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4 unusual facts about Anarchist Studies


Anarchist Studies

The journal was established in 1993 and is edited by Ruth Kinna and published by Lawrence and Wishart.

The journal had a long-running dispute with Stewart Home after it published a negative review of his books Neoist Manifestos and The Art Strike Papers and denied Home's request to publish his rebuttal as a matter of policy.

Anarchy Alive!

Anarchy Alive! was favourably reviewed in journals including Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, New International and Anarchist Studies.

Ruth Kinna

Since 2007 she has been the editor of the journal Anarchist Studies.


Anarchist Manifesto

It was translated into English by Paul Sharkey and republished in 2002 as a 42 page political pamphlet by the Kate Sharpley Library with an introduction placing the manifesto in historical context by Anarchist Studies editor Sharif Gemie.

Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed

The magazine has been open to publishing the primitivists, which has caused leftist critics and academics like Ruth Kinna (editor of Anarchist Studies) to classify the magazine as primitivist, but McQuinn, Jarach and others have published critiques of primitivism there.

Lawrence and Wishart

Continuing to publish the journals New Formations, Anarchist Studies, Renewal, Twentieth Century Communism, and Soundings, Lawrence and Wishart are also developing their work with online books.


see also

Michael Paraskos

In 2008 Paraskos also edited a book of essays on the British anarchist art theorist Herbert Read for the anarchist publishing house the Freedom Press, and he has spoken at anarchist studies conferences in the UK.