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

Get a copy of the current Transformations issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory by clicking here! What’s in this issue you ask? TABLE OF CONTENTS: PERSPECTIVES ON ANARCHIST THEORY, n33, 2023 Introduction: Transformations by Lara Messersmith-Glavin, in which she weaves together themes of tarot and change, asking “Whose memories form the collective subconscious from which we draw meaning? Whose dreams are hidden within the imagery of our archetypes? What histories are told in the words we use, the lines we observe, the many ways we inhabit our bodies?” Demodernizing Anarchism ..read more

“Anarchism must not be criminalized statement from 12 of the 61 people indicted on RICO charges in Atlanta. This RICO indictment is an attempt by the state to not only criminalize dissent, but a specific set of ideas which leads to dissent and offers an alternative framework to the state and capitalism. Anarchism, solidarity, mutual aid, and collectivism are specifically named in the indictment to make people afraid of these ideas, when the only people who are actually afraid of these collective ways of organizing are the politicians, cops, and corporations who seek to preserve their absolute ..read more

I first encountered Cormac McCarthy around 2006 at my local bookstore, but it wasn’t until I came across The Passenger and Stella Maris a decade and a half later that I decided to give his work a chance. Truth be told, I decided to finally take the plunge because I knew how old McCarthy was, and I wanted to see what kind of work one might produce in the twilight of life. In the months that followed, I read Blood Meridian and The Road. What had drawn me to his work was his perception and vivid illustrations of violence as a force that shapes history, whether enforced by the state or by fe ..read more

The Institute of Anarchist Studies is excited to announce applications are now open for our 2023-24 grants program. To learn more about the grants available and apply, read on! For nearly thirty years, the Institute for Anarchist Studies has funded creative intellectual work that furthers anarchist ideas and makes them accessible to a broad audience. We have two grants available, the Anarchist Horizons Grant; and the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant, in collaboration with our comrades at Agency. We are dedicated to sponsoring projects that: Preserve movement memory and recent history Develop a ..read more

In addition to the four Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grants awarded in collaboration with Agency: An Anarchist PR Project, the IAS also awarded three writing grants in 2023!   ”Defensa Territorial, Defensa Racial: The Battle for Weelaunee, Guapinol, and LA”   is a zine project that centers Central American and accomplice autonomists and the fight for life against displacement and colonial ecological collapse. This zine complicates territoriality, and ties ancestral, historical, and present threads of revolt through the lenses of displac ..read more

The decade we have left behind, the 2010s, was described by the British journalist Paul Mason as a time where “it’s kicking off everywhere.” What began with the Arab Spring protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere, against the dictatorial regimes that ran those countries and in favor of democratic reforms, then followed with anti-austerity protests in Greece, Spain and Portugal, and in the form of movements like UK Uncut or the 15M in Madrid. One historical re-telling might then say there was an ‘electoral turn,’ as these movements helped pave the way for the success of Left populist p ..read more