Kinna, Ruth

Kinna, Ruth

Ruth Kinna

1 August 2018Feature

Ruth Kinna explains the background to this year's Anarchist Studies Network conference

Itō Noe (1895 – 1923) was a Japanese anarchist, author, editor and feminist. She was beaten to death by military police and thrown into an abandoned well along with her companion, anarchist Ōsugi Sakae, and his six-year-old nephew, Munekazu Tachibana. Photo: via Wikimedia Commons

There have been four Anarchist Studies Network conferences, one every two years since 2010. The theme for this year's fifth conference, 'decolonise', was chosen for two reasons: to confront and tackle the…