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- Essay #123: Michael Grooff, ‘Sympathy as the Engine of Mutual Aid’ · 15 min · Episodio 126In this essay, Michael Grooff argues for a bipartite reading of Kropotkin’s account of sympathy, the mechanism behind the evolutionary mutual aid principle. Incorporating both…
- Essay #122: Alejandro Forero Cuéllar, ‘Anarchism and the Abolition of the Criminal Justice System’ · 16 min · Episodio 125In this essay, Alejandro Forero examines how bourgeois criminology weaponized positivist science to pathologize dissent, pseudoscientifically labeling anarchists as "born…
- Essay #121: Ruby Tuke, ‘The Embryonic Abolitionist Ideas of William Godwin’ · 19 min · Episodio 123In this essay, Ruby Tuke argues that the political philosopher, author and proto-anarchist William Godwin’s critique of punishment, alongside his commitment to a form of…
- Essay #120: David Gordon Scott & Emma Bell, ‘Envisioning Abolition - Back to Black?’ · 21 min · Episodio 122This essay introduces Envisioning Abolition, arguing that modern penal abolitionism has deep roots in nineteenth and early twentieth-century anarchist and libertarian socialist…
- Essay #119: Roberta Cesana, ‘Writing as Self-Construction: Leda Rafanelli’s Life in Anarchism, Typography and Publishing’ · 15 min · Episodio 124In this essay, Roberta Cesana examines the relationship between anarchism and print culture through the figure of Leda Rafanelli (1880–1971). It shows how writing, printing, and…
- Essay #118: Vincent Bouchard & Asia Matthews, ‘An Anarchist Approach to the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum’ · 19 min · Episodio 121In this essay, Vincent Bouchard and Asia Matthews discuss how contemporary anarchism can be used as a framework to rethink how we teach mathematics at the university level. At…
- Essay #117: Eleanor Strangways, ‘Anarchism, Anti-imperialism, and the British Empire’ · 19 min · Episodio 120In this essay, Eleanor Strangways explores the collaborations between anarchists and anti-imperialists in Britain during the Second World War. The essay begins by examining…
- Essay #116: Sean Ketteringham, ‘Anarchist anti-imperialism, modernist domesticity: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s Maquette for a Large Basin’ · 26 min · Episodio 119In this essay, Sean Ketteringham examines the anarchist and anti-imperial politics which informed the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915), the French modernist sculptor who…
- Essay #115: Maria Chomard, ‘To Save the Saviours: Reorganising Anarchist Solidarity in Europe after World War II’ · 14 min · Episodio 118In this essay, Maria Chomard examines the transatlantic anarchist mutual aid initiative after World War II, focusing on its attempted reunification and the tensions between…
- Essay #114: Ruth Kinna & Simon Stevens, ‘Anarchism: War, Violence and Scapegoating’ · 25 min · Episodio 117In this essay, Ruth Kinna and Simon Stevens discuss their article Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating - an analysis of power, violence and government irresponsibility. They…
- Essay #113: Kirwin Shaffer, ‘Hispanic Anarchism: The Forging of a Transnational Anarchist Latinidad’ · 16 min · Episodio 116In this essay, Kirwin Shaffer explores the creation of an anarchist ethnic identity (an anarchist Latinidad) among Spanish-speaking anarchists in the United States in the 1880s…
- Essay #112: Robert T.F. Downes, ‘Green Anarchy and Red Praxis’ · 21 min · Episodio 115In this essay, Robert T.F. Downes examines how the eco-anarchist philosophy of social ecology and the pluriverse of Indigenous political thought come together in…
- Essay #111: Livia K. Stone, ‘Autogestion: Correcting the History of Self-Management’ · 21 min · Episodio 114In this essay, Livia K. Stone discusses the origins of the concept of autogestion/self-management, generally associated with anarcho-syndicalism. Often described as emerging from…
- Essay #110: Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh, ‘Creating an Anarchist Community: How can Students from a Neoliberal University Participate?’ · 33 min · Episodio 113In this essay, Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh reflects on an experience of creating a microcosm of an anarchist community in a Yucatecan Maya Village in Mexico. The experience involved…
- Essay #109: Jason Garner, ‘Updating Anarchism’ · 19 min · Episodio 112In this essay, Jason Garner, looks at the debate between anarchists in countries on both side of the Atlantic about the need, or not, to revise anarchist tactics in the light of…
- Essay #108: Steve Emery & Dai O’Brien, ‘L.A. Motler: A Deaf Anarchist’ · 17 min · Episodio 111In this essay, Steve Emery and Dai O'Brien discuss the life and politics of a deaf anarchist communist, Leonard A. Motler. Steve and Dai explain his significance to both the…
- Essay #107: Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, & Charles W., ‘Survival of the Organized: Critical Reflections on Organizing and Mutual Aid’ · 26 min · Episodio 110In this essay, Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, and Charles W. draw distinctions and connections between two important aspects of social movements: organizing and mutual aid. They…
- Essay #106: Josie Holland, ‘Utopian Desires of Queer Anarchism’ · 17 min · Episodio 109In this essay, Josie Holland breaks down key characteristics of queer anarchism and its connection to anarchist principles of prefiguration and revolutionary desire. They…
- Essay #105: Javier Sethness Castro, ‘From Tolstoy’s Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism’ · 15 min · Episodio 108In this reading from Tolstoy’s Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism (2025), Javier Sethness Castro reflects on Leo Tolstoy and the Russo-Ukrainian War. While…
- Essay #104: Theresa Warburton, ‘Other Worlds Here: Embracing Story as Place-Based Practice in Anarchist Social Movements’ · 20 min · Episodio 107In this essay, Theresa Warburton talks about the power of story for building a place-based method in anarchist organizing. Building on their own experiences and the works of…
