#Westport Library

[sarahbethdurst]

StoryFest 2024

Had a wonderful time at StoryFest this weekend! Thank you, Westport Library!!!

[saltyspecs]

I love my library so much and normally I am fine waiting for books to get in. Unfortunately I fear I do not have it in me to wait until Monday to read rogue protocol

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Keith receives the inaugural Governor’s Award of Excellent from Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont at the Westport, CT Library (March 5, 2025)

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“Without our books, without knowing things, without knowing their special meaning—this isn’t movies, this is not someone drawing you images. This is a book, and you have the movie in your head. It’s very important that we keep our books unburnt. Just watch out with the matches.”

- Keith Richards speech accepting the inaugural Connecticut Governor’s Award of Excellence at Westport Library, March 5, 2025

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plate on a pathway outside library in Westport Connecticut.

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Bibliography for FAQ

Anarchist and Libertarian Works

Aberdeen Solidarity, Spartakism to National Bolshevism: The K.P.D. 1918–1924, Solidarity, Aberdeen, 1970.

ACF, Marxism and Its Failures, ACE Editions, London, 1990.

Ackelsberg, Martha A., Free Women of Spain: anarchism and the struggle for the emancipation of women, AK Press, Oakland/Edinburgh, 2005.

Free Women of Spain: anarchism and the struggle for the emancipation of women, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1991.

Anarchist Federation, The Role of the Revolutionary Organisation, Anarchist Communist Editions, London, 2008.

Anderson, Andy, Hungary ’56, Phoenix Press, London, date unknown.

Anonymous, “Community Organising in Southern Italy”, Black Flag, no. 210, pp. 16–19.

Anonymous, Fighting the Revolution (2 volumes), Freedom Press, London, 1985.

Anonymous, Red Years Black Years: Anarchist Resistance to Fascism in Italy, ASP, London, 1989.

Anonymous, “Trotskyism, Lies and Anarchism”, Black Flag, no. 211, pp. 24–5.

Anger, Max, “The Spartacist School of Falsification”, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, no, 43, Spring/Summer 1997, pp. 50–2.

Arshinov, Peter, The History of the Makhnovist Movement, Freedom Press, London, 1987.

The Two Octobers available at: http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/russia/arshinov_2_oct.html

Avrich, Paul, An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre,Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1978.

Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2005 Kronstadt 1921, W.W. Norton and Company Inc., New York,1970. The Russian Anarchists, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1978. Anarchist Portraits, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1988. The Haymarket Tragedy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1984. “Bolshevik Opposition To Lenin: G. Miasnikov and the Workers Group”, pp. 1–29, Russian Review, vol. 43, no. 1.

Bakunin, Micheal, The Basic Bakunin, Robert M. Cutler (trans. and ed.),Promethus Books, Buffalo, N.Y., 1994.

Bakunin on Anarchism, 2nd Edition, Sam Dolgoff (ed.),Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1980. The Political Philosophy of Bakunin, G.P. Maximov (ed.),The Free Press, New York, 1953. Michael Bakunin: Selected Writings, Arthur Lehning (ed.),Jonathan Cape, London, 1973. Statism and Anarchy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,1990. God and the State, Dover, New York, 1970. Marxism, Freedom and the State, K.J. Kenafick (ed.), Freedom Press, London, 1984.

Barclay, Harold, The State, Freedom Press, London, 2003.

Barrett, George, “The Anarchist Revolution” contained in The Last War, Pirate Press, Sheffield, 1990.

“Objections to Anarchism”, The Raven: AnarchistQuarterly, no. 12 (Vol. 3, No. 4), Oct-Dec 1990, Freedom Press, pp. 339–364. Objections to Anarchism available at http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/sp000146.txt

Bennello, George, “The Challenge of Mondragon” in Reinventing Anarchy, Again, Howard Ehrlich (ed.), AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1996.

Bennello, George C., From the Ground Up, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1992.

Berkman, Alexander, What is Anarchism?, AK Press, Edinburgh/London/Oakland, 2003.

The ABC of Anarchism, Freedom Press, London, 1977. What is Communist Anarchism?, Phoenix Press, London, 1989. The Russian Tragedy, Phoenix Press, London, 1986. The Bolshevik Myth, Pluto Press, London, 1989. Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman reader,Gene Fellner (ed.), Four Walls Eight Windows, New York,1992.

Berkman, Alexander (ed.), The Blast, AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2005.

Berneri, Camillo, “Peter Kropotkin: His Federalist Ideas”, The Raven: Anarchist Quarterly, no. 31 (Vol. 8, No. 3), Autumn 1993, Freedom Press, pp. 268–82

Berneri, Marie-Louise, Neither East Nor West: Selected Writings 1939–48, Freedom Press, London, 1988.

Journey Through Utopia, Freedom Press, London, 1982.

Berry, David, A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945, Greenwood Press, Westport, 2002.

Black, Bob, The Abolition of Work and other essays, Loompanics Unlimited, Port Townsend, 1986.

Friendly Fire, Autonomedia, New York, 1992. Anarchy After Leftism, CAL Press, Columbia, 1997. The Abolition of Work, available at http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/black/sp000156.txt The Libertarian as Conservative, available at http://www.applicom.com/pnews/libertarian.html Smokestack Lighting, available at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3998/smokestack.html

Bonanno, Alfredo M., Anarchism and the National Liberation Struggle, Bratach Dubh Editions, Catania, 1981.

Bookchin, Murray, Post Scarcity Anarchism, 3rd Edition, AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2004.

Post Scarcity Anarchism, Wildwood House, London, 1971. The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868–1936, AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1998. The Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era, Volume 1, Cassel, London, 1996. The Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era, Volume 2, Cassel, London, 1998. Toward an Ecological Society, Black Rose, Montreal, 1980. Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future, South End Press, Boston, MA., 1990. Social Anarchism and Lifestyle Anarchism, AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1995. The Modern Crisis, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1986. The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy, AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2005 The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy, Cheshire Books, Palo Alto, California, 1982. “Communalism: The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism”, Democracy and Nature, No. 8 (vol. 3, no. 2), pp. 1–12. Which Way for the Ecology Movement?, AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1994. The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Black Rose Books, Montreal/New York, 1990. From Urbanisation to Cities: Toward a New Politics of Citizenship, Cassell, London, 1995. “Nationality and the ‘National Question’”, Society and Nature, no. 5, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 8–36. The Communist Manifesto: Insights and Problems, available at: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bookchin/comman.html “Looking Back at Spain,” The Radical Papers, pp. 53–96, Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (ed.), Black Rose Books, Montreal/New York, 1987 The Murray Bookchin Reader, Janet Biehl (ed.), Cassell, London, 1997. Anarchism, Marxism, and the Future of the Left: Interviews and Essays, 1993–1998, AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1999. To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936, AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1994.

Bookchin, Murray and Dave Foreman, Defending the Earth: A Dialogue between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman, Black Rose Books, Montreal/New York.

Bradford, George, How Deep is Deep Ecology?, Times Change Press, California, 1989.

“Woman’s Freedom: Key to the Population Question”, pp. 65–84, How Deep is Deep Ecology?, Times Change Press, California, 1989.

Bricianer, SergePannekoek and the Workers’ Councils, Telos Press, Saint Louis, 1978.

Brinton, Maurice, For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton, David Goodway (ed.), AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2004.

The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control 1917 to 1921: the State and Counter-Revolution, Solidarity and Black and Red, London and Detroit, 1975. The Irrational in Politics, Soldarity (London), London, 1975.

Brown, L. Susan, The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism, Black Rose, Montreal/New York, 1993.

Brown, Tom, Syndicalism, Phoenix Press, London, 1990.

Buber, Martin, Paths in Utopia, Beacon Press, Boston, 1958.

Cardan, Paul, Modern Capitalism and Revolution, 2nd edition, Solidarity,London, 1974.

Carson, Kevin A., The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand, available at: http://www.mutualist.org/id4.html

Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, available at: http://www.mutualist.org/id47.html

Carter, Alan, Marx: A Radical Critique, Wheatsheaf Books, Brighton, 1988.

Casa, Juan Gomez, Anarchist Organisation: The History of the FAI, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1986.

Castoriadis, Cornelius, Workers’ Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society, Wooden Shoe Pamphlet, Philadelphia, 1984.

Political and Social Writings, vol. 1, translated and edited by David Ames Curtis, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1988. Political and Social Writings, vol. 2, translated and edited by David Ames Curtis, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1988. Political and Social Writings, vol. 3, translated and edited by David Ames Curtis, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1993. The Meaning of Socialism, Philadelphia Solidarity, Philadelphia, 1994. “The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy”, contained in Political and Social Writings, vol. 3, pp. 89–105

Chomsky, Noam, Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian, Common Courage and AK Press, Monroe, 1992.

Deterring Democracy, Vintage, London, 1992. Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David Barsamian, AK Press, Edinburgh, 1994. Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, available at: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/interviews/9612-anarchism.html Language and Politics, Expanded Second Edition,C.P. Otero (ed.), AK Press, Edinburgh/London/Oakland, 2004. “Marxism, Anarchism, and Alternative Futures”, pp. 775–785, Language and Politics, Expanded Second Edition. Preface to Rudolf Rocker’s Anarcho-Syndicalism, Pluto Press, London, 1989. World Orders, Old and New, Pluto Press, London, 1994. Radical Priorities, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1981. Year 501: The Conquest Continues, Verso, London, 1993. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, Pluto Press, London, 1991. Expanding the Floor of the Cage, available at: http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/199704--.htm Rollback Parts I to IV, Z Magazine, January to May 1995available at: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199505--.htm Interview on Pozner/Donahue in 1992, available at http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/chomskydon.html For Reasons of State, Fontana/Collins, Suffolk, 1973. The Umbrella of US Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of US Policy, Open Media Pamphlet, Seven Stories Press, New York, 1999. The Chomsky Reader, James Peck (ed.), Pantheon Books, New York, 1987. Turning the Tide: US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace, Pluto Press, 1985. Language and Politics, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1999. Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, Pluto Press, London, 2000. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel (eds.), The New Press, New York, 2002. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures, The New Press, New York/London, 2003. Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, Hamish Hamilton, London, 2003. Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order, Pluto Press, London, 1996. Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian, Pluto Press, London, 1996. American Power and the New Mandarins, Penguin Books, London, 1969. Anarchism Interview: Noam Chomsky interviewed by Ziga Vodovnik, available at: http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20040714.htm Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda, Common Courage Press/AK Press, Monroe/Edinburgh, 1993. Chomsky on Anarchism, AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2005. Government in the Future, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2005. Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky, Pluto Press, London, 2001. Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy, Hamish Hamilton, London, 2006. The Culture of Terrorism, Pluto Press, London, 1989. Imperial Ambitions: Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the post-9/11 World, Penguin Books, London, 2005. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, Mark Achbar (ed.), Black Rose Books, Quebec/New York, 1994. Reluctant Icon: Noam Chomsky interviewed by Tim Halle available at http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/1999----.htm

Christie, Stuart, We, the Anarchists! A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927–1927, The Meltzer Press and Jura Media, Hastings/Petersham, 2000.

My Granny made me an Anarchist (The Christie File part 1, 1946–1964), Christie Books, Hastings, 2002.

Christie, Stuart and Meltzer, Albert, The Floodgates of Anarchy, Kahn & Averill, Southampton, 1984.

Ciliga, Ante, The Russian Enigma, Ink Links Ltd, London, 1979.

Clark, John, The Anarchist Moment: Reflections on Culture, Nature and Power, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1984.

Clark, John P., Max Stirner’s Egoism, Freedom Press, London, 1976.

Clark, John P and Martin, Camille (eds.), Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus, Lexington Books, Lanham, 2004.

Cleaver, Harry, Reading Capital Politically, AK Press/Anti-theses, London, 2000.

Cohn-Bendit, Daniel & Gabriel, Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative, AK Press, Edinburgh, London & San Franciso, 2000.

Cole, G.D.H., Guild Socialism Restated, Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1980.

Self-Government in Industry, Hutchinson Educational, London,1972.

Comfort, Alex, Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State: A Criminological Approach to the Problem of Power, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1950.

Writings against Power and Death: The Anarchist articles and Pamphlets of Alex Comfort, David Goodway (ed.), Freedom Press, London, 1994.

Crump, John, Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan, St. Martin’s Press, Inc., New York, 1993.

Dana, Charles A., Proudhon and his “Bank of the People”, Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., Chicago, 1984.

de Cleyre, Voltairine, The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader, A.J. Brigati (ed.), AK Press, Oakland/Edinburgh, 2004.

Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre — Anarchist, Feminist, Genius, Sharon Presley and Crispin Sartwell (eds.), State University of New York Press, New York, 2005. “Anarchism”, pp. 30–34, Man!, M. Graham (ed.), Cienfuegos Press, London, 1974. Direct Action, available at http://www.etext.org/Politics/Spunk/library/writers/decleyre/sp001334.html The Economic Tendency of Freethought, available at http://alumni.umbc.edu/~akoont1/tmh/voltair.html Anarchism and American Traditions, available at http://alumni.umbc.edu/~akoont1/tmh/vdc.html The First Mayday: The Haymarket Speeches 1895–1910, Cienfuegos Press, Libertarian Book Club and Soil of liberty, Orkney/ Minneapolis, 1980

de Ligt, Bart, The Conquest of Violence, Pluto Press, London, 1989.

de Llorens, Ignaio, The CNT and the Russian Revolution, The Kate Sharpley Library, unknown, undated.

de Santillan, D. A., After the Revolution: Economic Reconstruction in Spain Today, Greenberg, New York, 1937 (facsimile edition by Jura Media, Petersham, 1996).

Debord, Guy, Society of the Spectacle, Rebel Press/Aim Publications, Exeter, 1987.

Dielo Trouda, The Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists, Workers Solidarity Movement, Dublin, 1989.

Direct Action Movement, Winning the Class War: An Anarcho-Syndicalist Strategy, Direct Action Movement-IWA, Manchester/Glasgow, 1991.

Direct Action in Industry, available at: http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/practice/sp001703.html

Dobson, V.G., Bringing the Economy Home from the Market, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1993.

Dolgoff, Sam, The Cuban Revolution: A Critical Perspective, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1976.

The American Labour Movement: A New Beginning, Resurgence, Champaign, Il., 1980. A Critique of Marxism, Soil of Liberty, Minneapolis, unknown.

Draughn, Jeff, Between Anarchism and Libertarianism: Defining a New Movement, available at http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/between.html

Ervin, Lorenzo Kom’boa, Anarchism and the Black Revolution, Monkeywrench Press and the Workers Self-Education Foundation, Philadelphia, 1994.

Fabbri, Luigi, Bourgeois Influences on Anarchism, Acrata Press, San Francisco, 1987.

“Anarchy and ‘Scientific’ Communism”, in The Poverty of Statism, pp. 13–49, Albert Meltzer (ed.), Cienfuegos Press, Sanday, 1981.

Fernandez, Frank, Cuban Anarchism: The History of a Movement, See Sharp Press, Tucson, 2001.

Fernandez, Neil C., Capitalism and Class Struggle in the USSR: A Marxist Theory, Ashgate, Aldershot, 1997.

Fleming, Marie, The Geography of Freedom: The Odyssey of Elisée Reclus, Black Rose Books, Montreal/New York, 1988.

Foner, Philip S. (ed.), The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs, Monad Press, New York, 1977.

Fontenis, Georges, Manifesto of Libertarian Communism,Anarchist Communist Editions, London, 1989.

For Ourselves, The Right to Be Greedy: Thesis on the Practical Necessity of Demanding Everything, Loompanics Unlimited, Port Townsend, Washington, 1983.

Fotopoulos, Takis, “The Economic Foundations of an Ecological Society”,Society and Nature, No. 3 (vol. 1 no. 3), pp. 1–40.

“The Nation-state and the Market,” Society and Nature, No. 5 (vol. 2, no. 2), pp. 37–80. Towards an Inclusive Democracy: The crisis of the growth economy and the need for a new liberatory Project, Cassell, London/New York, 1997.

Ford, Earl C. and Foster, William Z., Syndicalism, Charles H. Keer Publishing Co., Chicago, 1990.

Franks, Benjamin, Rebel Alliances: The means and ends of contemporary British anarchisms, AK Press and Dark Star, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2006.

Friends of Durruti, Towards a Fresh Revolution, Zabalaza Books, Johannesburg, 2003.

Fromm, Erich, To Have Or To Be?, Abacus, London, 1993.

Man for Himself: An Enquiry into the Psychology of Ethics, Ark Paperbacks, London, 1986. The Sane Society, Kegan Paul, 1959. The Fear of Freedom, Ark Paperbacks, London, 1989.

Galleani, Luigi, The End of Anarchism?, Cienfuegos Press, Orkney, 1982.

Godwin, William, The Anarchist Writings of William Godwin, Peter Marshall (ed.), Freedom Press, London, 1986.

An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1976

Goldman, Emma, Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader, 3rd Edition, Alix Kates Shulman (ed.), Humanity Books, New York, 1998.

Red Emma Speaks, Alix Kates Shulman (ed.), Wildwood House, London, 1979. Anarchism and Other Essays, Dover Publications Ltd., New York, 1969. Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution, Commonground Press, New Paltz New York, 1985. My Disillusionment in Russia, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1970. Living My Life (in 2 volumes), Dover Publications, New York, 1970. Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years volume 1: Made for America, 1890–1901, Candace Falk (ed.), University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 2003. Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years volume 2: Making Speech Free, 1902–1909, Candace Falk (ed.), University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 2005. Writings of Emma Goldman: Essays on Anarchism, Feminism, Socialism, and Communism, Red and Black Publishers, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2013

Goodway, David, Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2006.

Goodway, David (ed.), For Anarchism: History, Theory and Practice, Routledge, London, 1989.

Gorter, Herman, Open Letter to Comrade Lenin, Wildcat, 1989.

Graeber, David, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago, 2004.

Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire,AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2007.

Green Anarchy, Against Mass Society, available at: http://www.primitivism.com/mass-society.htm

Greene, William B., Mutual Banking, West Brookfield, 1850.

Guerin, Daniel, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, Monthly Review Press, New York/London, 1970.

Class Struggle in the First French Republic: Bourgeois and Bras Nus 1793–1795, Pluto Press, London, 1977.

Harper, Clifford, Anarchy: A Graphic Guide, Camden Press, London, 1987.

Hoffman, Robert L., Revolutionary Justice: The Social and Political Theory of P.J. Proudhon, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1972.

International Workers Association, Principles, Aims and Statutes of the International Workers Association, Monty Millar Press, Broadway, 1983.

Industrial Workers of the World, How to fire your boss, available at: http://fletcher.iww.org/direct_action/title.html

Kelman, James, Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural and Political, AK Press, Stirling, 1992.

Kelsey, Graham A., Anarchosyndicalism, libertarian communism and the state: the CNT in Zaragoza and Aragon 1930–1937, International Institute of Social History, Dordrecht, London, 1991.

“Anarchism in Aragon,” in Spain in Conflict 1931–1939: democracy and its enemies, Martin Blinkhorn (ed.), pp. 60–82, Sage, London, 1986.

Kenafick, K.J., Michael Bakunin and Karl Marx, Melbourne, 1948.

Klafta, Lance, “Ayn Rand and the Perversion of Libertarianism”, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, no. 34, pp. 59–62.

Knabb, Ken, Public Secrets, Bureau of Public Secrets, Berkeley, 1997.

The Poverty of Primitivism, available at http://www.slip.net/~knabb/CF/primitivism.htm

Knabb, Ken (ed.), Situationist International Anthology, Bureau of Public Secrets, Berkeley, 1981.

Kropotkin, Peter, Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings, Roger N. Baldwin (ed.), Dover Press, New York, 2002.

Act for Yourselves: articles from Freedom 1886–1907,N. Walter and H. Becker (eds), Freedom Press, London, 1988. Ethics: Origin and Development, Blom, 1968. Mutual Aid, Freedom Press, London, 1987. The Conquest of Bread, Elephant Editions, Catania, 1985. The State: Its Historic Role, Freedom Press, London, 1987. Anarchism and Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles, Freedom Press, London, 1987. The Great French Revolution (in two volumes), Elephant Editions, Catania, 1986. Words of a Rebel, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1992. Evolution and Environment, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1995. Fields, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow, Colin Ward (ed.), Freedom Press, London, 1985. Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology, Iain McKay (ed.), AK Press, Edinburgh, Oakland, Baltimore, 2014. Modern Science and Anarchy, Iain McKay (ed.), AK Press, Edinburgh, Oakland, Chico, 2018. Small Communal Experiments and Why They Fail, Jura Media, Sydney, 1997. The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution, Practical Parasite Publications, Cymru, 1990. Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution, Martin A. Miller (ed.), MIT Press, Cambridge, 1970. Memiors of a Revolutionist, Black Rose Books, Montreal/New York, 1989. The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings, Unversity Press, Cambridge, 1995. Kropotkin’s Revolutionary Pamphlets, R.N. Baldwin (ed.),Dover Press, New York, 1970. “Syndicalism and Anarchism”, Black Flag, no. 211, pp. 16–19. The Commune of Paris, available at: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/kropotkin/pcommune.html

Labadie, Joseph A., Anarchism: What It Is and What It Is Not, available at: http://alumni.umbc.edu/~akoont1/tmh/anar_jal.html

Different Phases of the Labour Question, available at: http://members.aol.com/labadiejo/page11.html What is Socialism?, available at: http://members.aol.com/labadiejo/page7.html

Landauer, Gustav, For Socialism, Telos Press, St. Louis, 1978.

Law, Larry, Spectacular Times: Bigger Cages, Longer Chains, A-Distribution/Dark Star Press, London, 1991.

Le Guin, Ursula K., The Dispossessed, Grafton Books, London, 1986.

Leier, Mark, Bakunin: The Creative Passion, Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2006.

Leval Gaston, Collectives in the Spanish Revolution, Freedom Press, London, 1975.

Levy, Carl, Gramsci and the Anarchists, Berg, Oxford, 1999.

Magón, Ricardo Flores, Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader, AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2005.

Land and Liberty: Anarchist influences in the Mexican Revolution, David Poole (ed.), Cienfuegos Press, Sanday, 1977.

Mailer, Phil, Portugal: The Impossible Revolution, Solidarity, London,1977.

Makhno, Nestor, The Struggle Against the State and other Essays, AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1996.

My Visit to the Kremlin, Kate Sharpley Library, London, 1993.

Makhno, Nestor, Ida Mett, Piotr Archinov, Valevsky, Linsky, The Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists, Workers Solidarity Movement, Dublin, 1989.

Malatesta, Errico, Anarchy, Freedom Press, London, 2001.

Anarchy, Freedom Press, London, 1974. Errico Malatesta: His Life and Ideas, 3rd Edition, Vernon Richards (ed.), Freedom Press, London, 1993. Life and Ideas, Vernon Richards (ed.), Freedom Press, London, 1965. The Anarchist Revolution, Vernon Richards (ed.), Freedom Press, London, 1995. Fra Contadini: A Dialogue on Anarchy, Bratach Dudh Editions, Catena, 1981. At the Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism, Freedom Press, London, 2005. A Talk about Anarchist Communism, Freedom Press, London, 1894. “Towards Anarchism”, pp. 73–78, Man!, M. Graham (ed.), Cienfuegos Press, London, 1974. “Anarchism and Syndicalism”, pp. 146–52, Geoffrey Ostergaard, The Tradition of Workers’ Control, Freedom Press, London, 1997. Anarchistes, Socialistes et Communistes, Group 1er Mai, Annecy, 1982.

Malet, Michael, Nestor Makhno in the Russian Civil War, MacMillan Press, London, 1982.

Martin, James J., Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827–1908, Ralph Myles Publisher Inc., Colorado Springs, 1970.

Marshall, Peter, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, Fontana, London, 1993.

Nature’s Web: An Exploration of Ecological Thinking, Simon & Schuster, London, 1992.

Marzocchi, Umberto, Remembering Spain: Italian Anarchist Volunteersthe Spanish Civil War, Kate Sharpley Library, London, 1991.

Mattick, Paul, Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory, M.E. Sharpe, White Plains, New York, 1981.

Economics, Politics, and the Age of Inflation, Merlin Press, London, 1978. Anti-Bolshevik Communism, Merlin Press, London, 1978. Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy,Merlin Press, London, 1971. Marxism: The Last Refuge of the Bourgeoisie?,M. E. Sharpe, Inc./Merlin Press, Armonk/London, 1983.

Maximoff, G. P., Program of Anarcho-Syndicalism, Monty Miller Press, Sydney, 1985.

The Guillotine at Work: twenty years of terror in Russia (data and documents), Chicago Section of the Alexander Berkman Fund, Chicago, 1940.

Maximoff, G. P (ed.), Constructive Anarchism, Monty Miller Press, Sidney, 1988.

McKercher, William R., Freedom and Authority, Black Rose Books, Montreal/New York, 1989

Meltzer, Albert, I Couldn’t Paint Golden Angels, AK Press, Edinburgh, 1996.

Anarchism: Arguments for and against, 7th Revised Edition, AK Press, Edinbrugh/San Francisco, 2000. Anarchism: Arguments for and against, 3rd Edition,Black Flag, London, 1986. The Anarcho-Quiz Book, Simian Publications, Orkney, 1976.

Meltzer, Albert (ed.), The Poverty of Statism, Cienfuegos Press, Orkney, 1981.

Mett, Ida, The Kronstadt Uprising, Solidarity, London, date unknown.

Michel, Louise, The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel, The University of Alabama Press, Alabama, 1981

Moorcock, Michael, Starship Stormtroopers, available at: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3998/Moorcock.html

Moore, John, Primitivist Primer, available at: http://lemming.mahost.org/johnmoore/primer.htm

Morris, Brian, Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1993.

Ecology and Anarchism: Essays and Reviews on Contemporary Thought, Images Publishing (Malvern) Ltd, Malvern Wells, 1996. Kropotkin: The Politics of Community, Humanity Books, New York, 2004.

Morris, William, Political Writings: Contributions to Justice and Commonweal 1883–1890, Thoemmes Press, Bristol, 1994.

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[foxinthewilybox]

The Last Gift

Tuesday , 8:30 a.m.

Amsterdam

The door shut behind Nova as she stepped into the library, patting dry the book she used as an umbrella. There had been no news of rain in the forecast last night, but she was in Amsterdam; unexpected weather was to be expected. She took in the sight in front of her : hundreds of bookshelves stretched to the left as far as eyes could see, housing thousands of books ranging from academics to fiction to mythologies and many more . She started to the right towards her desk , its simple wood and furnishing looking out of place against the intricate designs of the oak bookshelves. As Nova sat down behind her desk getting ready for the day, the bell above the door chimed, signaling the arrival of a customer, followed by a chilling gust of wind. He was elderly, judging by his cane and graying hair that poked out from beneath his hat. “Hello ,” the stranger said with a weathered voice, putting down his umbrella. “Good morning ,” replied Nova with a smile on her face. “How can I help you ?” After taking an uncertain glance around, the man inquired, “I'm looking for something to read today. I was debating between fiction and history. Which would you recommend ?” Nova glanced at the storm raging outside and then at the books, thinking. “ Mystery,” she suggested, nodding. “ nothing compares to reading a good mystery book on a rainy day.” The man smiled, the uncertainty gone from his face. No sooner had he gone searching in the mystery section than Nova's phone pinged with a notification. It was an email from Amelia, her childhood friend. She skimmed over the text. Amelia's birthday party was to be held at her hometown the following weekend, and Nova was invited. She remembered the conversation she had with Amelia on the phone last week; Amelia had mentioned her upcoming birthday, and Nova had also promised that she would go. It had been years since she last visited Westport following her father's death, Nova thought. A little getaway would be nice. Besides, a promise was a promise, and it seemed that Nova had no option but to go.

Friday , 06:00 p.m.

Amelia's Birthday party , Westport

The sun had just set when Nova reached Amelia's cottage. It was beautiful, with its bricked walls overgrown with vines and the moonlight reflecting off the creek which lay still just beside the cottage. Faint noises of conversation and laughter could be heard from inside. The others must've already arrived, thought Nova. A few moments after she knocked, the door opened and she was greeted by Amelia with a hug. “ Happy birthday ! ,” wished Nova, presenting her gift. Amelia thanked her and joyfully exclaimed how glad she was to meet Nova after so long and introduced her to the others. Nova knew some of them from when they were kids, and others were new faces. Over the course of the evening, pleasantries were exchanged, reunions took place amidst stories and laughs, and the cake was cut. Towards the end of the night Nova found herself sitting at the dinner table, catching her breath and listening to the quiet chatter of conversations still going on, when someone else sat across from her. She looked up, startled to find the same elderly man who entered her library last Tuesday. If he had been present during the party, she hadn't noticed at all. Under the dim light, she could more clearly see the wrinkles that formed his eyes when he offered a warm smile. “You must be Nova Haven,” he said. Before she could reply, he slid something towards her. It was a key, along with a note. The key looked old, but well-maintained. “Who are you?,” Nova inquired. “James Hart,” he replied. “A friend of your father. As for the key, I think you can find out what it's for.” And with that, he was gone. More confused than ever, Nova picked up the note. The handwriting was strikingly similar to that of her father's, Nova realized with a start. It read,

TECHS

Nova tried to make sense of the word, but nothing came to mind. Just as she was about to give up, a memory struck her. It was of a young Nova at her home in Westport, and her father, who was explaining the rules of a new game he came up with. It consisted of words and anagrams that led one clue to the other and finally, towards the ‘treasure,’ as he called it, which usually consisted of random objects. Until her father passed away, they played this game almost every weekend when Nova was young, except the weekend prior to his death, when Nova spent the whole day playing with her friends instead. The thought brought tears to her eyes; she would give anything to play with her father one last time. After what seemed like forever, Nova wiped at her tears. If that James Hart really was her father's friend and that puzzle was actually written by her father, then she was determined to solve it.

Saturday, 10:00 a.m.

Nova's house, Westport

Even though Nova had called ahead of time to make sure the house was clean, there was only so well one could clean a house that had been empty for years on end. Still, it was clean enough to stay, and that was the best Nova could hope for. After coming home late last night, she hadn't made any progress on the puzzle. If this follows the same rules as it did with father's other riddles, then TECHS must be an anagram, she thought. She racked her brain for words, looking around the house, then it hit her. CHEST! , Nova exclaimed aloud. Chests weren't common in her house growing up, as her father preferred to store things in the cupboard instead. But there was one, a small wooden chest with rose carvings on the top. If my memory serves me right, Nova thought, all of father's possessions were stored in his study. And so she started towards the study, with the key in hand. As expected, every furniture was covered by pieces of fabric, with dust coating every space like thick fog in a winter morning. Nova cautiously made her way behind the study desk and inspected each drawer, a new layer of dust coating her fingers each time she opened them. As she opened the final drawer, she saw the chest, the rose carvings exactly as she remembered it.

Nova wiped her fingers on her dress and carefully lifted the chest onto the desk. It was way heavier than it seemed. There, on the front, barely noticeable due to the rust that covered it, was the keyhole. Taking a deep breath she took the key that James Hart had given her the previous night and inserted it into the hole. The chest opened with a satisfying click. Inside there was a ring, a binocular, a broken wristwatch, and some peppermints, which had long since rotted. Nova remembered them all; the red ring she wore all the time as a child, the binocular she used to watch birds with her father, the wristwatch she got as a gift for her 8th birthday, and her favorite peppermints. Nova stared at those for what felt like forever. It exactly resembled the previous games her father used to prepare, from the words and anagrams to the reward, everything. But when did he prepare this?, thought Nova. Only one way to find out, she muttered, as she ran out the house.

Saturday, 11:00 a.m.

James Hart’s house, Westport

Turns out, James Hart was quite popular among the inhabitants of Westport; it had only taken a couple minutes of asking around to find out where he lived. The door was answered by James almost immediately after Nova knocked, from where he ushered her into his living room. It looked like he had been expecting her. On the other side of the village, his house seemed unnaturally quiet. He sat opposite Nova on the couch and looked at her expectantly. She returned the gaze and asked, “How did you know of the game? ” He looked from her to the window, his gaze distant as if he was reminiscing his past. “Before your father’s death,” James began, “He came to me, like he often did. He talked about the game he had prepared for his daughter and about how she went to play, completely forgetting about it. ” Nova’s stomach twisted with guilt. “What about the key?,” she asked. “Your father had also mentioned that. He showed it to me that night. Later, when I went to visit his house after his death, I found it. I would've given it to you, but it was too late. I heard you had gone to live with your aunt after that.” Nova nodded, unsure of what else to do. To know the whole story was overwhelming; she had the chance to play with her father for the last time, after all. Nova closed her eyes. She took a deep breath and promised to always remember her father’s last gift.

THE END.

[libraryofcirclaria]

14 February 1287

Library of Circlaria

Third Level Society: First Version

Story Eight: Jeo Brock

Valian has never had such a serious demeanor, which surprised me when I came back from class to find him looking straight at me and saying, "We need to talk." Before I could say anything, he sat me down on the couch in our Common Room, where I realized that Peteron, Motteran, and Richard were there as well, looking at me with the same sort of apparent suspicion.

There, they threatened to kick me out of the Project and expose my agenda to Rachele and Carol. I couldn't believe it.

"Who's that girlfriend of yours? Rose Anne?" Valian asked. "And what sorts of favors have you been doing her?"

"What do you mean?" I said. "She's not my girlfriend, by the way."

"It seems so," said Motteran. "With her going into your room all the time..."

"That's not the point, Motter," Valian said. "I'll take it that she's simply selling herself in that way to get important information."

"I've got nothing romantic with her!" I shouted.

"How should we know to trust you on that!?" Valian said. "Who's she with?"

"I think you better tell the truth," Richard said quietly and calmly to me.

So with a lot of reluctance, I told them everything about Rose Anne, and how she was an insider for the discreet federal investigation. And it seemed to calm Valian down a little; and that's when he admitted that his avatar was the one having form-fitted into the "slenderman" figure that attacked me and Rose Anne before.

"I had to do what I had to do," Valian said. "Don't blow our cover on us. You're the one that started all this."

After that little talk, Peteron send me a ticker message saying: "You know, I feel that perhaps Rose Anne may have a bit more than a business interest with you."

I replied with: "If Rose Anne had been, she would've kept in touch with me after being re-assigned elsewhere."

Now to reflect, I can see why Rose Anne going in and out of my room may warrant suspicion. But my room is where my immersion console is; and that was the console we decided to use because that was the place we determined would help keep the investigation discreet.

And moreover, I told Peteron the truth. Indeed, I had relayed Cray's message over to North Kempton and told Rose Anne about the ordeal. She stated that Jon Fletcher would confirm this with Cray. And then a few hours later, I got a message from Rose Anne stating that Jon had managed to get in contact with Cray over the telephone, and that Cray was indeed happy and safe. Rose Anne then stated that Jon told her that her assignment was done, and that the case between me, Tom Pero, and Cray Fenton would be turned over to another department.

I will admit, though, that a part of me wished that Peteron was right. I know it would cross so many unacceptable boundaries especially on her end. But I will admit that Rose Anne is quite attractive. For a while, during our journey between here and the North Kempton plane, we had talked a lot about our pasts, with me and my interest in the card thing, how far back it went. She told me a lot about her path leading up to where she is now.

We also shared a little bit of background about our hobbies, where we've been in life. We really hit it off when we found out that the both of us had been to the same boardwalk of the town of Westport in the Galapolgis Isles.

For a short time, I wondered if she was interested in me. But I realize now that this was just confirmation bias on my part. In fact, I wonder if Peteron perhaps saw that. Perhaps I might have showed it a bit too much, enough to catch my roommates' attention and also to scare off Rose Anne.

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[ashleysingermfablog]

Wk 16, 25th of May, 2024 Research

Healing through the properties of an Amulet

From the text: What are Amulets and Talismans? by the Westport library...

amulet, an object, either natural or man-made, believed to be endowed with special powers to protect or bring good fortune. Amulets are carried on the person or kept in the place that is the desired sphere of influence—e.g., on a roof or in a field.

an amulet is a talisman which is an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune. 2. : something producing apparently magical or miraculous effects.

Natural amulets are of many kinds: precious stones, metals, teeth and claws of animals, bones, plants, and so on. Man-made amulets, equally varied, include religious medallions and small figurines. Among believers amulets are thought to derive power from their connection with natural forces, from religious associations, or from being made in a ritual manner at a favourable time.

From the text: Abrief history of powerful gemstone amulets by the Victoria and Albert Museum...

A brief history of powerful gemstone amulets, V&A video, 2023

[kieranfmps]

Mythological Creatures

Historical Creatures from Myths of the past.

Werewolves - First appearing during the Ancient Greece/Rome era. Are known as bloodthirsty wolf-humans who attack everything they see.

Medusa - Was one of 3 gorgons, who were off-springs from the 2 gods Phorcys and Ceto. Everyone who looked at her turned into stone. A hero called Perseus beheaded her with the help of a mirror shield, is from Ancient Greece.

Banshee - An Irish myth of a Spirit of a Woman who heralds a family members death, by screaming, wailing or other deafening sounds. Usually has long hair, and can be around any height.

[sarahbethdurst]

StoryFest 2024

This weekend is StoryFest 2024!!! This will be my first time at this literary festival, and I'm so excited!

I'll be on the "Dangerous Visions: Dreams Across Universes" panel on Saturday (9/21/24) at 10am with Jedidiah Berry, P. Djeli Clark, Sarah Beth Durst (me!), Christopher Golden, Peng Shepherd, and GennaRose Nethercott. The panel will be followed by a signing.

If you're near the Westport Library in CT, I hope you'll join us!

https://westportlibrary.org/storyfest-2024/

[gabicoatsworth]

Writers' Rendezvous: February update

Writers’ Rendezvous: February update

Around twenty of us gathered at Barnes & Noble in Westport this month, to chat, encourage and suggest writing solutions for each other. Poets, fiction and non-fiction writers including journalists – everyone had something constructive to offer. We are a great community!

For example, member Carol Dannhauser of the Fairfield County Story Labhas offered a great networking opportunity in the form of…

[magpiesmiscellany]

I can't remember if I posted the whole sign after instagram cut it off! If anyone's in CT, it sounds like a promising event. I'll be schlepping most of my wire work and doll inventory, plus some craft show only goodies :)

[glynnisfawkes]

How a Librarian Created Community in a Pandemic

I drove to Westport, VT (about half hour from Burlington) and met writer Margaret Grayson and librarian Bree Drapa, to hear about what she’s done to keep the the community together over the past 10 months—which was a lot! I had 2 days to draw, ink, copyedit and color the story. Read it here and in the Dec 16 issue of SevenDays.