Black Flag: Anarchist Review Summer 2025 issue now out

The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:

This year’s second issue starts with Peter Kropotkin’s obituary for his friend and fellow anarchist and geographer Elisée Reclus (1830-1905). This is followed by various articles by Reclus which should hopefully indicate why he was as influential within the anarchist movement in his life as Kropotkin.

Anarchism, Daoism, and the Great Sage: A Review of Black Myth: Wukong

From Notes toward an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism by Javier Sethness

The marvelous PC and video game Black Myth: Wukong (2024), created by the previously low-profile Chinese company Game Science, is a spirited blockbuster adaptation of Wu Cheng’en’s epic fantasy novel, Journey to the West (c. 1592). Considered one of the four classic Chinese novels, Journey to the West presents a mythological spin on the monk Xuanzang’s unsanctioned seventh-century pilgrimage from China to India to recover Buddhist scriptures. While both Xuanzang and his literary counterpart Tang Sanzang are absent from Black Myth: Wukong, the “Great Sage” Sun Wukong—the novel’s beloved trickster monkey god and Sanzang’s main bodyguard—plays a prominent role.

Black Flag: Anarchist Review Spring 2025 issue now out

The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:

https://www.blackflag.org.uk

Following on from our “Kropotkin special” to mark the 180th anniversary of his birth, this issue is a “Proudhon special” to mark the 160th anniversary of his death – and the 185th anniversary of his proclaiming “I am an anarchist” in What is Property? and so anarchism as a named socio-economic theory.

Review: The Egoist Encyclopedia by Wolfi Landstreicher

From The Creative Nothing

The Egoist Encyclopedia is a significant compilation of columns authored by Wolfi Landstreicher for Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed. Wolfi has established a notable reputation in the fields of Egoism and Anarchism through his extensive body of work, positioning himself as an important contemporary thinker.

Scrutiny #1 (an anarch journal of review) NOW AVAILABLE!

Scrutiny is sorely needed, everywhere. That has been our assessment. If we are to move beyond the banal and redundant self-referential mediocrity of this current reality, we need to be far more relationally critical and honest, not only of the horrifying world at large, the varied environments we are part of, and our own thoughts and actions, but most force- fully with the withering anarchist space we still dwell within (somewhat reluctantly and certainly marginally at this point, we suppose).

Justice, Primitive and Modern by Bob Black

From A Beautiful Resistance by Ian Blumberg-Enge

For Bob, writing is play, “productive play” to use his amazing phrase, but he puts in the work. He went to law school and, for the most part, made his living doing legal research. This clearly had an impact on Bob’s perfectly constructed arguments, but it also gave him a unique insight into an area many anarchists know little about, and almost avoid as if fearing some supernatural contagion – law and criminal justice.

Freedom UK Review: Prison solidarity, Farage fiasco, and Zapatista gathering

From Freedom News UK

Discussing New Year’s Eve prison demos and why they will become more important, the short Farage-Musk love affair, and the challenge of restoring community networks as the Zapatistas’ call to prepare for the fall of capitalism within seven generations

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