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About Us Audio Video PDF Anarchist FAQ Latest content Facebook Twitter Legal Introduction to "Direct Struggle Against Capital" Wed, 03/25/2020 - 19:11 — Anarcho This is the introduction to Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology ( AK Press , 2014). It is a comprehensive selection of texts, many of which are translated or reprinted for the first time. As the introduction shows, Kropotkin was not some kind of anarcho-Santa but rather a revolutionary anarchist with a clear idea of what was wrong with society, how to change it and what a better world should be like. The book is still available, so please consider buying it for AK Press. PDF International Anarchist history Analysis Anarcho Kropotkin Login to post comments Read more 1 attachment The Trotskyist School of Falsification Mon, 01/27/2020 - 20:49 — Anarcho Most anarchists come across Victor Serge (1889-1947) at some stage, the elitist-individualist anarchist turned elitist-Bolshevik whom Leninists to this day like to invoke as “the best of the anarchists” to get libertarians to join their party ( “Victor Serge: The Worst of the Anarchists,” ASR no. 61). This work by him and Natalia Sedova Trotsky, The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016), is a biography of Leon Trotsky and is of note as a good example of what could be termed The Trotskyist School of Falsification , to invoke the title of Trotsky’s 1937 work The Stalin School of Falsification. (171) Russian Ukraine Belarus The left Review Anarcho Serge Trotsky Login to post comments Read more Anarchism, Marxism and the lessons of the Commune Sun, 12/15/2019 - 20:02 — Anarcho “On March 17 th the Communist Government completed its ‘victory’ over the Kronstadt proletariat and on the 18 th of March it commemorated the martyrs of the Paris Commune. It was apparent to all who were mute witnesses to the outrage committed by the Bolsheviki that the crime against Kronstadt was far more enormous than the slaughter of the Communards in 1871, for it was done in the name of the Social Revolution, in the name of the Socialist Republic.” – Emma Goldman [1] PDF France Belgium Luxemburg Anarchist history Analysis Anarcho Login to post comments Read more 1 attachment An establishment view of the referendum that won Repeal - In the Shadow of the 8th review Fri, 12/13/2019 - 14:02 — AndrewNFlood Book length histories of the Repeal referendum have started to appear. That this second one is an autobiography is in itself a testament to how long the 8th Amendment ruled over us. The 8th amendment takes up about half the space of Peter Boylan’s ‘In the Shadow of the 8th’. Boylan was an obstetrician who retired from Holles St in 2016, he was a prominent spokesperson for Repeal in the referendum of 2018 and was then central to the implementation of abortion access in the aftermath of winning that referendum. In telling the story of his medical career he tells the story of how the 8th shaped it. Ireland Gender Review Andrew Flood Repealing the 8th Login to post comments Read more It’s a Yes - review of an account of the campaign that won the abortion referendum in Ireland Thu, 11/21/2019 - 16:08 — AndrewNFlood The publication of the co-directors history of the Together for Yes (T4Y) campaign is an important step in building an accessible collective history of the final stage of the long struggle to repeal the hated 8th amendment to the Irish constitution. It along with the forthcoming Together for Yes review of the referendum campaign should probably be read by everyone who worked for Repeal, if for no other reason than to get a better understanding of the ‘big picture’ of what we were involved in. Ireland Gender Analysis Andrew Flood Repealing the 8th Login to post comments Read more Winning Repeal - capturing the lessons of a successful struggle Wed, 11/20/2019 - 15:13 — AndrewNFlood On 25th May 2018 Ireland voted by 2 to 1 to remove the ban on abortion from the Irish constitution. This massive victory came after years of grassroots campaigning demanding that the government call such a referendum and then a very intense 68 days of campaigning where 1000s of volunteers threw everything they had into winning. For 30 years before that I campaigned and wrote about that struggle and in the years since I’ve started to try to capture the learnings from that moment of change from a specifically anarchist perspective. This is an index of that material and an appeal to those anarchists who were involved to consider doing an audio interview with me that can further add to this story. Ireland Gender Analysis Andrew Flood Pro-choice Repealing the 8th Login to post comments Read more On Anarchist Organisation Sat, 11/16/2019 - 07:59 — Anarcho “organisation, that is to say, association for a specific purpose and with the structure and means required to attain it, is a necessary aspect of social life. A man in isolation cannot even live the life of a beast […] Having therefore to join with other humans […] he must submit to the will of others (be enslaved) or subject others to his will (be in authority) or live with others in fraternal agreement in the interests of the greatest good of all (be an associate). Nobody can escape from this necessity.” – Errico Malatesta [1] PDF International anarchist organization Analysis Anarcho Login to post comments Read more 1 attachment Review: Whither Anarchism? by Kristian Williams Sat, 11/16/2019 - 07:55 — Anarcho In 1998 Murray Bookchin wrote a response to the critics of his Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm entitled Wither Anarchism? . Twenty years later appears a pamphlet bearing the same name and in a way covering the same issue – the state of the movement. Only the most blinkered anarchist would disagree that this is a valid question – and one we need to address even if the rest of the revolutionary left is hardly much better and without the benefit of having a viable theory. North America Anarchist movement Review Anarcho Login to post comments Read more Precursors of Syndicalism IV Sat, 10/19/2019 - 07:58 — Anarcho In previous instalments of this series, we have discussed syndicalist ideas in the First International ( Precursors of Syndicalism I ), before turning to International Working People’s Association ( Precursors of Syndicalism II ) and communist-anarchism ( Precursors of Syndicalism III ). Here, we highlight anarchist-communist criticisms of revolutionary syndicalism. International Anarchist history Analysis Anarcho Login to post comments Read more Transport needs and Climate Breakdown - collective not individual action is needed Wed, 10/02/2019 - 12:47 — AndrewNFlood As part of the global climate strike about 25 thousand students marched through the center of Dublin city. This was one of many demonstrations that took place around Ireland, even the small dormitory towns around Dublin like Maynooth had their own demonstrations. So the actual numbers protesting in Ireland was probably in the region of 40,000. In this piece Andrew looks at how collective action can halt Climate Breakdown using the example of the need for transport to illustrate why individual consumer choices cannot fix things. Video Ireland Environment Analysis Andrew Flood Climate Change Login to post comments Read more 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last » Like what you are reading? 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