Punk Anarchy in Action!
ISBN: 978 1 914567 84 1
Edited by Jim Donaghey, Will Boisseau and Caroline Kaltefleiter
Published by Active Distribution (Karlovac, Croatia), March 2026.
522 pages.
Punk Anarchy in Action! provides activist and scholarly accounts of how anarchism and punk overlap in practice. From various corners of Europe, Southeast Asia and the Americas, this collection of chapters tackles themes including: anti-fascism; violence; religion and anti-religion; Total Liberation and intersectionality; squatting; queer feminism; veganism and animal liberation; and ageing in radical scenes. Things are rarely straightforward in everyday lived experience, even less so in diverse punk countercultures informed by non-doctrinaire anarchist philosophies. These thoughtful and critical analyses draw from first-hand experience to explore the complex issues that arise when we encounter PUNK ANARCHY IN ACTION!
Table of contents
- Introduction – Punk anarchy in action! – Will Boisseau, Jim Donaghey and Caroline K Kaltefleiter
- Chapter One – Fuck Nazi sympathy: punk, anarchism, and antifascism – Stanislav Vysotsky
- Chapter Two – Punk, anarchy and near-violent communication: notes on conflict mediation in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo – Guilherme Falleiros and Fhoutine Marie
- Chapter Three – Our violence is a reaction: hardline, anarcho-primitivism, and the limitations of radical hardcore punk – Benjamin Hedge Olson
- Chapter Four – Deconstructing straight edge Total Liberation ethics through lyrics and music – Chrisa Christoforidou
- Chapter Five – One punk’s journey through anarchism, punk and Buddhism in Myanmar – Kyaw Kyaw The Rebel Riot (with a post-script by Emily Jane O’Dell)
- Chapter Six – Doing it for ourselves: punk political praxis in the Hackney squatting scene (1988-1990) – Rebecca Binna
- Chapter Seven – No illusions: anarchist opportunities and limits in Detroit punk – Ben Arthur Thomason
- Chapter Eight – Punk and anarchism in the Netherlands, 1977-1982 – Herman de Tollenaere in interview with Chris P Kale
- Chapter Nine – The punk scene in post-dictatorship Buenos Aires: anarchism and the emergence of radical intersectionality in Argentina – Hasan Karaklinic
- Chapter Ten – Change the system when the crisis becomes total: Crise Total’s vision of anarchism in contemporary Portuguese punk – Paula Guerra
- Chapter Eleven – Priestess of punk: Exene Cervenka, anarcha-feminism, anti-war actions, and the Riot Grrrl connection – Caroline K Kaltefleiter
- Chapter Twelve – The German Ladyfest network: an anarchafeminist revolution in local DIY scenes? – Louise Barrière
- Chapter Thirteen – Has sexism persisted in the anarcho/d-beat/crust (ADC) community since 2007? – Donna Manion
- Chapter Fourteen – Punkriarchy? Anarcha-feminism and understanding older women’s experiences of punk – Laura Way
- Chapter Fifteen – Old anarchists and punks: aging in youthful subcultures and countercultures – Dana M Williams
- Chapter Sixteen – Anarcho-punk is just the start: politicisation and animal rights in UK punk rock, 1988-present – Paul Benton in interview with Len Tilbürger
- Chapter Seventeen – No cages, no fences: the voice of animal liberation in Brazilian anarchist punk – Márcio A Buchholz and Carlos Alberto Oliveira (translated by Coletiva Lingua)
- Chapter Eighteen – Veganism, animal liberation and punk counter-culture: an interview with Chris Hines, Will Boisseau and Jim Donaghey