Anarchist Reading List The following list is slanted towards anarchosyndicalism, but George Woodcock's 'Anarchist Reader' and 'Anarchism' cover most of the historical anarchist movements and ideas, and is a good start. General: 'Anarchism Today', David E. Apter and James Joll, MacMillan (ISBN 333 12041 8), has chapters on various movements and a bibliography of Anarchism in print. George Woodcock's Anarchist Reader and Anarchism also have useful bibliographies. Daniel Guerin's 'Anarchism' (Monthly Review Press, ISBN 85345-175-3) takes an anarchosyndicalist point of view (and has a bibliography). Paul Avrich's 'Anarchist Portraits' (Princeton University Press 1988, ISBN-N-0-691-00609-1) covers Russian and American anarchists. 'Classics': 'The ABC of Anarchism' - Alexander Berkman 'Civil Disobedience' - Thoreau 'Anarchy' - Malatesta Anything by Kropotkin, Bakunin, Proudhon. 'Enquiry Concerning Political Justice' - William Godwin. On individualism: Max Stirner's 'The Ego And His Own' On the situationists: BAMN:By Any Means Necessary, Penguin (out of print, cannot remember the author - I'd like to get hold of a copy of this). Raoul Vaneigem's 'The Revolution of Everyday Life' Guy Debord's 'The Society of the Spectacle' Also, 'The Situationist Anthology' On the squatters' movement: 'The Squatters' by Ron Bailey. Memoirs: 'Prison Memoirs of a Revolutionist', Kropotkin. - Visions of utopia: 'Journey to Utopia' by Marie Bernelli (an anthology) 'News from Nowhere' by William Morris 'The Dispossessed' - Ursula Le Guin Anarchosyndicalism: IWW: 'The Living Spirit of the Wobblies' by Len de Caux, International Publishers, 381 Park Avenue South, New York 10016, ISBN. This has an extensive bibliography on the IWW. Also, 'The Case of Joe Hill', Philip S.Foner, same publisher. Spain: Books published outside the anarchist press on the Spanish revolution are in the above bibliographies. George Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia' is a good introduction to the Civil War. Other non-anarchist perspectives include 'The Spanish Cockpit' by Franz Borkenau and 'The Spanish Labyrinth' by Gerald Brenan. The definitive work is 'Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution' Jose Peirats, Freedom Press (ISBN 0 900 384 53 0), also see 'Collectives in the Spanish Revolution', Gaston Leval, Freedom Press (ISBN 0 900384 11 5), 'Anarchist Organisation:the History of the F.A.I', by Juan Gomez Casas, Black Rose Books (Quebec), (ISBN 0-920057-38-1), plus others by Freedom Press and Black Rose Books, e.g. 'Spain 1936-1939:Social Revolution-Counter Revolution', Freedom Press (ISBN 0 900384 54-9) Also: Murray Bookchin's 'The Spanish Anarchists', Sam Dolgoff's 'Anarchist Collectives in the Spanish Revolution', Burnet Bolleten, [ NB Freedom Press titles are nice and cheap, and only 10% for overseas postage; they're at 84B Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX (Tel 01-247-9249) ] Latin America: 'Anarchism and the Mexican Working Class 1860-1931', John M. Hart, Univ. of Texas press (ISBN 0 292 70400 3). Chapter on Argentina and Uruguay in 'Anarchism Today' (above) 'The Cuban Revolution' by Sam Dolgoff Britain: 'The Slow Burning Fuse' by John Quail (also see bibliography in the Anarchist Reader) Russian: I don't know which of these are anarchosyndicalist, there are a number listed in the above bibliographies, esp. Voline's 'The Unknown Revolution' Paul Avrich's 'The Russian Anarchists' and Peter Arshinov's 'History of the Makhnovist movement'. Emma Goldman wrote a fair bit, in 'Living My Life', volume 2, 'My Disillusionment with Russia', etc.