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Writings by Anarcho

articles and essays on anarchism, anarchist history, marxism and current affairs as well as reviews

Articles and Reviews

  • Black Flag: Anarchist Review Spring 2026 issue now out

    The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:

    https://www.blackflag.org.uk

    This year’s first issue has the usual mix of articles, re-prints and reviews, starting with an evaluation of German Anarchist John Most (1846-1906) and the development of his politics. We show that in the years following his arrival in America, he was not a consistent anarchist in both tactics and vision of a social revolution. The latter reflected his Marxist-Blanquist past while the former – his advocacy of “propaganda by deed” – was due to misinformation on Bakunin spread by Marx and Engels. While he did help the emerging American revolutionary anarchist movement grow as well as becoming a consistent anarchist after 1887, his politics before that were in transition. We include a selection of writings from his anarchist period plus a report from The Alarm of one his speeches as well as The Beast of Property (1883), so that the anarchist and non-anarchist aspects of it can be seen.

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  • Sylvia Pankhurst: Anti-Parliamentarian Communist

    An account of the evolution of Sylvia Pankhurst from suffragette to supporter of the Bolshevik regime and then to council communist. It discusses the similarities of her ideas to anarchism as well as her links to the movement. It appeared in Black Flag Anarchist Review Volume 5 Number 3 (Autumn 2025).

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  • Divided by time, united by hope

    Review of two books on social struggle, one on the 1930s and one on the anti-globalisation movement of the 2000s.

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  • The Two Souls of Democracy

    A review of Tony Benn’s 2005 TV programme on democracy. It points out the democracy has many meanings and can, and is, used to justify elite rule.

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  • Review: Debunking Economics

    Review of an excellent book on the weaknesses of neo-classical economics by post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen. An expanded second edition appeared a few years later.

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