Dora Marsden and the Women of Dumfries


1946-Today, Dora Marsden, Events

Dora Marsden spent the last decades of her life in Dumfries hospital. From March 2023 to January 2024, Dumfries Museum features an exhibit titled “The Women of Dumfries” that includes information and images about Dora Marsden. This information, and much more, is found in Dora Marsden: A Brave and Beautiful Spirit (1882 – 1960) by […]

August 10, 2023

Parents: What Are They Good For? | Benjamin DeCasseres, Chip Smith | SA1252


1845-1945, 1946-Today, Benjamin DeCasseres, Book, Stand Alone

Benjamin DeCasseres’ essay “Parents: What Are They Good For?” originally appeared exclusively in the premiere issue (dated January 1, 1916) of Revolt, a short-lived literary anarchist periodical that was published and edited by Hippolyte Havel in New York City before being suppressed by the U.S. government. Despite the appearance of novelty, the idea to feature […]

August 5, 2023

Sirfessor Seklew Texts from a Soap Box


1845-1945, Malfew Seklew

Soap box oratory was no figure of speech to Fred M. Wilkes. When he died at the age of 77 in New York his career as an informal outdoor speaker stretched back 55 years. Other haranguers of street crowds dubbed him “king of the soap-boxers.” It all began in Hyde Park, London. Son of a […]

July 31, 2023

SA1250 | The Radical Book Shop of Chicago | Kevin I. Slaughter & Lillian H. Udell


1845-1945, 1946-Today, Book, Historical Work, Kevin I. Slaughter, Malfew Seklew, Ragnar Redbeard, Stand Alone

Title: The Radical Book Shop of Chicago Subtitle: In Which a Disaffected Preacher, His Blind Anarchist Wife, and Their Precocious Daughters Create an Important Hub of Literary, Bohemian, and Revolutionary Culture in Progressive-Era Chicago Author: Kevin I. Slaughter, with texts by Lillian H. Udell Paperback | 5.5 x 8.5”, 128 pages | Price: $16.95 | ISBN: 978-1-943687-28-2 […]

April 30, 2023

Review: Speakers’ Corner Anthology


1946-Today, Book, Malfew Seklew

Peace News once organised an activist training in which the participants had to stand on a stepladder in Tavistock Square and deliver a speech to the passers-by. It is a skill that people with a political opinion should have. But these days, few do. Many quail at the simple political tool of door-knocking. The Speakers’ […]

March 1, 2023

Max Stirner and the Grisette


1845-1945, Historical Work, Max Stirner

Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940) was an anarchist of the collective variety, but she knew her individualist anarchists too. In Victims of Morality and The Failure of Christianity (1913) Goldman gets personal about Max Stirner and his darling in Goldman’s denunciation of morality… Meanwhile the respectable young man, excited through the daily association and contact […]

December 28, 2022