Blog Posts

I have a new article out called "Revolutionary Anti-Fascism: the Role of Anarchism in Anti-Racist Action" in Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. "Centering the contributions of anarchism in our historical analysis ...
In the past two days, I successfully defended my dissertation ("Love and Rage: Revolutionary Anarchism in the Late Twentieth Century") and had a new peer reviewed article published in the ...
I so badly want to write an article on Deleuze & Guattari's influence on the US anarchist movement in the 1980s-90s. One path is obvious--Hakim Bey's use of their idea ...
“Bowl a strike, not a spare—Revolution everywhere!” Members of the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League (RABL) chanted bowling-themed radical slogans as they marched against President Ronald Reagan’s threat to invade Nicaragua ...
The New Right’s neoliberal counterrevolution dramatically reshaped American society. Neoliberal economics remade the system of production and decimated the labor movement, in part by recuperating struggles against the Fordist factory ...
Ex-Black Panthers including Ashanti Alston, Kuwasi Balagoon, and Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin theorized Black/New Afrikan Anarchism as a new political ideology for revolutionary Black struggle in the late twentieth century. Black/New ...
I have a new podcast essay out today titled "Anarchist Anti-Fascism" in the Anarchist Essays podcast from the Anarchism Research Group. It's based on presentations I recently gave at the ...
In 1995, Love and Rage militant Joel Olson wrote an article called “The History of Chinese Anarchism” that drew lessons from the defeat of anarchism and the ascendance of communism ...
Vegetarianism and concern for animal rights has a long history in the anarchist movement. The great geographer and theorist of anarcho-communism Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) was one of the most prominent ...
The core of the radical environmental movement that developed in the 1960s-90s largely embraced anarchist thought and practice. Radical environmentalists criticised Marxists for their support of rampant industrialisation and their ...
The heyday of American anarchism around the turn of the twentieth century was dominated by European immigrants who, although racialized by mainstream society, were predominantly ‘white’ by later twentieth-century standards ...
On the two year anniversary of the attempted Jan. 6 coup, I published a new piece on fascism, anti-fascism, and Anti-Racist Action in the Washington Post: Two years after the ...
I published a lot this year! My writing on anarcha-feminist abortion struggles was kicked off with my first piece in the Washington Post, "The model for mobilizing to protect abortion ...
I help run the Ithaca DSA Marxist Reading Group and was recently interviewed about it. Check it out to see what I find useful about Marxism, how we're connecting theory ...
I recently stumbled across this essay I wrote some five years ago on the nature of power, resistance, and history in Marx, Althusser, and Foucault. I think it remains useful ...