Shawn Wilbur answers questions about mutualism over at reddit's /r/DebateAnarchism. (This is a link to the handy table-formatted version.)
"Libcom.org's reading guide on anarchism, anarchist theorists and their development through history."
Mostly the classics.
I'm never going to read all of these.
“There have not been very many terrorism cases that the government or the state hasn’t won in this country, which should tell you something right there. This is a huge, huge victory against the war on terror, which ought to be re-examined.”
All of Kevin Gosztola's reporting on the trial: http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/tag/nato-3/
This interview is the most clarifying account of the Ukrainian situation I've found yet.
"Asheville Fm radio, based in western North Carolina, aired a fascinating interview with an anarcho-syndicalist named Denys, from the Autonomous Worker’s Union in Ukraine. In the interview, Denys debunks many of the myths surrounding the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, and explains motives behind the stories and propaganda being circulated around the protests."
An update from the same group: http://revolution-news.com/ukraine-autonomous-workers-union-update-euromaidan/
"Ricardo Flores Magón is one of the most important anarchists in the history of the Americas. The movement he led and inspired shook the Mexican state in the early 20th century and helped lay the foundations for the Mexican revolution of 1910."
Whenever I walk down Lowell Blvd I see this little elementary school, Ricardo Flores Magon Academy, and I wonder what its story is and if the local community has ties to Magonismo. According to this Westword article, it's just a charter school with no anarchist influence which was named after Magon rather arbitrarily simply because of his status as a Mexican folk hero. A little bit disappointing.
One of my favorite speeches by Voltairine de Cleyre (of the few I've read so far).
One of the best sites on the internet for finding anarchist-related texts.
Indeed, I always enjoy getting that inevitable query: “Isn’t anarchism just violence and destruction?” To which I usually reply: “How many people would you estimate have been killed by anarchists in the last hundred years? Now, how many would you say have been killed by liberals, or conservatives, in that time frame? If a lawyer or corporate manager were here before you now, would you ask about the blood on their hands or just let it slide as part of business as usual? The state didn’t save us from the violence of anarchy — it simply monopolized it, institutionalized it, and expanded its role in our lives.”
An excellent review of Peter Gelderloo's new book which I haven't read yet, "The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy".
Chomsky's version of anarchism, challenging coercive institutions to justify themselves, is not terribly exciting. But I thought this article did a good job summarizing one of his typical speeches (especially for a publication called "The American Conservative").
The best retrospective on Chumbawamba I've ever read.
A nice little article which uses the current US federal "government shutdown" to clarify the meaning of "anarchism".
Appears to be consistently good coverage and analysis of global protest movements.
I know the mutualism->collectivism->communism narrative is a simplification, but I think this is a good overview.
By Iain McKay. "This is an introduction to Proudhon’s economic ideas and their influence on revolutionary anarchism. It is a chapter from the new book The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics (AK Press)"
(Interview with Egyptian anarchist discussing the military coup and Muslim Brotherhood.)