A review of an excellent new biography of Bakunin.
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Review: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Review of an interesting, if flawed, book on capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
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So why call it Anarchism?
A review of the book Tory Anarchism, showing that the concept is nonsense and an afront to real anarchism.
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Black Flag: Anarchist Review Summer 2026 issue now out
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).
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The life of Peter Kropotkin
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.
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