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We Are Anarchists: Essays on Anarchism, Pacifism, and the Indian Independence Movement is the first collection of essays by M. P. T. Acharya, who engaged in anticolonial activism across India, Europe, the United States, and Russia. Comprising fifty essays, the collection opens a window onto the global reach of anarchism in the interwar period and beyond, and enables a more nuanced understanding of Indian anti-colonial struggles against oppressive state power, be it imperialist, Bolshevik, or capitalist.

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With this collection of writings--many made available in English for the first time--Ole Birk Laursen recovers the extraordinary life and writings of M.P.T. Acharya, perhaps India's most important but least remembered anarchist activist and theoretician. ... Anyone interested in anticolonial struggles past or present should read this book. -- Kenyon Zimmer, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. Ole Birk Laursen has done us a valuable service in tracking down and collecting the work of M.P.T. Acharya, scattered across countries, decades, and publications, and not least placing this work in well-researched context . ... This is a treasure chest that will enrich our picture of both global anarchist and South Asian radical history. -- Maia Ramnath, author of Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle. This fascinating and rich collection of essays by M.P.T. Acharya significantly deepens our understandings of transnational radical thought in the early twentieth century, placing Indian activists at the center of critiques of communism emanating from Berlin, Paris, Bombay and London. -- Kama Maclean, author of A Revolutionary History of Interwar India.

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M.P.T. Acharya (1887-1954) was an anticolonial activist who co-founded the Communist Party of India. After the Russian Revolution, he became disillusioned with communism and became India's most prolific anarchist writer. Ole Birk Laursen is a Lecturer in Postcolonial Indian Literature at New York University, London. He specializes in South Asian literature and history, anti-imperialism, and anarchism.

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