Selections from Retort, A quarterly journal of Anarchism, art & reviews January 2007 1. Editorial (Spring, 1945) Web page   |   Text version   | Document version 2. Resistance in Prison by Clif Bennet (Winter, 1949) Web page   |   Text version   | Document version 3. There is No Social Contract! (Editorial, Winter, 1947) Web page   |   Text version   | Document version 4. Art: Play and its Perversions by Holley Cantine (Fall, 1947) Web page   |   Text version   | Document version 5. Conscription and the State (Retorting, column, Spring, 1945) Web page   |   Text version   | Document version 6. Review of THE POWER HOUSE, novel by Alex Comfort (Spring, 1945) Web page   |   Text version   | Document version 7. London Letter to Retort by George Woodcock (Spring, 1945) Web page   |   Text version   | Document version 8. Left About-Face: Radicals and the War. (Editorial, Spring, 1945) Web page   |   Text version   | Document version 9. Towards a Revolutionary Morality by H. R. Cantine Jr. (Spring, 1943) Web page   |   Text version   | Document version

Articles on Spain on occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Spanish Revolution posted August 2006

>> What is Anarchy (1882) by José Llunas Pujols
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>> The Sexual Revolution (1934) by Felix Marti Ibanez
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>> The Question of Feminism (1935) by Lucia Sanchez Saornil
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>> The CNT: Resolutions from the Zaragoza Congress (1936)
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>> The Libertarian Revolution (1936) by Diego Abad de Santillan
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>> Libertarian Democracy by Gaston Leval
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>> The CNT-FAI, the State and Government (1938) by Albert Jensen
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>> A Return to Principle (1938) by Diego Abad de Santillan
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NEWS OF THE SPANISH REVOLUTION
Six articles published in One Big Union Monthly , a journal of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), July, 1937 to February, 1938:
Cover page includes web page, text & word document versions of each article.

Los Quijotes: Anarchist Youth Group, Spain, 1937
The Fifth Estate Vol. 24 Number 2 (Whole Number 332) Summer 1989 September 2006
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Spain, 1936-1939: Gravediggers of the Revolution
Text from Why We Lost the War: A Contribution to the History of the Spanish Tragedy by Diego Abad de Santillán [Por qué perdimos la guerra; Imán, Buenos Aires, 1940; G. del Toro; Madrid, n.d.-- translation from the Madrid edition by Charlatan Stew, from pp. 211-215]. Translation, Foreword and Afterword by Charlatan Stew September 2006
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Pura Arcos 1919-1995
(introduction, article from cite>The Fifth Estate, poems) September 2006
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Spanish Revolution reading recommendations September 2006
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Shays' Rebellion
Published by Solidarity, (Chicago, 1973) posted August 2006
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Assassin of Carlo Tresca Shot in NYC
 

LEIU: Michigan's Computer Spy Network: "Private club" tackles intelligence
 

LATTER DAY INDENTURED SERVITUDE by Gregory A.  Butler
 

LATTER DAY INDENTURED SERVITUDE A Short But Important Historical Correction 
by Sylvie Kashdan

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Four articles on the Chilean Workers Movement
Note: These articles appeared in No Middle Ground: Anti-Authoritarian
          Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean (No. 2 Fall, 1983).

They give a lot of information about the role of ordinary people in
opposition to both the plans of the authoritarian state-reformers and the
brutal national and multi-national civilian/military elites.

>> Strange Defeat: The Chilean Revolution, 1973 by Pointblank!
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>> Ten Years After
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>> Dictatorship on Shaky Grounds
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>> Chronology of the Chilean workers' movement
     by Coordinadora Lihertaria Latino-Americana
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 The Kaiser Strike & Lockout 1998-2000
Union Leaders Fear A Self-Directed Rank And File  More Than Defeat;
With a postscript, August, 2002 from Charlatan Stew

 Continuar la obra de Cappelletty (chronology)
added October  2002

Anarchist Opposition to War (A Collection)
SOME NOTES AND INFORMATION ON ANARCHIST OPPOSITION TO WAR
Translations and Summaries by Charlatan Stew

1.  Coming to Grips with The War*
by Federation anarchiste romande (1939)
2.  Anarchist Activity in France during World War Two*
Summary by Charlatan Stew (1994)
3. To All Intellectual and Manual Workers*
by International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (1943)
4.  Death to The Brutes*
by International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (1943)
5.  Some Further Notes on Left-libertarian Opposition to War
by Charlatan Stew (1994)
6.  Capitalist Democracy--Why It Must Fail
by Tor Cedervall (1937)
7.  Anarchist Opposition to Japanese Militarism, 1926-37
by John Crump (1991)
8.   Manifesto of the International Anarchist Conference...  1948
International Anarchist Bulletin, No. 1, June 1948
9.   Additional Readings on States, War and Opposition
by Charlatan Stew (1994)

* Copies of the French originals were obtained from C.I.R.A. Library, Centre Internationale de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme, avenue de Beaumont 24, CH-1012 Lausanne, Switzerland.  The Library circulates, for a modest membership fee, materials on all aspects of anarchism in all languages.

Texts provided by CHARLATAN STEW,  Seattle, Wa.,  U.S.A.,  first published in 1995
added October  2002