I have a new peer reviewed article out today (9/25/2026) in the Journal for the Study of Radicalism called “Building the American Anarchist Movement: Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s.”
You can access it for free with my author link for the next three months. After that, the permanent (paywalled) link is here: Building the American Anarchist Movement. You can always email me to ask for a PDF.
Here is the abstract: In the midst of the Reagan Revolution and the decline of the Soviet Union, North American anarchists organized a series of continental convergences from 1986-1989 that connected and revitalized the anarchist movement. This article explores how these gatherings in Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto, and San Francisco provided crucial spaces for anarchists from diverse backgrounds to encounter each other, engage in political debates, test their mettle in the streets, and organize networks of committed activists. It also weaves in a review of several key radical groups that became connected through the gatherings and together transformed anarchist theory and practice during the neoliberal era. These collectives formed a pole around which the diffuse anarchist milieu began to cohere into a movement capable of coordinating strategic action across the continent. Drawing on accounts from anarchist newspapers and zines, the article argues that these anarchist collectives and convergences revitalized the North American anarchist movement and laid the foundation for the explosive growth of anti-authoritarian activism in the 1990s that culminated in the turn-of-the-century anti-globalization movement.