Jean-Christophe Angaut has been Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon since 2006. His fields of research and teaching are nineteenth-century philosophy, political philosophy and connections between socialist, communist and anarchist thought. He has published two books on the young Bakunin’s thought: Bakunin jeune hégélien — La philosophie et son dehors (2007) and La liberté des peuples — Bakunin et les révolutions de 1848 (2009). He has also published articles on Marx, Bakunin, Kropotkin, the Young Hegelian movement and the situationists. He is a member of the editorial committee of the French anarchist journal Réfractions.

David Bates is a principal lecturer and Director of Politics and International Relations in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. His interests are focused primarily in the area of radical politics, including anti-capitalist forms of thinking. He has a particular concern with Marxist and post-Marxist approaches to socialist emancipation. More recently he has been interested in the critical relationship between Marxist and libertarian radical politics.

David Berry is Senior Lecturer in History at Loughborough University, UK. He was awarded his DPhil in French labor history from the University of Sussex, UK. His research area is the history of the Left and of labor movements in twentieth-century France. He has worked mostly on the French anarchist movement and ‘alternative Left,’ and is currently working on the life and ideas of Daniel Guérin (1904–1988) and the libertarian communist tradition from 1917 to the present. His publications include A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945 (2009) and (edited jointly with Constance Bantman) New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labor and Syndicalism: The Individual, the National and the Transnational (2010). Having been involved for some years with the Journal of Contemporary European Studies (formerly the Journal of Area Studies), he is currently an associate editor and reviews editor of the journal Anarchist Studies. He is a member of the Center International de Recherches sur l’Anarchisme, Lausanne and Marseille, of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and of the Anarchist Studies Network.

Paul Blackledge is Professor of Political Theory and UCU Branch Secretary at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is author of Marxism and Ethics (2012), Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History (2006) and Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left (2004). He is coeditor of Virtue and Politics (2011), Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism (2008), Revolutionary Aristotelianism (2008) and Historical Materialism and Social Evolution (2002). He has written on Marxism and anarchism in The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (2011) and in International Socialism. He is a member of the Socialist Workers Party.

Toby Boraman is a lecturer in politics at Massey University Te Kunenga Ki Pūrehuroa, New Zealand. His research interests are labor history from below, (anti-state) communism and extra-parliamentary protest of the 1960s and 1970s. He received his PhD in 2006 from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, on the subjects of the New Left and anarchism in New Zealand. Afterwards, he published a history of anarchism and anti-Bolshevik communism in New Zealand from the 1950s to the 1980s called Rabble Rousers and Merry Pranksters (2007). He has also published a book chapter and articles on the subjects of the New Left and working-class resistance to neoliberalism, and historical pieces on strikes and near riots in New Zealand.

Benoît Challand is an associate professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research and a lecturer at the University of Bologna, Italy. He works in the field of political and historical sociology, with a particular interest in Arab politics and political theory. His publications include La Ligue Marxiste Révolutionaire, 1969–1980 (2000) and Palestinian Civil Society and Foreign Donors (2009). He is coauthor, with Chiara Bottici, of The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations (2010) and The Politics of Imagination (edited 2011).

Andrew Cornell is a visiting assistant professor of American studies at Williams College, MA. He holds a PhD in American studies from New York University, New York, USA, and is completing a study of anarchism in mid-twentieth-century USA. He is the author of Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society. His writing appears in periodicals such as the Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory and Left Turn magazine. He has also contributed to the collections The University against Itself (2008) and The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism (2010).

Christian Høgsbjerg is a UK-based historian and recently was teaching fellow in Caribbean history at the UCL Institute of the Americas. He completed his doctoral thesis, C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain, 1932–38, in the Department of History at the University of York, UK, and is the editor of a special edition of C.L.R. James’s 1934 play about the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History (2012). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal International Socialism.

Ruth Kinna is Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University, UK. She is the author of William Morris: The Art of Socialism (2000) and the Anarchism: A Beginner’s Guide (2005, 2009). She has published numerous articles on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century socialism, including ‘Guy Aldred: Bridging the Gap between Marxism and Anarchism’ (Journal of Political Ideologies, 16 (1) 2011), which explores themes examined in this collection.

Carl Levy is a professor in the Department of Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author of six books. His interests include comparative European politics, history, policy-making and the history of ideas since 1860, with particular interest in anarchism and specializing in Italy and Italian anarchism. He is currently writing a biography of Errico Malatesta.

Renzo Llorente teaches philosophy at Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus, Spain. His research centers on issues in social philosophy, ethics and Latin American philosophy, and he is the author of numerous papers in these and other areas. His recent publications include Beyond the Pale: Exercises in Provocation (2010), a chapter on Marxism in A Companion to Latin American Philosophy (2010), ‘The Moral Framework of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation’ in Ethical Perspectives (2009) and ‘Sobre el humanismo especista de Víctor Gómez Pin,’ in Razonary actuar en defense de los animales (2008). He is currently working on a study of the moral foundations of Marxism.

Lewis H. Mates is a tutor in history and politics at Durham University, UK. He has published several journal articles and book chapters on aspects of interwar British political history, and a monograph titled The Spanish Civil War and the British Left (2007). He is currently working on two projects: membership and activism in the Labor and Conservative parties (1945–1974), and rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield before 1914.

Saku Pinta is a documentary filmmaker, sheet-metal worker and independent scholar. He completed his doctoral thesis, titled ‘Towards a Libertarian Communism: A Conceptual History of the Intersections between Anarchisms and Marxisms,’ at Loughborough University, UK in 2011. His current research focuses on the history of the Finnish membership of the Industrial Workers of the World (c.1905–1975) in Canada and the USA. An essay on this topic — ‘Educate, Organize, Emancipate: The Work People’s College and the IWW’ — is set to appear in Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education (2012).

Alex Prichard is senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter, UK. He gained his PhD from Loughborough University, UK, in 2008, and has since held research and teaching posts at the University of Bath, UK, and the London School of Economics, UK, and an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published articles on anarchism and world politics in the Review of International Studies, Millennium: Journal of International Studies and Anarchist Studies. He is the founder of the PSA Anarchist Studies Network and coeditor of the new monograph series Contemporary Anarchist Studies, published by Continuum Books. His first monograph, Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, was published in 2012.