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JOAQUÍN ASCASO Memorias (1936-1938)
HACIA UN NUEVO ARAGÓN
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 14, 2016
De profesión obrero albañil, en su juventud se afilió a la Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, participando en la agrupación anarquista "Los Indomables" y colaborando con otra llamada "Los Solidarios". Fue detenido en Zaragoza por sus actividades sindicales en 1924 y la ficha policial le daba...
by Maximilian A. Mügge
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Nietzsche has a poor reputation among many of the liberal intelligentsia for, among other things, his critique of liberal rationalism and the preservation of the over-man/Superman (Übermensch), but is his near villainous reputation deserved? He was, certainly, a complicated, ambiguous and contradictory...
by A.S. Neill
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Alexander Sutherland Neill was born in Forfar in the N.E, of Scotland on 17 October 1883 (d. 23/9/1973) to George and Mary Neill. He was raised in an austere, Calvinist house and instilled with values of fear, guilt, and adult and divine authority, which he later repudiated. His father was the village...
DER FÜHRER
Hitler’s Rise To Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Konrad Heiden, the son of a union organizer, was born in Munich, Germany, on 7th August 1901. While at the University of Munich he led protests against Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). The historian, Richard Overy, has pointed out: "Heiden was a young socialist...
by Carlos Franqui
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Born in Havana on February 6 1932 into an immigrant working-class family of Spanish anarchists, Camilo Cienfuegos —who firmly believed in the libertarian tenets of anarchism (if not himself an anarchist) — will, forever, be inseparably linked to the idealistic period of the Cuban Revolution of...
MY REVOLUTIONARY LIFE JUAN GARCÍA OLIVER
Interviewed by FREDDY GÓMEZ
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Anarcho-syndicalist militant Juan García Oliver (1901-1980) talks (1977) to anarchist historian and journalist Freddy Gomez about his life as a revolutionary and his experiences as a cabinet minister (Justice) in the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and subsequently.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Ideals and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
THIS book originated in a series of eight lectures on ‘Russian Literature during the Nineteenth Century’ which Peter Kropotkin delivered in March 1901, at the Lowell Institute, in Boston. Given the impossibility of exhausting so wide a subject as Russian Literature within the limits of one book,...
THE BUTCHER OF LES HURLUS
Le Boucher des Hurlus
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Jean Amila (Jean Meckert, 1910-1995), libertarian author and son of an anarchist and a deserter, wrote twenty-one thrillers, in most of which he revealed his anarchist, anti-militarist, anti-statist and anti-clerical sympathies. Following the publication of his 1971 novel ‘La vierge et le taureau’...
POLITICAL PARTIES
A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
First published in German in 1911, Robert Michels’ ‘Political Parties’ is a classic of political and social science; it analyses the evolution of oligarchical power structures within political parties and trade unions, particularly those, ostensibly, most committed to egalitarian and democratic...
by Konrad Heiden
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
In 1934, Social Democrat journalist Karl Heiden, wrote this important, critical, contemporary and insightful account of the rise of Nazism from its 1918 origins as Anton Dexler’s German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) through to the eve of the Röhm purge in the 1934, the ‘Night of the Long Knives’....
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Guerrilla Warfare in Galicia
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Mario Rodríguez Losada, (Mario de Langullo (nom de guerre 'O Pinche'), was one of the many legendary guerrillas who, after the fall of the Republic, took to the mountains of Galicia in North-West Spain to carry on the armed struggle against the repressive forces of the Franco regime. Mario's...
by Daniel O’Guérin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Anarchism in Music: In this volume we focus on the vehicle of music. From early folk music to the rise of rock ‘n' roll; to cabaret and the classical avant garde; to anarchist punk and every other cliché-ridden adjective slapped onto the art form by a parasitic music press keen to impose...
I COULDN’T PAINT GOLDEN ANGELS
Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Albert Meltzer (1920–1996) was involved, actively, in class struggles since the age of 15; exceptional for his generation in having been a convinced anarchist from the start, without any family background in such activity. A lively, witty account of sixty years in anarchist activism, and a unique...
A HANDBOOK ON HANGING
Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution ...
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Charles Duff’s 1928 study of state sanctioned-killing, botched executions and the relative merits and demerits of decapitation. ‘A Handbook on Hanging’ is an anti-capital punishment polemic in the honourably ironic tradition of Jonathan Swift and Stephen Leacock. Duff updated his ‘Handbook’...