After the ravages of World War I and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest was engulfed by revolution and marauding foreign armies in 1919. Factory workers, disillusioned ex-soldiers, landless peasants, artists, and intellectuals began forming grassroots councils to get the country back on its feet. This groundswell produced a unique cross-class alliance in pursuit […]
Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster. The fourth title in our Anarchist Intervention Series, co-published with the Institute for Anarchist Studies! Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim […]
‘A powerful – even startling – book that challenges the shibboleths of ‘white’ anarchism’. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so’ – Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda Report Anarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black […]
The dozens of petitions addressed to Parliament and the army in the five months before Charles I’s execution are widely recognised as having influenced the events that led to his trial and death. A few phrases or short passages from the texts have frequently been quoted by historians, and some have argued that they represent […]
by Peter Kropotkin ISBN: 978-1-904491-37-8 Paperback: 356pp Freedom Press, 2021 In his own time Kropotkin was at once one of Europe’s foremost intellectuals and a hated rabble rouser. A renowned geographer whose brilliant and revolutionary political insights shocked the ruling classes. Born in Moscow in 1842 to one of Russia’s oldest aristocratic houses, the “anarchist […]
Revolutionary Learning explores the Marxist and feminist theorisation of dialectics, praxis and consciousness in education and learning. Moving beyond previous books on Marxism and education, which tend to focus on the reproductive nature of educational institutions, this groundbreaking text draws upon work by leading feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial scholars in its exploration of the key […]
Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering is an anthology that centres mothers of colour and other marginalised mothers’ voices. Marginalised and oppressed mothers are at the centre of a world of necessary transformation. The challenges we face as movements working for racial, economic, reproductive, […]
Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley is an emblem of the Romantic movement and one of the lights of English culture–his poems memorized by schoolchildren, his life honored with a memorial in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner. That wasn’t always the case, however. In his own day, Shelley was widely loathed, seen as an immoral atheist and a […]
The Life and Death of Capitalism no. 1 Two essays from Robert Kurz – ‘By Way of Presentation’ and ‘No Revolution Anywhere’ – plus an introduction to his work and an interview with him. This is the first in a series of pamphlets and books under the heading of ‘The Life and Death of Capitalism […]
by Elisee Reclus These two words, Evolution and Revolution, closely resemble one another, and yet they are constantly used in their social and political sense as though their meaning were absolutely antagonistic. The word Evolution, synonymous with gradual and continuous development in morals and ideas, is brought forward in certain circles as though it were […]
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