The year is 1881 and the Russian Tsar Alexander ii has, this morning, signed the Loris-Melikov constitution, a document that provided the first timid steps towards a constitutional monarchy. Later ...

The profile of anarchism in Venezuelan history has been less pronounced than in other parts of Latin America, where it has vigorously manifested itself through collective struggles, publications, ...

Voices is based on the oral testimonies of participants in, or who had first hand knowledge of, the anarchist movements in north America during the period 1880 – 1970, the interviews being conducted ...

The first edition of Bread and Freedom came out on Nov. 11, 1906. From the collection of the National Library of Israel, courtesy of Broyt un Frayheyt (Bread and Freedom) On a late summer day in 1906, ...

The French firebrand Joseph Déjacque lived a short life defined by a wild and beautiful struggle against authority, a life of intense passion for freedom and genuine class war. Unlike many of the ...

Ángel Cappelletti (1927-1995) was an Argentine philosopher who spent much of his career teaching at Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela. He also translated numerous works from Greek and Latin, and ...

The goal of an egalitarian, communal society has always united Marxists and leftist socialists, some of the latter (often if not always described as anarchists) refusing any truck with centralized ...

Nonetheless, in the purity of their spiritual angst, the protestors seemed to me a revelation. Conservative journals and websites at the time made much of the underreported crime, the rapes and ...

October 16: Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. October 19: Henry David Thoreau publishes his essay, "A Plea for Captain John Brown," which will later influence ...

Talking to Matt Bell for the Wisconsin Book Festival earlier today, Alan Moore talked about the history of the short story, his approach to the stories within Illuminations, his pride in writing the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Geoffrey Baym, Temple University (THE CONVERSATION) On a late summer day in 1906, a ...