Anarchism
(see also Anarchosyndicalism)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
A-Infos. International anarchist news service.
Anarchist Resources on the Internet
Corporate Swine. Aims to encourage culture jamming by "expanding the creative wealth of the revolutionary that is inside of you."
Eat the State! Seattle's shamelessly biased political newspaper & environmental scandal sheet.
Illegal Voices. Anarchists of color.
Infoshop. Your online anarchist community.
Lysander Spooner. 19th-c. American individualist anarchist, abolitionist, lawyer & legal theorist.
People Opposing War, Empires & Rulers (POWER)
In the Library: Articles
Belluci, Mabel. "Anarquismo, sexualidad y emancipación feminina: Argentina alrededor de l 900," Nueva Sociedad 109 (1990):148-57.
Burrow, J.W. "The anarchists," Horizon 11,3 (1969):32-42. Interesting discussion of "propaganda by deed."
Casey, James. "The Spanish anarchist peasant: how primitive a rebel?" Journal of European Studies 8 (1978):34-43.
Cannistraro, Philip V. "Mussolini, Sacco-Vanzetti & the anarchists: the transatlantic context," Journal of Modern History 68 (1996):31-62.
Gabacia, Donna R. "Worker internationalism & Italian labor migration, 1870-1914," International Labor & Working-Class History 45 (4/94):63-79.
Golluscio de Montoya, Eva. "Círculos anarquistas y circuitos contraculturales en la Argentina de 1900," Caravelle 46 (1986):49-64.
Kaplan, Temma. "Spanish anarchism & women's liberation," Journal of Contemporary History 6,2 (1971):101-10.
Molnar, Miklós & Juan Pekmez. "Rural anarchism in Spain & the 1873 Cantonalist Revolution," in H. Landsberger (ed.) Rural Protest (London, 1973), pp. 158-93.
Molyneaux, Maxine. "No God, no boss, no husband: anarchist feminism in 19th-c. Argentina," Latin American Perspectives (win 86):119-46.
Moya, José C. "Italians in Buenos Aires' anarchist movement: gender ideology & women's participation," in Donna Gabaccia (ed.) Foreign, Female & Fighting Back (Toronto, 2000).
Novak, D. "The place of anarchism in the history of political thought," Review of Politics ?,? (7/58):307-29.
Reichart, W.D. "Toward a new understanding of anarchism," Western Political Quarterly 20 (1967):856-65.
Romero Maura, J. "Terrorism in Barcelona & its impact on Spanish politics, 1904-1909," Past & Present 41 (?,?).
Simon, Fanny S. "Anarchism & anarcho-syndicalism in South America," Hispanic American Historical Review 26 (1948):38-59.
Slaughter, Jane. "Ursula Le Guin (interview)," Progressive (3/98).
Taylor, Jeremy. "Anthrocracy: an anarchist ideology in outline," Catalyst 2 (sum 66):75-90.
Thompson, Ruth. "The limitations of ideology in the early Argentine labour movement: anarchism in the trade unions, 1890-1920," Journal of Latin American Studies 16,1 (5/84):81-99.
Vine, Phyllis. "Grace Paley (interview)," Progressive (11/97).
Wischmann, Lesley. “Remembering the Haymarket anarchists: a hundred years later,” Monthly Review 39,5 (10/87):17-29.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Ackelsbert, Martha A. Free Women of Spain: Anarchism & the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women (Bloomington: Indiana U, 1991).
Altgeld, John P. Reasons for Pardoning the Haymarket Anarchists: Fielden, Neebe & Schwab (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1986).
Alexander, Robert J. Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (London: Janus, 1999).
Andelman, William J. Haymarket Revisited (Chicago: Illinois Labor History Society, 1976).
Ashbaugh, Carolyn. Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1976).
Avrich, Paul. The Russian Anarchists (Princeton NJ: Princeton U, 1967).
__________. Kronstadt, 1921 (Princeton NJ: Princeton U., 1970).
__________. The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution (Ithaca NY: Cornell, 1973).
__________. Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1976).
__________. Anarchist Portraits (Princeton NJ: Princeton U., 1988).
__________. Sacco & Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background (Princeton NJ: Princeton U., 1991).
__________. Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America (Princeton NJ: Princeton U., 1995).
Bakunin, Mikhail. The "Confession" of Mikhail Bakunin (Ithaca: Cornell, 1977).
__________. Bakunin on Anarchy: Selected Works by the Activist-founder of World Anarchism (ed. Sam Dolgoff: NY: Knopf, 1972).
Barnett, Randy E. The Structure of Liberty: Justice & the Rule of Law (NY: Oxford, 1998).
Barrancos, Dora. Anarquismo, educación y costumbres en la Argentina de principios de siglo (Buenos Aires: Contrapunto, 1990).
__________. Educación, cultura, y trabajadores (1890-1930) (Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1991).
Bayer, Osvaldo. Los vengadores de la Patagonia trágica (3 vols.; Buenos Aires, 1974).
__________. Los anarquistas expropiadores: Simón Radowitsky y otros ensayos (Buenos Aires: Galerna, 1975).
__________. La patagonia rebelde (México: Nueva Imagen, 1980). Abridged version of Los vengadores de la Patagonia trágica.
__________. Anarchism & Violence: Severeino di Giovanni in Argentina, 1923-1931 (London: Elephant, 1985).
Berkman, Alexander. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist [1912] (NY: NY Review, 2002).
__________. The Kronstadt Rebellion (Berlin: Der Syndikalist, 1922).
Bookchin, Murray. Post-Scarcity Anarchism (Berkeley: Ramparts, 1971).
__________. The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868-1936 (NY: Free Life, 1977).
__________ et al. Deep Ecology & Anarchism: A Polemic (London: Freedom, 1993).
__________. To Remember Spain: The Anarchist & Syndicalist Revolution of 1936 (San Francisco: AK Press, 1994).
__________. Social Anarchism or Life-Style Anarchism: The Unbridgeable Chasm (San Francisco: AK Press, 1995).
__________. Anarchism, Marxism & the Future of the Left: Interviews & Essays, 1993-1998 (San Francisco: AK Press, 1999).
Boylan, James. Revolutionary Lives: Anna Strunsky & William English Walling (Amherst MA: U. Massachusetts, 1998).
Cahm, Caroline. Kropotkin & the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872-1886 (NY: Cambridge, 1989).
Carr, E.H. Mikhail Bakunin [1937] (NY: Vintage, 1961).
Casanova, Julian. Anarquismo y revolución en la sociedad rural aragonesa, 1936-1938 (Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1985).
de Cleyre, Voltairine. The First Mayday: The Haymarket Speeches 1895-1910 (Minneapolis: Soil of Liberty, 1980).
Crowder, George. Classical Anarchism: The Political Thought of Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin & Kropotkin (NY: Oxford, 1991).
De Leon, David. The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism (Baltimore, 1978).
Drinnon, Richard. Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman (Chicago: U. Chicago, 1961).
Duberman, Martin. Mother Earth: An Epic Drama of Emma Goldman's Life (NY: St. Martin's, 1991).
Dulles, John W.F. Anarchists & Communists in Brazil, 1900-1935 (Austin: U. Texas, 1973).
Eltzbacher, Paul. Anarchism [1908] (London: Freedom, 1960). Comparative study of Godwin, Proudhon, Stirner, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Tucker & Tolstoy.
Essenwein, George R. Anarchist Ideology & the Working-Class Movement in Spain, 1868-1898 (Berkeley: U. California, 1989).
Falk, Candace. Love, Anarchy & Emma Goldman: A Biography (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1991).
Gallagher, Dorothy. All the Right Enemies: The Life & Murder of Carlo Tresca (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1988).
Getzler, Israel. Kronstadt 1917-1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy (NY: Cambridge, 1983).
Gilimón, Eduardo G. Un anarquista en Buenos Aires (1890-1910) (Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1971).
Goodway, David (ed.) For Anarchism: History, Theory & Practice (NY: Routledge, 1989).
Goldman, Emma. Living My Life [1931] (London: Pluto, 1986).
Graham, Robert. Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, vol. I: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 C.E. to 1939) (Montreal: Black Rose, 2005).
Guérin, Daniel. Anarchism: From Theory to Practice [1965] (NY: Monthly Review, 1970).
Hnsen, Ann. Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002).
Horowitz, Irving Louis (ed.) The Anarchists (NY: Dell, 1964).
Jackson, Gardner & Marion D. Frankfurter (eds.) The Letters of Sacco & Vanzetti [1928] (NY: Penguin, 1997).
Joll, James. The Anarchists (2nd ed.; Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1979).
Joughin, Louis & Edmund Morgan. The Legacy of Sacco & Vanzetti (NY: Harcourt & Brace, 1948).
Kaplan, Temma. Anarchists of Andalusia, 1868-1903 (Princeton: Princeton U, 1977).
__________. Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona (Berkeley: U. California, 1992).
Kelly, Aileen. Mikhail Bakunin: A Study in the Psychology & Politics of Utopianism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984).
Kern, Robert. Red Years/Black Years: A Political History of Spanish Anarchism, 1911-1937 (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978).
Kropotkin, Piotr A. The Conquest of Bread (NY: Vanguard, 1927). Study of "social tendencies toward free cooperation leading toward abolition of the state."
__________. Revolutionary Pamphlets (London, 1927).
__________. Mutual Aid, a Factor of Evolution [1902] (Boston: Extending Horizons, 1955).
__________. Memoirs of a Revolutionist [1899] (Montreal: Black Rose, 1989).
Lafargue, Paul. The Right to Be Lazy (Chicago: C.H. Kerr, 1907).
Leighton, Patricia. Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso & Anarchism, 1897-1914 (Princeton: Princeton U, 1989).
Lida, Clara E. Anarquismo y revolución en la España del siglo xix (Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1972).
Malatesta, Errico. Anarchy (Liverpool: Janus, 1985).
__________. A Talk About Anarchist Communism between Two Workers (7th ed.; London: Freedom, 19??).
Masters, Anthony. Bakunin, the Father of Anarchism (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974).
McLean, George N. The Rise & Fall of Anarchy in America [1888] (NY: Haskell, 1972).
Meaker, Gerald H. The Revolutionary Left in Spain, 1914-1923 (Stanford: Stanford U, 1974).
Meltzer, Albert. The Anarchists in London, 1935-1955 (Sanday: Cienfuegos, 1976).
Mett, Ida. The Kronstadt Uprising, 1921 (Montreal: Black Rose, 1973).
Mintz, Jerome. The Anarchists of Casas Viejas (Chicago: U. Chicago, 1982). Oral history of an anarchist rising that helped bring on the Spanish Civil War.
Morris, Brian. Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom (NY: Black Rose, 1993).
Nelson, Bruce C. Beyond the Martyrs: A Social History of Chicago's Anarchists, 1870-1900 (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1988).
Oved, Iaacov. El anarquismo y el movimiento obrero en Argentina (México: Siglo XXI, 1978).
Patsouras, Louis. The Anarchism of Jean Grave: Editor, Journalist & Militant (Monreal: Black Rose, 2003).
Pernicone, Nunzio. Italian Anarchism, 1864-1892 (Princeton: Princeton U, 1993).
Quail, John. The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists (NY: Paladin, 1978).
Ravindranathan, T.R. Bakunin & the Italians (Kingston ONT: McGill-Queen's U, 1988).
Richards, Vernon (ed.) Errico Malatesta: His Life & Ideas (London: Freedom, 1965).
__________ (ed.) Violence & Anarchism: A Polemic (London: Freedom, 1993).
Roediger, Dave & Franklin Rosemont (eds.) Haymarket Scrapbook (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1986).
Sonn, Richard D. Anarchism & Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France (Lincoln: U. Nebraska, 1989).
Thomson, George Malcom. Kronstadt '21 (London: Secker & Warburg, 1985).
Topp, Michael M. The Sacco & Vanzetti Case: A Brief History with Documents (NY: Bedford St. Martin's, 2004).
Viñas, David. Anarquistas en América Latina (Méxic: Katún, 1983).
Voline. The Unknown Revolution: Kronstadt 1921, Ukraine 1918-1921 (trans Holley Cantine; NY: Libertarian Book Club, 1955).
Wolff, Robert Paul. In Defense of Anarchism (NY: Harper & Row, 1970).
Woodcock, George. Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas & Movements (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963).
In the Library: Fiction
Bayer, Osvaldo. El camino al paraiso (Barcelona: Javier Vergara, 1999).
Leguin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (NY: Harper & Row, 1974).
Sender, Ramón. 1919 (
Sinclair, Upton. Boston (?,?). Novel on the Sacco & Vanzetti case.
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
Zinn, Howard. Emma (Boston: South End, 2002).Dramatization of the life of Emma Goldman.
In the Library: Photography
Blumenfeld, Harold. Sacco & Vanzetti: Their Story in Pictures (NY: Scholastic Book Services, 1972).
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"1919, crónica del alba" [1983], dir. Antonio José Betancor, ?m.
"La Cecilia" [1975], dir. Jean-Louis Comolli, 113m. 19th-c. Italian anarchist colony in southern Brazil.
"The Internationale" [2000], dir. Peter Miller, 30m. Includes early history of Socialist & Anarchist hymn from Paris Commune days, later appropriated by Soviet Union & Comintern as national & international Communist anthem.
"Land & Freedom (Tierra y libertad)" [1995], dir. Ken Loach, 109m. In video stores. Anarchists & Marxist POUM militants of Catalonia in Spanish Civil War.
"Libera My Love (Libera, amore mio)" [1973], dir. Mauro Bolognini, 110m. Anarchist woman's perspective on two decades of Mussolini & Italian Fascism.
"O pao negro: um episódio da Colonia Cecília" [1993], dir. Valencio Xavier, 37m. Italian anarchist colony in southern Brazil.
"La Patagonia rebelde" [198?], dir. Fernando Ayala y Hector Olivera , 105m. From Cinema Guild.
"Sacco & Vanzetti" [1971], dir. Giuliano Montaldo, 120m.
"Sacco & Vanzetti" [2005], dir. Fabrizio Costa, 87m.
"Sacco & Vanzetti" [2006], dir. Peter Miller, 80m. From First Run Features.