Career
The anthology is published by Black Rose Books. Each selection is introduced by Robert Graham, placing each author and selection in their historical and ideological context. The focus of the anthology is on the origins and development of anarchist ideas.
lieutenant is not a documentary history of the world"s various anarchist movements, although there is a wealth of material from many different areas, including not only Europe and North America, but also Latin America, China, Japan, of Korea, India, Australia, Africa and the Middle East.
Graham is also the author of many articles on the history of anarchist ideas and contemporary anarchist theory. He was an editor and contributor to the North American anarchist newsjournal, Open Road, for which he interviewed both Murray Bookchin and Noam Chomsky (the latter interview, "The Manufacture of Consent," has been reprinted in Carlos Otero"s collection of Chomsky interviews, Language and Politics).
Most recently, he has written a book on the origins of the anarchist movement from the debates and struggles within the International Workingmen"s Association (the so-called "First International") during the 1860s and 1870s in Europe, entitled "We Do Not Fear Anarchy - We Invoke lieutenant": The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement," published by Alaska Press in July 2015. The quotation in the title is taken from Michael Bakunin, written around the time that he officially joined the International in 1868.