Library

No Nonsense: About the radical simplification of life in territory 37

A fictional interview with a member of a post-capitalist society, by p.m.

An interview

“Mr Hug, so how do you feel after five years of ter.org37?”

“Great. As you can see, the transformation has been a huge success. By the way, no mister, please, just hug.”

Theory and practice: an introduction to Marxian theory - Root and Branch

1979 article by Root and Branch, introducing Marxist theory.

Thus we do not confront the world dogmatically with a new principle, proclaiming: Here is the truth, kneel before it! We develop for the world new principles out of the principles of the world. We do not say to the world: give up your struggles, they are stupid stuff, we will provide you with the true watchword of the struggle.

A World of Possibilities at 45 Westpoint

Homeless Families and their friends provide a glimpse of what a really good Left could look like, argues James Tracy.

Leuenroth, Edgard, 1881-1968

Biography of the German-Brazilian journalist and typesetter who committed his life to anarcho-syndicalism and anti-clericalism.

Brazilian typesetter, journalist and anarchist. The son of a German doctor and a Brazilian mother, Edgard Leuenroth (1881-1968) spent 70 of his 87 years committed to the workers’ and anarchist movement.

Lacerda de Moura, Maria, 1887-1944

Biography of the respected Brazilian anarchist-feminist teacher, journalist, writer, lecturer and poet.

Maria Lacerda de Moura was a teacher, journalist, writer, lecturer and poet and in everything she did her anarchist beliefs in human emancipation shone through, even when she never explicitly used the word ‘anarchism’.

Santos, the Barcelona of Brazil - Edgar Rodrigues

The struggle of dockers and carters in a Brazilian port city during the beginning of the 20th century.

Violent strikes broke out, some of them under the supervision of anarchists and supported by donations from the Spanish and Portuguese restaurants that fed the workers until they could go back to work victorious. Which is why the strikers were able to hold out until they had defeated the bosses who could always rely on help from the police dispatched from São Paulo.

Auto industry strikes in China - Lance Carter

Lance Carter gives an account and analysis of the hugely successful wildcat strike wave at mostly Japanese-owned auto factories in China, 2010.

Between May and July of this year a series of high-profile strikes in foreign-owned auto parts plants spread throughout China’s coastal regions.

Lessons from the Tekel strikes: class solidarity and ethnic (in)difference

Kadir Ateş and Toros Korkmaz analyse the Tekel tobacco plant strikes in Turkey between 2009 and 2010.

Our aim here is to analyze in brief the recent Tekel worker struggles in Turkey at the level of national economy.

A history of the anarchist movement in Brazil - Edgar Rodrigues

A short account about the general history of anarchism in Brazil.

Currently occupying some 8,511,965 square kilometres and with a population standing now at 160 million, Brazil was ‘discovered by Portuguese navigators in 1500’, colonised through the use of the lash and enriched by the use of slave labour, as were other countries ‘discovered’ by the Spaniards, the Italians, the Dutch, the French, the British and others.

Life of Malatesta - Luigi Fabbri

Luigi Fabbri's book-length biography of the life of the almost legendary Italian anarchist, Errico Malatesta. Downloadable here as a Word document.

Translated by Adam W.