Anarchist History

This is a history lesson.  read more »

Here's the text of the classic speech by Lucy Parsons, at the May Day celebrations. It's crazy. I've paired it with an old essay I found in the university archives called the Meaning of Social Revolution. It's our history, learn it.

From: www.guelphpeak.org  read more »

Table of Contents:

• The First of May and the General Strike...by Mother Earth (Mag.)
• Memory as a Weapon...by Anonymous
• Fallen Comrades...by Anonymous

This zine is an account from the protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in 2001. It was one of the most militant of the anti-capitalist (anti-globalization) protests that took place at the turn of the century in North America.  read more »

A smattering of documents from the height of the British anti-roads struggle in the 1990s. Useful history and context for a too-often bit of history that helped inform anti-globalization rioting, eco-defense in North America and elsewhere, squatting across Europe, and indigenous solidarity projects.  read more »

In the spirit of the coming May, "The Witch's Child" in zine form.

Read no more odes my son, read timetables:
they’re to the point. And roll the sea charts out
before it’s too late. Be watchful, do not sing,
for once again the day is clearly coming
when they will brand refusers on the chest
and nail up lists of names on people’s doors.
Learn how to go unknown, learn more than me:
To change your face, your documents, your country.  read more »

Decolonizing Anarchism looks at the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. This approach reveals an alternate narrative of decolonization, in which achieving a nation-state is not the objective.  read more »

A collection of letters, texts and communiques from the armed group ‘ Revolutionary Struggle’ and their accused. Released during their current trial and intended to be one more nail in the coffin of the legitimacy of the State and the capitalist system.  read more »

Franklin Rosemont, 1944-2009

"A stranger to neither love nor laughter"

by Don Lacoss

The Fifth Estate, Summer-Fall 2009, Vol 44, No. 2 (Whole number 381), page 34  read more »

Autobiographical Kaleidoscope

by Franklin Rosemont

from Morning of the Machine Gun, May 1968

Communicating Vessels, Issue 22, Fall-Winter, 2010 - 2011, page 34  read more »

In my Mind's Eye

Remembering Rosemont

by Joseph Jablonski

Communicating Vessels, Issue 22, Fall-Winter, 2010 - 2011, page 18

FALL IN SPRING  read more »

Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos imposed for printing on tabloid (11x17 in.) paper, in order to be able to distribute this important text cheaply.

There are three cover files:

1) The cover with the text pdf (tabloid size)
-Two separate covers with bleed
2) A quarter inch bleed so that the final size will be 11x17 in.  read more »

This zine collects two excellent essays by Lawrence Jarach: "Leftism 101" from Back to Basics: The Problem of the Left put out by the Green Anarchy collective and "Anarchists, Don't let the Left(overs) Ruin your Appetite" from Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed #48.  read more »

C.L.R. James's famous essay "Every Cook Can Govern: A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece Its Meaning for Today" (1956) in printable booklet format. James (an autonomist Marxist and post-colonial scholar) focuses on the radical, direct democracy during a certain period in ancient Greece, including the techniques used to popularize power and to decentralize control away from elites.