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.
Category: Review
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Louise Michel: “If you are not cowards, kill me!”
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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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Review: Statism and Anarchy
A review of Bakunin’s only published book, Statism and Anarchy (1873). It is most famous for its prescient critique of Marxism as either producing reformism or tyranny.
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