Anarchist Movements

Documents, Articles and Sites on History of Anarchism in the United States

• Emma Goldman Papers. Excellent site from University of California, Berkeley on the most famous anarcha-feminist.
• Anarchism and American Traditions. Voltairine De Cleyre.
• Lucy Parsons (1853-1942): The Life of an Anarchist Labor Organizer.
• Anarchy in Interpretation: The Life of Emma Goldman.
• The Last of the Anarchists. Paul Berman. Profile of an Italian-American anarchist in Slate magazine .
• Industrial Workers of the World (IWW - aka, the Wobblies). Wikipedia intro.
• IWW Pamphlets online. Numerous original IWW documents.
• The Legacy of the IWW. by Paul Buhle (2005).
• Solidarity Forever: A Look at Wobbly Culture.
• IWW Culture in Documents.
• Centralia Massacre, 1919. Documents on the battle between the IWW and reactionary forces in Washington state.
• Seattle General Strike, 1919. Strike in which the anarcho-syndicalist IWW played a prominent role.
• The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (Atlantic Magazine, 1927).
• Vanzetti's Last Statement.
• The Never-Ending Wrong. Katherine Anne Porter. Novelist's perspective on the Sacco and Vanzetti case (Atlantic, 1927).
• Surrealism in the United States Surrealism is closely aligned with cultural anarchisms.

Contemporary Sites About Anarchism

• A-Infos. A multi-lingual news service by, for, and about anarchists.
• Anarcha-feminism.
• Anarchist Archives. Online works of Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman and other prominent anarchists.
• Anarchism and the Arts. Intro from
  Wikipedia.
• Anarchist Artists
• Anarchist Comics
• Anarchist Fiction
• Anarchist Films
• Anarchy List. Excellent set of resources.
• Art as Anarchy. from Spunk Library.
• Diggers Archive. Important 1960s anarchist group in Bay Area.
• Liberty for the People. Very rich set of resources.
• Love and Rage — Amor Y Rabia (Anarchist Newspaper).
• Murray Bookchin's Collected Works. A major modern anarchist's writings.
• Noam Chomsky Archive at ZNet. Anarchist cultural/media critic Chompsky's works.
• nothingness.org Includes resources on the Situationinsts, a major international anarchist tendency.
• Prominent Anarchists and Left Libertarians. Good brief biographical sketches.
• Questions and Answers About Anarchism. Fine introduction to anarchism (from the 1979 edition of Reinventing Anarchy).
• Russian Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism.
• Situationism: An Anarchist Perspective
• Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm by Murray Bookchin.
• TAO Anarchives. Toronto anarchist media collective.
• Tyranny of Structurelessness. Jo Freedman. Classic early feminist article on mistaking anarchy for lack of organization.
• What It Is To Be a Girl in an Anarchist Boys Club. Anarcha-feminist essay.

Books and Articles on Anarchism, Art and Culture

Antliff, Allan. Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001

--. Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press 2007.

Macphee, Josh and Erik Reuland. Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2007.

Porton, RIchard. Film and the Anarchist Imagination. London: Verso, 1999.

Sakolsky, Ron and Franklin Rosemont, eds. Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings and Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States. NY: Autonomedia, 2002. US surrealists were part of or were tied to several anarchist movements, from the 1920s to the present.

Sonn, Richard. Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin-De-Siècle France. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

Further Research

• Anarchism: The Unfinished Revolution. Very extensive bibliography on anarchism.