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Alfredo M. Bonanno
Anarchism and the National Liberation Struggle
ISBN 1 870133 50 1
£1.00
The anarchist project concerning national liberation struggle is very clear: it must not go towards constituting an ‘intermediate stage’ towards the social revolution through the formation of new national States. Anarchists refuse to participate in national liberation fronts, they participate in class fronts which may or may not be involved in national liberation struggles. The struggle must spread to establish economic, political and social structures in the liberated territories, based on federalist and libertarian forms of struggle.
Alfredo M. Bonanno
Workers' Autonomy
ISBN 1 870133 50 1
£1.50
The reformist parties, trades unions and employers have coalesced to obstruct
any growth in the level of the struggle, or any conquests that could lead
to a revolutionary transformation. The proletariat have only one alternative:
to build communism directly, passing over the counter-revolutionary bureaucratic
structures. In this perspective we must provide analyses of autonomous
workers’ nuclei and realise them in practice.
Armed Struggle in Italy 1976-78
A chronology
ISBN 1 870133 53 6
£2.50
During these years the antagonist movement in Italy shed all its taboos
concerning destruction, violence and the use of arms against the class
enemy. It became normal to respond to the humiliation and tyranny of capital
with the arms considered most effective, and the violence of the bosses,
police and fascists found and immediate response both in the streets and
in specific retaliatory actions.
When this counter-information was first published, the aim was to make
known and extend the whole dimension of armed struggle, so it contains
little criticism of the forms that struggle took. Now it is time to contribute
to the qualitative aspect of the struggle that is spreading today, using
methods that include sabotage against the structures of capital carried
out by small groups of comrades who have come together on the basis of
affinity. These contain a strong element of creativity and joy, in the
knowledge that it is simple to attack what is oppressing us directly and
that there is no need for endless documents of ideological justification
for doing so.
Otto Ruhle
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle
Against Bolchevism
ISBN 1 870133 54 4
£1.00
As the tragic history of both fascism and bolshevism complete their course,
culminating in the modern democratic State, Ruhle’s article becomes
more readily comprehensible….In understanding the fascist nature
of State forms such as the so-called communist ones, we realise that the
only solution is the immediate and definitive destruction of power in
whatever form.
Errico Malatesta
Fra Contadini
ISBN 1 870133 55 2
£1.50
With Fra Contadini, a dialogue between two peasants in the north of Italy
at the end of the last century, Malatesta’s intent was to supply
the anarchist movement with an agile instrument of propaganda. Due to
its clear, simple argumentation this text is still of interest today.
Ratgeb
Contributions to the Revolutionary Struggle
ISBN 1 870133 56 0 Price
£2.00
Whilst sabotaging production, hasn’t it ever ocurred to you what
fun it might be to sabotage the weapons of repression (such as the bureaucratic
machine, the cops, the quality control people, the information services
or the town planners?)
In that case you have come to realise that 1) the commodity system is
proficient at recuperating partial sabotage; 2) what allows a product
to be turned into a commodity is obligatory work and those forces which
protect and maintain it; 3) the destruction of commodity by means of ending
of obligatory work is inseparable from the liquidation of the State, of
hierarchy, constraint, the commendation of sacrifice, and the lies of
those who organise the universal commodity system.
For an Anti-authoritarian Insurrectionalist International
Proposal for a debate.
ISBN 1 870133 57 9
£1.00
At a time when the Mediterranean region is involved in political games
worse perhaps than ever before it is important to reflect on the social,
economic and political conditions that are intermingling and interacting,
producing situations of extreme tension but also opening up a vast field
of intervention to all revolutionaries.
We consider the form of struggle best suited to the present state of class
conflict in practically all situations is the insurrectional one, and
this is particularly so in the Mediterranean area. By insurrectional practice
we mean the revolutionary activity that intends to take the initiative
in the struggle and does not limit itself to waiting or to simple defensive
responses to attacks by the structures of power.
