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Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 14 - Consumption And Productionhttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Check out http://thebreadbook.org/ 2021-05-0114 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 13 - The Collectivist Wages Systemhttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Check out http://thebreadbook.org/ 2021-04-2433 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 12 - ObjectionsYou can find the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... 2021-04-1736 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 11 - Free AgreementFull text: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Check out http://thebreadbook.org/ 2021-04-1007 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 10 - Agreeable WorkFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Check out http://thebreadbook.org/ 2021-04-0315 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 9 - The Need For LuxuryChapter 9 of Conquest of Bread Read the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... 2021-03-2727 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 8 - Ways and MeansChapter 8 of Conquest of Bread The full text can be read here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... 2021-03-2013 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 7 - ClothingChapter 7 of the Conquest of Bread The full text can be read here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... 2021-03-1305 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 6 - DwellingsChapter 6 of "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. You can find the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... 2021-03-0621 min

Audible AnarchismAlexander Berkman - The Kronstadt RebellionFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-the-kronstadt-rebellion To mark the hundredth anniversary of these important events we present Alexander Berkman's the Kronstadt Rebellion. This text is an explanation of the events of the rebellion at the Kronstadt naval base and its attempt to restore free Soviets to the Russian revolution in spite of growing repression and corruption by Bolshevik ministers. 2021-03-041h 22

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 5 - FoodChapter 5 of "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. You can find the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... 2021-02-2747 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin Chapter 4 ExpropriationChapter 4 of "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. You can find the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... 2021-02-2028 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 3 - Anarchist CommunismChapter 3 of "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. You can find the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... 2021-02-1321 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 2 - Well-Being for AllChapter 2 of "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. You can find the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... 2021-02-0619 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 1 - Our RichesChapter 1 of "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. You can find the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... 2021-01-3021 min

Audible AnarchismDear Comrades at Ilota by Errico Malatesta The letter is part of the Method of Freedom Errico Malatesta reader and can be found here https://libcom.org/files/Errico_Malat... This is translated from “Cari Compagni dell’Ilota,” Ilota (Pistoia) 1, no. 9 (1 April 1883). The background to this letter was the defection from anarchism of Andrea Costa, one of the chief members of the Italian Federation, who in 1879 had started advocating the extension of socialist tactics to parliamentary ones. Costa had a significant following, especially in the Romagna region, and in November 1882 he had been elected to parliament. His tactics had sparked heated debates in part of the socialist press...2021-01-2307 min

Audible AnarchismAgainst Economics by David Graeber Essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... David Graeber's essay attacking the institution of economics and its use and misuse by governments in the pursuit of maintaining and advancing capitalist development despite the overwhelming evidence of its futility and potentially devastating consequences. 2021-01-1637 min

Audible AnarchismPolice Abolition and Other Revolutionary Lessons from Rojava by Hawzhin Azeez Essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Hawzhin Azeez outlines and describes the attempts to replace the police in Rojava and its connections with the other aspects of the ongoing revolutionary process. 2021-01-0916 min

Audible AnarchismWhat the Prison Abolition Movement Wants by Kim Kelly The essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Kim Kelly's short primer on the prison abolition movement. 2021-01-0210 min

Audible AnarchismIntroduction to Mutual Aid by Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber The Essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber wrote this introductory essay to a new edition of Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. The essay summarises and explains the importance of the work the context of its original publication and the importance of Kropotkin in current times. 2020-12-2621 min

Audible AnarchismThe Relevance of Max Stirner to Anarcho-Communists by Matty Thomas The essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... An essay on the relevance of Max Stirner to the Anarcho-communist movement. Recommended Reading The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner. Stirner’s only book and magnum opus. Unfortunately, there is still only one English translation available, Stephen T. Byington’s. Wolfi Landstreicher is currently working on a new one, slated to appear in the near future. Stirner’s Critics by Max Stirner. In this essay, Stirner (speaking in the third person throughout) clarifies some misinterpretations of his philosophy. The False Principle of Our Education by Max Stirner. In this art...2020-12-1926 min

Audible AnarchismThe Right to Live by Max BaginskiArticle can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Short article written for Mother Earth by Max Baginski on how all rights in capitalist society are secondary at best, when compared to the right to property. Including the right to live. 2020-12-1204 min

Audible AnarchismAnarchy and the Sex Question by Emma GoldmanThe text can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Essay by Emma Goldman tackling sex and marriage in capitalist society, written in 1896. 2020-12-0510 min

Audible AnarchismYour Honor a Poem by Kuwasi Balagoon The poem can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Kuwasi Balagoon was a New Afrikan anarchist and a member of the Black Liberation Army. After serving in the U.S. Army., his experiences of racism within the army led him to tenant organizing in New York City, where he joined the Black Panther Party as it formed, becoming a defendant in the Panther 21 case. Sentenced to a term of between 23 to 29 years, he escaped from Rahway State Prison in New Jersey and went underground with the BLA in 1978. In January 1982, He was captured and charged with participating in an a...2020-11-2802 min

Audible AnarchismPost-Civ!: A Deeper Exploration by Usul of the Black Foot The full essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Usul of the Black Foot responds to an develops the thinking in the Post Civ zine by the group Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. 2020-11-211h 37

Audible AnarchismPost-Civ! A Brief Philosophical And Political Introduction To The Concept Of Post CivilizationThe Zine can be read at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... A short but influential zine introducing the concepts behind post civilisation (Post-Civ) Anarchism by the group Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. 2020-11-1411 min

Audible AnarchismReparations As A Verb by the Salish Sea Black AutonomistsEssay can be read here https://blackautonomynetwork.noblogs.org/post/2019/03/20/reparations-as-a-verb/ Short piece by the Salish Sea Black Autonomists criticising the limited scope of mainstream civil rights activism. 2020-11-0706 min

Audible AnarchismThe Conspiracy of Law by Howard ZinnEssay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/howard-zinn-the-conspiracy-of-law Conspiracy of Law is Howard Zinn's examination of the role of the legal system in enforcing class distinctions and criminalising alternative politics and opposition to the system whilst pretending to be a neutral force in society. 2020-10-311h 03

Audible AnarchismThe Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution by Peter KropotkinEssay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-place-of-anarchism-in-socialistic-evolution Kropotkin's Essay on the place and need for Anarchism within the wider Socialist movement, written in 1884. 2020-10-2443 min

Audible AnarchismCapitalism is Killing the Earth by the Anarchist FederationPamphlet written by the UK's Anarchist Federation "Capitalism is Killing the Earth is our attempt to forge a more effective environmental movement. One capable of saving the planet before capitalism finishes destroying it. It builds on our collective experiences fighting against the destruction of the natural world, as well as reading and research." 2020-10-1756 min

Audible AnarchismAn Anarchist on Anarchy by Elisee ReclusText can be read at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Elisee Reclus's important commentary on the Anarchist movement. 2020-10-1050 min

Audible AnarchismTransphobia is a Class Issue by Anarchasteminist Article can be read here https://libcom.org/library/transphobia-class-issue An article by Anarchasteminist arguing that transgender rights are a working-class issue. [Content warning: In addition to transphobia in the abstract, this piece discusses harassment, violence and abuse. Some sources linked to for reference purposes feature transphobic abuse and slurs.] 2020-10-0314 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 12 - EpilogueRead the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this final chapter, Woodcock provides an anarchist perspective on World War II, which was happening as he wrote the book. He argues that the...2020-09-2615 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 11 - The Spanish RevolutionRead the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this chapter, Woodcock recounts the most successful anarchist experiment of the twentieth century: Revolutionary Catalonia in Spain from 1936 to 1939. The anarchists successfully collectivized agricultural...2020-09-1915 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 10 - Russia and the Makhnovist MovementRead the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this chapter, Woodcock briefly summarizes the anarchist movement during the Russian Revolution. Led by Nestor Makhno (1888-1934), a Ukrainian peasant turned guerrilla fighter, the...2020-09-1214 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 9 - Anarchism in AmericaRead the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this chapter, Woodcock discusses the anarchist movement in the United States. He contends that, similar to Europe, the American anarchist movement evolved until it...2020-09-0508 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 8 - Anarcho-SyndicalismRead the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this chapter, Woodcock discusses the roots and growth of anarcho-syndicalism, the anarchist school of thought that began in the early-nineteenth century but came to...2020-08-2916 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 7 - The Growth of the Anarchist MovementRead the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this chapter, Woodcock discusses the growth of the anarchist movement between the death of Bakunin and the First World War. On the continent, Bakunin's...2020-08-2208 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 6 - Peter Kropotkin and Anarchist Communism Read the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this chapter, Woodcock recounts a short biography of Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921), the Russian revolutionary anarchist theorist. Woodcock argues that Kropotkin brought scientific and theoretical rigor...2020-08-1517 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 5 - Michael Bakunin and the First International Read the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this chapter, Woodcock recounts a short political biography of Michael (Mikhail) Bakunin (1814-1876) and the First International. Bakunin was an anarchist revolutionary who fought in...2020-08-0821 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 4 - Precursors of Anarchism Read the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this chapter, Woodcock addresses of the precursors of anarchism, including Lao-Tze's teachings on Taoism, Gerrard Winstanley and the Digger movement, William Godwin's treatises on anti-authoritarianism...2020-08-0126 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 3 - What is AnarchismRead the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this chapter, Woodcock dispels many of the common myths about anarchism, and he addresses the fundamental flaws of government, the state, and bourgeois democracy...2020-07-2515 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 2 - Freedom and OrganisationRead the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. In this chapter, Woodcock discusses the philosophical bases for "society," the groups of individuals who cooperate together for the common good. But capitalism and the...2020-07-1812 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism from Below by George Woodcock, Chapter 1 - The Nature of Modern SocietyRead the full text: https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress... George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde, and Peter Kropotkin. Throughout his life, Woodcock was given numerous awards for his work, but he refused several awards from the government of Canada on the grounds that he only accepted awards granted by his peers. Chapter 1 of "Socialism from Below" is Woodcock's evaluation of the Second World War (which went on for more than a year after the publication of...2020-07-1118 min

Audible AnarchismAnarchism Means Flying Forever By Soheil ArabiText of the letter https://libcom.org/library/anarchist-prisoner-soheil-arabi-anarchism-means-flying-forever A short letter written by Anarchist prisoner Soheil Arabi. Currently Soheil Arabi remains in prison and has undergone several hunger strikes. 2020-07-0402 min

Audible AnarchismThe Struggle Against Fascism begins with the Struggle Against BolshevismEssay by the Council Communist Otto Ruhle comparing the features of the Soviet system to that of Fascist Germany and Italy. The text of the essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/otto-ruhle-the-struggle-against-fascism-begins-with-the-struggle-against-bolshevism 2020-06-2744 min

Audible AnarchismWhat's Worth Dying For? By CrimethInc.Text can be read here https://crimethinc.com/2020/04/21/whats-worth-dying-for-confronting-the-return-to-business-as-usual Text by the CrimethInc collective on the protests against lockdown measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 2020-06-2011 min

Audible AnarchismAnarcho-syndicalism Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 6. EvolutionRead the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state. In this chapter, Rocker discusses the history of anarcho-syndicalism up to 1936. 2020-06-1339 min

Audible AnarchismAnarcho-syndicalism Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 5. MethodsRead the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state. In this chapter, Rocker discusses the methods of anarcho-syndicalism and answers the criticism that syndicalists do not engage in political struggle. He outlines the uses of the strike (general strike and sympathetic strike), boycott, sabotage, and other methods. 2020-06-0636 min

Audible AnarchismAnarcho-syndicalism Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 4. ObjectivesRead the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state. In this chapter, Rocker examines the goals and tactics of syndicalism. 2020-05-3040 min

Audible AnarchismAnarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 3. ForerunnersRead the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state. In this chapter, Rocker examines proto-syndicalist movements in England and France, as well as the first years of the International. 2020-05-2341 min

Audible AnarchismAnarcho-syndicalism Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 2. The ProletariatRead the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state. In this chapter, Rocker documents early proto-anarchist and socialist movements that emerged in the early- and mid-nineteenth century. He examines the Luddites, the Chartists, trade unionism, and early socialism in England. 2020-05-1635 min

Audible AnarchismAnarcho-syndicalism Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 1. AnarchismRead the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state. In this chapter, Rocker introduces various schools of anarchism and compares them to liberalism, democracy, and authoritarian communism. He also outlines anarchism's critique of capitalism and the state. 2020-05-0943 min

Audible AnarchismThe only hope for Ireland by Alexander BerkmanFull text here: https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/alexander-berkman-the-only-hope-of-ireland "If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion. If you intend to live in peace and harmony with your fellow-men, you and they should cultivate brotherhood and respect for each other. If you want to work together with them for your mutual benefit, you must practice cooperation. The social revolution means much more than the reorganization of conditions only: it means the establishment of new human values and social relationships, a changed attitude of man to man, as of one f...2020-05-0208 min

Audible AnarchismIn Praise of Idleness by Bertrand RussellSpecial release for International Workers Day. Text of essay can be found here http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html Russell argues that if labour was equitably shared out amongst everyone, resulting in shorter work days, unemployment would decrease and human happiness would increase due to the increase in leisure time, further resulting in increased involvement in the arts and sciences. 2020-05-0135 min

Audible AnarchismLearning from Ferguson by Peter Gelderloos - Part 03 a World Without PoliceFull text here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-learning-from-ferguson Learning from Ferguson is a collection of essays from Anarchist theorist Peter Gelderloos on the rebellion in Ferguson Missouri in 2014 in protest to the police murder of Michael Brown and other African Americans. This essay theorises what a world without the institution of police would look like. 2020-04-2542 min

Audible AnarchismLearning from Ferguson by Peter Gelderloos - Part 02 What's Worked in the PastFull text here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-learning-from-ferguson Learning from Ferguson is a collection of essays from Anarchist theorist Peter Gelderloos on the rebellion in Ferguson Missouri in 2014 in protest to the police murder of Michael Brown and other African Americans. This essay looks at historical the Civil Rights movement and tackles some pernicious myths about it and the supposed role of pacifism. 2020-04-1844 min

Audible AnarchismLearning from Ferguson by Peter Gelderloos - Part 01 the Nature of Police the Role of the LeftFull text here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-learning-from-ferguson Learning from Ferguson is a collection of essays from Anarchist theorist Peter Gelderloos on the rebellion in Ferguson Missouri in 2014 in protest to the police murder of Michael Brown and other African Americans. This essay focuses on the role of the police and the professional left. 2020-04-1121 min

Audible AnarchismIndigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee - EZLN on Covid-19Full text http://www.csia-nitassinan.org/spip.php?article1119 Statement by the Zapatista army on the Covid19 outbreak, 2020-04-0404 min

Audible AnarchismIn defense of Smashing Cameras by AnonymousYou can find the full text here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-in-defense-of-smashing-cameras This text presents an argument in favor of smashing cameras and against the practice of photographing demonstrations. Arguing that the practice of taking photos is detrimental to social struggles as it increases repression, encourages passivity, and simply gets in the way – this zine encourages people to adopt a confrontational approach towards photographers. Alongside this, it presents a series of suggestions and tips for photographers who identify with social struggles and who wish to see themselves as participants rather than spectators. This text raises important questions tha...2020-03-2811 min

Audible AnarchismCOVID-19: No one is safe until All are protected! –Open Letter from the Transbalkan Solidarity GroupThe letter can be read here https://enoughisenough14.org/2020/03/20/covid-19-no-one-is-safe-until-all-are-protected-open-letter-from-the-transbalkan-solidarity-group/ Open letter by the Transbalkan Solidarity Group about the impact of the Coronavirus on Migrants on the Balkan route. 2020-03-2309 min

Audible AnarchismAn Anarchists Guide to Surviving the Coronavirus - by the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective The booklet can be found here https://archive.org/details/2019ncov/... This radio drama and the pamphlet it was based on were made by the DIY health care group Four Thieves Vinegar Collective who also made the open source Epi-pencil. Audible Anarchist played no part in its production so can't comment on the veracity of the information, but it is hoped that some of its recommendations and advice could be useful during these trying times. Use caution and seek further advice where possible. In addition here's some more resources for virus prevention and mutual aid support networks. USA https://itsgoingdown.or...2020-03-2034 min

Audible AnarchismNot Helpless Victims by Victoria LawCW: Mentions of violent assault and sexual abuse.Full text here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victoria-law-not-helpless-victims A short piece about resistance in the prison system by incarcerated women and lists some ways to show them solidarity. 2020-03-1412 min

Audible AnarchismArmed Joy by Alfredo BonannoA version of the text can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy Alfredo Maria Bonanno is a main theorist of contemporary insurrectionary anarchism who wrote essays such as Armed Joy (for which he was imprisoned for 18 months by the Italian government), The Anarchist Tension and others. He is an editor of Anarchismo Editions and many other publications, only some of which have been translated into English. He has been involved in the anarchist movement for over thirty years. 2020-03-071h 25

Audible AnarchismThe Russian Tragedy by Alexander BerkmanA version of the text can be found here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-the-russian-tragedy-a-review-and-an-outlook In 1917, Berkman and Goldman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiracy against the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested—along with hundreds of others—and deported to Russia. Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Berkman soon voiced his opposition to the Soviet's use of terror after seizing power and their repression of fellow revolutionaries. 2020-02-2952 min

Audible AnarchismTowards a Fresh Revolution by the Friends of DurrutiFull text can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/friends-of-durruti-towards-a-fresh-revolution Highly influential pamphlet of anarcho-syndicalist CNT militants during the Spanish Civil War who opposed the co-option of their organisation in the Republican government. The most famous text of the Friends of Durruti group a Spanish anarchist group founded in 1937 which opposed anarchist participation in the Republican government. 2020-02-221h 16

Audible AnarchismOrganised violence called justice by Peter KropotkinFull text can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-organised-vengeance-called-justice An essay by Kropotkin sketching out an Anarchist view on the development of Justice in society. 2020-02-1519 min

Audible AnarchismPart 06 of Ideas on Social Organization by James GuillaumeFull text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization A pamphlet written by James Guillaume in the 1870's attempting to sketch out and explain how society will transition from a class based society to a classless one during a revolution. Notes on Ideas on Social Organization by The Anarchist Spectacle : These notes are meant to be read after reading Ideas on Social Organization by James Guillaume. They add a 21st century refinement to his ideas for a future society. 1. By corporation, Guillaume means the equivilent to an industrial union. The word had a different...2020-02-0803 min

Audible AnarchismPart 05 of Ideas on Social Organization by James GuillaumeFull text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization A pamphlet written by James Guillaume in the 1870's attempting to sketch out and explain how society will transition from a class based society to a classless one during a revolution. Notes on Ideas on Social Organization by The Anarchist Spectacle : These notes are meant to be read after reading Ideas on Social Organization by James Guillaume. They add a 21st century refinement to his ideas for a future society. 1. By corporation, Guillaume means the equivilent to an industrial union. The word had a different...2020-02-0105 min

Audible AnarchismPart 04 of Ideas on Social Organization by James GuillaumeFull text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization A pamphlet written by James Guillaume in the 1870's attempting to sketch out and explain how society will transition from a class based society to a classless one during a revolution. Notes on Ideas on Social Organization by The Anarchist Spectacle : These notes are meant to be read after reading Ideas on Social Organization by James Guillaume. They add a 21st century refinement to his ideas for a future society. 1. By corporation, Guillaume means the equivilent to an industrial union. The word had a different...2020-01-2527 min

Audible AnarchismPart 03 of Ideas on Social Organization by James GuillaumeFull text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization A pamphlet written by James Guillaume in the 1870's attempting to sketch out and explain how society will transition from a class based society to a classless one during a revolution. Notes on Ideas on Social Organization by The Anarchist Spectacle : These notes are meant to be read after reading Ideas on Social Organization by James Guillaume. They add a 21st century refinement to his ideas for a future society. 1. By corporation, Guillaume means the equivilent to an industrial union. The word had a different meaning...2020-01-1805 min

Audible AnarchismPart 02 of Ideas on Social Organization by James GuillaumeFull text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization A pamphlet written by James Guillaume in the 1870's attempting to sketch out and explain how society will transition from a class based society to a classless one during a revolution. Notes on Ideas on Social Organization by The Anarchist Spectacle : These notes are meant to be read after reading Ideas on Social Organization by James Guillaume. They add a 21st century refinement to his ideas for a future society. 1. By corporation, Guillaume means the equivilent to an industrial union. The word had a different...2020-01-1107 min

Audible AnarchismPart 01 of Ideas on Social Organization by James GuillaumeFull text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization A pamphlet written by James Guillaume in the 1870's attempting to sketch out and explain how society will transition from a class based society to a classless one during a revolution. Notes on Ideas on Social Organization by The Anarchist Spectacle : These notes are meant to be read after reading Ideas on Social Organization by James Guillaume. They add a 21st century refinement to his ideas for a future society. 1. By corporation, Guillaume means the equivilent to an industrial union. The word h...2020-01-0404 min

Audible AnarchismTo the American Youth by Alexander BerkmanThis short appeal was published by Alexander Berkman at a time when the United States of America was mobilising to enter the First World War. Aside from its geographical references it remains a relevant and much needed appeal. Tyranny must be opposed at the start. Autocracy, once secured in the saddle, is difficult to dislodge. If you believe that America is entering the war "to make democracy safe," then be a man and volunteer. But if you know anything at all, then you should know that the cry of democracy is a lie a...2020-01-0302 min

Audible AnarchismOn Anarchy by Leo TolstoyFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-on-anarchy Leo Tolstoy the famous Russian writer of War & Peace and Anna Karenina was also a social critic and advocate of peaceful resistance and a form of Anarchism often called Christian Anarchism. This short essay outlines his views on left wing ideas and his own preferred way to achieve a just society for all humanity. 2019-12-2809 min

Audible AnarchismUp Against The Wall by AnonFull text here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-up-against-the-wall "The Campaign’s aim to tear down the Wall is aligned with the Palestinian desire for liberation—for those of us inside and in exile, the young and old, those who have died, and those yet to be born." - Stopthewall dot org 2019-12-2110 min

Audible AnarchismAn Anarchist solution to Global Warming - by Peter GelderloosFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-an-anarchist-solution-to-global-warming If the Green Capitalist response to climate change will only add more fuel to the fire, and if government at a global scale is incapable of solving the problem, as I argue in previous articles, how would anarchists suggest we reorganize society in order to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and to survive an already changed world? 2019-12-1424 min

Audible AnarchismDesert by Anonymous, Chapter 10Full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s Note I have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist commun...2019-12-0702 min

Audible AnarchismDesert by Anonymous, Chapter 9: Anarchists Behind the WallsFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s Note I have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist communities, some may a...2019-11-3031 min

Audible AnarchismDesert by Anonymous, Chapter 8: Conservation Amidst ChangeFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s Note I have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist communities, some may a...2019-11-2321 min

Audible AnarchismDesert by Anonymous, Chapter 7: Convergence and the New Urban MajoritiesFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s Note I have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist commun...2019-11-1623 min

Audible AnarchismDesert by Anonymous, Chapter 6: Terror-Nullius ReturnsFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s Note I have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist communities, some may a...2019-11-0916 min

Audible AnarchismDesert by Anonymous, Chapter 5: Civilization Retreats, Wildness PersistsFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s Note I have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist commun...2019-11-0211 min

Audible AnarchismDesert by Anonymous, Chapter 4: African Roads to AnarchyFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s Note I have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist communities, some may a...2019-10-2616 min

Audible AnarchismDesert by Anonymous, Chapter 3: Desert StormsFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s Note I have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist commun...2019-10-1916 min

Audible AnarchismDesert by Anonymous, Chapter 2: It’s Later Than We ThoughtFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s Note I have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist commun...2019-10-1218 min

Audible AnarchismDesert by Anonymous, Authors Note and Chapter 1: No (Global) FutureFull text here:https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s Note I have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist commu...2019-10-0616 min

Audible AnarchismSocialism Reaffirmed by Maurice BrintonFull text here: https://libcom.org/library/socialism-reaffirmed-maurice-brinton Some basic principles put together by Maurice Brinton in 1960 aimed at being ones around which revolutionary socialists - as distinct from bureaucratic state socialists - could regroup. 2019-09-2812 min

Audible AnarchismRossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek, EpilogueRecorded by librivox.org Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is convinced that these new creations called robots they make are deserving of rights like humans do. Everyone else is convinced robots are nothing more than tools for human use. Is it so, or is a robot rebellion becoming a more likely prospect as the robots start to seem more intelligent than first thought? First performed in...2019-09-2115 min

Audible AnarchismRossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek, act 3Recorded by Librivox.org Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is convinced that these new creations called robots they make are deserving of rights like humans do. Everyone else is convinced robots are nothing more than tools for human use. Is it so, or is a robot rebellion becoming a more likely prospect as the robots start to seem more intelligent than first thought? First performed in English...2019-09-1422 min

Audible AnarchismRossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek, act 2Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is convinced that these new creations called robots they make are deserving of rights like humans do. Everyone else is convinced robots are nothing more than tools for human use. Is it so, or is a robot rebellion becoming a more likely prospect as the robots start to seem more intelligent than first thought? First performed in English in 1922, R.U.R. is most...2019-09-0732 min

Audible AnarchismRossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek, preface & act 1Recorded by Librivox Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is convinced that these new creations called robots they make are deserving of rights like humans do. Everyone else is convinced robots are nothing more than tools for human use. Is it so, or is a robot rebellion becoming a more likely prospect as the robots start to seem more intelligent than first thought? First performed in English in 1922...2019-08-3138 min

Audible AnarchismRevolutionary Unity by Nestor MakhnoRead the full essays here: http://nestormakhno.info/english/revdisc.htm http://nestormakhno.info/english/struggle.htm http://nestormakhno.info/english/newplatform/introduction.htm Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) was a Ukrainian revolutionary anarchist, military leader, and writer. He led the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine during the Russian Revolution, which helped defeat the tsarist forces and establish the Ukrainian Free Territory (1917-1921). Because the anarchist project in Ukraine threatened the Bolsheviks' monopoly on power following the Russian Revolution, Lenin and Trotsky instructed the Red Army to destroy the Free Territory a...2019-08-2518 min

Audible AnarchismAdvice to Comrades by Elisee ReclusFull text here:https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elisee-reclus-advice-to-my-anarchist-comrades “In a word, commercial competition, under the paternal aegis of the law, allows the great majority of merchants-— and this fact is attested to in countless medical inquests-— adulterate provisions and drink, sell pernicious substances as wholesome food, and kill by slow poisoning… Let people say what they will, slavery, which abolitionists strove so gallantly to extirpate in America, prevails in another form in every civilized country; for entire populations, placed between the alternatives of death by starvation and toils which they detest, are constrained to choose the latter. And if w...2019-08-1704 min

Audible AnarchismArmy of Altruists by David GraeberFull text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-army-of-altruists David Graeber (1961- ) is an anarchist, anthropologist, and activist who currently holds a professorship in anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber has written extensively on theories of value, social theory, direct action, and ethnographic theory. He participated in the Occupy movement and is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. In this essay, Graeber links the psychological impulses of bullying--both of bullies and of passive observers of bullying--to structures of power inherent within hierarchical authority. He contends that from a young age, we are s...2019-08-1025 min

Audible AnarchismSyndicalism the Modern Menace to Capitalism by Emma GoldmanFull text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-syndicalism-the-modern-menace-to-capitalism This recording is a mirror of a recording by our comrade and fellow youtuber TheAnarchistSpectacle:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmjdp1zvCaLOR4VOrpGz6mA 2019-08-0326 min

Audible AnarchismSolidarity in Liberty: The Workers' Path to Freedom by Mikhail BakuninRead the full text: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/writings/ch04.htm Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) was a revolutionary anarchist who became one of history's most influential anarchist thinkers. He founded the collectivist anarchist tradition and helped bring social anarchism to prominence in Europe. He also participated directly in numerous struggles and revolutions during his lifetime. 2019-07-2706 min

Audible AnarchismPower Corrupts the Best - Mikhail BakuninFull text available here: http://libcom.org/library/power-corrupts-the-best-mikhail-bakunin Reading Courtesy of fellow youtuber Reddebrek:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyhoKI98zPwE5RkfPq8vh1A "From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots." - Mikhail Bakunin 2019-07-2004 min

Audible AnarchismNeither Lord nor Subject by Bao JingyanFull text: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/neither-lord-nor-subject Pao Ching-yen (zh:鮑敬言) (also transliterated as Bao Jingyan) was a Chinese Taoist libertarian philosopher who lived 405-466 AD. A successor of Laozi and Zhuang Zhou in the politically-ethically libertarian strain of Taoism, Pao Ching-yen was, according to Etienne Balazs “China’s first political anarchist.” He extended the arguments in the Zhuangzi to deeply critique State authority and power. Anarchist Taoist emblem courtesy of kronik29, you can find more of their work here: https://www.deviantart.com/kronik29/art/Anarcho-taoist-Emblem-140709637 2019-07-1308 min

Audible AnarchismTaoism and AnarchismFull Text http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/josh-anarchism-and-taoism Anarchism is usually considered a recent, Western phenomenon, but its roots reach deep in the ancient civilizations of the East. The first clear expression of an anarchist sensibility may be traced back to the Taoists in ancient China from about the sixth century BC. Indeed, the principal Taoist work, the Tao te Ching, may be considered one of the greatest anarchist classics. 2019-07-0622 min