Anarchist Library
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325 Flyer - Some 'quick' words
325 Magazine_Issue 5_download version.pdf
325 Magazine_Issue 4_download version.pdf
325 Magazine_Issue 3_download version.pdf
Europol report into terrorist activity 2008. (Includes a section on Anarchists)
Europol report into terrorist activity 2006-07.
Europol report into terrorist activity 2004-05.
Practical Handbook for Border Guards (EU)
Nato's Secret Armies - Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
What are Anarchists? by Alfredo M.Bonanno
Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism by Killing King Abacus
The Anarchist Tension by Alfredo M.Bonanno
Armed Joy by Alfredo M.Bonanno
Angry Brigade 1967-1984 : Documents & Chronology (Elephant Editions)
Solidarity
with
anarchist
comrades
imprisoned
in
Greece (Elephant Editions)
Summits, Counter-Summits & Social War
Anarchism & the National Liberation Struggle by Alfredo M.Bonanno
The Insurrectional Project by Alfredo M.Bonanno
Revolution, Violence and Anti-Authoritarianism by Alfredo M.Bonanno
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
Wilful Disobedience vol.4 (Venomous Butterfly Publications)
Total Destruction 4 - Radical Straightedge zine
Total Destruction 3 - Radical Straightedge zine
AntiSistema #4 (Anarchist zine from Barcelona)
War on Misery #3 (Great zine from St.Louis, USA)
Total Destroy #2 (Milwaukee anarchist periodical)
Fight Speciesism #3 (UK Animal/Earth Liberation zine)
Fight Speciesism #2
Fight Speciesism #1
Imminent Rebellion #9 (Anarchist journal from the South Pacific)
Why Do We Hate the Olympics?
Solidarity & Revolt across Borders (about French migrant revolt and more)
Escalation #1 (Compilation of texts about the Informal Anarchist Federation / FAI)
Fire to the Prisons #3 (Insurrectionary animal liberation & anti-prison zine from Longing for Collapse Press)
Fire to the Prisons #2
Rupture (Jan 08) / Soundsystem freesheet with news, reviews and text
Mesho (UK Squatters newspaper)
No Pasaran #1 (UK AntiFa zine)
Modesto Anarcho #7 (Excellent anarchist zine from the US Modesto crew)
Modesto Anarcho #6
Modesto Anarcho #5
Until We Are All Free by Gabriel Pombo da Silva
Solidarity with the Aachen 4 (EE / Act for Freedom)
What's going on in Italy.pdf (EE / Act for Freedom)
Writing to Prisoners - flyer (Leeds ABC)
Transformerz - Zig Zag (Comic)
Mabuhay sa Pilipinas / Welcome to the Philippines (UK Earth First report on the Philippines) + Cover
How to Smash Everything - Brief US Anarchist Primer from 2007
How to (make a paintbomb, disrupt a railway, break a door) internet version
How to (make a paintbomb, disrupt a railway, break a door) print version
In the Spirit of Total Resistance by AJ Miller
Toward the destruction of schooling
Toward the Creative Nothing by Renzo Novatore.pdf
Free Thomas Meyer-Falk! - Japanese version.pdf
Free Thomas Meyer-Falk!.pdf
Reasons of Flame by Wolfi Landstreicher
The Network of Domination by Wolfi Landstreicher
The Reproduction Of Everyday Life - Fredy Perlman.pdf
The Question of Organization ; a recent analysis (Venomous Butterfly Publications / Insurrection)
The Prison Within the Prison - The struggle against the Spanish FIES prison isolation units (Brighton ABC & others)
Revolutionary Solidarity by Various Authors (Quiver Press)
Auto-organizacao autonoma e intervencao anarquista: uma tensao na pratica - Portuguese version
A Tensao Anarquista_- Portuguese version
O acto insurreccional e a auto-organizacao da luta - Portuguese version
Questoes de organizacao. 31 teses insurreccionalistas - Portuguese version
Industrial Domestication : Industry as the Origins of Modern Domination
Incendio content.pdf (Excellent bilingual Latin American anarchist zine)
Incendio cover.pdf
What are Anarchists? - Japanese version.pdf
Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism - Japanese version.pdf
Primitivist Primer by John Moore - Japanese version
Vizcacha Rebelde 4 / Anti-Civilization zine from Latin America (Spanish Language)
Italian Anarchists Under Attack.pdf (Berlin ABC)
Prisons: A Social Crime & Failure by Emma Goldman
Pieces of Self : Anarchy, Gender and Other Thoughts
Our Dark Passenger (Anarchists talk about mental illness and community support)
On sabotage as one of the fine arts
Olympic Resistance - (Newsletter with information about actions against the games of finance)
Misery of Islam by Al-Doujhall.pdf
Memories of Freedom - (About the activities of the North American ALF)
Memories of Freedom (Spanish version)
More, Much More and other Writings by Massimo Passamani (Critical thoughts from an Italian anarchist)
Marini Trial (About the infamous trial of Italian Anarchists)
At Daggers Drawn ; with the existent, its defenders, and its false critics
Lugnut#4 (Anarcho-primitivist zine from Ireland)
Anarchist Black Cross Information & Resources - 2002 Edition
For those who didn't run for cover during the Tempest : About the trial of the Lecce anarchists
Beyond Amnesty - Excellent Anti-Psychiatry zine with a personal edge
Essentialism and the Problem of Identity Politics
Gasping from out the Shallows - Reflections on Revolution in the Early Twenty-
first Century by Wayne Spencer
Feral Revolution by Feral Faun
Fullness of struggle without adjectives (critique of armed struggle in Italy)
From Politics to Life - Ridding Anarchy of the Leftist Milestone by Wolfi Landstreicher
Fire to the powder keg: War and social guerrilla struggle in Iraq
Fawda - On the struggle in Palestine
How Anarchist is the Platform? (Includes excerpts from the Malatesta / Mahkno correspondence)
Practical LSD Manufacture by Uncle Fester (Loompanics)
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson - The Illuminatus Trilogy
Deviance and Punishment in Anarchist Society
Caught in the web of deception : Anarchists and media
Consuming Fire by Wolfi Landstreicher
Bodyhammer - Tactics and Self defense for the modern protester
Basic Bakunin
Anarchist Communism by Peter Kropotkin
An anti-authoritarian anarchist perspective about Venezuela's situation / Agitoprop Collection, Caracas 2007
Autonomous Self-Organisation and Anarchist Intervention by Wolfi Landstreicher
The Vancouver 5 : Armed Struggle in Canada
Against Domestication by Jacques Cammatte.pdf
Against the Engineering of Life by Rene Riesel
Ai Ferri Corti ; Romper con esta Realidad, sus defensores y sus falsos criticos
Organisation by Errico Malatesta
Anarchism & Anarchy by Errico Malatesta
An Anarchist Programme & Anarchist Propaganda by Errico Malatesta
Anarchism & Violence by Errico Malatesta
Anarchism: from theory to practice by Daniel Guerin
Anarchist Economics ; the Spanish Collectives of 1936-39 by Abraham Guillen
Amor Fati - Subversive Literary Supplement no#1 (Indonesian Language)
Against Prisons by Catherine Baker
Albania : Laboratory of Subversion
A Day Mournful and Overcast... by an "uncontrollable" from the Iron Column
Below are some A4 posters to download, enlarge and flypost in the street or wherever
No More Prisons and Police - Against Surveillance Society
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)
Films
Here are a couple of interesting short films hosted by Christie Books featuring UK anarchist Mark Barnsley talking about the prison system and his experiences. Soon we hope to have more films here about the revolutionary struggle and related issues.
Radio Bronka: Mark Barnsley Interview (Barcelona)
(Ateneo Libertario de Besos, Barcelona) This interview was made in May 2004 during the days of the International Anti-Prison encounter, which saw over a hundred people from many countries coming together to exchange experiences and organise against the prison-industrial complex. You can read notes from the conference here.
During the video you can see footage of the international demonstration outside the downtown Modello prison of Barcelona which was attended by over 300 people who made painted slogans on the walls of the prison and shot fireworks over the grounds and at the guard towers. A few banks, estate agents and luxury cars were also destroyed on the route of the march.
Imprisonment in Great Britain by Mark Barnsley
Mark Barnsley is a British anarchist who spent eight years in 20 different maximum or high security prisons, and 18 segregation units. In this documentary Mark talks about the insidious process of prison privatisation. (Trailer for a book by John Barker of the Angry Brigade plays before the start of the feature.)
You will find articles by Mark in our Prison Struggle section, including an interview with Mark.
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.
First of all, there is nothing inherently primitivist about a critique of civilization, particularly if that critique is anarchist and revolutionary. Such critiques have existed nearly as long as a self-aware anarchist movement has existed - and not always even connected to a critique of technology or progress (Dejacque felt that certain technological developments would allow human beings to more easily get beyond civilization; on the other hand, Enrico Arrigoni, alias Frank Brand, saw civilization and industrial technology as blocks hindering real human progress). The real question, in my opinion, is whether primitivism is any help at all to an anarchist and revolutionary critique of civilization....(More)
At Daggers Drawn: with the Existent, its Defenders and its False Critics
Anyone can put an end to tossing about in the slavery of what they don't know - and refusing the sop of empty words, come to daggers with life.
C. Michelstaedter.
Life is no more than a continual search for something to cling to. One gets up in the morning to find oneself in bed a mere matter of hours later, a sad commuter between lack of desire and fatigue. Time passes, spurring us less and less. Social obligations no longer seem to break our backs as we have got used to spreading the weight. We obey without even taking the trouble to say yes...(More)
From Politics to Life: Ridding Anarchy of the Leftist Millstone
From the time anarchism was first defined as a distinct radical movement it has been associated with the left, but the association has always been uneasy. Leftists who were in a position of authority (including those who called themselves anarchists, like the leaders of the CNT and the FAI in Spain in 1936-37) found the anarchist aim of the total transformation of life and the consequent principle that the ends should already exist in the means of struggle to be a hindrance to their political programs. Real insurgence always burst far beyond any political program, and the most coherent anarchists saw the realization of their dreams precisely in this unknown place beyond...(More)
Incognito
This book is about living in hiding. It is a stab in the dark, a leap into the secrecy of the incognito, a parallel dimension in which even what could be said often is not. Out of excess of tact, fear or because one thinks it is not relevant. Or, in certain milieux and in the worst cases, due to mere political tactics. But, even at a glance, the world of clandestine people is not a desert land; on the contrary it is populated by living beings, experiences and ideas that are very close to ours, in both the most miserable and the most fascinating aspects of our lives, close to our most ardent desires and passionate daydreams...(More)
Palestine, mon amour
No one can understand what is happening in the land of Palestine, not even those who have followed the bloody course of events involving the people who have lived there for so long. They face each other with hatred and suspicion, not just men and women, children and old people, but the very dust of the roads and the mud that covers them on rainy days, the asphyxiating heat and the stench of the sultriness.
The 'official' terms of the controversy are well known. The Israelis chased the Palestinians off their land, but this happened so long ago that some of the people born in huts in the camps are now fifty years old. Ridiculous arguments between States have resulted in pieces of land being returned to people who had been driven away, but it is impossible to live on them. In Israel if you don't work you go hungry...(More)
Nights of Rage: On the recent revolts in France
Original title: Le notti della collera: Sulle recenti sommosse di Francia by Filippo Argenti
Translated by Barbara Stefanelli
There is something knocking and knocking impatiently at our door. Sooner or later we will have to open… Many stay hidden, not only the cowards, but also those who are too calm or too refined. They do not want to get involved. But they are involved as the stream continuously drags them and their blinkers are useless. Even language fails miserably, language inherited from the old world, with its old sacrifices, its old images, and its embellishment of another era. Nothing is as it was before; old words fall on one another because they can cling to nothing new. There are heights that no joke, no witticism and no wisdom can reach. The bourgeois era is coming to an end. No one knows what is coming. Many have a dark premonition and so they are mocked. The masses also have a dark sensation about it but they are unable to express themselves and are (still) suppressed....(More)
Anarchists and Revolutionaries..
Anarchists and revolutionaries are such not because they say they are or write articles and programmes ending them with slogans or symbols of anarchism. They are such because they want to do something against oppression, ie they want to denounce and attack repressive systems and all those who hold them together.
To fully understand this simple statement we must take a step further. Before attacking it is necessary to know whom and what to attack and to understand why to attack.
Otherwise one ends up acting like a mad bull charging about wildly, and which gets slain sooner or later.....(More)
Towards A New Projectuality
If we consider reality as irreversable movement, where the possibility of creating other than what is happening depends on our active intervention, we discover that the sense of change within us acquires a new value through the practical attempts we carry out. Analysis and radical critique are instruments in a project aimed at identifying elements that are qualitatively capable of creating discontinuity: action turns out to be the logical extension, the putting into practice, of what we really want to know and verify. There is no contradiction between theory and practice, between form and content, precisely at the moment in which this encounter takes place in reality and not in the paradise of abstraction.
Disintergrating control
In spite of the fact that the media exalts the imperviousness of the apparatus of social control, such actions as those that took place against the Montedison* show it's vulnerability. They shatter the wall of appearances designed to make the mass feel powerless.....(More)
The Pylons of Death Come Crumbling Down
The energy source is the basis of all industry: without power, nothing functions. Attacks on pylons are therefore a safe and effective way of damaging deadly industries and putting a halt to their production. By attacking the energy supply, the danger of releasing poisonous fumes, deadly bacteria or who knows what other disasters that threaten us everday by the very presence of these plants, is avoided.
In recent weeks, in Italy, there has been an intensification of this activity. The multinationals are feeling the effect. The local people, involved for years in all kinds of struggle to have deadly plants closed, are finding out there are effective ways of stopping them: by sabotaging the pylons......(More)