Portal:Anarchism

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THE NARCHISM PORTAL Selected Anarchism-related content Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, this reading of anarchism is placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism). Although traces of anarchist ideas are found all throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlightenment. During the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, the anarchist movement flourished in most parts of the world and had a significant role in workers' struggles for emancipation. Various anarchist schools of thought formed during this period. Anarchists have taken part in several revolutions, most notably in the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War and the Spanish Civil War, whose end marked the end of the classical era of anarchism. In the last decades of the 20th and into the 21st century, the anarchist movement has been resurgent once more, growing in popularity and influence within anti-capitalist, anti-war and anti-globalisation movements. (Full article...) Selected article Anarchism as a social movement in Cuba held great influence with the working classes during the 19th and early 20th century. The movement was particularly strong following the abolition of slavery in 1886, until it was disected first in 1925 by President Gerardo Machado, and finally by Fidel Castro's Marxist government following the Cuban Revolution in the late 1950s. Cuban anarchism mainly took the form of Bakuninist anarcho-collectivism and, later, anarcho-syndicalism. The Latin American labor and by extension the Cuban labor movement itself was at first more influenced by anarchism than Marxism. (read more...) More selected articles Selected image Members of the anti-fascist Maquis in La Tresorerie, 14 September 1944, Boulogne, France. Members of the anti-fascist Maquis in La Tresorerie, 14 September 1944, Boulogne, France. The Maquis resisted Nazi and Francoist rule in Europe in the mid-20th century; In south-west France, some Maqui cells were composed entirely of veterans of the Spanish Civil War, many of whom were anarchists. Did you know? ... that the Russian anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Golos Truda (header pictured) relocated from New York to Petrograd when its entire editorial staff decided to move to Russia following the February Revolution? ... that Pierre Monatte was one of the few French trade-unionists and members of the French Left to oppose the Union sacrée national bloc during World War I? ... that the Situationist pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life accused French students of taking refuge from their ideological subservience in miserabilism and bohemianism? ... that there were two unrelated Jewish anarchists named Alexander Schapiro active in Russia during the civil war, one in the Bolshevik government and the other leading a cadre of anarchist revolutionaries against it? ... that post-anarchism theorist Saul Newman saw the publication of volume one of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas as a sign of a resurgent interest in anarchist philosophy? Selected quote Anniversaries for April 15 1919 - Russian Civil War: Various Ukrainian Red Army brigades are reorganized into the 7th Ukrainian Soviet Division, the anarchist Nestor Makhno is appointed as its commander. 1920 - A paymaster and a security guard were killed and robbed of over $15,000 in South Braintree, Massachusetts, a crime for which anarchists Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (pictured) would be blamed and executed. 1968 - Mujeres Libres founding member Amparo Poch y Gascón died, on her birthday. 2011 - Mexico: An uprising in Cherán expels cartels, police and politicians, establishing the town as a self-governing community. 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