Learn everything you’ve ever wanted to learn about revolutionary history, alternative democratic structures, anti-capitalist/radical thought, and develop utopian visions of the world to come!
We teach each other/we teach ourselves. We read something and we put it into practice!
In 2022 met monthly in person at The Field, 385 Queens Road, New Cross SE14 5HD.
Reading Links
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
The Anarchist Studies Network Reading Lists
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/wiki/canon
What we have read so far
In 2021 we worked through a study guide to Dean Spade’s book Mutual Aid.
January 2022: We read the introduction to Maria Sitrin’s Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (link downloads a pdf).
February 2022: We discussed various resources on Rojava.
March 2022: We’ll be discussing the ZAD and reading We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones
April 2022: We continued the discussion on the ZAD and reading We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones. Other resources on this:
https://ia800507.us.archive.org/27/items/anarchomex2011/Againsttheairport-print.pdf
May 2022: We discussed The Care Manifesto -The Politics of Interdependence by The Care Collective
There is also an interview with the authors here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_jPptWDOgQ
June 2022: We discussed the commitment chapter of Rewriting the Rules by Meg-John Barker as well as this video.
11 August 2022: We’ll discuss part one of What about the rapists? – Anarchist approaches to crime and justice which can be downloaded here
29 September 2022: Youth liberation, anti-agism and deschooling. Readings here: https://bit.ly/sept22book
27 October 2022: The politics of urban space – roads, cars and bikes