{"id":117,"date":"2025-11-07T16:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anarchistfaq.org\/anarcho\/?p=117"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:20:34","slug":"black-flag-anarchist-review-autumn-2024-issue-now-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anarchistfaq.org\/anarcho\/black-flag-anarchist-review-autumn-2024-issue-now-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Flag: Anarchist Review Autumn 2024 issue now out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review <\/em>is now available:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.blackflag.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main focus is anarchism and war, using the example of Kropotkin\u2019s support for the Allies in 1914 as its starting point. We indicate that in 1914 the anarchist movement rose to the challenge and remained overwhelming faithful to its Internationalist principles and show the flaws with Kropotkin\u2019s position and why it failed to gather support in the movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The notion \u2013 suggested by Lenin and Trotsky \u2013 that Kropotkin represented anarchism in his support of the war and that anarchists, in general, supported him is false. In reality, \u201cnothing of the kind happened; only about a hundred anarchists signed the various pronouncements in support of the war; the majority in all countries maintained the anti-militarist position as consistently as the Bolsheviks.\u201d (George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, The Anarchist Prince: A Biographical Study of Peter Kropotkin<\/em> [London: Boardman, 1950], 380)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We reprint articles from Freedom<\/em> and Mother Earth<\/em> although we do include new translations of two replies to The Manifesto of the Sixteen<\/em> issued in French. We also reprint Kropotkin\u2019s pamphlets entitled La Guerre<\/em> separated by 30 years \u2013 1882 and 1912 \u2013 to show how at odds his position in 1914 was to these well-known statements, although as we show it was not completely alien to his pre-1914 opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next is Anselmo Lorenzo (1841-1914), a founding member of the Spanish anarchist movement and active in it to his death. Very little of his writings are available in English and we reproduce three pieces by him. We then move onto Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), a British libertarian socialist who was a pioneer on many issues \u2013 not least gay liberation. We then mark the birth of Ricardo Flores Mag\u00f3n (1874-1922), the Mexican anarchist who played a key role in his country\u2019s revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We end with Wayne Price\u2019s contribution to the debate started in the last issue on voting, a critique and a response on previous articles in Black Flag<\/em> on the Ukraine war, Tom\u00e1s Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez\u2019s account of the birth of the circled-A 60 years ago and a discussion of Ursula Le Guin\u2019s classic SF book The Dispossessed <\/em>to mark its 50th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original translations which appear in Black Flag: Anarchist Review<\/em> eventually appear on-line here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/anarchistfaq.org\/translations\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next year we aim to continue to cover a range of people and subjects. These should hopefully include the 1905 Russian Revolution and articles on and by the likes of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Louisa Sarah Bevington, Alexander Berkman, Elis\u00e9e Reclus and Luigi Fabbri, amongst others. Plus the usual reviews and news of the movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this work needs help otherwise at some stage it will end. Contributions from libertarian socialists are welcome on these and other subjects! We are a small collective and always need help in writing, translating and gathering material, so please get in touch if you want to see Black Flag Anarchist Review<\/em> continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This issue\u2019s editorial and contents are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to the third issue of Black Flag<\/em> in 2024!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We start with Kropotkin\u2019s decision to support the Allies in World War I, a decision which shocked his comrades given his previous arguments (as shown by the two of Kropotkin\u2019s pamphlets on war, separated by 30 years, which we reprint). We reprint a few articles by Kropotkin (including The Manifesto of the Sixteen<\/em>) as well as anti-war articles representing the views of the majority of anarchists (we, of course, do not agree with Kropotkin and include them to place the replies to them in context). As these articles show, the pro-war advocates were very much expounding a non-anarchist position and were very much in the minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We follow this with works by Anselmo Lorenzo, a key figure in the early decades of Spanish anarchism. A \u201cBakuninist\u201d in the First International, very little of his writings are available in English and we present three pieces here. Next is Edward Carpenter, an English libertarian socialist who was close to anarchism and who worked with anarchists. Openly gay, he advocated many causes which later \u2013 often much later \u2013 became mainstream (such as gay rights, sexual liberation, vegetarianism and animal rights). A true pioneer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We then move onto Ricardo Flores Mag\u00f3n, the Mexican anarchist who played an important role in the Mexican revolution. One historian proclaims the Manifesto to the Workers of the World<\/em> as \u201ca Marxian program that adhered closely to the IWW’s own preamble.\u201d (William M. Adler, The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon<\/em> [New York: Bloomsbury, 2011], 169) While its call for expropriation undoubtedly matched the I.W.W.\u2019s revolutionary unionist position, that its anarchist politics could be mistaken for Marxist shows a woeful ignorance of Flores Mag\u00f3n\u2019s anarchist-communism \u2013 and the negative attitude of the Marxists of the period to such struggles. Hopefully the articles we reprint here will show his anarchist politics clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wayne Price continues the debate started in the last issue on whether anarchists should vote. This feels like a perennial subject in anarchist ranks but one which needs to be discussed, particularly in the light of changing circumstances. We also include articles on the Ukraine War, a critique of earlier articles in Black Flag<\/em> and a reply by their author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We end by marking two anniversaries before our usual round up of news of the movement (\u201cParish Notes\u201d). These are the 60th<\/sup> anniversary of the circled-A and the 50th<\/sup> of Ursula Le Guin\u2019s The Dispossessed<\/em>. Anarchists, it is fair to say, take our symbols for granted but we should not \u2013 we should know why<\/em> our flag is black, for example (see the appendix in Volume 1 of An Anarchist FAQ<\/em>). So we are happy to reprint an account of the origins of the circled-A. As for The Dispossessed<\/em>, it remains the best fictional account of an anarchist society albeit a flawed one \u2013 yet the struggle against these flaws in the novel also reflect anarchist theory, a point often overlooked in summaries of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to contribute rather than moan at those who do, whether its writing new material or letting us know of on-line articles, reviews or translations, then contact us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

blackflagmag@yahoo.co.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Iain McKay, 1914: World War or Class War<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n
  • Peter Kropotkin, War<\/em> (1882)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Peter Kropotkin, Wars and Capitalism<\/em> (1914)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Nineteen-Fourteen<\/em><\/strong>
    • \u201cBlood and Iron\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, September 1914<\/li><\/ul>
      • \u201cThe Reckoning\u201d, Mother Earth<\/em>, September 1914<\/li><\/ul>
        • Peter Kropotkin, \u201cA Letter on the Present War\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, October 1914<\/li><\/ul>
          • T. H. Keell, \u201cHave the Leopards Changed their Spots?\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, October 1914<\/li><\/ul>
            • \u201cIf we must fight, let it be for the Social Revolution\u201d, Mother Earth<\/em>, October 1914<\/li><\/ul>
              • Errico Malatesta, \u201cAnarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, November 1914<\/li><\/ul>
                • Robert Selkirk, \u201cKropotkin’s Letter on the War\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, November 1914<\/li><\/ul>
                  • Alexander Berkman, \u201cIn Reply to Kropotkin\u201d, Mother Earth<\/em>, November, 1914<\/li><\/ul>
                    • Peter Kropotkin, \u201cAnti-militarism: Was it Properly Understood?\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, November 1914<\/li><\/ul>
                      • Errico Malatesta, \u201cAnti-Militarism: Was it Properly Understood?\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, December 1914<\/li><\/ul>
                        • Fred W. Dunn, \u201cKropotkin\u2019s Letter to Professor Steffen\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, December 1914<\/li><\/ul>\n
                            \n
                          • Peter Kropotkin, \u201cLetter on Current Events\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, December 1914<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                          • Nineteen-Fifteen<\/em><\/strong>
                            • W.T. Crick, \u201cIs this the Last War?\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, January 1915<\/li><\/ul>
                              • \u201cObservations and Comments\u201d, Mother Earth<\/em>, January 1915<\/li><\/ul>
                                • Witt Lawman, \u201cStand We Firm?\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, February 1915<\/li><\/ul>
                                  • International Anarchist Manifesto on the War<\/em> (March 1915)<\/li><\/ul>
                                    • Errico Malatesta, \u201cWhile the Carnage Lasts\u201d, Volont\u00e0<\/em>, 3 April 1915<\/li><\/ul>
                                      • Alexander Schapiro, \u201cLooking Forward\u201d, Mother Earth<\/em>, April 1915<\/li><\/ul>
                                        • Errico Malatesta, \u201cItaly Also!\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, June 1915<\/li><\/ul>
                                          • Rudolf Rocker, \u201cA Study in Fact\u201d, Mother Earth<\/em>, August 1915<\/li><\/ul>
                                            • E. Recchioni, \u201cBetween Ourselves Where We Have Failed and How We Might Succeed\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, September 1915<\/li><\/ul>\n
                                                \n
                                              • \u201cVoices From Prison\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, December 1915<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                              • Nineteen-Sixteen<\/em><\/strong>
                                                • Peter Kropotkin, \u201cThe Manifesto of the Sixteen\u201d, La Bataille<\/em>, 14 March 1916<\/li><\/ul>
                                                  • Errico Malatesta, \u201cPro-Government Anarchists\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, April 1916<\/li><\/ul>
                                                    • International Anarchist Group of London, Anarchist Declaration<\/em> (April 1916)<\/li><\/ul>
                                                      • Anarchist-Communist Study Group, About the Manifesto of the Sixteen: A Statement and Protest<\/em> (May 1916)<\/li><\/ul>
                                                        • \u201cThe Sixteen \u2013 And the Rest\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, June 1916<\/li><\/ul>\n
                                                            \n
                                                          • Alexandre Gh\u00e9, Open Letter to P. Kropotkin (1916)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                          • Nineteen-Seventeen<\/em><\/strong>
                                                            • Ricardo Flores Mag\u00f3n, \u201cThe War\u201d, Regeneraci\u00f3n<\/em> (English Section) 21 April 1917<\/li><\/ul>
                                                              • \u201cAn Open Letter of Peter Kropotkin to the Western Workingmen\u201d, The Railway Review<\/em>, 29 June 1917<\/li><\/ul>\n
                                                                  \n
                                                                • \u201cKropotkin’s Farewell\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, July 1917<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                                                                  Death of Anselmo Lorenzo, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, January 1915<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                    \n
                                                                  • The Conference in London, El Proletariado Militante : Memorias de un internacional<\/em> (1901)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                  • The Labour Movement in Spain, Free Society: A Periodical of Anarchist Thought, Work, and Literature<\/em>, 5 July 1903<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                  • The Citizen and the Producer: The Objects of the Social Revolution, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, September 1913<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                                                                    N. W., Edward Carpenter, Freedom, 27 February 1981<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                      \n
                                                                    • \u201cImportant Letter from Edward Carpenter, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism\u201d<\/em>, December 1892<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                    • \u201cWilliam Morris\u201d, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism<\/em>, December 1896<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                    • \u201cLong Live Syndicalism!\u201d, The Syndicalist<\/em>, May 1912<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                    • V Non-Governmental Society, Towards Industrial Freedom<\/em> (1917)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                                                                      Brian Morris, Flores Mag\u00f3n and the Mexican Liberal Party<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                        \n
                                                                      • \u201cTo Woman\u201d, Regeneraci\u00f3n<\/em>, 24 September 1910<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • \u201cCannon Fodder\u201d, Regeneraci\u00f3n<\/em>, 15 October 1910<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • \u201cTo the American People\u201d, Regeneraci\u00f3n<\/em> (English Section), 25 February 1911<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • \u201cClass Struggle\u201d, Regeneraci\u00f3n<\/em>, 4 March 1911<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • \u201cThe Right of Property\u201d, Regeneraci\u00f3n<\/em>, 18 March 1911<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • \u201cThe Appeal of Mexico to American Labor\u201d, Mother Earth<\/em>, April 1911<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • \u201cManifesto to the Workers of the World\u201d, Regeneraci\u00f3n<\/em> (English Section), 8 April 1911<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • Manifesto of 23 September 1911<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • \u201cThe Political Socialists\u201d, \u201cLos socialistas politicos\u201d, Regeneraci\u00f3n<\/em>, 2 March 1912<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • \u201cWithout Bosses\u201d, Regeneraci\u00f3n<\/em>, 21 March 1914<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • \u201cThe Death of the Bourgeois System\u201d, Regeneraci\u00f3n<\/em>, 2 October 1915<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                                                                        Debate: Wayne Price, <\/em>\u201cShould Anarchists Vote?\u201d is the Wrong Question<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                        Debate: on the Ukraine War<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                          \n
                                                                        • Bill Beech, War On Anarchism<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                        • Wayne Price, Should Anarchists Defend Ukraine? A Response to Bill Beech<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                                                                          Tom\u00e1s Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, The circled A at 60<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                          Iain McKay, The Dispossessed at 50<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                          Parish Notices<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                          \u201cAnarchists and Office-Seeking\u201d, Free Society: A Periodical of Anarchist, Thought, Work and Literature<\/em>, 16 August 1903<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                          \u201cManifesto of the Anarchist Federation on War\u201d, War Commentary: For Anarchism<\/em>, Mid-December 1943<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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