Another essay by Alfredo M. Bonanno: The Revolutionary Project.
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Alfredo M. Bonanno: Informal organisation
A short text on informal organisation by Alfredo M. Bonanno.
Continue reading Alfredo M. Bonanno: Informal organisationErrico Malatesta: Our Plans – Union Between Communists and Collectivists
The controversy over communism versus collectivism as the best form of the future anarchist society had divided the anarchist movement for years, especially in Spain.
Continue reading Errico Malatesta: Our Plans – Union Between Communists and CollectivistsGreek December 2008 Revolt Revisited
Greece. Answers from Void Network to questions from US comrades in 2009, one year after the police murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos sparked the 2008 December revolt. An excerpt from the book We Are An Image from the Future / The Greek Revolt of December 2008.
Continue reading Greek December 2008 Revolt RevisitedSasha K: Some notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism – Killing King Abacus Anthology
What follows is a piece by Sasha K: “Some notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism” which appeared in Killing King Abacus #2. We added an anthology of the writing of Killing King Abacus (2000-2005).
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Territorial Acknowledgement
This essay was written on the unceded traditional territories of the WSANEC Nation, specifically the Tsawout and Tseycum peoples. The thoughts herein have been developed through spending time on many nations’ territories, including the Pacheedaht, Ditidaht, T’souk, Songhees, Esquimalt, Cowichan, Tseshaht, Sinixt and many more. This essay is meant to be distributed far and wide and will hopefully pass through all of these territories and more, as it seeks to build relationships and understanding between settlers, Indigenous people, and the Land. I thank these nations for allowing me to learn from the Land, and all of the connections therein. I thank them for preserving these beautiful places for thousands of years. I thank them for never ceding their responsibilities to the Land and for the example they set for settlers to live up to. The debt will always be mine.
This essay is by no means a complete strategy guide to decolonization, and in fact leaves out many fundamental tenets, such as the liberation of women, prison and police abolition, questions of power dynamics and hierarchy, and many more. Rather than being a comprehensive manual for decolonization, it is meant as an attempt to begin reconciling Western revolutionary traditions with Indigenous worldviews, and to frame decolonization as not only the foundation, but also as the method and end goal of the environmental, feminist, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist struggle across Turtle Island.
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There is such a variety of folk calling themselves anarchists these days and peddling such a variety of disparate and contradictory ideas as anarchy, that it really is small wonder that the public, being new to our ideas and unable to make out at a glance the big differences lurking under the blanket of a common name, remains deaf to our propaganda and regards us with suspicion.
Continue reading Errico Malatesta: Errors And RemediesBartolomeo Vanzetti: The Story of a Proletarian Life
On August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed by the electric chair in Charlestown State Prison, Massachusetts. Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian migrants and anarchists, falsely accused of murder during a robbery they did not commit. Despite one of the largest solidarity campaigns in world history, the men were nonetheless executed simply for their conviction as anarchists. We republish Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s The Story of a Proletarian Life.
Continue reading Bartolomeo Vanzetti: The Story of a Proletarian LifeMutual Aid and Solidarity against Crisis – Green Syndicalist Reflections on #COVID19
It took only a matter of weeks for politicians and political pundits to openly muse about the death calculus that should be undertaken to determine how many should die to “save the economy,” or more precisely to restore profits to owners and investors. Shutdowns and isolation might be good for people and the planet but were not so great for capital accumulation. It turns out capital does not care if people or the planet die, as long as the Dow goes up. Pretenses have been shed, the core of the system is on display.
Continue reading Mutual Aid and Solidarity against Crisis – Green Syndicalist Reflections on #COVID19#RentStrike: Tactics of the Autonomous Tenants Union – VOL. 1
By necessity, ATU’s work often centers around talking to tenants about their “rights” as given to them by the legal system. In our organizing, these rights are referred to as the shield. A shield can protect you, but it cannot win a fight for you. Your rights often can only protect you if you have access to a lawyer, and can fail you on a judge’s whim. You need something more—you need the sword. We offer this zine in hopes that the tools within will help folks to go on the offensive and fight back against their landlords. Because even when the law and the courts ul mately work to serve the landlord class, the power of tenants united will prevail.
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