By Chris Rossdale My research sits at the intersection between international relations theory and the study of resistance, looking at the ways in which our understandings of international politics shift when we begin from the perspective of radical social movements. My major research programme to-date has looked at […]
ByPaul B Spooner International Terrorist movements were launched under Mikhail Bakunin & the First International led by Karl Marx, but extend well into the 20th Century. This article provides an overview of anarchism’s geopolitical relationships, its theoretical bases, operating organizations, methods and funding, with a focus on French […]
PharmaHeretic Dec 7 Most of you have either read, or are familiar with, the best known works of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. In case you are still wondering, I am talking about 1984 and Brave New world. I am reasonably sure that most of you have also […]
ByMichael Schmidt In transnational historical labour movement studies, the African anarchist / syndicalist movement is as under-studied as those of Central or South-East Asia and the Caribbean. This is despite the fact that the movement arose in Egypt in the same phase, the late 1860s, as it did […]
By Manuel Armenteros This essay goes through the history of anarchist thought and action, taking as a basis the work of Peter Marshall. Besides going through many of the different types of libertarian schools of thought, from right wing free market anarcho-capitalists, to left wing voluntary socialism, arguments […]
By Bruno Leipold This article argues that using Joseph Raz’s service conception of authority to reject philosophical anarchism can be affected by political anarchism. Whereas philosophical anarchism only denies the authority of the state, political anarchism claims that anarchism is a better alternative to the state. Raz’s theory […]
By Jesse Cohn Over the course of its history, the anarchist movement has produced a form of literary theory – a critical aesthetics and epistemology grounded in its emancipatory ethics. In sketching an outline of this body of thought, this essay attempts to call attention to several aspects […]
By Matthew A Hall I study the interwar libertarian-socialist movements in Germany and Spain. This encompasses movements of industrial unionists, councilists, and syndicalists, as well as more traditional anarchisits. Currently, I’m looking at the construction of the “working class” during the Ruhraufstand (1920). I also study Spanish anarchism, […]
ByVishwam Jamie Heckert Abbey S Willis This entry briefly draws out some historical and contemporary relationships among queer and anarchist theories and practices, highlighting the rise of a distinctive form of queer anarchism. This queer anarchism has roots in the earliest anarchist theorists who, like contemporary queer theorists, […]
By Tom Woods People like you and me get frustrated sometimes: all we do is talk, but where’s the action? I’ll get to that below. For now, this: I come up with a good analogy about once every nine years. Here’s my best one ever: Suppose Walmart funded and […]
By Jorge Molero-Mesa, Isabel Jiménez Lucena The aim of this paper is to analyze the dynamics within Spanish anarcho-syndicalism between manual workers and medical professionals who shared the anarchist ideology. The incorporation of technicians into the labour movement was a common feature in the Western world; however, while […]
By Tom Woods To this day I find myself replying on Twitter to people who genuinely think this is a devastating argument: “If you want to live in your libertarian paradise, you should move to Somalia.” Whenever I see this, I know I am not dealing with the […]
Captain Jack White: imperialism, anarchism and the Irish Citizen Army Published in Book Reviews, Issue 2 (March/April 2015), Reviews, Volume 23 LEO KEOHANE Merrion Press €20.25 pb, €49.95 hb ISBN 9781908928931 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Of the many strands of radical thought to be reckoned with in the ideological crossfire of Ireland’s […]
By Raymond Craib My work circulates around the intersection of space and politics. My first book examined the cartographic routines that helped create the Mexican state in the 19th and 20th centuries. My second book examined the persecution of young anarchists, workers and poets in early twentieth century […]
By Dana Williams Although the period of highest activity for anarchist movements peaked in the early 1900s, such movement continues in the present. Contemporary antiauthoritarian movements are a product of the 1960s and New Left, as well as the USSR’s demise. Antiauthoritarian movements are either explicitly anarchist or […]
By Federico FerrettiRichard J WhiteAnthony Ince This paper aims to make a timely and original contribution to the long-standing debates regarding the interrelationships(s) between democracy, anarchism and the state in two key ways. The first is by exploring more fully the work of Errico Malatesta, particularly focused on […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something very stupid is happening in America. People have never been more disgusted with their bullshit form of government and yet they’ve never been more devoted to engaging in the partisan bullshit that defines it. It is a […]
José Luis Ledesma Eduardo Romanos ‘[May Day is celebrated] year after year, without interruption’, wrote the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1907), ‘and this celebration seems to assume a ritual, a liturgical character. The value of these rituals is enormous, as long as their spirit is faithfully remembered’ […]
By Vishwam Jamie Heckert The themes of my academic work included the transformative power of love, the value of inner revolutions for social change, freedom, equality & vitality. I now serve as a yoga teacher & teacher trainer, poet, listener and guide to those seeking a deeper sense […]
By Süreyyya Evren In ordinary language, a ghostwriter stands behind or writes on behalf of a named author. In dubbing George Woodcock the ghostwriter of anarchism we instead want to suggest that Woodcock identified anarchism’s ‘essence’ or, as Stirner has it, ‘the spirit that walks in everything.” Aft […]
By Thomas Swann Editors’ introduction to the ephemera special issue ‘Management, Business, Anarchism’. Traces the connections between anarchism and critical management studies. READ MORE
Holger Marcks Taking a critical approach, Holger Marcks deconstructs the threat of ‘international anarchist terrorism’ as a justification narrative that was used to generally blame anarchist ideology for politically motivated assassinations, to criminalise political dissent and to shape the norms and practices of the respective transnational criminal law […]
Simon Choat Recent years have seen the development of a new form of anarchism. Under the label ‘postanarchism’, writers such as Todd May, Saul Newman and Lewis Call have sought to combine the insights of anarchism with those of recent Continental philosophy, in particular post-structuralism. A central but […]
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By Vishwam Jamie Heckert When order is presumed to rely upon centralised authority, anarchy is assumed to mean violent chaos. However, anarchists have long argued, and demonstrated, that other forms of order are both possible and beneficial: ecologically, socially and psychologically. While anarchism has been influential in the […]
By Morgan Gibson The centrality of anarchism to the praxis of contemporary anti-systemic social movements has been well documented. From the alter-globalisation movement to Occupy, many contemporary anti-systemic movements are defined by their commitment to some of the central tenets of anarchism, including the pursuit of decentralized, directly […]
SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=47158 via The Deep State Consciousness Podcast: James Corbett joins me to talk about his five hour documentary series, False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda. In addition to asking James about the narrative of that history, I also inquire as to what […]
Ep. 2223 Smaller Is Better Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute joins me to make a worldwide case for smaller states, decentralization, and secession. Special Offer We love our monthly Happily date box — it’s full of games, recipes, and activities that bring us closer together. With a […]
The American Sun Posted by The Editors on October 25, 2022 By Epaminondas Whereas philosophers define religion as delusion, the Athenians defined religion as the prerequisite to action. The orator Isocrates in the “Panegyricus”, writing in the year 380 BC, argued for Athenian supremacy over the Hellenic city-states […]
Patrick S. O’Donnell (2018) This bibliography has two conspicuous constraints: books, in English. While not exhaustive, it is nonetheless intended to be fairly comprehensive. I have included works on social movements, groups and organizations that may not be avowedly “anarchist” yet display many if not most of the […]
By Jose Moya Shows how Eastern European Jews in the international anarchist movement and how the stereotypes of Jews as radicals may have stirred antisemitism among the native-born upper and middle classes in Argentina but promoted sympathy from the leftist sectors of the immigrant working classes. READ MORE
Louis Gerald Plottel Punk and anarchism, as lived practices that espouse antiauthoritarianism and prefigurative politics as their guiding principles, share a close affinity. Yet, the political value of punk has tended to be overlooked in favour of the punk “identity.” This paper considers the overlapping politics of anarchists […]
By Axel B. Corlu Anarchists, and in particular propaganda by the deed, occupied the center stage in world politics in the late nineteenth century. The use of political violence in the anarchist mold captured the attention of the public from the Americas to Europe and beyond. The connection […]
By Dana Williams Tactics are the techniques and actions used by social movements that implement strategies for the purpose of achieving goals. For anarchist movements, tactics can assume a reactive, diagnostic, or destructive force for opposing hierarchy, repression, and inequality. Tactics can also assume a proactive, prognostic, or […]
One of the most controversial pieces I ever wrote was an essay from 2005 called “Why I Choose to Collaborate with Racialists and Theocrats.” You can imagine the reaction to that in some anarchist circles, particularly the hard-left ones. A reader recently offered a response to that essay, […]
There are a lot of different ways to arrive at the conclusion that the effects of the existence of the state, taken as a whole, are detrimental. Some people see the state as their enemy because it negligently and even willfully damages the environment, and shields others from […]
By PodcastDogs From Libertarian Labyrinth by Shawn P. Wilbur This is a collection of another Twitter thread, in the course of which I’ve been sharing some reminiscences on how “neo-proudhonian” mutualism emerged and how those who have adopted the label or encounter it in anarchist circles might understand […]
By Luis Fernandez “This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist theory in the academy. Focusing on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the future, this edition will strike a chord […]
By PodcastDogs From ArtReview by Noam Chomsky and Nika Dubrovsky Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Noam Chomsky about pirate societies, ‘bewildered herds’ and the fragility of the present in the context of the late anthropologist David Graeber’s final book As questions of decolonisation rub up against the legacy of […]
From Enough 14 A member of an anti-authoritarian platoon in Ukraine reflects critically on the platoon’s activity, their relationship to the traditional armed forces, and the wider political significance of the experience. Originally published by Libcom. *This article was written in the first part of July. Now […]
By Caciuleanu Mihai-Calin Radical democracy defines a perspective of democracy that seeks to maximize the political space, and the rights of antagonized groups, through a continuous hegemonic struggle. In Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe argue that this project is one that captures the unrest […]
From The Commoner The Federation of Anarchism Era is an anarchist federation primarily located in Afghanistan and Iran. In this first half of a two-part interview, they talk about their perspective on anarchism and their on the ground experience with theocratic regimes. The group say they are well […]
By Larry Gambone INTRODUCTION The rise and fall of the libertarian movement in Chile is a fascinating story. There is more to the story than mere historical interest, however. Chile is a country on the brink of development and hence is closer to a European country than to […]
We welcome back Parenthesis Eye to the show and discuss the down and dirty details of his Utopian Anarchism. Using his latest two blog entries as a guide, Parenthesis Eye addresses the theoretical influences on his utopian thinking and the practices that come from it!
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Benjamin Pauli This article highlights the ways in which anarcho-pacifists in the years during and after World War II reconceptualized anarchist tactics like “propaganda of the deed” and “direct action” in a manner that reconciled them with principles of nonviolence. In order to contextualize this extraordinary shift of […]
You may know them from HBO’s 6-part Series, the Anarchists. In this episode Lily Forester and Cabra Alghul follow-up the show with their thoughts on anarchism, what they liked and disliked about HBO’s show, how things are going now, and the future of Anarchapulco! HBO’s site for The […]
I generally like Albert Meltzer but he was a little too “workerist” for my tastes, or what would today be called “class reductionism.” Meltzer represents a viewpoint that I respect and yet disagree with at the same time. His view was that “workerist anarchism” of the late 19th/early […]
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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