Celebrating the ideas of Peter Kropotkin
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Following on from the successful 2021 conference “Kropotkin Now: Life, Freedom & Ethics” (which can be rewatched here) there is a planned publication which sees many of the talks being translated into essays.
The Book is edited by Christopher Coquard and being published by Black Rose Books. To Preorder click here.
The latest issue of Black Flag Anarchist Review is dedicated to Kropotkin to mark 180 years since his birth. It can be read and downloaded here.
It features rare and newly translated articles and essays by Kropotkin, alongside original essays and an attempt at a complete original bibliography.
Afkar is the publisher of the book which has been translated by Reza Eskandari.
It has been translated from the AK Press edition: https://www.akpress.org/conquestofbreadworkingclassicsedition.html
By Brian Morris
Peter Kropotkin died 100 years ago. But his ecological and social innovations and teachings still resonate today.
Continue reading “Kropotkin’s Ecology”
24 October, 4-10pm, The Latest Music Bar, Manchester Street
The Kropotkin celebration is an all day event, & includes a film that takes us on a tour of Brighton’s radical past, with Bandana companero Jon Mason as our guide.
Highly acclaimed UK singer-songwriter Robb Johnson headlines this day of celebration of ‘The Anarchist Prince’, his historical connections to Brighton and the enduring relevance of his thought, playing a range of his folk protest classics. In 2018 Robb released Ordinary Giants, a critically acclaimed 3 CD song suite based on his father’s life & times. Robb was also commissioned to perform the songs for Hartlepool’s 2019 Festival concert Your Affectionate Son.
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Continue reading “Peter Kropotkin & Brighton’s Radical Heritage: A Centennial Celebration”For more information visit the conference website
Italian-language conference at the Massenzatico People’s Kitchen Studies Center
Continue reading “Kropotkin 2021 (Italian Language Conference)”
ISBN: 978-1-904491-37-8
Paperback: 356pp
Freedom Press, 2021
A new edition of Memoirs of a Revolutionist has been published by Freedom Press. To buy the book click here.
Continue reading “Memoirs of a Revolutionist (New Edition)”
Opening Remarks
Michael Grooff: The Engine of Mutual Aid: Kropotkin’s Bipartite Account of Sympathy
Zoe Baker: Kropotkin’s Definition of Anarchism
Continue reading “Rewatch the 100 Years With and Without Kropotkin Conference”
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuWpgN7R_WI
Prof. Valeria de Marcos USP Department of Geography
Prof. Fábio Betioli Contel AGB São Paulo,
Prof. Adriano Gonçalves Skoda, Biblioteca Terra Livre
Prof. Heike Jöns, History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG/RGS-IBG)
Prof. Federico Ferretti, IGU Commission History of Geography
Continue reading “Relive the International Colloquium ‘Peter Kropotkin: Activism and Scholarship’ organized by University of São Paulo”100 years with Kropotkin: time and again, his concepts – social economy, communist reorganization, mutual aid – prove their worth for analysis and transformative action alike. Amidst the current ecological and economic crisis, Piotr Kropotkin’s immense body of work allows us to think across geography and the sciences, culture and politics, economy and ecology. However, as the neoliberal state mobilizes its full authoritarian potential to protect capitalist accumulation in a warming world, his anarchist horizon can appear distant. As we face compounding crises on an unprecedented scale, we are without Kropotkin. This means that Kropotkin cannot serve as an infallible guide to revolutionary thought and action. Instead of merely celebrating his legacy or using his work as a blueprint, this conference aims to suggest ways of adapting his varied thought to other times and places, refracting it through different approaches, and asking what it has to tell us about the crises of today.
Continue reading “100 Years With and Without Kropotkin Conference”