The First London Anarchist Studies Network London Social - Be There or Be Somehere Else!
Tuesday 2nd March, 7pm - Freedom Bookshop, Whitechapel.
This is an opportunity for Anarchist students, researchers and Anarchist academics living, working or visiting in the capital to meet, talk and socialise. Freedom have even agreed to raise the ceiling to ensure all those pointy heads fit in the building!
Bring a bottle and get yourself down there.
Freedom is at Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street - nearest tube Aldgate East. For those arriving late, we will at some stage decamp to the nearby White Hart public house for further refreshments.
ASN wins £1400 for 2009 activities
The ASN was today (14/04/09) awarded £1400 by the PSA to fund our activities in 2009. In a seperate bid, the PSA also awarded the group £2000 for its forthcoming joint conference with the Marxism specialist group (see below).
Is Black and Red Dead?
An historic conference co-organised by the ASN and the PSA Marxism Specialist Group. A full call for papers, registration forms, payment details and posters can be found here.
New Call for Papers: Anarchism, Labor Unions, and Working People
Click on Call for Papers above
Call for Papers: Anarchism and Sexuality in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries
Leeds, 19 February 2010.
ANARCHISTS ORGANISE PISS-UP IN BREWERY (01/08/08)
To celebrate the second birthday of the establishment of ASN in November 2007, members organised a tour of Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery. Hangovers contributed to it taking this long to post up the announcement.
Proudhon was not only the first, but to date stands as the only anarchist to have offered a comprehensive theory of international politics:
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, La Guerre et la Paix, Recherches sur la Principe et la Constitution du Droit Des Gens. (II vols.) Nouvelle ed (Antony: Editions Tops, 1998).
This work was followed by his statement on federalism which he saw as the only way of reconciling liberty with authority, and by so doing provide a foundation for world peace. See:
P. J. Proudhon, The Principle of Federation Translated by Richard Vernon, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979).
There are very few commentaries on Proudhon's theory of international politics, and only one in English
Madeleine Amoudruz, Proudhon et l'Europe. Les Ideés de Proudhon en Politique Étrangère (Paris: Éditions Domat Montchrestien, 1945).
Aaron Noland, 'Proudhon's Sociology of War'. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 29, no. 3 (1970): 289-304.
Jules L. Puech, 'Proudhon et la Guerre', in Proudhon et Notre Temps, ed. Célestin Bouglé (Paris: Editions & Librairie, 1920), 203-38.
see also:
D. J. Watson, 'Power, Providence and Antagonism in Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's 'La Guerre Et La Paix. Unpublished MSc Dissertation, Bristol University, 1983.
but there's quite a bit on Proudhon's potential to contribute to contemporary debates in European integration and federalism. See for example:
Ioan Bowen Rees, 'Ffedraliaeth Proudhon Ac Ewrop Heddiw', in Cymuned a Chenedl: Ysgrifau Ar Ymreolaeth, ed. Ioan Bowen Rees (Llandysul: Gomer, 1993), 145-83.
Dimitrios Karmis, 'Pourqoi Lire Proudhon Aujourd'hui? Le Fédéralisme Et Le Défi De La Solidarité Dans Les Sociétés Divisées'. Politique et Sociétés 21, no. 1 (2002): 43-65.
Yves Simon, 'A Note on Proudhon's Federalism', in Federalism as Grand Design: Political Philosophers and the Federal Principle, ed. Daniel J. Elazar (Lanham: University Press of America, 1987), 223-34.
Richard Falk, 'Anarchism and World Order', in Nomos Xix: Anarchism, eds. J. Roland Pennock and John Chapman (New York: New York University Press, 1979).
Alex Prichard, 'Justice, order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 35/3,(2007): 623-645
Thomas G. Weiss, 'The Tradition of Philosophical Anarchism and Future Directions in World Policy'. Journal of Peace Research 12 (1975): 1-17.
Scott Turner, 'Global Civil Society, Anarchy and Governance: Assessing an Emerging Paradigm'. Journal of Peace Research 35, no. 1 (1998): 25-42.
Noam Chomsky is the obvious first port of call for anyone wanting an anarchist critique of US foreign policy. His writings are extensive. Dana Ward has an excellent bibliography in his Anarchy Archives