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THE CNT AT THE CROSSROADS — Extracts
The Adventures of an Anarchist Heterodox
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Translated extracts from the memoirs of Luis Andrés Edo, an anarchist activist whose life was dedicated to the ‘Idea’ and the struggle for liberty. Throughout his life Luis Andrés Edo remained always both an untiring activist and an intellectual dynamo of the international libertarian...
GENERAL FRANCO MADE ME A TERRORIST
(The interesting years abroad of a West of Scotland ‘Baby-boomer’)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
On the last day of July 1964 Stuart Christie, a newly-turned 18-year-old Glaswegian anarchist, left London for Paris and Madrid on a mission whose objective was to kill the last of the Axis dictators — General Francisco Franco. This was to be the last of at least 30 attempts on the fascist leader’s...
by Agustín Guillamón
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
A short history summarising the transformation of Barcelona’s CNT Defence Committees during the 1930s from their origins as street fighting units to their reorganisation as integrated combat/ intelligence formations, to their suppression by the Republic after the working class defeat of May 1937.
by Marie Louise Berneri
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
A forensically critical and scholarly assessment of the most important utopian writings from Plato’s ‘Republic’ to Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’. What is ‘utopian’? Is it the desire for a ‘just’, equitable and cooperative society free of moral and physical compulsion, or the economists’,...
FIELDS, FACTORIES OR WORKSHOPS
or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Fields, Factories and Workshops: or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work is a persuasive landmark anarchist communist text on the theories and practise of workers’ self-management by Peter Kropotkin. It is, arguably, among the most influential and positive statements...
WE, THE ANARCHISTS
A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Since the official birth of organized anarchism at the Saint Imier Congress of 1872, no anarchist organization has been held up to greater opprobrium or subjected to such gross misrepresentation than the Federación Anarquista Ibérica. Better known by its initials, the FAI, was a group...
by H. T. Buckle
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
English historian Henry Thomas Buckle’s (1821–62) plan was to write a fourteen-volume history of civilisation, putting historiography on a more scientific basis, comparing and contrasting the intellectual, political, religious and social histories of certain nations. Unfortunately, his death at...
by Harold Barclay
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
A study of areas of anthropological practice and theory that may be seen as having significance to anarchist thought — focusing on largely ethical issues relating to what anthropologists do, particularly by way of collecting information and the motivations for it. Barclay reviews the more significant...
by Vernon Richards
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
In this study, the Spanish workers’ resistance to the military insurrection of July 1936 is viewed not as a struggle between Fascism and Democracy but as a heroic attempt to bring about a far-reaching Social Revolution. In this task, the Spanish revolutionaries had to deal both with Franco's armies...
by Camillo Berneri
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Camillo Berneri (1897, Lodi, Italy – May 5, 1937, Barcelona) anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist: ‘To guarantee revolution, it is not enough for the mob to be armed or for them to have expropriated the bourgeoisie: it is necessary for them to destroy the capitalist system entirely and...
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...
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...
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...
THE CUNTOCRACY
or How well is David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ going these days?
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Why not call the present political system a ‘cuntocracy’? It is most certainly not a democracy—at least not the type any one would want. We need a new name for not just what our leaders do to us because of greed and stupidity: we need an accurate irrefutable term for all of society’s...