A review of a book on that remarkable anarchist activist, Louise Michel. Sadly marred by an obvious, and utterly unnecessary, bias for Marxism, it fails to do justice to her ideas and her life.
Category: Anarchist History
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Louise Michel: “If you are not cowards, kill me!”
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Review: Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis
A review of the book Albert Parson produced while in prison awaiting execution after the Haymarket police riot of 1886. An essential introduction to the ideas of the Chicago Anarchists.
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Russia 1905
Overview of the 1905 Russian revolution, plus an analysis of why Rosa Luxemburg’s account of the mass strike is wrong about anarchism.
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The SWP versus Anarchism
Two letters and part of a leaflet debunking an anti-anarchist article by the SWP.
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Libertarian: Its Origins, Use and (attempted) Arrogation
The introduction to the four-volume anthology A Libertarian Reader. It includes a host of writings from all the schools of libertarian socialism, including Social and Individual Anarchism, Syndicalism, Guild Socialism, Council Communism, Situationism and Autonomism. It covers the years 1857 (when libertaire was coined) to 2016.
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