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AT THE CAFÉ: CONVERSATIONS ON ANARCHISM Errico Malatesta Freedom Press For the first time in English, Malatesta, in his usual commonsense and matter-of-fact style, sets out and critically analyses the arguments for and against anarchism. Translated by Paul Nursey-Bray, this is a classic defence of anarchism that anticipates the rise of nationalism, fascism and communism. Pris: 100kr |
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Bakunin: The Creative Passion Mark Leier St. Martin's Press "The passion for destruction is a creative passion," wrote the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in 1842. Since then, the popular image of anarchism has been one of violence and terror. But this picture is wildly misleading, and the media has done more to obscure anarchism than to explain it. Focusing on the street fighting and confrontations with police, mainstream commentators are unable to understand what anarchism is or why a philosophy with roots in the nineteenth century has resurfaced with such power at the dawn of the new millennium. To understand anarchism, it is necessary to go beyond the caricature presented by the media. In this new biography of Mikhail Bakunin, Mark Leier traces the life and ideas of anarchism's first major thinker, and in the process revealing the origins of the movement. There was little in Bakunin's background to suggest that he would grow up to be anything other than a loyal subject of the Russian Empire. Instead, he became one the most notorious radicals of the nineteenth century, devoting his life to the destruction of the tsar and feudalism, capitalism, the state, even God. In the process, he became a historical actor and political thinker whose ideas continue to influence world events. Bakunin is of keen interest these days, though the attention paid to his image continues to obscure the man and his ideas. Using archival sources and the most recent scholarship, Leier corrects many of the popular misconceptions about Bakunin and his ideas, offering a fresh interpretation of Bakunin's life and thoughts of use to those interested in understanding anarchism and social change. Arguing for the relevance and importance of anarchism to our present world, Leier sheds light on the nineteenth century, as well as on today's headlines, as he examines a political philosophy that has inspired mass movements and contemporary social critics. Mark Leier shows that the "passion for destruction" is a call to build a new world free of oppression, not a cult of violence. He argues that anarchism is a philosophy of morality and solidarity, based not on wishful thinking or naïve beliefs about the goodness of humanity but on a practical, radical critique of wealth and power. By studying Bakunin, we can learn a great deal about our own time and begin to recover a world of possibility and promise. It is often said that we are all anarchists at heart. This book explains why. Pris: 160kr |
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CENTRALISM ELLER SJÄLVFÖRVALTNING? Michail Bakunin Federativs Centralism eller självförvaltning ger en allmän inblick i Bakunins anarkistiska idéer och belyser motsättningen mellan två skilda uppfattningar om socialismen. Urvalet förmedlar Bakunins kritik av kapitalismen och staten, hans varningar för teknokratin, experternas styre, och för att statssocialismen innebär uppkomsten av en ny priviligerad, makthavande klass av byråkrater, och hans försvar för en antiauktoritär socialism, grundad på självförvaltning och federalism. Pris: 50kr |
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Chomsky On Anarchism Barry Pateman (Editor) and Noam Chomsky AK Press "Chomsky is familiar with the key that opens forbidden doors." —Eduardo Galeano One of the world's leading radical intellectuals moves beyond criticism. Chomsky's vision of an anarchist future. We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our society reaches more and more people every day. His brilliant critiques of—among other things—capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression, and government propaganda, have become mini-publishing industries unto themselves. But, in this flood of publishing and republishing, very little ever gets said about what exactly Chomsky stands for, his own personal politics, his vision of the future. Not, that is, until Chomsky on Anarchism, a groundbreaking new book that shows a different side of this best-selling author: the anarchist principles that have guided him since he was a teenager. This collection of Chomsky's essays and interviews includes numerous pieces that have never been published before, as well as rare material that first saw the light of day in hard-to-find pamphlets and anarchist periodicals. Taken together, they paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his life-long involvement with the anarchist community, his constant commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization, and his hopes for a future world without rulers. For anyone who's been touched by Chomsky's trenchant analysis of our current situation, as well as anyone looking for an intelligent and coherent discussion of anarchism itself, Chomsky on Anarchism will be one of this season's most exciting, and surprising, reads. Noam Chomsky is one of the world's leading intellectuals, the father of modern linguistics, an outspoken media and foreign policy critic, and tireless activist. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Pris: 110kr |
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CUBAN ANARCHISM Frank Fernándes See Sharp Press From the publisher of African Anarchism, another brief but telling history of anarchism in the 3rd world. Here's the history before, during, and after the revolution—from colonial times to the present. Pris: 80kr |
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DISSIDENT #2 Batkogruppen Vi fortsätter vår studie av den internationella anarkistdebatten med att i detta nummer av Dissident introducera den insurrektionella anarkismen, en strömning som varit relativt okänd i Sverige. Numret innehåller både översättningar av klassiska och mer aktuella texter. Vi inkluderar också fragment ur våra interna diskussioner, samt några nya fräscha texter skrivna speciellt för denna utgivning. Dryga hundra sidor om självaktivitet och uppror. Dissident nummer 2 innehåller bland annat: introduktion till den insurrektionella anarkismen, översättningar från Insurrection och Killing King Abacus, Anti-mass av The Red Sunshine Gang, samtal med Sasha K Villion m.m. Pris: 60kr |
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DREAMS OF FREEDOM, A RICARDO FLORES MAGON READER Ricardo Flores Magon, Chaz Bufe (Editor), and Mitchell Verter (Editor) AK Press The words of this Mexican-American working class hero brought to English language readers for the first time. "From the darker nations comes the vibrant and still fresh voice of the tremendous anarcho-communist Flores Ricardo Magon. In Mexico they have streets named after him. Elsewhere he is little known. Hopefully those who are illiterate in Spanish will now take this great radical into our hearts through this very powerful collection. Land and Liberty!" —Vijay Prashad Along with Emiliano Zapata, Ricardo Flores Magón (b. 1874) is regarded as one of the most important figures of the Mexican Revolution. Through his newspaper Regeneración, he boldly criticized the injustices of the country's military dictatorship and worked to build the popular movement that eventually overthrew it. Exiled to the United States, Flores Magón continued to agitate for revolution in Mexico. Transcending nationalism, he also dreamed of a world free from all forms of injustice. Both the US and Mexican governments responded with harsh repression. Leavenworth Penitentiary ultimately murdered him in 1922. This volume collects the first English translations of Flores Magón's most important writings. A lengthy historical overview, chronology, maps, images, and bibliography provide context for his work. "Mitchell Verter and Chaz Bufe have given us a great gift with this fascinating volume on Ricardo Flores Magón. He was a revolutionary from a very different time from our own, but today's activists will make an immediate and intense connection with his passion for social justice. This is a gift that will only grow as you pass it on to others!"—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch
"The life, words, and ideas of Ricardo Flores Magón are as important today as they were around 100 years ago. Bravo for this wonderful book that won't let us forget those days and those heroes. Today, as always, remembering is revolutionary"—Luis Rodriguez, author of Always Running and My Name is Hunger |
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Facing the Enemy: A History Of Anarchist Organization From Proudhon To May 1968 Alexandre Skirda AK Press The finest single volume history of European anarchism is finally available in English in Paul Sharkey's elegant translation. Drawing on decades of research, Alexandre Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Critical and engaged, he offers biting and incisive portraits of the major thinkers and, more crucially, the organizations they inspired, influenced, came out of, and were spurned by. Opinionated and witty, he is equally at home skewering the actions of the early anarchist Victor Serge as he is the Paris chief of police who organized undercover "anarchist bombers" in an attempt to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Skirda argues that the core problem for anarchists has been to create a revolutionary movement and envision a future society in which the autonomy of the individual is not compromised by the need to take collective action. How anarchists have grappled with that question in theory and practice make up the core of the book. Bakuninist secret societies; the Internationals and the clash with Marx; the Illegalists, bombers, and assassins; the mass trade unions and insurrections; and, of course, the Russian and Spanish Revolutions are all discussed through the prism of working people battling fiercely for a new world free of the shackles of Capital and the State. Pris: 120kr |
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EN SVENSK ANARKIST BERÄTTAR Nisse Lätt Nisse Lätts Minnesfond Nisse Lätt (1907-1988) var en märklig man.Vid 15 års ålder gick han till sjöss. Efter att ha träffat spanska anarkosyndikalister i Bilbao anslöt han sig till SAC-Syndikalisterna början av 1930-talet. När det spanska inbördeskriget bröt ut i juli 1936 efter Francos kupp, så for Nisse till Spanien och anslöt sig till den legendariska Durutti-kolonnen. Han fick ena ögat förstört av granatsplitter och bodde och arbetade under ett halvår i en av de kollektiviserade byarna. Tillbaka i Sverige blev han mer eller mindre agitator på heltid under några år. Han cyklade och skidade genom landet, tog jobb i skogen, på varven eller på byggen, sålde syndikalistiska och anarkistiska tidningar och böcker. Till slut slog han sig ner i Göteborg och hans hem i Haga utvecklade sig med åren till en samlingsplats för yngre som var intresserade av anarkistiska och syndikalistiska idéer. Nisse berättade ofta mångordigt om de mest skiftande ämnen.
Denna bok, som Nisse Lätt skrev 1982, är hans politiska testamente, hans sammanfattning av sina erfarennheter från ett långt och innehållsrikt liv. |
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Anarchism, But Were Afraid To Ask Simon READ Rebel Press anarchism is not Chaos within a bloody struggle for survival. That´s what we have at the moment. The pursuit of your selfish interest over the needs of others. That´s what we have at the moment. A state of total disorganisation. That´s what we have at the moment. The triumph of the strong over the weak. That´s what we have at the moment. so what is is? Beautifully redesigned and rewritten version of the old classic pamphlet. A great introduction, accessibly written. Pris: 40kr |
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FREE WOMEN OF SPAIN: ANARCHISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN Martha A. Ackelsberg AK Press Cowards don't make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, these women mobilized over 20,000 women into an organized network during the Spanish Revolution, to strive for community, education, and equality for women and the emancipation of all. Militants in the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union, Mujeres Libres struggled against fascism, the State, and reaction; and the less than supportive attitudes and concerns of their male comrades. Martha Ackelsberg writes a comprehensive study of Mujeres Libres, intertwining interviews with the women themselves and analysis connecting them with modern feminist movements. Pris: 140kr |
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FRIENDS OF DURRUTI GROUP 1937-1939 Augustin Guillamòn AK Press "Revolutions without theory fail to make progress. We of the 'Friends Of Durruti' have outlined our thinking, which may be amended as appropriate in great social upheavals but which hinges upon two essential points which cannot be avoided. A program, and rifles." —El Amigo del Pueblo, No. 5, July 20, 1937. Spain 1936–1939: This is the story of a group of anarchists engaged in the most thoroughgoing social and economic revolution of all time. Essentially street fighters with a long pedigree of militant action, they used their own experiences to arrive at the finest contemporary analysis of the Spanish Revolution. In doing so, they laid down essential markers for all future revolutionaries. This study—drawing on interviews with participants and synthesizing archival information—is THE definitive text on these unsung activists. This volume is translated, edited, and introduced by Paul Sharkey, acknowledged internationally as the foremost expert on the Friends Of Durruti Group. Pris: 80kr |
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FRIHETLIG KOMMUNISM I PRAKTIKEN. Självförvaltning i Spanien 1936-1939 Britta Gröndahl Federativs Under inbördeskriget i Spanien 1936-1939 genomfördes omfattande kollektiviseringar av industri och jordbruk. I spetsen för kollektiviseringarna gick de spanska syndikalisterna som nu omsatte sina idéer om en frihetlig kommunism i praktiken. I denna bok lyfter Britta Gröndahl fram denna glömda historia med hjälp av samtida källor. Hon spårar bakgrunden till detta experiment i självförvaltning i anarkisternas och syndikalisternas idédebatt under årtiondena före inbördeskriget. Pris: 50kr |
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Getting Free James Herod Lucy Parsons Center "Getting Free is a study of anarchist revolutionary strategy. Since it is obvious that we cannot discuss strategy without first deciding what it is that we are trying to achieve, I begin (after a short critique of capitalism) with a two-page sketch of the basic structure of an anarchist society (a free society, one based on direct democracy). It's beautifully simple and elegant, in my humble opinion. Next I consider obstacles to be overcome, and then review strategies that have failed so far. Then I map out an anarchist revolutionary strategy, first abstractly and then in concrete detail. Finally, I discuss some of the issues in more detail and bounce the whole thing off relevant literature. I try to completely reconceptualize the fight against capitalists by shifting the focus away from seizing the state or the means of production to seizing decision making. The main purpose of this book is to try to persuade revolutionaries to shift the sites of the anticapitalist struggle and to select new battlefields. I identify three strategic sites for fighting -- neighborhoods, workplaces, and households -- that I believe will not only enable us to defeat capitalists but also to build a new society in the process. The advantage of this shift is that if offers an offensive strategy, not merely a defensive one. That is, it is not merely about resisting what they are doing to us, but rather about defending what we are doing to them through our new social creations. It means that we would begin to take the initiative to build the life we want, and then fight to defend this life from attacks by the ruling class. In listing all the strategies that have failed, I merely mean to argue that these forms of resistance, although they have accomplished a lot, haven't gotten us very far toward our ultimate goal of destroying capitalism. Some of them -- like the leninist vanguard party, social democracy, dropping out, and guerrilla warfare -- should be abandoned completely. The others should be subordinated to the main task of building free associations in neighborhoods, workplaces, and households. Strategies like strikes, civil disobedience, or insurrections are not wrong in themselves, but they are not enough, and by themselves cannot defeat capitalists. To win we must add another whole dimension." James Herod joined the struggle against capitalists, politicians, and priests (or, to use the abstractions, capital, state, and god) during the social upheavals of 1968 and has remained in it ever since. Pris: 90kr |
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MUJERES LIBRES: EL ANARQUISMO Y LA LUCHA POR LA EMANCIPATION DE LAS MUJERES Martha A. Ackelsberg Virus Sobre la bse de un estudio riguroso y profundo de las condiciones sociales y politicas que permitieron el surgimiento de un movimiento emancipatorio de mujeres en la Espana revolucionaria del 36, Ackelsberg realiza una cronica de los esfuerzos de Mujeres Libres por crear una organizacion constituida por y para mujeres de las clase trabajadora, con el objetivo de prepararlas para ocupar su lugar en la revolucion y en la nueva sociedad que se avecinaba. En la presente se analizan a fondo las razones que llevaron a un numeroso grupo de mujeres del ambito libertario a la creacion de Mujeres Libres—en contra de la voluntad de buena parte de los hombres e, incluso, de algunas mujeres del Movimiento Libertario-; los problemas, temas de disputa y reaciones que mantuvieron con este; y sus discusiones internas, objetivos y funcionamiento. Pero lo que la hace especialmente interesante es que no es simplemente un estudio historico, sino que, incidiendo especialmente en el analisis anarquista de las relaciones de dominacion y subordinacion y en la centralidad que ocupa en este la nocion de comunidad, Ackelsberg plantea que puede aportar el discurso y la experiencia de Mujeres Libres a la teoria y lucha feminista contemporanea. Pris: 130kr |
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NO GODS, NO MASTERS Daniel Guerin AK Press Guérin's classic anthology of anarchism translated and reprinted, available for the first time in a single volume. It details a vast array of unpublished documents, letters, debates, manifestos, reports, impassioned calls-to-arms, and reasoned analysis; the history, organization, and practice of the movement—its theorists, advocates, and activists; the great names and the obscure, towering legends and unsung heroes. This definitive anthology portrays anarchism as a sophisticated ideology whose nuances and complexities highlight the natural desire for freedom in all of us. The classical texts will re-establish anarchism as both an intellectual and practical force to be reckoned with. Includes writings by Emma Goldman, Kropotkin, Berkman, Bakunin, Proudhon, and Malatesta. Pris: 170kr |
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QUIET RUMOURS: AN ANARCHA-FEMINIST READER Various AK Press/Dark Star From consciousness-raising groups to hair-raising punk rockers, here's a fascinating window into the development of the women's movement, in the words of the women who moved it. These classic essays span the century, providing welcome context for feminism as part of a larger politics of liberation and equality. Critical analysis and biting polemic, whether it's Emma Goldman's attack on the suffrage movement or the debates of Second Wave feminists of the 1970s, connect the dots to show not just how anarchism influenced feminism but how feminism changed the political landscape around it. "With this important collection of and about anarcha-feminists over more than a century, stunning female anarchist heroes are restored to our collective memory." -Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
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Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of British Anarchisms Benjamin Franks AK Press Rebel Alliances offers an applied philosophical perspective on contemporary class-struggle anarchism in Britain. It identifies the main principles distinguishing this tradition from competing Leninist, liberal, and social-democratic groupings. From these key characteristics, Franks constructs a consistent anarchism, which both shares characteristics with politically-engaged post-structuralisms and has a distinctive ethic. The theory and practice of contemporary groups are then assessed against this "ideal-type" of anarchism. Many of the central themes of anarchism are consequently subject to original scrutiny: the nature of the revolutionary subject; workplace and community organizing; violence and pacifism; the meaning of direct action; and propaganda by the word and deed. "No one is better placed to examine the contemporary British anarchist movement than Ben Franks. Steal this book at the first opportunity."—Class War "Provides a framework for understanding, analyzing, and appreciating the myriad forms of anarchist class struggle and must be praised for its scholarly achievement and avoidance of traditional academic restrictions."—David Lamb, Birmingham University Pris: 130kr |
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The Abolition of the State: Anarchist and Marxist Perspectives Wayne Price AuthorHouse Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state? Wayne Price is a longtime antiwar, human rights, and union militant. He has been a member of the Revolutionary Socialist League, the Love and Rage Anarchist Federation, and the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists. His writings appear in the Utopian, the Northeastern Anarchist, and in monthly articles on www.Anarkismo.net. The biggest merit of this book is to put forward the anarchist case against the State in a very common sensical fashion, free of any deliberately hard to follow rhetoric. Anarchism is desirable and easy enough to grasp, and when properly explained –as this book does- it is hard for anyone not to share the basic anarchist outlook of a cooperative and truly democratic society. - José Antonio Gutiérrez Pris: 120kr |
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THE ANARCHIST QUIZ BOOK Albert Meltzer (Contributor) and Martin Howard (Editor) Freedom Press A handy, pocket-size compendium of the now infamous anarcho-quizzes that ran, first in the pages of Black Flag, under the authorship of the legendary Albert Meltzer. 350 questions (plus answers, in the back!), running the gamut from "In which city was the first anarcha-feminist paper published?" to "In 1840, the Russian government provoked riots by ordering peasants to grow what?" to "Which murdering fascist did Italy commemorate in 2005 with a postage stamp?" to the ever popular trivia gem "What inspired Sylvia Pankhurst to help open a jam factory?" Agitate, educate, and organize! All in a handy quiz format! Pris: 80kr |
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THE ANARCHIST REVOLUTION Errico Malatesta Freedom Press A complement to 'His Life And Ideas', much of it previously unpublished. As fresh today as when the polemics were written. Pris: 65kr |
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The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin and Charles Weigl (Introduction by) AK Press The fourth in our 'Working Classics' series, this is Kropotkin's most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equitable means of satisfying. The most important and widely read exposition of anarchist economic theory, its combination of detailed historical analysis and far-reaching utopian vision is a step-by-step guide to social revolution: the concrete means of achieving it and the new world that humanity is capable of creating. As insightful as when it was first published over a century ago, this is essential reading for anyone interested in a pragmatic yet visionary approach to questions of economic justice. This edition includes a new introduction that historically situates and discusses the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin's ideas. Pris: 100kr |
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THE CONQUEST OF BREAD Peter Kropotkin Elephant Editions One of the fundamental classics of anarchism, its validity today lies in Kropotkins vision of the revolutionary project as a totality, something that would be impossible if it were not already in act. Pris: tillfälligt slut |
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