This compelling collection of Peter Kropotkin’s work helps recast him as the innovative revolutionary he truly was.

Table of Contents

Direct Struggle Against Capital
-A Peter Kropotkin Anthology

Introduction, by Iain McKay

PART I: Anarchism and Anarchists

From Memoirs of a Revolutionist
• St. Petersburg – First Journey to Western Europe
• Western Europe
The Lyons anarchist trial of 1883 (Freedom, first time in book)
• From Kropotkin’s Defence Speech
• Defence Declaration
-The Place of Anarchism in Socialist Evolution (first time in book)
-Preface to Bakunin’s The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State (Newly translated)
-Letter to Maria Isidine Goldsmith (Newly translated)
-Letter to Max Nettlau (New translation, different translation in Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution)
-Anarchism (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kropotkin’s Revolutionary Pamphlets)
• The Historical Development of Anarchism
• Anarchism in the International Working Men’s Association
From Modern Science and Anarchism
• The Origin of Anarchism
• The Anarchist Ideal and the Preceding Revolutions
• Anarchism
• A Few Conclusions of Anarchism
• The Means of Action
-The Anarchist Principle (Newly translated)
-A Few Thoughts about the Essence of Anarchism (Freedom, first time in book)
-Letter to the Bakunin Centenary Celebration (Freedom, first time in book)
-From Ethics: Origin and Development
-Capitalism and the State
-From Representative Government (New translation, Words of a Rebel)
-Our Riches (Conquest of Bread)
-The Division of Labour (Conquest of Bread)
-Economic Expedients (Newly translated)
-From The State: Its Historic Role
-Prisons: Universities of Crime (Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth)
-From The Modern State (Freedom, first time in book)
• I. The Essential Principle of Modern Society
• II. Serfs of the State
• III. Taxation as a Means of Increasing the Power of the State
• IV. Taxation a Means of Enriching the Rich
• V. The Monopolies
• VI. The Monopolies in the Nineteenth Century

PART II: The Workers Movement and Class Struggle

From Memoirs of a Revolutionist
-Enemies of the People (Newly translated)
-The Workers’ Movement in Spain (Newly translated)
-Workers Organisation (Newly translated)
-The Use of the Strike (Freedom, first time in book)
-Strikes (Newly translated)
-1st May 1891 (Newly translated)
-Letter to French and British Trade Union Delegates (Freedom, first time in book)
-The Death of the New International (Newly translated)
-Commemoration of the Chicago Martyrs (Freedom, first time in book)
-The Workers’ Congress of 1896 (Newly translated)
-The Development of Trade-Unionism (Freedom, first time in book)
-From Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
• Mutual Aid Amongst Ourselves
• Conclusion
-Politics and Socialism (Freedom pamphlet, first time in book)
-Trade Unionism and Parliamentarism (Newly translated)
-Letter to “The Voice of Labour” (The Voice of Labour, first time in book)
-Anarchists and Trade Unions (Freedom, first time in book)
-1886-1907: Glimpses into the Labour Movement in this Country (Act for Yourselves)
-Letter to Alexander Berkman (Freedom, first time in book)
-Syndicalism and Anarchism (Freedom, first time in book)

PART III: Revolutions

From The Great French Revolution
• Action
• The “Districts” and the “Sections” of Paris
• The Sections of Paris under the New Municipal Law
-1848–1871 (Freedom, first time in book)
-The Paris Commune (Fighting the Revolution volume 2; first time in book)
• The theory of the State and the practice of the Commune
• Popular aspirations and popular prejudices in the Commune
• From the Paris Commune to anarchist communism
-Commune of Paris (Freedom, first time in book)
-The Revolution in Russia (Freedom, first time in book)
-The Russian Revolution and Anarchism (Newly translated)
• Political and economic revolution
• Our relation with peasants and workers’ unions
• Conclusions of the conference
-Enough of Illusions! (Freedom, first time in book)
-A Letter to the Workers of the West (Freedom, original English language version)
-Social Revolution
-From Memoirs of a Revolutionist
-The Anarchist Idea from the Point Of View of its Practical Realisation (Freedom, first time in book; another translation appears in No Gods, No Masters)
-Revolutionary Government (Words of a Rebel; translation from No Gods, No Masters)
-From Expropriation (Conquest of Bread)
-What Revolution Means (Act for Yourselves)
-Act For Yourselves (Act for Yourselves)
-Local Action (Act for Yourselves)
-Preface to Words of a Rebel (1904) (first time in book)
-Insurrections and Revolution (Newly translated)
-Preface to How We Shall Bring About the Revolution
-Anarchist Action in the Revolution (Newly translated)
-Postscript to Words of a Rebel (1919) (first time in book)
-Anarchy
-The Commune (Words of a Rebel; translation from No Gods, No Masters)
-From In Russian and French Prisons
-Are We Good Enough? (Act for Yourselves)
-The Permanence of Society after the Revolution (Act for Yourselves)
-The Wage System (Conquest of Bread)
• I. Representative Government and Wages
• II. The Collectivist Wage System
• III. Unequal Remuneration
• IV. Equal Wages versus Communism
-Communism and Anarchy (Freedom, first time in book)
-The Reformed School (Freedom, first time in book)
-From Fields, Factories and Workshops
• Preface to the Second Edition (1913)
• Preface to the First Edition (1898)
• The Decentralisation of Industries
• The Possibilities of Agriculture
• Small Industries and Industrial Villages
• Brain Work and Manual Work
• Conclusion

Appendix:

-Mutual Aid: An Important Factor in Evolution (Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth)