An Anarchist Called Mutt.

Why?

In early 2024, I visited an old friend. We got rather drunk at a show by a touring Japanese dad rock band and he convinced me to start doing things again. This book is the end product of that, just under 500 pages of Black anarchist and anti-authoritarian ideas, people and movements.

Let’s be real; I rushed it, I was in a bit of a manic state for four months just reading way more theory than I had done in the previous 4 years of my life. I REALLY regret not spending more time on it, making a study guide for each peice and doing more research into stuff in Britian, most fustratingly since its a book that hundreds of people then bought, I can’t go backwards and edit it. However, my plan of constantly updating these things would just turn my life into me worshiping a one-off project I did cus I had a hunch.

The front cover artwork is all cut & paste from Black Autonomy magazine and a Martin Sostre zine I had a few copies of. The rear cover is a photograph of anarchists in Khartoum.

The book is out of print, however the publisher are printing it on demand, the proceeds go towards the collective who published it, an archive and a local mutual aid project.

Promo/Feedback

I promoted the book on the Final Straw Radio, who were nice enough to talk to me for a while about it. They made it into a zine too, for which I supplied the collage art, made up of photos from Motoladesi Squatter Camp that the South African ZACF used to be involved in you can download it from their site linked previously. Part of this interview was actually used in an anti-racism workshop, the PDF is here.

I also went on ItsGoingDown but they asked me questions I wasn’t comfortable answering, part of their broader pattern of making their black guests feel awkward and then promptly died before uploading the recording, lol.

I talked about it a little bit on The Dugout too, though I did ramble like mad cus of how anxious I was so forgive me.

I have been namedropped a few times, a fun one was in the last ten min of this; https://itsgoingdown.org/permanent-ecological-conflict-a-conversation-with-xander-dunlap/