About This Issue – ARB #11 Winter/Spring 2026

From The Anarchist Review of Books

Welcome to the 11th issue of the Anarchist Review of Books, produced by a collective based in Atlanta, Baltimore, Belfast, Brussels, Chicago, Detroit, Dublin, Exarchia, London, New York, Oakland, and Richmond. We bring you this issue at the heart of a bitter cold winter as U.S. federal troops hunt, detain, deport and murder human beings in the name of the law.

Reinventing Green Anarchy

From Free Range Egghead by Andrew McLaverty-Robinson

Anarchism, degrowth, and food sovereignty: exploring overlaps and tensions, by Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Degrowth Journal 3, 2025.

This article tries to show the ways in which anarchism is both useful and not useful for the two related fields of degrowth and food sovereignty. These are both broadly speaking ecological movements/issues.

Black Flag: Anarchist Review Summer 2025 issue now out

The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:

This year’s second issue starts with Peter Kropotkin’s obituary for his friend and fellow anarchist and geographer Elisée Reclus (1830-1905). This is followed by various articles by Reclus which should hopefully indicate why he was as influential within the anarchist movement in his life as Kropotkin.

Anarchism, Daoism, and the Great Sage: A Review of Black Myth: Wukong

From Notes toward an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism by Javier Sethness

The marvelous PC and video game Black Myth: Wukong (2024), created by the previously low-profile Chinese company Game Science, is a spirited blockbuster adaptation of Wu Cheng’en’s epic fantasy novel, Journey to the West (c. 1592). Considered one of the four classic Chinese novels, Journey to the West presents a mythological spin on the monk Xuanzang’s unsanctioned seventh-century pilgrimage from China to India to recover Buddhist scriptures. While both Xuanzang and his literary counterpart Tang Sanzang are absent from Black Myth: Wukong, the “Great Sage” Sun Wukong—the novel’s beloved trickster monkey god and Sanzang’s main bodyguard—plays a prominent role.

Black Flag: Anarchist Review Spring 2025 issue now out

The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:

https://www.blackflag.org.uk

Following on from our “Kropotkin special” to mark the 180th anniversary of his birth, this issue is a “Proudhon special” to mark the 160th anniversary of his death – and the 185th anniversary of his proclaiming “I am an anarchist” in What is Property? and so anarchism as a named socio-economic theory.

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