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From Freedom News UK

The Anarchist Studies Network organised three sessions at the Political Studies Association Conference 2026

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.

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 C4SS by William Gillis

Original title: "Did The Science Wars Take Place: The Political & Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism"

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

From Z Network by By Matthew Wilson, Mark Evans

An Interview with Matthew Wilson