William C. Anderson

William C. Anderson, writer and activist from Birmingham known for Black anarchism and abolition, discusses his 'Another Way Out' column. He critiques reliance on electoral politics and the liberal aesthetics of resignation. He explores direct action, community survival work, and the need to build infrastructures of mutual aid. Short, urgent calls to act, risk, and learn through struggle.

This week we are really pleased to feature Scott conducting an interview with author and activist William C. Anderson about his new book The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition which is out now from AK Press. In this interview they speak on the book and its many facets, and Black anarchism more broadly, some of the failures of euro-centric and white anarchism, and many many more topics. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) If you would like to see more of Anderson's work you can visit https://williamcanderson.info To see his books The Nation on No Map and As Black As Resistance, you can visit akpress.org and search his name, or visit firestorm.coop and do the same to support a queer and trans run anarchist book store in Asheville <3 Some works and people mentioned by our guest, in order of appearance: Martin Sostre introduced Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin to anarchism in 1969. Ojore Lutalo was introduced to anarchism by Kuwasi Balagoon. Dr. Modibo Kadalie was influential in Anderson's thinking on anarchism. The Anarchism of Blackness (essay) – Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson Black Fascism – Paul Gilroy (Here is a thread detailing how to access works that are behind a paywall, discretion advised, for entertainment purposes only lmfao :D https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/3i9y7n/guide_for_finding_textbooks/ ) The Interminable Catastrophe – Professor Bedour Alagraa