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Alfredo M. Bonanno,
Propulsive Utopia
£1.50
Propulsive utopia, the life-blood of the real movement… feeds off
a hidden but burning collective desire… then suddenly you find
it at the street corner.
Aldo Perego, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Pierleone Porcu,
Revolutionary Solidarity.
£1.25
When individuals find themselves alone at night, no longer supported by
‘collective strength’, the arms of Morpheus transform the
imprisoned comrades one wanted to support, to whom one wanted to express
one’s solidarity, into a real nightmare with no escape.
Solidarity lies in action. Action that sinks its roots in one’s
own project that is carried on coherently and proudly too, especially
at times when it might seem dangerous to express one’s ideas publicly.
A project that expresses solidarity with joy in the game of life that
above all makes us free ourselves, destroys alienation, exploitation,
mental poverty, opening up infinite spaces devoted to experimentation
and the continual activity of one’s mind in a project aimed at realising
itself in insurrection.
Alfredo M. Bonanno,
A Critique of Syndicalist Methods.
£1.75
Information technology has led to the ultimate breaking up of the working
class. This is also visible with the disappearance of the great industrial
complexes which were often strategically located in underdeveloped areas.
These are now being broken down and spread over the whole country as the
fragmentation has become even more profound, penetrating proletarian consciousness
to the point of making it well disposed, maleable and open to all the
perspectives suggested by the unions to the benefit of capital.
Today, if we want to move ahead at a time when nearly everything that
needs to be done will have to be changed from top to bottom as the invisible
mist of the technological swindle settles on humanity, it is indispensable
to get rid of the obstacle of the trade union or syndicalist mentality.
This text, which marked throwing suspicion on the unions, all unions including
the so-called anarchist ones, has become topical once again.
Alfredo M. Bonanno,
Dissonances.
£1.50
Something meaningful appears in the crossroads of rythms between re-evoked
facts, the time of writing and the time of fruition, that is, in the task
freely taken on by the reader. Questions as varied as anti-fascism, drugs,
racism, loss of language, illness and life itself are examined here in
this dissonant collection of articles which first saw the light in the
anarchist paper ProvocAzione two decades ago.
Feral Faun
Feral Revolution
Introduction Alfredo M. Bonanno
3.50
Feral revolution is an adventure. It is the daring exploration of going
wild. It takes us into unknown territories for which no maps exist. We
can only come to know these territories if we dare to explore them actively.
We must dare to destroy whatever destroys our wildness and to act on our
instincts and desires. We must dare to trust in ourselves, our experiences,
and our passions. Then we will not let ourselves be chained or penned
in. We will not allow ourselves to be tamed. Our feral energy will rip
civilisation to shreds and create a life of wild freedom and intense pleasure.
Download Feral Revolution as a pdf
Alfredo M. Bonanno.
Let's Destroy Work, Let's Destroy the Economy.
£2.00
If we are to play with our lives and during our lives, we must learn how
to do so and set the rules of the game ourselves, doing it in such a way
that these are clear to us and incomprehensible labyrinths to others.
We cannot just say that a game with rules is still work and that if the
rules are abandoned the game becomes free, therefore libertarian. The
absence of rules is not synoymous with freedom…
If we want to destroy work we must build roads of individual and collective
experimentation which take no account of work except to cancel it from
the reality of what is possible.
Download Let's Destroy Work as a pdf
Killing King Abacus,
The Anarchist Ethic in the Anti-globalisation Movement.
£1.50
Taking the antiglobalisation movement as its starting point, this article
has wider connotations which should make it of considerable interest to
anarchists and antiauthoritarians today. That is why we have taken it
from its original context in the pages of Killing King Abacus in order
to give it greater echo. The key concepts of this thesis are to be found
in the clear distinction drawn between ethics and morals, leading to active
power as opposed to constituted or transcendent power, and a minimal organisational
proposal for the struggle in the direction of a society without measure.
Download The Anarchist Ethic as a pdf
Chrissus and Odotheus,
BARBARIANS: disordered insurgence.
£2.00
BARBARIANS by Chris and Odotheus is a text of some importance for anarchists
and anyone else who sincerely desires the destruction of this social world
of exploitation and domination. It presents a devastating critique of
a book that has become one of the most significant theoretical influences
on a major part so-called anti-globalisation movement, Empire by Michael
Hardt and Antonio Negri. Hardt and Negri claim to be post-dialectical
and post-Marxist. It merely takes a slight rip of the veil to expose a
historical determinism and a rigid dialectic of class struggle that reflects
one of the crudest versions of Marxism.
guerrasociale
Where is the Festival
Notes on Summits & Counter Summits
£1.50
Capitalism is a social relationship and not a citadel for the powerful. It is starting from this banality that one can confront the question of summits and counter-summits. Representing capitalist and state domination as a kind of general headquarters (it’s a question of the G8, the WTO or some other such organization) is useful to those who would like to oppose that managing centre with another centre: the political structures of the so-called movement, or better, their spokespeople. In short, it is useful to those who propose merely a change in management personnel. Besides being reformist in essence and purpose, this logic becomes collaborationist and authoritarian in method, as it leads to centralisation of the opposition. This is where the concern of these leftist adversaries, so anxious to make themselves heard by the ‘masters of the world’, in investing money and political hype on the summits in which those in power more and more frequently set the dates with them comes from.
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