On the eve of the 2024 election, the IAS is releasing its latest edition of Lexicon to interrogate the concept of democracy. Though the United States touts itself as the oldest existing democracy, it oversees the world’s largest carceral system and launches imperialist wars around … Read more
The Institute for Anarchist Studies is thrilled to announce the projects awarded with an Anarchist Horizons grant during our 2024 grant cycle. “Hindi Introduction to Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism” by Sarthak Tomar India’s socio-economy seems to be swinging between ethno-nationalism, militarism and the neoliberal capital … Read more
The Perspectives on Anarchist Theory editorial collective is proud to announce that we are publishing a book with our comrades at AK Press! The Perspectives on Anarchist Theory Reader will feature essays, interviews, book reviews, and art from each of the thirty-two issues 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
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
An Homage to David Graeber and to the Transformative Power of the Imagination
Graeber’s ideas took concrete form in the Occupy Wall Street movement he helped get off the ground. Graeber also equipped us with the intellectual fuel needed to think beyond what prevails at present. He outlined frameworks for informing and catalyzing emergent exercises in opening up the horizon of possibility to actualize the collective potential of our imagination. The onus is upon us to use his gift going forward.
How the Poor Continue to Die
Of the numerous realities the pandemic has uncovered, few are as stark as how front-line, essential, service industry workers are not just seen as replaceable but as expendable. And many are out of work. When a member of the working-class is without wages and the paltry handouts from the government vanish, reproduction of one’s biological functions and faculties are still required. Working in front-line, essential, service industries is work as is seeking to obtain work in such sectors.
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This May Day in Portland, Oregon about 1,500 people rallied and marched against capitalism, racism, and colonialism, including immigrant families, undocumented folks, people with disabilities, and working families with kids. It was International Workers Day, which commemorates the Haymarket affair, which took place in Chicago, … Read more
