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New Release: Paradoxes of Utopia: Anarchist Culture and Politics in Buenos Aires 1890–1910

Posted on August 3, 2010 by CWM

By Juan Suriano Translated by Chuck Morse When the Argentine economy collapsed in 2001, many were surprised by the factory takeovers and neighborhood assemblies that resulted. But workers’ control and direct democracy have long histories in Argentina, where from the … Continue reading →

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Illegitimate children of the Enlightenment: anarchists and the French Revolution, 1880-1914

Posted on March 6, 2008 by CWM

I thought that the following new book looked interesting, particularly given the ongoing debates about the relationship of anarchism to the Enlightenment and the possibility of a postmodern anarchism. (The book is stupidly expensive and hard to find in any … Continue reading →

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New Book: Resistencia libertaria

Posted on December 27, 2007 by CWM

One could be excused for thinking that Latin American revolutionaries were all authoritarians in the 1960s and 1970s. Leading figures like Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Savlador Allende were deeply committed to a state-centered, top down approach to social change … Continue reading →

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International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 – Present

Posted on December 20, 2007 by CWM

An exciting, new project recently came to my attention: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 – Present. Edited by Immanuel Ness, this eight-volume, 5,000-page, peer-reviewed work will be published by Blackwell next year and is sure to become … Continue reading →

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Beer, Plumbers, and Anarchists – Two new books

Posted on May 31, 2007 by CWM

The following new books may be of interest: Tom Goyens’s forthcoming Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 will be attractive to anyone with an interest in anarchism, New York’s radical history, and/or oppositional culture … Continue reading →

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Buenaventura Durruti 1896-1936, RIP

Posted on November 20, 2006 by CWM

Buenaventura Durruti, one of the most important anarchists in the Spanish Civil War, died seventy years ago today in a militia hospital in Madrid. He had been shot in the chest during the fascist’s attempt to seize the capital of … Continue reading →

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