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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The Revolutionary Ideas of Emma Goldman
A talk given in Glasgow in 2024 about Emma Goldman and her anarchist ideas.
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Review: The Russian Anarchists
A review of Paul Avrich’s classic account of The Russian Anarchists, pointing out certain flaws in it. It appeared in Black Flag Anarchist Review Volume 5 Number 2 (Summer 2025)
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Now and After
This is a write up of a talk I gave in Glasgow in 2018 entitled Now and After: What would Anarchy be like and how we create the new world by fighting the current one. It summarises anarchist ideas of what a free society would be like and how we get there. As with my previous write-ups, this reflects more what I intended to say rather than what was said. Hopefully it will be close enough. For more details of the ideas raised here, see Section I of An Anarchist FAQ.
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Argentina and the left
An Anarchist critique of two Trotskyist analyses of the Argentine revolt against neo-liberalism, showing their limitations and how they implicitly call for party rule.
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