Whilst in Sweden I was fortunate to bump into one of the most prolific scholars of anarchist studies active today. Gabriel Kuhn has not one, two but three books out this year, published by the newly established PM Press, and they couldn’t be more poles apart. One of them charts the Golden Age of Piracy’s [...]

Anarchist Bookfair in Stockholm, Summer 2010
On Saturday, June 5, 2010 the Stockholm Anarchist Bookfair will be organized at Årsta folkets hus, just south of the city center. There will be stalls by Swedish and international publishers, panel discussions, bands, movies, a crèche, and a “people’s kitchen.”
The bookfair’s aim is to advance analysis, to exchange experience, [...]

The life and death of Ivan Khutorskoy
On Monday, 16th of November, 26 year old anti-fascist Ivan “Vanya Kostolom” Khutorskoy was shot dead at the entrance to his home at Khabarovsk street in the east side of Moscow; according to some information with two shots to his head.
This wasn’t the first attack on Vanya. He was [...]

One month ago, on January 19th, Anastasia “Skat” Baburova and Stanislav “Stas” Markelov were gunned down in Moscow. Skat was a journalist writing for Novaya Gazeta, as had Anna Politkovskaya done before her until she was murdered in 2006. Skat was a dedicated Anarchist. Stas was a radical lawyer and human rights activist. On Avtonom.org [...]