* A Crime Called Freedom: Os Cangaceiros – Wolfi Landstreicher
Os Cangaceiros was a group of delinquents caught up in the spirit of the French insurrection of 1968 who refused to let that spirit die. With nothing but contempt for the self-sacrificial ideology practiced by “specialists in armed struggle”, this uncontrollable band of social rebels wreaked havoc on the French state — attacking infrastructures of oppression, supporting popular revolts, stealing and releasing secret blueprints for high-tech prisons, raiding the offices of corporate collaborators, and creating their lives in complete opposition to the world based on work. This volume, translated by Wolfi Landstreicher, is the first substantial collection of the writings of Os Cangaceiros in English.
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*Against the Corpse Machine: defining a post-left critique of violence – Ashen Ruins
A critical and insightful examination of anarchist discourse around the issue of violence, arguing that for too long anarchist critiques of violence have been clouded by assumptions and frames set by Leftist and Statist discourse. An eloquent and persuasive call for a re-assessment of the anarchist movement’s relationship with violence.
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* At Daggers Drawn – Anon.
“One part of this society has every interest in its continuing to rule, the other in everything collapsing as soon as possible. Deciding which side one is on is the first step. But resignation, the basis of the agreement between the sides (improvers of the existent and its false critics) is everywhere, even in our own lives—the authentic place of the social war—in our desires and resoluteness as well as in our little daily submissions….It is necessary to come to daggers with all that, to finally come to daggers with life.”
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* Beyond Amnesty – Anon.
An exploration of self-directed violence in the UK, examining the effects of growing up and living in an alienated and violent society.
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* Feral Revolution – Feral Faun
Feral Faun was the pen-name of a frequent contributor to anarchist publications in the United States from about 1982 to 1992. His thoughtful, exploratory essays pose many challenges to radicals, urging the reader to delve deeper in their questioning, and provoking many an ideologue in to an impotent outrage. His remarks may be at times flippant and extreme, but they are always offered as catalysts for ongoing discussion, not as last words or condemnations. Most of the essays in this ‘zine were taken from back issues of the magazine Anarchy: A Journal Of Desire Armed (“AJODA”), to which Feral Faun contributed articles and a regular column called The Iconoclast’s Hammer. Since laying the feral pseudonym to rest, the author has continued with many writing and publishing projects, often employing the name “Wolfi Landstreicher”. Wolfi edits the insurrectionary anarchist journal Willful Disobedience and works on Venomous Butterfly Publications, a translating/ publishing effort currently based in Portland, OR.
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* How Non-violence Protects the State – Peter Gelderloos
Peter Gelderloos’ immensely accessible and useful book, now available as a professional-quality, printable booklet. A clear and convincing overview of the arguments against dogmatic pacifism.
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* The Anarchist Tension – Alfredo Bonanno
“Anarchism is not a concept that can be locked up in a word like a gravestone. It is not a political theory. It is a way of conceiving life. And life, young or old as we may be, is not something definitive: it is a stake we must play day after day. When we wake up in the morning and put our feet on the ground we must have a good reason for getting up. If we don’t it makes no difference whether we are anarchists or not. We might as well stay in bed and sleep.”
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* The Call – The Invisibe Committee
‘The Invisible Committee’s affirmation of insurrection is not without an affirmation of a different new world(s) in the shell of the old. Which is to say, their creative urge is articulated through the construction of new worlds that don’t seek to replace the current one, but instead, intend to be our homes during the demolition party. It would be nice to live in something, rather than just surviving somewhere.’ – Institute for Experimental Freedom
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* The Insurrectional Project – Alfredo Bonanno
A series of texts exploring the details of what an insurrectional project might look like, asking how we might best organise and resist given recent developments in post-industrial capitalism.
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