** Call for Papers

** Conference Report

* Convergence Through Practice 1: The New Left

** (New) New Left?: radical considerations in Canada and Quebec from the post-1968 moment to today

*** Introduction

*** New Left: ‘les annees 1968’ in Quebec & ‘the revolutionary youth movement’

*** Radical & ‘New Left’ publications

*** The ‘revolutionary youth movement’ in Our Generation and Noir et Rouge

*** Spontaneity, the counter-culture & the Sociology of Marcel Rioux

*** After ‘les annees 1968’: co-optation and marginalization

*** Towards a New New Left?

*** Bibliography

** Councilist anarchism and carnival anarchism during the 1970s: a case study

*** Abstract

*** Introduction

*** International Context: The Rise of ‘Councilism,’ Modern Class Struggle Anarchism, And Carnival Anarchism

*** Phase 1: The Era of ‘Great Radicalisation’ (Late 1960s, Early 1970s)

*** Phase 2: The Mid-1970s

**** Carnival Anarchism

**** The anarcho-situationist milieu

**** The Christchurch Anarchy Group and Councilism

*** Conclusion

** Post-Left Anarchism, Open Marxism and ‘New’ Autonomist Social Movements in Latin America: Convergence through the praxis of rebel subjects

*** Post-left anarchy

*** Open Marxism

*** Latin America’s autonomist social movements: The pedagogy of practise

*** Conclusion

* Politics, Ideology Revolution

** The (Anti-) Politics of Autonomy: Between Marxism and Anarchism

*** Abstract

*** A Theory of ‘autonomy’

*** An anti-political practice

*** Bibliography

** ABOLISH CAPITAL!: Beyond the Marxist/Anarchist divide

*** References

** Theory, Ideology, and Tradition: Reconciling Anarchism and Marxism

* Class Struggle

** Comparing the relative efficacy of different types of class struggle

** Can Marxist and Anarchist explanations of the class struggle between Capitalists and workers be reconciled?

** On the origins of the collapse of the First International

*** What caused the Collapse of the First International?

*** The context of interpretation

*** Method

*** Centralisation and decentralisation in the mode of leadership

*** Secrecy and openness in the mode of communication

*** Conclusion

*** Bibliography

* The Psychology, Political Economy and Theology of A Schism

** And never the twain shall meet: The psychological foundations of political ideology

** Moral Theory and Economics: The beginnings and ends of the schism ...

** Red and Black Christians: Some Similarities and Differences between Liberation Theology and Christian Anarchism

* Ideology and Post-Ideology 1

** Anarchy: ‘This is what Democracy looks like’

** Ideology and Politics: Overcoming the divide between red and black

*** ‘A Bedouin, perhaps, a Citizen, never’ (?)[179]: Overcoming the Red and Black divide

*** The First Split

*** Remember-Remember the 6th of December[190]

*** ‘The multitude has gathered’[192]

*** Politics in Utopia

*** Ideology & Truth

*** Aufhebung

** Black and red: an historical-philosophical enquiry into their convergence

*** §. 1 The freedom of equals.

*** §. 2 Back to freedom, beyond autonomy

*** §. 3 Black and red: reciprocal antidotes.

*** §. 4 One world, one freedom.

*** Conclusions

*** References

* Anarcho-Communism

** Beyond black and red: Situationists and the legacy of the workers movement

*** Criticism of the separation between black and red

*** Before black and red: situationnists and young hegelians

*** Conclusion: Beyond Black and Red today

** Constructing an alternative to Marxism-Leninism: British Communists and prefigurative politics

*** 1. CP and anarchism

*** 2. 1970s, CP — feminism,Gramsci

** Trotskysm and anarchism: possible coexistence in France?

* Black and Red — The Italian Experience

** Collegamenti Wobbly: Beyond the anarchist/Marxist dichotomy?’

** Fabbri and the Marxists: A comparative analysis of Fabbri, Gramsci and Bordiga on the question of revolutionary organisation

** Antonio Gramsci, Anarchism, Syndicalism and Sovversivismo

*** Abstract

*** 1. Introduction

*** 2. Pre-figuration and the ‘Libertarian Gramsci’: Gramsci, Antonio Labriola and the Anarchists

*** 3. Cooperation and Pre-figuration: Gramsci, Sorel and the Anarchists

*** 4. Free Thought and Educated Thought: the Origins of the Gramscian concepts Senso Comune and Senso Buono (the Limits of Gramscian Libertarianism)

*** 5. Gramsci and the Anarchists: the Barriers to Alliances

*** 6. The Early Gramsci and the Gramsci of the Biennio Rosso

*** 7. Anarchism as the Highest Form of Sovversivismo (Levy, 2007)

*** 8. After 1945

*** Bibliography

* The Philosophy of a Schism

** When Anarchism meets Critical Marxism: Paths and Paradoxes of “Socialisme ou Barbarie” (and of Trotskyism)

*** 1. Introduction

*** 2. Trotskyism cuts both ways: Lessons from the period 1945 to now

*** 3. The contribution of Socialisme ou Barbarie. When Anarchy (partially) meets Marxism

*** 4. When Anarchy fails to meet Marxism

*** 5. Conclusions: The limits of collective autonomy

*** Bibliography

** Anarchism, Marxism and “Humanism”

** Bakunin and Marx on the Paris Commune: Grounds for a synthesis between Anarchism and Marxism?

*** Introduction

*** 1. The Case for a Synthesis: Some Common ground

*** 2. Why Compare and the Dangers of Comparative Analysis

*** 3. Possible synthesis between Marxism and Anarchism?

*** 4. Marxists Against a Synthesis

*** 5. Anarchists against Synthesis

*** 6. Bakunin’s critique of Marx

*** Conclusion — Penumbra or convergence?

*** References

* Individual Reconciliations 1: The Anglo-Americans

** C.L.R. James’ Black Bloc: The Anti-Racist Roots of Contemporary Anarchism

** Chris Pallis (aka Maurice Brinton) and Solidarity

** Towards a synthesis of anarchism and Marxism

** A ‘Bohemian freelancer’? C.L.R. James, his early relationship to anarchism and the intellectual origins of autonomism[324]

*** James and the Intellectual Origins of Autonomism

* Convergence Through Practice 2: The Traditional Left

** The Syndicalist challenge in the Durham coalfield before 1914

*** 1) Introduction

*** 2) Potentialities in the Durham coalfield

*** 3) The Ideological Origins of syndicalism

*** 4) The Influence of Revolutionary Syndicalism

*** 5) Dogma, Pragmatism and Sectarianism

*** 6) Conclusion; An Opportunity Missed?

** Council Communist Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War

** Lessons Taken from the Greek Uprising: The Marxist-Anarchist Controversy Reconsidered In and Through Radical Praxis

* Individual reconciliations 2: The French

** The Search for a Libertarian Communism: Daniel Guérin, Marxism and Anarchism

** Georges Sorel’s Contribution to Anarcho-Marxism

*** Georges Sorel’s Anarcho-Marxism

*** Works Cited

** Victor Serge — A Man of Our Time

*** Victor Serge: From the Defeated Past to the Expectant Future

*** Serge: Our Contemporary

*** Defeat, Renewal and Democracy — the heart of socialism

*** From Serge’s ‘present’ to ours

*** Democracy and Socialism

** Beyond the Rainbow: Overcoming Dogma and Confusion in the Articulation of Revolutionary Theory and Practice

*** Overcoming Dogma and Confusion in Revolutionary Theory and Practice: Red and Black in Historical Perspective

*** Historical origins

*** Genesis and evolution of the Great Misunderstanding

*** Ideals and authoritarian socialism: Dialectics of “Bad Faith”

*** Towards a reassertion of a “Red and Black” revolutionary praxis

* Cartographies of resistance

** Geography Against Capitalism

** Zones

** Autonomy, Self-Organization, and the Spatial Composition of the Social Imaginary

* Marx and the Anarchists

** Autogestion et dictature du prolétariat

** ‘Un Marx libertaire? Dictature du Prolétariat chez Marx

* Convergence Through Practice 3: Publishing

** Beyond ‘Red’ and ‘Black’: Publishing in the pursuit of libertarian socialism

*** An activist publisher

*** The trap of anti-sovietism

*** The last golden age?

*** Bearers of tradition, or bearers of the future?

** Mayday magazine on Red and Black theoretical perspectives

* Ideology and Post-Ideology 2

** Beyond the working-class: the politics of the excluded

*** Growing exclusion in contemporary capitalism

*** Political construction of exclusion

*** The excluded

*** Relates to underpinnings of alienation

*** Politics of the excluded: networks

*** Today, the same fear of the “rabble ” as in Marx

*** Possibility of overthrow

*** Problems for network politics

** Post-Anarchism and Marxism

*** Power and Subjectivity: A Critique of Post-Anarchism

** Hardt and Negri: Anarchists or (Post)Marxists?