Essay #120: David Gordon Scott & Emma Bell, ‘Envisioning Abolition - Back to Black?’

Essay #120: David Gordon Scott & Emma Bell, ‘Envisioning Abolition - Back to Black?’

This essay introduces Envisioning Abolition, arguing that modern penal abolitionism has deep roots in nineteenth and early twentieth-century anarchist and libertarian socialist thought that challenged prisons, punishment, and state coercion. It highlights how the traditions of red and black converge around a shared commitment to equality, freedom, and the abolition of punitive justice systems.

David Gordon Scott, Chair of the Weavers Uprising Bicentennial Committee and The Open University. His most recent books include Abolitionist Voices (Bristol University Press, paperback March 2026)

Emma Bell, Professor of Contemporary British Politics, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France. She has also recently published Policy Press | Commons, Citizenship and Power - Reclaiming the Margins, Edited by Filippo Barbera and Emma Bell

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Essay #113: Kirwin Shaffer, ‘Hispanic Anarchism: The Forging of a Transnational Anarchist Latinidad’

Essay #113: Kirwin Shaffer, ‘Hispanic Anarchism: The Forging of a Transnational Anarchist Latinidad’

In this essay, Kirwin Shaffer explores the creation of an anarchist ethnic identity (an anarchist Latinidad) among Spanish-speaking anarchists in the United States in the 1880s and 1890s. This identit...

19 Jan 16min

Essay #112: Robert T.F. Downes, ‘Green Anarchy and Red Praxis’

Essay #112: Robert T.F. Downes, ‘Green Anarchy and Red Praxis’

In this essay, Robert T.F. Downes examines how the eco-anarchist philosophy of social ecology and the pluriverse of Indigenous political thought come together in anarcho-Indigenous solidarities, from ...

5 Jan 20min

Essay #111: Livia K. Stone, ‘Autogestion: Correcting the History of Self-Management’

Essay #111: Livia K. Stone, ‘Autogestion: Correcting the History of Self-Management’

In this essay, Livia K. Stone discusses the origins of the concept of autogestion/self-management, generally associated with anarcho-syndicalism. Often described as emerging from Yugoslavia in the 195...

22 Dec 202520min

Essay #110: Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh, ‘Creating an Anarchist Community: How can Students from a Neoliberal University Participate?’

Essay #110: Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh, ‘Creating an Anarchist Community: How can Students from a Neoliberal University Participate?’

In this essay, Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh reflects on an experience of creating a microcosm of an anarchist community in a Yucatecan Maya Village in Mexico. The experience involved women students traine...

8 Dec 202533min

Essay #109: Jason Garner, ‘Updating Anarchism’

Essay #109: Jason Garner, ‘Updating Anarchism’

In this essay, Jason Garner, looks at the debate between anarchists in countries on both side of the Atlantic about the need, or not, to revise anarchist tactics in the light of the end of the postwar...

24 Nov 202519min

Essay #108: Steve Emery & Dai O’Brien, ‘L.A. Motler: A Deaf Anarchist’

Essay #108: Steve Emery & Dai O’Brien, ‘L.A. Motler: A Deaf Anarchist’

In this essay, Steve Emery and Dai O'Brien discuss the life and politics of a deaf anarchist communist, Leonard A. Motler. Steve and Dai explain his significance to both the anarchist movement in the ...

10 Nov 202517min

Essay #107: Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, & Charles W., ‘Survival of the Organized: Critical Reflections on Organizing and Mutual Aid’

Essay #107: Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, & Charles W., ‘Survival of the Organized: Critical Reflections on Organizing and Mutual Aid’

In this essay, Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, and Charles W. draw distinctions and connections between two important aspects of social movements: organizing and mutual aid. They argue that practicing...

27 Okt 202526min

Essay #106: Josie Holland, ‘Utopian Desires of Queer Anarchism’

Essay #106: Josie Holland, ‘Utopian Desires of Queer Anarchism’

In this essay, Josie Holland breaks down key characteristics of queer anarchism and its connection to anarchist principles of prefiguration and revolutionary desire. They conclude with an invitation t...

13 Okt 202516min

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