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Anarchism 1914-18 is the first systematic analysis of anarchist responses to the First World War. It examines the interventionist debate between Peter Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta which split the anarchist movement in 1914 and provides a historical and conceptual analysis of debates conducted in European and American movements about class, nationalism, internationalism, militarism, pacifism and cultural resistance. Contributions discuss the justness of war, non-violence and pacifism, anti-colonialism, pro-feminist perspectives on war and the potency of myths about the war and revolution for the reframing of radical politics in the 1920s and beyond. Divisions about the war and the experience of being caught on the wrong side of the Bolshevik Revolution encouraged anarchists to reaffirm their deeply-held rejection of vanguard socialism and develop new strategies that drew on a plethora of anti-war activities

Abstract:This article provides the first comparative reading of the minutes of the General Assemblies of three iconic Occupy camps: Wall Street, Oakland and London. It challenges detractors who have labelled the Occupy Wall Street movement a flash-in-the-pan protest, and participant-advocates who characterised the movement anti-constitutional. Developing new research into anarchist constitutional theory, we construct a typology of anarchist constitutionalising to argue that the camps prefigured a constitutional order for a post-sovereign anarchist politics. We show that the constitutional politics of three key Occupy Wall Street camps had four main aspects: (i) declarative principles, preambles and documents; (ii) complex institutionalisation; (iii) varied democratic decision-making procedures; and (iv) explicit and implicit rule-making processes, premised on unique foundational norms. Each of these four was designed primarily to challenge and constrain different forms of global and local power, but they also provide a template for anarchistic constitutional forms that can be mimicked and linked up, as opposed to scaled up.

This article has been published in a revised form in Global Constitutionalism https://doi.org/10.1017/S204538171900008X. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © Cambridge University Press. ; This paper provides the first comparative reading of the minutes of the General Assemblies of three iconic Occupy camps: Wall Street, Oakland and London. It challenges detractors who have labelled the Occupy Wall Street movement a flash-in-the-pan protest, and participantadvocates who characterised the movement anti-constitutional. Developing new research into anarchist constitutional theory, we construct a typology of anarchist constitutionalising to argue that the camps prefigured a constitutional order for a post-sovereign anarchist politics. We show that the constitutional politics of three key Occupy Wall Street camps had four main aspects: (i) declarative principles, preambles and documents; (ii) complex institutionalisation; (iii) varied democratic decision-making procedures; and (iv) explicit and implicit rule making processes, premised on unique foundational norms. Each of these four was designed primarily to challenge and constrain different forms of global and local power, but they also provide a template for anarchistic constitutional forms that can be mimicked and linked up, as opposed to scaled up.

Front Cover -- Praise for Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction - Ruth Kinna and Alex Prichard -- 2. Freedom and Democracy: Marxism, Anarchism and the Problem of Human Nature - Paul Blackledge -- 3. Anarchism, Individualism and Communism: William Morris's Critique of Anarcho-communism - Ruth Kinna -- 4. The Syndicalist Challenge in the Durham Coalfield before 1914 - Lewis H. Mates -- 5. Georges Sorel's Anarcho-Marxism - Renzo Llorente -- 6. Antonio Gramsci, Anarchism, Syndicalism and Sovversivismo - Carl Levy -- 7. Council Communist Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939 - Saku Pinta -- 8. A 'Bohemian Freelancer'? C.L.R. James, His Early Relationship to Anarchism and the Intellectual Origins of Autonomism - Christian Høgsbjerg -- 9. 'White Skin, Black Masks': Marxist and Anti-racist Roots of Contemporary US Anarchism - Andrew Cornell -- 10. The Search for a Libertarian Communism: Daniel Guérin and the 'Synthesis' of Marxism and Anarchism - David Berry -- 11. Socialisme ou Barbarie or the Partial Encounters between Critical Marxism and Libertarianism - Benoît Challand -- 12. Beyond Black and Red: The Situationists and the Legacy of the Workers' Movement - Jean-Christophe Angaut -- 13. Carnival and Class: Anarchism and Councilism in Australasia during the 1970s - Toby Boraman -- 14. Situating Hardt and Negri - David Bates -- 15. Conclusion: Towards a Libertarian Socialism for the Twenty-First Century? - Saku Pinta and David Berry -- Bibliography -- Index.

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied social phenomenon, one that finds expression not only in modern social movements and political organizations but also in grassroots initiatives, individual action, and creative works. It constitutes a distinct cultural domain, one whose symbolic content is regularly deployed by media and advertisers, among other actors. Yet within social movement scholarship, such cultural considerations have been comparatively neglected. Protest Cultures: A Companion dramatically expands the analytical perspective on protest beyond its political and sociological aspects. It combines cutting-edge synthetic essays with concise, accessible case studies on a remarkable array of protest cultures, outlining key literature and future lines of inquiry