Thursday, January 1, 2009

Recommended Reading



Anarchy: Introductions to Freedom and Self Organization
 
"Anarchy: Cooperation Without Restraint": BBC Interview with Noam Chomsky

"Anarchy in Action" by Colin Ward


"Anarchism: What it Really Stands For" by Emma Goldman

"Anarchy Alive" by Peter Gelderloos
 
"Anarchy" by Errico Malatesta
 
"Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction" by Colin Ward


Insurrectionary Thought
: Solidarity Means Attack

"Against the Corpse Machine: A Post-Leftist Critique of Violence" by Ashen Ruins

"The Anarchist Tension" by Alfredo M. Bonanno

"Autonomous Self-Organization and Anarchist Intervention: A Tension in Practice" by Wolfi Landstreicher

"Armed Joy" by Alfredo M. Bonanno


"Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism" from Venomous Butterfly and Willful Disobedience

 
Enemies of Freedom: The City, Work, and Progress

"Nowtopia: Strategic Exodus?" by Chris Carlsson and Francesca Manning

"The Abolition of Work" by Bob Black

"Progress and Nuclear Power: The Destruction of the Continent and Its Peoples" by Fredy Perlman

"In the Distance: Suburbia Against the Barricades" from Killing King Abacus #1

A Crime Called Freedom: The Writings of Os Cangaceiros (Volume One)

Rebel Against the Future: An Interview with Kirkpatrick Sale

"Organized Labor versus 'The Revolt Against Work'" by John Zerzan

"Five Facets of a Myth" by Kirkpatrick Sale

"Black Cats,White Cats,Wildcats: Auto Workers in Detroit" (and other texts) at Class Against Class

"The Reproduction of Daily Life" by Fredy Perlman


"The Rising of the Barbarians: A Non-Primitivist Revolt Against Civilization" by Anonymous from Willful Disobedience

"Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts" by Michael Seidman

 
"Technology and Class Struggle" by Wolfi Landstreicher
 
Bone Idle: or Work Doesn’t Work! An Interview with Ian Bone and Ray Roughler Jones


The Fire and the Word:
 
"'Together, We're Going to Shake This Country Up from Below, Lift It Up, and Stand It on Its Head': Opening Words from the First Plenary Session of the Other Campaign" by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos


Fanaticism


"The Freshness of Fanaticism: The Abolitionists and the Democratic Uses of Zealotry" by Joel Olson

"Friends and Enemies, Slaves and Masters: Carl Schmitt, Wendell Phillips, and the Radical Critique of Political Moderation" by Joel Olson

"Radically Democratic Extremism: An Interview with Joel Olson"


The History
We Make

"Harass the Brass: Some notes toward the subversion of the US armed forces" by Kevin Keating

"LA '92: The Context of a Proletarian Uprising" from Aufheben #1

"Resistance and Collaboration: O'odham Responses to U.S. Invasion" by JD Hendricks

"The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century" by Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker

"The Edelweiss Pirates" by the Anarchist Federation





 

Alternative Visions
 
"bolo'bolo" (from the 'Introduction' to bolo'bolo) by ibu



The Un-Natural Disasters of Capitalism and State


"The uses of an earthquake" by Harry Cleaver

"Murdering the dead: Amadeo Bordiga on capitalism and other disasters" (Antagonism Press)


 
Against White Supremacy: For Humanity

"Abolish the White Race - By Any Means Necessary" from Race Traitor #1

"The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To Abolish It" by Noel Ignatiev
 
"Back From Hell: Black Power And Treason To Whiteness Inside Prison Walls" by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

"Introduction to the United States: An Autonomist Political History" by Noel Ignatiev

"Black Worker/White Worker:
Understanding and Fighting White Supremacy" by Noel Ignatiev
 

"White Supremacy" by Joel Olson
 
"'Speak Out Now When Others Grow Silent': The Messenger, the IWW and Debates Over New Negro Radicalism" by George Robertson


Rebel Women

"Jailbreak Out of History: the re-biography of Harriet Tubman" by Butch Lee
 

"Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers" by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English 
"Women's Subversive Individualism in Barcelona During the 1930s" by Michael Seidman

"Caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation" by Silvia Federici


Beer and Revolution


"Beer and Revolution: Some Aspects of German Anarchist Culture in New York, 1880-1900" by Tom Goyen

"The Rise of the Saloon" by Roy Rosenzweig



Movement Lessons

 "PROFILES OF PROVOCATEURS: Recent case studies of the use of agents provocateurs; warning signs; practical advice" by Kristian Williams

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