Tom Goyens
@tomgoyens.bsky.social
Professor of History, Salisbury Univ | Anarchism | Author of "Beer and Revolution" & "Johann Most" | Belgian beer lover https://txgoyens.wixsite.com/tomgoyens | https://tomgoyens.substack.com/
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After charging 15 people with "Antifa" crimes for participating in rapid response networks, federal agents are pepper-spraying people outside the Federal Courthouse in the Twin Cities right now. They want to establish an autocracy. Everyone's freedom is at stake.
Iran is back in the news. But how did anarchists understand the Iranian Revolution when it happened? My new three-part series examines anarchist responses to 1979. Check out: tomgoyens.substack.com/p/how-anarch...
How Anarchists Saw the Iranian Revolution (part 1)
Part 1 of a thematic snapshot of the libertarian response to one of the late twentieth century’s defining revolutions, now back in the news.
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Past Voices | An Anarchist Plea to Leave "Right" and "Left" Behind by Heiner Koechlin (1973)
The sense that “Left” and “Right” no longer clearly describe political reality is not new; it first became impossible to ignore (to those paying attention) in the political wreckage of the interwar ye...
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“It remains a sad fact that the vast majority of working people stand idly by and watch the course of events with folded arms, or even help empower the ruling classes in their enslavement of the masses.” --Johann Most, 1876 www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
New contextual essay for our collection, Radicalism and Popular Protest in Georgian Britain, c. 1714–1832. Professor Katrina Navickas explores how the British state responded to democratic and working-class movements throughout 1789—1833. Read the essay at
Radicalism and Popular Protest in Georgian Britain, c. 1714–1832
The democratic reform movement and workers’ collective action developed rapidly in Britain between the 1790s and the 1830s. The Working Class Movement Library collection contains...
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2026 National Biographer’s Day Reading List - Illinois Press Blog
National Biographer’s Day commemorates the anniversary of the first meeting of Samuel Johnson, an English writer, and his biographer James Boswell in London, England on May 16, 1763. In celebration, [...
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How Anarchists Saw the Iranian Revolution (part 2)
Anarchists viewed the Iranian Revolution as yet another example of how authoritarian movements of both the religious and Marxist Left can manipulate popular revolt to replace one system of domination ...
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Released TODAY in the Working Classics Series 🔥 Rudolf Rocker's 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙤-𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢: 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 is the essential introduction to anarchist theory of the labor struggle. Get your copy now, and check out the other Working Classics while you're at it! www.akpress.org/featured-pro...
PREORDER the first English-language collection of Johann Most’s writing from 1882 to 1906 from AK Press!! www.akpress.org/to-the-impat... Interested in Most's life? Check out my new biography: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
To the Impatient (Preorder)
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The third article in Anarchist Studies 34.1 is by Tom Goyens (@tomgoyens.bsky.social) , 'Rudolf Rocker in Exile: Reimagining Anarchism in an Age of Catastrophe, 1933-1958'. (4/7) bit.ly/41dZjYO
Today in 1906, one hundred and twenty years ago, the German American socialists and later anarchist Johann Most died at age 60 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Read about his remarkable life: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
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It's getting real! Mock up book cover designs are in for my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" (Liverpool UP, 2026)
Happy Birthday to Johann Most, the German-American agitator & pivotal figure in the development of anarchism in the US & socialism in Germany! Most is the subject of @tomgoyens.bsky.social's new book, available now! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... 📷️: Courtesy of @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
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