Perspectives on Anarchist Theory

14/08/2025

The Elements of Mutual Aid is an exciting new docuseries project that received a Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant from Agency and the Institute for Anarchist Studies in 2023. With the project recently having wrapped up the production stage, we were excited to connect with co-directors, Payton and Leah, to learn more about their inspiration, process, and plans for the upcoming release in 2026.

Agency speaks with the creators of The Elements of Mutual Aid, a new documentary series. The Elements of Mutual Aid is an exciting new docuseries project that received a Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant from Agency and the Institute for Anarchist Studies in 2023. With the project recently having wrap...

09/08/2025

A new essay, “Activating the Emergency Brake: Saito’s Degrowth Communism,” from Paul of the Perspectives' collective, published in the summer print issue of New Politics, is now online. Paul presents Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito’s reading of the later Marx in the context of other expressions of ecological Marxism, seeing Saito as a Marxist in the tradition of Walter Benjamin. Saito & Paul both oppose the Promethean Marxism of the likes of Jacobin magazine & others & he outlines the implications of degrowth ideas for waging antiauthoritarian ecological class war.

Paul Messersmith-Glavin positively reviews Kohei Saito's work on degrowth communism, as a political project that will expand the realm of freedom.

07/11/2024

Though the United States touts itself as the oldest existing democracy, it oversees the world's largest carceral system and launches imperialist wars around the world. How can the concept of democracy inform or distract liberatory movements for radical change? Can we speak of democracy beyond the ballot box--or beyond the state entirely? Lexicon is a series of free pamphlets created by the IInstitute for Anarchist Studiesto convert words into politically useful tools. https://anarchiststudies.org/

07/11/2024

Though the United States touts itself as the oldest existing democracy, it oversees the world's largest carceral system and launches imperialist wars around the world. How can the concept of democracy inform or distract liberatory movements for radical change? Can we speak of democracy beyond the ballot box--or beyond the state entirely? Lexicon is a series of free pamphlets created by the Institute for Anarchist Studies to convert words into politically useful tools.

https://anarchiststudies.org/

06/08/2024

An interview with Helia Rasti & Ashanti Alston, for Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, republished by It's Going Down!

Paul Messersmith-Glavin speaks with long-time organizers Helia Rasti and Ashanti Alston. Originally published by Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. This interview is with social movement veterans who have sacrificed much, and learned a great deal, in trying to change the world. Each in their own way....

02/08/2024

An interview with former Black Panther, Black Liberation Army anarchist Ashanti Alston & Tehran born healthcare worker and organizer Helia Rasti on being involved in social movements over the longhaul. Check it out!

An Interview with Helia Rasti and Ashanti Alston This interview is with social movement veterans who have sacrificed much, and learned a great deal,

28/07/2024

Collective Care & Sustaining Social Change: Interview with Helia Rasti and Ashanti Alston

https://anarchiststudies.org/collective-care-sustaining-social-change-interview-with-helia-rasti-and-ashanti-alston/

("Emergency" by Roger Peet)

Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is a print & online journal published by the IAS.

11/07/2024

Join one of the editors and a Portland contributor to this new book as we have a lively discussion of ways forward in Portland, Oregon.

Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is a print & online journal published by the IAS.

05/07/2024

George Katsiaficas’ Eros & Revolution, a new collection of essays with the foreword written by a member of the Perspectives on Anarchist Theory collective, is available from AK Press:

Eros and Revolution

30/06/2024

Two Portland organizers who wrote for the Power & Transformations issues, with Irish antifascist organizers holding those very Perspectives issues, in Limerick, Ireland. Free Palestine!

24/06/2024

George Katsiaficas interviewed by Shane Burley. Katsiaficas's new collection of essays, "Eros & Revolution," will soon be available from AK Press. A member of the Perspectives collective wrote the book's foreword. Check out this great discussion!

We talked with Katsiaficas about his most recent essay collection, Eros and Revolution, released by Montreal’s Black Rose Books, about the passionate movement to confront power and construct a world beyond the borders and boundaries of the old.