AudioBooks

This is a group reading of of the book Full Spectrum Resistance by Aric McBay, organized by the Cooperation Tulsa Education Program.

List of all of the reading sessions so far:

• Session 1
• Session 2
• Session 3
• Session 4
• Session 5
• Session 6
• Session 7
• Session 8
• Session 9
• Session 10
• Session 11
• Session 12

Abolish Restaurants is a short manifesto written in 2006 by an anonymous restaurant worker. It is a beautifully illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways in which restaurant workers fight against it.

The pdf is like a comic book can be found in many languages here: https://www.prole.info/

Invidious link

The text itself can be viewed & downloaded here.

The audiobook can be found in LibriVox, youtube and invidious.

The book itself, can be downloaded here.

This short anti-war pamphlet was written by a Major General in the Marines who was an American military hero, but became disillusioned with the profiteering, propaganda, and injustice of the military-industrial and intelligence-foreign policy establishments , and came to oppose American involvement in foreign wars designed to benefit financial and industrial interests.

• Chapter 1: War Is A Racket
• Chapter 2: Who Makes The Profits?
• Chapter 3: Who Pays The Bills?
• Chapter 4: How To Smash This Racket!
• Chapter 5: To Hell With War!

Just to note that the reading of the book has not yet been completed, so the last 2 sections are not yet included. And the playlist is upside-down, at least for now.

You can find the audiobook in this youtube playlist or in invidious.

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.

The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post-independence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. [source]

Contents:

• Concerning Violence
• Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness
• The Pitfalls of National Consciousness
• On National Culture
• Colonial war and mental disorders

The book can be downloaded in several formats from Anna's archive.

Argues that green anarchism is the most coherent form of anarchist thought because it challenges hierarchy and exploitation in ways generally unacknowledged by social anarchism: animal liberation and social ecology.

The article was published in Freedom, and can be viewed here

For those who would like to avoid youtube, here is an invidious link

Invidious link as an alternative to yt, and here is the text.

Invidious link

• 0:12 .INTRODUCTION: THE ORDEAL OF THE WORLD
• 21:15 .ONE: EXIT FROM DEMOCRACY
• 01:52:28 .TWO: THE SOCIETY OF ENMITY
• 02:58:31 .THREE: NECROPOLITICS
• 04:11:58 .FOUR: VISCERALITY
• 05:15:29 .FIVE: FANON’S PHARMACY
• 07:02:02 .SIX: THIS STIFLING NOONDAY
• 08:15:29 .CONCLUSION: ETHICS OF THE PASSERBY

In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side---what he calls its “nocturnal body”---which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism. This shift has hollowed out democracy, thereby eroding the very values, rights, and freedoms liberal democracy routinely celebrates. As a result, war has become the sacrament of our times in a conception of sovereignty that operates by annihilating all those considered enemies of the state. Despite his dire diagnosis, Mbembe draws on post-Foucauldian debates on biopolitics, war, and race as well as Fanon's notion of care as a shared vulnerability to explore how new conceptions of the human that transcend humanism might come to pass. These new conceptions would allow us to encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude but as a person with whom to build a more just world.

The book can be downloaded in several formats from Anna's archive.

Invidious link for the audiobook

Contents

• 1 On The Experience of Moral Confusion
• 2 The Myth of Barter
• 3 Primordial Debts
• 4 Cruelty and Redemption
• 5 A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations
• 6 Games with Sex and Death
• 7 Honor and Degradation , or, On the Foundations of Contemporary Civilizations
• 8 Credit Versus Bullion, And the Cycles of History
• 9The Axial Age (800 BC-600 AD)
• 10 The Middle Ages (600 AD-1450 AD)
• 11 Age of the Great Capitalist Empires (1450-1971)
• 12 (1971-The Beginning of Something Yet to Be Determined)

The text can be downloaded from Anna'a archive in several formats.

Invidious audiobook playlist

Contents

• Ch 1 - Introduction, Prison Reform or Prison Abolition
• Ch 2 - Slavery, Civil Rights, and Abolitionist Perspectives Towards Prison
• Ch 3 - Imprisonment and Reform
• Ch 4 - How Gender Structures the Prison System
• Ch 5 - The Prison Industrial Complex
• Ch 6 - Abolitionist Alternatives

The book can be downloaded in several formats from Anna's Archive.

Contents

• Preface About Men
• 1 Wanted: Men Who Love
• 2 Understanding Patriarchy
• 3 Being a Boy
• 4 Stopping Male Violence
• 5 Male Sexual Being
• 6 Work: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
• 7 Feminist Manhood
• 8 Popular Culture: Media Masculinity
• 9 Healing Male Spirit
• 10 Reclaiming Male Integrity
• 11 Loving Men

The text can be downloaded from Anna'a archive in several formats.

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Russia, Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. Goldman was imprisoned several times for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth. In 1910, she collected a series of speeches and items she had written for Mother Earth and published Anarchism and Other Essays. In addition to a comprehensive look at anarchism and its criticisms, the book includes essays on patriotism, women's suffrage, marriage, and prisons. (summary extracted from wikipedia)

• 1 - Preface - 07:47
• 2 - Anarchism - 39:07
• 3 - Minorities Versus Majorities - 19:59
• 4 - Psychology of Political Violence - 51:42
• 5 - Prisons, A Social Crime & Failure - 32:12
• 6 - Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty - 36:30
• 7 - Francisco Ferrer - 38:34
• 8 - The Hypocrisy of Puritanism - 19:55
• 9 - The Traffic in Women - 34:25
• 10 - Woman Suffrage - 32:56
• 11 - The Tragedy of Womans Emancipation - 24:34
• 12 - Marriage and Love - 24:56
• 13 - The Modern Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought - Part 1 - 40:41
• 14 - The Modern Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought - Part 2 - 13:49

The essays can be read and/or downloaded from The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchism-and-other-essays

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future.

In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding—and reclaiming—the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century. (source)

The text can be downloaded from Anna'a archive in several formats.

• Chapter 1. Anarchism: Its Aims and Purposes
• Chapter 2. The Proletariat and the Beginning of the Modern Labour Movement
• Chapter 3. The Forerunners of Syndicalism
• Chapter 4. The Objectives of Anarchosyndicalism
• Chapter 5. The Methods of Anarcho-Syndicalism
• Chapter 6. The Evolution of Anarcho-Syndicalism

The book can be downloaded in different formats from:

• The Anarchist Library
• Anna's Archive

Formed during World War II, the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was organized for special operations and intelligence gathering and analysis. Included in its mission was the implementation of, and training of foreign forces in, propaganda, espionage, subversion, and sabotage. After the war, OSS functions were transferred to the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

This "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" was used by OSS agents in training "citizen-saboteurs" in methods for inciting and executing simple sabotage to thwart industry and other vital functions in Axis-occupied areas.

CONTENTS:

1. INTRODUCTION
2. POSSIBLE EFFECTS
3. MOTIVATING THE SABOTEUR
4. TOOLS, TARGETS, AND TIMING
5. SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR SIMPLE SABOTAGE

The text can be found here: https://ia801309.us.archive.org/14/items/Simplesabotage/Simplesabotage.pdf

• one - The Uses of Disorder and "Charisma"
• two - Vernacular Order, Official Order
• three - Th e Production of Human Beings
• four - Two Cheers for the Petty Bourgeoisie
• five - For Politics
• six - Particularity and Flux

A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to life James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing--one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions. Through a wide-ranging series of memorable anecdotes and examples, the book describes an anarchist sensibility that celebrates the local knowledge, common sense, and creativity of ordinary people. The result is a kind of handbook on constructive anarchism that challenges us to radically reconsider the value of hierarchy in public and private life, from schools and workplaces to retirement homes and government itself. Beginning with what Scott calls the law of anarchist calisthenics, an argument for law-breaking inspired by an East German pedestrian crossing, each chapter opens with a story that captures an essential anarchist truth. In the course of telling these stories, Scott touches on a wide variety of subjects: public disorder and riots, desertion, poaching, vernacular knowledge, assembly-line production, globalization, the petty bourgeoisie, school testing, playgrounds, and the practice of historical explanation. Far from a dogmatic manifesto, Two Cheers for Anarchism celebrates the anarchist confidence in the inventiveness and judgment of people who are free to exercise their creative and moral capacities.

The text can be downloaded in several formats, here.

The audiobook is here

The illustrated book can be read and downloaded at https://makerojavagreenagain.org/book/

What is it about the social structures of Rojava that so inspires the fierce loyalty of its defenders and its people? This book answers that question. In language that bridges the Utopian and the concrete, the poetic and the everyday, the Internationalist Commune of Rojava has produced both a vision and a manual for what a free, ecological society can look like. In these pages you will find a philosophical introduction to the idea of social ecology, a theory that argues that only when we end the hierarchical relations between human beings (men over women, young over old, one ethnicity or religion over another) will we be able to heal our relationship with the natural world.

Debbie Bookchin

Make Rojava Green Again is an excellent book. Written comprehensively, it effectively outlines the fundamental causes of the climate crisis we currently face across the world. In simple terms, it sets out the fundamentals of the theory of ‘Social Ecology;’ that domination of human over human, and capitalist modernity in its infinite drive for growth are responsible for ecological breakdown. Most importantly, this book serves as a profound manifesto of hope for those of us who are fearful for the future of this world. Surrounded by enemies on all borders, and torn by war, the international commune in Rojava still labors to restore the integrity of its ecology and natural environment; this surely is a source of inspiration and it shows that everywhere, in liberated societies, we may hope to preserve the natural fabric of our world.

Tim Lewes

Nevertheless, Make Rojava Green Again offers a positive vision of the ongoing social revolution taking place in the area. At a moment when the launch of Extinction Rebellion suggests that a resurgent ecology movement is appearing at home, these under-reported initiatives are a great inspiration. Given the immense scale of the ecological challenges facing us, it is often difficult to know where to concentrate efforts. So here are two suggestions. First, your own community, and second, global solidarity initiatives such as this one! This book will help to raise the profile of some hopeful green shoots of change. To give the final word to the Internationalist Commune for Rojava: ‘Rojava needs us, but even more we need Rojava’.

Steve Hunt

Part I [6:31:28]:

• 00:09 .Preface
• 17:18 .CHAPTER ONE: Common Sense, the Taken-for-Granted, and Power
• 02:12:34 .CHAPTER TWO: The Current Common Sense: Capitalist Realism
• 04:01:33 .CHAPTER THREE: Capitalism and Militarism

Part II [7:38:01]:

• 00:00 .CHAPTER FOUR: Capitalism versus the Environment
• 02:03:30 .CHAPTER FIVE: Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Financialization
• 04:11:41 .CHAPTER SIX: Resistance and Response
• 05:54:47 .CHAPTER SEVEN: Social Change
• 07:14:57 .Capitalism and Covid-19: A Concluding Coda

"Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance" by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone is a critical examination of capitalism's impact on society. The authors argue that capitalism inherently requires exploitation and expansion, leading to environmental devastation, economic inequality, and eroded civil liberties. They explore how fear-mongering, propaganda, and media control maintain capitalist hegemony. The book also discusses the role of neoliberal "common sense" in perpetuating these issues and highlights the importance of solidarity, sustainability, and human needs over profits. Chomsky and Waterstone envision an alternative future based on a participatory, democratic economy.

The full text can be downloaded in several formats from Anna's Archive.

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope. Across the world, grassroots networks of local communities are working to realize their visions of an alternative revolutionary response to planetary destruction, often pitted against the new megaprojects promoted by greenwashed alternative energy infrastructures and the neocolonialist, technocratic policies that are the forerunners of the Green New Deal. Gelderloos interviews food sovereignty activists in Venezuela, Indigenous communities reforesting their lands in Brazil and anarchists fighting biofuel plantations in Indonesia, looking at the battles that have cancelled airports, stopped pipelines, and helped the most marginalized to fight borders and environmental racism, to transform their cities, to win a dignified survival.

The full text can be found in Internet Archive

The text can be downloaded in several formats from anna's archive.

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• 00:15 .Preface

• 34:54 .PART I - Look at This Grain

• 01:19:04 .PART II - Four Principles of Natural Farming

• 02:25:16 .PART III - One Farmer Speaks Out

• 03:32:45 .PART IV - Confusion About Food

• 04:11:59 .PART V - Foolishness Comes Out Looking Smart

• 04:55:37 .The One-Straw Revolution

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“Social Ecology and Communalism” is a compilation of four potent essays by Bookchin, written between 1989 and 2002. These essays deeply dive into some of our time’s most critical social and ecological challenges, proposing that our ecological issues directly reflect societal disruption.

This is a PDF version from The Anarchist Library. It has the following sections:

• An Introduction to Social Ecology and Communalism
• What is Social Ecology?
• Radical Politics in an Era of Advanced Capitalism
• The Role of Social Ecology in a Period of Reaction
• The Communalist Project
• After Murray Bookchin

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Due to Facebook removing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and targeting the LGBT community in their policies, and Elon Musk's blatant fascism, we'd like to act in solidarity with other social media platforms and ban all links to Meta and X/Twitter.

So from now on, in this community these links will be removed.

Hopefully this approach makes sense to you, but no matter what, do share your thoughts on this.