From the Marxists Internet Archive: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/1873/statism-anarchy.htm Written: 1873; Source: Bakunin on Anarchy, translated and edited by Sam Dolgoff, 1971; See Also: Conspectus of Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy by Karl Marx, 1874. Statism and Anarchy is the first completed volume of … Continue reading →

By Brian Ellis – http://brianpellis.blogspot.com/2012/05/libertarian-socialist-critique-of.html The word “libertarian” is becoming an increasingly popular descriptor of political ideology in the US, though many in the US incorrectly associate libertarianism only with the capitalist Libertarian Party. Historically libertarianism was a term used … Continue reading →

This essay was was published as a pamphlet around late 1978 or 1979, in the aftermath of the Sydney Hilton Bombing. The black humour of the time around the anarchist movement was that the police and security forces framed Ananda … Continue reading →

Submitted by Max Krueger Franklin Rosemont delves into Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and examines their significance and relevance towards today’s communist movement: There are works that come down to us with question-marks blazing like sawed-off shotguns, scattering here and there and … Continue reading →

From http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/02/marx-2/trotskyism-and-the-vanguard-party-by-ulli-diemer/ By Ulli Diemer Trotskyists, for those uninitiated into the sometimes confusing and special world of left-wing politics, are followers of Leon Trotsky, the man who was with Lenin a principal leader of the Russian Revolution, and who opposed … Continue reading →

Sumbitted and authored by John of the Trial by Fire blog http://thetrialbyfire.org/ Arizona sate employees’ unions were caught off guard this week with news that the state’s republican controlled senate was passing a series of bills which, amongst other provisions, … Continue reading →

Submitted and authored by Max Krueger How Do We Overthrow the Plutocracy? I keep hearing people say at Occupations, “We shouldn’t address that until we fix the electoral process;” “We can do” or “We can debate that after we win.” … Continue reading →

http://thetrialbyfire.org/2011/11/29/occupy-wall-streets-next-steps-part-1/ Occupy Wall Street’s Next Steps – Part 1 By John E Jacobsen, of the Trial by fire. “Direct Action is a method by which we ordinary people achieve specific political and economic goals, without having to rely on so-called … Continue reading →

Red November, Black November Red November, black November, Bleak November, black and red. Hallowed month of labor’s martyrs, Labor’s heroes, labor’s dead. Labor’s wrath and hope and sorrow, Red the promise, black the threat, Who are we not to remember? … Continue reading →

Paul Mattick 1962 Source: From: Marxists.org http://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1962/korsch.htm, original from: Anti-Bolshevik Communism Paul Mattick, published by Merlin Press, 1978; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden, for marxists.org 2003; Proofread: by Chris Clayton 2006. Karl Korsch was born in 1886 in Tostedt in the … Continue reading →

From the Spunk Library: http://spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secI8.html Yes. As Murray Bookchin puts it, “[i]n Spain, millions of people took large segments of the economy into their own hands, collectivized them, administered them, even abolished money and lived by communistic principles of work … Continue reading →

The Occupy Movement started in the United States (US) in September; it is a protest against the corrupt republic that exists in the US, a republic where the corporations and the ultra-rich exercise the most control through buying politicians. The … Continue reading →

From: http://nefac.net/anarchiststudyofiroquois by Stephen Arthur “Where License Reigns With All Impunity” An Anarchist Study of the Rotinonshón:ni Polity The traditional society of the Rotinonshón:ni (Iroquois), “The People of the Longhouse,” was a densely settled, matrilineal, communal, and extensively horticultural society. … Continue reading →

The extent to which malnourishment and death from starvation still pervades human society is made clear by statistics, such as the following: In 1994, the United Nations estimated that one eighth of people were actually starving.(1) “Millions are constantly hungry; … Continue reading →

Submitted by John of the Trial By Fire Blog. http://thetrialbyfire.org/2011/09/23/competition-bankruptcy-and-the-decline-of-the-united-auto-workers/ September 21st, 2011: The United Auto Workers and General Motors are wrapping up contract negotiations following their previous contract’s expiration on September 14th. The UAW has released only an outline … Continue reading →

excerpted from the book Profit Over People by Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press, 1999 … Over the years, popular forces have sought to gain a larger share in managing their affairs, with some success alongside many defeats. Meanwhile an instructive … Continue reading →

By Murray Bookchin [Prologue] All the old crap of the thirties is coming back again—the shit about the “class line,” the “role of the working class,” the “trained cadres,” the “vanguard party,” and the “proletarian dictatorship.” It’s all back again, … Continue reading →