Transcribing the Past

Text of a leaflet distributed in Moscow by supporters of the Committee of 100 AGAINST ALL BOMBS The campaign in Britain against nuclear weapons is beginning to turn towards the working class. As it does so, it will create an increasing challenge to the capitalist state. This marks a development both in the activities and in the consciousness of the Campaign. It is a genuine turn to the masses of ordinary workers, not the bureaucracies of the Labour and Trade Union movements. Already, as a result of this emphasis, we have seen the beginnings of industrial action against the bomb. Workers directly involved have refused to handle nuclear cargoes. Others have held token strikes. THE BOMB IN CLASS SOCIETY More and more people in the campaign are seeing the deeper implications of working class action against the bomb. The class which dominates production controls society. It decides policy and, despite the democratic facade, enforces it through its state apparatus. U...

    Vadimas his friends would like to remember him  El Libera Folio English Version Vadim Bikov was killed in the last days of May while serving at the front in Ukraine, he was 54 years old. He voluntarily joined the Ukrainian army immediately after the start of the war, and for over two years served in several dangerous hotspots along the frontline. He is mourned by his Esperantist wife, Julia Dmitrieva. Vadim Bikov was born on the 30th of November 1969 in Soviet Qazaqstan, and spent his childhood in Uzbekistan. He grew up with Russian language media and completed his education in Donbas in the east of Ukraine, and settled there.  When conflict erupted in Donbas in 2014 Vadim fled to unoccupied territory and joined the Ukrainian army to defend the country whose citizenship he had obtained after the collapse of the Soviet Union.  In February 2022 after Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine, Vadim joined the Territorial Defence and spent...

    Shifu's gravestone. Photos courtesy of the Chinese Anarchist Front .   This notice first appeared in the Esperanto language journal La Ondo de Esperanto (The Esperanto Wave) in July 1915 and can be viewed online here .  Shifu was an influential Chinese pioneer of Anarchism. He changed his name on several occasions and was known as Shifu at the end of his life, though in English he's remembered under the name Liu Shifu. He was also an active Esperantist and used the pen name Sifo for Esperanto writings. I translated a short biography of his life earlier, which may help explain some points.  Sifo Shifu (Liu Shifu) the editor of the Esperanto and Chinese language weekly newspaper The Voice of the People, died in Shanghai from tuberculosis. We take some biographical details about Shifu from his publication's 23rd issue. Sifo was born in 1884 in Hongsang* in the province of Canton. He was an extraordinarily talented boy in his youth. At the age of fifteen, he ...

  Translated into English from an Esperanto language article hosted at Neniammilitointerni .  Since 2019 Azat Miftakhov has been imprisoned by the authorities of the Russian Federation. Azat is a young Mathematician and doctoral student at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and an Anarchist activist. He was sent to pre-trial detention for two years before being sentenced to a six-year prison term on trumped-up charges based on false testimony acquired through torture.  In fact, one of the two accusers whose testimony alleged that Azat threw a smoke grenade through the window of the office of United Russia, the political party of Putin, was conveniently found to have died before a cross-examination could take place.  A third "witness" is now a refuge in France and in March 2023 wrote to the online journal Mediapart, describing the torture he received by the FSB to secure a denunciation of Azat. Currently, that testimony has not been used against Azat, but it could...

  Available on Kindle   Please support via ko-fi   The Libertarian Society by Georges Bastien Some Words on Georges Bastien This pamphlet was written in 1926 by Georges Bastien. Bastien (1885-1940) was a French Anarcho-syndicalist, that is he combined his Anarchist beliefs with Syndicalism. Syndicalism is the name of a school of socialism that views the building of revolutionary unions amongst the working class as the key to creating a revolutionary movement strong enough to supplant capitalism and begin the construction of a better world. Syndicalism, which literally translates into English as Trade Unionism, -from the Romance languages shared name for Labour Unions which is a Syndicate- traces its origins to the 19 th century socialist movement. Its early strongholds being the nations of France, Spain and Italy. In France, Syndicalism first rose to prominence with the creation of the Confederation Generale du Travail the General Confederation of Work (CGT)...