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Armed Joy in Audio form

October 19, 2015 ideas, news

Armed Joy, Bonanno’s classic insurrectionist text, is now available in audio form here at Free Radical Radio along with various other interesting recordings mostly influenced by ‘post left’ anarchy, primitivism, and individualism. Among other things, Armed Joy is a critique of the dull, stagnant and strangulating nature of traditional revolutionary … Continue reading

The Talon Conspiracy: a treasure trove of liberation & sabotage

October 17, 2015 ideas, news

If you haven’t already perused it, we highly recommend checking out the Talon Conspiracy, a huge archive of zines, manuals and regular publications from the animal and earth liberation movements. The archives span several decades and include practical guides on sabotage, animal liberation, blockades, good security (though the technological/forensics aspects … Continue reading

SHAC ATTACK! Targeting companies animal rights style

May 15, 2015 ideas, news

Note from Rabble: This is a repost of a classic text on a strategy adopted by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), a global campaign to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), Europe’s largest contract vivisection laboratory. HLS tests products on more than 70,000 animals per year before they are released … Continue reading

Why anarchists don’t vote

May 6, 2015 ideas

DONT-VOTE-BLACK.pdf-copy-2 Classic short text from anarchist, geographer, ecologist Elisee Reclus (1830-1905). Via The Anarchist Library. You can download a PDF poster version via Act for Freedom Now here. Everything that can be said about the suffrage may be summed up in a sentence. To vote is to give up your … Continue reading

“the action of the masses and the individual”

January 24, 2015 ideas

by Peter Kropotkin. Originally published in “La Revolte”, 1890. From theanarchistlibrary, via Machorka. This article was written during an upswell of revolts amongst workers and the dispossessed across Europe, which included the great London dock strike of 1889. Kropotkin emphasises how self-professed revolutionaries hardly played any part in this “spontaneous” … Continue reading

Malatesta on revolts and revolutions

December 7, 2014 ideas

Here’s another classic anarchist article by Errico Malatesta (1853-1932), recently translated into English in the new collection “The Method of Freedom”. Like this article on “Propaganda of Deeds”, which it complements, it was written in 1889 but makes points that are just as relevant today. Then, as now, there were … Continue reading

“Vive l’anarchie!”: the timeless trial statement of Emile Henry

November 25, 2014 ideas

This powerful trial statement and scathing attack on socialist & trade union sellouts is as timely today as it was when Émile Henry spoke these words in 1894, during his trial for two violent acts of propaganda of the deed. Henry’s actions were motivated in part by the state execution … Continue reading

Malatesta: “Propaganda by Deeds”

November 2, 2014 ideas

This article by the very active and influential anarchist Errico Malatesta (1853-1932) was written, in Italian, in 1889. It has only recently been translated into English, by Davide Turcato (in the new Malatesta collection “The Method of Freedom”). Many points Malatesta makes here are strikingly relevant 125 years later. He … Continue reading

Blast from the Past

October 11, 2014 ideas

Alexander Berkman in the first issue of anarchist magazine, The Blast, 15th January 1916 Why The Blast? Do you mean to destroy? Do you mean to build? These are questions we have been asked from many quarters, by inquirers sympathetic and otherwise. Our reply is frank and bold: We mean both: to destroy and to build. For, … Continue reading

Open The Second Front

August 11, 2014 ideas

by Martin Wright. REPOST from theanarchistlibrary. A little bit of history. This article, originally published in the newspaper Class War in 1984, in the heat of the miners strike that finished off the British trade union movement, was a gem of anarchist thinking and writing in the UK. Obviously it … Continue reading

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