Anarchiststudies.org Website Review

Take a look at all that's available from the Institute for Anarchist Studies here! We continuously post new Perspectives on Anarchist Theory essays, announcements about events and new book projects in conjunction with AK Press, and other...Read more The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) has revamped and updated our list of available speakers. Our speakers bureau, called the Mutual Aid Speakers, are all available to come to your town and as*ist in your organizing efforts. Take a look at all the awesome folks below. Many of them received an IAS writing grant, or have written books or essays over the years for the IAS. Some are either current or past IAS board members, while others are comrades, and people whose work we respect. We know the importance of history—it teaches us about our origins and stories, it helps us understand the shape of the present, it provides cautionary tales and examples to follow. It gives us inspiration, wisdom, and role models—but it is also contained in the past. What are the visions that lead us forward into the future? What innovative, revolutionary forms have we yet to imagine? This year, we want to hear your fantasies, your alternate realities, and your wildest dreams. We believe that we need more than just an*lysis and hard work to make a better world—it takes the courage to imagine beyond our circu*stances into the fantastic and the impossible. In that spirit, our theme for 2019 is IMAGINATION(S). The Fall 2018 Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) newsletter is out. It contains updates on the IAS’ recent work, changes in the collective, important announcements about our grants program, and the call for contributions to the next issue of Perspectives, on the theme It has been, for quite some time. If you’ve done any organizing, you’ve felt it—that sense of racing about, extinguishing this flare up or that, spending precious energy and resources surviving the immediate emergency and hoping the future will somehow save itself. If