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This is a submission from an internal debate within the anarchist-communist movement in December 2025 regarding Hal Draper's critique of the sect form. This letter responds to concerns that socialist parties that are formed outside of mass struggle will inevitably revert to the sect form Draper describes. It is a defense of party formation. Hi comrades, I want to thank (our comrade) for their well-thought out letter to the group.

Amora is an anarcha-feminist from Myanmar who has been involved in political activism for several decades. She is the “co-founder” and the current “financial officer” of the “Hero Warriors”, a local defence force against the Myanmar military junta. Hein: How did you first become involved in this revolution? Can you introduce a bit of your background? Were you politically active before the revolution? Amora: My journey into anarchism did not start with textbooks or academic theories.

Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils Issue 37, August-September 1947 p. 10-13 Translation and summaries of articles from the Mexican section of the Fourth International, the Workers' Socialist Group in Mexico, and Labour Youth in Cuba by K.J. Kenafick.

The sense that “Left” and “Right” no longer clearly describe political reality is not new; it first became impossible to ignore (to those paying attention) in the political wreckage of the interwar years. The rise of Bolshevism and fascism during and after the First World War completely upended the traditional and fairly well-defined divide between Right and Left, a distinction that ultimately dates back to the French Revolution.

Based on the author’s foundational theories of relational materialism and the Theory of Economic Practice, this book adopts historical materialism to trace thousands of years of educational evolution across Eastern and Western civilizations. It puts forward a core argument: education in primitive society was an economic practice integrated with labour, geared toward transforming the world.

The Creative Nothing is the literary wing of The Unspooked Project, a broader effort to bring Max Stirner’s egoism out of the dusty corners of philosophy and into the hands of the people. The Creative Nothing is an online zine dedicated to exploring the work and legacy of Max Stirner and his philosophical contributions through a variety of creative and intellectual lenses. This e-zine exists to uplift egoist voices.

Iranian bus drivers arrested after no fares action Fourteen leaders of Tehran’s transport workers’ union were arrested last month after staging a no-ticket action (when bus drivers refused to collect fares) against Sherkate Vahed, a state owned bus company, to demand higher wages.

In mainstream textbooks and theoretical narratives, “matter determines consciousness” is widely regarded as a classic proposition of Marxist materialism. However, neither Marx nor Engels ever actually formulated this thesis. Through a re-examination of texts such as The German Ideology, this paper argues that this dogmatic formulation deviates from Marx’s original expression—“life determines consciousness”—and reduces materialism back to a pre-Kantian, mechanically substantialist old materialism.

Originally published in Regeneración Libertaria in Spanish Machine translated by DeepL into English. Translators with native-level ability to read/write Spanish are welcome to correct any potential errors or even re-translate it entirely. I tried to double-check and make sure it didn't sound too awkward. Bold words are from original text. Bracketed words were added by me to help clarify. Quotations from Marx were replaced with ones from the English translation of the texts in question.

A number of mentions of the Anarchist Hall in Norwich in 1891. From Freedom , Oct 1st 1891: Norwich. —The New Anarchist Club and Lecture Hall was opened on August 24, with a tea and public meeting. Louise Michel was prevented by illness from being present, but the meeting was addressed by Mowbray, Conlon, Mollett. Headley, Poyntz, etc. on September 27 Louise Michel and Merlino visited Norwich and addressed an enthusiastic meeting at the Club. Full report next month. Norwich Mercury, 26th August, 1891.