Review of the late anthropologist James C. Scott’s book on anarchism. An interesting work by someone who was not quite an anarchist but appreciated it, its useful and potential. Appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 64/5 (Summer 2015)
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Review: The Next Revolution
A review of a posthumously published collection of essays by once leading anarchist Murray Bookchin. It discusses his break with anarchism in 1999 and how he spent the final years of his life destroying his own legacy. The collection itself includes pre- and post-break articles, showing the similarities in his ideas as well as their limitations.
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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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A Few Thoughts on Anarchism
Written to mark the 175th anniversary of Proudhon’s What is Property? this article places anarchism in its intellectual and social context and disputes the notion that anarchism can be best considered as a fusion (or confusion) of liberalism and socialism. It is not. It appeared under a different title in Black Flag No. 237 (2015)
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What it means to be libertarian
This is a write-up of my talk at the 2017 London Anarchist Bookfair. It is based on my article “160 Years of Libertarian” which appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 71.
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