Host Taylor interviews Peter Werbe—radio host, anarchist, and member of the editorial collective of Fifth Estate magazine—about the history of the longest running anarchist publication in print, about the parallels between the current moment and the radical social movements of the 1960’s, and more. In the second interviews of the episode, she interviews Sandy in Montreal—also part of the Fifth Estate team, a founding member of the collective that puts on the annual Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival, and part of the collective that runs Montreal’s anarchist bookstore, L’Insoumise. Discussion includes the ways that ideas of anarchists permeate non-anarchist social movements, the influence of historical anarchism on the current moment, the importance of tangible records and experiences in the forms of print, bookstores, and theater, and more.
This show is part of a series running through the end of 2020, new episodes published weekly, in which I revisit interviews taken during a radio show road trip in the summer of 2015—checking back in with those activists, organizers, and artists I met to see how their lives and work have adapted to changing times. You can find more information about that project at praxisradio.com/praxis.
Find a full transcript of the episode here.
For more information on the projects referenced:
*The Fifth Estate website—https://www.fifthestate.org/
*Fifth Estate Live—https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/fe-live/
*Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival website—http://anarchistetheatrefestival.com/en/news
*L’Insoumise website—https://insoumise.wordpress.com/
Sandy’s book list (each title is a link to purchase NOT from Amazon):
Carceral Capitalism, Jackie Wang
So Much Pretty, Cara Hoffman
We are the Birds of the Coming Storm, Lola Lafon
Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation, Silvia Federici
Suosso’s Lane, Robert Knox
No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism, Daniel Gurein
Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, Daniel Gurein
Deciding For Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy,Cindy Milstein
Against the Megamachine: Essays on Empire & Its Enemies, David Watson
Against His-Story, Against Leviathan, Fredy Perlman
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism, Fredy Perlman
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom, Fredy Perlman
Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness,Frederick Turner
A link to many titles by Thomas King
Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements, George Woodcock
Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women, Martha Ackelsberg
Cazzarola! Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy (A Novel), Norman Nawrocki
The Carnivorous Lamb, Agustin Gomez-Arcos
The White Rose, B. Traven
Find all of Marge Piercy’s books here
Find all of Ursula K. Le Guin’s books here
More books based on her topical suggestions from me:
Prison Industrial Complex for Beginners, James Braxton Peterson
Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis
Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, Shane Burley
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45, Milton Mayer
Every Man Dies Alone, Hans Fallada (fiction)