The Making of Revolutionary Wage Struggles and Unions
Is Revolution Inherent in Wage Struggles? Endless worries and struggles about wages are part of life under capitalism. Over the last four decades the ruling classes have clamped down ferociously on the wages and conditions of workers, who resisted with limited success.1 Wage struggles tend … Read more
Here are 25 historic moments relevant to anarchism, in no particular order. To mark the occasion of our 25th anniversary, the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) is working to raise $25,000, in part to award grants again in 2022. We could use your help. Please support … Read more
The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) is excited to announce a collaboration with artist and designer Amanda Priebe. Priebe was commissioned to produce an artwork on the theme of Resiliency in honor of the IAS’s 25th year. Many of us on the West Coast have … Read more
Clio Reese Sady is a tattooist and pen and ink artist living on Ohlone land in Oakland, California. Sady is disabled – living with Bipolar Disorder – and loves making political art with San Francisco direct action group Gay Shame. Sady has had work published … Read more
How to Tan a Hide
Fleshing The teacher hands me a deer hide from a 50-gallon drum. My arm strains as I hold its heavy, slimy, dripping weight out in front of me, high so that it won’t drag in the dirt. I carry it to my fleshing beam, a … Read more
Why We Fight, by Shane Burley
Why do we fight? Because fascism. Because resistance. Because surviving the apocalypse. In linking together these three themes, Shane Burley writes at a turning point in his new book, Why We Fight Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse. He presents it as a … Read more
The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) rebooted our grants’ program in 2021 to include multimedia. This year’s call for grant proposals prioritized short audio and video projects that would serve as foundations, definitions, or further education on: Black and Indigenous Anarchism(s); Police Abolition and Alternatives; … Read more
IAS Summer Newsletter June, 2021 2021 Marks the 25th Year of the Institute for Anarchist Studies! The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) is excited to celebrate our 25th year – a remarkable anniversary. The IAS is proud to be here, continuing our work to advance … Read more
by the Tilted Scales Collective, with a Foreword by Lauren Regan of the Civil Liberties Defense Center. Representing Radicals helps lawyers understand ways to work with radical defendants, with an explicit focus on how to help them achieve ends that go beyond traditional legal goals. For … Read more
Salvaging the Future: A Review of The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (New York: Orbit, 2020) After the basics of food and shelter that we need just as animals, first thing after that: dignity. Everyone needs and deserves this, just as part of being human. And yet this … Read more
