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Anarchist Writers – Anarchist analysis & the Anarchist FAQSearch Anarchist Writers Anarchist analysis & the Anarchist FAQ Menu Facebook Twitter Legal Menu Search Search for:Audio Video PDF Anarchist FAQ Latest content Facebook Twitter Legal Categories Uncategorized Frans de Waal (1948-2024) Post author By Anarcho Post date May 10, 2024 No Comments on Frans de Waal (1948-2024) The Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal died of stomach cancer on 14 March 2024. His research was of interest to anarchists for it centred on primate social behaviour, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion and empathy. In other words, subjects which Peter Kropotkin pioneered in Mutual Aid and Ethics . Continue reading Frans de Waal (1948-2024)” Categories Uncategorized Capitalism is losing its Barings? Post author By Anarcho Post date April 22, 2024 No Comments on Capitalism is losing its Barings? This first appeared in Scottish Anarchist Number 2 (1995) and was written in response to the collapse of Barings Bank. It discusses the issues associated for anarchists and labour with the increased globalisation of capitalism. Some slight changes have been made to fix typos and add references. Continue reading Capitalism is losing its Barings?” Categories Uncategorized Black Flag: Anarchist Review Spring 2024 issue now out Post author By Anarcho Post date March 18, 2024 The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available: https://www.blackflag.org.uk We cover two women who played key parts in British anarchism, albeit in different eras. Charlotte M. Wilson played a key role in the earliest days of the British anarchist movement. She was a co-founder with Kropotkin of Freedom in 1886, which she edited and wrote for. While she eventually dropped out of the movement, her contribution warrants remembering. Marie-Lousie Berneri likewise played a key role in the movement, this time in the late 1930s and 1940s. The daughter of Camillo Berneri, she helped with Spain and the World (later Revolt! , then War Commentary before becoming Freedom in 1945) and the rebirth of anarchism as an organised movement in Britain. Her early death was a tragic loss, as can be seen from the writings we include. Continue reading Black Flag: Anarchist Review Spring 2024 issue now out” Categories Uncategorized Braveheart Post author By Anarcho Post date March 6, 2024 1 Comment on Braveheart A discussion on Anarchist approaches to national liberation movements using the film Braveheart as its starting point. It appeared in the third issue of (the short-lived) Scottish Anarchist (1995). At the present time, independence via the ballot-box has run into a (predictable) dead-end and it can only be hoped that a move to anti-parliamentarian tactics develops (most obviously, general strikes) Continue reading Braveheart” Categories Uncategorized Introduction to Kropotkin’s Words of a Rebel” Post author By Anarcho Post date February 3, 2024 My introduction to the 2022 PM Press edition of Peter Kropotkin’s Words of a Rebel . As well as the original 1885 book, it includes later prefaces (1904 Italian edition and the 1919 Russian edition) and Afterword to the 1919 Russian edition as well as supplementary material by Kropotkin on the labour movement from Le Révolté written as the same time. The Bibliographical Sketch has been updated to reflect new research on the first translations into English of its texts. Continue reading Introduction to Kropotkin’s Words of a Rebel”” Categories Uncategorized George Barrett: A Biographical Sketch Post author By Anarcho Post date January 2, 2024 This is the introduction to the collection Our Masters are Helpless: The Essays of George Barrett which I created and edited whilst on strike a few years back. George Barrett was a British anarchist active during the 1910s (including in Glasgow) and whose writings I had always found to be excellent. Continue reading George Barrett: A Biographical Sketch” Categories Uncategorized The Bureaucracy in Exile: Trotsky’s limited Anti-Stalinism Post author By Anarcho Post date December 8, 2023 An article exploring Trotsky’s (limited) opposition to Stalinism and showing that it reflected Bolshevik orthodoxy in terms of advocating the dictatorship of the party and one-man management. Needless to say, almost all Trotskyist accounts fail to mention this. It first appeared in Black Flag Anarchist Review Vol. 3 No. 3 (Autumn 2023) Continue reading The Bureaucracy in Exile: Trotsky’s limited Anti-Stalinism” Categories Uncategorized Review: The British Communist Left, 1914-1945 Post author By Anarcho Post date November 27, 2023 A review of a communist-left” (Bordigist) book on the British anti-parliamentarian communist movement which developed during and after the First World War. Suffice to say, it is not very good, as befitting Bordigist ideology. Continue reading Review: The British Communist Left, 1914-1945” Categories Uncategorized Black Flag: Anarchist Review Autumn 2023 issue now out Post author By Anarcho Post date November 11, 2023 1 Comment on Black Flag: Anarchist Review Autumn 2023 issue now out The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available: https://www.blackflag.org.uk The focus of this issue is Trotsky’s limited opposition to developments in the USSR which resulted in the rise of Stalinism. This is usually dated to his 1923 New Course” articles but most Trotskyist accounts of his opposition are inaccurate, ignoring his advocacy of party dictatorship and lack of concern over economic democracy. We rectify this by discussing his actual ideas rather than the wished for ones of his followers. Camillo Berneri’s comment remains true; Continue reading Black Flag: Anarchist Review Autumn 2023 issue now out” Categories Uncategorized Review: Left Americana: The Radical Heart of US History Post author By Anarcho Post date September 30, 2023 This collection of essays by American Academic and Trotskyist Paul Le Blanc has little of interest for anarchists or, indeed, anyone who is not a Trotskyist. For the latter, this collection of essays which seek to highlight Marxist influences in American history may make them feel better about their adherence to an ideology which has little to offer the world. 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