This monograph written by CRAC is the first of what will be a long series on anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist groups that have been part of the Québec landscape since 1995. Members of the eco-radical collective Liberterre were active participants in the action-research process, lasting two years, that produced the study. The document includes a first part describing the group (context in which it appeared, principles, sources of inspiration, motivations, ways of functioning, evolution). The second part provides an account of political analyses produced by members of the collective and their thoughts on the challenges of self-management in a stratified context. For a print copy of the monograph, please contact us at info@crac.kebec.org.

Rudolf Rocker (1989), a 19th century anarchist, proclaimed that anarchist theory was separate from a state driven, hierarchical socialism in that, "…when a revolutionary situation arises they [the people] will be capable of taking the socio-economic organism into their own hands and remaking it according to Socialist principles" (p. 86). Arising from the idea that small cooperatives of people could form without the need of a coercive and hierarchical state, Rocker envisioned a society that was based on cooperation, community participation, and mutual aid. Rocker’s vision of society, and other anarchist-communist (or anarcho-syndicalist) theorists, is especially relevant in a time that has seen a "war on terror" that was not supported by the global community, the roll back of civil liberties with legislation such as The Patriot Act, and educational laws such as No Child Left Behind that are focusing on narrowly-defined "standards" for public schooling. Cliquez ici pour télécharger l'article