Troy Southgate’s presentation, ‘Anarchy in All But Name: Oscar Wilde’s Socialism’, at the Commonwealth of Free Spirits 1st International Conference in Porto, Portugal, June 2024.

BIO: TROY SOUTHGATE is from Crystal Palace, South London, and has been an underground writer and activist for almost forty years. In 1997 he graduated in History and Theology at the University of Kent and, in 2014, earned a teaching certificate in English Language from Cambridge University.

Elsewhere, he has been involved with over twenty music projects, including HERR, Seelenlicht, Xiphos, Von Thronstahl, Horologium, The Days of the Trumpet Call, Survival Unit, The Joy of Nature, Sagittarius, Sala Delle Colonne, Mind Terrorist, Across the Rubicon, Ollin, Elvatorium, Erich Zahn, Street Cleaner, Jumpscare and many others. He has also coached and managed boys’ football teams at under-8 and under-11 levels in both London and East Sussex, helping them go on to win local tournaments.

Since 2010 Troy has written and published over 150 books, is the founder of the National-Anarchist Movement (N-AM) and from 2005 to 2014 staged around fifty political meetings in London. The father of a large family, Troy taught his children at home and remains an inveterate bibliophile, accomplished poet, keen cyclist and enjoys photographing and researching country churches, ancient woodland, old ruins and other sacred places. He lives in northern Portugal.