When confined to the need of defense I welcome disorder in the field of work! Why cry “Peace, peace!” when there is no peace? When the very air gluts with the clash of interests? Until my opportunities for making goods shall equal thine, Until you cease shading the sunlight of joy from my life, Until...
A new order of human society is hereby founded to be called THE PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC. It shall be constituted, organized and governed in accordance with the following fundamental articles, to wit: ARTICLE 1. OBJECTS. The cardinal objects of this Republic are and shall be the following, viz.: To institute and consolidate a true order...
Author: Adin BallouTitle: The Hopedale Community DeclarationDate: 1847Source: Retrieved on April 11, 2025 from http://www.adinballou.org/declaration.shtml I believe in the religion of Jesus Christ as he taught and exemplified it according to the Scriptures of the New Testament. I acknowledge myself a bounden subject of all its moral obligations. Especially do I hold myself bound by...
Humbly desirous of promoting Christian piety and morality in their primitive purity, the undersigned do solemnly acknowledge the Principles, Sentiments, and Duties declared in the following Standard, viz.: We are Christians. Our creed is the New Testament. Our religion is love. Our only law is the will of God. Our grand object is the restoration...
What is Capital Punishment? It is the infliction of Death on a human being who has been convicted of murder or some other crime, and who is a helpless prisoner in the hands of the public authorities. It is commonly executed by hanging, beheading, shooting, &c.; in our country almost always by hanging. Who Inflict...
“For always in thine eyes, O Liberty!Shines that high light whereby the world is saved;And though thou slay us, we will trust in thee.”John Hay. On Picket Duty. Mr. Powderly tells the Knights of Labor that ten thousand dollars a year spent for lectures would be of more service to labor than three hundred thousand...
Translator’s Foreword The following interviews were originally conducted in Ukrainian and Russian and published in Polish in the anarchist magazine Inny Świat [A Different World], no. 55 (2024). The following English translation was completed by myself and Malcolm Archibald. We used the Library of Congress system to transliterate Ukrainian and Russian. The footnotes include extensive...
In 1824, prospectors drilled two salt water wells at Maryland Street and Fountain Avenue on the eastern banks of Pigeon Creek in Lamasco, Indiana. They auspiciously intended to open up a salt factory and expand their fortunes but would have no such luck. Despite their ambitious investments into the project, they quickly learned the water...
As we’re witnessing Palestinians in Al-Aqsa chanting for the downfall of the regime, I was reminded of a conversation I had on the Istanbul-based podcast Mangal Media following the explosion at the port of Beirut last August 2020. In our conversation, we both used the term “the periphery,” a term I myself adopted from Mangal...
I am a human. I am not defined by my genitals. Just because I have a penis, doesn’t mean that I am a “male”. Just because I have a vagina, doesn’t mean that I am a “female”. Just because I have genitals that do not align with an arbitrary binary, doesn’t mean you can force...
In the foothills of British Columbia’s Rocky Mountains, about two miles north of the border with the United States, there is a small commune known as Hardy Mountain Doukhobor Village. The village—now abandoned—was built around 1912. This small community is one of the many small communities of Christians around the world who practice Christian anarchism....
When I dieLet the black rag flyraven fallingfrom the skyLet the black flag lieon bones and skinthat long last nightas I enter in.for out of blacksoul’s night have stirreddawn’s cold gleammorning’s singing birdLet black day dielet black flag falllet black rag flylet raven calllet new day dawnof black reborn. Read full article at source...
“The old order has changed,” the Spokane Chronicle proclaimed on October 1, 1909. “The men are now chasing the police.” The Chronicle was referring to a flood of workers leaving Spokane for a nearby town. The workers aimed to demonstrate against the local police department’s brutal crackdown on labor activists speaking in public. The fact...
“For always in thine eyes, O Liberty! Shines that high light whereby the world is saved; And though thou slay us, we will trust in thee.”John Hay. On Picket Duty. Godin is dead. Godinism has also ceased to show any marked signs of life. Chief Arthur hopes to win the strike of the Brotherhood of...
This article is a transcript of a talk given in November 1995 at a meeting of the Montpellier Group of the Anarchist Federation. It was published in Jean-Claude Michéa’s book on George Orwell, Orwell, anarchiste tory, Editions Climats, 1995. (There is a Spanish translation of Jean-Claude Michéa’s book, La escuela de ignorancia, Acuarela Libros, Madrid,...