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Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen & Jakob Jakobsen (eds.) 2015 304p 6 x 8 “This is the first ever English-language anthology collecting texts and documents from the still little-known Scandinavian part of the Situationist movement. The book covers over three decades of writing, from Asger Jorn’s Luck and Chance published . . .
An Ambiguous Utopia Alan Kaufman (ed.) 1999 685p 6 x 9 “This sizable volume, edited by Alan Kaufman and S.A. Griffin, houses a raucous gathering of Beat poets, spoken word artists, slam poets, and other revolutionaries. In forms ranging from the epistle through the manifesto to the hip-hop lyric, The Outlaw Bible presents over six hundred pages . . .
journal of queer time travel 2015 270p 5 x 8 “Bædan: journal of queer time travel marks a further attempt to pose and to flesh out a queer critique of civilization. Queer not only in the sense of coming from those outside and disruptive of the Family, but also in the sense of a critique weirder than its more . . .
Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance Doreen Rappaport & Shane W. Evans (Ils.) 2002 64p 9 x 11 Ever since the first boatload of human cargo sailed to the New World, African-Americans waged a courageous struggle for dignity and freedom. These eleven vinets—each a page or two long—puts the reader in the shoes a . . .
Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall Tim Mohr 2018 363p 6 x 9 “Stirb nicht im Warteraum der Zukunft // Don’t die in the waiting room of the future.” “It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West . . .
Fredy Perlman & Editorial Segadores (tr.) 1983/2019 331p 6 x 9 “’La muerte siempre está del lado de las máquinas.’ Con una mirada lúcida y subversiva, Fredy Perlman analiza el conjunto de civilización, patriarcado y Estado—la dominación en su totalidad—desde sus orígenes hasta el presente. Además, critica la forma en que esta his-storia—o ‘la historia de él’—se . . .
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild 1998 376p 6 x 9 “In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its . . .
The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K.Le Guin 2016 832p 6 x 9 Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin collected for the first time in one volume. Not to be confused with Le Guin’s collection of short stories, The Unreal and the Real. Novellas include: Vaster than Empires and More Slow Buffalo Gals, Won’t . . .
Journal of Queer Nihilism 2012 187p 5 x 8 This journal collects writings of queer nihilism, including from some of the people who wrote for Pink and Black. The first article is a more accessible and consistent take on Lee Edelman’s concepts from No Future, the fascinating (if irritating) book that discusses the Child as the organizing concept of society, . . .
Tales of Spectacular Escape Juan José Garfia 1995 125p 5 x 8 The barely fictionalized accounts of four escapes from prison, written in the 90s and recently translated from the Spanish. These stories are important as more and more of our friends go to prison; they are realistic portrayals by experienced people about what . . .
Memories from the Widow of Johann Most Helen Minkin 2015 176p 5 x 8 “Helene Minkin joined the anarchist movement after emigrating from Russia in 1888 with her father and sister. Framed as a reaction and corrective to Emma Goldman’s Living My Life [vols. I and II], Minkin’s memoir provides a unique account of turn-of-the-century anarchism . . .
book two of the earthseed series Octavia Butler 1998 424p 5 x 8 “Parable of the Talents is told from the point of views of Lauren Oya Olamina and her daughter Larkin Olamina/Asha Vere. The novel consists of journal entries by Lauren and passages by Asha Vere. Four years after the events of the previous novel . . .
Patricia C. McKissack & Leo and Diane Dillon (ils.) 2011 48p 9.5 x 11.5 “This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families. Set in West Africa, this a lyrical story-in-verse is about a young . . .
Silvia Federici 2018 112p 5 x 8 “We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relation. In this new work that revisits some of the main themes of Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici examines . . .
The Hidden History of Animal Resistance Jason Hribal & Jeffrey St. Clair (intro.) 2010 162p 5 x 8 “’Until the lion has his historian,’ the African proverb goes, ‘the hunter will always be a hero.’ Jason Hribal fulfills this promise and turns the world upside down. Taking the reader deep inside the circus, the zoo, and . . .
The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K.Le Guin 2016 752p 6 x 9 “A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin—selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time.” Not to be confused with Le Guin’s collection of novellas, The Found and . . .
Let’s Not Celebrate George Washington, but the Slaves Who Escaped Him CrimethInc. 2018 40p 5 x 8 An overview, mostly snippets and vignettes, of the slaves, indentured servants, and Native Americans that defied George Washington, as well as the role he played in shaping the United States along racial and class lines. An excellent overview! From . . .
Poems, Essays, Sketches and Stories, 1885-1911 Voltairine De Cleyre & Alexander Berkman (ed.) 1914 471p 5 x 8 “Voltairine de Cleyre was undeniably one of the most important anarchist thinkers in the US or anywhere else. Historian Paul Avrich considered her “a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist” and, moreover, a woman whose “whole . . .
Sophia Nachala & Yarostan Vochek 1976 728p 6 x 8 Two individuals living on distant continents resume contact through correspondence. They describe meaningful events and relationships in their lives during the twenty years since their youthful liaison, comparing the choices each took. Yarostan lives in a “workers’ republic”; Sophia in a “Western democracy.” They both . . .
a journal of heresy 2014 235p 5 x 8 “If the first issue of Baedan was a knife thrust wildly in the dark, the second is an effort to examine our enemies in a new light; enemies who bear scars yet endure. In a sense, this issue follows through our initial attack and pushes beyond our own horrors at the . . .
Antoine Gimenez’s Memories of the War in Spain The Giménologues (ed.) & Paul Sharkey (tr.) 2019 732p 6 x 9 “A fascinating memoir of the Spanish Civil War as well as a new approach to writing history, The Sons of Night is two books in one. First is Antoine Gimenez’s Memories of the War in Spain, a . . .
Emily Arnold McCully 2007 30p 9 x 11 A picture book about the life of Oney Judge, rebel slave of First Lady Martha and President George Washington. Gives kids an idea of Oney’s life as a slave in the late 1700/ early 1800s, her sucessful escape from the Washingtons and her struggle to keep . . .
Antonin Artaud 2001 253p 5.5 x 8 “I am the man,” wrote Artaud, “who has best charted his inmost self.” Antonin Artaud was a poet who wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but . . .
Emma Goldman 1934 508p 5 x 8 Unabridged second half of Emma Goldman’s almost 1000 page autobiography. Based on years of journal entries, the names, events and descriptions are incredibly vivid even after years since they first happened. See an endless list of friends, comrades, lovers, enemies, co-conspirators and fellow inmates as Goldman continues . . .
Helen Ellerbe 1995 227p 5 x 8 How did the Church manage to stay alive and a major player on the political and imperial level for 1500 years? Ellerbe explains: by crushing or absorbing everything that stood in its way. While The Dark Side of Christian History covers a lot of the same ground as Against His-Story, . . .
A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz 1991 288p 5 x 8 Written in the ’80s when Wojnarowicz and his friends were sick and dying of AIDS, this is a powerful, tragic — yet beautiful — memoirs. A collection of essays dealing with death, sickness, the sexual freedoms of queer life in New York City . . .
Simon Radowitzky Augustín Comotto, Stuart Christie (intro.) & Luigi Celentano (tr.) 2018 270p 8 x 11 “A beautifully illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Simón Radowitzky (1891-1956), a gentle soul caught up in a cruel world. The author/illustrator is an Argentinian living in Spain where the book was first published in 2016. Radowitzky appears in a . . .
Eduardo Galeano & Mark Fried (tr.) 2017 272p 6 x 8.5 “Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries (Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa among them) for his commitment to retelling our many histories, including the stories of those who were disenfranchised. A philosopher poet, his nonfiction is infused with such passion and imagination . . .
One Man’s Daring Escape From Mao’s Darkest Prison Xu Hongci & Erling Hoh (tr.) 2008/2017 314p 6 x 9 “Mao Zedong’s labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet Gulag, they subjected their inmates to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought to be impossible to escape―but one man . . .
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route Saidiya Hartman 2006 288p 5 x 8 “Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate . . .
Larry Mitchell 1977/2016 568p 5 x 8 “In a joyous and perverse intermingling of fable, myth, heterotopian vision, and pocket wisdom, The Faggots & Their Friends tell us stories of the 70s gay countercultures and offer us strategies and wisdom for our own time living Between Revolutions. ‘These pages sketch a different shape to time and . . .
Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici 2004 393p 6.5 x 9.5 Marx says that Capitalism comes into the world dripping with blood from the enclosure of common lands, the enslavement of europeans to the wage and the extermination and enslavement of africans and native americans. Foucault looks at the same period of time and speaks only . . .
An Anarchist View of Early State Formation Peter Gelderloos 2017 200p 5 x 8 “According to Worshiping Power, we need to stop thinking of the State as a potential vehicle for emancipation. From its origins, the State has never been anything other than a tool to accumulate power. This innovative and partisan study of human social . . .
A Critical Hidden History David Wise 2014 238p 6 x 9 “A highly personal, deeply political, coldly analytical and achingly optimistic account of what some consider to be one of the most important English political groupings of the 20th Century and beyond. The psycho-mythological legacy left behind by King Mob, nowadays often tied up with its assumed . . .
“I saw before me the Bolshevik State, formidable, crushing every constructive revolutionary effort, suppressing, debasing, and disintegrating everything.” Emma Goldman 1923 263p 5 x 8 In December 1919, Goldman and over two hundred other political dissidents were deported from America as part of the Red Scare of 1917-1920. Upon reaching Russia, Goldman observed the Russian Revolution . . .
Patricia Polacco 2009 48p 8.5 x 11 “Ever since the Nazis marched into Monique’s small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her, until the night Monique encounters ‘the little ghost’ sitting at the end of her bed. She turns out to be a girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding from the Nazis in . . .
A New Spelling of My Name A Biomythography Audre Lorde 1982 256p 6 x 9 “ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . .
The Secret Language of the Crossroads Daniel Cassidy 2007 303p 6 x 9 “In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that U.S. slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. “Jazz” and “poker”, “sucker” and “scam” all derive from Irish. While Demostrating this, Daniel Cassidy simultaneously traces the hidden history of how Ireland . . .
Bash Back! Anthology (Abridged) Fray Baroque & Tegan Eanelli 2012 221p 5 x 8 This new slimmer version of QUV brings you all the punch of the first edition at half the price. With a new introduction, this prisoner friendly version is a must have. “Let’s be explicit: We are criminal queer anarchists and . . .
Titian Peale’s Lost Manuscript Titian Peale & Kenneth Haltman (intro.) 2015 256p 8.5 x 11 “The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799–1885) had a passion for butterflies, and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated an ambitious and comprehensive manuscript. The book, along with a companion volume on caterpillars, was never published, and . . .
Notes on Christopher Columbus & Henry Shaw for the Destruction of Their Honor Leopold Trebitch & CrimethInc. 2018 p 5 x 7.5 From the introduction: “Last month, a crowd tore down a Confederate monument in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, continuing a tradition of iconoclasm initiated in nearby Durham a year ago after the clashes in . . .
Alexander Berkman 1912 512p 5 x 8 “In 1892, Alexander Berkman tried to assassinate Henry Clay Frick for his role in violently suppressing the Homestead Steel Strike. Berkman was unsuccessful. He spent the next fourteen years in prison, thirteen of them in Pennsylvania’s notorious Western Penitentiary. Upon his release, he wrote what was to . . .
Emma Goldman 1931 503p 5 x 8 Unabridged first half of Emma Goldman’s almost 1000 page autobiography. Based on years of journal entries, the names, events and descriptions are incredibly vivid even after years since they first happened. See an endless list of friends, comrades, lovers, enemies, co-conspirators and fellow inmates as Goldman emirgates to . . .
Kim Krans 2016 48p 5 x 8 “Kim Krans elevates the simple activity of counting with pen-and-ink drawings of unusual animals and scenes of natural beauty. Delicate watercolor accents and an engrossing search-and-find element make this enchanting book a collectible for all ages.” Aiden’s review of 1 2 3 Dream. $5-10
Anthony Walent 2019 151p 5 x 8 “In the legendary tradition of the medieval bestiary, A Desert Pilgrim’s Bestiary is a compendium of animals that slither, fly, run, and dwell in the Southwest desert. Within these pages, you will discover strange and elusive beasts in the mountains, rivers, and deserts of the Southwest. Join us in . . .
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Kim Krans 2017 40p 9.5 x 11.5 “A stunning picture book that addresses the question: do any of us ‘own’ nature? When a curious cat asks the question, ‘Whose moon is that?’, a panoply of animals try to stake their claim. The wolf, the owl, and the starry sky all have their . . .
Ángel Cappelletti & Gabriel Palmer-Fernández (tr.) 1993/2017 429p 5 x 8 “The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti’s wide-ranging, country-by- country historical overview of anarchism’s social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is one of the few . . .
A William Godwin Reader Peter Marshall (ed.) 2017 192p 6 x 9 “William Godwin (1756–1836) was one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was not only a radical philosopher but a pioneer in libertarian education, a founder of communist economics, and an acute and powerful novelist whose literary family . . .
CrimethInc. & Leopold Trebitch 2021 76p 5 x 8 “From coast to coast people have torn down and vandalized monuments built to the Confederacy, police, colonizers, and other white supremacists. But this is only the latest chorus in a struggle dating back centuries. Contained here are two essays: ‘Each Crueler Than the Last’, a history of Christopher . . .
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Clifford D. Conner 2005 568p 5 x 8 “You’ve probably heard the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein . . .
La Vida de María Nikiforova Malcolm Archibald 2007 44p 5.5 x 8.5 “En este texto puede conocerse mas información acerca de la persona mas conocida tras el termino de “atamansha” -el cual recibe el nombre nuestra editorial- y que significa “líder militar”* A ella muchos la conocieron, otros no tanto, su nombre es María . . .
The Difference Between Government and Self-Determination CrimethInc. 2017 218p 5 x 7.5 “Democracy is the most universal political ideal of our day. George Bush invoked it to justify invading Iraq; Obama congratulated the rebels of Tahrir Square for bringing it to Egypt; Occupy Wall Street claimed to have distilled its pure form. From the Democratic People’s . . .
A Reader anonymous (ed.) 2016/2019 336p 5.5 x 8 “A collection gathering readings for discussions on an end to gender: not the proliferation or liberation of gender, but its catastrophic cancellation. The reader brings together writings as old as 1883 and as recent as 2015, juxtaposing nihilist, radical feminist, queer, trans, anticolonial, communizing and insurrectionary approaches . . .
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi 2017 608p 6 x 9 “Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America–it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have . . .
A Guide to Borders & Migration Across North America CrimethInc. 2017 210p 5 x 7.5 “Every year, thousands of people risk their lives to cross the desert between Mexico and the United States. Why do so many people cross the border without documents? How do they make the journey? And whose interests does the border . . .
Anarchist Statements before Judge and Jury Detritus Books (ed.) 2019 250p 5 x 8 “As long as there have been anarchists, we have come into conflict with the law. From the workplace to the street, our actions have put us before judges and juries time and again. Many of us have chosen to maintain our defiant . . .
Devin Allen 2017 121p 9 x 10 “On April 18, 2015, the city of Baltimore erupted in mass protests in response to the brutal murder of Freddie Gray by police. Devin Allen was there, and his iconic photos of the Baltimore uprising became a viral sensation. In these stunning photographs, Allen documents the uprising as he strives . . .
The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland DaMaris B. Hill 2019 176p 6 x 8.5 “ ‘It is costly to stay free and appear / sane.’ From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair, and . . .
The Life and Times Below John Adams, Part I Leopold Trebitch 2021 238p 5.5 x 8 From the back cover, “How is it that America cries ‘freedom,’ but delivers slavery, war, and death? The same tensions we see today from Black Mesa and Standing Rock to Ferguson and Kenosha have racked America since its founding. Below John . . .
Jacques Lesage de La Haye & Scott Branson (trs.) 2021 128p 5 x 8 “The Abolition of Prison provides a reflection from a longtime prison abolitionist on the ideas, actions, and writings of anti-prison activism over the last fifty years. This book powerfully makes the case for the end of prisons, punishment, and guilt and, instead, suggests . . .
A Radical View of Western Civilization and Some of the People it Has Tried to Destroy Arthur Evans 1978/2013 314p 5 x 8 “This radical faerie classic, first published in 1978 by Fag Rag Press, uncovers the hidden mythic link between homosexuality and paganism in an elegy for the world of sex and magic vanquished by Christian . . .
The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action Sean Birchall 2010 416p 6 x 8 “The compelling account of the extraordinary activities of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA)—by those who were there on the frontline—an organised and committed group of ordinary working class people who, during the 1980s and 1990s took the fight to the far right and won! Following the . . .
Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century Simon Reynolds 2016 704p 6 x 9 “Spearheaded by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, and Roxy Music, glam rock reveled in artifice and spectacle. Reacting against the hairy, denim-clad rock bands of the late Sixties, glam was the first true teenage rampage of the . . .
Kim Krans 2018 160p 7.5 x 9 “Embark on an odyssey of reflection, self-discovery, and creative inspiration with The Wild Unknown Journal, a beautifully illustrated and hand-lettered guided journal from Kim Krans, the visionary artist and author behind the bestselling The Wild Unknown Tarot and The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit.” The journal contains 99 illustrated prompts. $6-10
A People’s History of the United States Desde 1492 hasta hoy Howard Zinn 1980, 2011 520p 5.5 x 8 “En ésta, su más famosa obra, Howard Zinn nos presenta una perspectiva lúcida e imprescindible de la historia de los Estados Unidos. Desde el primer encuentro entre los indígenas americanos y Cristóbal Colón hasta las aposionadas protestas . . .
The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Nancy Isenberg 2016 462p 6 x 9 “The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today’s hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and . . .
An Ambiguous Utopia Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 387p 5 x 8 “A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which . . .
Indians and Empires in the Atlantic’s Age of Sail Matthew R. Bahar 2018 304p 6.5 x 9.5 “Narratives of cultural encounter in colonial North America often contrast traditional Indian coastal-dwellers and intrepid European seafarers. In Storm of the Sea, Matthew R. Bahar instead tells the forgotten history of Indian pirates hijacking European sailing ships on the rough . . .
The Autobiography of Ed Mead Ed Mead 2015 338p 5 x 8 “More than a memoir, Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead takes the reader on a tour of America’s underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get by—and barely making it. When . . .
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Or, the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people Michael Ende 1973 265p 5 x 8 From the author that brought you The NeverEnding Story, this is the amazing young-adult tale of a little girl, who after discovering that representatives from the Time-Savings Bank . . .
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Treatise on Living for the Younger Generations Raoul Vaneigem 1967 336p 5 x 8 ‘People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouths.’ One of . . .
The Rose of Fire Has Returned: The Struggle for the Streets of Barcelona Anonymous 2012 75p 4 x 8 ‘In may 2011, tens of thousands occupied plazas throughout Spain in a protest movement that prefigured similar occupations around the world, including the Occupy movement in the US. On March 29, 2012, a nationwide general . . .
The Warriors and Legacy of Oka Loreen Pindera & Geoffrey York 1991 425p 6 x 9 In 1990, after the announcement to expand the local 9-hole golf course to an 18-hole one right through a Mohawk cemetery, a small band of women blocking the development and years of disappointment, manipulation, exploitation and genocide soon inspire an armed stand-off. For months . . .
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Fredy Perlman 1983 296p 5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor. Contra el Leviatán y contra su historia (en español) $6-15
European Autonomous Social Movements & The Decolonization of Everyday Life George Katsiaficas 1997 312p 6 x 9 George Katsiaficas’s account covers the period 1968-1996 and pays special attention to the role of autonomous feminist movements, the effects of squatters and feminists on the disarmament movement and on efforts to shut down nuclear power, and . . .
Proletarian Fighter, Blanquist Conspirator, Survivor of the Galleys, Veteran of the Uprising of 1848, Fugitive, Duelist, Ruffian, & Very Nearly Assassin of Karl Marx CrimethInc. 2016 30p 4 x 5 “Today, practically all that remains of Emmanuel Barthélemy is a dramatic cameo in a chapter of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. But Barthélemy was a real person who participated . . .
CrimethInc.Ex-Workers’ Collective Spring 2015 154p 8 x 10 The centerpiece of this issue is a 64-page feature on the uprising against police and white supremacy that spread from Ferguson, Missouri across the United States. We urge everyone to read the debrief discussion in which participants reflect on their role in predominantly black struggles and . . .
One Soldier’s Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II Brendan I. Koerner 2008 400p 5 x 8 This is the story of Herman Perry, a black GI during World War II, and the road he was forced to work on. The Ledo Road was a 465 mile supply road from British occupied . . .
A Memoir Reinaldo Arenas 1992 336p 5 x 8 Written while dying of AIDS in New York City in the late 1980s, this is Arenas’ incredible story, told so movingly and elegantly in all its misery and beauty. Born in impoverished countryside of Cuba, Arenas ran away to join guerrillas at age 15. Shortly after, Castro came . . .
Lucille Clifton & Brinton Turkle 1973 32p 8.5 x 8 Everyone keeps telling King Shabazz that Spring’s right around the corner, but King’s never seen it before. Together with his best friend, Tony Polito, King Shabazz sets off on an adventure through New York City to find out if Spring is real. $1-10
The Road to Freedom Catherine Clinton 2004 280p 5 x 8 This biography of Tubman traces her roots as a slave, her running away, her years as an abolitionists, then member of the Union Army and life after chattel slavery was abolitioned. Readers will likely be left in awe of Tubman’s immense physical, psychological, . . .
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The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal Afua Cooper 2006 349p 5 x 8 During the night of April 10, 1734, Montréal burned. Marie-Joseph Angélique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed forty-six buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone . . .
The Dance of Death Luther Blissett 1999 768p 6 x 9 1517 Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy, known mysteriously as ‘Q.’ In this brilliantly conceived historical thriller set in . . .
Jules-François Dupuis 1977 131p 5 x 8 This pseudonymous account of surrealism by Raoul Vaneigem offers an answer to the question, “What was living and what was dead in Surrealism?” Though blistering in its criticism of surrealism’s artistic and political aporias, the book identifies the “radioactive fragment of radicalism” that the movement never quite shed. An excellent situationist critique of . . .
The Life and Times Below John Adams, Part I Leopold Trebitch 2021 238p 5.5 x 8 From the back cover, “How is it that America cries ‘freedom,’ but delivers slavery, war, and death? The same tensions we see today from Black Mesa and Standing Rock to Ferguson and Kenosha have racked America since its founding. Below John . . .
Dorothy Allison 1995 94p 5 x 8 “Illustrated with photographs from the author’s personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women—sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts—and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire . . .
A Surrealistic Novel in Collage Max Ernst 1934 208p 8 x 11 Accredited with inventing collage, this is one of Ernst’s finest example of it. All five original brochures reproduced in large, crisp and beautiful images. $14-20
Abel Paz 2006 800p 6 x 9 The most thorough account of Buenaventuera Durruti’s life and spain in the tumultuous and rowdy years of the 1920-1930s in English. Paz, who fought in the spanish revolution as a teenager, seamlessly weaves intimate biographical details of Durruti’s life—his progression from factory worker and father to bank robber, . . .
Origins of North American Dropout Culture Ron Sakolski 1994 382p 6 x 9 An absolutely incredible subversive history of america and many of its inhabitants attempts to subvert race and have a healthier relationship with nature. Viewed through cracks in the cartographies of control, including ‘tri-racial isolate’ communities, buccaneers, ‘white Indians,’ black Islamic movements, . . .
Vol. I Anonymous 2014 20p 5 x 8 ‘This commercial stretch, full of parasitical businesses, has numerous small roads leading east into the densely-populated neighborhoods just one block in that direction. The police, too afraid and outnumbered to enter a residential area seething with outrage, weren’t able to block these streets. People, hearing about . . .
Maya Angelou 1969 304p MMPB Born in St. Louis and sent with her brother and no adults on a train when only a few years old to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, this is the first – and best – of Aneglou’s memoirs, spanning ages 3-17. Through Angelou’s eyes we can see . . .
A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz 1991 288p 5 x 8 Written in the ’80s when Wojnarowicz and his friends were sick and dying of AIDS, this is a powerful, tragic — yet beautiful — memoirs. A collection of essays dealing with death, sickness, the sexual freedoms of queer life in New York City . . .
What Mound Have Been // Some Poems, 2003-2013 2014 60p 5.5 x 8.5 A petite, personal history of the curious earthworks of North St. Louis, the text explores the mysterious origins and unexpected transformations of the city’s monumental earthen mounds. From the burial grounds of Native Americans to the platforms of early St. Louis colonialists for . . .
The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews Peter Duffy 2003 336p 6 x 9 Of books about resistance to the Holocaust, this is one of the better stories: more defiant, surviving jews and more dead Nazis. In the dense forest of Belarussia, . . .
Keiko Kasza 1993 16p 7 x 9 In this picture book, Choco is a little bird who lives all alone. He wishes he had a mother, but who could his mother be? While searching for her, Chocho is told over and over that different animals cannot be his mother because they don’t look like him. Eventually, Choco . . .
Fredy Perlman & Editorial Segadores (tr.) 1983/2019 331p 6 x 9 “’La muerte siempre está del lado de las máquinas.’ Con una mirada lúcida y subversiva, Fredy Perlman analiza el conjunto de civilización, patriarcado y Estado—la dominación en su totalidad—desde sus orígenes hasta el presente. Además, critica la forma en que esta his-storia—o ‘la historia de él’—se . . .
Let’s Not Celebrate George Washington, but the Slaves Who Escaped Him CrimethInc. 2018 40p 5 x 8 An overview, mostly snippets and vignettes, of the slaves, indentured servants, and Native Americans that defied George Washington, as well as the role he played in shaping the United States along racial and class lines. An excellent overview! From . . .
Paul Avrich 1967 320p 5.5 x 8.5 From the nihilists of the 1870s to their anarchist, leninist and maximalist heirs, Avrich covers everything: bomb-throwers, philosophers, workers’ councils, the ukrainian makhnovtchina, the krondstadt uprising, the bolshevik betrayal, and the ordinary peasants, soldiers and workers committed to fighting for a truly free world. One of my favorite books, easily one of the . . .
Paul Avrich 1984 556p 6 x 9 Similar to most of Avrich’s work, this is the definitive take on the Haymarket bombing: the years and social tensions leading up to it, the 8 defendants including their similarities and differences, their executions and the anarchist seed that was planted by their deaths. Very thorough. $10-20
Suzzane Collins 2008 384p 5 x 8 In retribution for a crushed uprising years before, each region of the future, dystopian United States must send its children to fight each other to the death. What will people do to survive? What will people watch to be entertained (and forget the misery and exploitation of . . .
Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker 2001 433p 6.5 x 9 Spanning an impressive 200 years, this books takes us from the early 1600s (and the years leading up to the English Civil War) through the golden age of piracy, through the tumultuous years . . .
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild 1998 376p 6 x 9 “In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its . . .
Notes on Christopher Columbus & Henry Shaw for the Destruction of Their Honor Leopold Trebitch & CrimethInc. 2018 p 5 x 7.5 From the introduction: “Last month, a crowd tore down a Confederate monument in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, continuing a tradition of iconoclasm initiated in nearby Durham a year ago after the clashes in . . .
Peter Shaffer 1974 145p 5 x 8 Equus. . . . This is a play about a disgruntled child psychiatrist who takes on the case of a young man who’s blinded six horses. Over the course of trying to treat the youth, everything is called into question for the doctor and us, the reader. . . .
An Oral History of Anarchism in America Paul Avrich 2005 592p 6 x 9 The 180 interviewees in this oral history (mostly anarchists, but also their friends, associates and relatives) represent diverse political tendencies – individualists, collectivists, pacifists, revolutionaries. The respondents give firsthand recollections of Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Sacco and Vanzetti and other key anarchists; describe their experiences in . . .
Or, the Spectacle is sustained by the Spectator. Anonymous 2012 16p 5.5 x 8.5 “Screens are powerful technologies that shape our relations with ourselves and the world in subtle but profound ways. Among those ways is a cultivation of a Spectator’s relationship with reality―we are more likely to “know” and “understand” than to see . . .
Death for Death Anonymous 2006 189p 4 x 5 This chronology was originally published in 2006 and circulated as a dense, hand-sewn booklet. This 2016 LBC reprint jettisons much of the text, and instead focuses on the 1860-1950s, mainly the Era of Dynamite. From the afterward, “Inspired by the chronologies in Green Anarchy and the . . .
A Novel Dorothy Allison 1992 320p 6 x 8 Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other’s trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne . . .
The Story of Class Violence in America Louis Adamic 1935 380p 5 x 8 The history of labor in the United States is a story of almost continuous violence. In Dynamite, Louis Adamic recounts one century of that history in vivid, carefully researched detail. Covering both well- and lesser-known events — from the riots . . .
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Kim Krans 2017 40p 9.5 x 11.5 “A stunning picture book that addresses the question: do any of us ‘own’ nature? When a curious cat asks the question, ‘Whose moon is that?’, a panoply of animals try to stake their claim. The wolf, the owl, and the starry sky all have their . . .
David Lamb 52p 5.5 x 8.5 Excellent essay detailing mutinies during World War I, primarally in the British army. “One question dominated the Government: ʻCould the troops be relied on, in the event of revolution or serious civil disturbance in England?'” Mutinies: WWI PDF ¢50-$2
Leopold Trebitch 2017 20p 5 x 8 More the times than the life of George Caleb Bingham, Missouri’s premier 19th Century painter, this text traces Missouri from the early 1800s up to the Civil War. Showing how Democracy and slavery work hand in hand in the Show Me State, this pamphlet includes all three . . .
Margaret Atwood 1985 311p MMPB Written after a visit to afghanistan in the ’80s, this is a dystopian tale about what could be the role of women in an american theocracy. $2-5 The Handmaid’s Tale in spanish
Helen Ellerbe 1995 227p 5 x 8 How did the Church manage to stay alive and a major player on the political and imperial level for 1500 years? Ellerbe explains: by crushing or absorbing everything that stood in its way. While The Dark Side of Christian History covers a lot of the same ground as Against His-Story, . . .
Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici 2004 393p 6.5 x 9.5 Marx says that Capitalism comes into the world dripping with blood from the enclosure of common lands, the enslavement of europeans to the wage and the extermination and enslavement of africans and native americans. Foucault looks at the same period of time and speaks only . . .
PAMPHLETS
A Graphic Account From Oaxaca Ana Nimo 2007 12p 8.5 x 11 From the author: ‘This book represents my interpretation of the events in Oaxaca from June thru November of 2006. It is influenced by my perspective as a visitor and an anti-authoritarian. I’m sure there are as many perspectives as there are viewers, . . .
No thanks thanks to the treadmill. No thanks to the Grindstone. There’s plenty of dissent from these rungs below. Summer 2013 34p 8.5 x 11 After a four year hiatus, war on misery came back — bigger than ever. Articles include an analysis of Occupy St. Louis: ‘Occu-POW!: The Jolt of Occupy St. Louis’; a chronology of resistance . . .
What Mound Have Been // Some Poems, 2003-2013 2014 60p 5.5 x 8.5 A petite, personal history of the curious earthworks of North St. Louis, the text explores the mysterious origins and unexpected transformations of the city’s monumental earthen mounds. From the burial grounds of Native Americans to the platforms of early St. Louis colonialists for . . .
The George Jackson Brigade, Men Against Sexism, and Gay Struggle Against Prison Bo Brown & Ed Mead 2014 64p 5 x 8 Untorelli Press presents a collection of interviews and historical documents by and about the George Jackson Brigade and Men Against Sexism, focusing on the many forms of queer struggle against prison society. This is not merely another historical . . .
Simon the Simpler 2010 28p 5.5 x 8.5 This pamphlet contains recipes, a section on wildcrafting, an essay about anarcho-herbalism, and a list of additional resources. An Herbal Medicine-Making Primer PDF ¢50-$3
Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle Untorelli Press (ed.) 2013 60p 5.5 x 8.5 Interviews and speeches by founding members of STAR: Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. Details Stonewall and the emergence of Gay Liberation afterwards, the selling out of transgendered members by the gay activist community and the STAR house. ¢75-$3
The False Opposition of Animal Liberation A Murder of Crows 2007 44p 4 x 5 Originally published in the second issue of A Murder of Crows, this text is a good critique of many of the pitfalls of the animal liberation movement — coming from a pro-animal perspective. The Harvest of Dead Elephants PDF ¢65-$2
Leopold Trebitch 2017 20p 5 x 8 More the times than the life of George Caleb Bingham, Missouri’s premier 19th Century painter, this text traces Missouri from the early 1800s up to the Civil War. Showing how Democracy and slavery work hand in hand in the Show Me State, this pamphlet includes all three . . .
The Collected Statements, Writings, and Communiques of Direct Action and the Wimmin’s Fire Brigade Untorelli Press (ed.) 2015 64p 5.5 x 8.5 A comprehensive collection of writings from the Canadian eco-anarchist group Direct Action. Includes retrospective interviews, communiques from attacks by the group, theoretical essays, and prison writings. War on Patriarchy PDF ¢75-$3
Vol. I Anonymous 2014 20p 5 x 8 ‘This commercial stretch, full of parasitical businesses, has numerous small roads leading east into the densely-populated neighborhoods just one block in that direction. The police, too afraid and outnumbered to enter a residential area seething with outrage, weren’t able to block these streets. People, hearing about . . .
to a study of the return of the repress in history Anonymous, Clifford Harper Ill. 1994 40p 5 x 8 A collection of ‘ultra’ prose and poetry from 300 years of outrage, passion, sarcasm and wit. Quotes, rants, declarations and blood-curdling warcries. Reprinted here from an obscure edition first published in the 60s in a . . .
Anonymous 2012 16p 5 x 8 This piece tells an old story in a new way. We’ve all heard the one about the collapse of the Roman empire, and how imperial power then moved North into other parts of Europe. What The Witch’s Child offers is not new facts, but rather a new telling, . . .
Radical Perspectives in the Caribbean Fundi 1988 24p 5 x 8 A compilation of excerpts from a forum on Grenada and Jamaica, which was held in San Francisco in December, 1983, follow-up interviews and informal discussions. These edited statements belong 53-year-old Jamaican named Fundi. The basis for his critical analysis of Grenada and the . . .
A History of Women Healers Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English 1970 28p 5 x 8 Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is a good introduction to the corruption and exploitation of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. An exposé of the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of . . .
The Story of a Small, Underground 1960s Revolutionary Group in New York City Anonymous 16p 5 x 8 Former street kids and university drop-outs, this is the story of the Motherfuckers, hell-bent on destroying capitalism and all things it turned to lifeless gold when it touched them: art, music, drugs, and the hippie counterculture. Black Mask PDF . . .
Darlin’ there’s a place for us… can we go before I turn to dust? Summer 2008 20p 8.5 x 11 Articles include an analysis of anti-police activity in st. louis: ‘Invitation for Conflict: a magnifying glass to three anti-police initiatives’; an analysis of the Laidlaw bus drivers’ strike: ‘The Driver on the Bus Says “WI-LD-CAT!”; a reportback from the failed . . .
Our days are never coming back. Autumn 2006 12p 8.5 x 11 Articles include an analysis of st. louis arsons: ‘When the bloodys lips of progress move to kiss, we spit fire: on the 2006 arsons ripping through city and suburban developments’; a chronology of work-related deaths: ‘They make us strap time-clocks to our chests’; a how-to about foodstamps; and . . .
One Thousand Emotions (ed.) 2006 36p 5 x 8 Two essays–Back From Hell by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin and–and a chronology of prison revolts from 2004-2005. From the back cover: “Prisoners began… to understand in theoretical terms how racism was a way of enslaving us all – blacks and other non-whites as inferiors, whites as . . .
Rebellion and Convict Lease in Tennessee’s Coalfields, 1891-1895 Sweet Tea 2010 32p 5 x 8 From the back cover: “Something happened in Tennessee, something almost unimaginable to the mine owners and politicians of that state. When the companies tried to intimidate their workers by bringing in convict labor to take over their jobs, the . . .
Industry as the Origins of Modern Domination Leopold Roc 16p 5 x 8 An excellent description of the history and methods used to force some of the first people from their homes into factories. No one goes willing, it isn’t smooth, inevitable or anything close to a ‘revolution.’ Industrial Domestication PDF ¢25-$1
The Edelweiss Pirates, 1938-1945 Anonymous 8p 5 x 8 From the introduction by Wolfi Landstreicher, ‘To be clear, I am not interested in antifascism by itself. Without a clear revolutionary perspective, the struggle against fascism all too easily degenerates into the struggle for liberal values and the democratic state. Thus, I agree with Alfredo Bonanno’s statement: ‘I have never liked . . .
On the origins of the wage, resistance to it, and some starting points for its destruction. Anonymous 2011 12p 5 x 8 Starting with the enclosure of common land in England, this pamphlet (briefly) traces the rise of Capitalism as it impacted different people: the degraded status of women and people of color (that . . .
Inside the FBI Entrapment Strategy CrimethInc. 2012 8p 4 x 5 A good overview of FBI entrapment strategies from the past ten years. From the text, ‘Never undertake or discuss illegal activity with people you haven’t known and trusted for a long time. Don’t trust people just because other people trust them or because they are in influential . . .
A Brief Look at Militant Actions Against the Prison-Industrial Complex Anonymous 16p 5 x 8 I’ve always assumed this pamphlet was cut and pasted in the late 90s/ early 2000s—a lot of its charm comes from this. Topics include french anti-prison rebels Os Cangaceiros; bandit and prison escape artist Jacques Mesrine; the death throes of the . . .
EN ESPAÑOL
Mujeres, cuerpo y acumulación originaria Silvia Federici 2004 367p 5 x 8 Marx dice el capitalismo entra en la historia cubierto de sangre desde el recinto de las tierras comunales, la esclavitud de los europeos al salario, y el exterminio y la esclavitud de los africanos y americanos nativos. Foucault observa el mismo period de tiempo, y habla sólo de . . .
Paco Ignacio Taibo II 2004 224p ’68 es una agarradora narración en primera persona hecha por uno de los más distinguidos y prolíficos escritores mexicanos de todos los tiempos, acerca de la masacre estudiantil de Tlatelolco llevada a cabo en Ciudad de México en 1968. El propósito de Paco Ignacio Taibo II es el de recuperar, a través de su . . .
La Vida de María Nikiforova Malcolm Archibald 2007 44p 5.5 x 8.5 “En este texto puede conocerse mas información acerca de la persona mas conocida tras el termino de “atamansha” -el cual recibe el nombre nuestra editorial- y que significa “líder militar”* A ella muchos la conocieron, otros no tanto, su nombre es María . . .
la extana historia de los ladrones del tiempo y de la nina que devolvio el tiempo a los hombres Michael Ende 1973 265p 5 x 8 Momo (in english) $10-20
George Orwell 1948 292p 5 x 8 La novella anti-autoritario clásico sobre el totalitarismo. Ambientada en un future mundo de 1984, donde las guerras se libran con la misma gente que el gobierno armó anteriormente, la idioma está siendo deconstruido y borró lo que la gente ya ni siquiera saben cómo pensar y hablar contra unos pocos poderosos que dirigen . . .
A People’s History of the United States Desde 1492 hasta hoy Howard Zinn 1980, 2011 520p 5.5 x 8 “En ésta, su más famosa obra, Howard Zinn nos presenta una perspectiva lúcida e imprescindible de la historia de los Estados Unidos. Desde el primer encuentro entre los indígenas americanos y Cristóbal Colón hasta las aposionadas protestas . . .
La Verdadera Historia de Balius y Los Amigos de Durruti Miquel Amorós 2003 448p 5 x 8 A partir de documentación en parte inédita del movimiento libertario español y siguiendo el hilo conductor de la biografía de Balius, una de las figuras destacadas de la Agrupación Los Amigos de Durruti, Miquel Amorós reconstruye con gran exhaustividad los debates y enfrentamientos . . .
Italo Calvino 1959 128p 5 x 8 La voz del caballero Agilulfo llegaba metálica desde dentro del yelmo cerrado, como si no fuera una garganta sino la propia chapa de la armadura la que vibrase. Y es que, en efecto, la armadura estaba hueca, Agilulfo no existía. Solo a costa de fuerza de voluntad, de convicción, había logrado forjarse una identidad . . .
Margaret Atwood 2006 304p 6 x 8 Una novela fragmentada en once relatos. Como un álbum de fotos, en que cada una de las instantáneas que guarda jalonan el curso de una vida y de las vidas de los personajes que la rodean, Desorden moral no es sólo la crónica de la trayectoria de Nell, su protagonista, sino también de . . .
B. Traven 1929 228p 6 x 8 “La noche es profundamente oscura. Tenemos que ir adivinando el camino que conduce al puente. La linterna del maestro maquinista nos indica vagamente el camino. Después de algunos tanteos, más con los pies que con las manos, damos finalmente con los pesados tablones. “Cristo” vociferé. “Si no se anda uno con cuidado por . . .
Michael Ende 1973 419p 5 x 8 El Reino de Fantasia está en un serio peligro: pronto va a desaparecer sin que sus habitantes puedan evitarlo. Solo hay un ser que podría ayudarles. Un niño llamado Bastián. Un niño que habita al otro lado, en la realidad. Lanzándose a una maravillosa aventura que cambiará para siempre su vida y la . . .
Fredy Perlman & Editorial Segadores (tr.) 1983/2019 331p 6 x 9 “’La muerte siempre está del lado de las máquinas.’ Con una mirada lúcida y subversiva, Fredy Perlman analiza el conjunto de civilización, patriarcado y Estado—la dominación en su totalidad—desde sus orígenes hasta el presente. Además, critica la forma en que esta his-storia—o ‘la historia de él’—se . . .
B. Traven 1950 112p 5 x 7 Macario es la singular aventura de un hombre humilde y hambriento, que satisfacer su deseo de comerse un pavo entero. $3-10
Bruno Astarian 2003 176p 5 x 8 El ’68 ha sido señalado como el signo del cambio de una época, síntoma y proceso de nuevas inquietudes sociales y de una verdadera revolución social, que sólo con los años pudo ser redirigida hacia una renovación radical del capitalismo. Celebrado y conmemorado en las fechas más evidentes y por los actores más . . .
Fredy Perlman 1984 84p 5 x 8 Una crítica mordaz del nacionalismo – tanto de izquierda y de derecha. Este es un ensayo esencial para una comprensión crítica del nacionalismo. La idea de que la comprensión o experimentar un genocidio, o un recuerdo de los holocaustos, sólo puede llevar a la gente a querer desmantelar los sistemas que cometen los . . .
George Orwell 1945 144p 5 x 8 En 1945, tras el término de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se publicó esta novela que tuvo gran repercusión al ser percibida como una sátira acerca del totalitarismo y la corrupción soviética en los tiempos de Stalin. Esta historia describe magistralmente como un grupo de animales de una granja expulsa a los humanos y . . .
Margaret Atwood 2000 400p 5 x 8 Avilion, una mansion familiar convertida en simbolo de una epoca perdida. Un matrimonio movido por la codicia. Un amor clandestino y una pasion irrenunciable. El estallido de la guerra. Iris Chase, ya anciana, invoca el pasado con la distancia y el escepticismo de quien no tiene nada que perder. Su mirada lucida e . . .
Italo Calvino 1972 125p 5 x 8 Del autor: “Las ciudades invisibles se presentan como una serie de relatos de viaje que Marco Polo hace a Kublai Kan, emperador de los tártaros. . . A este emperador melancólico que ha comprendido que su ilimitado poder poco cuenta en u mondo que marcha hacia la ruina, un viejero imaginario le habla . . .
Margaret Atwood 1985 250p 5 x 8 En el estado de Gilead, donde tras una hecatombe nuclear, la población ha visto disminuida su capacidad de reproducción, las Criadas, vestidas con hábitos rojos de la cabeza a los pies, con el rostro cubierto por un velo transparente y enmarcado por una toca blanca, desempeñan una función esencial: concebir y dar a . . .
POSTERS
Mazatl 2010 10.5 x 16.5 Que a sangre y fuego caiga, lo que a sangre y fuego se mantiene. // That which is maintained with blood and fire through blood and fire shall fall. —Ricardo Flores Magón El Hijo del Ahuizote fue un perodico revolucionario que luchó contra la dictadura de Porfirio Diaz en Mexico. La publicación combinó . . .
Mazatl 2012 10.5 x 16.5 “¡Huelga General Internacional! No Trabajo No Escuela No Consumo” This poster is a full-bleed digital reprint on 80 lbs cardstock. ENGLISH VERSION HERE $1-5
Damon Locks 2012 10.5 x 16.5 “In the early 1700s, Queen Nanny and the Windward Maroons used guerilla warfare to defeat the British from the mountains of Jamaica. In doing so, they avoided further enslavement and forced the British to capitulate. In 1939-40, the British Governor in Jamaica gave the Maroons two thousand five hundred acres . . .
Keinom 2006 10.5 x 16.5 “After Hitler took power in 1933 several resistance groups fought against the regime. The White Rose was founded in 1942 and based in Munich. Its members were students Hans and Sophie School, Christian Probst, Willi Graf, Alexander Schmorell and Professor Kurt Huber. Against great odds and heavy repression, they printed six . . .
Christy Road 2004 10.5 x 16.5 “During an era of extreme gender division in Spain, women’s freedom was severely restricted. In response to the women’s situation, two groups of anarchist women in Barcelona and Madrid had begun organising two years before the revolution. In preparation for the revolution, they built up a network of women activists . . .
Mazatl 2012 10.5 x 16.5 “International General Strike! No Work No School No Shopping” This poster is a full-bleed digital reprint on 80 lbs cardstock. SPANISH VERSION HERE $1-5
Ben Rubin 2002 10.5 x 16.5 “Anarchist, writer, and activist who fought for human rights, women’s equality, sexual freedom, contraception, fair labor practices, education, individual liberty, and social revolution.” #10 in the Celebrate People’s History. This poster is a full-bleed digital reprint on 80 lbs cardstock. $1-5
Alec Dunn 2000 10.5 x 16.5 “ ‘We may think we live in a free country, but we are in reality nothing but slaves. When President Wilson said we are at war he spoke the truth once. But it isn’t a war against another nation, but a never-ending class war within our own country.’ —Dr. Marie . . .
anonymous 10 x 14 This poster is a digital reprint on 80 lbs cardstock. $1-5
Flavio Constantini 1974 10.5 x 16.5 Marius Jacob (1879-1954) was an anarchist burglar living in turn-of-the-century France. Here we have the illegalist and two of his comrades breaking into a cathedral to steal tapestries. Flavio Costantini (1926-2013) was an Italian artist, designer, and printmaker. Costantini created portraits of writers and artists for newspapers, and illustrated several . . .
Josh MacPhee 2007 10.5 x 16.5 “In July, 1936, soon after General Franco’s fascist troops revolted against the Spanish Republic, Buenaventura Durruti led a military column made up of 2,000 Anarchist workers to fight the fascists. Not a typical military unit, the column was organized by the soldiers themselves, with rank holding only minimal importance, and . . .
2014 9.5 x 13 A detournment of Albrecht Durer’s Ercules inspired by the work of Fredy Perlman. Text from the back of the poster reads: “Some say Durer was a communalist like many of the peasant rebels of his day, others an authoritarian of the worst stripe. While his work can support either of these seemingly contradictory stances, . . .
Flavio Constantini 1976 10.5 x 16.5 On September 11, 1926, anarchist Gino Lucetti (1900-1943) threw a bomb at Mussolini’s passing car. Sadly, the bomb bounced off without hurting Il Douche, and Lucetti was arrested. The would-be assassin was sentenced to 30 years in prison, but escaped in 1943 (being killed in a bombing raid shortly afterward.) Flavio . . .
Mary Tremonte 2009 10.5 x 16.5 “Roy and Silo are chinstrap penguins at Central Park Zoo in New York City, who were inseperable for over six years. The two males exhibited ‘escatic behavior,’ entwining their necks, vocalizing to each other, and having sex. When other penguins laid eggs and began incubating, they found an egg-shaped rock . . .
Molly Crabapple & John Leavitt 2012 10.5 x 16.5 Full-bleed digital reprint on 80 lbs cardstock. $1-5
Aprille 2005 10.5 x 16.5 “Louise Olivereau (1883-1963). One of many arrested in the United States during World War I for speaking their mind—her heinous crime was merely mailing out a few thousand anti-draft leaflets. She was charged with sedition and served 28 months of a 10 year sentence.” #28 in the Celebrate People’s History Series. . . .
Matt Gauck 2013 10.5 x 16.5 “In 1982, five activists from Squamish, Canada dynamited a hydroelectric project as well as a cruise missile factory, among others. They had become frustrated with conventional forms of activist & non-violent protest, so they took to propaganda of the deed, and made a difference with direct action.” #88 in the . . .
Meredith Stern 2014 10.5 x 16.5 This full-bleed digital reprint on 80 lbs cardstock comes in two sizes. 4.5″ x 5″—¢50-$3 7″ x 7.5″—$1-5
Shaun Slifer 2003 10.5 x 16.5 “Wild nature is so beautiful! Is it then necessary that man, in his seizure of it, has to proceed systematically to exploit each newly conquered domain and to mark his ownership with vulgar constructions and property boundaries as straight as a die?” —L’Homme et la Nature, 1865 “Elisée Reclus, influential . . .
Shaun Slifer 2014 10.5 x 16.5 ” ‘We petition no more. That won’t do—fighting must.’ LUDDITES: being a social uprising in the Midlands of England between the years 1811 and 1813 TO PUT DOWN ALL MACHINERY HURTFUL TO COMMONALITY! ‘Certain inventions in machinery were introduced into the staple manufacturers of the north, which, greatly reducing the . . .
anonymous 2014 10.5 x 16.5 This poster is a full-bleed digital print on 80 lbs cardstock. $1-5
El Mund Feliz 2014 10.5 x 16.5 “The Spanish Maquis were guerrillas who fought against the Franco regime. They carried out sabotage in Spain, as well as contributing to the fight against Nazi Germany and the Vichy regime in France in the 1940s. The anti-Franco guerrilla resistance in Spain began before the end of the Spanish . . .
anonymous 2005 10.5 x 16.5 This poster is a full-bleed, full color digital reprint on 80 lbs cardstock. $1-5
Micah Bazant 2014 10.5 x 16.5 “Marsha ‘Pay It No Mind’ Johnson was a mother of the trans and Queer Liberation movement. She dedicated her life to helping trans youth, sex workers, and poor incarcerated Queers. We honor her legacy by supporting Trans Women of Color to live and lead.” This poster is a full-bleed digital . . .
Josh MacPhee 2006 10.5 x 16.5 “From November 1969 to June 1971 a coalition of American Indian students and urban Indians, calling themselves ‘Indians of All Tribes’, occupied Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco as a call to resistance against US domination of native peoples and land. The coalition publicized the occupation through a . . .
John Jennings 2015 10.5 x 16.5 “To be Black and conscious in America is to live in a constant state of rage.”—James Baldwin #103 in the Celebrate People’s History. This poster is a full-bleed digital reprint on 80 lbs cardstock. $1-5
Marc Moscato & Dean Rank 2009 10.5 x 16.5 “Step high, stoop low, leave your dignity outside.” The Dil Pickle Club, 1914-1933. “Literary nightspot at the heart of the Chicago renaissance. Around the corner from Bughouse Square, down the Tooker Alley, was Chicago’s radical nexus billed The Dil Pickle Club. Here, every openness on the road . . .
Erik Ruin 2010 10.5 x 16.5 An homage to the 17th century British revolutionaries who created small agrarian communities in hopes of actualizing their beliefs that all are equal and that all property should be held in common. #70 in the Celebrate People’s History Series. This poster is a full-bleed digital reprint on 80 lbs cardstock. . . .
Meredith Stern 2001 10.5 x 16.5 “ ‘Those of us who were members of Jane were remarkable only because we chose to act with women’s needs as our guide. In doing so we transformed illegal abortion from a dangerous, sordid experience into one that was life-affirming and powerful.’ —Laura Kaplan 1969–1973. Feminist, underground abortion service, one . . .
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Black Hoboes and Their Songs [Including a CD of 25 original recordings!] Gene Tomko & Paul Garon 2006 296p 5 x 8 In this exciting new book, Paul Garon tells the story of African American migratory workers and the songs they sang: at work, in boxcars and hobo jungles, in jail, in country roadhouses and urban nightspots. Focused on the . . .
Or, Songs for Lucy Parsons The May Day Orchestra Vinyl 2009 “The ‘Folk Opera’ concerning the labor question” according to its liner notes, this is the debut release from The May Day Orchestra, a group started by Tim Rakel in 2008 to write historically-rooted albums with various musical accompaniment. Words for the songs were borrowed in part from . . .
Breakaway CD 2014 Breakaway is a darkwave/ dance/ punk/ neofolk/ witch house musician out of the north. Tracks: 1. Long Goodbye 4:05 2. The Crashers And The Snappers 3:44 3. Flotsam And Jetsam 3:56 4. At A Time 3:01 5. That Are Told That Unfold 3:22 6. . . .
The May Day Orchestra CD/Vinyl 2010 The second ‘folk opera’ by The May Day Orchestra tells the story of Ota Benga, a pygmy man who was taken from Congo and put on display at the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis. A simultaneous narrative about Roger Casement weaves into the songs as does a lead pedal steel and . . .
Little Big Bangs Vinyl 2015 A Boulder on the Tracks house band and one of St. Louis’ loudest punk sounds’ second album full of angry lyrics and hard-hitting to-the-point songs. Equal parts rock, melody and noise. Tracks: 1. Bang 2:45 2. Rotten Blood 3:07 3. Microscopic 2:16 4. Car Crash . . .
Breakaway CD 2016 Breakaway’s newest album full of haunting falsettos, experimental melodies and beats, and lyrics that resonate inside of you. Breakaway is darkwave/ dance/ punk/ neofolk/ witch house out of the north. Tracks: 1. LRAD 3:18 2. Visceral 2:58 3. Back Up 4:12 4. Cover Under 3:09 5. . . .
Little Big Bangs CD/Vinyl 2013 A Boulder on the Tracks house band and one of St. Louis’ loudest punk sounds’ debut album full of angry lyrics and hard-hitting to-the-point songs. Equal parts rock, melody and noise. Tracks: 1. Armada 2:23 2. Drag 3:33 3. Heart Attack 1:58 4. Forgotten 1:59 . . .
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