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Underlying Issues Featuring Grievers by adrienne maree brown With Imani Perry

On Thursday, October 21st at 4:00pm PST/7:00pm EDT, join us alongside Harrietts Bookshop as we celebrate Grievers a new release from author adrienne maree brown in discussion with Imani Perry. Let's explore the 'issues' that lie deep beneath the surface of what we read to learn life lessons, challenge stereotypes, and dig into uncomfortable truths […]

Anarchism & The Black Revolution With Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and William C. Anderson

On Saturday, October 23rd at 8am PT/11am ET and join us alongside Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin will discuss his book and its ongoing significance with William C. Anderson, who wrote the introduction to the new edition. Register here! Anarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst a rising […]

G.D.H. Cole: A Libertarian Trapped in the Labour Party

  On Thursday, November 11th at 6:30PM GMT, join us alongside Socialist History Society for a discussion with David Goodway on G.D.H. Cole, a critical member of Britain's Labour Party. Register here! G.D.H. Cole (1889-1959) declared forcefully at the end of his life that he was ‘neither a Communist nor a Social Democrat…but something…essentially different […]

What Is The Modern State? A New Anarchist Theory With Eric Laursen

Freedom Bookshop 84b Whitechapel High Street, London, UK

On November 16th at 7pm GMT join us alongside Freedom Bookshop welcomes writer and activist Eric Laursen to talk about his book The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State. Register here! Please note: due to the on-going coronavirus pandemic only 10 people will be permitted in the shop for the talk. However: […]

Black Dawn Series Launch With Firestorm Books

  On Thursday, November 18th at 7:00pm ET, join us alongside our comrades at Firestorm Books for a panel discussion with editor Sanina L. Clark and Black Dawn series contributors adrienne maree brown (Grievers) and Margaret Killjoy (A Country of Ghosts). Register here! Honoring anarchist traditions while also remembering the great Octavia E. Butler, the […]

A Conversation with William C. Anderson on The Nation on No Map

On Monday, December 20th at 7pm ET, join us alongside Odyssey Bookshop for a conversation on The Nation on No Map with author William C. Anderson. Register here! A call for Black survival in the face of widespread crisis. The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle for Black […]

Black Anarchism & Abolition with William C. Anderson and Robyn Maynard

On Tuesday, December 21st at 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, writer and activist William C. Anderson shares his latest work, The Nation On No Map, in a live virtual conversation with feminist writer Robyn Maynard. Register here! The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle for Black liberation while centering the […]

The New Municipal Agenda With Debbie Bookchin & Sixtine van Outryve d’Ydewalle

On Saturday, January 22nd at 1pm ET, join us alongside our friends and comrades Firestorm Co-op, author Debbie Bookchin, and PhD researcher Sixtine van Outryve d’Ydewalle for a virtual discussion on From Urbanization to Cities: The Politics of Democratic Municipalism by Murray Bookchin. Register for the event here. Journalist and author Debbie Bookchin joins PhD […]

The Making of a Black Anarchist Revolutionary

On Thursday, February 17th at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm GMT, join us alongside Pluto Press and William C. Anderson, author of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism & Abolition, and Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, author of Anarchism and the Black Revolution for a very special virtual event: The Making of a Black […]

Solidarities: Anarchy

Join us alongside Electric Marronage for the virtual event Solidarities: Anarchy featuring Theresa Warburton, William C. Anderson, and Jorell Meléndez Badillo. This is a forum regarding questions, practices, & frictions within and across Anarchist Histories & Movements. RSVP here. Jorell Meléndez Badillo Is an Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College. His work focuses on the […]