Black Flag: Anarchist Review Summer 2023 issue now out
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available: https://www.blackflag.org.uk This issue marks the founding of the International Working People’s Association (IWPA) in Pittsburgh in...
View ArticleAnarchy in the USA: The International Working People’s Association
This article originally appeared in Black Flag Anarchist Review Volume 3 Number 2 (Summer 2023). It discussed the politics of the Chicago Martyrs and shows its links with the ideas of revolutionary...
View ArticleReview: Left Americana: The Radical Heart of US History
This collection of essays by American Academic and Trotskyist Paul Le Blanc has little of interest for anarchists or, indeed, anyone who is not a Trotskyist. For the latter, this collection of essays...
View ArticleBlack Flag: Anarchist Review Autumn 2023 issue now out
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available: https://www.blackflag.org.uk The focus of this issue is Trotsky’s limited opposition to developments in the USSR which resulted in the...
View ArticleReview: The British Communist Left, 1914-1945
A review of a “communist-left” (Bordigist) book on the British anti-parliamentarian communist movement which developed during and after the First World War. Suffice to say, it is not very good, as...
View ArticleThe Bureaucracy in Exile: Trotsky’s limited Anti-Stalinism
An article exploring Trotsky’s (limited) opposition to Stalinism and showing that it reflected Bolshevik orthodoxy in terms of advocating the dictatorship of the party and one-man management. Needless...
View ArticleGeorge Barrett: A Biographical Sketch
This is the introduction to the collection Our Masters are Helpless: The Essays of George Barrett which I created and edited whilst on strike a few years back. George Barrett was a British anarchist...
View ArticleIntroduction to Kropotkin’s “Words of a Rebel”
My introduction to the 2022 PM Press edition of Peter Kropotkin’s Words of a Rebel. As well as the original 1885 book, it includes later prefaces (1904 Italian edition and the 1919 Russian edition) and...
View ArticleBraveheart
A discussion on Anarchist approaches to national liberation movements using the film Braveheart as its starting point. It appeared in the third issue of (the short-lived) Scottish Anarchist (1995). At...
View ArticleBlack Flag: Anarchist Review Spring 2024 issue now out
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available: https://www.blackflag.org.uk We cover two women who played key parts in British anarchism, albeit in different eras. Charlotte M. Wilson...
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