Best Anarchic Audio Podcasts (2026)

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Kenneth Aizawa, "Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation: A Granular Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 1:00:58

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How do scientists reason when they posit unobservables to explain their observed results? For example, how did Watson and Crick reason that DNA had a double-helix structure when they observed Franklin’s image 51, or how did Hodgkin and Huxley reason that sodium ions carried the current flowing into the membrane of a voltage-clamped giant squid axon…

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International Statement - We Denounce the Imperial Offensive on Venezuela 11:08

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#antiwar #antiimperialism #venezuela For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The statement can be read in English and Spanish at BR/RN's site https://www.blackrosefed.org/cala-statement-12-25/By audibleanarchism

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Self-Determination in the Modern World (Part 2) 7:48

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This is Part 2 of *Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination*.. Please Like, Comment, Subscribe and Watch the whole series in order. Acknowledgements Dedication Introduction by Mark Sleigh Introduction to the author ► Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDT6pJU3_gViYVxWUTl8PcR29sW0GAcQK ► Join the Facebook group: https://w…

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What Is Practical Anarchy? (Part 1) 8:22

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This is [] of *Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination*. Please Like, Comment, Subscribe and Watch the whole series in order. Acknowledgements Dedication Introduction by Mark Sleigh Introduction to the author ► Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDT6pJU3_gViYVxWUTl8PcR29sW0GAcQK ► Join the Facebook group: https://www.fa…

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Mariana Ortega, "Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:16:41

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How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? What if we listen to photographs? How might they undo us? Can we be undone? In Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad (Duke UP, 2025), Mariana Ortega focuses on photography using a hermeneutics of l…

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Starting an Anarchist Black Cross group, a guide 1:25:06

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The Zine can be read at https://solidarity.international/index.php/2025/08/30/updated-version-starting-an-anarchist-black-cross-group-a-guide/ This zine is a resource for anyone wanting to start an Anarchist Black Cross group. It was a collective effort of people…

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Envy by Francisco Ferrer 16:15

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com Read the text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francisco-ferrer-envy "As its epigraph indicates, the work was to have seven chapters, one for each sin; I thought of these chapters in the form of a story and I wrote the one corresponding to Envy. " An unfin…

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Spilling the Spanish Beans by George Orwell 17:33

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com Can be read at https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/spilling-the-spanish-beans-2/ Spilling the Spanish Beans is an article, in two parts, by George Orwell, that first appeared in the New English Weekly of 29 July an…

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Alfredo M. Bonanno - Towards Anarchist Antimilitarism 26:03

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com Commentary on the strengths and failings of anarchist anti-militarism. Can be read online https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-towards-anarchist-antimilitarismBy audibleanarchism

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A Supermarket Fate Worse than Death 11:18

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In this episode of Stumpy Sanderson's 1970s Stories, listen to the excruciating tale that is 'A Supermarket Fate Worse than Death '. Set in 1979, Stumpy Sanderson and your Narrator are horrified and helpless onlookers as Shiny Giles goes through Melanie Milton's shopping checkout at the local Key Markets store. "The man is finished…" https://stumpy…

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Against Bull-Fighting and Human Exploitation, by Francisco Ferrer 2:31

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com A letter by Anarchist teacher Francisco Ferrer linking and condemning cruelty and exploitation of animals and humans. The letter can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francisco-ferrer-against-bull-fighting-and-human-exploitation…

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Amie Thomasson, "Rethinking Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2025) 1:03:17

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The word “metaphysics” conjures up thoughts of very hard questions about reality and deep, perhaps unresolvable, metaphysical mysteries. But is that the right way to think about the subject matter of metaphysics? According to Amie Thomasson, very clearly no. In her new book, Rethinking Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2025), Thomasson argues t…

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Common Sense Country by L.S. Bevington 22:35

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com Artist is no Bonzo, check out there portfolio at https://www.nobonzo.com/ A short work of fiction detailing a potential anarchist world. Read the story here https://publicdomarchive.blogspot.com/2025/06/common-sense-country-by-ls-bevington.html…

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Bookchin, Öcalan y las dialécticas de la democracia 30:11

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com https://es.anarchistlibraries.net/library/janet-biehl-bookchin-ocalan-y-las-dialecticas-de-la-democracia Discurso presentado en conferencia “Desafiando la modernidad capitalista: Conceptos alternativos y la cuestión kurda” llevada a cabo en febrero de 2012. Trans…

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Two Merry Monks and Two Pairs of Clackers 20:37

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In this episode of Stumpy Sanderson's 1970s Stories, listen to the riotous tale that is 'Two Merry Monks and Two Pairs of Clackers'. Set in 1979, Stumpy Sanderson and your Narrator play key roles in the lunatic asylum that is the end of year 5th Form Revue stage show. Even they could not have foreseen the shocking and grotesque outcome of this last…

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Peer Review Issue 02, Ten Theses on Science and Radicalism 19:24

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The Peer Review is a self-published a zine dedicated to the intersection of anarchism, science, and philosophy. The issues can be read at https://archive.org/details/@the_peer_review Issue #2 of The Peer Review, a zine dedicated to the intersection of anarchism, …

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Por los bárbaros 13:33

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com https://es.anarchistlibraries.net/library/ricardo-mella-por-los-barbaros Publicado originalmente en La Revista Blanca, núm. 124. Madrid, 15 agosto de 1903.By audibleanarchism

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 1:21:40

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The text https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm Some consider this text a founding document of Anarchism in the United States. Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it ex…

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Cunningham's Tomb 16:17

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In this episode of Stumpy Sanderson's 1970s Stories, listen to the house shaking tale that is 'Cunningham's Tomb'. Set in 1978, Lanky Shinton and Chipolata Mick devise a heinous Poe-like plan to entomb the autocratic Science teacher, Mr Cunningham. Stumpy Sanderson and your Narrator lend a hand with the diabolical plot. "In Science Block, no one ca…

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Ladelle McWhorter, "Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 1:10:04

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How should one live? What should one do? And what do these questions have to do with being a good person? In Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demine of the Modern Moral Self (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Ladelle McWhorter reorients these questions through a genealogy of the concept of personhood. That genealogy is in the service of showing u…

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No Kings, No Masters! A Call for Anti-Authoritarian Blocs at the October 18 “No Kings” Demonstrations 7:55

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The statement and links on practical steps and activism can be found online at https://crimethinc.com/2025/10/09/no-kings-no-masters-a-call-for-anti-authoritarian-blocs-at-the-october-18-no-kings-demonstrations This is a call for you—yes, you specifically—to organize an anti-authoritarian bloc in your community for the “No Kings” demonstrations on …

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The Peer Review, Issue 01, The Anarchist's Guide to Critical Thinking 18:29

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The Peer Review is a self-published a zine dedicated to the intersection of anarchism, science, and philosophy. The issues can be read at https://archive.org/details/@the_peer_review This issue is a guide to critical thinking written from an anarchist's perspecti…

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S. Orestis Palermos, "Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics, and the Law" (Routledge, 2025) 1:00:37

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Until recently, no one could access the detailed contents of your mind directly the way only you can. This level of protection of our mental data was guaranteed by the way we are built biologically – and it can no longer be taken for granted. In Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics, and the Law (Routledge, 2025) S. Orestis Palermos considers …

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A Bite To Remember 15:25

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In this episode of Stumpy Sanderson's 1970s Stories, listen to the red hot tale that is 'A Bite To Remember. Set in 1977, Stumpy Sanderson and your Narrator help out with the pungent plot that Chutney Barton and Gusty Burton devise to knock that crowing rooster, Boaster Hawkins, off his perch. "Ah, ah, I know what you're thinking, is this a hot spi…

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Alfredo M Bonanno Die anarchistische Spannung 59:42

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com https://anarchistischebibliothek.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-die-anarchistische-spannung Am 28. Januar 1995 hielt Alfredo M. Bonanno ein Referat bei einer Konferenz zu "Anarchie und Demokratie" in Cúneo. In diesem Text geht es um das Spannungsverhältnis und vor…

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Gordon Brings the House Down 14:54

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In this episode of Stumpy Sanderson's 1970s Stories, listen to the house shaking tale that is 'Gordon Brings the House Down'. Set in 1971, Gordon 'Sputnik' Mahoney's obsession with all things Gerry Anderson, and lack of attention to little else causes a cataclysmic cascade. All witnessed by Stumpy Sanderson and your Narrator. "Gordon, your friends …

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La anarquía sin adjetivos - Fernando Tarrida del Mármol 15:35

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com https://es.anarchistlibraries.net/library/fernando-tarrida-del-marmol-la-anarquia-sin-adjetivos Carta enviada por el anarquista Fernando Tarrida del Mármol al periódico francés La Révolte con fecha de 7 de agosto de 1890. Traducida del francés por Vladimiro Muñoz…

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Fighting the PRGT Pipeline 1:06:35

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An interview with two settler anarchists in northern British Columbia who are active in a growing struggle against the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Project or PRGT. Resistance to the project has been heating up all summer as government approvals have been issued and construction work is expected to begin in the fall of 2025. Discussions includes …

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Manifesto of the International Working Peoples' Association aka The Pittsburgh Manifesto 13:27

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com Full text of the Manifesto https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Manifesto "To the Workingmen of America", known as the "Pittsburgh Manifesto" or "Pittsburgh Proclamation", is an anarchist manifesto issued at the October 1883 Pittsburgh Congress of the Intern…

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Armin W. Schulz, "Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences" (Springer, 2025) 1:05:06

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Humans live in richly normatively structured social environments: there are ways of doing things that are appropriate, and we are aware of what these ways are. For many social scientists, social institutions are sets of rules about how to act, though theories differ about what the rules are, how they are established and maintained, and what makes s…

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A Hose for All Seasons 17:29

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In this episode of Stumpy Sanderson's 1970s Stories, listen to the foaming story that is 'A Hose for All Seasons'. Set in 1974, Stumpy Sanderson and your Narrator get involved in a scheme with Slack Jack Arnold and Turps Maguire to gain some lucrative business using a revolutionary car and patio cleaning machine. They are unaware of the power and f…

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The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State by Mikhail Bakunin 27:07

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The text can be read at https://libcom.org/article/paris-commune-and-idea-state-mikhail-bakunin Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin on the Paris Commune and the idea of government and the state.By audibleanarchism

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Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde 1:45:07

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com Text can be read at https://libcom.org/article/soul-man-under-socialism-oscar-wilde “(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.” Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” …

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The Punk Duff Experience 14:58

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In this episode of Stumpy Sanderson's 1970s Stories, listen to the raucous tale that is 'The Punk Duff Experience'. Set in 1978, Stumpy Sanderson and your Narrator, in conjunction with Tonko, book a Luton punk band to play at their monthly punk and new wave night. Little do they realise the outrageous reputation and anarchic material of this outfit…

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The Paris Commune by Peter Kropotkin 25:58

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The essay can be read at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-commune-of-paris Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin's analysis of the Paris Commune, a defining moment in revolutionary history which inspired both marxist and anarchist revolution…

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Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy" (Polity Books, 2023) 46:38

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Why do so many philosophers value anarchy but refuse to call themselves anarchists? Why don’t philosophers draw on the classical anarchist tradition? How can we think de facto anarchism as distinct from dawning anarchism? What is at stake in doing so? Does philosophy need anarchism? To answer these questions, in Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy…