Journal for The Study of Radicalism 

About: Journal for The Study of Radicalism is an academic journal published by Michigan State University. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Political radicalism. It has an ISSN identifier of 1930-1189. Over the lifetime, 208 publications have been published receiving 1145 citations.

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (review)

Abstract: NOTES 1. David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: Th e Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 249–51. 2. Henry David Th oreau, “Civil Disobedience” (1849), Walden and Other Writings (New York: Modern Library, 2000), 680. 3. Reynolds, John Brown, 355. 4. Henry David Th oreau, “A Plea for Captain John Brown” (1859), Walden and Other Writings (New York: Modern Library, 2000), 719. 5. Reynolds, John Brown, 151. 6. Reynolds, John Brown, 119–21. 7. Reynolds, John Brown, 167. 8. Johann von Goethe, “World Literature,” Essays on Art and Literature, trans. Ellen von Nardoff and Ernest H. von Narduff , ed. John Gearey (New York: Suhrkamp Publishers, 1986), 226. 9. Reynolds, John Brown, 215. 10. Reynolds, John Brown, 445 11. Reynolds, John Brown, 165

"Do They Owe Us a Living? Of Course They Do!" Crass, Throbbing Gristle, and Anarchy and Radicalism in Early English Punk Rock

Abstract: Although many books and articles have been written in the popular and academic press about the punk movements of the 1970s in England and the United States, few have gone beyond examining the canonical bands and movements. Works such as Legs McNeil’s and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me: Th e Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Clinton Heylin’s From Th e Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World off er valuable insights into the motivations of the American and British punk movements’ pioneers. 1 However, they do not adequately examine several important aspects of the punk movement, namely the political and social motivations of many of the major bands involved. Th e two bands I examine here, Crass and Th robbing Gristle, did have to work with distribution systems to which they were opposed on principle, but they did so more in the spirit of subversion than in acquiescence to the dominant hierarchy. Th ey attempted to make a radical statement within the confines of a commodified musical distribution system. Many other more popular bands were simply posturing, but Crass and Th robbing Gristle were the true fathers of radical politics and anarchy in the British punk movement.

The Black Blocs Ten Years after Seattle: Anarchism, Direct Action, and Deliberative Practices

Abstract: The Black Blocs made a spectacular entrance into the Movement for Global Justice on 30 November 1999 at the "Battle of Seattle," when they smashed the windows of McDonald's, Nike, Gap, and a few banks. In April 2009, almost ten years later, a Black Bloc is involved in skirmishes with police at Strasbourg during the NATO Summit. The aim of this article, which is largely based on interviews with militants, analyses of their discourses, and first-hand observations of demonstrations, is to identify how the Black Bloc tactic originated and spread, and to understand the political factors that led activists to adopt it. Three intrinsically political questions are addressed: (1) Who should determine the plan of action within a group of militants? (2) Who should determine the plan of action during a demonstration? (3) Who should determine the criteria to assess the effectiveness of the actions taken by a social movement and speak on its behalf? To answer these questions, the notion of "respect for a diversity of tactics" and the links between the Black Blocs and other militant organizations (both radical and reformist) as well as other blocs (the "Tute Bianche" or White Overalls and the Pink Blocs) are discussed.