A accessible and engaging account of the Amistad slave-ship rebellion ~ Jay Arachnid ~ Since the rulers of class societies began to impose themselv…
Review: The Black Schooner
Tag: Book Review
Book review: The Displaced
Sharif Gemie’s novel about refugees in 1945 Europe is both timely and important ~ Norry LaPorte ~ The author has been here before: as an academic…
Book review: Anarcho-existentialist wisdom
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…
Book review: Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman
A principled anarchist who faced death with bravery, Fumiko Kaneko is a model of unwavering defiance in the face of overwhelming odds ~ Jay Arachni…
Sound providing a base for fury
Review of Anarcho-Punk by David Insurrection ~ Phil ~ Having a place, a venue, a local or social centre, somewhere you and yours can feel at home …
Book review: Desire and Fate
Instead of a coherent critique of woke culture, we get a confused, grudge-laden screed that fails to balance the left’s internal contradictio…
Book review: Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues
The Chicago Surrealist Franklin Rosemont tapped the subversive energy of popular culture ~ Ryan Bunnell ~ Since its inception, Surrealism has been …
“Northern Lights” at 30
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy taught me to distrust authority, and that we live in just one of many possible worlds ~ Taib Hayat ~ …
Book review: Everything To Play For
Marijam Did’s sharply-observed and well researched dive into the politics of gaming fills a major gap in how the Left has approached the subj…
Book review: History of the Anarchist Red Cross
Yelensky’s Shadows in the Struggle for Equality is a masterful exploration of his lifetime supporting political prisoners ~ SoraLX ~ During the c…
Book Review: Minority Rule
Ash Sarkar’s discussion of identity politics is coming out during a liberal post-Biden “reassessment”, which some would say is 10…
Book review: Three Way Fight
The essays collected here outline what being against 21st century fascism — both as it exists inside and outside the State — can and should mea…
Book Review: Safety Through Solidarity
Burley and Lorber’s project is both honourable and necessary, but why do they let Marxist antisemitism off the hook?
Book review: Zerox Machine
An absolute triumph of punk scholarship and alternative historiography ~ Jim Donaghey ~ Reading through this richly detailed overview of punk zines…
Book review: No Harmless Power
This warts-and-all bio of Nestor Makhno is folksy and refreshing ~ bob ness ~ I’m an old-fashioned guy, a romantic, even.
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Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
Jim Crow is still alive
One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…
Anarchist News Review: Burn-in or Burnout in Makerfield?
It’s by-election jabbering time with Simon and Andy Plus thoughts on major events of the week including the Iran deal, Palestine Action ruling, D…
