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Noname Book Club – Philly

Philly folks! On Saturday, February 26th at 1pm, Noname Book Club will be hosting a book club meet-up to discuss this month’s book club picks including The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C. Anderson and Salvation by bell hooks. RSVP here.   The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Reading & Hearing The Nation on No Map

Posted on November 30th, 2021 in AK Authors!, Recommended Reading

by William C. Anderson Music is a huge part of everything that I do. I spend most of my time listening to music and looking for new music. It informs all of my politics and has been a radicalizing force in my life from my earliest days growing up in the church. Music isn’t a […]

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

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: […]

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 […]

Deeper Than Politics, More Than Ideology

Posted on November 1st, 2021 in AK Authors!

Featuring: An essay by William C. Anderson on ideology, Black anarchism, and his forthcoming book The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism & Abolition. If there’s one thing I learned from Black anarchism, it’s to transcend. I am not just a Black anarchist because I want to systematize or institutionalize Black anarchism. I’m not wed […]

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 […]

The Bisbee Deportation With Mitchell Abidor

  On Wednesday, October 20th at 6:00pm (ET), join Mitchell Abidor, the author of I’ll Forget It When I Die: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 and Anne T. Lawrence, the author of On Dark and Bloody Ground: An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars in discussion on building and understanding of the history […]