Albert Meltzer: 11 books
The Anarchists in London 1935-1955
A personal memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Albert Meltzer's personal account and reminiscences of the anarchist movement and its personalities in London between 1935 and 1955. Originally published by Cienfuegos Press, Over the Water, Sanday, Orkney - 1976
Albert Meltzer (1920-1996) was involved actively in class struggles from the...
A NEW WORLD IN OUR HEARTS
The Faces of Spanish Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
A NEW WORLD IN OUR HEARTS, The Faces of Spanish Anarchism, Edited by Albert Meltzer. Contributors: Albert Meltzer; Frank Mintz; José Peirats; Gaston Leval; Andrew Giles Peters. Originally published 1978 by Cienfuegos Press, Sanday, Orkney. Over the course of 120 pages, through a series of interlinked...
ANARCHISM
Arguments For and Against
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This is the revised edition of Anarchism: Arguments For and Against that Albert Meltzer was working on at the time of his death on May 7th, 1996. The book was important to Albert, and it was one whose arguments he returned to often in his other writings.
Albert had become increasingly concerned...
by Albert Meltzer, Wat Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The republication of Albert Meltzer's The Origins of the Anarchist Movement in China is a major event. Outside of The Origins . . . Robert A. Scalapino and George T. Yu’s The Chinese Anarchist Movement (which does not go beyond the early 1920s, stopping short of the Shanghai Commune) and Olga Lang’s...
by Stuart Christie, Albert Meltzer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Las compuertas que contienen las caudalosas aguas de la anarquía se están resquebrajando. Los liberales aligerarían la presión desviando parte de la corriente; los conservadores apuntalarían diques; los totalitarios construirían una presa todavía más...
I COULDN’T PAINT GOLDEN ANGELS
Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Albert Meltzer (1920–1996) was involved, actively, in class struggles since the age of 15; exceptional for his generation in having been a convinced anarchist from the start, without any family background in such activity. A lively, witty account of sixty years in anarchist activism, and a unique...
Power and Liberty
(edited and introduced by Albert Meltzer)
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
In this essay, Tolstoy maintains his theory of great men as the myths and tickets of history. History, he asserts, must give up the idea that great men rule us, and busy itself with the discovery of the idea of humanity. One looks for the overthrow of the French Empire not in this or that decision...
The Meaning of Anarchism
From Loyalism to Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Captain Jack White (1879-1946). Any study of anarchism anywhere in Ireland would be amiss if it did not include mention of the first organiser of the Irish Citizen Army: republican, communist and then anarchist, Captain Jack White. Born at Whitehall, near Broughshane in County Antrim Jack White spent...
by Stuart Christie, Albert Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Back in print and featuring a new foreword by the authors, this polemic approaches the subject of anarchism in relation to class struggle. It presents an argument against class-based society and hierarchy and advocates for a free and equal society based on individual dignity and merit. Drawing from...
THE INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
A study of the origins and development of the revolutionary anarchist movement in Europe 1945-’73 (with particular reference to the ‘First of May Group’)
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
A concise study of the origins and development of the revolutionary anarchist movement in Europe 1945-73, with particular reference to the First of May Group. This group — formed in 1966 by the post-war generation of (largely Spanish) anarchist militants who took up arms against Franco and American...
Démythifier la raison
Agone 61
Language: French
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Une première tentative de reconstruire la raison, considérée comme base permettant de revendiquer l’égalité et de combattre l’injustice
Dans beaucoup de milieux intellectuels, y compris à gauche et à l’extrême gauche, la raison est aujourd’hui traitée comme une ennemie. Instrument...