A review and evaluation of Voltairine De Cleyre’s politics, showing why modern radicals would gain from reading her. It uses three recently published books of her writings to discuss her ideas and their evolution from an individual to a communist anarchist and how it related to changes in North American anarchism. An important figure in Anarchist history whose ideas are of interest today, particularly as we still suffer from the patriarchy, capitalism and statism she opposed.
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Louise Michel: “If you are not cowards, kill me!”
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A review of a book on that remarkable anarchist activist, Louise Michel. Sadly marred by an obvious, and utterly unnecessary, bias for Marxism, it fails to do justice to her ideas and her life. -
Review: Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis
A review of the book Albert Parson produced while in prison awaiting execution after the Haymarket police riot of 1886. An essential introduction to the ideas of the Chicago Anarchists.
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Review: Maurice Brinton’s For Workers’ Power
A review of an excellent collection of writings by Maurice Brinton, a leading British libertarian socialist of the 1960s and 1970s. A second edition was published in 2020.
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Review: Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship
A short review of a book which discusses labour protest under Lenin. Essential reading.
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