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Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar-The Memoirs of Five Young Anarchist Women of the 1870s
“I left by the back door.” Praskovia Ivanovskaia-a quote chosen for its simplicity and also for its symbolism I have a soft spot for memoirs. While we may lose the intricacies of professional writing, a memoir more than makes up for it by … Continue reading
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Nestor Makhno–Anarchy’s Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921
“Let us be dauntless to the point of madness.” Was Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno an out-of-control bandit as Trotsky claimed, or was he a major significant force against both the White Russians and later the Bolsheviks? The phenomenal book Nestor … Continue reading
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Bash the Rich by Ian Bone
“The Jethros–a well tasty mob of old hippies from Exeter–are going up the West End to start trashing Oxford Street, waterfalls of glass cascading everywhere. The Jethros had some idea about crashing a load of cars together at the junction … Continue reading
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What is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman
“This whole game of politics is rotten.” “What is Anarchism?” by Alexander Berkman is a primer of Anarchist theory. Berkman was a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania who came to America in 1888. Berkman soon joined a group of American Anarchists, … Continue reading
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With Fates Conspire by John Taylor Caldwell
“Mr. Aldred called the Labour Party a crowd of crooks and the Tories a bag of tricksters. He said he had spent his life trying to sweep away the rubbish of capitalism.” With Fates Conspire: Memoirs of a Glasgow Seafarer … Continue reading
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Severely Dealt With–Growing Up in Belfast and Glasgow by John Taylor Caldwell
“Dissidents would be severely dealt with.” Severely Dealt With is the first volume in Glasgow anarchist John Taylor Caldwell’s two-part memoir. Perhaps best known for his biography of Guy Aldred, Come Dungeons Dark Caldwell was, at first, reluctant to write … Continue reading
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Louise Michel: Rebel Lives
“But above all, I was in love with the revolution.” If ever a woman seized her century, it was “The Red Virgin”–Louise Michel. Born in 1830, the illegitimate daughter of a serving girl, Louise was brought up on the estate … Continue reading
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Kropotkin
“This was the first spark of anarchism.” Peter Kropotkin was an extraordinary individual whose life spanned a remarkable period of history. Born in 1842 to an aristocratic Russian family, he carved a career as a scientist and a geographer, but … Continue reading
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