Valeriano Orobón Fernández: Towards the Barricades by Salvador Cano Carrillo is out now, as is issue 66 of KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library. ... read full story / add a comment

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. This parochial perspective typically ignores transnational connections and the contemporaneous existence of large and influential libertarian movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Yet anarchism and syndicalism, from their very inception at the First International, were conceived and developed as international movements. By focusing on the neglected cases of the colonial and postcolonial world, this volume underscores the worldwide dimension of these movements and their centrality in anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles. Drawing on in-depth historical analyses of the ideology, structure, and praxis of anarchism/syndicalism, it also provides fresh perspectives and lessons for those interested in understanding their resurgence today. ... read full story / add a comment

The Makhnovist movement of the Ukraine is the best known of the revolutionary oppositions to the Bolshevik regime. But it was not the only radical challenge the Bolsheviks faced from below. Numerous peasants revolts occurred in the years 1920-22, aiming not to restore the old regime but calling for a third revolution to defend themselves from the new one. Nick Heath here examines their extent, causes and limitations. ... read full story / add a comment

Una de las últimas personalidades del movimiento anarquista de los años 40-50 desaparece con Georges Fontenis, muerto en Tours el 9 de agosto de 2010 a sus 94 años. Quedará en la memoria del movimiento obrero como un luchador infatigable del comunismo libertario, un activo sostén de los independentistas argelinos, un sindicalista de la École Émancipée, uno de los animadores del Mayo del 68 en Tours y uno de los pilares del librepensamiento en Indre-et-Loire. Hasta sus últimos días, ha sido adherente de Alternative Libertaire. ... read full story / add a comment

A editora anarquista Imaginário acaba de lançar três livros de Élisée Reclus em português, são eles:
Élisée Reclus – Renovação de uma Cidade / Repartição dos Homens
Élisée Reclus – Da Ação Humana na Geografia Física / Geografia Comparada no Espaço e no Tempo
Élisée Reclus – Do Sentimento da Natureza nas Sociedades Modernas
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Voix de faits et CKIA 88,3 FM sont heureux de diffuser « Souvenirs de la guerre d’Espagne. 19 juillet 1936 - 9 février 1939 », un feuilleton radiophonique, tous les mercredi de l'été, de 23h à 24h (rediffusion en podcast dès le lendemain sur notre blogue pour les gens de l'extérieur et les couche-tôt). ... read full story / add a comment

A discussion of Proudhon's influence on the Paris Commune and how he raised many ideas associated with Marx first. Extracts from "System of Economic Contradictions" have been updated, along with material from the Paris Commune. ... read full story / add a comment

The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce our latest publication:
"Anarchist International Action Against Francoism From Genoa 1949 to The First Of May Group" by Antonio Téllez Solà, translated by Paul Sharkey ... read full story / add a comment

Property is Theft! is a new anthology of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first person to call themselves an anarchist. It is due out later this year. A webpage (www.property-is-theft.org) has been launched to make the book's material available to the world ... read full story / add a comment

La Kate Sharpley Library è lieta di annunciare l'uscita di un nuovo opuscolo contenente 2 saggi sulla opposizione makhnovista in Ucraina all'indomani del trionfo del Bolscevismo. [English] ... read full story / add a comment

The Kate Sharpley Library is pleased to announce our new pamphlet containing two essays on Makhnovist opposition in the Ukraine after the triumph of Bolshevism. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment

O anarquismo na Bulgária, retratado em Anarquismo Búlgaro em Armas, traz ao leitor as experiências de organização e luta que se deram em torno da Federação dos Anarco-Comunistas da Bulgária (FAKB) que, inspirada na controversa Plataforma Organizacional publicada pelos russos exilados do Dielo Truda em 1926, foi capaz reorganizar o anarquismo nos fins da década de 1910, conseguindo transformá-lo na terceira maior força da esquerda no país. ... read full story / add a comment

A publicação deste volume, para nós, é histórica. Há muitos anos o tradutor insistia que deveríamos publicar esta obra de Guillaume, de alguma maneira, pela importância da Associação Internacional dos Trabalhadores (AIT), que ficou conhecida como Primeira Internacional, e pela importância para os anarquistas desta obra, que relata, de maneira detalhada, seus episódios. Conseguimos operacionalizar sua publicação em diversos volumes, cujo primeiro fazemos agora o lançamento. ... read full story / add a comment

Volume Two of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, subtitled The Emergence of the New Anarchism (1939-1977), has just been published by Black Rose Books (www.blackrosebooks.net). Edited and annotated by Robert Graham, with an introduction by Davide Turcato, The Emergence of the New Anarchism documents the remarkable resurgence in anarchist ideas and action following the 1939 defeat of the anarchists in the Spanish Revolution and Civil War. Topics include war resistance and anti-militarism, post-war anti-colonialism, national liberation movements, art, freedom and the utopian imagination, creating a counter-culture, anarchy and ecology, anarchist feminism, sexual revolution, gay liberation, science and technology, technobureaucracy and the emergence of the new class, the manufacture of consent to authoritarian institutions and policies, libertarian education, and the forms of freedom anarchists have proposed and put into practice. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Daniel Guerin, Emma Goldman, Alex Comfort, Marie Louise Berneri, Paul Goodman, Murray Bookchin, Peggy Kornegger, Colin Ward, Paul Feyerabend, Carol Ehrlich, Ivan Illich and many others. There is material not only from Europe and North America, but also from India, Korea, Algeria, Australia and Latin America, much of it translated into English for the first time. Further information is available at Graham's weblog: www.robertgraham.wordpress.com. ... read full story / add a comment

Μας και βρισκόμαστε ακόμα στο πνεύμα των Πρωτομαγιάτικων κινητοποιήσεων αναδημοσιεύουμε το παρακάτω κείμενο-κάλεσμα από την εφημερίδα «Σοσιαλιστικός Σύλλογος» (που κυκλοφορούσε στην Αθήνα). τεύχος 12, 1 Μαΐου 1894. Το κείμενο γράφτηκε μάλον από αναρχικό (ή αναρχικούς) μιας και στην εν λόγω εφημερίδα αλλά και στη διοργάνωση της Πρωτομαγιάς του 1894 βασικό και καταλυτικό ρόλο έπαιξαν οι τότε λιγοστοί αναρχικοί που δρούσαν μέσα από τον Κεντρικό Σοσιαλιστικό Σύλλογο παράλληλα με σοσιαλιστές (Καλλέργης κ.ά.) ... read full story / add a comment

Les manifestations de la journée internationale des travailleurs et des travailleuses auxquelles les collectifs de l'UCL vont participer ... read full story / add a comment

The Kate Sharpley Library website – www.katesharpleylibrary.net – is now bigger and better.
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The FAU (Federación Anarquista Uruguaya), founded in 1956, was one on the strongest anarchist movements in Latin America. In the 1960s, it faced a rising tide of repression which would culminate in the military dictatorship of 1973-85. As legal avenues of struggle were closed down, through the Worker-Student Resistance (ROE) and OPR-33 (People's Revolutionary Organisation) it expanded its tactics to include armed struggle in defence of the workers movement. Banks were raided for funds, and factory bosses were kidnapped in support of workers' demands. ... read full story / add a comment

The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce two new publications dealing with Bolshevik repression of Anarchists: An eyewitness account of the 1921 hunger strike in Moscow; and a special double issue of "KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library", dealing with Anarchists in the Gulag, prison and exile under the Bolsheviks. ... read full story / add a comment

Announcing a researching project into Bolshevik repression of Anarchists. ... read full story / add a comment