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This is How We Heal

by Susan Anglada Bartley and Lexy Kahn

This essay was written collaboratively by two Portland protest community members, Susan Anglada Bartley and Lexy Kahn, and is the result of conversations after participating in protests, both as frontline protestors and as writers and journalists. Throughout the article, we switch italicized and non-italicized fonts (Lexy in … Read more

Can We Cancel Cancel Culture?: A Review of We Will Not Cancel Us, And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, by adrienne maree brown

by Kristian Williams

adrienne maree brown, We Will Not Cancel Us, And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Oakland, AK Press, 2020) If the Left is the conscience of society, and feminism is the conscience of the Left, adrienne maree brown is the conscience of feminism. In her latest … Read more

Perspectives: Imagination Inspirations

The current print issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is on the theme of “Imaginations.” We asked a handful of IAS board members, authors, and contributors to tell us about some of the influences that have inspired their imaginations. Here are a few of their … Read more

The Future, Prewritten? Popular Vision and the Fight Against Displacement

by Andrew Lee

(art by Kill Joy) Finite Frontiers No matter how we approach it, we can all see the way the future is shaping up. We are forced to admit it will be shaped by better bandwidth and higher processing speeds. Our phones now speak back; the … Read more

To Those Who Fight … You Do Not Fight Alone: the Work of Imagination in Anti-Border Struggles

by Erfan Moradi

(art by Amanda Priebe) “The world we want is one where everyone fits. The world we want is one where many worlds fit.” Fourth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), January 1st, 1996 Destitute Times and Rebellious Imaginations … Read more

Repression Knows No Boundaries, Neither Does Resistance!

A review of Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement & Alerta! Alerta! Snapshots of Europe’s Antifascist Struggle

by Cíntia Melo

Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement, by Don Hamerquist & J. Sakai, Anti-Racist Action Chicago and Mark Salotte, (AK Press, 2017) and Alerta! Alerta! Snapshots of Europe’s Antifascist Struggle, by Patrick O. Strickland, (AK Press, 2019) (translated from Portuguese) In the opening essay … Read more

Dreaming an Anti-Fascist Politics of Pleasure

by Cristien Storm and Kate Boyd

“And then Richard Spencer got punched in the face, right? Which was an amazing moment in comedic history…because, I don’t know if you know, Richard Spencer was being interviewed and in the interview he was asked about his Pepe the Frog badge. So he was … Read more

Fall 2020 IAS Newsletter

Grant Applications Open! Kicking Off 25 Years The Institute for Anarchist Studies is turning 25 and opening grants! The IAS is dedicated to furthering anarchist ideas and making them accessible to a broader audience. To celebrate a quarter century of supporting radical thought, we are … Read more

Imagining A Better Utopia: Seizing Spaces of Revolutionary (Re)production

(“All about New York” by Eric Drooker) by Alexander Riccio Revolutions happen alongside massive escalations of collective imagination.(1) Thankfully, a number of leftist thinkers are doing their part to inspire revolutionary imaginations. Among them, Walidah Imarisha recognizes every effort to build a better world as an … Read more

Beyond Anti-fascism, But Not Without It

Antifascist demo in london, 1935 — (Anti-fascist demonstration, London, 1935)

Since Trump’s election, fascism has barged onto center stage, moving more brazenly into public space, mainstream media and public discourse than it has in decades. This renewed and emboldened presence of overt fascism has been met by an explosion of analysis and discussion about its history and politics, and the conditions necessary for its emergence. A proportionally growing attention is also being paid to the history and politics of anti-fascism.
This is welcome, and it is crucially needed. However, it’s also true that the bulk of the writing and speaking on fascism and anti-fascism—the better-selling books, the high-profile interviews–are being done by white men.