Anarchist Library

Below are some A4 posters to download, enlarge and flypost in the street or wherever

For the Internet generation: Print these posters out then photocopy enlarge them, this will prevent the PC ink running when in contact with the wall and the paste.

No More Prisons and Police - Against Surveillance Society

Poster for Amadeu Casellas, anarchist prisoner

Against the violence of capital - Our struggle is one

40 powerful reasons to buy (anti-system collage)

Free Lecce Anarchists! Free All Prisoners!

Against Society & Culture, Burn the Supermarkets

Capitalism is Terror, No PoliceState EU

Destroy all Judge, Destroy all Politician

Contra los Violentos del Capital

Industrial Murder, Non-Stop Production

Liberate Anarchist Prisoners - Against All Authority

Solidarity with european anarchists, Fire to the prisons

Mutual Aid & Co-operation

No Oil War, No Capitalist Empire

No Queremos Guerras de Petroleo - No Queremos Imperios Capitalista$

Libertad o Tirania? Canya al Capitalismo

Liberty or Tyranny? Resist Capitalism

We live our lives...from Lugnut #4

Unexpected attention (anti-system collage)

Articles

Here we present a few interesting texts of anarchist theory and anti-politics

What are Anarchists?

In this brief but concise text, Italian anarchist Alfredo M.Bonanno explains what anarchists want, what they struggle against, and the means they will use to achieve their goal. Bonanno has been imprisoned in Italy for having such ideas as these, and for writing books such as Armed Joy and, as part of the 'Marini' investigations, The Insurrectional Project. The 'Marini' investigation, which was a complete fit-up, saw him jailed for the last few years, but he has recently been released, an amnesty from the incoming president, Romano Prodi...(More)

Against Prisons

We are living in a cynical time, when things have become simplified as far as prisons are concerned. The days when we could imagine that convicts would "become better" are over. No one dares to adopt this discourse, and even the stupidest penologists and the journalists who echo such nonsense recognize that even if the learning forced upon a few very rare prisoners gives them the means to better express their desires, how much more beneficial it would be if it was given to the same exceptional cases outside prison.....(More)

Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism

Insurrectionary anarchism is not an ideological solution to all social problems, a commodity on the capitalist market of ideologies and opinions, but an on-going praxis aimed at putting an end to the domination of the state and the continuance of capitalism, which requires analysis and discussion to advance. We don't look to some ideal society or offer an image of utopia for public consumption. Throughout history, most anarchists, except those who believed that society would evolve to the point that it would leave the state behind, have been insurrectionary anarchists. Most simply, this means that the state will not merely wither away, thus anarchists must attack, for waiting is defeat; what is needed is open mutiny and the spreading of subversion among the exploited and excluded. Here we spell out some implications that we and some other insurrectionary anarchists draw from this general problem: if the state will not disappear on its own, how then do we end its existence? It is, therefore, primarily a practice, and focuses on the organization of attack....(More)

The Affinity Group

Contrary to what is often believed, affinity between comrades does not depend on sympathy or sentiment. To have affinity means to have knowledge of the other, to know how they think on social issues, and how they think they can intervene in the social clash. This deepening of knowledge between comrades is an aspect that is often neglected, impeding effective action.

One of the most difficult problems anarchists have had to face throughout their history is what form of organization to adopt in the struggle. At the two ends of the spectrum we find on the one hand the individualists who refuse any kind of stable relationship; on the other those who support a permanent organization which acts on a programme established at the moment of its constitution. Both of the forms sketched out here have characteristics that are criticizable from an insurrectional point of view.....(More)

Insurrection

A considerable part of the anarchist movement shares insurrectional positions. But they are theoretical stands only. We think that a new way to consider insurrection is possible.

Apart from a few not very significant fringes, the international anarchist movement shares theoretical positions of a revolutionary character. The liberal democratic vein, important as far as it shows a possible line of involution, remains on the margins.

In turn almost the whole of the revolutionary anarchist positions -with different nuances- see insurrection as a necessary phase along the road to revolution...(More)

Autonomous Base Nucleus

Mass structures, autonomous base nucleii, are the element linking the specific informal anarchist organization to social struggles. The autonomous base nucleus is not an entirely new form of struggle. Attempts have been made to develop these structures in Italy over the past ten years. The most notable of these was the Autonomous Movement of the Turin Railway Workers, and the Self-managed leagues against the cruise missile base in Comiso.

We believe the revolutionary struggle is without doubt a mass struggle. We therefore see the need to build structures capable of organizing as many groups of exploited as possible. We have always considered the syndicalist perspective critically both because...(More)

The Informal Organisation

The informal anarchist organisation has nothing to do with programmes, platforms or flags but is based on a common affinity between comrades whose objective is to intervene in struggles in an insurrectional direction. In that way it is possible to be present in and heighten the class struggle.

Anarchist groups and individuals are often spread over the territory with little contact between them and few ideas on methods and possibilities of intervention in social reality. There is a certain presence in some areas, especially of a syndicalist nature. In others there is action against nuclear installations. The widest area of intervention is that of counter-information and propaganda...(More)

Beyond Workerism - Beyond Syndicalism

The end of syndicalism corresponds to the end of workerism. For us it is also the end of the quantitive illusion of the party and the specific organization of synthesis. The revolt of tomorrow must look for new roads. Trade unionism is in its decline. In good as in evil with this structural form of struggle an era is disappearing, a model and a future world seen in terms of an improved and corrected reproduction of the old one. We are moving towards new and profound transformations...(More)

Beyond the Structure of Synthesis

Instead of an anarchist organization of synthesis we propose an informal anarchist organization based on struggle and the analyses that emerge from it.

Anarchists of all tendencies refuse the model of hierarchical and authoritarian organization. They refuse parties, vertical structures which impose directives from above in a more or less obvious way. In positing the liberatory revolution as the only social solution possible, anarchists consider that the means used in bringing about this transformation will condition the ends that are achieved. And authoritarian organizations are certainly not instruments that lead to liberation...(More)

Against Technology

A revolutionary project must comprehend the destruction of all the structures that have been built by capital. A perspective that aims to save the technological aspect of present day capital, believing it can be put to good social use, would mean to conserve a system of knowledge that has come from military research. Revolution cannot come about only in the parts of social reality we do not like. It also means opening up new spheres of human knowledge.

A perspective based on the need to completely destroy technology is confusing to many comrades, and a considerable number of them refuse to accept it...(More)

A Critique, Not a Program - For a Non-Primitivist Anti-Civilization Critique

N.B: This text was written by Landstreicher of "Wilful Disobeidence" for the 2007 Anti-Civilization gathering near Barcelona, Spain. It aims to be the starting point of a discussion and we include it here for that purpose. Inclusion of this text here does not mean endorsement.