Anarchist Studies Network

A PSA Specialist Group for the Study of Anarchism.

Announcements

The First London Anarchist Studies Network London Social - Be There or Be Somehere Else!

Tuesday 2nd March, 7pm - Freedom Bookshop, Whitechapel.

This is an opportunity for Anarchist students, researchers and Anarchist academics living, working or visiting in the capital to meet, talk and socialise. Freedom have even agreed to raise the ceiling to ensure all those pointy heads fit in the building!

Bring a bottle and get yourself down there.

Freedom is at Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street - nearest tube Aldgate East. For those arriving late, we will at some stage decamp to the nearby White Hart public house for further refreshments.

ASN wins £1400 for 2009 activities

The ASN was today (14/04/09) awarded £1400 by the PSA to fund our activities in 2009. In a seperate bid, the PSA also awarded the group £2000 for its forthcoming joint conference with the Marxism specialist group (see below).

Is Black and Red Dead?

An historic conference co-organised by the ASN and the PSA Marxism Specialist Group. A full call for papers, registration forms, payment details and posters can be found here.

New Call for Papers: Anarchism, Labor Unions, and Working People

Click on Call for Papers above

Call for Papers: Anarchism and Sexuality in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries

Leeds, 19 February 2010.

ANARCHISTS ORGANISE PISS-UP IN BREWERY (01/08/08)

To celebrate the second birthday of the establishment of ASN in November 2007, members organised a tour of Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery. Hangovers contributed to it taking this long to post up the announcement.

We will be putting up the draft conference papers from the recent 'Is Black and Red Dead?' conference here. Please note that these papers are in draft form, some remain extended presenations, and they are not to be cited without the express permission of the author(s).

Simon Choat, 'Power and Subjectivity: A Critique Of Post-Anarchism'

Toby Boraman, 'Carnival anarchism, councilism and class'

Benoit Challand, 'When anarchism meets marxism'

Lewis Mates, 'The Syndicalist Challenge in the Durham Coalfield'

Chiara Bottici, 'Black and Red: The Freedom of Equals'

George Sotiropolos, ‘A Bedouin, perhaps, a Citizen, never’(?): Overcoming the Red and Black divide'

Jean Michel Kay, 'Publishing in the Pursuit of Libertarian Socialism'

Jean Christophe Angaut, 'The Situationists'

Andrew Robinson, 'Beyond The Working Class: The Politics of the Excluded'

Philip O'Sullivan, 'Bakunin and Marx on the Paris Commune: Grounds for a synthesis between Anarchism and Marxism?'

Chris Wellbrook, ''Pick up a brick and throw it at a cop': Beyond the Anarchist/Marxist divide'

Larry Portis, 'Overcoming Dogma and Confusion in Revolutionary Theory and Practice: Red and Black in Historical Perspective'

Christian Hogsbjerg, 'A ‘Bohemian freelancer’? C.L.R. James, his early relationship to anarchism and the intellectual origins of autonomism'

Jeremy Tramner, 'Constructing an alternative to Marxism-Leninism: British Communists and prefigurative politics'.

Christian Garland, 'The (Anti-) Politics of Autonomy: Between Marxism and Anarchism'

Paul B Smith, 'On the Origins of the Collapse of the First International'

Mike Mowbray '(New) New Left?: radical considerations in Canada and Quebec from the post-1968 moment to today'

Renzo Llorente, 'George Sorel's contribution to 'Anarcho-Marxism''

Sara Motta, 'Post-Left Anarchism, Open Marxism and 'New' Autonomist Social Movements in Latin America: Convergence through the praxis of rebel subjects'

Suzi Weissman, 'Victor Serge: From Defeated Past to expectant Future'

Carl Levy, Antonio Gramsci, Anarchism, Syndicalism and Sovversivismo'