The Government of No One

A sympathetic, impressively well-informed history of the movement … packed with information about this rich history – Terry Eagleton * Guardian *Obligatory reading – Jorell Meléndez-Badillo * Times Higher Education *A history of politics by other means * New Statesman *Ruth Kinna’s book will be the standard text on anarchism for the twenty-first century. Written with brio, quiet insight and clarity and taking us from the nineteenth century anarchist Proudhon to Occupy and Rojava, this offering will appeal to the novice student, the activist and the grizzled professor. Quite a feat – Carl Levy

Ruth Kinna is a professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University, working in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations, where she specializes in political philosophy. She is the author of William Morris- The Art of Socialism and co-editor of the journal Anarchist Studies.