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On the eve of the 2024 election, the IAS is releasing its latest edition of Lexicon to interrogate the concept of democracy. Though the United States touts itself as the oldest existing democracy, it oversees the world’s largest carceral system and launches imperialist wars around ... Read more ..read more

The Institute for Anarchist Studies is thrilled to announce the projects awarded with an Anarchist Horizons grant during our 2024 grant cycle.   “Hindi Introduction to Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism” by Sarthak Tomar India’s socio-economy seems to be swinging between ethno-nationalism, militarism and the neoliberal capital ... Read more ..read more

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This interview is with social movement veterans who have sacrificed much, and learned a great deal, in trying to change the world. Each in their own way have gained valuable insights into the personal, interpersonal, and structural dynamics at play when confronting established power and ... Read more ..read more

This interview is with social movement veterans who have sacrificed much, and learned a great deal, in trying to change the world. Each in their own way have gained valuable insights into the personal, interpersonal, and structural dynamics at play when confronting established power and ... Read more ..read more

The Perspectives on Anarchist Theory editorial collective is proud to announce that we are publishing a book with our comrades at AK Press! The Perspectives on Anarchist Theory Reader will feature essays, interviews, book reviews, and art from each of the thirty-two issues of the journal, dating back to its newsletter origins in 1997. Because this labor of love will take significant time and energy, we will not be publishing a print issue this year, and we will be closed to submissions until we complete the manuscript. The submission window will reopen toward the end of the year. We are honore ..read more

Early twentieth-century San Gabriel Valley, California was an ideal location for Mexican migrants seeking work opportunities and hoping to escape the Mexican Revolution. Initially, they were seen as a convenient source of labor to fill a void left by the Johnson Reed Act of 1917 which barred migration from the Asia-Pacific zone. They were also seasonal workers, so their integration into communities was not considered threatening by white settlers. But as families joined the migration to California, these Mexican laborers were increasingly segregated from city-centers and Anglo-American neighbo ..read more

On Wednesday, February 24, 1932, at 1:32 p.m. the car carrying Investigations Police Captain Luis Pardeiro Sontie, driven by the assigned chauffeur José Chebel Seluja, was ambushed at the intersection of Artigas Boulevard and Monte Caseros Street, in downtown Montevideo. The scene looked like mob work: around fifty gunshots fired to assassinate two men. The air smelled of revenge, and no wonder, it was. Capt. Luis Pardeiro was the bête noire of Uruguayan anarchists and, as opposed to what could be expected, his death marked the end of direct-action anarchism in Uruguay, for those responsible w ..read more

Of the many words and images to come out of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the twelve years since it emerged (several of which I reviewed way back in Perspectives 2012 ‘Care’ issue), Marisa Holmes’s account stands out for several reasons. First, it’s unique in its density of detail and the richness of its archival sources. An observant witness, keen listener, and diligent documentarian, Holmes mines a trove of primary materials: core organizers’ personal communications, planning documents, posted minutes of general assemblies, live streams and live tweets, and a personal collection o ..read more