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 Southern Nevada 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.
What We Do
Right now Southern Nevada ALL is just getting started. Our first public action was hanging flyers (combining education with oureach to possible new ALLies) on Tax Day, April 15th, 2008. We've discussed possible future activities, mostly focusing on:
- distributing left-libertarian and anarchist literature in Las Vegas (short tracts, eye-catching flyers, etc.),
- making contact with potential allies in the Las Vegas / Southern Nevada area,
- having some informal gatherings — for movies, or meals, or just a cup of coffee — where like-minded people can get together, break bread, talk shop, and have some fun together; and
- reaching out to other local groups that organize and agitate against statism, war, poverty, government-privileged corporate capitalism, sexism, racism, and other forms of oppression and exploitation.
Besides the immediate goals of getting our message out and participating in local activism, we also hope to make contacts throughout the area that will provide us with ideas, resources, and meeting-places that act as a springboard for future actions, longer-term projects, and affinity groups and informal networks that might spin off of the ALL chapter. If you are interested in posseing up with us, or have an idea for an action, be sure to join the e-mail list or contact the local working group.
Past and present actions
April 15th, 2008: Tax Day outreach and education: Southern Nevada ALLies took their first public action for April 15th — Tax Day — by issuing their first communiqué and hanging up the following flyers in honor of the occasion:
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 Southern Nevada 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
To get in touch with local ALLies and get news, announcements, action opportunities, &c., the best thing to do is to join the ALLSouthernNevada e-mail list:
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.
Post some flyers
Right now Southern Nevada ALL is just getting started, and one of our main forms of action is to combine education and outreach to possible new ALLies through hanging up flyers. We post electronic copies of all the flyers we make (usually as PDF documents), ready for you to print out and hang up in your own neighborhood. If you do hang them up, please do feel free to contact us to let us know about it!
Tell a friend
If you know anyone who might be interested in Southern Nevada ALL, be sure to tell them we're here!
Resources: Online Library of the Libertarian Left
By Southern Nevada ALLies:
- 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
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
- 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