An account of Adam Smith’s less well remembered ideas which shows that the right is somewhat selective in what they take from his ideas. It first appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 66 (Winter 2016)
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Ursula Le Guin and Utopia
An obituary for the great fantasy and SF writer Ursula Le Guin. It concentrates, understandably, on The Dispossessed. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 73 (Spring 2018).
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Black Flag: Anarchist Review Autumn 2025 issue now out
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:
This year’s third issue has, more by accident than by design, a decidedly anti-parliamentarian aspect to it. We start with four notable radical women whose writings should be of interest to libertarians today even if they may not be as well-known as they should be.
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Black Flag: Anarchist Review Summer 2025 issue now out
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:
This year’s second issue starts with Peter Kropotkin’s obituary for his friend and fellow anarchist and geographer Elisée Reclus (1830-1905). This is followed by various articles by Reclus which should hopefully indicate why he was as influential within the anarchist movement in his life as Kropotkin.
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Black Flag: Anarchist Review Spring 2025 issue now out
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:
Following on from our “Kropotkin special” to mark the 180th anniversary of his birth, this issue is a “Proudhon special” to mark the 160th anniversary of his death – and the 185th anniversary of his proclaiming “I am an anarchist” in What is Property? and so anarchism as a named socio-economic theory. His answer to his book’s title (“Property is theft”) is so memorable it even featured in the film Oppenheimer, where it was attributed to Marx (much to the annoyance of various internet Marxists)
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