Independent Anarchist Collective

19/08/2024

As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.
Subcomandante Marcos

19/08/2024

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

19/08/2024

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."
Mikhail Bakunin

19/08/2024

We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
Buenaventura Durruti

19/08/2024

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
Federica Montseny

19/08/2024

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.
Emma Goldman

19/08/2024

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.
Voltairine de Cleyre

24/07/2024

"Therefore, the subject is not whether we accomplish Anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards Anarchism today, tomorrow, and always."
-Errico Malatesta, Towards Anarchism

13/09/2023

As we approach the first anniversary of the Jin, Jiyan, Azadî (Woman, Life, Freedom) revolutionary movement in Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhilat) and Iran, it is beneficial to investigate its global impact. I have examined the implication of this movement in global terms at two levels: its impact on stat...

04/09/2023

03/09/2023

Today, we remember our friend and comrade, David Graeber, who passed away three years ago.
To honor his life, you could read this text he published with us:

http://crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory

Or visit these projects set up in his memory:

museum.care

davidgraeber.institute

But the very best thing you can do is to continue his legacy of anarchist critical thinking. That's what David would have wanted.

15/08/2023

At Bolerium Books. San Francisco.

01/08/2023

Check out the full list of names here. READ MORE: bit.ly/458SQhP

25/07/2023

On this day, 25 July 1934, Nestor Makhno, leader of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine during the Russian revolution of 1917, died from tuberculosis, aged 44, in exile in Paris. In the 1917 revolution his militia, dubbed the Makhnovists, defeated the counter-revolutionary White armies of generals Denikin and Wrangel, executed antisemites and redistributed land and power to the workers and peasants. The Makhnovists were allied with the Red Army, but after the defeat of the Whites, the Red Army attacked them in order to consolidate Bolshevik control of Ukraine. The Makhnovists then fought against their previous allies, until they were eventually overrun by overwhelming military force, and Makhno himself had to flee the country.
Learn more about Makhno's life and activism in this new biography, No Harmless Power: The Life And Times Of The Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno by Charlie Allison, available for preorder now, and due back from the printers next month: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/no-harmless-power-the-life-and-times-of-the-ukrainian-anarchist-nestor-makhno-charlie-allison

18/07/2023

At the Centro Studi Libertari / Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli Milan. 🖤❤️ Amazing !

17/07/2023

16/07/2023

14/07/2023

On this day, 14 July 1896, legendary Spanish anarchist and civil war fighter Buenaventura Durruti was born. At the age of 14 he left school and began training as a mechanic in a railway yard. In 1917 he took part in a strike which was crushed by the army who killed 70 workers, injured over 500 and imprisoned 2000.
He later joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) union, fought against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo do Rivera and was forced into exile, where he travelled to Latin America, where he undertook bank robberies in Chile and Argentina to fund the workers' movement.
Durruti later returned to Spain, and with the right-wing military rising of general Francisco Franco, he joined the fighting in Barcelona, during which the coup attempt was crushed and CNT workers took over the city. He then headed a column of 3000 revolutionary militia members and travelled to the Saragossa front to fight the nationalists. Lithuanian Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman asked him how, with no military training, he was leading thousands of fighters. He replied:
"I have been an anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one. I should consider it very sad indeed, had I to turn into a general and rule the men with a military rod. They have come to me voluntarily, they are ready to stake their lives in our antifascist fight. I believe, as I always have, in freedom. The freedom which rests on the sense of responsibility. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship."
Durruti and his column later came to Madrid to defend the city which was under attack, during which he was killed. His body was transported back to Barcelona where half a million workers took to the streets to attend his funeral.
Learn more about the Spanish civil war in our podcast episodes 39-40: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

12/07/2023

Calling all anarchist and anti-authoritarian authors, presses, booksellers, zinesters, community groups, and artisans to submit an application to table at the 18th annual 'Victoria' Anarchist Bookfair on unceded L'kwungen territory. Deadline July 31st, 2023. Email [email protected]

11/07/2023

On this day, 11 July 1918, Jewish Ukrainian anarchist mechanic Simón Radowitzky escaped from the Ushuaia concentration camp on the island of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (content note: sexual violence). Radowitzky was serving an indefinite sentence for assassinating the chief of Buenos Aires police, who had ordered the Red Week massacre of workers during a May Day demonstration in 1909.
Previously, Radowitzky had become a spokesperson for prisoners, and had led hunger strikes and protests. In retaliation, prison authorities first tried to torture him with sleep deprivation, then the governor and three guards r***d him in 1918.
This enraged the anarchist movement in Buenos Aires, which began a campaign for his freedom, and songs about him were sung in workers' meetings and assemblies around the city. In addition to the campaign, some anarchists decided to try to break out of prison, and used a smuggler's ship to rescue him.
But after 23 days he was recaptured by the Chilean navy and returned to prison. He was eventually released in 1930, then deported to Uruguay. He was then deported from Uruguay for his role in the struggle against the dictator, so he travelled to Spain to join the fight against general Francisco Franco in the civil war.
He survived the war, only to be interned in a concentration camp in France, after which he moved to Mexico, where he spent the remainder of his life, working in a toy factory and remaining active in the revolutionary movement.
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8308/simon-radowitzky-escapes

09/07/2023

The following interview is taken from Bristle magazine Issue 22 Summer 2006. (Bristle was an anarchist magazine published from Bristol and ran from 1997-2007, and produced 24 issues) Over to them& #…