(en) wsm.ie: Finding our more about anarchism & WSM reading
list
In order to become more familiar with what anarchism stands for the following are
recommended by the WSM. Where possible we are also creating an audio file of the text
being read, click on the Listen link to be taken to the audio. ---- Book length
introductions ---- ABC of Anarchism by Alexander Berkman (PDF at
http://libcom.org/files/AlexanderBerkman-ABCofAnarchism.pdf) ---- Black Flame: The
Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
https://libcom.org/files/Lucien%20Van%20Der%20Walt%20and%20Michael%20Schmidt%20Black%20Flame%20vol%201.pdf
----
Anarchism by Daniel Guerin
(http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/daniel-guerin-anarchism-from-theory-to-practice)
---- The Anarchist FAQ (http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html) ---- Good
introductory articles on the basics ---- Introduction to the Revolution in Spain
(http://www.wsm.ie/c/revolution-spain-democracy-anarchism)
Why the bosses system can't sort it out - (http://www.wsm.ie/c/capitalism-worlds-problem)
Listen at
http://www.mixcloud.com/workerssolidarity/why-capitalism-cant-sort-out-the-worlds-problems-a-basic-guide/
Refusing to Wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality http://anarkismo.net/article/14923
Beyond the "solidarity of the same" - Solidarity, class and empowerment
(http://www.wsm.ie/c/solidarity-solidarity-class-empowerment)
The Politics of Climate Change (http://www.wsm.ie/c/anarchism-politics-climate-change)
Communism: What's In A Word?
(http://www.wsm.ie/c/communism-history-definition-open-software-anarchism)
Anarchism, Oppression & Exploitation
(http://www.wsm.ie/c/anarchism-oppression-exploitation-policy)
Role of the anarchist organisation (http://www.wsm.ie/c/role-anarchist-organisation-policy)
Unlike others on the left anarchists do not wish to become the government either through
elections or through a Bolshevik-style coup. We believe a free society is only possible if
rather than a minority ruling everyone rules through a system of assemblies and delegate
councils. We also don't think struggles against oppression (racism etc.) should be
subsumed under the class struggle, rather we think it's important to understand how they
intersect with class struggle, sometimes in transformative ways.
Rethinking Class: From Recomposition to Counterpower
(http://www.wsm.ie/c/class-recomposition-counterpower)
Anarchism & Elections - your questions answered
(http://www.wsm.ie/c/anarchism-elections-your-questions-answered)
The Bolsheviks & Workers Control
(http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html)
Insurrections at the Intersections: Feminism, Intersectionality and Anarchism
http://www.wsm.ie/c/insurrections-intersections-feminism-intersectionality-and-anarchism
Strengthening Anarchism's Gender Analysis: Lessons from the Transfeminist Movement
(http://jenrogue.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/strengthening-anarchisms-gender-analysis/)
An End to Growth? Beyond the productivist bias of the historical left
(http://www.wsm.ie/degrowth-anarchism-growth)
The Spanish Civil War - Anarchism in Action (WSM pamphlet -
http://struggle.ws/spain/pam_intro.html)
Position papers, perspectives and constitution of the WSM
(http://www.wsm.ie/content/position-papers-wsm)
The anarchist movement is a broad church in terms of its ideas and tendencies. While,
historically, anarchism has been dominated by the class struggle tradition, there have
also be 'individualist' and utopian currents, for example. The WSM was founded as a class
struggle anarchist organisation. It identifies with the so-called 'Platformist' tradition
in anarchism, which emerged in the 1920s.
About Anarkismo (http://www.anarkismo.net/about_us)
Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists by Makhno et
al.http://www.wsm.ie/c/organizational-platform-general-union-anarchists
Towards a Fresh Revolution by the 'Friends of Durruti'
http://struggle.ws/fod/towardsintro.html
Lessons of the Spanish Revolution by Vernon Richards
This is an early version of this list, we will be modifying it considerably in the near
future.
http://www.wsm.ie/reading
