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Help Us Fund Radical Activist Writers

Dear friends, anarchists, people of conscience, people of earth,

We write this in the midst of a shock wave of horrific evidence of not just the re-emergence but the emboldened offensive surge of proto-fascist populism, white supremacy, misogyny and xenophobia in the United States and around the world.

We can’t keep quiet, we can’t sit down, we can’t step back, we can’t give up. There’s no more important time than now to promote alternative ways of thinking, acting, resisting oppression, prefiguring radical egalitarianism and collective liberation.

Which for us at IAS, means there’s no more urgent time than now to further the development of anarchist theory and praxis, toward activating it in reality. Historical awareness of precedents, continuities, genealogies, and systemic patterns can help us.

So can sharp political and social analyses of structural conditions. So can anti-authoritarian cultural and psychological interpretation. Not least, so can audaciously visionary imaginations of a different world.

We want to keep helping to facilitate activist writers to explore and articulate that kind of research, that kind of vision. For that, of course, we need funding.

It’s been our great honor to receive a $1000 bequest from the estate of Howard Ehrlich (1932-1915), anarchist  scholar, sociologist, supporter of activist research, founder and editor of Social Anarchism: A Journal of Theory and Practice since 1980, author of books including The Best of Social Anarchism, Hate Crimes and Ethnoviolence, and Reinventing Anarchism Again.

For more on Howard and his work click here. 

We stand on the shoulders of a crazy-ass circus pyramid of revolutionaries; with your help we can build it even more mindbogglingly skyward with more and more people pitching in to hold each other up, carrying on work in new directions that can make IAS donors like Howard Ehrlich and Noam Chomsky proud, honoring elders who made anarchism a lifelong commitment, by trying not to fuck it up for generations to come.

An Appeal from Noam Chomsky: Support Radical Writing and Publishing

In a time when money and power are concentrated into ever-fewer hands, the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) stands out. For two decades, the IAS has been providing grants to radical organizers and thinkers, allowing them to take time to reflect and write about their experiences in struggles for social transformation.

In addition to financial support, the IAS offers editorial assistance to the writers they work with – those who receive grants, those writing books to be jointly published by the IAS and AK Press, and those who contribute to the IAS’ annual journal, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. Such assistance is especially vital for the support of new writers, helping them develop the skills and confidence necessary to craft their words and express their ideas clearly.

Although IAS members donate their time to this project, they need to raise thousands of dollars each year to award grants and continue publishing. The IAS has done this work for twenty years, and plans to continue far into the future. But they can’t do that without your help.

I’m asking that you give the IAS a generous one-time, tax-deductible donation or sign up to give monthly. Please help with this vital effort to build much-needed radical intellectual infrastructure for our movements.

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Sincerely,

Noam Chomsky