Anarchist History

Black Flame (Counter-Power, Volume 1) is the first of a two-volume set examining the democratic class politics of the worldwide anarchist movement, its vision of a decentralized planned economy, and its impact on popular struggles on five continents over the course of the past 150 years.  read more »

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.  read more »

A very radical pamphlet from the Hungry Knife Artist Collective
Analysis & perspective from the U.S. - Mexico deserts
Radical Art Activism
Practical D.I.Y.
Solidarity & Sustainibilty
Readable version: http://hungryknife.com/iddu/DUDi1webVER.pdf
Printable version: http://hungryknife.com/iddu/DUDi1piy.pdf

No, you didn't read it wrong: it's an anarchist Magic: the Gathering deck fully laid out for printing! Nerdy anti-authoritarians everywhere, rejoice!  read more »

The first comprehensive collection of Gustav Landauer’s writings in English, this valuable addition to the history of anarchism in the early 20th century gathers more than 40 influential works by one of Germany’s most prominent radical agitators.  read more »

"Organizations pass, but subversion will never stop being loved."

A great text about prisoners and solidarity, released under the moniker "International Friends" in August 1980 and currently attributed to that Debord guy. Signed by 25,000 people upon it's release, it plead for the release of Basque political prisoners in the spirit of revolutionary solidarity.  read more »

Crass - A clip from the 'manifesto' that came with Christ the Album
On: Normalcy, war, pacifism, Hippies- death of, mental health system ... and possibly more.

Download at:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/crass0001.pdf (7.7 mb)  read more »

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This is the story of the infamous Bonnot Gang: the most notorious French anarchists ever, and the inventors of the motorized get-away. It is the story of how the anarchist taste for illegality developed into illegalism - the theory that theft is liberating.  read more »

"Pero no hay, quizá, mayor riqueza de espíritu -entendiendo tal como fortalecimiento de la voluntad, del ánimo, de esa reafirmación de cada personalidad específica- que la de ese amor a la vida preconizado por los anarquistas individualistas -Urales tenía razón, caigo en la reiteración al mencionar los dos conceptos, no existe uno sin el otro-, la de esa obligación de vivir intensamente u  read more »

A rich literature exists on the German Social Democratic movement which attempts to explain the role of the German working class in the Wilhelmian Reich.  read more »

This is the third pamphlet in the Tactical Analysis Series. Part analysis of tactical movements, part action history, part tactical theory paper, this pamphlet was written as the result of 2 months of tactical research following the G20 demonstrations in Pittsburgh.  read more »

In the best tradition of participant-observation, anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. Starting from the assumption that, when dealing with possibilities of global transformation and emerging political forms, a disinterested, "objective" perspective is impossible, he writes as both scholar and activist.  read more »

On the problem of armed struggle, the reactionary function of the CNT, & possible future developments of the anti-capitalist struggle.

By the comrades of the Spanish Federation of Anarchist Groups (F.I.G.A.)  read more »