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Remembering Paul Avrich
February 16th: Twenty years have passed since the death of historian Paul Avrich on February 16, 2006, yet his influence on the study of American anarchism remain…
The resolve to leave this cage
February 13th: Iranian poet and film-maker Forough Farrokhzad articulated female subjectivity, desire and dissent ~ Bleart Thaçi ~ For generations of Iranian wom…
Watching the far right
February 8th: ~ Anti-fascist update with Alex Robert ~ What can you tell us about activist monitoring of the far right?
Book review: Anarcho-existentialist wisdom
February 3rd: Review of Julian Langer (2025), Noah’s Choice: On the Revolt of the Flesh, self-published ~ Ludos Strigos ~ I would not be surprised to find thi…
Radical Reprint: Who’s afraid of the A Word?
February 1st: The debate over the term ‘anarchism’ as an asset or liability rears its head in this comment piece from 1966 ~punkacademic~ Back in Feb…
Daniel Colson (1943-2026)
January 11th: A singular and generous thinker of anarchism, his work traced living lines of revolt and creation ~ David Berry ~ Daniel Colson, anarchist theoris…
“Stalinism is a Marxist invention to save Lenin and Trotsky”
January 8th: Ignacio de Llorens has just published the first biography of the Russian anarchist Volin, a key figure in the creation of the first soviet and late…
Béla Tarr (1955-2026)
January 7th: The filmmaker’s social realism was always suspicious of established power ~ Bleart Thaçi ~ Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr died on 6 January …
Radical Reprint: America’s ‘Just Causes’
January 4th: Trump’s latest international obscenity has plenty of precedents, as this 1990 Freedom article shows ~ punkacademic ~ Yesterday the United States …
Bakunin versus Marx
December 26th: In the persons of these two revolutionaries, two distinct projects clashed within the First International ~ Carlos Taibo ~ There are more elements …
Lewes FC, a club in pursuit of equality
December 23rd: For several seasons, the club has been at the forefront of the fight for equal prize money for men’s and women’s competitions ~ from Di…
Art action: “The Death of Humanity”
December 16th: We had some really meaningful interactions at points and even gained a mourner for one leg of the journey ~ Jo Lane ~ ‘The Death of Humanity’ w…
Radical Reprint: The Christmas spectacle
December 7th: A curmudgeonly anarchist Christmas rejoinder is in some ways truer now than it was forty-five years ago ~ punkacademic ~ The 8 December 1980 editio…
Echoes of Oscar Wilde
November 30th: The author, who died 125 years ago today, defended the creative free individual against all forms of societal tyranny ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ On Nove…
Remembering Joe Hill
November 19th: The legendary Wobbly and songwriter, executed 110 years ago, was celebrated worldwide for his resilience and humour ~ Owen Clayton ~ Born Joseph Em…
