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Spring 1997

Interview with Martha Ackelsberg: AnarchistScholarship and Feminist Critique

Martha Ackelsberg's book, Free Women of Spain:Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipationof Women, tells the story of Mujeres Libres.Formed during the Spanish Revolution, MujeresLibres was an anarchist, feminist group dedicatedto the liberation of women from "their tripleenslavement to ignorance, as women, and asproducers." Free Women explores the strugglesfaced by Mujeres Libres as anarchist women andoffers insights for contemporary feminism onissues such as community, diversity,empowerment, and autonomy. It makes importantcontributions to both anarchism and feminism.I met with Ackelsberg on January 6, 1997, totalk with her about the difficulties of researchinganarchist history, her work as a radical socialtheorist, and feminist perspectives on anarchism.~ Rebecca DeWittTJT/'as it especially difficult to acquire archivalYY or historical material on the Spanishanarchists as a result of their intense politicalrepression?

It was difficult to meet these women, or findout about them, because my initial informants weremen and they really didn't take gender issuesseriously. I don't think they were being deliberatelyobstructionist, but they just didn't think it mattered they couldn't get their minds around it.

As for the archives, was a different situation.The archives were created by Franco's armies andsecret police. They took all the documents fromplaces they captured and used them after the war toprosecute people for treason. There was incredible

documentation there. When I first went to Spain ithe mid-seventies, the archives were still run by themilitary, so they were not in any order that woulhave made sense to a historian. They werecataloged by where the materials had been foundthus there was no way of saying, "Okay, we want tofind out something on collectivization whicfolder do we look at?" No, you had to go througall of it to see what was there. It was a ridiculouresearch process.

Later, in the early 80's, I also confronted thispost-Franco fear. Lots of people were still verafraid to talk. Franco was only just dead and thepolitical situation in Spain, from their point oview, hadn't changed that much. From the outsidethere looked like there had been this incredibletransition to democracy, but they looked at it andsaw all the same people in power, supposedldemocratically elected.rT1he Mujeres Libres were essentially an anarchistJL feminist group. Were the methods you used toresearch, analyze, and explore the Mujeres Libresstructured by similar anti-authoritarian convictions?I was using the techniques of social and orahistory. The whole field of social history that hasdeveloped in the last 30 years has been aboustudying what used to be called marginalized osubordinated groups, e.g. workers, and saying thaone can't look only at official documents, but hasto spread a much wider net.

People like E.P. Thompson and Hobsbawmreally created this field in the 60's, andcontinued on page 4IAS Grant Awards

The IAS awards a total of S6000 annually ingrants to writers whose work is important to theanarchist critique of domination, who exhibit aclear financial need, and whose piece is likely toreceive wide distribution. On January 11, 1997,the IAS Board of Directors awarded the first IASgrants to the following individuals:$1000 to Murray Bookchin for the completion ofhis book, The Spanish Anarchists. This new bookwill complement the first volume, which

chronicled the Spanish anarchist movement from1868 to 1936, by exploring the period from dieoutbreak of social revolution in 1936 to Franco'svictor}' in 1939. It will conclude with a discussionof lessons to be drawn from the entire Spanishexperience.$1000 to Alan Antliff for his book, The Cultureof Revolt: Art and Anarchy in America. Thisbook will clarify the pivotal role played by

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Perspectives - OnAnarchist TheorySpring 1997, Vol. 1, No. 1Newsletter of the Institutefor Anarchist Studies

Editorial Committee:Rebecca DeWitt, ChuckMorseGrammatical Specialists:Brian Wells Hay, JohnSchumacher

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Some Comments on the IASWelcome to the first issue of Perspectives onnarchist Theory, the biannual newsletter ofthe Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS).As a new and unusual organization, the IASdeserves some explanation. I will use this article tooutline some of our goals and activities.The IAS was founded in the spring of 1996 to fightfor radical, anti-authoritarian scholarship. We arealarmed by the current scarcity of serious,politically committed scholarship on socialcontradictions and the possibilities of socialtransformation. We believe it is necessary andpossible to revitalize this type of theoretical work,and that this requires the construction of politicallyengaged organizations dedicated to this purpose.Thus the IAS was formed to support criticalscholarship on social domination and radical idealsof freedom - the two constitutive concerns ofanarchist theory. The IAS supports this work in avariety of ways, although we are focused onproviding financial assistance to writers. Ourassistance takes the form of grants, and we awardan annual total of $6000.We initiated the IAS grant program to ease theeconomic burdens imposed upon authors whoquestion social hierarchies. While material rewardsare generously allocated to writers who justifysocial domination or shrink from socialcontradictions, those who struggle to articulateradical ideals are often forced to abandon or dilutetheir work in order to survive. This, of course, isneither accidental nor a permanent condition ofadvanced intellectual work, but one way amongothers that social criticism is suppressed.Our grants will challenge this. They will giveauthors some relief from the brutalities ofeconomic necessity and thus help them write piecesthat confront the existing order. IAS grants willenable writers to do things such as take time off ofwork, hire childcare, or purchase a plane ticket toan archive, thus affording them time and/orresearch materials that would otherwise beunavailable.This will help writers produce rigorous works thatsustain and deepen radical social criticism. Forexample, this January the IAS awarded grants toMurray Bookchin and Alan Antliff, whoseinquiries into anarchist history will help us hold onto the anarchist tradition and engage it more

critically. The IAS also awarded grants to PauFleckenstein and Kwaku Kushindana, both owhom will subject contemporary affairs to an antauthoritarian analysis.However, IAS sponsored scholarship will do morthan transform ideals. It will help us build movement for a free society by generating criticaand Utopian insights into the mechanisms of sociadomination, tactics of resistance, and visions osocial freedom. It will help us not only expand ouunderstanding of human potentialities but alssharpen and clarify strategies for the realization othese potentialities.In the future we hope only to intensify and expanthe IAS's activities. In particular, we hope to offelarger grants and initiate new projects, and we arbuilding an endowment to ensure that this cahappen and that the IAS can exist for generationsFor the short-term, however, we will add foupages to the next issue of Perspectives, post a wepage on the Internet, and we are discussing holdina conference this fall.The future of the IAS cannot be considered withoufirst recognizing that its existence is the result of tremendous collective effort made by those whhelped build the organization since it was foundelast spring. Those who donated to the IAS enabledit not only to give out its first set of grants but alsoto emerge into a functioning organization. Therare many others who may not have contributefinancially but generously gave of their time another resources. Brian Wells Hay deserves speciarecognition in this regard for helping create thIAS's elementary legal and tax structure (and foactually comprehending the state's arcane laws anregulations).The IAS is only a small part of the movement wmust build, but it is an essential part that will heldeepen both the critique of the existing order anthe vision of a free society. Like all radicaprojects, its success pivots on one overridinfactor: the willingness of large groups of people tfight for radical ideals, radical institutions, andultimately, for social freedom. ~ Chuck Mors


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PerspectivesL on anarchist theoryPreserving Our Past: The Anarchist Collectionsby Jerry Kaplan

In different parts of the world a small number ofndividuals, groups, and both public and privateinstitutions are actively collecting and cataloginganarchist related materials. There are also otherswho have taken on the less exciting but equallyessential task of maintaining older, establishedcollections. And, while the motivation foracquiring these materials may vary somewhat foreach, there is one thing they all have in common: arecognition of the importance of preserving theideas and practice of anarchism, as recorded by itsadherents, its sympathizers, and even - thoughopinions may differ on this point - its critics, so thatthese historical records may be of use to interestedresearchers and inquirers.Anarchists have good reason to want their historypreserved: so that we can learn what individualanarchists really thought and said without having torely on another's interpretation; be inspired by theiraccomplishments: and gain insight into their lives

and desires. These collections allow us, as well asothers, to learn from anarchism's rich history.The existing collections of anarchist-relatedmaterials can be grouped in a variety of ways.What often determines, or at least influences, thesize, focus, accessibility, and funding of aparticular collection is whether it is independentlyor institutionally held. As someone responsible foran independently held collection, I find thedifferences between the two quite significant.The independent collections are usually the workof one or more anarchists motivated by a personalinterest in the anarchist milieu to collect materialsand establish and maintain small archivalcollections. In the US, the Anarchist ArchivesProject (AAP) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is anexample of this kind of collection. I began workingon the project in 1982, and over the last 11 years

continued on page 6Recommended Reading

We asked two authors to tell usabout their favorite books on avital topic: the role ofintellectuals in radical socialmovements.Janet Biehl , author ofRethinking Ecofeminist Politics(South End. 1991). writes that"in the impoverished politicalculture of the United Statestoday, public intellectuals of anyleftist persuasion, let alone left-libertarian, are few in number."Intellectuals who write withvigor and clarity may be asscarce as low rents in New Yorkor San Francisco', lamentsRussell Jacoby in The LastIntellectuals: American Culturein the Age of Academe (Farrar,Straus & Giroux. 1987). Jacobygoes on to analyze the socialcauses of their decline, tracingthe sh i f t f rom pub l i cengagement to academicprofessionalization. particularlyin the present generation. In anearlier time, 'raised in city

streets and cafes before the ageof massive universities, 'last'generation intellectuals wrotefor the educated reader. Theyhave been supplanted by high-tech intellectuals, consultantsand professors anonymoussouls, who may be competent,and more than competent, butwho do not enrich public life.Younger intellectuals, whoselives have unfolded almostentirely on campuses, directthemselves to professionalcolleagues but are inaccessibleand unknown to others'. Thislucid book is indispensable forany discussion of lef tintellectual life today."Elaine Leeder, author of TheGentle General: Rose Pesotta,Anarchist and Labor Organizer(SUNY, 1993), writes that "myfavorite is G.D.H. Cole'sMarxism and Anarchism: 1850-1890 (McMillian. 1957). Thebook is old but it clearlydelineates the battle between

Marx and Bakunin. andexplains the issues through realpeople's lives and relationships.It explains how socialistthinking evolved during thatera, what happened in the ParisCommune and the FirstInternational, Bakunin's evolution, and American communism. It looks at anarchismand Kropotkin, and helps meunderstand the theoreticalorigins of our ideology. I alsolook to Cornell West and bellhooks for political analysis. Ithink they are two of theforemost race relations/feministtheorists, and I have much tolearn from them. West's RaceMatters (Beacon, 1993) andhook's Black Looks (South End.1992) and Outlaw Culture(Routledge. 1994) have givenme insight into contemporaryblack critical thinking, andanarchists need to apply someof their analysis of race andgender to our own currenttheoretical development.

What's Happening:Books & EventsBound Together Books whold the Second Annual BaArea Anarchist Book Fair oMarch 29. 1997. Last yearwas a great success, and thyear's will probably be evebetter. For more informationwrite Bound Together at 136Haight Street, SF, CA 94117or call (415) 431-8355.The Institute for SociaEcology is about to purchase10 acre property as a permanesite for its radical educationprograms in ecology anpolitics. The ISE, now in itwenty third year, is activefundraising to make thpossible and they need yousupport. Please contact the ISat the P.O. Box 89, PlainfieldVT 05667, or call (802) 4548493.Several books will be releasethis spring that will complement the already extensivliterature on anarchist historSam Mbah and I.G. IgariweyAfrican Anarchism: ThHistory of A Movemenexplores the relation betweeanarchism and traditionAfrican societies, the influencof anarchism on Africanational liberation struggleand the possible influence anarchism on Africa's future.will be available in April fromSee Sharp Press (PO Box 1731Tucson, AZ 85702). Anotheimportant book is AugustiGuillamon's The Friends Durruti Group: 1937-1939which draws on interviews witmembers of the group anarchival material to tell thstory of these remarkablmilitants. It will be available iApril from AK Press (PO Bo

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MarthaAckelsbergMartha Ackelsberg grew up onprogressive politics. Bom in 1946in New York City to SocialistZionist parents, politics was alwaysa part ofthe daily conversation. Shereceived her BA in Social Studiesfix>m Radcliffe College, where shestudied social history, philosophy,social movements, and the labormovement. Her serious interest inanarchism emerged while exploringthe failure of 191'' century Liberalagrarian policy to improveconditions for the majority ofSpanish people. It was here that shediscovered the anarchists, and wroteher thesis on anarchism andagrarian politics in Spain.While attending Princeton University, where she received her MAand PhD in political philosophy, shewas inspired by Godwin's politicaltheory and explored anarchisttheories of justice in Godwin,Bakunin. and Kropotkin. Combining anarchist political theory and herprevious work on the SpanishAnarchists, her dissertation focusedon anarchist theory and practice,with a case study of anarchistcollectives during the Spanish CivilWar.In 1972. Ackelsberg joined theDepartment of Government (political science) at Smith College. Shehas worked there since, and hastaught political theory, urbanpolitics, political activism, andfeminist theory. Her book FreeWomen of Spain developed out ofthe desire to examine male/femalerelations in the Spanish anarchistcollectives. Her other writings focuson women's community activism inthe US and the world, gender andpublic policy, feminist anddemocratic theory, and women inJewish communities. Ackelsberglives in Nordiampton, MA, whereactively involved in progressive and feminist causes.

Interview with Martha Ackelsberg:continued from page 1Hobsbawm's Primitive Rebels became one of mykey resources when I began the project. Hobsbawmwas totally anti-anarchist and I took issue with himon that, but he was looking at these people. Nobodyhad ever really looked at subordinated peoplebefore, and the kinds of sources that socialhistorians are using now as a matter or course diaries, journals, etc. weren't consideredlegitimate. Whole new ways of thinking aboutdoing history have developed, and I think FreeWomen is part of that.

7ou hoped to strengthen theontemporary feminist movement by using Mujeres Libres asa historical example. Was it alsoyour intention to strengthen or help develop a contemporaryanarchist movement?I certainly don't have anyobjection to doing that. I see a lotof connections between feminism certainly as it began again inthe 70's and some strands of itthat have continued andanarchism. I guess in my rationalvoice, I don't think thatanarchism is the future in the US;it's not like there's a majormovement. On the other hand, Ithink there are insights aboutauthority, organization, and waysof doing things that need to bereclaimed, remembered, and gotten back into thelarger understanding of politics and society.I was also trying to clarify that there is a wholehistory of anarchism as a transformative socialmovement that's tremendously important andvaluable. I think it's part of the general repressionof the Left that we know so little about theanarchist movement in this country. Paul Avrichhas certainly done a lot to reclaim that history butthere's an enormous amount out there. Anarchistshave made tremendous contributions to all kinds ofsocial movements the labor movement mostdramatically that nobody thinks of as anarchist.

rhe Mujeres Libres published a journal andrganized extensive speaking tours. What docontemporary anarchists have to learn from theMujeres Libres' engagement with ideas andtheoretical work?The strength of the Mujeres Libres wasmeeting people where they were at. They werefundamentally a working class movement, and

that's a major difference, as I understand it, frommost anarchists in the contemporary US. There's asmall working class presence, but it's mostlcoming out of intellectual circles and collegcampuses.Which isn't to say that the Mujeres Libredidn't have theorists, they did, but they werconstantly trying to figure out what issues peoplwere dealing with on a day-to-day basis and how tuse anarchist theories.

Literacy was a big part of their work. Youmight say, "What does literacy have to do withanarchism?" Well, literacy was connected with asense of self-respect: thaun less peop le toothemselves seriously and fethey deserved some kind orespect, they were nevegoing to be able to make ankind of impact on the worldSo, they spent a large portioof whatever resources thehad teaching people how toread.

They were neither propagandizing nor out to teachpeople anarchist theory. Thewere out to mobilize peopleto better their lives, theworking conditions, and theiworld, and they were doingthat along anarchist lines. think they assumed andhoped that over time peoplewould learn from and through this what it means tobe in a participatory, relatively non-hierarchica

organization as opposed to an organization whereeverything comes from the top down. It was reallleaning through practice rather than theory, anthen applying it. I think that's one place where thcontemporary Left could learn a lot.

/n the last 30 years or so, many have recognizehe necessity of reevaluating the basipresuppositions of many fields psychologyphilosophy, linguistics, etc. as a result of thinsights generated by feminism. Do you think thaanarchism demands a similar transformation?Yes and no. Just last year I wrote a piece onfeminist transformations of anarchism. What seemclearest to me has to do with understandings opower, and it's partly coming out of feminism andpartly out of postmodernism. We need new ways othinking about power. People like KropotkinBakunin, and Goldman were really saying that weneed to abolish power, and feminists have been


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completely, and even Bakunin and Kropotkin, in

of it completely. I think now, with theinsights of feminism and a more complex view of

he anarchist movement in their time. HowJust this rethinking of power. While

y most anarchist theory seemed to be in

certain assumptionsnot deadFeminism is still a side issue, not as serious as

As a scholar of anarchism and a feminist inwork?Yes and no. There certainly were people who

rid of me precisely for political reasons,outnumbered. There wereenthusiastic about my work.I think for many academics on the Left the

ble to your academic colleagues. For me,communicated the spirit of these women

sful meeting the first goal than the second,suppose that's fine. Most of my colleagues

T Tow do you see your work developing in theJL future?I've been looking at issues of gender andcitizenship, and thinking about ways that peopleactually engage with one another in politics,broadly defined, as opposed to the ways thatpolitics is normally represented. I see that as anextension of my work on Mujeres Libres. I wasactually just talking with some friends about howwe've lost the Utopian, anti-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian vision we held in the 60's and 70's,and that it's important to re-articulate that again.So, I might take that on next, but I'm trying todecide at the moment.What do we mean by politics? What could itmean to be a citizen at a time when everything isbecoming centralized and people are feeling muchmore alienated? These are question I'm concernedwith. I'd like to take some of these insights aboutgrass roots organizations and work with others tohelp revitalize a Utopian vision. That's the politicalplace I am coming from; how that gets worked outin an academic framework, I haven't totally figuredout.7~*\o you consider yourself an anarchist or do

J-Jyou adopt any specific political identification?I definitely see myself on the Left. Actually,when I was conducting interviews for my book, Iwould ask people, "How did you become ananarchist?" and they would say "I don't claim to bean anarchist. I'm not good enough." I alwaysthought it was kind of cute when they said that, butI feel a little like that answering this question. Isuppose there's a part of me that says if I were totake any label, I would take that. On the other hand,I don't always act like an anarchist; for example, Ivote, I take elections seriously, etcetera. I can comeup with this entire analysis of why it doesn't makeany difference whom one votes for in a presidentialelection, and a big part of me believes that.However, I am still not willing to give up on itcompletely, given that this is the world in which welive.The fact is, it's very difficult to figure out howto live in this world, which is incredibly complex,incredibly alienating, in which there are extraordinary means of control and repression, andinequality is growing in leaps and bounds. At thesame time people laugh at me sometimes forbeing too much of an optimist and I suppose that'sthe anarchist piece of me there is incrediblepotential for mobilization and change. I supposethat's what keeps me going.

Ackelsberg:Selected Works

Free Women of SpainAnarchism and the Struggle fothe Emancipation of WomenBloomingtion: Indiana UniversitPress, 1991."Gender and Political Life: NewDirections in Political Science,with Irene Diamond. In AnalyzinGender: A Handbook of SociaScience Research, edited by BethB. Hess and Myra Marx FerreBeverly Hills: Sage Publications1987."Anarchism and Feminism," withKathryn Pyne Addelson andShawn Pyne. In ImpureThoughts: Essays on Philosophy!Feminism and Ethics, edited byKathryn Pyne Addelson. Philadelphia: Temple UniversityPress, 1991."Terrains of Protest: Striking GiryWomen," with Myma BrietbarOur Generation, Vol. 19, No. 1(1987): 151-175.

"Communities, Resistance, andWomen's Activism." In Womeand the Politics of EmpowermentPerspectives from the Communitand the Workplace, edited by AnnBookman and Sandra MorgenPhiladelphia: Temple UniversitPress, 1988."Pride, Prejudice, and PoliticsJewish Jews on the AmericaUK Response, M,mz

Among her influences, Ackelsbergcites E.P. Thompson, EJ. Hobsbawm, Carole Pateman, and thewomen of the Mujeres Libres.


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... Collections Coninuedhave collected some 8,000 items. To the best of myknowledge, the AAP is the only independentarchival collection in the US currently acquiringanarchist-related materials from around the worldand being coordinated by an anarchist. It isprobably the largest cataloged collection in the USin non-institutional hands. The Kate SharpleyLibrary (KSL) in London is also an example of thistype of independently held collection, although itreflects the work of a small number of anarchistsrather than one individual. The Alternative (or A)Gallery in Greece is yet another independently heldcollection.The institutional collections are often connected toa university, as is the Labadie Collection at theUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, or the state,as in the case of the impressive collection at theInternational Institute for Social History in theNetherlands. There are also a number of smaller,but nevertheless important, collections, such as theJoseph Ishill collection at Harvard's HoughtonLibrary. However, the libraries that possess thesesmaller collections, while committed tomaintaining the materials and perhaps evenrecognizing their historical importance, may nothave any special interest in the history of anarchismper se nor be actively seeking to expand theirholdings.Comparing the different collections according towhether or not they stand alone or have the backingof a public or private institution illustrates many ofthe other differences between the two types ofcollections. The institutionally held collectionshave more funds available to them to purchase notonly additional materials for their collections, ifthey are, in fact, still acquiring materials, but alsoequipment, such as computers, scanners, microfilmreaders, etc., needed to run any good library. Theinstitutionally held collections are generallylocated in larger, more accessible public spaces,and offer regular and longer hours of operation.The presence of paid, full-time staff is anothersignificant difference between the two. Theindependents are much poorer than theirinstitutional cousins. They depend to a greaterextent on the generosity of others for donations ofmaterials and financial contributions, tosupplement the limited funds, time, andcommitment of the individual or individualsdirectly involved with the everyday work ofcollecting.Another difference between the institutionally andindependently held collections can be seen in theirfocus. The independently held anarchist collections

usually have a narrower focus, and this is as muca function of the interests of the collectors involveas lack of funds. For example, the AAP collectiois almost exclusively composed of anarchisrelated materials, with a few council communiand situationist items thrown in. The KSL, addition to its collection of anarchist-relatematerials, contains materials dealing with classtruggle history, as well as a few other relatesubjects. But not all the independents are aspecialized; the A Gallery has a much broadfocus and anarchist materials make up only onpart of its total collection. With institutionally hecollections, the anarchist portion is but one amonother, not necessarily related collections, or onone part of a much larger collection appearinunder a heading like "The Left" or "Labor."However, institutionally held collections don't hoall the advantages. Those involved with thindependently held collections tend to have mordirect links to the anarchist milieu and thus mordirect access to the materials produced by anarchactivists. The importance of personal connectionas well as knowing where to look and whom twrite to, cannot be underestimated. Flyers, leafleand other items, often produced locally in smanumbers, can easily escape the attention of noanarchist collectors.So collectors with a good knowledge of thanarchist "scene" can to some extent make up fthe lack of funds. However, the independecollections are much less likely to have very rarand old documents because of the expensinvolved. That is, unless one is fortunate enough know a wealthy collector who has willed his or hcollection to one's project. But anarchists tend to ba poor lot. And the few better-known anarchisaround usually make arrangements to donate thpersonal collections to institutions.If an independently held collection acquires raitems, it is most likely through a donation made ban older anarchist. Nevertheless, it does happen, ait has to me, and always to my delight, that once a great while one can find a reasonably-priced raitem in a used bookstore. Still, in spite of thlimitations imposed by modest funds, thindependently held collections are still in a gooposition to acquire items that, while not rare ovaluable now, may become so in the future. It is na coincidence that a number of the institutioncollections, like the Labadie Collection whosvalue to historians and others increases over thyears, began as independent collections.

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PerspectivesL on anarchist theIAS Supporters: The 1996 Fundraising Campaign

The IAS's first fundraising Frank Adams Ian Grimmer Jack Schlessingercampaign was a complete Anonymous John Gruchala Milly Schoenbaumsuccess thanks to the individuals Alison Bailey Brian Herbert Richard Schramlisted here. Their generosity Sandy Baird Blake Howe John Schumacherenabled the IAS to meet its Matt Black Lawrence Jararch Jon Scott$6000 goal, and thus give out its Jon Buell * Robin Lloyd Gary Siscofirst set of grants, pay for daily Dan Chodorkoff Joe Lowndes Sidney & Claraoffice expenses, and build the Jesse Conn Peggy Luhrs SolomonIAS endowment by $600 (or 10 Gatsby Contreras Susanna Martin Bob Spivy &percent of every donation). Cindy Crabb Enid Mastrionni Beverly NaidusDr. James Dick Michelle Matisons Liza SuttonThese individuals made it Maura Dillon Andrea Miksic & Rose Sterlingpossible for the IAS to grow John & Jolene Dubose Peter Burns Dana Wardfrom an idea into a reality. They Peggy Dye Cindy Milstein Yvette Westare really founders of the IAS Miranda Edison Caroline Morse Diva Wieckand deserve the gratitude of Bree Edwards Sandra Opdycke Priscilla Yamineveryone who values anarchist Paula Emery Sue Ostfield Members of Lovescholarship and radical social Richard Evanoff Fernanda Perrone & Rage (NY)institutions. The generous Steven Fischler John Petrovato Members of thesupport of John Buell, Miranda David Freedman Rachel Rinaldo Blackout BooksEdison, Robin Lloyd, Michelle Grace Gershuny Cate Sandilands CollectiveMatisons, John Petrovato, and Craig Gilmore * This donation is in the name and honor ofJon Scott has been especially Paul Glavin Henry Demarest Lloyd, who fought to preventimportant to the IAS. Bret Goldin the execution of the Haymarket Anarchists.

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Perspectives on Anarchist Theory Vol 1, No 1 - Spring 1997

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