Blog Posts

My first peer reviewed journal article was recently published in the Anarchist Studies journal: "From the Ashes of the Old: Anarchism Reborn in a Counterrevolutionary Age (1970s-1990s)." Here is the ...

This week I published a new piece on the history of abortion struggles in Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life. "At recent pro-choice demonstrations, we have been told that the ...

I recorded my recent talk at the Anarchist Studies Conference and uploaded it to youtube, check it out! "Spencer Beswick gives a short overview of the anarchist infoshop movement, including ...

I'm writing a piece on infoshops in the 1990s, which led me to revisit an earlier essay I wrote on our Antidote Infoshop and Food Not Bombs in Ithaca in ...

The George Floyd Rebellion of Summer 2020 transformed the terrain of contemporary social struggle. In Fall 2020 I taught an intro class on "Marxism, Anarchism, and Anti-Colonialism" as an attempt ...

I just published an article in Perspectives on Anarchist Theory called "Living Communism: Theory & Practice of Autonomy & Attack." This article combines historical insights from the Autonomen with theoretical ...

A few years ago, I taught my first class: a first-year writing seminar called "American Anarchism." Here is the syllabus, which may be useful to folks looking for a grounding ...

In the late 1980s, the Minneapolis-based Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League (RABL) theorized and practiced what they called "revolutionary anarchism" and helped build an organized anarchist movement across North America. In ...

“We have reached a breaking point” -Nikolas S., Rage! October 1988 “We must still know to direct our anger towards revolution.” -Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League, 1990 “Bowl a strike, not ...

Suzy Subways and I were interviewed about anarcha-feminist abortion struggle for the latest It's Going Down podcast! Check it out here: Lessons From the Fight to Protect Abortion Clinics in ...

A panel I organized for the upcoming Anarchist Studies Network conference was accepted! Titled "Prefiguring the Future: Twentieth Century Anarchist Visions," it features a new generation of anarchist historians who ...

The Supreme Court's plan to reverse Roe v. Wade means that abortion will likely soon become illegal for many people across the United States. As we search for effective responses, ...

I published a new article in the Washington Post's Made By History section today, check it out here! The model for mobilizing to protect abortion rights beyond voting: ‘We’re pro-choice ...

My article on the transformation and revitalization of anarchism in the late 20th century was recently accepted for publication in the Spring 2023 edition of the Anarchist Studies journal. Here ...