The objective of this article is to present a summary of research carried out for some years, which culminated in the publication of the book ‘Bandeira Negra: rediscutindo o anarquismo’ [Black Flag: Rediscussing Anarchism]. As part of a collective process of global research on anarchism, developed by researchers from different parts of the world within the Institute for Anarchist Theory and History (IATH), this book has a general objective: to answer the following question in depth, what is anarchism?
To this end, Bandeira Negra is developed on three fundamental fronts:
– Critical assessment of reference studies on anarchism (in Spanish, Portuguese, English and French).
– Proposal for a new theoretical-methodological approach for studies on anarchism.
– Redefinition of anarchism, complemented by the exposition of its great historical debates and trends, based on the written production of more than eighty anarchist authors and organizations and the global history of anarchism in its almost one hundred and fifty years of existence.
Below are the main arguments of the book, arranged according to the three aforementioned fronts