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Recent articles by Lucien van der Walt
Social-Democracy and Anarchism Mar 21 16 March 2016 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin online Mar 01 16 Ο Κροπότκιν τ&#... Jan 19 16 James Guillaume (1844-1916) & the birth of syndicalism, anarchist communism![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From Mother Earth volume 12, number 1, March 1917: OBITUARY : James Guillaume (1844-1916 Mother Earth volume 12, number 1, March 1917 |
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KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 80, October 2014 has just been posted on our site. KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 76, October 2013 has just been posted on the site. On May 30, 2014 we will be celebrating 200 years of Mikhail Bakunin (1814 – 1876), a famous activist of the Russian and international revolutionary movement, a social thinker and one of the founders of the international anarchist movement. [Français] [Русский]
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 73, February 2013 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents here http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/qrfkm1 or read the full pdf here: http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/g4f5zm. Black Cat Press is pleased to announce the publication of "Revolution" by Carlo Cafiero for the first time ever in English (indeed nor has it ever been published as a complete volume in the original Italian!). The book brings what is certainly Cafiero's most complete, original work to English-speaking audiences for the first time. It is also an extremely important work in that it is one of the earliest attempts at compiling a complete theoretical view of the revolutionary ideal of anarchist communism. [Italiano] [Nederlands]
I’ve just come back from visiting the Kate Sharpley Library in California. Things have changed from the days when I could get there on the bus and we were buying our first filing cabinet. Lots of filing cabinets now, as well as boxes like the Left Bank Books archive. It’s good to look at the non-fiction shelves, seeing ‘old friends’ and new acquisitions. KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full pdf too. KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. Narratives of anarchist and syndicalist history during the era of the first globalization and imperialism (1870-1930) have overwhelmingly been constructed around a Western European tradition centered on discrete national cases. This parochial perspective typically ignores transnational connections and the contemporaneous existence of large and influential libertarian movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Yet anarchism and syndicalism, from their very inception at the First International, were conceived and developed as international movements. By focusing on the neglected cases of the colonial and postcolonial world, this volume underscores the worldwide dimension of these movements and their centrality in anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles. Drawing on in-depth historical analyses of the ideology, structure, and praxis of anarchism/syndicalism, it also provides fresh perspectives and lessons for those interested in understanding their resurgence today. The Nestor Makhno Archive has now been updated, with the addition of over 70 new documents in Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, English, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian. more >>
Introduction to this particular issue, April 2nd Bruno Lima Rocha
We do not see Bakunin as a god who never made mistakes. Of course he was not perfect. was a man, but a man who gave his all for the struggle of the oppressed, a revolutionary hero who deserves our admiration and respect. “From Bakunin, we can learn much about revolutionary activism. We can learn even more about the ideas needed to win the age-old fight between exploiter and exploited, between worker and peasant, on the one hand, and boss and ruler on the other. The greatest honor we can do his memory is to fight today and always for human freedom and workers liberation.”
This article, excerpted from a talk by Lucien van der Walt, co-author of Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism, covers key elements of anarchist and syndicalist history, including its role in Asia, Africa and Latin America, its impact on unions and anti-colonial struggles, and its historical centrality.
Maurizio Antonioli (ed.), The International Anarchist Congress, Amsterdam 1907 (Black Cat Press)
A leaflet of the WSM about the origins of Mayday. more >>
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 80, October 2014 has just been posted on our site.
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 76, October 2013 has just been posted on the site.
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 73, February 2013 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents here http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/qrfkm1 or read the full pdf here: http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/g4f5zm.
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full pdf too.
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. more >> |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2In Sam Dolgoff's compilation, "Bakunin on Anarchism" (Montreal: Black Rose, 1980), he reprints Guillame's "On Building the New Social Order." This is described as "the closest we can come to a clear outline of Bakunin's own version of the constructive tasks ahead after the revolution." (p. 357) It is particularly interesting because it claims that Bakunin believed in a final stage of libertarian communism.
However, I recall reading somewhere that Guillame stood with Kropotkin in giving all-out, uncritical, support to the Allies in World War I. Is this true?
Yes, he (JG) did take sides in the war. Peter Ryley has an interesting take on the debates around WW1, arguing Kropotkin etal had a position, not of uncritical support, but of lesser-evilism. It was they argued, too late to stop the war, and a German defeat was to be preferred, would open more space for struggles etc. From this reading it is not so different to those who felt an Allied victory in WW2 was preferable to an Axis one, although they would have preferred something more radical than either option. Malatesta's response was directed against this slippery pragmatism, which is why it was centred on issues of principle. Davide Turcato has also revisited the debate in an interesting paper.Ruth Kinna is editing a volume, due later this year, which should carry some of these debates.