anarchism
Articles about anarchism, a political ideology based on mutual aid, solidarity and the abolition of the state.
Anarcho-syndicalism - an introduction
A short explanation of anarcho-syndicalism and notes on its history.
Anarcho-syndicalism is one of the major forms of social anarchism. The idea behind anarcho-syndicalism is to combine the economic methods of syndicalism with the revolutionary politics of anarchism.
Knowledge, morality and hope: The social thought of Noam Chomsky - Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers
Cohen and Rogers analyse the various facets of Noam Chomsky's political philosophy.
Knowledge, Morality and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky
Review of "The Enemy is Middle Class"
A review of Andy Anderson's "The Enemy is Middle Class"/
Review of "African Anarchism"
A review from Black Flag 214, published in 1999.
Anarchism in Argentina, 1897-1950
A short article with some information about anarchism in Argentina at its height in the early 20th century.
ANARCHISM IN ARGENTINA
Dimensions of Chinese Anarchism - an interview with Arif Dirlik
An interview with historian and academic Arif Dirlik about anarchism's rich history in China.
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
George Orwell's famous 1938 account of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War, from his point of view as a volunteer in the POUM militia.
Though the POUM were socialists, he wrote "as far as my purely personal preferences went I would have liked to join the Anarchists."
His vivid descriptions of classless anarchist Barcelona following the revolution and terrorised Stalinist Barcelona after the counter-revolution are a timeless reminder that a 'revolutionary state' is a contradiction in terms.
1986-1996: Anarchism in Turkey
A brief history of the still-young anarchist movement in Turkey.
The anarchist movement came to the political scene of Turkey not very many years ago. The publication of Kara a monthly magazine, was the starting point of anarchism in Turkey in 1986. Before the publication of this monthly magazine, there had not been any anarchist periodical or any anarchist circle which attempted to express itself.
Anarchist activity in Nazi Germany
Some notes on the activity of anarchists in Germany immediately preceding and soon after the Nazis' gained power, including accounts of attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
While containing several inaccuracies, we reproduce the article here in full. A discussion about factual errors herein is below the article.
Anarchism in North China, 1910-1934
Some personal recollections of the anarchist movement in Northern China.
In the village where I was born there is a monument in a square erected by the trades unions where fifteen Anarchists were executed as common criminals engaged in a conspiracy against the Empress in her last terror-stricken days. They were buried in a common grave which became a place of honour to the common people, who preserved it carefully.
