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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
