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Jun 27, 2020 • 44min
The Struggle Against Fascism begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism
Essay by the Council Communist Otto Ruhle comparing the features of the Soviet system to that of Fascist Germany and Italy.
The text of the essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/otto-ruhle-the-struggle-against-fascism-begins-with-the-struggle-against-bolshevism

Jun 20, 2020 • 11min
What's Worth Dying For? By CrimethInc.
Text can be read here https://crimethinc.com/2020/04/21/whats-worth-dying-for-confronting-the-return-to-business-as-usual
Text by the CrimethInc collective on the protests against lockdown measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Jun 13, 2020 • 39min
Anarcho-syndicalism Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 6. Evolution
Read the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state.
In this chapter, Rocker discusses the history of anarcho-syndicalism up to 1936.

Jun 6, 2020 • 36min
Anarcho-syndicalism Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 5. Methods
Read the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state.
In this chapter, Rocker discusses the methods of anarcho-syndicalism and answers the criticism that syndicalists do not engage in political struggle. He outlines the uses of the strike (general strike and sympathetic strike), boycott, sabotage, and other methods.

May 30, 2020 • 41min
Anarcho-syndicalism Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 4. Objectives
Read the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state.
In this chapter, Rocker examines the goals and tactics of syndicalism.

May 23, 2020 • 41min
Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 3. Forerunners
Read the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state.
In this chapter, Rocker examines proto-syndicalist movements in England and France, as well as the first years of the International.

May 16, 2020 • 35min
Anarcho-syndicalism Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 2. The Proletariat
Read the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state.
In this chapter, Rocker documents early proto-anarchist and socialist movements that emerged in the early- and mid-nineteenth century. He examines the Luddites, the Chartists, trade unionism, and early socialism in England.

May 9, 2020 • 43min
Anarcho-syndicalism Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 1. Anarchism
Read the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was an anarchist writer, historian, and activist. He wrote extensively on anarchist movements and thinkers. He is perhaps best known for his book "Nationalism and Culture," which criticizes nationalism, religion, and the state.
In this chapter, Rocker introduces various schools of anarchism and compares them to liberalism, democracy, and authoritarian communism. He also outlines anarchism's critique of capitalism and the state.

May 2, 2020 • 8min
The only hope for Ireland by Alexander Berkman
Full text here: https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/alexander-berkman-the-only-hope-of-ireland
"If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion. If you intend to live in peace and harmony with your fellow-men, you and they should cultivate brotherhood and respect for each other. If you want to work together with them for your mutual benefit, you must practice cooperation. The social revolution means much more than the reorganization of conditions only: it means the establishment of new human values and social relationships, a changed attitude of man to man, as of one free and independent to his equal; it means a different spirit in individual and collective life, and that spirit cannot be born overnight. It is a spirit to be cultivated, to be nurtured and reared, as the most delicate flower it is, for indeed it is the flower of a new and beautiful existence." - Alexander Berkman

May 1, 2020 • 35min
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
Special release for International Workers Day. Text of essay can be found here http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
Russell argues that if labour was equitably shared out amongst everyone, resulting in shorter work days, unemployment would decrease and human happiness would increase due to the increase in leisure time, further resulting in increased involvement in the arts and sciences.


