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Anarchism is a form of political thought in which society is conceived without government.

There is a long tradition of anarchist activism in Australia, dating back to the nineteenth century - the Melbourne Anarchist Club was formed in 1886. However, anarchist forms of radical politics have generally been marginalised, in particular by Marxism.

In recent decades anarchism has been influential, in particular in counter-cultural youth politics and anti-globalisation movements.

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Books

  • Rebel Songs: A.S.L.F. Song Book, Australian Student Labour Federation, Sydney, 1953. [ | | Details... ]
  • Andrade, David A., Our social system, and how it affects those who work for their living., David A. Andrade, Melbourne, n.d., 13 pp. [ | | Details... ]
  • Lane, E. H., Dawn to Dusk, SHAPE, Brisbane, 1939. [ | | Details... ]
  • Scott, Bon & Gary David (eds.), How to Make Trouble and Influence People: A Compilation of Australian pranks, hoaxes and political mischief making, Political Hooligan Publications, Sydney, 1996. [ | | Details... ]
  • The Question Mark Collective, How to Stop Whining and Start Living, Scam Publications, Melbourne, 1998. [ | | Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Cresciani, Gianfranco, 'Italian anti-fascism in Australia, 1922-45', in Wheelwright, E.L. & Buckley, K. (ed.), Essays in the political economy of Australian capitalism, volume three, 1978 edn, vol. 3, Australia & New Zealand Book Company, Brookvale, 1978, pp. 86-101. [ | | Details... ]

Journals

Newsletters

  • Rebel Worker, vol. 18, Anarcho-Syndicalist Network, Sydney, Feb-March 1999. [ | | Details... ]

Newspapers

  • Rebel Worker, vol. 1, no. 5, October 1982. [ | | Details... ]
  • Rebel Worker, vol. 7, no. 10, December 1988. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 1, no. 1, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, September 1970. [ | | Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

  • 'Socialism in Sydney', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 22 October 1887. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'The class struggle is being prostituted to the fight between rival imperialism', Southern Socialist Review, new series 19, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, June. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Where we stand', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, 1946?. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Essay on Socialist Theory', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, 1946?. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Reactionary Politics in Unions', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, no. 87, J.A.Dawson, Melbourne, August-September 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Russia. The Russian State Party', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, 1947?. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'A Marxist saw clearly', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, 1947?. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'The need for the IWW', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, 1947?. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'The state and conscientious objectors', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, J.A. Dawson, Melbourne, c1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Andrews, J. A., 'Nihilism', Australian Radical (Newcastle, N.S.W.), 10 November 1888. [ | | Details... ]
  • Andrews, J.A., 'What is communism?', Australian Radical (Newcastle, N.S.W.), 17 August 1889. [ | | Details... ]
  • Andrews, J.A., 'Communist-anarchism V. individualist proprietism', Australian Radical (Newcastle, N.S.W.), 2 February 1889. [ | | Details... ]
  • Andrews, J.A., 'The kernel of things', New Order (Sydney), 1 September 1894. [ | | Details... ]
  • CAM, 'Holiday in Narrungar', Burning Issue, no. 7, November 1993. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dawson, J.A., 'Dollar crisis; an address to the League for Freedom, 10 August', Southern Socialist Review, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dawson, J.A., 'The "crisis" of democracy', Southern Socialist Review, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, c1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dawson, Jim, '"Lenin said"', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, c1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Diez, Lain, 'Interpretation of the commune', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, 1947?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Mattick, Paul, 'Lenin. The Legend.', Southern Socialist Review, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, 1947?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Mattick, Paul, 'Review: Stalin, Trotsky and Lenin', Southern Socialist Review, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, 1947?. [ | | Details... ]

Novels

  • Andrade, David A., The Melbourne riots, and how Harry Holdfast and his friends emancipated the workers: a realistic novel, 1892 edn, Andrade & Co., Melbourne, 1892, 67 pp. [ | | Details... ]

Pamphlets

  • What is anarchism, who are the anarchists, Refutation of certain incorrect statements, made in the central police court and elsewhere, concerning the doctrine of anarchism, Communist - Anarchist Press, 151 George St, West Sydney, July 1913. [ | | Details... ]
  • Anarcho Syndaclism in Practice: Melbourne Tram Dispute and Lockout January - February 1990, Jura Books, Syndey, 1997. [ | | Details... ]
  • Andrews, J.A., The social question, To lighten the darkness of society and abate the present class warfare by uniting the conscientous and intelligent of all the classess in the earnest REVOLT against the bondage of social superstitions and barabarisms, J.A. Andrews, Sydney, 1894. [ | | Details... ]
  • Kendall, Leigh (ed.), Anarchism in Australia Today, Scam Publications, Melbourne, 1997. [ | | Details... ]
  • Purchase, Graham, Anarcism and Ecology: The Historical Relationship, Jura Books, Sydney, 1993. [ | | Details... ]
  • Purchase, Graham, New Anarchy Pamphlet Series: Mapping our Green Anarchist Future, Jura Books, Sydney, 1996. [ | | Details... ]

See also

  • Prospectus of the Melbourne Anarchist Club, 1886. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'An agitator's career', The Worker [Sydney] (Sydney), 29 January 1889, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]
  • Andrews, J. A., 'Australian Socialist League, Melbourne', Australian Radical (Newcastle, N.S.W.), 26 January 1889. [ | | Details... ]

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