Anonymous Comrade writes:

Introducing ZineLibrary.net

ZineLibrary.Net is now the biggest collection of Anarchist zines on the internet.

Have you ever noticed how so many anarchist ideas remain on the internet? Have you noticed that the few anarchist publications around get more contributions than production help, and that so many ideas never make it into any of them? Have you also ever noticed that many people won't take the time to search for anarchist ideas even though they may agree with them? We think we have some ideas to get anarchist ideas off the internet, have unlimited printing and distribution possibilities, and to put anarchist ideas into the hands of curious people.

This isn't a new idea, it is based on Schnews in the UK and fax spammers of the 90's. The idea is to use people's existing printers and copy machines for a radically decentralized printing and distribution network. This idea will also complement existing anarchist papers, pamphlets, zines and flyers. The idea is to make a copy of your print work in the Adobe PDF file type. Literature can then be laid out and put into a PDF file which will make these ideas printable and therefore accessible to those not looking for anarchist ideas on the internet or visiting a radical bookstore. The best part is that the printing is free from any State or workplace printer.

ZineLibrary.net's name is self-explanatory. We hope to provide a widely-accessible, permanent distribution system for zines, which otherwise reach a limited number of people.

We ask you to join this printing revolution by making a copy of your print materials in PDF form for accessible and decentralized printing. We can share these ideas without having to pay hundreds of dollars in printing costs.

Anonymous Comrade writes "NEW ANTI-CAPITALIST WEBSITE: PROLE.INFO

Announcing a new anti-capitalist website:

http://www.prole.info

It has lots of pamphlets in PDF form, as well as a number of online texts.

Check it out.

"Prole" is short for "proletarian" a word used by Karl Marx to describe the working class under capitalism. We are all the people in this society who do not own property or a business we can make money from, and therefore have to sell our time and energy to a boss--we are forced to work. Our work is the basis of this society.

We are not just a sociological category. Work, and the society that grows out of it are alienating and miserable for us. We are constantly fighting against the conditions of our lives. Simply standing up for our own interests brings us into conflict with bosses, bureaucrats, landlords, police and politicians everywhere. These everyday struggles are the starting point to undermining capitalism. We are not just the working class; we are the working class that struggles to do away with work and class, and the society built around them.

The experience of those who are forced to work, and who struggle against the society based on work, creates certain kinds of ideas. When we are actively fighting for our own interests, these ideas solidify into a subversive, anti-capitalist perspective. This has at times been called "communism" or "anarchism". We do not need political groups to bring us these ideas, but we do need to think about how to fight for ourselves. To that end, this site is a collection of writings from a subversive and anti-capitalist perspective on theory as well as history. Some of them use needlessly obscure language, and parts of them are definitely outdated. But they all raise important issues for the modern day prole. Hopefully they will be useful to you."

Robert Graham writes

Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas

Volume One of Robert Graham's much anticipated anthology of historic anarchist writings, Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, subtitled From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE–1939), will be published by (Black Rose Books) at the end of March 2005.

The collection includes signicant material from China, Japan, Korea and Latin America that has never before appeared in English, together with newly translated European materials and selections from several out of print and difficult to find sources.

Topics covered include Daoist anarchy, freedom and servitude, enlightenment and revolution, the industrial revolution and the emergence of socialism, the Paris Commune and the First International, anarchist communism, anarcho-syndicalism, art and anarchy, anarchy and education, women, love and marriage, propaganda by the deed and direct action, anti-militarism and anti-colonialism, fascism and the rise of totalitarianism, technology and the organization of work under capitalism, and the Mexican, Russian and Spanish Revolutions.

In addition to the usual suspects (Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman, etc.), contributors include Gustav Landauer, Jean Grave, Voltairine de Cleyre, Ba Jin, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, Herbert Read, Sebastien Faure, and several other authors whose work has never before been translated into English. For a full table of contents, check out the Black Rose website (note that the book will be over 500 pages long, not the 300 pages listed in the catalog).

Tarantula Distribution writes:

Tarantula Distribution
New List and Website

This is just a brief announcement that the second Tarantula Distribution list is out now. If you'd like a hard copy, just write or send an email to the address below.

Tarantula is a radical, anarchist and communist literature distribution. The words we pass on are tools to be used — by affinity groups, study circles and individual rebels. No pamphlet or book is a revolution in itself; the only thing analysis can do is make our rebellion more precise. Our texts are for those willing to take risks, those wanting to hurry on a world with no more buying and selling!

The list is also online as a .pdf file on the new distribution website — www.socialwar.net

We have just reprinted “For a World Without Moral Order” from La Banquise, as well as “The Prison Within the Prison,” a dossier on struggles against the FIES isolation regime within Spanish prisons – check the website for details.

You'll also find some free writings, posters and other subversive content there.

Tarantula Distribution

818 SW 3rd Ave PMB 1237

Portland, OR 97204

tarantula@socialwar.net

Onto writes:

"Towards a Critical Analysis of Media EmergenC"
Media EmergenC Assembly

Introduction

From October 6th–9th, as the National Association of Broadcasters was holding their annual Radio Road Show in San Diego, a group of media activists converged to try to illuminate what is wrong with the corporate media and to strengthen independent, community autonomous media. This convergence was called the Media emergenC, highlighting the two themes of emergency and emergence. With 4 days of talks, film screenings, marches, panels, forums and independent media making, the media activists, mostly composed of members of San Diego Indymedia and radioActive sanDiego, but including media makers from as far away as New York and Philadelphia, tried to confront the NAB as had been done in many other cities, but also to challenge the independent media movement and push it forward. For an overview of the events, see here.

"Fifth Estate at 40:

Detroit Radical Rag Celebrates Its Ruby Anniversary"

Carleton S. Gholz, Detroit Metro Times

It is 2005, 40 years after the Watts riots, the death of Malcolm X and the
prime time of Motown Records. On his WRIF radio show, Night Call, Peter
Werbe's husky voice is intoning some of the 217 reasons why he didn't feel
joyous about the recent "coronation" of George W. Bush. Some of Werbe's
callers are longtime listeners, so disturbed by America's current political
reality that the words stammer out of their mouths. Still others call in,
clearly believing they have exposed a late-night communist conspiracy.

rwnorris writes:

Vietnam War Conscientious Objector Republishes Memoir

Robert W. Norris, a native Californian and Vietnam War conscientious objector (CO) now living in Japan, understands what many of the Iraq War generation are going through. Thirty-four years after being court-martialed as a CO, Norris has republished his first novel in order to give them an alternative viewpoint.

Looking for the Summer, published January 15, 2005 by Lulu Press, tells the story of a Vietnam War CO's adventures and search for identity on the road from Paris to Calcutta in 1977.

Al Jazeera 'For Sale' Is a Sad Sign For All

Linda S. Heard

It is been bombed, banned and lambasted. It is been accused of aiding
terrorists
and serving as a mouthpiece for Osama Bin Laden as well as Saddam Hussain.

It boasts huge audiences throughout the Arab world because it reflects
public opinion and yet advertisers treat it like the plague, fearful of
offending the governments it regularly attacks.

I'm referring, of course, to Al Jazeera, the satellite television station
that put tiny Qatar firmly on the international map.

CKUT Radio: Resisting the U.S. Presidential Inauguration

On Thursday January 20th, as George W. Bush was sworn in for a second term
as U.S. president in Washington DC, thousands of demonstrators took the
streets of downtown DC, to voice rejection of both the domestic and
foreign policies of the current U.S. Administration. A key focus of the
large-scale demonstrations, estimated at 10 000 people, was the ongoing
internationally condemned U.S. lead military occupation of Iraq, in which
according to public health experts from the U.S., an estimated 100 000
Iraqi's have died.

This radio segment features an interview with Lelia Spears of DC Anarchist
Resistance, a group formed in the spirit of directly confronting Bush's
inauguration, who on January 20th confronted police lines guarding Bush's
inauguration parade route. Also this radio segment features an interview
with Drew Poe, from DC Indymedia and DC Radio Co-Op who spoke about the
independent media convergence, which took place to facilitate alternative
coverage to the corporate / state-run media of Bush's inauguration.

This article was written for the Precarity issue of Green Pepper which is currently shipping. Contact them or http://www.autonomedia.org">autonomedia to have copies of this provocative and beautifully produced textual side-arm!

Manufacturing Dissent, Creating Complicity

Alan Toner

"Language... is the danger of all dangers, because it is that which begins by creating the possibility of a danger." — Holderlin

What role remains for the 'media-activist' when computing, telecommunications devices and cameras have become socially ubiquitous? Media and creative intervention cease to be the privilege of 'specialist' activists and professionals, and this is positive. So how does the relationship between communications and agitation mutate? This piece concentrates on communication's function as interface between the protagonists of social conflict and diffuse social discontent. I argue that the key lies in evolving communication-focussed rather than media-driven strategies, developing shared infrastructure, and creating collective narratives.