-Caveat Lector-
>ANARCHISM: The belief that it is possible for there to be an orderly
social order in the absence of any government. While various schools of
anarchism exist, all share the common view that a society can peacefully
exist without any state structures. Key thinkers include Karl Marx*,
Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon*, Pytor Alekseyevich Kropotkin*, and Murray Rothbard*.
Karl Marx? A Marxist. Rothbard? A capitalist. The guy who wrote this?
Clueless about anarchism.
Key anarchist thinkers include Michael Bakunin, Emma Goldman, Erico
Maletesta, Alexander Berkman, Francisco Ferrer, Murray Bookchin, John
Zerzan and Noam Chomsky.
For information about what all we're up these days, check out the
following:
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ANARCHIST RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
(A SORT OF FAQ, 2.8, 27/April/1999)
This FAQ is on the web at
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/inter/faq.html
Anarchists have been active on the internet for many
years now, this is a quick guide for newcomers to the
net so they can discover the wealth of anarchist
resources available. There is also information on how
to get free web pages and email accounts so you can
provide information as well as consuming it. There are
currently five sections
I. Anarchist Web Pages
II. Anarchist mailing lists
III. Newsgroups
IV Chat
V New pages on Revolt this month
Suggestions for improvements etc can be sent to
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I. ANARCHIST WEB PAGES
There are literally hundreds of anarchist web pages and
more are appearing every week. Rather then providing a
very long list (which would quickly become outdated), I
suggest you go to the Anarchist FAQ's list of web pages
which is regularly updated and lists most current
pages. This is at
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/links.html
The FAQ is the work of anarchists in many countries and
aims to provide an exhaustive description of anarchism
useful to beginners and people who have been in the
movement for many years. This is at
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/
If you want to put up your own web page various
companies provide space in return for putting
advertising on your pages. Be warned though that they
may well remove your pages if they don't like your what
you say without either warning or appeal!! Often such
commercial pages also monitor who is looking at their
pages and sell this information to third parties.
Free commercial page providers include
http://www.geocities.com
http://www.tripod.com
TAO Communications, a worker-cooperative of radical
activists and communications workers, offers pay-what-
you-can web site hosting for groups who's work
coincides with their collective statement of demands
(http://www.tao.ca/sky/). People and collectives
requesting their services can fill out the form at
http://www.tao.ca/sky/new.html to recieve e-mail
accounts (web or shell-based), shell accounts, ftp,
websites, etc... to request the creation of an e-mail
list use the 'create' button at http://major.tao.ca
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II ANARCHIST MAILING LISTS
This is a listing of anarchist and related mailing
lists broken into sections
1. General anarchist lists
2. Regional anarchist lists
3. Lists run for a particular organisation
4. Anarchist project lists
5. Getting an additional, free email address
6. Other lists of interest to anarchists
Sections 1, 2 and 3 have most if not all lists
currently publicly available (there are also some
'invite only' ones).
Anarchy-list is the oldest of the lists here and by far
the busiest, when you subscribe to an email list all
the mail from it goes into YOUR mailbox so unless you
read you mail _VERY_ frequently I recommend you only
subscribe to one or two of these lists at a time. All
the different lists have quite a different character to
them so read the descriptions and pick one that seems
to suit you.
If you are not an anarchist and want to argue with
anarchists its not a good idea to subscribe to these
lists as its not really their function, they are spaces
for anarchists to talk to each other. If this is what
your looking for I recommend you use NEWS which is the
last section listed here. If your polite about it and
don't post too much you might also be accepted on
anarchy-list.
1. GENERAL ANARCHIST LISTS
These are news/discussion lists not restricted to any
particular region or organisation
A-Infos News [**** RECOMMENDED]
reports and analysis from international anarchist
newspapers and individuals as well as news from more
general sources of interest to anarchists. Useful in
particular for non-mainstream views of big
international stories like the storming of the Japanese
embassy in Peru. To join send mail with the words
SUBSCRIBE A-INFOS in the body of the message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A-Infos now offers single language lists, mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for details.
You can send news to this service by mailing
[EMAIL PROTECTED], start your subject line with a
language code, eg (en) for English.
MujeresLibres
MujeresLibres is an anarcha - feminist mailing list.
Mujeres Libres means 'Free Women' in Spanish.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2159/mujeres_mail.html
Subscribe by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message
subscribe MujeresLibres
Anarcha-feminist
Monster, a anarcho-feminist group in the US is running
an anarcha-feminist list. To join mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[This list may no longer be functioning]
Black-libertarians [ *** NEW]
A mailing list for African American/black people interested
in anarchism.
To subscribe, send a message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with
subscribe black-libertarians in the message body.
Chicano/a, Mexicano/a Anarchists.
A place where we can discuss our ideas, culture and projects.
This list is open to all regardless of their ethnicity, but please
respect that this is a Chican@/Mexican@ list and if you are not of
this background please do not post.
To join, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anarchy-list
List for discussions about anarchism with over 500
participants. To join send a message to
send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the line
subscribe anarchy-list
in the body (not the subject) of the message
This is the most public and chaotic of the anarchist
mailing lists and tends to be dominated by repetitive
and low level debates. Also liable to fill you mail
box overnight when one of the recurrent flame wars
break out. If you can handle the volume though it does
grow on you as it's very social.
Anarchism - A list like the anarchy-list but claims to
be of slightly better quality and much lower message-
volume. To subscribe send an empty message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anarchism Discussion List
A moderated general anarchist discussion list, more
details and subscribtion via
http://www.findmail.com/list/anarchism/
Anarchy
Yet another general discussion list. Send a "subscribe
anarchy" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Research on Anarchism
This list is moderated, which means messages are
approved before they go to the list. As might be
expected from the title can be a bit academic in focus
but the quality is good and the volume is low.
To join, send a message to :
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
leave "subject" empty
in the text write: SUBscribe RA-L lastname firstname
do not add any signature..
Anetdev
Forum for discussing setting up an international
anarchist computer network, linking BBS'es, internet
sites, etc. To join mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the words SUBSCRIBE ANETDEV in the body of the
message.
Organise [**** RECOMMENDED]
This is a private, invitation-only list run by
dedicated "class struggle anarchists" (libertarian
socialists, anarcho-syndicalists, and anarchist
communists). To join send a polite email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be sent the list
statement.
Anarchist Educational List:
To Subscribe, send email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
with
"subscribe anoked-l" in the message BODY
Anarkio
Listo por Anarkiistaj Esperantistoj
(Esperanto-speaking Anarchists' List)
Send the message subscribe anarkio
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Att
Anarchist Think Tank
Send the message subscribe att to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Law and Anarchy
An open forum for discussion and hopefully some
practical help with legal issues relating to
anarchists. Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], with
subscribe lawandanarchy
Anarchist Science Fiction
For the discussion of anarchist SF and Fantasy, as well
as anarchist/libertarian themes in SF books, films, and
TV shows.
Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message
subscribe anarchysf <your email>
2. REGIONAL ANARCHIST LISTS
-- North American Anarchist Mailing lists --
Atlantic Anarchist Circle
New regional anarchist network for east-coast US &
Canada. To join send a mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
words "subscribe aac" in the body of the message.
Washington, D.C. area
For anarchists and anti-authoritarians living in the
Washington, D.C. area, including folks living in
Maryland, D.C., Northern Virginia, Eastern West
Virginia, and the DelMarVa Pennisula.
To join, send an email with no subject to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body
of the message include:
subscribe dc <your email address>
Red and Black
a regional list for all varieties of the Libertarian
Left in the Midwestern USA
To Subscribe mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the SUBJECT subscribe
South U.S.
A new listserv which hopes to become an online
community for anarchists, left-libertarians, and anti-
authoritarians living in the
southeastern United States
To subscribe email
[EMAIL PROTECTED], with the message
subscribe south <your email address>
Michigan
Email list strictly for anarchists/activists/
progressives in the state of Michigan. Outsiders are
welcome so long as they respect the intention of the
list. If you are interested, simply email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kansas City Anarchists List
Organizing and announcements list for anarchists living
in the Kansas City/Lawrence region of the U.S.
To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with:
subscribe kc
-- European Anarchist mailing lists --
EASTERN EUROPE
Alternative Network for Eastern Europe
Started by the Polish Anarchist Federation. To join
send mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words
"SUBSCRIBE ALTER-EE" in the body of the message.
Also see http://www.most.org.pl/alter/fa
EX-YUGOSLAVIA
Ex-yu-a-lista
Ex-yu-a-lista is meant for circulation of information
and discussion among anarchists in countries which
emerged from what was once SFR Yugoslavia.
Language(s): southslavic.
subscribe: send "SUBSCRIBE EX-YU-A-LISTA" in the body,
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or check out at:
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3707/lista.htm
HUNGARY
Hungarian anarchist mailing list
Send the message subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BRITAIN
Fpi
Freedom Press International News
To join send subscribe fpi
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IRELAND
Ainriail
An ultra-low volume list to which announcements from
the Workers Solidarity Movement and Organise - IWA are
posted. This list is moderated so there will be an
average of less then five posts a week. Subscribe by
sending the message
subscribe ainriail
to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anarchy-Ireland
List for discussing events in Ireland from an
anarchist/libertarian communist perspective.
To subscribe, go to
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/anarchy-ireland
BELGIUM
Libertarian agora
Alternative Libertaire is recipient animation of a
space of debates between libertarians of the south and
north of the country. To be registered it is necessary
to send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
following command in the text of the message: "
subscribe anarchie "
also see http://users.skynet.be/AL/amisal/diffuse.htm
SWEDEN
Frihetliga ringen maillista
For (mainly) anarchists and leftwing people in Sweden.
For discussions and for news, and to help people with
campaigns, new homepages etc. To subscribe, send a
message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.hata-staten.pp.se/frihetliga.html
Motkraft
Motkraft is a libertarian socialist newsletter for
anarchists, autonomes and syndicalists in Sweden. The
Newsletter is a weekly electronic newsletter written in
the Swedish
language.
To subscribe to the newsletter send a message to
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
FINLAND
A-fem
Anarcho-Feminism Finland
To join contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anarko
Anarchist list for Finnish-speaking anarchists.
To join, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anarko-helsinki
Regional list for anarchists in Helsinki area.
To join, mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Musta Sateenkaari
List of eco-anarchist group "Black Rainbow" in Helsinki
university.
contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jyvaskylan opiskelevat anarkistit
Anarcho-students at city of Jyvaskyla, also other
regional issues
to join, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
PORTUGAL
"Anarquismo Hoje" (anarchism today).
For discussions about activities in Portugal, in
Portuguese. To subscribe mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ASIA/OCEANIA
A-asia
List for anarchist and left-libertarian activists in
Asia.
To subscribe, contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ISRAEL
Mailing list for Isrealis and Palestinians interested
in anarchism, or general anti-authoritarian,
libertarian socialist theory.
To subscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "subscribe israel" in the message BODY.
Spanet
Spanet (south pacific anarchist network) and encourages
subscribers from Australia and other places in the
South Pacific. You can subscribe by sending a message
to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] saying subscribe
LATIN AMERICA
Anarq-Lat [Spanish/ Portuguese language list for Latin
American anarchism]
ANARQLAT es un foro para usuarios de correo
electronico, constituido en torno a la tematica del
Anarquismo en America Latina - Para suscribirse a la
lista envie un mensaje
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sin subject, colocando
en el cuerpo del mismo: subscribe anarqlat
3. LISTS RUN FOR A PARTICULAR ORGANISATION
These lists function primarily for news from or
discussion about a particular organisation
Ainriail
An ultra-low volume list to which announcements from
the Workers Solidarity Movement and Organise - IWA are
posted. This list is moderated so there will be an
average of less then five posts a week. Subscribe by
sending the message
subscribe ainriail
to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
see http://flag.blackened.net/revolt.html
Confederation of Anarchist Youth
is a new net work of young anarchists. To join their
mailing list, send a mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "SUBSCRIBE CAY (firstname) (lastname)" in body of
the message.
AIT-IWA-talk
Mailing list about the syndicalist international. To
join send a message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
WSA-talk
The list of the American section of the IWA. To join
send a message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
Alarm-listan
Alarmlistan is the electronic news-flash letter of the
Malmo info magazine Alarmkalandern.
Subscribe by sending a message to:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Autonomi-listan
The Autonomi list is a discussion list is based upon
texts that the Swedish Autonomi collective place on
their web-site.
Subscribe by sending a message to:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
4. Anarchist project lists
These are lists connected with doing various anarchist
projects on and off the web. The focus here is on
doing practical work so please don't subscribe to them
unless you actually intend to contribute to the work in
progress and agree with the list guidelines.
Anarchoprop
anarchist propaganda list: email list dedicated to
propaganda. The main idea of the list is that people
and groups post the texts of their pamphlets etc, for
anyone to copy and use. To subscribe, send an empty
message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. For help or
more information, email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
A-Infos-Org
The mailing list where the collective that runs the a-
infos news lists (see above) organises these lists. If
you want to get involved mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and ask how to join
Spunk Press
This list administers the anarchist Spunk Press
electronic library, To be added email explaining that
you want to join
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anarchists Anti-Defamation League
http://www.greenspun.com/spam/home.tcl?domain=aadl
Infoshops network
For autonomous groups who run info-shops/ autonomous
centres/ free cafes/ reading rooms
send the message subscribe infoshops
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5. GETTING AN EXTRA FREE EMAIL ADDRESS
There are many reasons why you might what to gain an
additional email address, perhaps just to keep your
mail separate, perhaps because you don't want to use
your work or your parents address, or perhaps because
you live in a country where posting from an easily
identifiable email address could be a threat to you
life or liberty.
See the Tao entry near the top for a radical source
that provides some free email accounts, otherwise
the services below which are all capitalist companies
give you an email address you can name yourself which
will not be easily traceable to you [However they will
know who you are and they may choose to give out this
information so this is not 100% 'safe', it should
however offer considerable protection from non-state
threats and some limited protection from state ones].
They make money from it by selling advertising that
appears when you read your messages.
Pmail
Pmail allows you to get your mail from your usual e-
mail software and not necessarily by their web page.
http://www.pmail.net
Geocities
This is the one the writer of this FAQ uses, you also
get a web page (which means setting it up is more time
consuming) It is however probably the easiest to trace
your real identity through
http://www.geocities.com/BHI/freehp.html
for more details
Hotmail
A web based service where you can read your mail as
'web pages' visible only to you. Easy to set up.
http://www.hotmail.com/
Juno
You don't actually need any internet access to use it.
It comes with its own dialer. It is unsuitable for use
in other countries since you can't get your mail unless
you can dial to the u.s. number and get it.
http://www.juno.com/
Rocketmail
This ones requires Netscape 3.0 or Microsoft 3.0
http://www.rocketmail.com/
Mailexcite
http://www.mailexcite.com
There are now loads of others so look around
6. OTHER LISTS OF INTEREST TO ANARCHISTS
Noam Chomsky
New listserv devoted to the work of prominent living
anarchist, Noam Chomsky, both political/social and
linguistic. To subscribe, send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words
"SUBSCRIBE CHOMSKY " in the body of the message.
IWW-news
IWW's list for alternative news. To join send mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the words SUBSCRIBE IWW-NEWS in the body of the
message.
OneUnion
List for discussing syndicalism and libertarian
socialism. To join send a message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
Zapatista-list
To join send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
words "SUBSCRIBE CHIAPAS95" in the body of the message.
AUT-OP-SY
"Exploring the changing nature of class composition and
class struggle within the planetary work machine." To
join send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words
SUBSCRIBE AUT-OP-SY in the body of the message.
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III. NEWSGROUPS
You access news group through USENET or News, these are
completely public discussion boards where any message
posted is visible to anyone on the internet who looks
for it. The discussions are divided into thousands of
topics, some which contain discussion of interest to
anarchists include. Be warned though the level of
discussion tends to be _very_ poor because of the
public nature of these forums...
You can also access news by going to Dejanews. This is
http://www.dejanews.com/
>From Dan Clore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Similar to DejaNews is:
http://www.reference.com/
alt.anarchism
alt.society.anarchy
alt.society.ati
alt.society.civil-disob
alt.fan.noam-chomsky
alt.society.labor-unions
alt.politics.radical-left
alt.society.resistance
alt.society.revolution
misc.activism.progressive
IV Chat
Internet Chat Relay (IRC), allows real time
communication between a number of people, there does
not seem to be many anarchists using this at the moment
but the page at
http://www.techplus.com/pperswain/Anarchism.html
is for a anarchism! channel. It also has links to the
sharewhare you need to be able to use this system.
Advice from one regular user
"the channel has a relatively small following... and
summer isn't the best time for even that small group.
But if you are there and someone else is, but they
don't respond right away, be patient, as sometimes
we're busy somewhere else (i'm saying this because I
see a lot of people come in and say "hi" and then leave
a few seconds later .... best to give it at least a
minute ...I know dalnet has a #anarchism channel to,
but i don't go to dalnet much and haven't seen anyone
there ... no web page to my knowledge.
Anarchopunk IRC channel.
The channel name is #anarchopunkand it's in the EFNet
servers (irc.ef.net)
Subject: Anarchy chat
For those of you who use irc, an anarchist discussion
channel has been opened on the irc network called
EFNet. The name of the channel is #red&black.
Email Social Anarchists International
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for more info
V New pages on Revolt this month
The following pages have been added to Revolt this
month, you can access them at
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/new.html
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If you want to put this on the web I suggest
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http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/inter/faq.html
instead as I keep this version updated
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