Translations of Anarchist and Libertarian writings

Last updated: 11-MAY-2025

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These translations of anarchist or libertarian writings have appeared in various locations, including Black Flag Anarchist Review and Anarcho-Syndicalist Review.

A

Anonymous

• The “Black Flag” (Le Drapeau Noir : Organe Anarchiste, 12 August 1883) (extracts)

Anarchist-Communist Study Group

• About the Manifesto of the Sixteen: A Statement and Protest (May 1916)

B

Bakunin, Micheal (1814-1876)

• Programme of the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy (1869)
• Organisation and General Strike (L’Égalité, 3 April 1869)
• Policy of the International (L’Égalité, August 1869)
• Protest of the Alliance (1871) (extracts)

Berneri, Camillo (1897-1937)

• State and Bureaucracy (Umanità Nova, 25 December 1920)
• A Russian Federalist: Peter Kropotkin (1925)
• Marxism and the Extinction of the State (Guerra di classe, 9 October 1936)
• The State and Classes (Guerra di Classe, 17 October 1936)

C

Camus, Albert

• Bread and Freedom (1953)

Confédération générale du travail

• The Charter of Amiens (1906)

D

De Paepe, César (1841-1900)

• The Present Institutions of the International in Relation to the Future (L’Internationale, February 1869)

Déjacque, Joseph (1821-1864)

• On the Male and Female Human-Being – Letter to P.J. Proudhon (1857)

F

Fédération des Bourses du travail de France et des colonies

• Appeal of 1^st May 1896

G

Guérin, Daniel (1904-1988)

• Proudhon, Father of Self-Management (1978)
• Bakunin: a libertarian communist before the term was coined (1983)

I

International Anarchist Group of London

• Anarchist Declaration (April 1916)

International Workers' Association (1864-1877)

• Report of the Brussels Section (1868)
• Discussion on Resistance Societies (1868)
• Resolution on Resistance Societies (1868)
• Resolution on Collective Ownership (1868)
• Manifesto - Parisian Sections of the International Workers Association (1870)
• Circular to all the Federations of the International Workers’ Association - Jura Federation (1871)
• Resolutions of the Saint-Imier Congress (1872)
• The Geneva Congress debate on the General Strike (1873)
• Resolutions of the Verviers Congress (1877)

K

Kropotkin, Peter (1842-1921)

• Events in America (Bulletin de la Fédération Jurassienne, 5 August 1877)
• International Bulletin (L’Avant-garde, 11 August 1877)
• Annual Congress of the Jura Federation of the IWA (L’Avant-garde, 12 August 1878)
• Workers' Organisation (Le Révolté, 10 and 24 December 1881)
• The Social War (Le Révolté, 11 September 1886)
• What to do? (Le Révolté, 8 January 1887)
• The Day after the Revolution (La Révolte, 31 March 1888)
• What a strike is (La Révolte, 7 September 1889)
• The London Strike (La Révolte, 7 September 1889)
• Selfishness or Solidarity? (La Révolte, 28 September 1889)
• The Twentieth Century (La Révolte, 30 November, 14, 21 and 28 December 1889)
• The Labour Movement in England (La Révolte, 13 September 1890)
• Go Away! (La Révolte, 4 October 1890)
• Anarchist Morality (1891)
• The English Strikes (La Révolte, 21 February 1891)
• The Revolution’s Capital (La Révolte, 7 March 1891)
• Agreement (La Révolte, 11 and 18 April 1891)
• Are we equal to events? (La Révolte, 5 May 1893)
• Justice and Morality (Autumn 1893)
• The Effects of Persecution (Les Temps Nouveaux, 4 May 1895)
• Cooperation and Socialism (Les Temps Nouveaux, 27 July 1895)
• International Congresses and the Congress of London (Les Temps Nouveaux, 29 August and 10 October 1896)
• The Last War (Les Temps nouveaux, 12 June 1897)
• The Panamists of Patriotism (Les Temps nouveaux, 28 January 1899)
• Servitude or Freedom? (Les Temps nouveaux, 20 January 1900)
• The Conquest of Socialists by Power (Les Temps Nouveaux, 21 April 1900)
• The General Strike in Holland (Les Temps Nouveaux, 11 April 1903)
• Anti-militarism and Revolution (Les Temps Nouveaux, 28 October and 4 November 1905)
• Direct Action and the General Strike in Russia (Les Temps Nouveaux, 2 December 1905)
• Anarchists and Unions (Les Temps Nouveaux, 25 May 1907)
• Anarchy and its means of struggle, the International (Les Temps Nouveaux, 21 August 1909)
• Economic Action or Parliamentary Politics (Les Temps Nouveaux, 25 June 1910)
• The Bourgeoisie and Parliamentary Socialism (Les Temps Nouveaux, 23 July 1910)
• A Correction (Les Temps Nouveaux, 27 April 1912)
• A Letter from Peter Kropotkin (La Voix du Peuple, 21 December 1912)
• Another Letter (La Voix du Peuple, 28 December 1912)
• The Anarchist Principle (1913)
• Will the Revolution be Collectivist? (1913)
• Letter to an Anarchist Congress (Les Temps Nouveaux, 23 August 1913)
• Worker Solidarity (Les Temps Nouveaux, 11 October 1913)
• How to Fight Against Degeneration (Les Temps Nouveaux, 8 and 15 November 1913)
• A Reminiscence [of James Guillaume] (La Vie ouvrière, 20 February 1914)
• A Letter from Kropotkin (Les Temps Nouveaux, June-July 1921)
• A Letter from Kropotkin (Le Libertaire, 22 July 1921)

L

Léo, André (1824-1900)

• The Vauxhall Sessions on women's work (L’Opinion nationale, 18 July 1868)
• Manifesto – Women’s Rights (L’Opinion nationale, 20 July 1868)
• Woman and Morals: Freedom or Monarchy (V Right) (1869)
• To the worker of the countryside (La Commune, 10 April 1871)
• All Women with All Men (La Sociale, 12 April 1871)
• The Programme of the Commune (La Sociale, 22 April 1871
• Revolution without Women (La Sociale, 8 May 1871)
• The Social War: Speech delivered at the Peace Congress, in Lausanne (1871) (1871)

M

Malatesta, Errico (1853-1932)

• The Third International (Umanità Nova, 24 April 1920)
• What is the Third International? (Umanità Nova, 20 July 1920)
• The First International: About the fiftieth anniversary of the Congress of Saint-Imier (Umanità Nova, 9 September 1922)

Michel, Louise (1830-1905)

• Louise Michel’s Defence Statement (22 June 1883)

P

Paris Commune (1871)

• Appeal to the Citizenesses of Paris (Journal officiel de la Commune de Paris, 11 April 1871)
• Decree on convening workers trade councils (Journal officiel de la République française , 17 April 1871)
• Declaration to the French People (Journal officiel de la Commune de Paris, 20 April 1871)

Pouget, Émile (1860-1931)

• The Union (1904)
• The General Strike and Socialism: An International Inquiry (Le Mouvement socialiste : revue bi-mensuelle internationale, June and July 1904)

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1809-1865)

• Warning to the Proprietors (1842) - extracts
• System of Economic Contradictions, Volume 2, Chapter XIV: Summary and Conclusion (1846)
• Marginal Notes to Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy (1847)
• "Resistance to the Revolution: Louis Blanc and Pierre Leroux", La Voix du Peuple, 3 December 1849
• "To Pierre Leroux" (First Letter), La Voix du Peuple, 7 December 1849
• "Regarding Louis Blanc" (First Article), La Voix du Peuple, 26-27 December 1849
• "Regarding Louis Blanc" (Third Article), La Voix du Peuple, 29 December 1849
• "Regarding Louis Blanc" (Sixth Article), La Voix du Peuple, 11 January 1850
• Stock Exchange Speculator's Manual (1857) - extracts
• Federation and Unity in Italy (1862) - extracts
• The Federative Principle and the Necessity of Reconstituting the Party of the Revolution, Second Part: Unitarist Policy, Chapter III: Democratic Monogram, Unity (1863)
• The Federative Principle and the Necessity of Reconstituting the Party of the Revolution, Second Part: Unitarist Policy, Chapter XI: Hypothesis of a Solution by the Federative Principle (1863)
• The Federative Principle and the Necessity of Reconstituting the Party of the Revolution, Third Part: The Unitarist Press, Chapter IX: Slavery and the Proletariat (1863)

R

Reclus, Elisée (1830-1905)

• Preface to the first French Edition of The Conquest of Bread (1892)

V

Varlin, Eugène (1839-1871)

• The Presidency of Mutual Assistance Societies (La Marseillaise, 20 January 1870)
• Workers Societies (La Marseillaise, 11 March 1870)

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