Libcom.org

{{Short description|Online platform for libertarian communism writing}}

{{Infobox website

| name = Libcom.org

| logo = Logo of libcom.org.svg

| logo_size = 90

| screenshot = Libcom screenshot April 2021.jpg

| type = Anarchist website

| language = English, with some non-English content

| url = {{URL|http://libcom.org}}

| launch_date = {{Date and age|26 September 2003}}

| current_status = Online

| content_licence = Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.5{{Cite web|title=legal notes|url=http://libcom.org/notes/legal-notes|access-date=2021-04-11|website=Libcom.org|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411214557/http://libcom.org/notes/legal-notes|url-status=live}}

}}Libcom.org is an online platform featuring a variety of libertarian communist essays, blog posts, and archives, primarily in English. It was founded in 2005 by editors in the United States and the United Kingdom. Libcom.org also has a forum and social media features including the ability to comment on post and upload original articles.{{Cite book |last=Croeser |first=Sky |url= |title=Social Media Materialities and Protest: Critical Reflections |publisher=Routledge |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-138-09306-5 |editor-last=Mortensen |editor-first=Mette |location=Abingdon, Oxon |pages=28–41 |chapter=Rethinking networked solidarity |oclc=1012345327 |editor-last2=Neumayer |editor-first2=Christina |editor-last3=Poell |editor-first3=Thomas}} In contrast with traditional archives, anarchistic archival practices embrace "use as preservation", making use of digital technology to host niche political material in online repositories like Libcom.org.{{Cite journal|last=Cornell|first=Andrew|date=2019|title=Archival Parties and Parties to the Archive: Creating and Recovering Anarchist Resistance Culture at the Interference Archive|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/720289|journal=American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism|volume=29|issue=1|pages=21–25|issn=1548-4238}}

The site was launched in 2003 originally as enrager.net, named for the enragés of the French Revolution, but changed its name in 2005 to the present name libcom.org, short for libertarian communism.{{Cite web |date=September 26, 2013 |title=libcom.org: 10 years of class struggle online |url=http://libcom.org/blog/libcomorg-10-years-class-struggle-online-26092013 |access-date=2021-03-28 |website=Libcom.org |language=en |quote=Today, Thursday, 26 September 2013, libcom.org turns 10. In this blog post we look back at the evolution of the site over the last decade, pick out some highlights and look to the future. libcom.org, originally named enrager.net, was officially launched on 26 September 2003 as an "anti-authoritarian resource and community". Since then, we believe it has grown to be the world's most popular English-language anarchist/libertarian socialist website, with over 15,000 texts, over 6000 contributing users and which has been viewed over 15 million times by over 10 million unique visitors. |archive-date=14 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414170202/https://libcom.org/blog/libcomorg-10-years-class-struggle-online-26092013 |url-status=live }} The enrager.net web collective was a splinter of the London group inside the Anarchist Youth Network, an organization founded in 2002 by two members of the Anarchist Federation.{{Cite web |last=Johns |first=Steven |title=The Anarchist Youth Network (AYN), personal recollections, 2002-2004 |url=https://libcom.org/library/the-anarchist-youth-network-ayn-personal-recollections-2002-2004 |url-status=live |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=Libcom.org |archive-date=2022-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308042017/http://libcom.org/library/the-anarchist-youth-network-ayn-personal-recollections-2002-2004 }}