition,” if I may so dignify 100 Velo-bound photocopies, in early 1985 as the conflict it recounted continued. By then I was living — as secretly as I could — in an unheated room in Berkeley. I…

We begin in 1872, when the Chilean Section of the International Working Men’s Association was established in Valparaiso, a major coastal city. Tragically, this was also the year of the anarchists’ expulsion from the International, and the section was not destined to last for long. However, it pl…

The brain drain continues! Last night, at more than 6,000 meters/second, a fraction of the state's memories dissipated into air at Colomiers. Catalogues of offences, alerts and objects; catalogues of stolen vehicles; catalogues of vehicle registration cards; catalogues of migrant workers; the embryo…

“Rather than promoting categories of denigration and subordination, the counter-essentialist discourse of Identity Politics attempts to invert the historical categories of oppression into categories of celebration... The discourse of counter-essentialism includes the ideologies of innocence and vi…

1. Introduction When people talk about anarchism, what they have in mind is typically political anarchism, that is, the view that there should be no state. As the philosopher and anarchism scholar David Miller observes, however, anarchism itself is a more general view, namely the view that there sho…

Our struggle unites people of different worldviews: we see the world and the role of a person in it in different ways, as well as we evaluate the course of history in different ways, adhere to different philosophies and treat religion differently. However, in different ways we came to the same resul…

We live in a world where an endless stream of information and constant updates in news feeds force out even the most important events of the recent past. However among the events there are those which can not be allowed to fade. One of them occured on October 31, 2018. Anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky c…