Ken MacLeod: Red Futures in the Gutter

From The Dark Forest

This is MacLeod’s great refusal: no radiant tomorrows, no shining cities in orbit, no anarchist communes beyond corruption. Every faction is cracked. Every ideology is compromised. Every rebellion curdles into dogma, every revolution ossifies into bureaucracy, every insurgency becomes indistinguishable from the power it once opposed. And yet it never stops. People still fight, because they cannot not fight. Ideas still mutate, because they cannot die. The wheel of ideology keeps turning, grinding flesh beneath it, even when all that’s left is rubble.

UK: Anarcho-punk discussion panel at Rebellion Literary Festival, August 7-10

From The Hippies Now Wear Black and Rebellion Festival

MARK WILSON (THE Mob), Steve Lake (Zounds), Andy ‘Marnie’ Burndon (Alternative/The System) and Andy Coward (The System) will join an anarcho-punk panel hosted by Peter Jones (Paranoid Visions) at this year’s literary festival at Rebellion in Blackpool.

Interview: Radon and the new wave of anarchist sci-fi

From Freedom News UK

Anarchist transhuman sci-fi collective Radon have published multiple digital journals over the last few years exploring themes including dystopia, rebellion and social conflict. Rob Ray interviews the editors.

Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature

From YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Spanning the last two centuries, Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature by Anna Elena Torres combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish anarchist movement.

The Writer Hristo Karastoyanov Died

From Federation of Anarcho-Communists in Bulgaria
January 24, 2024

On January 23, the writer Hristo Karastoyanov died.

Hristo connected part of his creative path with the anarchist movement in Bulgaria and presented it in "Cuckoo's Yarn" and "The Same Night Awaits Us All" - as he got to know it over the years.

An Anthology of Puerto Rican Anarchist Texts from the Start of the 20th Century

From 80grados.net English translation by Anarchist News

[Free Pages: A Brief Anthology of Anarchist Thought in Puerto Rico (1900-1919)], edited by Dr. Jorell Meléndez Badillo and published by [Emergent Education Editions] in 2021, compiles a sample of texts from anticlerical and secular Puerto Rican anarchism from the first two decades of the 20th Century, one of the least studied periods of that century.

Love, Hope, & Joy

From Rulerless

An Anarchist Anthology

May 1st (International Workers’ Day), 2022

From fighting for freedom to plain ol’ living, this new anthology explores every facet of anarchic existence via its themes of love, hope, and joy. Open up these pages to experience three dozen fantastic poems and ten fascinating works of fiction and nonfiction alike, curated to inspire and elate whilst still not shying away from the darker sides of life.

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