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This is a collection of articles and pictures about anarchism. It has some general introductions, but most of the articles relate to specific issues like unemployment, child abuse, poverty, war, racism, and so on.

 

For more up-to-date news, go to All the News That Fits.

 

For quotes, go to the quotes page.

 

 

ABC of Anarchism - written in the 1920s. This isn't really an article, it's a book. This is probably the best full-length introduction to anarchism that there is.

Please note that 'ABC' doesn't mean it's only written for children. At that time, any introduction could be called 'the ABC' of whatever it was. It's like the series of books "...for Dummies".

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7

Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13

 

An Appeal to the Young - Written in 1880 and still relevant. The article looks at people who want to help society by becoming nurses, teachers, and so on. He shows how the system will take your good intentions and ruin them. His solution is that people should try and help by trying to change the system, instead of trying to work with it.

 

 

 

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Anarchism (but were afraid to ask) - Written around 1980, again still completely relevant.

 

 

 

 

 

Food Not Bombs is a series of local groups, mostly made up of anarchists, that collect vegan food and give it out for free. Their website has more information.

 

When reading these articles, remember that starting a new group is the biggest and hardest way to go about it. You'd almost always start by joining an existing group. Check the Anarchist Yellow Pages or Infoshop.org, or contact us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banks Are Bastards: Four pictures sending up the major Australian banks -

Commonwealth Bank National Australia Bank ANZ Westpac

 

Mortgages - people's dream of owning their own home is being replaced by the bank's dream of owning their own people.

 

 

Hypocrites in High Places - about child abuse and crime.

 

Snakes and Lads - when is rape not rape? When the rapists have rich enough parents...

 

The Kids Are Our Future - a more general article on child abuse.

 

 

Some Ideas for Community Action - article about how anarchism could be put into practice on a local level.

 

 

Are You A Copper?. This is a big picture and may be hard to read on some browsers. If you have problems, save it and then open the file through a graphics program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Careful, He Might Hear You. Two versions of this graphic about the wage system. One talks about dollars, the other one talks about pounds.

 

 

Property Is Death - on a small scale as well as a large one, the economic system isn't just unfair, or inefficient, it's deadly.

 

 

We Are Being Robbed - shows that all bosses rip off their employees (and would even if they didn't want to).

 

What's Wrong With The Economy? - when there are so many jobs that need doing and aren't being done, why are so many people unemployed?

 

 

If you read 'What's Wrong With the Economy?' from this section, and then 'Who Wants War?' from the war section, you'll see that they talk about basically the same things, even though the two issues don't seem very related. This often happens once you start learning about anarchism. Problems that you might have thought had little or nothing to do with each other, turn out to have the same basic causes.

 

 

These articles are about Martin Luther King. For quotes by Martin Luther King, see here

 

The Martin Luther King You Don't See On TV - at the end of his life, Martin Luther King came to see that wealth, not race, was the basic division in society.

 

The Other Doctor King - a slightly longer article with the same theme.

 

 

Migration Is Not A Crime - featuring everyone's favourite non-white Peruvian illegal immigrant. Photographed by Mogachu (slightly edited in Photoshop by me).

 

 

 

 

Summer of Rage - a column by British humourist Charlie Brooker.

 

Whoever You Vote For, A Politician Always Gets In - Looking at politicians' statements gives some telling results.

 

Why Is Everything So Horrible? comic by Winston Rowntree.

 

 

Myths About Hunger - what really causes starvation in the Third World.

 

 

Why People Are Starving - short set of facts about the distribution of wealth.

 

Your Money Or Your Life - explains the problems caused by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and similar institutions.

 

 

All the Arms We Need - peace banner, photographed by gitboy (slightly edited in Photoshop by me).

 

 

 

Ever Thought of Joining? - blackly funny billboard alteration. Photographed by Annette Ellis.

 

 

 

Mutiny: A Noble Tradition - many soldiers have realised who their true enemy was.

 

 

War Is A Racket - Edited version of an article by a former US Marine Corps Major General, who decided that the military was no better than an international version of the Mafia. Written in 1935.

 

War President. A picture of former President Bush, made up of pictures of Western soldiers who have died in the Iraq war. No one seems to have done an equivalent for President Obama yet. There is a small (107k), medium (1.14M), and large (4.35M) version.

 

Who Wants War? - explains the economic reasons that cause wars.

 

 

 

Repairing the Damage, Before Roe - a retired doctor describes the days before legal abortions in the United States.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Studies Find Reward Often No Motivator - deals with the 'common sense' idea that 'nobody would do any work if they didn't have to'.

 

 

 

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