The promise of an anarchist anthropology: the three burials on the anarchist project - Natalia Buier
In this article, anthropologist Natalia Buier discusses David Graeber’s proposition of an anarchist anthropology. She focuses on three key issues: Graeber’s understanding of ethnography and its role within the politics of anthropology, his reading of the anarchist tradition, and his involvement with the Occupy Wall Street movement as a concrete example of the limitations of the political project of an anarchist anthropology. The argument of the article is that Graeber’s representation of the discipline of anthropology, together with his partial reading of the anarchist tradition, run counter to a political and analytic focus that centralizes the notions of class and exploitation.
Ain't marchin' anymore: GIs revolt in Vietnam - Dave Blalock
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 21 2014 12:37
A short account from Vietnam veteran, Dave Blalock, about his experiences in listing in the military and getting involved in the anti-war GI movement which helped end the war.
The 1916 Minnesota miners' strike against U.S. Steel - Robert M. Eleff
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 21 2014 03:17
An article by Robert M. Eleff detailing a 1916 strike which involved the IWW, in the Iron Range of Minnesota.
Keeping Minneapolis an open-shop town: the Citizens' Alliance in the 1930s - Lois Quam & Peter Rachleff
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 20 2014 23:17
A paper written by Lois Quam and Peter Rachleff about the Citizens' Alliance, an association of employers and right wingers that opposed unions in Minneapolis during the 1930s.
How it all began: the personal account of a West German urban guerrilla - Bommi Baumann
Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 20 2014 13:25
A memoir of Bommi Baumann, a member of the 2 June Movement, one of West Germany's urban guerrilla groups in the 1960s and 70s. First published in 1975, after he renounced violence and left the group in 1972. Libcom.org does not agree with all the politics of the author but reproduces this text for reference.
The occupation of the factories: Italy 1920 - Paolo Spriano
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 16 2014 18:45
The story of the mass wave of strikes and factory occupations which swept Italy 1920-21 told from the documents and accounts of the time. Written in 1964 and translated into English in 1975 by Gwyn A Williams, who also wrote the introduction. We don't agree with all of the political perspective of the author but reproduce this text for its historical factual information.
The monument: the story of the Socialist Party of Great Britain - Robert Barltrop
The Monument: The Story of the Socialist Party of Great Britain is about a group of people who emerged from the nineteenth century declaring hostility to the official Labour movement and all reforms. They were self-educated working men and their watch-word was ‘no-compromise’. They stood almost alone against the 1914-18 war, and foretold the state capitalist outcome of the Russian Revolution. We disagree with their electoralism but reproduce this text for reference.
Race Traitor: the journal of new abolitionism
Partial online archive of Race Traitor, a journal dedicated to abolishing the concept of whiteness in the United States, published in the 1990s and 2000s.
Factory of strategy: 33 lessons on Lenin - Antonio Negri
Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri’s major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin’s thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri’s theoretical trajectory. We do not necessarily agree with it but reproduce it for reference.
Black Star: an anarchist review (No.1, 1975)
First issue of Black Star: an anarchist review, published by the U.S. based Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation in the 1970s.
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