Colin Ward Festival of Anarchic Ideas, Tactics & Action, Oct. 18

From Kairos

To explore the work of author and social theorist Colin Ward, we're holding a day-long festival of anarchic thinking, strategising and making. Through short talks, discussions and workshops, we’ll consider how his pragmatic anarchism could help us create alternative spaces in the city, and build infrastructures of mutual aid, autonomy and resistance.

Brazil: Anarchist Conference on Education & Culture, Sept. 25 & 26

2nd Anarchist Conference on Education & Culture
São Paulo, September 25 and 26, 2025
Faculty of Education of the University of São Paulo (USP)
Scientific and Organizing Committee: João FM Branco (EDA, FE, USP), Luciana Eliza dos Santos (FE, USP) and Rodrigo Rosa da Silva (CECA, UEL)
Organization: Research Group on Anarchism, Education and Culture/GPAEC

From the Academic Pulpit to the Empty Trenches: The Crossroads of Contemporary Anarchism

From Agência de Notícias Anarquistas

Criticism of the paralysis of anarchism in Brazil is not new, but it remains urgent. As capitalism advances, the State tightens its grip, and inequalities deepen, part of the local anarchist movement seems to have enclosed itself in a bubble of infinite theorizing. This “reflexive paralysis,” as some call it, reveals a disconnect between intellectual production and direct action. It is not a question of rejecting theory—essential for radical critique—but of questioning why so many anarchist collectives and individuals are content to talk about revolution while reproducing the hierarchical and passive dynamics typical of academia.

Popularizing Autogestión: Punk, Zapatismo, & Anarchist Ethics in Mexico City

From AnthroSource

Autogestión (self-management), has been a popular articulation of radical politics since its emergence in the 1960s. This article examines how Mexico City's anarcho-punk scene transformed autogestión in the 1990s from an anarcho-syndicalist principle into a unique ethical practice detached from industrial material production. It was then popularized and made more mainstream through university rock festivals. As these were Zapatista benefit concerts, autogestión became inadvertently attached to Zapatismo and detached from anarchism and punk. This history is a crucial one for understanding the political development of an entire generation of the political left in Mexico City who were young in the 1990s.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen has Died: A Rare Flower in Academia

From Tobias Hübinette & NRK

So sad to read of the passing of the internationally known Norwegian anthropologist and anarchist Thomas Hylland Eriksen, who meant a lot to the research and discussion about ethnicity and nationalism that erupted after the end of the Cold War in the 90s and 00s and who always took up the fight against racism, right-wing extremism and right-wing populism.

Vandalism at Indiana University – Bloomington, Indiana

From Unravel
November 23, 2024

In solidarity with Indigenous People's Day of Rage, I painted "Stolen Land" across the stone entrance to the Indiana University Foundation in Bloomington, Indiana. The IUF exists to maximize private investments for IU, an institution (like all universities) that runs on exploitation, environmental destruction and continued expansion across stolen indigenous land. Until all universities are destroyed!

-An anarchist

Belfast: Anarchist Studies Network Conference Program Announced

From Anarchist Studies Network

ASN 8 – ANARCHISM IN/WITH/AS/BEYOND CONFLICT

ASN8 REGISTRATION

This is registration for the 8th International Conference of the Anarchist Studies Network to be hosted at Ulster University Belfast, 4th-6th September 2024 (check accessibility here).

8th ASN Conference: Anarchism in/with/as/beyond CONFLICT

From Anarchist Studies Network

Call for Papers

Is conflict a problem to solve, an awkward fact of life, or even a virtue to uphold? Are particular conflicts ‘good’ or ‘bad’? Is anarchism in conflict with itself? Does peace simply equate to an absence of conflict, or is it an ‘equilibrium’ of conflicting social forces? War, huh? What is it good for? ‘Absolutely nothin’!’ (Edwin Starr, 1970).

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