From ‘Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review‘, Number 4, 1978, Over the Water, Sanday, Orkney
In 1972 the group involved in the bookshop and editorial group of “Libreria Underground” [in Sicily], began the publication of a newspaper (one number only), Sinistra Libertaria, which later was to become a periodical but which was immediately condemned by the hostility and incomprehension of certain comrades, as well as by the police and judicial repression.
With the intention of continuing this endeavour, the first number of Anarchismo, a bimonthly review, was published in 1975, as an instrument for the clarification of essential theoretical problems arising from concrete situations. The aim of the editorial group is that of maintaining a sufficiently high level of analysis, while avoiding falling into theory for the sake of theory, and of building a coherent discourse capable of bringing out the true matrix of anarchism which is not merely a negative vacuum, but is analytical penetration in preparation for the struggle, a precise direction of thought even when it might seem disagreeable.
The work in these last two years of activity has been directed towards a study of the problem of anarchist organisation and the critical re-examination of past structures which often turn out to be inadequate for the present time; against any authoritarian contamination these structures might assume, derived from platformist positions produced in turn by the disillusionment of certain historical moments and not valid in absolute; a critical examination of anarcho-syndicalist formulae and a more profound study of the authoritarian inconveniences they give rise to, towards workers’ autonomy, building from the base, on the foundation of self-management of the struggle and of production (when possible); and for direct action in the struggle in the factories, on the land, the universities and living areas, as well as in the sense of the armed defence of these struggles.
Furthermore we have attempted to conduct an open-minded research of the experiences of others, including Marxists, because we are convinced of the validity of anarchist libertarian methodology which rejects badly construed structures such as libertarian Marxism, but do not close our eyes to the reality of concrete struggles whose patrimony must not be lost. Finally, our work seeks to revalue anarchist pluralism, the vision of life and method of struggle which seems to us the most valid for the realisation of the future social revolution.
“Anarchismo” editorial group.
Pippo Noto, CP 326, 90100 Palermo, Sicily
[ Note: ‘Anarchismo’, Number One, 1975, listed Alfredo M. Bonanno as editor on its inside cover. The above article from Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review is an abbreviated and modified version of the article, ‘Il coraggio delle proprie azioni‘, authored by Alfredo M. Bonanno, and published in ‘Anarchismo’ numbers 4-5, 1975.
– M.Gouldhawke ]
Advertisement for Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’
From ‘Anarchismo’, n. 29 . 1979, edited by Franco Lombardi
Lewis Carroll
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
1980, pp.32, lire 1,000
This pamphlet is the Italian translation of an English-language booklet, in circulation in Sicily, bearing the title: Alice in Wonderland with the author indicated as Lewis Carroll, with no other indication of place or date.
With regard to the place of printing, it’s not possible to make sufficiently reliable conjectures, concerning a clandestine pamphlet that, most likely, must have been printed abroad (Amsterdam or Brussels?); while with regard to the date, the contents and theory advanced (reflecting an implicit critique of the third-worldist myth) gives support to 1976 as the year of its drafting.
It’s a detailed analysis – or better a real and precise program – for a Sicilian organization of national liberation struggle.
Order it from: Edizioni ”Anarchismo”
c.p. 61 – 95100 – Catania
A couple of Bonanno quotes:
“Many ghosts crowd in front of the entrance of the cavern of massacres, inside which is the gurgling slime of human activity that boasts this not very commendable title, the title of ‘politics'”
Alfredo M. Bonanno, Critica della ragione politica (2015)
“Anarchists are never individualists, communists, collectivists, anarchists are open to a pluralism of possibilities in which none of these solutions can be radically denied, because if one denied the possibility of real communism, anarchist, not communism as it has been created up to now, one would end up preventing a real development of the individual, a concrete development. Equally, if one denied the possibility of the development of the individual, one would deny the possibility of realizing communism.”
Alfredo M. Bonanno, Incontro con Alfredo Salerni: Dibattito su Stirner e Kropotkin (1994)
Also:
Stuart Christie Memorial Archive
The Revolutionary Project, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (layout by Fugitive Distro)
Intro to Insurrectionary Anarchism, by M.Gouldhawke (2022)
A Project of Liberation , by the Insurrectionary Anarchists of the Coast Salish Territories (2004)
The Right to Life Isn’t Begged For, It is Taken, by Endless Struggle (1990)
Endless Struggle reviews ‘From Riot to Insurrection’ (1989)
Italian Cops Trample Flowers, from Open Road (1980)
Workers’ Autonomy, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (1975)
A Critique of Syndicalist Methods, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (1975)
About the Platform, by Errico Malatesta & Nestor Makhno (1927-1930)
An Archive 