anarchism

A compliation of three essays that explore identity, oppression, and social war within the anarchist movement.

"...Recognizing that we'll never all agree on anything, and this is good, I want to argue nonetheless that a needed common ground is an understanding and embrace of social war. I'm afraid that those who speak of oppression without acknowledging the war we are a part of, not as metaphor but as a real and current practice, will only succeed in turning a battlefield into a garden, decorating this cemetery of a society with flowers and accessibility ramps. I don't care to argue that one side or another is necessarily more correct, only that revolution becomes impossible not when we enter into the current historical era but when we start believing in civil society and stop noticing that the guns are pointed at us too."

This work is a brief overview of the influence, libertarian ideas have had upon the Cuban people. We believe that we have the duty to faithfully report the annals of the Cuban anarchists, who for more than a century have struggled and sacrificed in defend of liberty and for the interest of the most down trodden classes in our society. The accomplishments of the Cuban anarchists were of decisive importance in social and union struggles. We will briefly review the actions out of aid or protection, forgotten and persecuted, not only influenced the history of the working class and campesinos, but also the history of the entire Cuban people." Includes information about Frank Fernandez.

"An Anarchist is someone who rejects the domination of one person or class of people over another. Anarchism is a very broad umbrella term for a group of political philosophies that are based on the idea that we can live as anarchists. We anarchists want a world without nations, governments, capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia... without any of the numerous, intersecting systems of domination the world bears the weight of today.
There is no single perfect expression of anarchism, because anarchism is a network of ideas instead of a single dogmatic philosophy. And we quite prefer it that way."

The second issue of Boxcutter Haircut explores polyamory, death, Halifax punk houses, and how to respond to interpersonal violence as an anarchist.

The purpose of this paper is to help anarchist/ anti-authoritarian movements active today to reconceptualise the history and theory of first-wave anarchism on the global level, and to reconsider it's relevance to the continuing anarchist project.

Contains a selection of Hakim Bey's writings from earlier works surround ideas such as Immediatism, poetics of being, an insurgent self model, self and the revolution of everyday life.

A collection of various subjects relating to activism by a number of contributors

"This project originated through conversations that we had prior to attending the 2006 Montreal Anarchist Book Fair about why we wanted to go and how anarchism is a part of our lives.

Neither of us feels particularly drawn to the intricacies of the theory. We are more interested in the ways that anarchism manifests. We are getting to the age where fewer and fewer people who we know call themselves anarchists. We wonder how we fit into it."