Texts

  • The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel Zapffe

    One night in long bygone times, man awoke and saw himself. He saw that he was naked under cosmos, homeless in his own body. All things dissolved before his testing thought, wonder above wonder, horror above horror unfolded in his mind. …

  • On Projectuality by Wolfi Landstreicher

    In this society, we are taught to view life as something that happens to us, something that exists outside of us, into which we are thrown. We are not, however, told that this is the result of a process of dispossession, and so this alienation appears to be natural, an inevitable consequence of being alive. …

  • Let's Become Dangerous: for the diffusion of the Black International by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    The war is raging with thousands of faces. With the face of the techno-industrial totalitarianism, of the economic crisis, of the plunder against nature, the repression, the military operations, the tele-propaganda of the spectacle… …

  • UNTIMELY: for Worlds Without Measure (being my thoughts on the project Killing King Abacus) by Wolfi Landstreicher

    What was Killing King Abacus? There are some who would answer this question with one or another banality. One such banality would be that it was a “product of its time.” But for rebels against a world without measure, this is a meaningless phrase. …

  • I Am Also a Nihilist by Renzo Novatore

    I am an individualist because I am an anarchist; and I am an anarchist because I am a nihilist. […] I call myself a nihilist because I know that nihilism means negation. Negation of every society, of every cult, of every rule and of every religion. …

  • Nihilism as Egoism: Max Stirner by Keiji Nishitani

    The egoist bases himself on absolute “nothing,” and this is neither realism nor an idealism. Where formerly “spirit” was con­ceived as the creator-owner of this world, the egoist’s standpoint sees the self as the creator and owner of spirit and the spiritual world. …

  • Toward the Creative Nothing by Renzo Novatore

    We will destroy laughing. / We will set fires laughing. / We will kill laughing. / We will expropriate laughing. / And society will fall. / The fatherland will fall. / The family will fall. / All will fall after the free man is born. …

  • Drawing First Blood by Meme, Myself and I

    I have no ancestors! For me the creation of the world dates from the day of my birth; for me the end of the world will be accomplished on the day when I shall restore to the elementary mass the apparatus and the afflatus which constitute my individuality. …

  • To the Deranged by Jean Weir

    These pages are for the deranged, individuals not submerged in habit, regimented by protocol or banalised by identity, who refuse to be controlled, ‘facilitated’ or herded into numerically-oriented deadlines. They want to encounter those who can still raise their voices and howl with joy …

  • In Praise of Chaos by Enzo Martucci

    It is not by organizing into parties and syndicates that one struggles for anarchy, nor by mass action which, as has been shown, overthrows one barracks only to create another. It is by the revolt of individuals alone or in small groups, who oppose society, impede its functioning and cause its disintegration. …

  • A Conversation Between Anarchists (excerpt) by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    We live in a world that is apparently changing while its substance remains the same. The economic crisis and its periods of transition, technological progress with its new “breakthroughs” and dominant civilization with its useless consumer goods are part of these apparent changes of the world of power. …

  • A Few Words of "Freedom" by Alfredo Cospito, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    The quality of life of an anarchist is directly proportional to the real damage he causes to the deadly system that oppresses him. …

  • Beyond Right and Wrong by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    The most important and nicest things are spoken in the simplest way. Today, though, the reality of our lives is far from simple. …

  • The Rebellion Continues… Until Total Liberation! by Individualist Cell of Birds of Fire

    There they were, the voracious youth again, destroying everything, erecting barricades, clashing with police, nothing could stop them… There is fire and passion in their hearts, love and hatred on their insides, courage and decision. …

  • Chaotic Variables: A Theoretical Contribution In Proposal for an Informal Anarchist Platform by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    We have long since opposed the world of authority and its countless projections and impositions on our lives. We have toed the line with the world of anarchy seeking to find accomplices in the “crime” of anarchist insurrection as a living stance towards the barbarism of modern times. …

  • Destroy Civilization? by Wolfi Landstreicher

    I assume that all anarchists would agree that we want to put an end to every institution, structure and system of domination and exploitation. The rejection of these things is, after all, the basic meaning of anarchism. …

  • Caught in the Web of Deception: Anarchists and the Media by Wolfi Landstreicher

    As long as the present social order exists, it will be impossible to avoid interaction with the various facets of the power structure. Those of us who call ourselves anarchists need to choose to make these interactions clearly adversarial and conflictual, reflecting our desire to destroy the power structure completely. …

  • Pure Black: An Emerging Consensus Among Some Comrades? by Paul Z. Simons

    Following is a brief, incomplete outline of some of the more common aspects of what black anarchists think and do. These tendencies are numbered for convenience, and not to show priority or importance. …

  • Children's Thoughts by Massimo Passamani

    Yes, I know, we are all against axioms, guarantees, certainties. But can we really live without sharing our being against—without depending upon this sharing? …

  • Chaotic Variable: A Plan With No Safety Net by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    People are more accustomed to asking and waiting for ready solutions than seeking their own responses themselves. …

  • Waiting For The Apocalypse: The Ideology of Collapse and the Avoidance of Revolutionary Responsibility by Wolfi Landstreicher

    There can be little doubt that we are living in frightening times, times in which it is easier for those who can to simply bury their heads in the sand and go on as if everything is fine. …

  • The Price of an Entire World by Massimo Passamani

    Every day this society of hierarchy and money produces both violence and, at the same time, a fixed system of moral anesthesia that supports it. The capacity to perceive it has become an endeavor as well as necessary condition of rebellion. …

  • The Persistent Refusal of Paradise by Penelope Nin

    It is rumored that we (a “we” not well-defined whose lack of definition suits the rumor-mongers) have nothing to do with anarchism, being in reality nihilists disguised for the purpose of penetrating into the sanctuary of anarchy with bad intentions. …

  • Do not say that we are few; Just say that we are determined by R.O. CCF, Theofilos Mavropoulos

    The question is not whether we are more or less poor, but whether we live in a way that does not contain us. We do not want to repeat things that have already been said. …

  • Reflections from the Country of Nothingness by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire & Theofilos Mavropoulos

    When a door closes behind you, another opens ahead. That is how we felt when the door of the prison opened, closing the door on the era when we were free …

  • Why Do We All Live In Prison by Wolfi Landstreicher

    There is a place in this society where one is perpetually under surveillance, where every movement is monitored and controlled, where everyone is under suspicion except the police and their bosses, where all are assumed to be criminals. …

  • Barbarians: The Disordered Insurgence by Crisso and Odoteo

    A nightmare torments the servants of the Empire – the nightmare of its collapse. All the courtiers scattered around the world, political celebrities and generals, administrative delegates and advertisers, journalists and intellectuals, are asking themselves how to avert this terrible threat. …

  • Individuality and the anarchist group by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    Written from the lived experience of an armed anarchist urban guerrilla who is imprisoned in the isolation dungeon of Korydallos prison in Athens, Greece, this is not a dreamy fantasy but a text which was developed in the furnace of practical theory and it’s consequences. …

  • Insurrectionary Anarchy Organising for Attack! by Do or Die

    Insurrectionary anarchism is one such form, although it is important to stress that insurrectionary anarchists don’t form one unified block, but are extremely varied in their perspectives. …

  • Affinity and Solidarity Against Victimization and Authority by Mónica Cabellero and Francisco Solar

    In the struggle to break with the establishment we look for and create relationship forms that are contrary to imposition and authority. Forms that help us feel comfortable in order to develop autonomously in our proposals and acts of daily confrontation. …

  • Towards Insurrection by Alfredo M. Bonanno

    The title of this debate is ‘Towards insurrection’. I said to myself, what does this ‘towards insurrection’ mean? …

  • Let’s Destroy Work, Let’s Destroy the Economy by Alfredo M. Bonanno

    The old work ethic has disappeared along with the massive obsolete structures of capital which required a permanent army of producers, yet work still has far more implications than mere survival. …

  • Stop the City? – From Information to Attack by Alfredo M. Bonanno

    Those who don’t agree with such methods as sitting and waiting to be charged by police should not participate in such a demonstration, but organize with other like-minded comrades to prepare one of a different kind. …

  • The Logic of Insurrection by Alfredo M. Bonanno

    When we hear the word insurrection we think of some precise moment of upheaval in the past, or imagine a similar clash in the future. Spontaneous insurrection occurs when people are pushed beyond their limits of endurance at their points of exploitation. …

  • The Free Besieged by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    Prison is a milestone in the revolutionaries’ path towards freedom. It’s an intermediary stop, but not the end. …

  • Why Insurrection? by Alfredo M. Bonanno

    Our task as anarchists, our main preoccupation and greatest desire, is that of seeing the social revolution realized: terrible upheaval of men and institutions which finally succeeds in putting an end to exploitation and establishing the reign of justice. …

  • Anarchists and Action by Alfredo M. Bonanno

    Anarchists are not slaves to numbers but continue to act against power even when the class clash is at a low level in the mass. Anarchist action should not therefore aim at organising and defending …

  • The Insurrectional Project by Alfredo M. Bonanno

    From whatever angle you approach it, the present offers no way out. This is not the least of its virtues. From those who seek hope above all, it tears away every firm ground. …

  • Strangers in an Alien World by Wolfi Landstreicher

    I have been an anarchist for well over thirty years now. For me this has never been an identity to which to cling, a label to give me a sense of belonging. It has rather been an ongoing challenge to face my life in a particular way …

  • The Anarchist Tension by Alfredo M. Bonanno

    Yes, it’s true, anarchism is a tension, not a realisation, not a concrete attempt to bring about anarchy tomorrow morning. …

  • Insurrectionalist Anarchism — Part One by Alfredo M. Bonanno

    The following ideas have emerged from a long itinerary of struggle and reflection. They represent a tormented, complex thesis, which is not only difficult to set out …

  • Lone wolves are not alone… by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    Today we live in the time of fear, the kingdom of degeneration. All around us spreads a sick world which refuses however to die. The world of economy falls but does not collapse. …

  • The Sun Still Rises by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    The Fire Cells Conspiracy revolutionary organization didn’t begin its activity from out of nowhere. It wasn’t as if a straight line had cut through space and time. It was a future crying out from the past. It was a future crying out from the past. …

  • Communization: The senile decay of anarchy (or re-inventing anarchy) by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

    Today’s era smells like engine oil, cheap labor sweat and naphthalene of the morality of voluntary obedience …

  • Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism by sasha k.

    Insurrectionary anarchism is not an ideological solution to all social problems, a commodity on the capitalist market of ideologies and opinions, but an on-going praxis …

  • Killing King Abacus - Introduction by sasha k, Leila, Wolfi Landstreicher

    To Kill King Abacus is to create relations without measure. If we aim to destroy capitalism we cannot reproduce its necrophilic logic which reduces relationships to numbers …

  • Armed Joy by Alfredo M. Bonanno

    This book was written in 1977 in the momentum of the revolutionary struggles taking place in Italy at the time, and that situation, now profoundly different, should be borne in mind when reading it today. …

  • At Daggers Drawn with the Existent, its Defenders and its False Critics by anonymous

    Life is no more than a continual search for something to cling to. One gets up in the morning to find oneself in bed a mere matter of hours later …