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What is Socialism? An Anarchist Perspective.

Boulcolonialboy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:48:28 +0000

“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice
Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality”
Mikhail Bakunin

Socialism can be many, very different, things. For anarchists it must be libertarian, indeed class struggle anarchists often interchangeably describe themselves as libertarian socialists or libertarian communists.

Organise! - Who We Are

Boulcolonialboy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:12:52 +0000

Organise!

Organise! Aims and Principles

Boulcolonialboy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:13:33 +0000

Organise! is a working class organisation. We seek to secure for all workers a full and equal share of the wealth and social benefits created by the combined labour of our class. We aim for the abolition of all hierarchy, and work for the creation of a world–wide classless society: libertarian communism.

Against Capitalism, Exploitation and Oppression

Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism

David in Atlanta — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:52:13 +0000

The conference was held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Dimitrov on December 8 - 14, 1992. It was the first such conference to be held on Russian soil since the Revolution in 1917.

by Harry Cleaver
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Texas
Austin, Texas

Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism Options

Trade unionism and the class war - Guy Aldred

Ret Marut — Wed, 09 May 2007 01:36:19 +0000

Taken from a collection of Aldred's pamphlets Studies in Communism,(1940). Originally published in Pamphlets for the Proletarian, No. 11, (1911). Second edition published in The Spur series,No. 4,(1919).

Guy Aldred was an Anarchist-Communist, based for most of his life in Glasgow and active for many years as a pamphleteer and public speaker.

The Right To Be Greedy: Theses On The Practical Necessity Of Demanding Everything

daniel — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:19:40 +0000

This perspective is the essence of what separates us from both the left and the right. We cannot allow its fundamental importance to be obscured, or ourselves to be mistaken for either the right or the left. We cannot allow any Leninist organization to get away with claiming that it is only 'a little bit pregnant' with state capitalism.

INTRODUCTION

Re-visiting the east ... and popping in at Marx's - Gilles Dauvé

Joseph K. — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:18:40 +0000

It’s crucial to understand why Russia was capitalist in 1980, or 1930, or 1920, if we wish to understand what capitalism really is, and what can and must be revolutionized in Russia as well as in Britain in the XXIst century.

An anti-statist communist manifesto - Joseph Lane

Steven. — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:48:36 +0000

"In vain you tell me that Artificial Government is good, but that I fall out only with its abuse. The thing - the thing itself is the abuse !" - Burke

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

The basic perspectives of the poor, the bad and the angry - Love and Treason

Kevin Keating — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:40:47 +0000

A contribution to the politics of the future...

The basic perspectives of
The Poor, the Bad and the Angry

The world we must leave...

Principles of Syndicalism - Tom Brown

sam sanchez — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:08:32 +0000

This simple introduction to syndicalism, workers control and libertarian communism originally appeared as a series of articles in War Commentary for Anarchism in 1943.

Contents
1. Not Centralism - But Federalism
2. Economic Federalism
3. Abolition Of The Wages System
4. The End Of The Money Trick
5. To Each According To His[/Her] Needs
6. Workers' Control of Distribution

Anarchist communism - an introduction

rkn — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:11:51 +0000

Anarchist communism is a form of anarchism that advocates the abolition of the State and capitalism in favour of a horizontal network of voluntary associations through which everyone will be free to satisfy his or her needs.

Libertarian communism, capitalism and direct action - an introduction

libcom — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:12:46 +0000

What is capitalism?

Situationists - an introduction

libcom — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:19:57 +0000

Situationist ideas came from the European organisation the Situationist International, formed in 1957. While it lasted only 15 years, its ideas were deeply influential, and have been a part of Western society - and radical movements - ever since.

Council communism - an introduction

libcom — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:11:03 +0000

Council communism was a radical left movement originating in Germany and the Netherlands in the 1920s. Today it continues as an important theoretical current within libertarian communism.

Platformism - an introduction

libcom — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:51:34 +0000

Platformism is a current within libertarian communism putting forward specific suggestions on the nature which anarchist organsation should take.

Abolish Restaurants

Steven. — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:51:01 +0000

Drawing on a range of anti-capitalist ideas as well as a heaping plate of personal experience, it is part analysis and part call-to-arms.

Download Abolish Restaurants in PDF format (13.4Mb)

The text-only version is reproduced below

ABOLISH RESTAURANTS

Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell

Joseph K. — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:50:24 +0000

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.

Work. Community. Politics. War. A prole.info manifesto

libcom — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:35:23 +0000

WCPW comic in PDF Format (11Mb)

WORK . COMMUNITY . POLITICS . WAR

Going in the Wrong Direction or Mephistopheles: Not Saint Francis of Assisi

redtwister — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:24:06 +0000

Toni Negri's work is enormously attractive, not only for its own merits, but because it responds to a desperate need. We are all looking for a way forward. The old state-centred model of revolution has failed catastrophically, reformism becomes more and more corrupt and barren, yet revolutionary change is more urgent than ever.