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The History of a One-sided Dialogue With Todd Ashker

Submitted by R Totale on Aug 29 2018 21:10

Historian Denis O'Hearn writes about his relationship with Todd Ashker, one of the leaders of the 2011-2013 hunger strike movement in California prisons. This article first appeared in Counterpunch.

The Short Corridor: How the Most Isolated Prisoners in America Took on the System, and Won

Submitted by R Totale on Aug 29 2018 20:55

An article from the LA Review of Books giving a history of the mass hunger strike movement that challenged solitary confinement in the California prison system.

Oiseau-tempête : Second issue

This is a translation of a magazine published by a french collective from 1997 to 2006. The original issues can be found here, in French.

Summary of the second issue (fall 1997) :
-THE IMMIGRANT AND THE « LAW OF POPULATION » IN MODERN CAPITALISM
-WHAT'S UP WITH THE GREEKS ?
-JUNE 36 : BEHIND THE SCENES
-SERGE BRICIANER, SHADES OF BLACK AND BRIGHT RED.
-THE MYTHS OF EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE
-THE LOVES OF ART AND MONEY
-« DECHERVELAGE »

Objections to anarchism – George Barrett

A 1921 pamphlet of George Barrett's published posthumously which addresses 24 objections to anarchism.

Chapter 6: Concluding thoughts on revolution

Worker cooperatives in American history

Here and Now #7/8

A double issue of Here and Now magazine (issue 7/8) including an Eastern Europe supplement.

A compressed and cropped version of the PDF version from the Spirit of Revolt collection here.

Days of War Nights of Love

An audio book of Days of War Nights of Love, an intoductory text to the American post left Anarchist group CrimethInc. The audio book was created by the group Audio Anarchy.

Class War covers gallery

Submitted by Fozzie on Aug 27 2018 10:28

An online archive of covers of the British Anarchist newspaper Class War from the 1980s-1990s.

Taken from various online sources, including Anarcho covers on Facebook.

Mark S. Tey - The Ends of Class War

A review article about the "final" issue 73 of Class War and related strands of the UK Anarchist movement in the late 1990s.

Originally appeared in issue 4 of Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration (Newcastle, 1998)

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