Obituaries – The Hippies Now Wear Black

Category: Obituaries

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To Our Community July 27, 2020
To Our Community, We are writing in response to social media messages we’ve received regarding Marquis Bey, the author of our just-released book Anarcho-Blackness. Someone on Twitter and Instagram has called him out as an abuser, and others have asked us to comment on the accusation. We had previously heard an allegation about abusive behavior […]
Memorial Day, 2020: Grief, War, and the Pandemic June 8, 2020
by Kristian Williams. in memory of Robert F. Williams On Friday, May 22, just after dinner, my father lay down for a nap and peacefully died. He died at a rather inopportune time, in the midst of a pandemic, one that had already taken more than 300,000 lives around the world. These circumstances prevented me […]
Resist Everything Except Temptation. An excerpt from Kristian Williams’s new book! June 3, 2020
We’ve just released Kristian Williams’s newest book, Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde. It’s an incredibly fulfilling read about a fascinating writer, in which Wilde’s wit, aesthetics, and politics come to life in ways we’ve never seen in a work of literary criticism. Below is a short glimpse that should give […] […]
Stop Lecturing Black People June 1, 2020
A statement from Aishah Shahidah Simmons. ———- A brief word. I do not want to hear another politician, entertainer, athlete or anyone else of any race/ethnicity, use the media or other platforms to lecture to Black people about how we should respond to the virulent and relentless violence happening. I ain’t heard nary an auntie, uncle, mother, or […] […]
Modibo Kadalie on Direct Democracy May 26, 2020
Here’s a sneak peek from the conversation between Andrew Zonneveld and Modibo Kadalie in Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy, edited by Cindy Milstein. Modibo Kadalie: For me, direct democracy is an evolving social vision. My ideas, just like anyone else’s, are always developing. In the 1960s and early 1970s, I saw myself […]

The Hippies Now Wear Black

The anarcho-punk movement in the UK, 1977-1984

Category: Obituaries

Dave King, designer of the “Crass symbol”, 1948-2019

Lance d’Boyle (1940-2017): “The war isn’t over yet”

Vi Subversa and Poison Girls: an appreciation