On Anarchism : Dispatches From the People's Republic of Vermont.

Intro -- Foreword: Red and Black in the Green Mountain State -- Chapter 1: History -- The Rise and Fall of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective -- The Political Premise -- The Black Bloc and Beyond -- Building The Movement -- The Fall &amp -- Legacy -- Chapter 2: Theory -- Culture and Nothingness -- Part I: The Dawn of Nothingness -- Part II: The Instinct to Rebel -- Part III: The Rise of Capitalism -- Part IV: Authoritarian Communism As An Incomplete Resistance -- Part V: Capitalist Colonization &amp -- Neo-Liberalism -- Part VI: Radical Commodification &amp -- Consumerism -- Part VII: The Anarchist Rebellion -- On the Question of Violence &amp -- Nonviolence -- Introduction -- When Violence is Necessary -- Pacifism as Foreign to the Poor and Working Classes -- Psychological Roots of Pacifism as a Bourgeois Ideology -- Conclusion -- Neither Washington Nor Stowe -- - Common Sense for the Working Vermonter: -- A Libertarian-Socialist Manifesto (Third Revised Ed. 2014) -- A Peoples' History -- The Yoke of Washington and Wall Street -- The Yoke Within -- A Second Vermont Revolution -- Town Meeting -- The Farmers -- The Workplace -- Freedom and Unity -- A Peoples' Bill of Rights -- The Worth of Labor and Exchange -- Self Determination for the Abenaki -- In Defense of Freedom -- Vermont as a Northern Star -- The Vermont Spring -- Chapter 3. Insurrection -- Black Bloc Tactics Communiqué -- Introductory Notes from the First Edition -- Our Movement Grows -- Anarchism and the Broader Movement -- The Development of the Movement -- Our Local Communities -- At Demonstrations -- The Necessity of Increasing Our Tactical Abilities -- Increased Organization of Street Fighting Force: The Formation of an Elected Tactical Facilitation Core -- Individual Affinity Groups -- Clusters -- Reconnaissance and Communication -- Reserves.

Additional Security Precautions: Maps, Radios, IDs, Names, Etc. -- Communiques -- Anarchist Principles of Tactical Leadership -- Physical Training In Between Actions -- Pre-emptive Actions -- Preparations For Increased State Repression -- Development of Our Social and Political Understandings -- Conclusion -- Anti-WTO Protests &amp -- The Battle of Seattle -- A:16 - A March On The Capitol: April 2000 -- The Battle of Quebec City -- DC and the Twin Towers: A Battle Postponed -- Chapter 4: Organization -- Concerning The Long Term Viability of Forming Workers' Councils -- Workers' Councils As Real Democracy &amp -- Revolutionary Power -- Lessons From The Green Mountains -- Building A Workers' Center &amp -- Launching An All-Workers-Union -- Origins of The Vermont Workers' Center and Internal Structure -- State of The Montpelier Downtown Workers Union -- From Montpelier Downtown Workers' Union To A Montpelier Workers' Council -- Proposal -- Chapter 5: Workers -- Montpelier Downtown Workers Union: -- Building Working Class Democracy, One City At A Time -- Origins, Necessities, and Eventualities -- Enter the Vermont Workers Center -- The First Strategy -- Capitalist Backlash -- A Worker Town Meeting -- Citywide Grievance Procedure -- Worker's Defense Squad -- A New Contract and Citywide Elections -- Street Victories -- Union Holds Public Hearing at City Hall -- Union Expands Organizing Scope -- A Force in City Politics -- Second Worker Town Meeting -- The Struggle Today and in the Future -- The Role of Anarchists -- Chapter 6: Secession -- Vermont Secession: Democracy &amp -- The Extreme Right -- Chapter 7: On The Road -- When the Levee Breaks -- Night Patrol with the Vermont National Guard -- Food, Water, and Murder -- Katrina's Heart of Darkness: Into New Orleans -- The People vs. Katrina -- After The Flood -- 6092 -- _GoBack.

The contemporary anarchist world, including the idea of secession as it flourishes in "Bernie Sanders' Vermont," is outlined in these collected writings of an AFL-CIO union officer, laborer, journalist and anarchist organizer. With a partial focus on the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective but applicable throughout the US, he describes political goals and specific events in the last few decades; central to the theme is the aim to expand venues for democratic decision making and socialism.

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