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Anarchist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal of anarchism research, which has been publishing novel, refreshing and provocative arguments for over 30 years

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Kauan Willian @kauanwillian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New issue of Anarchist Studies, the leading international journal in libertarian studies. I authored the article “War on War: Anarchists in Brazil in the Face of the Two World Wars.”
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The first episode in this series introduces the book and its arguments. Listen to David Gordon Scott and Emma Bell on 'Envisioning Abolition - Back to Black?' here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' wherever you find your podcasts. bit.ly/43hSzuf (2/2)
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Essay #120: David Gordon Scott & Emma Bell, ‘Envisioning Abolition - Back to Black?’
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🎙️Anarchist Essay #120! The latest episode in our series with @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social starts a short series based on the edited collection 'Envisioning Abolution'. Published by @brisunipress.bsky.social, the book is edited by David Gordon Scott and Emma Bell. (1/2)
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Essay #120: David Gordon Scott & Emma Bell, ‘Envisioning Abolition - Back to Black?’
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John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Oooh very exciting. And one to be reviewed for @anarchiststudies.bsky.social. Do volunteer! (please!)
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🎙️Anarchist Essay #119! In the latest episode of our series w/ @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Roberta Cesana presents 'Writing as Self-Construction: Leda Rafanelli's Life in Anarchism, Typography and Publishing' Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' bit.ly/4uM268x
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🎙️Anarchist Essay #119! In the latest episode of our series w/ @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Roberta Cesana presents 'Writing as Self-Construction: Leda Rafanelli's Life in Anarchism, Typography and Publishing' Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' bit.ly/4uM268x
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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Starting shortly!
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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today! Upcoming ARG Seminar 29th April, 1-2pm (GMT) Join us this Weds. as Ryan Essex discusses 'Anarchism and Health'. All welcome. To join remotely, follow the link -> bit.ly/4t3XGsr Meeting ID: 350 524 241 471 45 Passcode: nh7cS6ey
'Anarchism and Health'
Dr. Ryan Essex
(George Institute for Global Health) 

Anarchism is deeply concerned with health and wellbeing, and with the conditions that make freedom and flourishing possible and yet, anarchism and health are two issues that are rarely put into conversation in the academic literature. Starting here, this talk focuses on two issues. First, the overlaps and synergies between anarchist ideas and efforts already underway in health. Mutual aid networks, community-led care, DIY practices, anti-racist and decolonial health movements. In these we find elements of horizontal organising, the democratisation of knowledge, collective self-determination and challenges to dominant, hierarchical models of care. Second, I turn to what anarchism could offer to disrupt, undermine and ultimately reconfigure how we organise for health. While there are reasons for hope, healthcare systems remain deeply hierarchical, knowledge remains commodified and locked behind paywalls, and appeals to the State or market continue to structure our political imagination. Anarchism has enormous potential here, not only to critique these arrangements, but to help us build something different in the here and now, moving us toward a world where we all can be healthy, whatever this may mean.
Dr. Ryan Essex is a Research Fellow at the George Institute. His work critically engages with health, ethics, and power. His research interests encompass migrant health, public health, protest and anarchist theory. Ryan is currently based in Australia and is the author of “Anarchism and health: Organising for health without the state and other forms of domination” (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2026) and co-editor of “Resistance, activism & health: Global perspectives on solidarity and the struggle for health” (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2026).
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Anarchist Essay #118! In the latest episode of our podcast series w/ the @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Vincent Bouchard & Asia Matthews present 'An Anarchist Approach to the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum'. Listen here or search for 'Anarchist Essays' bit.ly/4vVe7Kc
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🎙️Anarchist Essay #117! In the latest in our series w/ the @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Eleanor Strangways presents 'Anarchism, Anti-Imperialism, and the British Empire'. This episode draws on her recent article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social Listen here or search 'Anarchist Essays'. bit.ly/4chG1a7
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🎙️Anarchist Essay #117! In the latest in our series w/ the @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Eleanor Strangways presents 'Anarchism, Anti-Imperialism, and the British Empire'. This episode draws on her recent article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social Listen here or search 'Anarchist Essays'. bit.ly/4chG1a7
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🎙️Anarchist Essay #116! In the latest episode of our podcast series w/ the @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Sean Ketteringham presents 'Anarchist anti-imperialism, modern domesticity' exploring the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Listen here or search for 'Anarchist Essays' bit.ly/4sxdtAv
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🎙️Anarchist Essay #116! In the latest episode of our podcast series w/ the @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Sean Ketteringham presents 'Anarchist anti-imperialism, modern domesticity' exploring the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Listen here or search for 'Anarchist Essays' bit.ly/4sxdtAv
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
For more on this issue, see: bit.ly/41dZjYO To subscribe: bit.ly/4biJs1c To write for Anarchist Studies: bit.ly/3PLbauY (7/7)
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Anarchist Studies: Volume 34 Issue 1 (2026) - Lawrence Wishart
Anarchist Studies: An inter- and multi-disciplinary journal of anarchism research - Issue contents for Volume 34 Issue 1 (2026)
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The reviews section of AS 34.1 features @profalexp.bsky.social on Newman and La Torre's 'The Anarchist Before the Law'; Nathan Jun on Jarrett's 'Lockean Property Ethics'; Francis O'Connor on Biehl's 'Their Blood got Mixed'; + Isobel van Hagen on Branson's 'Practical Anarchism'. (6/7) bit.ly/41dZjYO
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Anarchist Studies: An inter- and multi-disciplinary journal of anarchism research - Issue contents for Volume 34 Issue 1 (2026)
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The final article in Anarchist Studies 34.1 is Kauan Willian dos Santos, ''War on War': Anarchists in Brazil in the Face of the Two World Wars' (5/7) bit.ly/41dZjYO
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The third article in Anarchist Studies 34.1 is by Tom Goyens (@tomgoyens.bsky.social) , 'Rudolf Rocker in Exile: Reimagining Anarchism in an Age of Catastrophe, 1933-1958'. (4/7) bit.ly/41dZjYO
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
In the second article in Anarchist Studies 34.1, Zachary Patrick discusses 'The Ballot or the Bomb: The Anarchist-Socialist Split in the American Gilded Age'. (3/7) bit.ly/41dZjYO
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
In this issue's first article, Michael Grooff presents 'Sympathy as the Engine of Mutual Aid: Reading Kropotkin's Bipartite Account of Sympathy' (2/7) bit.ly/41dZjYO
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
📝 Anarchist Studies 34.1 is out now! This issue comprises 4 articles, 1 review essay and 5 book reviews: The cover for this issue is by Gianluca Constantini and is discussed in the opening essay by Allan Antliff. (1/7) bit.ly/41dZjYO
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
📝 Anarchist Studies 34.1 is out now! This issue comprises 4 articles, 1 review essay and 5 book reviews: The cover for this issue is by Gianluca Constantini and is discussed in the opening essay by Allan Antliff. (1/7) bit.ly/41dZjYO
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🎙️Anarchist Essay #115! In a recent episode of our podcast series w/ @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social , Maria Chomard presented 'To Save the Saviours: Reorganising Anarchist Solidarity in the Europe after World War II'. Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' . bit.ly/4uEKvAi
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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
📝New article from ARG member Ruth Kinna and former ARG PhD student Simon Stevens. Their article 'Anarchism: War, Violence and Scapegoating' was recently published in the journal Contemporary Political Theory. This article is available open access here: bit.ly/46xKMul @irph.bsky.social
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This article gives an anarchist account of politics as war to theorise an anarchist Realpolitik. Mikhail Vereshchagin’s killing in War and Peace provides the springboard to review the claim that sover...
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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
📝New article from ARG member @msadams.bsky.social and his @irph.bsky.social colleague Rakesh Ankit. 'Anarchism and the "Fascination with Empire": George Woodcock in India, 1964-1985' was published in the International Review of Social History. It's available open access here: bit.ly/4qWdBI5
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Matthew Adams @msadams.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Perhaps of interest to anyone want to work with the Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social IRPH is also the home of the journal Anarchist Studies. @anarchiststudies.bsky.social
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Anarchist Essay #114! In the latest episode of our series w/@anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Ruth Kinna and Simon Stevens discuss their article 'Anarchism: War, Violence and Scapegoating'. Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' wherever you find your podcasts. bit.ly/4qERGFi
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Matthew Adams @msadams.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
May interest someone wanting to work with the Anarchism Research Group (@anarchismresgroup.bsky.social). IRPH is also the home of the journal Anarchist Studies. @anarchiststudies.bsky.social
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
📝Anarchist Studies Blog Post Ron Scapp offers 'Notes on an Anarchist Pedagogy - Postscript' on the Anarchist Studies blog. Read the full article here --> bit.ly/4reRQ7z
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Anarchist Essay #112! In our first episode of the new year, Robert T.F. Downes presents 'Green Anarchy and Red Praxis'. Listen here or search for 'Anarchist Essays' wherever you find your podcasts. bit.ly/3YDZxY6
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🎙️Anarchist Essay #111! In our last podcast episode of the year, Livia K. Stone presents 'Autogestion: Correcting the History of Self-Management'. You can listen here or search for 'Anarchist Essays' wherever you find your podcasts. bit.ly/4q10R36 See you in the new year!
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🎙️Anarchist Essay #110! In the latest episode of our series w/ @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh presents 'Creating an Anarchist Community: How can Students from a Neoliberal University Participate'. This episode is available in English and Spanish. bit.ly/4aeUwfF
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🎙️Anarchist Essay #109! In the latest episode of our podcast series w/ @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Jason Garner offers 'Updating Anarchism', exploring debates over anarchist tactics in the 1920s. Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' wherever you find your podcasts bit.ly/44WNuIO
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🎙️Anarchist Essay #108! In the latest episode of our podcast series w/ @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Steve Emery and Dai O'Brien offer 'L.A. Motler: A Deaf Anarchist' Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' bit.ly/4orPsrF Help others find the series by reviewing us wherever you listen!
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🎙️Anarchist Essay #107! In the latest episode of our series w/ @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz & Charles W., present 'Survival of the Organized: Critical Reflections on Organizing and Mutual Aid'. Listen here or search for 'Anarchist Essays' bit.ly/3WDHY9x
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🎙️Anarchist Essay #106! In the latest episode of our series w/ the @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Josie Holland presents 'Utopian Desires of Queer Anarchism'. Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' wherever you find your podcasts. bit.ly/49ck6Bh
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Essay #106: Josie Holland, ‘Utopian Desires of Queer Anarchism’
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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Starting in 1 hour. Join via this link: bit.ly/42misZL
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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Tomorrow!! We're delighted to welcome @akpress.org author Matt Broomfield for the first ARG 'webinar' of the semester. Matt will be speaking on 15th October 2025 between 15:00-16:00 GMT. All welcome and can join using this link --> bit.ly/42misZL See below for details of his presentation.
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Hope Without Hope carries on the long tradition of history, absurdist philosophy, and radical thought that has studied how anti-fascist and anti-colonial movements answer defeat and repression with a revolutionary faith in transformation. Only by understanding this history can we pursue the steadfast work of organizing for longterm revolutionary change in our seemingly hopeless age.

Matt Broomfield is a British journalist, poet, and organizer. From 2018 to 2020, he spent three years living and working in Rojava (North and East Syria), where he co-founded the Rojava Information Centre, the top independent, English-language news source connecting the Kurdish-led autonomous regions with the international press. His writing has appeared in the Independent, New Statesman, VICE, The Nation, and Jacobin, among others.
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profrowbey.bsky.social @profrowbey.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
something i put out a while ago. my entry into podcasting
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🎙️Anarchist Essay #105! In the latest episode of our podcast series w/ @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Javier Sethness Castro reads from his book 'Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism'. Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' bit.ly/4gXn9zn
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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
We're delighted to welcome @akpress.org author Matt Broomfield for the first ARG 'webinar' of this semester. Matt will be speaking on 15th October 2025 between 15:00-16:00 GMT. All welcome and can join using this link --> bit.ly/42misZL See below for details of his presentation.
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🎙️Anarchist Essay #104! In the latest episode of our series with the @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Theresa Warburton presents 'Other Worlds Here: Embracing Story as Place-Based Practice in Anarchist Social Movements' Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' bit.ly/4mqb6eQ
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Anarchist Studies 33.2 (Autumn, '25) is out now! This edition of the journal features 4 original articles and 3 book reviews. First, Robert T.F. Downes, 'Green Anarchy & Red Praxis: An Anarcho-Indigenous Dialogue Towards a Democracy of Species'. (1/8)
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John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Some great releases here! ... And worth reviewing for @anarchiststudies.bsky.social! (get in touch!)
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🎙️ Anarchist Essay #103! We return after the summer break with a new episode in our podcast series w/@anarchismresgroup.bsky.social. In episode 103, Iain McIntyre & Owen Clayton offer 'Mysteries of a Hobo's Life: T-Bone Slim and the IWW' Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays'. bit.ly/3JMBh1E
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🎙️ Anarchist Essay #103! We return after the summer break with a new episode in our podcast series w/@anarchismresgroup.bsky.social. In episode 103, Iain McIntyre & Owen Clayton offer 'Mysteries of a Hobo's Life: T-Bone Slim and the IWW' Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays'. bit.ly/3JMBh1E
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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Starting in 20 mins. Join remotely here --> bit.ly/42L8hyg
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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
To join Andrew's seminar tomorrow remotely, please use this link bit.ly/42L8hyg The seminar will start at 14:30 GMT.
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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Upcoming ARG seminar with Andrew Whitehead, 'The Battle with the London Anarchists'. 30th April, 14:00-16:30 GMT.
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🎙️Anarchist Essay #101! In the latest episode of our podcast series w/the @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Jesse Spafford @jessespafford.bsky.social discusses 'The Anarchist Case Against Private Property'. Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' wherever you find your podcasrs bit.ly/4jrq2br
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Essay #101: Jesse Spafford, ‘The Anarchist Case Against Private Property’
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Anarchist Studies @anarchiststudies.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🎙️Anarchist Essay #101! In the latest episode of our podcast series w/the @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social, Jesse Spafford @jessespafford.bsky.social discusses 'The Anarchist Case Against Private Property'. Listen here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' wherever you find your podcasrs bit.ly/4jrq2br
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