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Staughton Lynd, Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising Temple U. Press, 2004

Anarchists, with their goal of abolishing the state, and Marxists, who have often sought state power to achieve their ends, have been at odds for a long time. Veteran dissident Staughton Lynd and anarchist historian Andrej Grubacic have sought a synthesis of sorts between the two radical disciplines; their collaboration has resulted in the new book Wobblies and Zapatistas.

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Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, "Tolstoy the Peculiar Christian Anarchist"

Anarchist Studies

Leo Tolstoy was much more than a novelist. He also spoke out against state authority, war, laws, patriotism, and economic exploitation. Many of Tolstoy's anarcho-pacifist views were informed by his mid-life conversion to Christianity. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos discusses Tolstoy's Christian anarchism.

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Terence Kissack, Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917 AK Press, 2008

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society

The story Terence Kissack tells in Free Comrades features charismatic radicals like Emma Goldman and a spectacular sex crime trial; it also explores the impact of World War I on US dissidents. At base, it's a true story about a group of anarchists who stood up for the rights of gay men and lesbians to live and love free from state interference.

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Shaping San Francisco

Is a new kind of class consciousness taking shape? Many people, writes Chris Carlsson, are transcending their lives as wage-workers and in the process building community, learning skills, and doing right by the environment. In Nowtopia, Carlsson describes the political potential of activities like vacant-lot gardening, "outlaw" bicycling, and biofuels tinkering.