The Anarchism and Punk Book Project

Just a final reminder about our 2nd book launch for Smash the System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance.

We will be in-person at Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh at 6pm on Thursday 29th December, and this event will also be livestreamed on the interwebs. Full details and booking here: https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/smash-the-system-punk-anarchism-as-a-culture-of-resistance

Jim (co-editor of the book series) will be in conversation with a participant in the CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective, all the way from the US and A!

 

Our friends at CrimethInc.com, AnarchistStudies.Blog and Anarchist Essays podcast have published excerpts from the Foreword and Introduction of our new book, Smash The System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance.

Check them out:

Punk – Dangerous Utopia: Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism, by participants in the CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective.

Smash All Systems! (An introduction to Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance), by Jim Donaghey, Will Boisseau and Caroline Kaltefleiter.

Smash All Systems! (podcast version), read by Jim Donaghey.

If you’re eager to get your hands on a copy of Smash The System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance, you can now do so here:

Active Distribution (eBay – shipping from Croatia)

DistroTable (shipping from Ireland)

Lighthouse Bookshop  (shipping from Scotland)

Don’t forget about our upcoming book launch events at Freedom Bookshop in London and Lighthouse Bookshop in Edinburgh. (Limited space, click the links to reserve a seat).

Our first two book launch events will be at Freedom Bookshop in London on the 21st December  and Lighthouse Bookshop in Edinburgh on 29th December (the Edinburgh event will also be livestreamed).

 

We’ll have a participant from the CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective along with us at both events, and Jay Kerr from the Punk Ethics campaign group at the London event, for some Q&A about the book project and the relationships between anarchism and punk more widely. And we’ll have a stack of books for you to get your grubby mitts on too!

Links here:

Freedom Bookshop – Limited space. Book your (free) tickets here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Freedom-Bookshop/t-yazjlvx

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Lighthouse Bookshop – Option to reserve tickets with a copy of the book included (or just reserve a free space): https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/smash-the-system-punk-anarchism-as-a-culture-of-resistance

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If you have an idea for a book launch event near you, drop us a line: jim.donaghey@ulster.ac.uk

Well now, what do we have here …?

That’s right – a book! Hot off the presses, volume one of The Anarchism and Punk Book Project has entered material existence. Smash The System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance will be available to buy very soon – and we’ll be getting in touch with all our Crowdfunder supporters to double check their postal addresses for their freebie copies.

(Though, with such a hefty tome as this, we might be cheaper just chucking it through your front windows – we’ll confirm delivery options with you).

We’ll have some book launch events happening too, in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin and New York. Stay tuned for details.

The Anarchism and Punk Book Project will be convening a panel at the 7th international Anarchist Studies Network conference, held online from the 24th to 26th August 2022.

REGISTER HERE

As you might know, the Anarchism and Punk Book Project first congealed into existence at the 6th incarnation of the ASN conference two years ago, so we’re delighted to be back, and to offer people a sneak peek at three of the chapters in our first book, Smash The System!

Our presentations will be from 13:00-14:30 (UK time) on 24th August. They are:

• Maxwell Woods, ‘The (Anti-)Neoliberalism of Chilean Punk Anarchism’
• Casey Robertson, ‘Trans-Feminist Punk in the United States: Collective Action, Activism, and a Libidinal Economy of Noise’
• Nathanel Amar, ‘“Anarchy in the PRC”: Anarchist practices and references in the Chinese punk movement’

You can view details of the full three-day conference programme at the ASN website.

Up the punx!

Here’s what you can expect from the first book in the Anarchism and Punk series, Smash The System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance:

• Foreword: Punk – dangerous utopia. Participants in the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective.
• Introduction: Smash All Systems! Jim Donaghey, Will Boisseau and Caroline Kaltefleiter.
• Chapter One. Punk in South Africa: Race, class, colonialism and capitalism. Kevin C Dunn.
• Chapter Two. Kubazuela: Remembering a Caribbean anarchist punk connection between Cuba and Venezuela (‘with rum but without Coca-Cola’). Rodolfo Montes de Oca. Translated by Luke Ray Di Marco Campbell.
• Chapter Three. Punk archive: Collectionism, memories and resistance in Brazil (1979-2000). Antônio Carlos de Oliveira.
• Chapter Four. The meanings of anarchism in Brazilian punk: A socio-historical approach. João Batista de M Bittencourt and Tiago de Jesus Vieira.
• Chapter Five. Anarchist punk and post-left anarchism in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (1983-1993). Mariana Gabriela Calandra.
• Chapter Six. The (anti-)neoliberalism of Chilean punk anarchism. Max Woods.
• Chapter Seven. ‘I’m here, and don’t forget it’: Punk, anarchism, repression, and resistance in the Basque Country and Chile. Asel Luzarraga in interview with Jim Donaghey.
• Chapter Eight. State liberation or state abolition? Czech punk between anti-Communism and anarchism. Ondřej Daniel.
• Chapter Nine. WAR DANCE (fuck war, let’s dance): Anarchism, punk, and DIY music in Croatia since the 1990s. Marko Vojnić in interview with Len Tilbürger.
• Chapter Ten. ΜΓΔ: The figure of the cop in the anarchic lyrics of Greek punk. Christos Marneros.
• Chapter Eleven. ‘We spread the black flag around us’: The punk scene and the anarchist movement in Athens (late 1970s-2010). Yannis N Kolovos.
• Chapter Twelve. The anarchist ethics of punk: The Punk Ethics collective in the UK. Jay Kerr.
• Chapter Thirteen. Trans-feminist punk in the United States: Collective action, activism, and a libidinal economy of noise. Casey Robertson.
• Chapter Fourteen. Anarchism and democracy in Indonesia: An underground perspective. M Rizky Sasono.
• Chapter Fifteen. AS A PUNK DANGLING FROM THE VERTICAL SOCIETY: Punk in northern Japan as a ‘culture of transgression’. James D Letson.
• Chapter Sixteen. ‘Anarchy in the PRC’: Anarchist practices and references in the Chinese punk movement. Nathanel Amar.

A somewhat belated update to mark the new year!

The Anarchism and Punk Book Project is progressing well, though, inevitably, we’re a month or two behind our planned schedule (typical anarchists, tut!). The first book in the series, ‘Smash the System!’ Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance, is about to go into the typesetting phase, and the review/revision process is ongoing for the other three volumes, so we’ll have more to share with you in the coming weeks and months.

Stay tuned punx.

Time for an update!

Our Crowdfunder goal was surpassed in May, raising almost £3500. We’ve already used some of the money to pay for translations of book chapters from other languages into English. Your support has made that internationalist collaboration possible – thanks!

We received more than 50 chapters more-or-less on time, and we’re expecting the final contributions very soon. The review and revision process is well underway, and we’re on course to publish the first volume in the series later this year. That first book will be titled ‘Smash the System!’ Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance, published by Active Distribution. You can see the preliminary artwork, contributed by Guy Denning with layout by James VOW, in the image here. We’ll share more news on that as things take shape.

BONUS: We recorded a radio/podcast show back in June, discussing The Anarchism and Punk Book Project and playing 28 of our favourite tunes, which you can stream or download at this private link: https://soundcloud.com/user-602447893/the-anarchism-and-punk-book-project-crowdfunder-podcast/s-kKjqgbGaVxD

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-anarchism-and-punk-book-project