What We Do
Chicagoland ALL is a propaganda shop, a social network, and a meeting-place and spring-board for long-term projects, affinity groups, and informal networks. We are working to build an infrastructure for radical activism in Chicagoland.
- We distribute left-libertarian and anarchist literature in Chicagoland (short tracts, eye-catching flyers, etc.),
- We give talks about anarchism, left-libertarianism, and counter-economics to local groups; and
- We network and work together with allies in anarchist, social justice, and libertarian groups in the Chicagoland area.
Past and present actions
- Check back soon!
Who we are
We are individualists, agorists, market anarchists, mutualists, voluntary socialists, and others on the libertarian left. We oppose statism, militarism, sexism, racism, and the prevailing state capitalism fraudulently labeled the free market.
We are for peace, individual freedom, truly freed markets, solidarity, voluntary cooperation, and mutual aid. We fight for liberation in Chicagoland using education, nonviolent direct action, and cooperative counter-institutions—not petitions, symbolic protests or electoral politics. We are working to build a new society within the shell of the old.
Interested? Want to meet like-minded people? Want to get involved? Then contact our local working group.
Join us!
We are looking for members, ALLies, friends, fellow travelers and comrades. If you're interested in the Libertarian Left, but aren't sure what it's all about yet, you can read some more about it through the resources linked from this page (including articles written by local ALLies). If you support the goals of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left and are looking to meet like-minded people who are working for freedom and against privilege — to make a difference in Chicagoland through means other than ballot-boxing or begging politicians to mend their ways — to break some bread, make some flyers, drop some literature, and more — then let's get in touch. Here's how:
Join the e-mail list
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Social Networking
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Contact the organizers
You can contact our local working group for information, to let us know you're interested in joining, or to pass along your own questions, comments, concerns, applause, brickbats, etc.
Tell a friend
If you know anyone who might be interested in Chicagoland ALL, be sure to tell them we're here!
Resources: Online Library of the Libertarian Left
By Chicagoland ALLies:
- Coming soon...
In general:
- State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherein They Differ by Benjamin Tucker
- Armies that Overlap by Benjamin Tucker
- Defining Left-Libertarianism by Wally Conger
- Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty As We Know It by Charles Johnson
- Take the A-Train and In which I fail to be reassured by Charles Johnson
- Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved? by Charles Johnson and Roderick Long
- Sin Fronteras by Charles Johnson
- International Apartheid in Roswell by Charles Johnson
- Bordercrats Against Joy and Plenty by Charles Johnson
- You got served and protected by Charles Johnson
- Cops are here to protect you and Cops are here to protect you (#2) by Charles Johnson
- Enclosure comes to Los Angeles by Charles Johnson
- Urban homesteading by Charles Johnson
- El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! and Anarquistas por La Causa by Charles Johnson
- Libertarianism: Left or Right? by Sheldon Richman
- The Left-Right Spectrum by Karl Hess
- Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty by Murray Rothbard
- Instead of a Book, By A Man Too Busy To Write One by Benjamin Tucker
- A Letter to Grover Cleveland by Lysander Spooner
- Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth by Kevin Carson
- Contract Feudalism by Kevin Carson
- A
Political
Program for Anarchists by Kevin Carson - Libertarian Class Analysis, Organized Labor, Etc. by Kevin Carson
- Libertarian Property and Privatization: An Alternative Paradigm by Kevin Carson
- Studies in the Anarchist Theory of Organizational Behavior by Kevin Carson
- Studies in Mutualist Political Economy by Kevin Carson
- Platonic Productivity by Roderick Long
- Proletarian Blues by Roderick Long
- A Plea for Public Property by Roderick Long
- Rothbard’s Left and Right: Forty Years Later by Roderick Long
- Beyond the Boss by Roderick Long
- Health Care Without Government by Joe Peacott
- Human Iterations FAQ by William Gillis
- Free Trade is Fair Trade: An Anarchist Look at World Trade by the Boston Anarchist Drinking Brigade
- Privatization? It Doesn't Go Far Enough! by the Boston Anarchist Drinking Brigade
- Woman vs. the Nation State: A Manifesto by Carol Moore
- Full Context by Sheldon Richman
- Where Free Market Economists Go Wrong by Sheldon Richman
- Class Struggle Rightly Conceived by Sheldon Richman
- Unions: Part of the Market by Tom Knapp
- Exploitation: A Dialectical Anarchist Perspective by Matt MacKenzie
- Wages vs. Wage Slavery by Brad Spangler
- Market Anarchism as Stigmergic Socialism by Brad Spangler
- Austrian Economics and Wage Slavery by Brad Spangler
- The Dialectics of Wage Slavery Further Developed by Venus Cassandra
- Building a New Libertarian Movement by Samuel E. Konkin III and Wally Conger
- New Libertarian Manifesto by Samuel E. Konkin III
- Big Business and the Rise of American Statism by Roy Childs
- Three Voluntary Economies by Phil Jacobson
- Agorist Class Theory by Wally Conger
- Exquisite Rebel: Voltairine de Cleyre by Sharon Presley
- Confiscation and the Homestead Principle by Murray Rothbard
- Liberty and the New Left by Murray Rothbard
- Where Are the Specifics? by Karl Hess
- Government and Microsoft: A Libertarian View on Monopolies by François-René Rideau
- Toward a Theory of State Capitalism by Walter Grinder and John Hagel
- Common Property in Free-Market Anarchism by Carlton Hobbs
- Understanding the Global Crisis by Chris M. Sciabarra
- Dialectics and Liberty by Chris M. Sciabarra