articles and essays on anarchism, anarchist history, marxism and current affairs as well as reviews
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:
This year’s second issue is a special to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Michael Bakunin. This follows our Peter Kropotkin (Autumn 2025) and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Spring 2025) specials and has the same format – articles on Bakunin, by Bakunin and reviews of works by or on him. Many of the articles by Bakunin have been newly translated, some of them for the first time (as far as we are aware).
(more…)A write up of a talk given in Glasgow in May 2022 on the life and ideas of Peter Kropotkin to mark the anniversary of his birth. As usual, this write-up reflects what I wanted to say rather than what was actually said but it is close enough.
(more…)A lengthy review and critique of a book which contains a selection of writings by members of the (First) International. It is wasted opportunity as the Marxist editor’s biases (and ignorance) means the introduction and selection of texts are skewed.
(more…)A short discussion of what anarchist economics could be. While there is no “Anarchist” economics as such, there are works on economics by anarchists to build upon. It indicates that there are two aspects of this subject — the economics of an anarchist society and an analysis and critique of capitalism. The two are interrelated, for what we oppose in capitalism would not exist within an anarchist economy. From 2018.
(more…)An article marking the launch of Mother Earth in March 1906, debunking some of the myths which have been spread about it and its politics. It includes comments on the paper’s “Observations and Comments” section which show its communist-anarchist orientation clearly. It appeared in Black Flag Anarchist Review (Spring 2026)
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