Andrej Grubacic

Andrej Grubačić
Andrej Grubacic speaking at the 2010 San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair.
Nationality	Yugoslav
Occupation	Professor and Department Chair (California Institute of Integral Studies); author; historical social scientist
Known for	Anarchism; Left Yugoslavism and Balkan federalism

Andrej Grubačić is a US-based anarchist theorist, Balkan federalist, and Anthropology Professor with a Yugoslavian background who has written on cooperation and mutual aid in world history, world systems theory, anarchism and the history of the Balkans. He is the grandson of Ratomir Dugonjić, Yugoslav partisan leader and communist revolutionary. An advocate of an anarchist approach to world-systems theory, Grubačić is one of the protagonists of "new anarchism", and a member of the anti-authoritarian, direct-action wing of the global justice movement. He is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. His writings and interests range from comparative world history of exilic ("non-state") spaces and exilic societies to the neo-marxist world-systems analysis, and from the sociology of stateless democracy to the history of mutual aid.

Grubačić co-founded the Global Balkans network of the Balkan anti-capitalist diaspora, the Yugoslav Initiative for Economic Democracy, Kontrapunkt (magazine), and ZBalkans–a Balkan edition of Z Magazine. He is or has been active as an organizer in networks such as the post-Yugoslav coalition of anti-authoritarian collectives DSM!, Peoples Global Action, the World Social Forum, Freedom Fight and as a program director for the Global Commons.He is a member of Retort collective, a collective of radical intellectuals based in the Bay Area. As an anarchist educator, Grubačić travels around North America giving talks, lectures and workshops. He taught about anarchist education at Z Media Institute in Boston. He is a member of Bound Together Books in San Francisco, a collectively run anarchist bookstore. He is active with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies). He is involved with the mutual aid project with five prisoners on death row from Lucasville Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He wrote about the 1993 Lucasville rebellion, when 450 Lucasville prisoners, including an unlikely alliance of the Aryan Brotherhood and Gangster Disciples, rioted and took over the facility for 11 days.