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Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, often shortened as The Motherfuckers or UAW/MF, was a Dadaist and Situationist anarchist affinity group based in New York City. This "street gang with analysis" was famous for its Lower East Side direct action.
Only some decades after the Paris Commune of 1871 and the wave of anarchist terrorism of the 1890s, and not long after the General Strike of 1906 organized by the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), Paris was a hotbed of anarchist debate and organizing, with ongoing bitter disagreements between the anarcho-individualists (such as the ...
Anarcho-communist Albert Meltzer acknowledged "Marx's quite sensible analysis" that anarchism was the movement of formerly self-employed, independent-minded, individualistic, intrepid, advanced craftsmen and artisans who had been ruined by capitalistic industrialization or even war and then driven to factories; even so, they refused to subject ...
Anarchist communism [a] is a far-left political ideology and anarchist school of thought that advocates communism.It calls for the abolition of private property but retention of personal property and collectively-owned items, goods, and services.
Michel's published works were also translated into Spanish by the anarchist Soledad Gustavo. [25] The Spanish anarchist and workers rights activist Teresa Claramunt became known as the "Spanish Louise Michel". [26] By that time Michel had become a well-known speaker, touring Europe repeatedly to speak in front of thousands of people. [20]
There is a significant variation between the first text published by the author in 1884 and the second version of the text. [1] In this second version, Malatesta evolved in his positions; he no longer explicitly refers to anarchist communism [1] and avoids defining anarchy too precisely, preferring instead to maintain a general framework of thought to avoid overly restricting his subject. [1]
August Vincent Theodore Spies (/ s p iː s /, SPEES; December 10, 1855 – November 11, 1887) was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor.An anarchist, Spies was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder following a bomb attack on police in an event remembered as the Haymarket affair.
Paul Avrich (August 4, 1931 – February 16, 2006) was an American historian specializing in the 19th and early 20th-century anarchist movement in Russia and the United States. He taught at Queens College , City University of New York , for his entire career, from 1961 to his retirement as distinguished professor of history in 1999.