William Godwin: A radical mind
From Freedom News UK! by Ruby Tuke
The philosopher and novelist was the first to formulate the modern conception of anarchism
From Freedom News UK! by Ruby Tuke
The philosopher and novelist was the first to formulate the modern conception of anarchism
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:
From Fifth Estate #417, Winter 2025
A review of “All Will Be Equalized”: Georgia’s Freedom Seekers of the Swamps, Backwoods, and Sea Islands 1526-1890 by Andrew Zonneveld. On Our Own Authority Publishing, 2024
“All Will Be Equalized” (AWBE) is in many ways the right book for the current moment. It is a book of popular history, a synthesis of academic sources for non-academics, written from an explicitly anarchist perspective. It is broad enough to be a great introduction, is relatively short, but well written and full of inspiring stories and historical detail.
from No Selves, No Masters
Hello, my patient readers. Believe it or not, the work continues behind the scenes. Among other things, I have been interested in revisiting the pre-modern historical roots of Buddhist Anarchism. This is because I have clarified my historiographical methods. Instead of searching for analogues of Anarchism in the distant past long before it was developed I will look for its ancestors. This helps us avoid anachronism and the pitfalls of projecting modern ideologies onto the people of the past.
From History is What's Happening by K. C. Sinclair
What is “revolutionary defeatism,” where does it come from, and what is its current relevance for anarchists and other social rebels? As a slogan and stance, revolutionary defeatism was devised by the Russian statist socialist Vladimir Lenin and, to a lesser extent, the Ukrainian statist socialist Grigory Zinoviev, in the context of the First World War.
From Black Ink
Because the history and practice of anarchism have been foundational to me—and because I’m aware of the toxicity of deadnames, the patriarchy embedded in surnames, and the trauma at the root of slavenames and government names—I have a high tolerance for anyone who, whatever the reason, changes their name. I read the shifting of Red’s name, over time, as a survival strategy; she was a Black woman in a country founded on, among other things, the abuse and erasure of Black women.
From Literary Hub by Ed Simon
Ed Simon Considers the Life Alexander Berkman, Anarchist, Would-Be Assassin, and 19th-Century Luigi Mangione
From Collective of Anarchist Writers
I wrote this before Luigi Mangione shot the CEO of United Healthcare. Such an act, totally unpredictable but ripping open the seams of this world to instantiate possibility in the present, is a beautiful act—not historical, since it breaks with this world and cannot be contained by time.
Why do we tell ourselves history? Why this pious agreement that being informed about history, along with politics, makes us somehow better, smarter, aware?
From Memoria Libertaria
November 30, 2024
During this November, Joan Busquets, “El Senzill” visited the Spanish State to present his claim as a victim of Francoism.
In this post you can find the chronicle of the event and the recording at the FAL (Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo) on the 19th, the press conference in Barcelona, and a conversation between him and the historian and researcher Dolors Marín.
This week, we’re sharing another presentation from the 2024 ACABookfair in so-called Asheville. On youtube you’ll find the audio sync’d up with the slideshow presentation from the bookfair by visiting youtube.com/@thefinalstrawradio.