About the reading group
This site is for ongoing discussions of the NYC Anarchist Reading Group.
The reading group has been meeting monthly since December of ‘06. We meet on the last Wednesday of the month, at 7:30pm, in the upstairs of Earth Matters Cafe, 177 Ludlow St. just below Houston (F train to 2nd Ave., or JMZ to Essex St./Delancey)
Discussions are open to all those interested in anarchism– while some participants have read widely in anarchist theory and history, no prior knowledge is expected. We select readings collectively.
To get announcements of upcoming meetings by email, send a message to nymaa-reading-subscribe@lists.riseup.net (no more than 2 messages per month!)
Books we’ve selected so far:
2008
September- Colin Ward, ed.. “A Decade of Anarchy (1961-70)”
August- George Katsiaficas, “The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968″
July- Kristian Williams, “Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America”
June- Daniel Pinchbeck, “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”
May- Colin Ward, “Anarchy in Action”
April- Noam Chomsky, “Chomsky on Anarchism”
March- David Cayley, “Ivan Illich in Conversation”
Feb.- Emma Goldman, “Anarchism and Other Essays”
Jan.- Wayne Price, “Abolition of the State: Anarchist and Marxist Perspectives”*
2007
Dec.- Kuwasi Balagoon, “A Soldier’s Story: Writings by a Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchist”
Nov.- Paul Goodman, “Communitas”
Oct.- Bill Weinberg, “Homage to Chiapas”*
Sept.- Clayton Patterson, Ed. “Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side”
Aug.- Ursula LeGuin, “The Dispossessed”
July – Raoul Vaneigem- “Revolution of Everyday Life”
June- George Katsiaficas- “The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life”
May- Martha Ackelsberg- “Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women”
April- Marina Sitrin- “Horizontalism”*
March- Murray Bookchin- “The Spanish Anarchists”
Feb.- “Malatesta: Life and Ideas” edited by Vernon Richards
Jan.- Daniel Guerin, “Anarchism: From Theory to Practice”
2006
Dec.- Murray Bookchin, “Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism” and “Post-Scarcity Anarchism”
* the author was there for the discussion
