This interview is with social movement veterans who have sacrificed much, and learned a great deal, in trying to change the world. Each in their own way have gained valuable insights into the personal, interpersonal, and structural dynamics at play when confronting established power and … Read more
On Violence and Rebels
On Wednesday, February 24, 1932, at 1:32 p.m. the car carrying Investigations Police Captain Luis Pardeiro Sontie, driven by the assigned chauffeur José Chebel Seluja, was ambushed at the intersection of Artigas Boulevard and Monte Caseros Street, in downtown Montevideo. The scene looked like mob … Read more
Get a copy of the current Transformations issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory by clicking here! What’s in this issue you ask? TABLE OF CONTENTS: PERSPECTIVES ON ANARCHIST THEORY, n33, 2023 Introduction: Transformations by Lara Messersmith-Glavin, in which she weaves together themes of tarot and change, asking “Whose … Read more
Dispatch from Portland’s Protests
Sarah Mirk is a comics journalist, author, and teacher. She works as an editor at The Nib and as a digital producer for Reveal. Her most recent book is Guantanamo Voices: True Stories from the World’s Most Infamous Prison, available here. This is her documentation of the … Read more
Can you support the IAS in 2022? Giving Tuesday kicks off our end of year fundraising, and your solidarity helps anarchist creators and writers grow! Make a donation, and you’ll support grants for media makers, podcasters, and artists. Share our work, and you’ll support a … Read more
Undrowned, by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (AK Press, 2020) and The Deep, by Rivers Solomon (Gallery/Saga Press, 2019) It begins with breath. That is, it begins with the planetary cycle of respiration connecting forest, ocean, air, and every creature. Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Undrowned: Black Feminist … Read more
Bibliophilia & Anarchism in Star Trek: Picard
Following up on our previous analysis of the political and philosophical affinities between Mikhail Bakunin and Richard Wagner, in which we discussed social ideologies such as feminism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and anarchist revolutionism in the epic opera The Ring (1874), we turn now to an examination … Read more
The Quarantine Commune
We call ourselves the Moth Mother Collective to honor our kitchen’s many winged inhabitants. Even before coronavirus, we strove to live our lives in common. Six days of communal meals each week, a rotating chore wheel, a garden, workspace, and collective care for the needs … Read more
Jewish Anarchism
A Review of No Masters But God, by Hayyim Rothman, (Manchester University Press, 2021) If anarchists know Jewish history at all, it is likely the role of Jewish radicalism in the political battles of the early 20th century. Jews made up huge portions of the anarchist … Read more
Place as Message: Anarchist Climate Communication Through Performance
“This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated … Read more
