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A Starting Place: Anarchism Explained

• How to Catch A Fire
• Anarchism Articulated: Who We Are, What We Want, What We Do
• Beyond Primitivism: Toward a 21st Century Anarchist Theory & Praxis for Science
• Anarchist-Communism and Elections
• Do Anarchists Believe in Freedom?
• Anarchy & Anarchists: Who We Are And What We Want
• The Political Economy of Anarchism, Short and Loose
• Toward an Anarchist Understanding of Class
• Rebels Against Tyranny: An Interview with Howard Zinn on Anarchism
• White Racism, White Supremacy, White Privilege and the Social Construction of Race
• Emergent Complexity Theory and the Anarchist Approach
• Post Colonial Anarchism
• An Anarchist Backgrounder
• Six Reasons Why People of Color Need Anarchism
• On Strategy: Collective Ownership and Self-Defense of Our Communities
• Anarchism’s Promise for Anti-Capitalist Resistance
• An Anarchist Introduction to Critical Race Theory
• Looking to the Light of Freedom: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement and Thoughts on Anarchist Organizing
• Internalized Racism: A Major Breakthrough Has Been Achieved
• Anarchist vs. Marxist-Leninist Thought on the Organization of Society
• Anarchy Can’t Fight Alone
• Non-Western Anarchisms: Rethinking the Global Context

African Anarchism: The History of A Movement

• Foreword and Author Preface
• Chapter One: What Is Anarchism?
• Chapter Two: Anarchism In History
• Chapter Three: Anarchistic Precedents in Africa
• Chapter Four: The Development of Socialism in Africa
• Chapter Five: The Failure of Socialism in Africa
• Chapter Six: Obstacles to the Development of Anarchism in Africa
• Chapter Seven: Anarchism’s Future in Africa
• Bibliography

Analysis on Politics & Race

• Conserving Racism: The Greening of Hate at Home and Abroad
• Starvation Politics: From Ancient Egypt to the Present
• Thinking Beyond the Conventions: What Comes Next?
• How To Tell People They Sound Racist
• On Responsibility, Accountability and Values: The Process to Change
• Indigenous People Under Siege, Worldwide
• Striking a Blow for Freedom: The Story of Tommie Smith & John Carlos
• When ‘Progressive’ Does Not Equal Pro-Migrant
• Why Does Barack Obama Hate My Family?
• A Call to All Black People
• Race Treason or Decolonization: A Response to the Politics of ‘Bring the Ruckus’
• Using Disaster to Spread Racism
• Is Mortgage Crisis Strip-Mining Black America?
• Mugabe, Britain & the Abuses of Anti-Colonialism
• (Road)Block Capitalism!
• In Defense of Land and Territory: Zapatistas Take on Paramilitaries
• The Pale Criminals
• Obama Locks Up Nomination: Now What?
• The Kurds and American Neo-Imperialism
• Triumph of Lunacy: The Military-Industrial Complex, the Christian Right & the “Liberal Media”
• Anarchism and Libertarian Currents in the Oaxaca Insurrectionary Movement
• Lessons From A Sean Bell Verdict Protest
• Checking the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
• Why the Emphasis on White-Skin Privilege is White Chauvinist
• Barack Obama Versus Black Self-Determination
• Testosterone is Not to Blame: Why Hillary Clinton’s Loss Has Nothing to do With Sexism
• Decolonizing Anti-Racism
• Free the Land: Social Justice and the Environmental Movement
• Facing Off the Radical Environmental Lynch Mob
• Identity Politics and Essentialism
• Defining Terms in the Age of Imperialism: Challenging Alleged “Strategic Solidarity”
• Autonomously Gazing After the G8
• Lessons from Katrina: How to Destroy an African American City in 33 Steps
• Anarchism vs. Maoism: Wayne Price Responds to Bob Avakian
• The Roots of the PIC in American History
• Venezuelan Anarchists and the Three-Way Fight
• Especifismo: South American Praxis to Build Popular Movements and Form Anarchist Organizations
• Notes on the National Question: Oppressed Nations and National Liberation Struggle in the U.S.
• An Anarchist Analysis of the Detention of Immigrants and War, Post 9-11
• Where Was The Color In Seattle? Looking for Reasons Why the Great Battle was So White
• En Route to Durban: Thoughts on Caste and Race
• Tino Rangatiratanga and Capitalism
• Mythology of the White-Led “Vanguard”: A Critical Look at the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Announcements

• Sundiata Acoli Online
• New illvox Postcards
• NATO Out of Afghanistan Statement
• Anarchist SDS Effort

Anarchist People of Color

• APOCs Build It From Below: NE/NW Reports
• APOC Northeast Gathering
• Build It From Below: A Collective APOC Statement
• Anarchism and Racism
• APOC: Enough is Enough
• APOC Collectives and Contacts
• Building an APOC Org
• An APOC Backgrounder
• Fighting White Rage, Splitting with Anarchism?
• APOC, Appropriation and the Backlash
• Anarchist People of Color: A Brief Summary
• NYPD Attack Benefit for Anarchist Group in Brooklyn
• History: APOC 2005 Conference Postponed
• APOC Email List
• The Activism of Gentrification and the Gentrification of Activism
• Senzala or Quilombo: Reflections on APOC and the fate of Black Anarchism
• Female Species Interview: Ernesto Aguilar

APOC 2003 Conference

• Building A Nation: Anarchist People of Color Conference 2003 in Detroit
• Anarchist People of Color Conference: Resistance, Community, and Renewal
• Session Notes: Self-Defense
• Session Notes: Sexism Workshop
• Saturday Plenary Notes
• Building A Revolutionary Anarchist People of Color Movement
• Two Conference Proposals
• Indypendent: APOC Rocks Motown

Cuban Anarchism: The History of A Movement

• Introduction
• Preface
• Chapter One: Colonialism and Separatism (1865-1898)
• Chapter Two: Intervention and the Republic (1899-1933)
• Chapter Three: Constitution and Revolution (1934-1958)
• Chapter Four: Castroism and Confrontation (1959-1961)
• Chapter Five: Exile and Shadows (1961-2001)
• Chapter Six: Reality and Reflection
• Acronyms
• Bibliography

Culture

• Promoting Intelligence: Toronto Duo Stokes Fire
• All Hip-Hop is Conscious Except for “Conscious” Hip-Hop
• Spare the Rod, Lose Your Black Card
• Why am I Starting to Become More Prideful in My Identity?
• Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
• Juan Crow: The Deep South’s New Second-Class Citizens
• The Long March from Cinco de Mayo to Cinco de Pentagon
• Ain’t She Still a Woman?
• Black Women’s Manifesto: Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female
• Only Because He’s Black
• Our Own Traditions: Anti-Authoritarianism in Our Histories of Struggle
• Anarchism in Venezuela
• The Origins of Contemporary Chicana/o Anarchism
• Understanding Black History
• New Hairdo and Black Gay People
• Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
• Internalized Oppression and Latinos
• The Uniqueness of Anarchism in Argentina
• The Haitian Revolution: Past, Present and Personal
• The Chinese Anarchist Movement
• The Korean Anarchist Movement
• Dixie in the North: Culture Contact Investigation of African Americans in Portland
• Anarchist Orientalism and the Muslim Community in Britain

General

• RSS: What It Is and How to Use It
• Prison News Service and Jim Campbell’s Legacy
• A Short History of the ‘Critical’ in Critical Race Theory
• “White Man’s Burden” and the Iraq War
• Komboa 2001 Court Statement
• Reparations for All:­ That Means Everyone
• Indigenous Perspective on the War on Terrorism
• The Profits of Genocide
• Revolution

Ideas

• Making the World’s Poor Pay: The Economic Crisis and the Global South
• Shallow Graves in Unfamiliar Terrain
• On Strategy: Collective Ownership and Self-Defense of Our Communities
• Mo’ Prisons, Mo’ Problems and the Creation of a Permanent Underclass
• Lies My Colonizer Told Me
• Do Animals Possess Rights We Are Bound To Respect…And Should A Nigga Care?!
• Assuming Hostilities: Towards a Pro-Revolutionary Milieu With Teeth
• Qualifying the Commitment to Self-Preservation
• Climate Change and the Fight Against Neoliberalism
• Black Women Segregate Themselves from Likely Allies?
• For Revolutionary Struggle, Not Activism
• The State Vs. Black America
• War Over the Souls of Black Girls
• “Non-whites” vs. “Visible Minorities” vs. “People of Color”
• Toward an Anarcho-Design Practice
• Bring it to the Yard: An Open Reply to White Progressives/Radicals
• Beyond Resistance: Everything
• 10 Commandments to Save the Planet
• There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions
• New Afrikan, Revolutionary Nationalist … and Anarchist
• A Short Missive to Anarchists of Color on Primitivism, Ideology and Options
• Rethinking Crimethinc
• Breaking the Ice: Anarchist Men and Sexism in the Movement
• Hollow-Point Democracy: Five Years After the Battle, on Color and Seattle
• Colonization and Massacres
• Property is Racism
• Theory, Ideology and Historical Materialism
• Is Anti-Capitalism Enough?
• Globalization And Racialization
• Post Colonial Anarchism
• Stop Saying This Is a Nation of Immigrants!
• Beyond Nationalism But Not Without It
• Race, Anarchy and Punk Rock: The Impact of Cultural Boundaries Within the Anarchist Movement
• Anarchy: A Maori Perspective
• Brinks Trial Closing Statement
• Authoritarian Leftists: Kill the Cop in Your Head
• With Allies Like These, You Don’t Need Enemies: Michael Moore and the Racism of the White Left
• Thin Blue Lies: Police and the Art of Propaganda

Interviews

• Interview: Zack De La Rocha
• Fatima Hassan: What is Palestine to Me?
• Interview: Claude Marks of the Freedom Archives
• Simba Kenyatta on Racial Politics and More
• Prison Abolition: Rose Braz Interview
• Class Struggle, Not the Market, to Save the Planet
• Laying Bricks to Build Social Change: An Interview with Favianna Rodriguez & Josh MacPhee
• Death in the Field: Chat with UFW’s Arturo Rodriguez
• Surviving as an Activist in Colombia: Interview with Hernando Hernandez Tapasco
• An Interview with Ashanti Alston
• Stolen At Gunpoint: Interview with J. Sakai
• Interview: Bruce Little
• Dead Prez: Cultural Weaponry
• Interview: Tijuana No!
• African Anarchism: An Interview with Sam Mbah

Anarchism and the Black Revolution

• Dedication
• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three
• Lorenzo Komboa Ervin Biography

News Reports

• Houston: Carl Hampton Remembered
• Dead Prez, SDS and the Freedom Fight

Our Culture, Our Resistance: Collected Works

• The End of Idealism: Honest Conversations about Race, Class, Self-Determination and Anarchist People of Color
• Dissecting the ‘Double-Consciousness’: Expanding Upon the Theories of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk
• A Non-European Anarchism
• Culture Clashes Among American Anarchists
• Pencils Like Daggers
• Experiencing Anarchism
• Ricardo Flores Magon, Our Mexicano Revolutionary, is Alive
• Use No Way As A Way: An Interview with Greg Lewis
• Love and Respect: An Interview on Parenting with Rivka Gewirtz Little and Bruce Little
• On Competition and Solidarity
• Raising Baby APOC in the White Anarchist Movement
• Sheep Dreams and Kitten Memes
• Puppets, Pageantry and Protest Politics: White People and the Anti-War Movement
• Race, Gender and Class: Structure of the Global Elite and World Capitalism

Onward: Selected Articles

• Revolutionary Barrio Organizing Confronts Cops, Electoral Politics, Racism
• Terror, Prisons and the Time to Rebuild
• History Writes Us: An Interview with Anti-Racist Writer Kendall Clark
• Globalization and Anarchism After 9/11: Possibilities and Imagination from Reassessment
• Fighting to Win: Sufficient Strategies for Moving Forward
• Making the Future’s History: Interview with Max Elbaum
• Border Crossings
• Fighting to Win: Thoughts on Reform and Revolution
• Co-opting Solidarity: Privilege in the Palestine Solidarity Movement
• Decentering Whiteness and Understanding Nationalism
• The Challenges of National Self-Determination: The Pitfalls and Contradictions of Anarchism and Nationalism
• Nationalism: Definitions and Clarifications
• An Open Letter to the Movement
• Refusing to Surrender: John Brown and White Anti-Racist Struggle
• Autonomy and Global Capital in Chiapas
• Prioritizing Kids in the Anarchist Community
• Infrastructure, Transience and the Death of Anarchist Organizing in Small Town America
• This Will Not Be Kent State: Fear, Loathing and the Radical Movement: 1960s and the Present
• Anarchist Malpractice
• The Gay Rights Movement Goes to the Mall: Envisioning an Anarchist Alternative to Queer Political Co-optation

Opinion

• Seattle WTO Shutdown 9 Year Anniversary: 5 Lessons for Today
• The Fabulous History of African Guerilla Warfare
• Participatory Economics and Reformism
• Anticapitalism, Integration and Marginalization
• LA Social Forum Reportback: “Outreach” or Alliance-Building?
• Homeschooling & Racism
• Black Rage: The Problem of Discourse and Fears of Militancy
• Just Move On Up!: Some Ideas Ahead of an SDS People of Color Caucus
• On the Bolshevik Myth
• Say No To Colonialism!
• The 4th of You Lie
• Conservatism Has Nothing to Do With It
• Yes, APOC is Maoist
• What’s the Problem?
• We See Color and It Fucking Matters
• Don’t Mourn Sean Bell
• Why People of Color Won’t Make the Break

Organizing

• A Critique of the Anti-War Movement in Vancouver, 2003
• The Great Divide: Towards Bridging the Gap Between Anarchist- and Community-Based Organizing
• Workplace Organizing and Community Organizing
• The Anarchist-Communist Mass Line
• Racist Resistance to Prisoner Unity
• Claim No Easy Victories: An Anarchist Analysis of ARA and its Contributions to the Building of a Radical Anti-Racist Movement
• Decision Making in the Shell of the Old Society
• Know the Time: Five Reasons Why People of Color Must Represent at DNC/RNC Protests
• Hope in a Time of Elections: Movement Building at the Summer Conventions
• Summary of Political Communitarianism
• Notes from the Black Left Unity Meeting
• Stating Your Case
• Blocs, Black and Otherwise
• One Organizing Example: FUSE
• Effective Small Group Communication
• The Six Panther Ps
• Anti-Oppression Principles & Practice
• Linking Arms Without Getting Stepped On: An Anarchists in Coalitions Primer
• How to Start A Group
• What Is A Collective?
• No Justice and No Peace: A Critique of Current Social Change Politics
• Denouncing NAFTA
• Dues for Anarchist Orgs
• The Functioning of A Network: A ‘No Bullshit’ Policy Versus The Lethargy of Activism
• The Insurrectionary Act and the Self-Organization of Struggle
• Working Assumptions and Guidelines for Alliance-Building
• Autonomy and Participatory Democracy: An Ongoing Discussion on the Application of Zapatista Autonomy in the United States
• Activists of Color in the New Movement: Lessons From RNC Organizing
• People Get Ready: A Survival Handbook for Reality
• Struggling Forward: Organizing as a Building Block for Resistance
• But We Don’t Have Leaders: Leadership Development and Anti-Authoritarian Organizing
• Organizing Communities
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness
• “Here’s the Movement, Let’s Start Building”: An interview with Barbara Smith
• Bringing It All Back Home: Anti-Globalization Activism Cannot Ignore Colonial Realities
• The View From the Ground: Organizers Speak Out On Race
• Against Half-Assed Race and Class Theory and Practice
• An Education for Freedom: Getting Beyond the Standard(s) Debate
• What is Neoliberalism?
• Let’s “Gang-Up” On Oppression: Youth Organizations And The Struggle For Power In Oppressed Communities (Revised)
• A Playbook of Strategies for Anarchists Addressing Race

Solidarity Statements, Proposals, Etc.

• ZACF Cienfuegos Statement
• Peltier Statement for the 2008 Oglala Commemoration
• Solidarity with EZLN
• No One Is Illegal/Solidarity Across Borders Statement
• Solidarity Without Borders Campaign
• People of Color Against Globalization Mission Statement and Perspectives

White Privilege

• Discussing White Identity Out of Context Perpetuates Racism
• Intersectionality 101
• Maneuvers to Avoid Confronting Racism
• “It is Good What You Are Doing”
• White Privilege… It’s Everywhere I Am Not
• Tim Wise on White Privilege
• The R-Word
• White Like Me: 10 Codes of Ethics for White People in Hip Hop
• Lacking Empathy for Non-Whites
• The Audacity of Distrust
• Common White Fallacies When Dealing with People of Color
• How Can Whites Participate in a Discussion on Race?
• Anti-Racist Terminology is Not Pedantic
• The Making of a White Working Class
• Teaching White Students About Racism
• On “Choosing” Whiteness
• Critical Whiteness Studies and the Challenges of Learning to be a ‘White Ally’
• What Kind of Card is Race?: The Absurdity (and Consistency) of White Denial
• An Open Letter to White Progressives and Radicals
• The Politics of Solidarity: Six Nations, Leadership, and the Settler Left
• The White Collective (A Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious)
• “White Man’s Burden” and the Iraq War
• Co-opting Solidarity: Privilege in the Palestine Solidarity Movement
• Climbing the White Escalator
• My White Problem — And Ours
• Whose Ally? Thinking Critically About Anti-Oppression Ally Organizing
• Why Whites Think Blacks Have No Problems
• The Global Privileges of Whiteness

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