ANARCHISM (from the Gr. αν, and αρχη, contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government – harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being. Continue reading ANARCHISM Piotr Kropotkin→
Comrade peasants! For many years the working peasantry of the Ukraine has been struggling with its ancient enemies and oppressors. Thousands of the best Sons of the Revolution have fallen in the battle for the complete liberation of the Working People from every oppression. Continue reading Comrade peasants!→
«Όταν η αμάθεια κυριαρχεί στην κοινωνία κι η αταξία στα μυαλά των ανθρώπων, οι νόμοι πολλαπλασιάζονται, η νομοθεσία προσδοκάται να τα κάνει όλα, κι ενώ κάθε καινούργιος νόμος είναι ένα νέο στραβοπάτημα, οι άνθρωποι οδηγούνται συνεχώς στο ν’ απαιτούν απ’ αυτόν ό,τι μπορεί να προκύψει μονάχα από τους ίδιους, από την δική τους εκπαίδευση και την δική της ηθική». Δεν είναι επαναστάτης αυτός που τα λέει αυτά ούτε έστω ένας μεταρρυθμιστής. Είναι ο νομικός Dalloy, συγγραφέας της συλλογής του Γαλλικού δικαίου που είναι γνωστή σαν «Ευρετήριο της Νομοθεσίας». Κι όμως, μολονότι αυτές οι γραμμές γράφτηκαν από ‘ναν άνθρωπο, ο οποίος ήταν ο ίδιος δημιουργός και θαυμαστής του νόμου, εκφράζουν τέλεια την ανώμαλη κατάσταση της κοινωνίας μας. Continue reading Πιοτρ Κροπότκιν: Νόμος και Εξουσία (gr/en)→
In these days when Home Colonisation is seriously discussed, and is even tried, in England as an outlet for the populations of our congested towns, the following letters will be of much interest to our readers. A comrade in New South Wales, writing to Kropotkin for suggestions and advice, says: Continue reading Advice to Those About to Emigrate→
Early in May two young men from the Ukraina arrived in Petrograd. Both had lived in America for a number of years and had been active in the Yiddish Labour and Anarchist movements. One of them had also been editor of an English weekly Anarchist paper, The Alarm, published in Chicago. In 1917, at the outbreak of the Revolution, they left for Russia together with other emigrants. Continue reading A VISIT FROM THE UKRAINA Emma Goldman→
«I marinai rivoltosi di Kronstadt non volevano i controrivoluzionari,
ma non volevano neanche noi»
dal discorso di Lenin al X Congresso del P.C.
Kronstadt è stata sempre, nella Russia tanto zarista che kerenskiana e bolscevica, la roccaforte del sovversivismo, il più grande centro rivoluzionario, la cittadella dell’idea e dell’azione rivoluzionaria nella Rivoluzione. Anche nel 1905, la prima Rivoluzione ebbe fra i suoi combattenti i forti e eroici marinai dì Kronstadt. Continue reading La Comune di Kronstadt (1921)→
