Anarchist History

by Jacob McKean

2006

by George Cores

anarchism and class struggle in a port city

Kate Sharpley Library 2005

Here is the electronic version (PDF) of the latest issue of Non Fides, a periodical anarchist journal from Paris, France.

http://www.non-fides.fr

download:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/NonFidesIV.pdf (48.3 mb)

a translation originally appearing on the Tarnac 9 blog, but which has since been removed. this is the imposed pdf intended for printing.

note: this is a draft translation. if you can read French, you should really rely on the original, as, although decent overall, this translation loses some subtleties in the language (e.g. the use of "écart", or the impersonal pronoun "on" which is hard to translate, and so on).

the text addresses issues such as their notion of 'human strike', of 'whatever singularity', of the difference between individuality and the common, and so on.
enjoy.

Using an anarchist theoretical framework, it is argued that the working class would obtain greater gains through militant direct action modeled on the labor movement of the past. The history of the 8-hour workday is reviewed as a case study showing that it was won because of radical leaders who challenged existing legal institutional frameworks through societal education, militant ideology, direct action, and violent resistance against state attacks. Positive changes did not occur politically, peacefully, or voluntarily.  read more »

Os Cangaceiros was a group of delinquents caught up in the spirit of the French insurrection of 1968 who refused to let that spirit die. With nothing but contempt for the self-sacrificial ideology practiced by “specialists in armed struggle”, this uncontrollable band of social rebels wreaked havoc on the French state — attacking infrastructures of oppression, supporting popular revolts, stealing and releasing secret blueprints for high-tech prisons, raiding the offices of corporate collaborators, and creating their lives in complete opposition to the world based on work.  read more »

“Jeanne Charles” was the pseudonym of Françoise Denevert. This article, under the title La critique ad mulierem, originally appeared in the journal Chronique des Secrets Publics (Paris, 1975). This new translation by Ken Knabb supersedes the 1975 version included in Public Secrets.

text from here: http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/women.htm

puttingthesexybackinfeminazi at riseup dot net

Expanded re-print of Albert Meltzers short account of the Bonnot Gang

"The first time that the bourgeois press cried “OUTRAGE!” at the Bonnot Gang activity was over the affair in the rue Ordener, a few days before Christmas 1911. It was one of the first motor car raids and is thus a milestone in the march of “progress”.

The Societe General was raided"

Printed pamphlet available from

http://www.activedistribution.org

The events at Nanterre University during the general strike of May 68' in Paris is somewhat well documented. The continuation of the struggle in and around this specific university for a few years following May, is less remembered, if at all.  read more »

a zine compiled to distribute at Chicago Pride 2009. Aimed at situating Stonewall and PRIDE in a historical context, "Militant Flamboyance" explores radical queer history and how the Stonewall Riots affected a larger GLBTQ movement.

includes a herstory of the Revolutionary Cells and Rote Zora armed resistance in Germany, an interview with two anonymous members of Rote Zora, and a brief look at Direct Action and the Wimmin's Fire Brigade

by Alfredo M. Bonanno

Download:
http://zinelibrary.info/files/Prison_memoirs_of_an_anarchist.pdf (9.25 mb)

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist is Alexander Berkman's account of his experience in prison in Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh, from 1892 to 1906.

First published in 1912 by Emma Goldman's Mother Earth press, it has become a classic in autobiographical literature.

Download:
http://zinelibrary.info/files/bonnot_zine1.pdf (53 mb)

A saddle-stitched booklet (zine) formatted version of this: http://www.archive.org/details/bonnot_gang
Print double-sided and fold over. Can be secured with a rubber band or, if available, a heavy-duty stapler.  read more »