Summer 1998
Will Firth
Three Russian and Bulgarian into English
Translations

Summer 1998
Lucien van der Walt
Anarchism and Revolutionary Syndicalism
in South Africa, 1904 - 1921

Winter 1998
Chris Day
Anarchism and the Zapatista Revolution

Winter 1998
Matt Hern & Stu Chaulk
The Myth of the Internet:
Private Isolation and Local Community

Winter 1998
Melissa Burch
Autonomy, Culture, and Natural Resources
in the Neo-liberal Age

Summer 1997
Zoe Erwin & Brian Tokar
Redesigning Life:
The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering

Summer 1997
Frank Adams
The Educational Ideas and Management
Practices of 19th and 20th Century Anarchists in Labor-Owned Cooperatives

Summer 1997
Peter Lamborn Wilson
Freedom - My Dream:
The Autobiography of Enrico Arrigoni

Summer 1997
Mark Bonhert & Richard Curtis
Passionate and Dangerous:
Conversations with Midwestern Antiauthoritarians and Anarchists

Winter 1997
Murray Bookchin
The Spanish Anarchists

Winter 1997
Alan Antliff
Anarchist Modernism:
Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde

Winter 1997
Kwaku Kushindana
Avoiding New Forms of Repression:
An African-American Reply

Winter 1997
Paul Fleckenstein
Civic Space and the Anarchist Dream

Apex: Locating Cascadia Forest Defense in Feminism, Anarchism, and Queer Theory
Amy Seidenverg - $500
Between 1985 and 2006, radical ecological activism in the Pacific Northwest made significant theoretical and strategic shifts that united theory with practice and feminism with environmentalism. A historical analysis of forest defense in Cascadia's Willamette National Forest through the lenses of ecofeminist, anarchist, and queer theories elucidates a key theme in feminist and movement history: the failure of single-issue politics. Crushed under the weight of the green scare and the scattered by the nature of activism's decentralized collective memory, the history of forest defense in the Willamette National Forest is too easily buried and forgotten, but nonetheless a deeply important moment in radical activism and Pacific Northwest history.

Amy was an activist and student in Eugene, Oregon, for five years, dedicated to forest defense and other feminist and anarchist organizing. Forest defense was her "gateway" into activism, anarchism, and intellectual passion. Working on a master's in women's history in New York, she's currently interested in nineteenth-century free love, Pacific Northwest radical history, and the history and development of feminist and antiracist epistemologies.

Fraye Arbeter Shtime/Free Voice of Labor: An Anthology of 87 Years of Yiddish Anarchist Writing
Anna Elena Torres - $500
This anthology will present writing from the longest-running anarchist newspaper and examine its relationship to religion, Zionism, assimilation, and other aspects of diasporist identity over the course of its considerable print run. These translations will make significant documents of anarchist history accessible, and place Fraye Arbeter Shtime in the larger context of radical Yiddish cultural and labor movements.

Anna is a writer and muralist from the Bronx, NY. In addition to Yiddish radical culture, her research interests include urban history, gender studies, and African diasporic religions.

The Movement for a New Society: Consensus, Prefiguration, and Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s
Andy Cornell - $500
This project will examine the Movement for a New Society (MNS), a network of nonviolent activists centered in West Philadelphia from 1971-1989 that worked for radical change on multiple fronts. The MNS played a key role in training antinuke, environmental, and other activists in affinity group organizing, consensus decision making, and nonviolent direct action blockading techniques. Meanwhile, the group forwarded "a vision of a decentralized, democratic and caring social order" by building cooperative communities with the intent of prefiguring the social transformations members wanted to see. Though it dissolved in 1989, the organizational principles (consensus, affinity groups) articulated by the MNS have become defining aspects in some strands of the contemporary U.S. anarchist milieu. Situating the group in the traditions radical pacifism and the creation of prefigurative political communities, This essay consider what lasting impacts the MNS has made on the theory and practice of antiauthoritarian politics in the United States.

Andy, a graduate student living in Brooklyn, New York, is writing a dissertation about twentieth-century anarchist thought and action in the United States. He is a member of the Left Turn magazine collective, and has been active in the labor, global justice, and antiprison movements. Any is a contributor to Letters from Young Activists (Nation Books, 2005) and The University against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (Temple University Press, 2008).

Chinese Anarchist Periodicals
Daniel Cairns - $500
There was a distinctly anarchist sensibility that found expression through a loose web of independent periodicals, written by students across China in the 1920s. While their press runs were generally brief, the efflorescence of such texts nevertheless points to a deep resonance of anarchism in the Chinese social context. Daniel's essay is an investigation into how and why anarchist ideas were voiced in these periodicals, followed by a discussion of the social and political significance of the anarchist movement to China's twentieth century.

Daniel is an independent writer and researcher, currently living in Beijing. His historical research focuses on early twentieth-century China, labor, and anarchism. His ongoing projects include a history of anarchism in the Puget Sound region, essays on Chinese anarchism, and a biography of the Italian American anarchist printer Eugene Travaglio.

Anarkismo: Is There a Truly Filipino Anarchist Theory and Movement?
Noel Barcelona - $500
This essay will explore the evolution of anarchist theory and practice in the Philippines, examining its past and with a view toward its future. It will critically study questions such as: When did anarchist theory in the Filipino context emerge? Is there a truly Filipino anarchist theory? How concrete is the practice of anarchist theory here in the Philippines, and how does anarchism shape Filipino mass and revolutionary movements? What are the contradictions between anarchism and other current "leftist" theories in the Philippines?

Noel is a journalist living in Quezon City, the Philippines.

A Country Considered to be Free: A Transnational History of the IWW in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Mark Derby - $250
This essay will describe special features of the IWW in New Zealand such as the constant use of Maori language in its newspaper, and the huge impact of imported radical literature, which meant that IWW ideas and direct action strategies can be observed in parts of the country that never saw an actual member of the organization.

Mark works as a historical researcher for the Waitangi Tribunal, a New Zealand government institution that investigates and issues findings on claims by Maori of breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi (signed in 1840 by Maori chiefs and the British Crown), and is the union delegate for his workforce. Although New Zealand born and of Irish descent, he is a fluent speaker of the Maori language and holds a masters in New Zealand studies.

The Chicago Couriers Union: A Case Study in Solidarity Unionism
Colin Bossen - $500
This essay will offer a history and analysis of the Chicago Couriers Union (CCU). The CCU is a minority labor union of primarily bike couriers affiliated with the Chicago General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Current membership of the CCU is approximately thirty-five, with the union able to draw on a larger network of workers for some actions. Due to both the nature of the courier industry and the ideological orientation of the union’s organizers, the CCU has been organized using what Staughton Lynd has called "solidarity unionism." Solidarity unionism is the idea that workers have the most power when they organize around specific workplace grievances rather than struggle for legal recognition and the right to negotiate a contract. Using this model, the union has met with modest success, and over the past three year it has built a small but stable base of militant workers in the industry and won several small victories including a wage hike effecting approximately one hundred workers at the third-largest courier company in Chicago. This essay will examine the CCU as an example of solidarity unionism, chronicle its success and failures, and suggest the lessons the union has to offer antiauthoritarian and anarchist workplace organizers. Perhaps most important, this essay will make information about the CCU widely available for the first time.

From late 2003 to summer 2005, Colin was a volunteer organizer for the CCU. In addition, from spring 2005 to the end of 2006, he served as chair of the IWW's Organizing Department Formation Committee, the committee tasked by the union's General Assembly and General Executive Board to develop an Organizing Department. In this capacity, Colin surveyed dozens workers engaged in organizing projects using direct action organizing models and helped compile an authoritative report on the state of contemporary IWW organizing. Colin also earned a BA with a double major in physics and English at Denison University, and an M.Div from the Meadville Lombard Theological School (affiliated with the University of Chicago). His published writings include "Temporary Autonomous Zones and the Power of Ritual," Journal of Liberal Religion; The Bridging Program (Boston: UUA, 2004); and "Witness and Memory." Also, from January to June 2006, Colin served as a regular panelist for the Long Beach Press Telegram’s weekly "Ask the Clergy" column.

You Are Your Own Worst Enemy: The Use of "Self-Abuse" as a Mask to Institutional Culpability at Eastern State Penitentiary and Guantanamo Bay
Emily Abendroth - $500
This essay will examine the parallels between prison conditions at Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) in the nineteenth century and at Guantanamo Bay today, particularly in regard to the two institutions' attempts to shape and mitigate public perceptions of the circumstances individual incarcerated persons faced within. When it opened in 1829, Philadelphia's ESP was the first solitary confinement prison of its kind, and represented the "first wave" of the great experiment and societal commitment to incarceration/imprisonment as a response to crime. Almost immediately, public concerns were raised that the extreme isolation and sensory deprivation that prisoners were being subjected to was leading to the degradation of both their physical and mental health. In order to obfuscate those numbers and exonerate the institution itself from any culpability in the matter, ESP prison physicians frequently attributed individual cases of illness, psychosis, and even fatality to "masturbation" and/or "self-abuse." This cloaking or modification of the numbers for the benefit of the institution's public image is recognizably not a new phenomenon, and continues to be recycled in the U.S. penal system today in order to obscure its brutality. In fact, in 2002, this term "self-abuse" or "self-harm" returned to the records of prison physicians as a means of downplaying the startlingly high number of suicide attempts taking place at Guantanamo Bay. This essay will use this overlapping, though differently contextualized term "self-abuse" as a lens for exploring how these two institutions and the criminal justice system generally has attempted to write off any culpability on the part of itself or the larger society, and instead attempt to inscribe all guilt on to the individual incarcerated body, even to the most extreme point of their own mortality.

Emily has been involved in anti-police brutality and prison justice organizing work in a variety of capacities for more than a decade. In the Bay Area, she spent many years as an active member of Copwatch: teaching know-your-rights classes, helping people document their cases of experienced brutality, and actively walking the streets observing police interactions as a means to de-escalate the likelihood of violence. In Philadelphia, Emily currently works with Books through Bars, and is also part of an ad hoc organizing committee working to set up a month-long calendar of coordinated events around prison justice issues for March 2007. Called "Justice Month," the festival (which will be the first of its kind in the region) is aimed at increasing public awareness of the criminal justice and incarceration systems as they exist and alternatives to them. She has also worked as a historical docent/tour guide at ESP in Philly, and thus has received extensive (though quite "filtered") training regarding the history of the site, and has had unique access to the on-site historical archives for this essay's topic.

Man! and the International Group: 1930s' American Anarchism and State Repression in a Climate of Fear
Hillary Lazar - $1,000

One of the great misconceptions of American radical history is that by the 1930s, the anarchist movement petered out, becoming little more than a whisper of dissent and smattering of communitarian settlements until its resurgence in the 1960s. This article's examination of the previously unexplored California-based International Group and its organ, Man! A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement, will refute this perception, and be a testament to the existence of a vibrant and widespread American anarchist movement during this period. It will also bring to light the intense several-year political persecution of Marcus Graham, editor of Man!, as well as his associates Vincenzo (Vincent) Ferrero and Domenick Sallitto, and the nationwide protest movement that grew in response to their harassment by the federal and local government. In so doing, this article will not only restore a vital moment of radical protest to history, but will serve as a case study for state repression and the U.S. governmental response to times of crisis and a climate of fear.

Hillary is a freelance researcher and project consultant for numerous historical and educational institutions. Her master's degree work focused on topics such as a comparative analysis of women in Latin American anarchist movements, an examination of nineteenth-centur antislavery communitarian experiments, and the start of her investigation of Man!

Development in South Africa
Mandisi Majavu - $250

Majavu will examine ways in which South Africa has benefited or been harmed by international financial institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and the WTO. He will contrast that trajectory with a vision of how South Africa could have developed if a participatory economics agenda had been implemented after 1994.

Majavu is a culture critic based in Cape Town, South Africa. His social critique borrows heavily from the anarchist tradition.

Queering the X: James Baldwin, Malcolm X
and the Third World

Imad Mortada - $250
Mortada hopes that this translation will contribute to the growing debate within the Left in Lebanon, other Arab states, and diaspora communities about the possibilities presented by contemporary anarchism and anti-authoritarianism. The translation will include new introductions by Graeber and Mortada.

Mortada, born in Lebanon and currently based in Barcelona, is a queer anarchist Arab. He has been involved in various political projects in Lebanon, Iraq, and Europe, with a focus on Palestinian refugees, no-border networks, queer and women's rights, and alternative media.

Self-Governance in Exile: The Western Saharan Refugees, Thirty Years Later

Jacob Mundy - $500
Since 1976, nearly half the indigenous population of Western Sahara has lived in exile in four self-managed refugee camps in Algeria. Their relatives and friends, the other half of the divided population, still live under Moroccan occupation in what is Africa's last official colony, Western Sahara. In the four Sahrawi refugee camps--small spaces of political autonomy ceded by Algeria--the Western Saharan independence movement (Polisario Front) has committed itself to a now thirty-year-old experiment in prefigurative self-governance. Unlike any other refugees' experiences in the world, the Western Saharan refugees who inhabit the camps manage their daily lives without direct help from the international community. At the same time, they participate in the political structures of their own liberation movement--from daily meetings in "tent groups" to the "National Congress" held every three years. The refugees claim that the camps model the very society an independent Western Sahara will achieve once Morocco withdraws. But is this really the case? Grounded in Mundy’s research experience in the camps, this essay will try to answer that question and access the lessons from the Western Sahara refugees' experiment in grassroots democracy.

Mundy is the coauthor of a forthcoming book on Western Sahara with Stephen Zunes. This fall, he will begin his PhD studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Originally from Seattle, he currently resides in San Jose, California, with his partner and their two dogs.

Queering the X: James Baldwin, Malcolm X
and the Third World

Kazembe Balagun - $350.00
The essay is an intellectual intervention in the debates about gender, race and sexuality. By promoting an intertextual dialogue between Malcolm X and Baldwin, the essay will foreground the queer influences in both men's analysis of racial oppression. Showing how both Malcolm's and James's vision of a just society included aspects of an erotic, the essay will shift much of the rhetorical essentialism from both men's work and illustrate means by which radical/revolutionary activists can use both in an anti-authoritarian framework.

Balagun is a New York-based cultural historian and frequently contributes articles to the NYC
Indypendent and is a member of Estacion-Libre--People of Color in Solidarity with Chiapas.

Rolling for the Revolution: A Transnational History of Cuban Cigarmakers in Havana, South Florida and New York City, 1868-1895

Evan Daniel - $350.00
From the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, Cuban torcedores (cigar makers) exemplified the highly autonomous work culture of skilled artisans and their newspapers and workplace orators, or lectors, articulated an explicitly internationalist anarchist ideology. Despite this internationalist orientation, Cuban cigar makers played a pivotal role in the fight against Spanish rule by raising funds, disseminating propaganda, and eventually participating in armed struggle. This essay will ask how and why Cuban cigar makers who were anarchist internationalists eventually supported a nationalist endeavor, adopting and adapting both anarchism and nationalism in order to respond to their changing social and material realities.

Daniel lives in New York City, where he is a processing archivist at the Tamiment Library/
Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University and a Ph.D. student in History and
Political Science at the New School for Social Research.

Zapatista Spring: Autonomy and a Water Project

Ramor Ryan - $350.00
The essay will tell the story of a solidarity project to install a potable water system in a Zapatista base community located on occupied land. Offering their technical knowledge, their solidarity and enthusiasm for the Zapatista struggle for autonomy and self-determination, a group of anarchists from Mexico City, the US and Europe were sent by the Zapatista Revolutionary Clandestine Committee to the village of Rafael Moreno deep within the Lacandon Jungle. Living and working with the companer@s for 10 weeks, the activists experienced rebel joy and the wretched hardships of abject poverty in equal measure. “Zapatista Spring” will explore the notion of international solidarity, and examine questions provoked by the water project experience: how are meaningful bridges of solidarity built between privileged activists of the North and those of the disadvantaged South? When is solidarity no more than charity, and when does it really help build autonomy?

Ryan is based in Dublin, Ireland. Over the past ten years, he has travelled extensively throughout Latin America and has worked on a dozen water projects in different regions of the autonomous municipalities of Chiapas. His book Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile, for which he received an IAS grant in 2002, has been contracted by AK Press and will be published in spring 2006.

Listening to an Enforced Silence: Ba-Jin in Communist China

Daniel Burton-Rose - $1,500.00
The project will collect the insights of Li Feigan--an anarchist organizer who employs the pen name "Ba Jin" and has become a central figure in twentieth-century Chinese literature. Ba Jin's vision of a cooperative, egalitarian society, and his critique of both communism and capitalism, continue to be valuable sources of insight and inspiration for people working for justice. Listening to an Enforced Silence will focus on the least documented period of Ba Jin's life, from 1949 to the present, and will provide a valuable addition to the small body of English-language scholarship available on Ba Jin. It will allow English-speaking anarchists to learn about and engage with a dissident force in a state that is rapidly ascending as a global political and economic superpower.

Black Star Rising: People of Color and Radical Resistance

Heather Villalobos - $500.00
This project is an exploration of how radical and anarchist politics affect the lives of people of color. A selection of oral history interviews with people of color involved in community struggles will be published in an anthology, and used to examine aspects of the experience of oppression as well as the possibilities for movements for self-determination and freedom. A broader collection of oral histories will be transcribed and published online (www.blackstarrising.org).

Anarchist Trade Unions in Bolivia: 1920-1950

Melissa Forbis & Cale Layton - $2,275.00
This is a translation of Los artesanos libertarios y la Ãtica del trabajo by Zulema Lehm and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (1988). The book presents the history of anarchism in Bolivia and includes numerous interviews with trade union participants from the period of 1920-1950. The translation will include a new introduction that links this history to the recent uprising and continued resistance in Bolivia, and will be the first English translation of a book on Bolivian anarchism and libertarian trade unions.

Recording Carceral Landscapes

Trevor Paglen - $1,600.00
This book will offer a collection of images and texts that make visible the social, political, and economic relationships that constitute California's massive prison system. In showing how prisons are connected to the foundational structures of society itself, Carceral Landscapes will suggest that prison abolition isn't simply about closing prisons, but about fundamentally transforming the relations that order contemporary society. In addition to serving as a companion book for an art show by the same name (to open at San Francisco's "The Lab" in February 2005), it will be used by the prison-abolition organization Critical Resistance for outreach and education.

Between Sisyphus and Self-Management: The Relevance of Autonomous Organization in a Globalized World
Stevphen Shukaitis - $1,000.00
This book-length project is an effort to reflect, in the domain of economics, on the question: “What structures and practices could sustain the creation of a new social order?” It will examine the historical legacies and practices of worker self-management to assess the usefulness of the concept under the current conditions of economic globalization. The book will draw on examples of self-management in 1930s Spain, 1960s Yugoslavia, and Argentina in 2001, as well as current organizing efforts, to elaborate a contemporary theory of self-management.

Anarchism: A Documentary History
Robert Graham - $2,000.00
This two volume project will assemble the definitive texts of the anarchist tradition and organizes them chronologically and thematically. It will include English translations of classical anarchist essays that have never before been published. These include substantial selections from Chines, Japanes, Korean, and Latin American texts, as well as essays by Otto Gross, Gustav Landauer, and Diego Abad de Sántillan. The books will be published by Black Rose Books.

Gender in the Czech Anarchist Movement
Marta Kolářová - $750.00
The article will describe the Czech anarchist movement from a gender perspective, and analyze the movement in terms of women’s participation in movement organizations, the gendered division of activist labor, and the representation of women in anarchist publications. It will be published in pamphlet form and on the Czechoslovakian Anarchist Federation's Web site www.csaf.cz.

Global Finance Capital and the Permanent War:
The Dollar, Wall Street and the War Against Irak
Kolya Abramsky - $1,000.00
This translation project will make available Ramon Fernandez Duran's Spanish work of the same title in English. In Global Finance Capital and the Permanent War, Duran shows how the dollar, and financial institutions such as Wall Street and the IMF, force global capitalism into a permanent state of war in order to maintain its hegemonic control of the international marketplace. This study shows the emerging tensions between capitalist powers while contributing to international anticapitalist resistance through the advancement of communally and democratically controlled economies of solidarity.

19 and 20:
Notes for the New Social Protagonism
Nate Holdren - $1,000.00
This translation project will make available the Argentinian group Colectivo Situaciones' Spanish book on the eruptions in Argentina on the 19th and 20th of December 2001. The insights offered by this group on these important days that shook the world is particularly important as the CS are a collective of militant intellectuals who participated in these events and continue to be active in Argentinian anticapitalist movements. CS' autonomist marxist politics attempts to to do away with hierarchical and vanguardist baggage, suffered by other within the autonomist tradition, brings it very close to contemporary anarchism. The theoretical insights of CS provides rich material that anarchists can employ in understanding and challenging the capitalist world.

Horizontalism:
Voices of Popular Power in Argentina
Marina Sitrin - $2,000.00
Through interviews, this book length project brings together various activists involved in the Argentinian autonomous social movements. The movements are some of the most innovative and visionary with regards to the politics of creation, inventing a new political conversation with regards to power and hierarchy, as well as democracy. The neighborhood assemblies, movements of unemployed workers, and occupied factories movements are all organizing in ways that are consciously directly democratic and autonomous, naming this politics, horizontalidad. This collection of interviews both helps to represent these movements while also adding to the global conversation on means of resistance.

Rage at Dawn
Errol Schweitzer - $1,200.00
This work of historical fiction presents two major themes: the attempt to reform and organize against the present structure of oppression and construction of a libertarian and egalitarian alternative. Schweitzer hopes to present anarchist ideas in a way that can be related to everyday life. Schweitzer is a writer and activist and has worked with youth in a Bronx community center for the past thirteen years.

Anarchy, Revolution, Freedom:
Towards Anarchist Cultural Theory
Sandra Jeppesen - $800.00
This project expands on anarchist cultural theory. It looks at both mainstream and explicitly anarchist representations of revolution to try to come to an understanding of anarchist culture and to develop a means of theorizing in a way that is significantly different from Marxian cultural studies, in both approach and political analysis. Jeppesen is a doctoral student at York University in Toronto.

Black Roses Black Masks:
The American Anarchist Movement and its Media in the Vietnam Years
Justin Jackson - $1,000.00
This project compiles an edited collection of writing, poetry, art and images from anarchist press in the United States between 1945 to 1980, with a focus on the 1960s and 1970s. It includes a lengthy introduction on the underground anarchist press of the 1960s. Jackson is a writer and activist who currently lives in Detroit, Michigan.

Building New Contexts for Anarchist Graphics, Video and Film
Josh McPhee - $1,000.00
This is a three-essay collection on anarchism and aesthetics. These essays focus on how anarchist cultural products are produced in a world defined by visual literacy, how this relates to capitalism's use of design and art to "brand"; ideas and products, and how antiauthoritarian signs and signifiers compare and compete. MacPhee is an artist and activist living in Chicago.

Direct Action:
The Search for Radical Renewal
Leslie A. Kauffman - $2,000.00
Direct Action provides a comprehensive history of direct action protest in the United States over the past few decades. The work draws on more than 100 interviews conducted by the author with organizers, as well as primary source material. The book will provides tools to with which we may reclaim the rich and largely forgotten history of direct action movements, to make movements more effective, and to pose fundamental challenges to the existing order and create models for a society based on mutual aid and respect. Kauffman is an accomplished writer and activist of over 20 years.

Globalization and its Discontents
Ramor Ryan - $2,000.00
The book is comprised of a collection of stories of resistance to capitalism compiled over the last fifteen years. Starting with first-hand experiences of the anti-imperialist struggles for national liberation in the 1980s and 1990s (Ireland, Nicaragua, Kurdistan), and ending with the recent wave of protests against globalization, Ryan analyzes the shortcomings of these movements from a radical, antiauthoritarian perspective. Ryan uses his own political travels and experiences to share stories of revolution, resistance, and freedom while expressing profound solidarity and compassion. He currently lives in New York and Chiapas.

Many Manifestations:
Blueprints for a Bricoleur’s War Machine
Sean Gauthier - $1,000.00
As opposed to most contemporary scholars, Gauthier questions whether the process and development of globalization inherent in late capitalism is unavoidable (as it is often assumed). Informed by such thinkers as Foucault and Deleuze, Gauthier critiques globalization and the arguments which maintain it, and in turn, draw out effective strategies for resistance. In many ways, this project may be viewed as a post-structuralist anarchist response to Hardt and Negri's Empire.

Voicing Exclusion(s):
A Critical Examination of Current Discourses on the "Anti-Corporate Globalization" Movement
Ali Sauer - $1,000.00
In this study, Sauer investigates how social movements in general, and the "anti-globalization movement" in particular, reproduce certain structures of domination by the very way such movements define themselves--by a discourse of inclusivity. Her project, which consists of interviews and research, attempts to understand the limitations of such discourses, and suggest ways in which they may be redefined to become more relevant and powerful. Overall, this project encourages a radical redefinition of anti-globalization activism that recognizes, in a noncolonial manner, the range of people engaged in this work.

Anarchism and the Black Revolution
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin - $2,000.00
This book length project is a rewrite of the pamphlet of the same name, first published in 1989, which has had a significant impact within the anarchist movement. The work argues that a “class and economic analysis for the reconstruction of society is not possible if racism as a social impediment is not fully considered, and the concerns of people of color are not included in a social revolutionary agenda.” Beyond his important written contributions, Ervin has also been active in prison rights work, the Black Autonomy / people of color tendency within contemporary anarchism, anti-racism movements, and other social change projects.

The Quilombo Project
Carlos Fernandez & Jena Cephas - $2,000.00
This project explores the experience and theories of people of color within anarchism. The first part of the project, in the form of interviews and reports, describes the actual presence of people of color in contemporary US anarchism. The second part, an overview of the theories used by anarchists of color in comparison with anarchist canons, seeks to reevaluate anarchist theory in the light of the comparison. Fernandez is a student, activist, and author published in Arsenal Magazine and Onward Magazine. Cephas is currently studying architecture as an undergraduate with a focus on gentrification and affordable housing and she has been engaged in grassroots activism for over ten years.

The Anarchist Within:
Anarchist Prisoners Building a Movement
Ronald Campbell - $1,000.00
This project examines contributions made by imprisoned anarchists to the anarchist community and covers the various organizations and projects founded by these prisoners, as well as their reception by fellow prisoners, prison administrators, and the anarchist community. While many prisoners have written for various anarchist publications, this project focuses on anarchist groups operating within prison. Ronald Campbell has been actively involved in anarchist support groups as well as, while serving time, anarchist groups within prison.

Pachamama Betrayed:
Ecological Crime and Indigenous Resistance to the Andean Drug Wars
Bill Weinberg - $1,000.00
This book deconstructs the Orwellian euphemism of the "War on Drugs" by revealing how U.S. military involvement in Latin American has not changed since the era of "gunboat diplomacy." By dissecting corporate interests in Columbia and examining indigenous resistance movements against U.S. plans for the region, which violate international standards on war crimes and genocide, it makes a case for the revival of antiwar activism in the United States, and forge ties between the United States and Andean activist communities. Weinberg is the author of War on the Land: Ecology and Politics in Central America (Zed, 1990) and Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico (Verso, 2000).

Gender in Current Anti-Globalization Activism in Canada
Caitlin Hewitt-White - $2,000.00
Using Canadian examples, this project assesses the potential effectiveness of the current anti-globalization movement in resisting capitalist globalization and in reconstructing a society based on freedom, equality, cooperation, and justice. Hewitt-White uses first-hand information gathered from activists to discuss the challenges that face the anti-globalization movement in not only resisting capitalism, but also in confronting oppression in all its forms and in all spaces. In the face of a rejuvenated movement, this project helps us to correct ongoing problems such as sexism within the Left. Hewitt-White is a student at the University of Waterloo and is active in the Peak Collective and Guelph Action Network.

Racializing Anarchism Then and Now
Jessica Lawless - $1,500.00
This article and documentary focuses on the reemergence of anarchism in the broader public sphere since the protest in Seattle and subsequent international anti-globalization protests. Addressing both anarchist and nonanarchist identified audiences, this study counters mainstream mediated portrayals of the anarchist protestors as ahistorical, violent, young, white males who are incapable of offering a viable critique of society. In particular, it argues that the mainstream media has agitated public anxieties toward young people who identify as anarchists by relying on racialized and racist constructions of "blackness" and urban uprising, taking the focus off the issues being raised and putting it instead on issues of law and order. Lawless has been active in many areas, including women's self defense, social work, and as an organizer of various anarchist collectives in Seattle.

Chile:
Anarchist Practices under Pinochet
Andrés Peréz & Felipe del Solar -
$2,000.00
As the title indicates, this piece focuses on anarchist practices and organization under Pinochet's military dictatorship from a political as well as cultural perspective. The study spans Pinochet's reign, beginning in 1973, to the present, by tracing the social manifestations, organizational relationships, and political contributions of anarchists. Andrés Pérez is an international free-lance journalist and writes for the national political magazine Ercilla. Felipe del Solar is studying history at the Universidad Cató lica de Chile, and has taught at Infocap, the university of the workers, in Santiago, Chile.

Three Russian-to-English Translations
Will Firth - $500.00
This translation project focuses on three Russian writings: "Russian Capitalism and Globalization" by the MPST (the local Moscow group of the KRAS-IWA) from a 1999 collection of essays entitled The Return of the Working Class, and two essays on Nestor Makhno (one by Russian anarchist Ida Melt; and another by N. Sukhogorskaya) originally published in Nestor Ivanovich Makhno (ed. VF Verstyuk, Dzvin Publishers, Kiev 1991). The first piece in an anarcho-syndicalist look at the economic and power structures in the USSR and contemporary Russia and examines how they fit into the world economy. It also looks at the existing labor movement in Russia and draws conclusions about the kind of autonomous, anti-capitalist workers' movement which would be needed to combat rampant neo-liberalism. The Makhno pieces are of a historical nature, incorporating recent research on Makhno and his wife.

Orange Fire
Kevin Doyle - $1,000.00
Orange Fire is a three-act theater play about the life, beliefs and struggles of Irish activist Captain Jack White (1879-1946), who strongly identified as an anarchist. White's life and anarchist beliefs have all but been obliterated due to the destruction of his memoirs and papers by his family (White came from a privileged Protestant family loyal to the British monarchy) and the fact that, as a revolutionary, he has been "written out" of the history books. In order to provide a framework with which activists can challenge sectarian divisions in Ireland, this play aims to situate White within Irish revolutionary history as well as anarchism and draws on the destruction of White's papers as a metaphor for the repressive mentality of a sectarian society.

Kevin is an award-winning short story writer and political activist. He is a founding member of the Workers Solidarity Movement, an anarchist organization in Ireland.

Anarchism and Revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa, 1904-1921
Lucien van der Walt - $1,000.00
$1000 to Lucien van der Walt for "Anarchism and Revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa, 1904-1921," which expands upon a project previously funded by the IAS. This new work will deal with the influence of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism on broader social movements in the same period. The specific focus is on the impact of libertarian socialist ideas on trade unions and Black Nationalism. This project builds upon the original research into the influence of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism on revolutionary groups in South Africa. Lucien van der Walt is a student, teacher and activist in South Africa. His work focuses on trade union activity in Africa and he has written extensively on historical and contemporary labor politics.

Toward a New Anarchist Theory of Nationalism
Mike Staudenmaier - $1,500.00
This piece develops an in-depth historical analysis on anarchist theories of nationalism and the diversity of opinions within anarchism. It focuses on a contradiction between theory rooted in class-based international criticism and a practice normally consisting of uncritical anti-imperialist and antiracist solidarity. Staudenmaier shows that this contradiction between theory and practice, along with very little written on contemporary nationalism from an anarchist perspective, only serves to polarize the issue of nationalism. Mike Staudenmaier has been an activist primarily in the Chicago area who has worked extensively with the Puerto Rican community.

Spanish translation of Murray Bookchin's Remaking Society (Rehaciendo la Sociedad)
Alberto Villarreal - $2,500.00
Originally published in 1990, this book is meant to be a summarization of social ecology, a political philosophy that bases the ecological crisis in the emergence of social hierarchy and domination and advocates for a radical transformation of society. A wide variety of Spanish speaking movements, particularly in Latin America, are struggling with social and ecological issues, which can be radicalized by ideas presented in Remaking Society. Villarreal has translated several of Bookchin's essays for Comunidad, newsletter for the Comunidad project of Sweden and Uruguay, and Tierra Amiga, magazine of REDES - Friends of the Earth Uruguay. He was a founding member of REDES and has been actively involved with social ecology for the last fifteen years.

The FACA and the Anarchist Movement in Argentina, 1930-1950
Fernando Gustavo López Trujillo - $2,200.00
This piece is a historical study of the Federación Anarquista Comunista Argentina (FACA). López examines the growth of the FACA from 1935 and into the 1940s, a development that is exceptional given that the Argentine anarchist movement and its organizations were shrinking at this time (after being the largest anarchist movement in Latin America). López looks at the decline of the FACA in the 1940s and 1950s and the relationship of its decline to the rise of the Peronist movement. Lopez attempts to shine a light on the real reasons of the FACA's demise, arguing that state repression cannot be counted as a primary cause.

Vanguards of the Crusaders:
Freedom and Domination in Right-wing Discourse
C.W. Brown - $800.00
This project studies the social and political theory of the patriot right in the United States as seen through the lenses of classical anarchist theory. It has two objectives: first, to understand the patriot right discourse in the contemporary US in the context of anarchist studies in fascism, and second, to grasp the extent to which that patriot right discourse resonates with everyday American ideology and thus expresses the clean outlines of the ideology of domination in the "new world order." Brown lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Military Dictatorship and the State in Africa
Samuel Mbah & I.E. Igariwey - $2,000.00
This book utilizes an anarchist critique to analyze military dictatorship on the African continent. It is intended to follow up their previous book, African Anarchism: The History of a Movement (See Sharp Press, 1997). Mbah and Igariwe use libertarian analytic tools to lay bare the problems of military dictatorship. They demonstrate that military dictatorship is a logical, if perverse, extension of the state system (despite liberal and state socialist criticisms). They will also show that overthrowing military dictatorship does not remedy the instability, economic difficulties, and lack of freedom inherent in the state system and neo-colonial capitalism.

Anarchism and the Rise of Rightwing Anti-Statism
Joe Lowndes - $1,000.00
This work analyzes the emergence of anti-government politics on the American right, contrast this with the current failure of the anarchist left to construct and convey a viable anti-statist politics, and discuss the centrality of race to both. It will explore the historic connection between decentralism and racial domination in American political culture in order to advance an anarchist politics that can express an antistatist populism delinked from discourses of racial domination. Lowndes lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Federica Montseny:
The Woman and the Ideal/La Mujer y El Ideal
Patricia Greene - $900.00
This book presents the first comprehensive English language study of the works and political legacy of Federica Montseny, an important Spanish anarchist and intellectual. Greene lives in East Lansing, Michigan.

Three Russian and Bulgarian into English Translations
Will Firth - $600.00
This project covers the translation of three articles on Eastern European anarchism from Russian and Bulgarian into English. The two Russian articles are: "A Survey of the Anarchist Movement in the Ukraine 1987-1994" and "Under Fire Between the Lines." The latter is about the Volunteer Medical Brigade formed by socialists and anarchists in 1993 during the conflicts over the seizure of the Russian parliament. The Bulgarian translation is a compilation of various chapters from the book National Liberation and Libertarian Federalism by Georgi Khadzhieff. Firth lives in Berlin, Germany.

Anarchism and Revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa, 1904 - 1921
Lucien van der Walt $500.00
This collection of historical essays articles the early Socialist movements in South Africa. While this period of South African history has received little scholarly attention, the dominant interpretations of this subject have been limited to the work of writers associated with the South African Communist Party, which portray it as being Marxist. Van der Walt shows that this understanding is not only incorrect, but also shows that the period was marked by a strong libertarian and revolutionary syndicalist character. Van der Walt lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Anarchism and the Zapatista Revolution
Chris Day - $2,000.00
This book develops a revolutionary, anti-authoritarian analysis of Zapatismo as expressed in the words and deeds of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. It is composed of three main components: an empirical investigation of Zapatista theory and practice, a consideration of the two main forms of libertarian thinking in Mexico--the traditions of indigenous autonomy and European anarchism; and finally an investigation of the more recent historical roots of the EZLN in the Mexican New Left and the indigenous struggles of Chiapas in the past few decades. It draws out some of the important lessons that the Zapatista struggle has to offer contemporary anarchism.

The Myth of the Internet:
Private Isolation and Local Community
Matt Hern & Stu Chaulk - $1,200.00
This book uses a radically democratic, anarchist perspective to investigate and critique the social and cultural repercussions of the Internet. It argues that, while the Internet appears to be a medium for genuine communication and democracy, it is actually undermining the very arenas in which actual freedom and democracy can flourish. Hern and Chaulk live in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Autonomy, Culture, and Natural Resources in the Neo-liberal Age
Melissa Burch - $800.00
This piece presents a comparative critique of the domination of global capitalism and its devastating effects on the local culture in three regions: the Mexican State of Chiapas, the North Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua, and the state of Vermont. It brings to light the fundamental incompatibility of the neoliberal model with an authentic, local, and ecological culture.

Redesigning Life:
The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering
Zoe Erwin & Brian Tokar - $1,000.00
This anthology of essays brings a comprehensive and radical perspective to current debates on biotechnology. It emphasizes the urgent need for an activist response to biotechnology and that efforts against it must challenge larger structures of social domination. Tokar is the author of several books including Earth for Sale (South End Press, 1997) and is a faculty member of the Institute for Social Ecology. Erwin is an activist living in Philadelphia.

The Educational Ideas and Management Practices of 19th and 20th Century Anarchists in Labor-Owned Cooperatives
Frank Adams - $500.00
This essay explores the practical educational efforts made by anarchists to end the exploitation of their labor by capital. It examines their accomplishments and failures in order to enhance our ability to organize work wisely, effectively, and in accord with anarchist values.

Freedom - My Dream:
The Autobiography of Enrico Arrigoni
Peter Lamborn Wilson - $250.00
Enrico Arrigoni (a.k.a. Frank Brand) was an anarchist author and activist of Italian descent who lived in New York from 1924 until his death in 1986. His remarkable life included a stay in Russia during the early years of the revolution, participation in the Spanish Civil War, and a lifelong commitment to anarchism. Wilson's introduction analyzes and introduces elements of Arrigoni's life and work.

Passionate and Dangerous:
Conversations with Midwestern Antiauthoritarians and Anarchists
Mark Bonhert & Richard Curtis - $250.00
Through interviews and their own essays, Bonhert and Curtis provide and oral history and analysis of contemporary anarchist efforts to rebuild community in areas of the Midwest devastated by capital flight, urban neglect, and the repression of marginalized people.

The Spanish Anarchists
Murray Bookchin $1,000.00
Originally intended as a second volume to the book of the same title, this project has been combined with the third volume of the Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era. This research chronicles the Spanish anarchist movement from 1868 to 1936, by exploring the period from the outbreak of social revolution in 1936 to Franco's victory in 1939. It concludes with a discussion of lessons to be drawn from the entire Spanish experience.

Anarchist Modernism:
Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde
Alan Antliff - $1,000.00
This book clarifies the pivotal role played by anarchism in the development of modern art in America. It explores both turn-of-the-century debates about the relationship between art and politics and the development of discourses that cast anarchism in the arts as part of a larger revolutionary culture. It demonstrates that anarchist artists and art critics formulated their artistic practices and criticism to further radical programs of social transformation.

Avoiding New Forms of Repression:
An African-American Reply
Kwaku Kushindana - $500.00
This piece examines the rise of conservative tendencies within African-American politics. It begins with an analysis of the black liberation struggle of the 1960s, which sets the context for a critique of contemporary black leaders and a concluding discussion of the black tradition of anarchy.

Civic Space and the Anarchist Dream
Paul Fleckenstein - $500.00
This essay uses Burlington, Vermont, as a case study for a critique of contemporary municipal development policy and practice. It explores the market's transformation of images of civic space, the structural dependence of the municipality on the international market and the nation-state, and the implications of these developments for an ecological, anarchist politics.