Her works are not only historically significant but also resonate powerfully with contemporary movements, making this collection an essential addition for scholars and casual readers alike.
This important book brings de Cleyre's eloquent and incisive work out of undeserved obscurity. Twenty-one essays are reprinted here, including her classic works: "Anarchism and the American Tradition," "The Dominant Idea," and "Sex Slavery.
These speeches, delivered between 1895 and 1910 by anarchist agitator Voltairine De Cleyre, eloquently express the mood of US labor militants and confirm the last words of Spies: 'There will come a time when our silence from the grave will ...
In an informative introduction, surrealist poet and labor historian Franklin Rosemont salutes the 'irreducible rage against stifling conventions', the 'free-spirited, no compromise, daredevil intensity' and the 'hauntingly wild and violent ...