In the late 1800’s, the Mormon pioneers, exiled to the Utah territory, implemented one of the largest experiments in cooperative living that the United States has ever known. They wanted to create a society with no rich and no poor. This society would be built, among other things, on the principle of cooperativism. Cooperation is...
Right-wing Catholics continue to play an important role in the Quebec fascist milieu. In fact, along with “French Canadian” nationalism, traditional Roman Catholicism is one of the defining features of the far-right in this province. Some reactionary Catholics in Quebec have even split from the Vatican, which they view as being too moderate. These schismatics...
Introduction: Ladies and Gentlemen: when I was invited to give a series of lectures in the United States of America, I felt some doubt and hesitation. I am really not old enough to give lectures, and I am more at ease with the process of thinking than I am making categorical statements… since I don’t...
Ninety anarchists from a dozen cities attended a march and rally in Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 11, to confront a planned Ku Klux Klan anti-gay and pro-killer-cop demonstration, to protest the 23 known murders of blacks in police custody there over the last two decades (seven since 1990), and to demand that charges be dropped against...
Part One Internationalism has always been the principle inspiring the actions and horizons of the exploited who do not accept the role that society has given them. It has always been a vaccine against opportunism of every kind, a guarantee that those who practice it are not the servants of their boss or a foreign...
Author: John O’ReillyTitle: The Art of the “One-on-One”Subtitle: John O’Reilly reflects on this fundamental organizing tool, and how to do it rightDate: December 18, 2018Notes: Addendum, from organizing.work: This piece was written by a former member of the IWW, who quit the organization after being asked to by a member whom he had sexually assaulted....
I am not betraying Durruti’s legacy when I say that he remained the intrepid anarchist of his early years up to the last moment of his life. It’s not superfluous to invoke this, since it’s no secret that various political groups have tried to appropriate the undeniable prestige of the hero of Aragón and Madrid...
Abstract In this paper I present and criticize Ted Kaczynski’s (‘The Unabomber’) theory that industrialization has been terrible for humanity, and that we should use any means necessary, including violent means, to induce a return to pre-industrial ways of living. Although Kaczynski’s manifesto, Industrial Society and its Future, has become widely known, his ideas have...
They couldn’t catch us. Madison, Wisconsin. Do you remember the feeling of being consumed by maniacal laughter after our first intercourse with illegality? Nah, it won’t change the world and most wouldn’t think much of it. And it certainly has nothing to do with revolution, The Movement, or Marxism. But it…felt incredible! It all started...
Abstract This paper delves into the application of anarchist theory to the contemporary migration crisis, a phenomenon that is eroding the foundations of traditional nation-state frameworks and giving rise to unprecedented fluid geopolitical dynamics. Drawing inspiration from my recent work, “Anarchia: Il ritorno del pensiero selvaggio” (Caffo 2025), and integrating it with the analyses of...
Society is sick; and the politicians as usual have the cure. Only we don’t want it. The cure is worse than the disease. In fact, the cure is the disease … We are sick to death of the attempts of the political medicine men to make us better. Human beings are quite all right as...
1. The mountains are the first thing you notice. They look like they are capped with snow. But on closer inspection, you see it’s not snow. The mountains themselves are white. White as snow. They are the marble mountains around Carrara, Massa, and Pietrasanta. The mountain I can see from my window is called Monte...
One of the more challenging passages in the Bible is the story told in the book of Joshua. God’s chosen people enter the “promised land,” meet with opposition from the nations living there, and proceed—with God’s direction and often miraculous support—the kill or drive out the previous inhabitants. The book ends with a celebration that...
The COVID-19 pandemic has strained and even overwhelmed the public health, medical care and disaster response systems where governments and state agencies were ill-prepared to contain and suppress infectious outbreaks. In countries where emergency lockdown measures have been adopted without accompanying policies to guarantee income security and housing tenure, there is the additional problem of...
A few weeks back I wrote an article using a recent address by President Dallin H. Oaks wherein he lays out five principles of government which he teaches are inspired of God. Building on his argument in my article I explain how consensual governments such as anarchist, libertarian, or voluntaryist governments better follow the inspired...