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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.

This extensive work is available online thanks to History Is A Weapon, who OCRed the text, though we heartily recommend our readers to buy a hard copy.

[Chapter IV from The Digger Movement In The Days Of The Commonwealth, by Lewis H. Berens. Taken from the Project Gutenberg text.]

It is now mostly out of print. However, he writes extensively on many trends and schools of thought related to Cuba and its history.

Thanks to See Sharp Press for permitting this book to be posted online. This text was taken and slightly edited by libcom.org from the Anarchist People of Colour (US) website.

Clearly written and interesting, it is a good introduction to CW's ideas, though we at libcom.org would have several important disagreements with it. Notably on the issues of class and nationalism

Text taken from the Anarchy Archives

The Restructuring of Global Capital and the Recomposition of Class Terrain

Preface to the 1999 Edition

Alex Berkman's classic, and easy to read, introduction to anarchist politics. A very good starting point for people interested in getting a general overview of the theory and practice of anarchism

Detailed account of worker-controlled agriculture in revolutionary Spain

COLLECTIVES IN THE SPANISH REVOLUTION
by Gaston Leval
Published by Freedom Press, London, 1975

Text from anarchosyndicalism.net

Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
Daniel Guerin

The Incomplete Marx
Felton C. Shorthall

Anti-Parliamentary Communism --
The movement for workers councils in Britain, 1917-45

by Mark Shipway
online version from: http://af-north.org/

Deported American anarchist Emma Goldman travels to Russia for the first time in 30 years. She provides a revealing picture on the rampant opportunism throughout the Soviet government and its steady roots throughout the bureacracy.

Classic extended work of Rudolf Rocker on anarcho-syndicalism

July 19th was the anniversary of the day on which a gang of militarist adventurers rose against the republican regime in Spain and, with the assistance of outside powers and foreign troops, plunged the country into a bloody war.

Harry Cleaver's seminal work on forming a practical, politcal interpretation of Marx's Capital.

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UBU SAVED FROM DROWNING: WORKER INSURGENCY AND STATIST CONTAINMENT IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN, 1974-1977

Loren Goldner

Queequeg Publications PO Box 441597 West Somerville MA 02144

ISBN 0-970-03080- 0

CONTENTS

PART ONE: CLASS STRUGGLE AND THE MODERNIZATION OF CAPITAL IN PORTUGAL, 1974-1975

After Marx's death, in rumaging through Marx's manuscripts, Engels came upon Marx's precis of Ancient Society -- a book by progressive US scholar Lewis Henry Morgan and published in London 1877. The precis was written between 1880-81 and contained Marx's numerous remarks on Morgan as well as passages from other sources.