The New European, “The truth, erudition and beauty of Benjamin Zephaniah”
The late poet was a natural anarchist and a one-off whose like we will not see again By Bonnie Greer, December 7, 2023 I was in a performance once with Benjamin Zephaniah, and I cannot tell you very much about it, except that the person who organised it was quite annoyed with him. I never […]
JSTOR Daily, “The Alcott Anarchist Experiment”
The failures at Fruitlands showed that anarchist and vegetarian ideals weren’t enough to sustain a community—spiritually or nutritionally. By Katrina Gulliver, December 15, 2023 There have been various utopian experiments over the last 200 years. From communes to cult compounds and new religions, different groups have tried to create alternative models of society. Bronson and […]
The Spectator, “The Spectator’s 2023 Books of the Year”
Our writers weigh in November 14, 2023 D.J. Taylor From an apprenticeship as a wartime pacifist trading Byronic stanzas with George Orwell to a later career as the planet’s most prominent sexologist is quite the transition. Clocking in at 700 pages, Eric Laursen’s prodigiously researched Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort, Author of […]
Press Release: Lawsuit Filed Against Bradford County Deputy for Assaulting Protester Outside of Prison; Same Deputy Also Facing Sexual Assault Charge
For immediate release December 6, 2023 [PHOTOS, VIDEOS AND COMPLAINT AVAILABLE] Gainesville, Florida — A civil rights lawsuit has been filed against a Bradford County Sheriff’s deputy resulting from an incident of excessive force that sent a protester in front of Florida State Prison in Raiford to the hospital on December 6, 2020. The same deputy, Dalton […]
Associated Press, “British poet and self-professed ‘anarchist’ Benjamin Zephaniah dies at age 65”
By Pan Pylas, December 7, 2023 LONDON (AP) — Benjamin Zephaniah, a British poet, political activist and actor who drew huge inspiration from his Caribbean roots, has died. He was 65. Zephaniah died Thursday after being diagnosed with a brain tumor eight weeks ago, his family said in a statement on Instagram. “We shared him […]
Interviews with Fauda: The Anarchist Movement in Palestine
The Palestinian anarchist group Fauda posted a Q&A series on Instagram during the Israeli Occupation Forces’ horrific attacks on Gaza in the weeks following the Al Aqsa Flood on October 7. Fauda, a collective “mostly concentrated in the West Bank,” was established four years ago, and says it is the “first and largest anarchist movement […]
Yale News, “Dance group boosts fundraiser for ‘Palestinian anarchist fighters’ during weekend shows”
During at least two performances, Ballet Folklórico displayed a QR code linking to an Instagram post with a Venmo handle, since deactivated, to support self-described “Palestinian anarchist fighters.” On Monday, the co-presidents said they were solely responsible for displaying the QR code, apologized to members and called it a “grave error” in an email to […]
Grants for Writers, Artists, Organizers, and Mediamakers
By The Institute for Anarchist Studies and Agency For nearly thirty years, the Institute for Anarchist Studies has funded creative intellectual work that furthers anarchist ideas and makes them accessible to a broad audience. We have two grants available, the Anarchist Horizons Grant; and the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant, in collaboration with our comrades […]
LGBTQ Nation, “This bisexual Black anarchist escaped from prison twice in the name of radical revolution”
Kuwasi Balagoon was a New Afrikan Anarchist who viewed Black Americans as a “subjugated nation” that deserved to resist the conditions forced onto them. By Molly Sprayregen, October 19, 2023 On November 2, 1979, a group of three arrived at Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in Dannemore, New York sometime between one and four pm. Their […]
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: Mutual Aid and the Criminalization of Compassion: Humanitarian Aid Must Never Be A Crime
September 22, 2023 Mutual aid is your neighbor bringing over a freshly baked blueberry pie because they know you love that kind and they love to bake. It’s the fourteen-year-old down the street who mows the lawn of his elderly neighbor because he likes to do things for people in need. Mutual aid is also […]