ASR 92 (Summer 2025)

From Anarcho-Syndicalist Review

ASR 92 (Summer 2025) is at the printer, and we hope to start mailing copies to subscribers this weekend. This issue features articles on a recent labor conference of building mass strikes, anarchism & expertise, Britain's syndicalist revolt (1910-1914), resistance to Trump, mutual aid, and more. The table of contents is on our website.
 
If you don't have a subscription this might be a good time. https://syndicalist.us/18-2/
Or you can order a sample issue and check us out (scroll down at the linked page)
If there's a bookstore in your area that should carry ASR, why not talk to them? We'd be glad to work with them to provide copies, or to send you a bundle for local distribution if you prefer.
 
We are in challenging times, with governments stepping up their assaults on workers around the world -- physically, with bombs and kidnappings, and through economic policies predicated on the belief that workers have too much and the bosses too little. This situation will only continue to get worse so long as we are unorganized -- we will only get what we are organized to demand, and to seize through our own actions.
 
As we prepare for our next issue, we welcome your thoughts on the current crisis, your suggestions for future articles (and especially your willingness to write them), and news of your struggles to turn back the tide of repression and war, and to build a new society.
 

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https://syndicalist.us

Contents:

Editorial: Unions, Workers Need to Stand Up
Wobbles: Crime Wave, Plutocrats, 4-Day Week, Recycled Lies, Bosses’ War on Older Workers…
Syndicalist News: War on Rojava, 3 1/2 Years Jail for Striking, IWW Strikes… compiled by Mike Hargis
The Cry of the Forgotten Tea Workers: A Call for Liberation by Bangladesh Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
Articles: The Strike: Building Workers’ Resistance by Jon Bekken & Alexis Buss
Workers & Social Resistance to Trump and Musk by John Kalwaic
Vulture Capital’s Looting Regime by Jon Bekken
Bootmakers and Virologists: Anarchist Views On Expertise by Dana Williams
A Missed Opportunity: Britain’s Syndicalist Revolt review essay by Iain McKay
Reviews: Capitalism Goes Techno by Jeff Stein
Remaking Society review essay by Tony Sheather
Mutual Aid & Solidarity by Jon Bekken
Kropotkin’s “The Conquest of Bread” for Today: Anarchist Political Economics review essay by Wayne Price
Letters: Iran, Counter-Revolution of 1787

Comments

anonymous (not verified) Wed, 06/25/2025 - 10:59

i mean, ASR has always been one of those "anarchism as a history lesson" kinda publications, but also dayum, this announcement could've been written any year about any thing. if you have no inspiration for what you're doing/writing about, maybe just... dont?

Wayne Price@ (not verified) Wed, 06/25/2025 - 11:37

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

ASR is criticized for being an "'anarchism as history lesson' kinda publication." Also for being like from a past century. In fact this issue publishes a review I wrote of Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread--clearly from another century, offering a "history lesson."

Why bother with these history lessons, these reviews of anarchist-communist and anarchist-syndicalist theories of dead white men with bushy beards? Because, alas, we still live under capitalism and the state, as well as other historic oppressions. There have been many new developments in society, but it is still capitalist and statist. The analysis of these institutions by those dead white men, for all their limitations, are still of great importance, if we don't want to reinvent the wheel, to start over every time a new cohort of anarchists begins to struggle.

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