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Errico Malatesta spent thirty-five years in exile, helped found the first militant workers' union in Argentina, and published the daily paper of the Italian anarchist movement during the 1919-20 uprisings. He died under house arrest in Rome in 1932. Buried at Campo Verano, Vecchio reparto, XIX, riquadro 30, tomba 20.
https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/grave-of-errico-malatesta/
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You'll find a complete draft translation of "Bank of Exchange," the fourth of five pamphlets included in the mutual credit collection "Solution of the Social Problem," linked on that project page. https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/p-j-proudhon-solution-of-the-social-problem/ #mutualism #proudhon #workingtranslations #anarchisthistory
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You'll find a complete draft translation of "Bank of Exchange," the fourth of five pamphlets included in the mutual credit collection "Solution of the Social Problem," linked on that project page. https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/p-j-proudhon-solution-of-the-social-problem/ #mutualism #proudhon #workingtranslations #anarchisthistory
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You'll find a complete draft translation of "Bank of Exchange," the fourth of five pamphlets included in the mutual credit collection "Solution of the Social Problem," linked on that project page. https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/p-j-proudhon-solution-of-the-social-problem/ #mutualism #proudhon #workingtranslations #anarchisthistory
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You'll find a complete draft translation of "Bank of Exchange," the fourth of five pamphlets included in the mutual credit collection "Solution of the Social Problem," linked on that project page. https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/p-j-proudhon-solution-of-the-social-problem/ #mutualism #proudhon #workingtranslations #anarchisthistory
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You'll find a complete draft translation of "Bank of Exchange," the fourth of five pamphlets included in the mutual credit collection "Solution of the Social Problem," linked on that project page. https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/p-j-proudhon-solution-of-the-social-problem/ #mutualism #proudhon #workingtranslations #anarchisthistory
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> An archive of Anarchist Black Dragon, a publication produced by the anarchist communist prisoner Carl Harp and others held at Washington State Penitentiary from around 1978-1982. Taken from the collection at the Anarchist Black Dragon noblogs site.
https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-black-dragon-0
#WallaWalla #WallaWallaWashington #AnarchistBlackDragon #AnarchistBlackDragonCollective #CarlHarp #WashingtonStatePenitentiary
#GeorgeJacksonBrigade #PrisonerWritings #anarchism #anarchistHistory #LibCom -
> An archive of Anarchist Black Dragon, a publication produced by the anarchist communist prisoner Carl Harp and others held at Washington State Penitentiary from around 1978-1982. Taken from the collection at the Anarchist Black Dragon noblogs site.
https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-black-dragon-0
#WallaWalla #WallaWallaWashington #AnarchistBlackDragon #AnarchistBlackDragonCollective #CarlHarp #WashingtonStatePenitentiary
#GeorgeJacksonBrigade #PrisonerWritings #anarchism #anarchistHistory #LibCom -
> An archive of Anarchist Black Dragon, a publication produced by the anarchist communist prisoner Carl Harp and others held at Washington State Penitentiary from around 1978-1982. Taken from the collection at the Anarchist Black Dragon noblogs site.
https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-black-dragon-0
#WallaWalla #WallaWallaWashington #AnarchistBlackDragon #AnarchistBlackDragonCollective #CarlHarp #WashingtonStatePenitentiary
#GeorgeJacksonBrigade #PrisonerWritings #anarchism #anarchistHistory #LibCom -
> An archive of Anarchist Black Dragon, a publication produced by the anarchist communist prisoner Carl Harp and others held at Washington State Penitentiary from around 1978-1982. Taken from the collection at the Anarchist Black Dragon noblogs site.
https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-black-dragon-0
#WallaWalla #WallaWallaWashington #AnarchistBlackDragon #AnarchistBlackDragonCollective #CarlHarp #WashingtonStatePenitentiary
#GeorgeJacksonBrigade #PrisonerWritings #anarchism #anarchistHistory #LibCom -
> An archive of Anarchist Black Dragon, a publication produced by the anarchist communist prisoner Carl Harp and others held at Washington State Penitentiary from around 1978-1982. Taken from the collection at the Anarchist Black Dragon noblogs site.
https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-black-dragon-0
#WallaWalla #WallaWallaWashington #AnarchistBlackDragon #AnarchistBlackDragonCollective #CarlHarp #WashingtonStatePenitentiary
#GeorgeJacksonBrigade #PrisonerWritings #anarchism #anarchistHistory #LibCom -
This Sunday, we're excited to host Argentinian anarchist Tomas Rothaus, author of the recently publish memoir "Another War Is Possible," which takes us on a wild, bumpy, and beautiful ride through a lifetime of resistance.
Joined by a member of the @crimethinc collective, Tomas will discuss the lessons he learned from veterans of the Spanish CNT, his first experience trading blows with police in the streets of Paris, and his adventures slipping across borders to participate in epoch-making riots. "Another War is Possible" is the first of three explosive books Tomas is publishing with our friends at PM Press!
Register for this free event and find your copy of the book at https://app.hi.events/event/7033/militant-anarchist-experiences-in-the-antiglobalization-era. Not able to join the event live? Register anyway and we'll share a recording to enjoy at your convenience!
#AnotherWarIsPossible #AnarchistHistory #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)
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https://kolektiva.media/w/gTuiJrdGJzgPvnXbz9Asxu
This Day In Anarchist History - November 18 - The Rio de Janeiro Uprising
This day in Anarchist History, Nov 18th 1918 we remember the Rio de Janeiro anarchist insurrection.
In the months leading up to the Rio de Janeiro anarchist insurrection, anarchists had been planning to overthrow the Brazilian state by building a broad coalition of workers and unions.
Their one fatal flaw was counting on low level military to join them and their attack failed because of a snitch within those ranks.
Despite it’s ultimate failure this is often considered the high water mark of anarchism in the territories controlled by the state of Brazil.
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On Wednesday of next week, we're hosting a virtual conversation on the history of rebellion explored in the new book "Anarchy in the Big Easy." Author Max Cafard and illustrator Vulpes will be joined by artists Liz Lessner and Mat Keel to share their graphic account of the quest for freedom in radical and revolutionary New Orleans!
From maroon communities and labor militancy to jazz music and armed community defense, "Anarchy in the Big Easy" pairs the storytelling of a lifelong New Orleanian with the striking images of a comix artist based in the Gulf South.
Register for this free event and find your copy of "Anarchy in the Big Easy" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3460-revolutionary-new-orleans-a-conversation-with-max-cafard-and-vulpes.html. Not able to make the 7pm ET conversation? Sign up anyway and we'll send you a recording to enjoy at your leisure!
#GraphicHistory #NewOrleansHistory #NewOrleansBooks #AnarchistHistory #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)
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This Sunday, March 9th, our co-op has the honor of welcoming historian Kenyon Zimmer for a virtual event on the neglected history of Jewish anarchism in the United States. Last year during the anarchist bookfair, Kenyon presented in-person on the work of Joseph Cohen, who in 1945 published "The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America," an essential Yiddish-language study. Now he returns to continue the conversation with writers Shane Burley ("Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism") and Anna Elena Torres ("With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism").
Register for this free online event and find a copy of Kenyon's editted and annotated edition of "The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3338-rediscovering-a-history-of-jewish-anarchism.html. Can't make the event but still want to listen in? Sign up and we'll send you the recording to stream at your convenience!
#JewishAnarchism #JewishHistory #AnarchistHistory #Anarchism #AmericanHistory #YiddishLanguage #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)
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@subMedia just dropped one of their entertaining and informative short clips on #AnarchistHistory - this time the Baja Insurrection which led to the #MexicanRevolution
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@workingclasshistory has an excellent two-part podcast interview with John Barker.
#theangrybrigade #angrybrigade #johnbarker #anarchisthistory #englishanarchism #guerrilla #guerrillawarfare #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #workingclasshistory
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@workingclasshistory has an excellent two-part podcast interview with John Barker.
#theangrybrigade #angrybrigade #johnbarker #anarchisthistory #englishanarchism #guerrilla #guerrillawarfare #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #workingclasshistory
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@workingclasshistory has an excellent two-part podcast interview with John Barker.
#theangrybrigade #angrybrigade #johnbarker #anarchisthistory #englishanarchism #guerrilla #guerrillawarfare #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #workingclasshistory
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@workingclasshistory has an excellent two-part podcast interview with John Barker.
#theangrybrigade #angrybrigade #johnbarker #anarchisthistory #englishanarchism #guerrilla #guerrillawarfare #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #workingclasshistory
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@workingclasshistory has an excellent two-part podcast interview with John Barker.
#theangrybrigade #angrybrigade #johnbarker #anarchisthistory #englishanarchism #guerrilla #guerrillawarfare #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #workingclasshistory
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The film is free to watch via
solidaritycinema.com#emmagoldman #actsandintermissions #actsandintermissionsemmagoldmaninamerica #abigailchild #film #anarchy #anarchist #anarchism #anarchistfilm #anarchistcinema #anarchisthistory
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The film is free to watch via
solidaritycinema.com#emmagoldman #actsandintermissions #actsandintermissionsemmagoldmaninamerica #abigailchild #film #anarchy #anarchist #anarchism #anarchistfilm #anarchistcinema #anarchisthistory
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The film is free to watch via
solidaritycinema.com#emmagoldman #actsandintermissions #actsandintermissionsemmagoldmaninamerica #abigailchild #film #anarchy #anarchist #anarchism #anarchistfilm #anarchistcinema #anarchisthistory
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As well as her prison interrogation records being turned into the zine “Because I Wanted To: Fumiko Kaneko on nihilism and why she wanted to kill the Emperor of Japan.”
#fumikokaneko #kanekofumiko #pakyol #anarchonihilism #japaneseanarchism #anarchy #anarchist #anarchism #anarchisthistory #anarchistfromcolony
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"The Death of Ricardo Flores Magón," written by William C. Owen, a British anarchist and long-time editor of the English section of Regeneración. Published in the anarchist journal Freedom in December 1922.
"Ricardo Flores Magon is dead. Usually the news of a death affects me little, but in this case I feel differently. It is not because after long years of imprisonment and exile, this indomitable battler for Liberty has died in jail. Some larger sense than that of pity or personal bereavement possesses me. For reasons I cannot analyse, this death appears to me as summing up a period, and arouses thoughts and feelings I find it hard to put in words. I have the feeling that some force which was essential has ceased to operate."
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/d7wnm9
#RicardoFloresMagón #Regeneración #WilliamCOwen #AnarchistHistory
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In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by Spanish workers and peasants. But digging through the mountain of available material, little can be found on black militants in the Spanish revolution, like the one featured in the powerful photo on the cover of this reader — a member of the Bakunin Barracks in Barcelona, Spain 1936, and a symbol of both the profound presence and absence of Black anarchism internationally.
For more than 150 years, black anarchists have played a critical role in shaping various struggles around the globe, including mass strikes, national liberation movements, tenant organizing, prisoner solidarity, queer liberation, the formation of autonomous black liberation organizations, and more.
Our current political moment is one characterized by a global resurgence of Black rebellion in response to racialized state violence, criminalization, and dispossession. Black and Afro-diasporic communities in places like Britain, South Africa, Brazil, Haiti, Colombia and the US have initiated popular social movements to resist conditions of social death and forge paths toward liberation on their own terms. Given the anti-authoritarian spirit of these struggles, the time is ripe to take a closer look at anarchism more broadly, and Black anarchism in particular.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/black-rose-anarchist-federation-black-anarchism-a-reader
#AnarchistLibrary #RecommendedReading #Educational #BlackAnarchists #BlackActivists #Anarchists #Anarchism #AnarchistHistory #BlackMastodon #POCAnarchists #decolonization
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You will find a new translation of Hector Morel's "Dialogues Between an Anarchist and an Authoritarian" (1888) linked in the sidebar of this post, which contains my translation of his 1862 work "Nationalities."
The Dialogues are an interesting example of anarchist communist thought in the movement's early, more or less "anti-organizationalist" period. But they are also just a fun, rather uncompromising defense of anarchist ideas.
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You will find a new translation of Hector Morel's "Dialogues Between an Anarchist and an Authoritarian" (1888) linked in the sidebar of this post, which contains my translation of his 1862 work "Nationalities."
The Dialogues are an interesting example of anarchist communist thought in the movement's early, more or less "anti-organizationalist" period. But they are also just a fun, rather uncompromising defense of anarchist ideas.
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You will find a new translation of Hector Morel's "Dialogues Between an Anarchist and an Authoritarian" (1888) linked in the sidebar of this post, which contains my translation of his 1862 work "Nationalities."
The Dialogues are an interesting example of anarchist communist thought in the movement's early, more or less "anti-organizationalist" period. But they are also just a fun, rather uncompromising defense of anarchist ideas.
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You will find a new translation of Hector Morel's "Dialogues Between an Anarchist and an Authoritarian" (1888) linked in the sidebar of this post, which contains my translation of his 1862 work "Nationalities."
The Dialogues are an interesting example of anarchist communist thought in the movement's early, more or less "anti-organizationalist" period. But they are also just a fun, rather uncompromising defense of anarchist ideas.
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You will find a new translation of Hector Morel's "Dialogues Between an Anarchist and an Authoritarian" (1888) linked in the sidebar of this post, which contains my translation of his 1862 work "Nationalities."
The Dialogues are an interesting example of anarchist communist thought in the movement's early, more or less "anti-organizationalist" period. But they are also just a fun, rather uncompromising defense of anarchist ideas.
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This new translation is likely not an authentic Ravachol letter, but it is certainly more interesting than most of the apparent fakes. https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ravachol-We_could_agree.pdf #workingtranslations #anarchisthistory #ravachol
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Three short translations from the work of Benjamin Colin, an early French anarchist. https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/benjamin-colin-1818-1884/ #anarchisthistory #workingtranslations
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Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta died on this day, July 22, in 1932.
"...the subject is not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always."
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Steal This Book.pdf (PDFy mirror)
via the #InternetArchive
Steal This Book (in PDF format) while you still can! 😈 🏴☠️
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#Anarchists #AnarchistHistory #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #SmallPublishers #InternetArchive #IA #IndependentPublishers #ProgressivePublishers #AbbieHoffman #StealThisBook
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Random question for anyone who knows something about European Jewish and/or socialist or anarchist history:
Has anyone heard of an organization (possibly based in Paris) that was active in the late 19th century, incorporated a broad array of different socialist ideologies, was mostly, or maybe entirely, made up of (probably Eastern European) Jews, and literally called itself something like "the Nonpartisan Organization"?
It sounds like they organized public forums and debates, at least in Paris, and met every Friday at a place called Café Trésor on Rue Vielle du Temple, but I don't actually even know who organized it, when it was founded, what happened to it, or even its actual name (was the name originally in Yiddish? Russian? French? -- all I have is the German version, Unparteilische Organisation, and that's almost certainly not the original name).
Any hints or, especially, documentation about said group would be greatly appreciated.
#JewishHistory #Histodon #Socialism #SocialistHistory #AnarchistHistory #Anarchism
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I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real :koishtare:
https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory -
I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real :koishtare:
https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory -
I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real :koishtare:
https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory -
I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real :koishtare:
https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory -
I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real :koishtare:
https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory -
New translations: Émile Gautier's 1880 pamphlet, "Le Darwinisme social," argued against the aristocratic and malthusian applications of evolutionary theory to social science, anticipating Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid" in some ways. Gautier was an anarchist, tried alongside Kropotkin, who collaborated with Louise Michel on an unfinished novel, provided the preface for Sébastien Faure’s La douleur universelle, etc. My translation also includes an 1877 essay with the same title, almost certainly by Gautier. Not every aspect of the argument has aged well, but it is certainly interesting.
https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/emile-gautier-social-darwinism-1877-1880/
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November 12, 1916. San Francisco, California. International Mass Meeting in Commemoration of the 29th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of the Chicago Anarchists. Speakers included Enrique Flores Magón, Alexander Berkman, Luigi Galleani (if he made it to the coast in time), and other international anarchists and socialists.
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New translation: You'll find linked on this page a draft translation of Claude Pelletier's 1867 play, "The Revolutionary Socialist Heretics of the 15th Century," which explores the ideas of 1848 France in the context of Bohemia at the height of the Hussite Wars. Pelletier pursued anarchist ideas under the label of "atercracy" and combined elements from Proudhon and Pierre Leroux, among others. The framing of the play seems to be a kind of nod to George Sand. It's strange and in many ways quite good.
#anarchism #anarchisthistory #anarchistliterature #proudhon #mutualism
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New Translation: Has Proudhon seemed a little lonely in the Second Republic? There were a few periods when his collaborators weren't afraid to call their anti-governmental program "anarchy." This series of essays — "Government," by Proudhon's frequent collaborator Georges Duchêne — gives an interesting window into one of them.
https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/georges-duchene-government-1849-50/
#anarchisthistory #anarchism #mutualism #mutualisthistory #proudhon
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Fun fact of the day: Ella Baker assigned Kropotkin's book Mutual Aid in the class she taught "The Consumer: His Problems and Their Remedies" in 1937. This was connected to the Young Negroes' Cooperative League (1930-37) that she ran with George Schuyler, who was then an anarchist.
They called for a Black cooperative commonwealth in which Baker said that "the soil and all of its resources will be reclaimed by its rightful owners—the working masses of the world."
Found in Irvin Hunt's fantastic article "Planned Failure: George Schuyler, Ella Baker, and the Young Negroes' Cooperative League" (2020) (DM me for a PDF) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/776408
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Anarchists in the 1980s devised the idea of "Warchest Tours." David Solnit described them as "roving guerrilla-theater nonviolent direct action that confronted the corporations that fund and control the Democratic Party and are involved in nuclear weapons and military intervention."
"The form of a Warchest tour was taken from the "Hall of Shame" tours which were mobile protest tours that stopped at the corporations behind the nuclear industry in the spring of '82. They were organized by anarchists in the anti-nuclear power/weapons movement. . . the Warchest Tours attempted to tear off the democratic mask of U.S. elections and confront the destructive corporate power behind both political parties."
In 1984, the Democrats hosted their national convention in San Francisco. Anarchists, punks, and others planned a series of escalating Warchest Tour demonstrations that attempted to connect the harms of militarism, capitalism, and imperialism to the Democrats and Republicans. Demonstrators gathered at sites like the Bank of America world headquarters and spoke out about the Bank's investment in injustice from South Africa to Poland. They ran between targeted companies disrupting business as usual and clashing with police.
For many young people, this experience was exhilarating. As Solnit says, "The Warchest Tours were also a living critique of the left's forms of protest: monitors controlling and moving people like cattle, tactical leaders with bullhorns repeating monotonous chants, and even anti-nuclear sit-down-and-wait-for-the police-to-arrest-you civil disobedience that felt too much on the terms of the police. The Warchest Tours Collective encouraged avoiding arrest, nonviolent direct action, guerrilla theater, creative protest and fun."
A few anarchists were visiting from Minneapolis and were inspired by the potential of the Warchest Tour model. Afterward, they went home and founded Back Room Anarchist Books and the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League, which you can read about here: https://kolektiva.social/@spencerbeswick/111811829957403904
Read more about Warchest Tours from David Solnit here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210505035410/https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=1984_War_Chest_Tours_II
#anarchism #history #anarchisthistory #radicalhistory #democrats #capitalism #protest
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In the late 1980s, the Minneapolis-based Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League (RABL) theorized and practiced what they called "revolutionary anarchism" and helped build an organized anarchist movement across North America.
In "Bowling for Beginners: An Anarchist Primer," RABL offers an initial definition of anarchism: "Anarchy is not chaos. Anarchy is the absence of imposed authority. Anarchy is a society that is built on the principles of respect, cooperation and solidarity Anarchy is wimmin controlling their own bodies, workers controlling their own workplaces, youth controlling their own education and the celebration of cultural difference."
In this piece, RABL gives a short history of anarchism from the 1886 Haymarket Affair to contemporary squatters movements in order to demonstrate that successful movements all share a common thread of people taking power into their own hands and collectively struggling for a new world. RABL rejected the need for a revolutionary vanguard, arguing that “only the masses, completely involved and in absolute control, can make a real revolution.” In the end, “anarchism is about people empowering themselves to take control and to lead their own lives.”
But since those in power will not give it up without a fight, revolution is necessary. The basic point of unity for RABL was an agreement on the necessity of revolutionary action to reach a classless, stateless society. RABL brought together the most pro-organization and anti-imperialist anarchists in the Twin Cities--and eventually across the US--to advocate a combination of direct action and revolutionary organization.
True to their name, the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League crew began referring to “going bowling” as a code for direct action, which could be anything from nighttime sabotage (gluing locks, spray painting, etc.) to acting as a militant bloc at a street demonstration.
Many anarchists at the time practiced this sort of small-scale militancy, which could be organized in small affinity groups of friends. RABL’s intervention was to pair this individual and small-group direct action with a vision for a broad anarchist federation. Anarchism could continue to exist forever on the margins of society in small groups, but if anarchists wanted to actually change the world, they needed to get organized and help build militant mass movements.
Despite their roots in a relatively small city, the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League played an outsized role in transforming US anarchism and organizing a national movement at the end of the 20th century.
