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PRISON, REPRESSION, PRISONERS
Vol. I: The Leninist Counter-Revolution G.P. Maximoff 1940 360p 5 x 8 Originally published in 1940 in two volumes, this is the (partially eyewitness) account of the Leninist terror inflicted upon Russia. Maximoff, a life-long anarchist, fought in the Russian Revolution, organized with the metal-workers, and was imprisoned by Lenin's secret police in 1920 when he refused . . .
The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture Franklin Rosemont 2003 650p 5 x 8 A massive and thorough take on the life of Joe Hill (1877-1915), one of the best-known figures in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World. U.S. labor’s most world-renowned martyr and celebrated song-writer, he . . .
1967-1984: Documents and Chronology The Angry Brigade & Jean Weir 1985 64p 4 x 5 'Sit in the drugstore, look distant, empty, bored, drinking some tasteless coffee? Or perhaps BLOW IT UP OR BURN IT DOWN. The only thing you can do with modern slave-houses — called boutiques — IS WRECK THEM. You can’t . . .
Rebel Women in Pre-War Japan Misiko Hane 1993 340p 6 x 9 As japanese court dictated, these condemned rebels wrote their biographies while awaiting execution. Hear what inspired and drove these socialists and anarchists to attack power. $5-10
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, . . .
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
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 . . .
A Graphic Biography: A True History of Violence, Crimefighting, Politics and Power Rick Geary 2008 112p 5 x 8 In the hands of gifted cartoonist Rick Geary, J. Edgar Hoover's life becomes a timely and pointed guide to eight presidents--from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon--and everything from Prohibition to cold war espionage. From a nascent FBI's headline-grabbing . . .
The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution Kirkpatrick Sale 1995 336p 6 x 9 Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites’ struggle to preserve their way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them and force further isolation, exploitation and alienation. ‘King Ludd’ lead anonymous groups of peasants against the new factories and loom . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Memory of Fire Vol. II Eduardo Galeano 1984 312p 5 x 8 Galeano continues his imaginative history of the Americas. In this second volume of his Memory of Fire trilogy, he gives us crucial moments of the 18th and 19th centuries: the clash between European and native cultures, the tribulations of slavery and the . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
And Other Writings Covington Hall & David Roediger ed. 1999 264p 5x 8 In the half-century since it was written, Hall's Labor Struggles In The Deep South, has become an underground classic among activist historians writing on the South and on working people. Hall—journalist, organizer, rebel, professor, and poet—brings to life the dramatic early . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Freedom, Equality and Solidarity: Writings and Speeches, 1878-1937 Gale Ahrens 2004 183p 5 x 8 ‘More dangerous than 1000 rioters!’ That’s what the Chicago police called Lucy Parsons – America’s most defiant and persistent anarchist agitator, whose cross-country speaking tours inspired hundreds of thousands of working people. Her friends and admirers included William Morris, . . .
The Story of Anarchism Richard Suskind 1971 200p 5 x 8 A good overview of classical anarchism in its heyday, with a focus on the era of dynamite and propaganda by the deed. Suskind is not an anarchist and not necessarily sympathetic to anarchism, which writing from the 1970s he assumes is a dead ideology. His attraction . . .
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, . . .
A Novel Margaret Atwood 1996 468p 5.5 x 8 Atwood takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is . . .
The Autobiography of Russell Means Russell Means 1996 592p 6 x 9 From one of the most controversial Indian leaders of our time comes this well-detailed, first-hand story of his up unto the mid-90s, in which he has done everything possible to dramatize and justify the Native American aim of self-determination, such as storming Mount Rushmore, seizing Plymouth Rock, running . . .
Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad Betty DeRamus 2009 320p 5.5 x 8.5 Freedom by Any Means explains how African Americans resorted to using extraordinary methods to maintain their seemingly impossible personal relationships during the antebellum period. Besides running away together or raising money to buy their freedom, . . .
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 . . .
The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault 1975 333p 5 x 8 Foucault suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner’s body to his soul. The four main parts include: torture, punishment, discipline and prison. $4-10
Alan Moore & David Lloyd 1989 296p 7 x 10 Remember, remember the fifth of November… A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Set . . .
The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World Ana Siljak 2008 384p 6 x 9 "In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. “Revenge!,” she cried, . . .
1492 to Present Howard Zinn 1980 768p 6 x 9 In Zinn's own words, 'My history... describes the inspiring struggle of those who have fought slavery and racism (Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses), of the labor organizers who have led strikes for the rights of working people (Big Bill . . .
The Life and Times of A Black Wobbly Ben Fletcher & Peter Cole 2006 149p 5.5 x 8.5 The great African American Wobbly organizer, Benjamin Fletcher (1890-1949), was noted for his brilliant organizing ability and imaginative on-the-job strategies, as well as for his courage, humor, and excellence as a soapbox orator. Not surprisingly, he . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Post-Political Politics Christian Marazzi & Sylvère Lotringer 2007 340p 7 x 10 'Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails.... I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate of Autonomia. The survival of . . .
An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth Peter Glassgold 2001 464p 6 x 9 Originally published between 1906-1918, this compilation spans over a decade of provocative issues ranging from anarchism to sexual freedom, militant labor struggles, birth control, liberatory education, Leon Czolgsoz's assassination of President McKinley, anarchist-feminism, anti-militarism, art, literature and including contributions from Louise . . .
Jean Genet 1949 272p 5 x 8 The man Jean Cocteau dubbed France’s ‘Black Prince of Letters’ here reconstructs his early adult years — time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step ahead of the authorities. $5-10
Herbert Aptheker 1943 428p 5 x 8 A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and were passive. Includes the major slave revolt stories of Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey Gabriel and others, but also many other lesser known instances of slaves sabotaging, running away from, stealing or attacking their masters. $10-15
George Orwell 1947 140p MMPB A concise novella dealing with the rise and betrayal of the revolution waged by over-worked animals on a little farm. A great explanation of recuperation and the corruption of power. $1-5
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 . . .
A Chronology Jean Weir 1979 120p 5 x 7 An incredible anthology. Not only was there an amazing amount of armed actions in Italy at this time, but those chronicled here (and there are 100s of them) were those carried out by autonomous/ anarchist affinity groups, not by the Red Brigades and other Leninist . . .
Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936–1945) Ingrid Strobl 2002 320p 6 x 9 Common stereotypes of women during wartime relegate them to the sidelines of history—to supporting roles like dutiful munitions factory workers or devoted wives waiting for their men to return home. The truth is that much of . . .
Vol. I: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi 2000 160p 6 x 9 Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that . . .
Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975 Muhammad Ahmad 2007 340p 5 x 8 Dr. Muhammad Ahmad was national field chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) during the mid-60s and founder of the African People's Party in the 1970s. He has worked closely with Malcolm X, Jesse Gray, Amiri Baraka, Stokely Carmichael, James and Grace Lee Boggs, James Forman, Robert and Mabel . . .
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 . . .
An Introduction: The Will to Knowledge Michel Foucault 1976 168p 5 x 8 According to Foucault, by the 19th-century, when capitalism and industrialization had allowed for the development of a dominant bourgeois social class, discourse on sex was not suppressed, but in fact proliferated. Bourgeois society ‘put into operation an entire machinery for producing . . .
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 Ricardo Flores Magón Reader Chaz Bufe 2005 452p 6 x 9 The most comprehensive anthology of the Mexican revolutionary's writings available in English. Translated, compiled, and annotated by Mitchell Verter and Chaz Bufe. Also includes a lengthy biographical preface by Verter. $11-20
A Story of Violent Faith Jon Krakauer 2004 432 5 x 8 Krakauer takes us inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these theocracies are zealots who answer only to God. At the core of the book are brothers . . .
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 . . .
Sakae Ōsugi 1921 192p 6 x 9 In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting the oppressiveness of family and . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women Martha A. Ackelsberg 1991, 2005 230p 6 x 9 Cowards don't make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, these women mobilized over 20,000 women into an organized network during the Spanish Revolution, . . .
Peter Kropotkin 1899 504p 5 x 8 Born into a wealthy family of landowners, Prince Peter Alexeivich Kropotkin (1842-1921) held prestigious diplomatic posts. But the prince renounced his life of privilege to embrace anarchism, a revolutionary alternative to Marxism. A leading theoretician of his day, Kropotkin wrote the basic books in the library of . . .
An Autopsy of Newark Ronald Porambo 1972 425p 5 x 8 The definitive account of the buildup, chaos, and aftermath of one of the biggest urban riots in US history: the 1967 Newark riots. Forty-five years ago, Newark’s black majority erupted in revolt and were ruthlessly put down by the police and National Guard . . .
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 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, . . .
Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement Dennis Banks 2004 352p 6 x 9 The autobiography of Dennis Banks and the story of the American Indian Movement (AIM), of which he was a co-founder. The warrior’s story covers ground as vast as the country itself, from the reservation to forced schooling, . . .
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 . . .
“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 . . .
One Woman’s Fight to Die Her Own Way Andréa Dorea 1998 90p 4 x 7 In 1985, Andrea, a member of Os Cangaceiros, learns that she has cancer. After 5 years confronting the psychological and physical effects of chemotheraphy, she decides to turn her back on the medical system, choosing to die on her . . .
As Told to Alex Haley Malcolm X & Alex Haley 1965 460p MMPB From his childhood in Michigan to hustling on the streets of Boston and Harlem to prison where he finds allah and back to Harlem to preach for the Nation of Islam. Malcolm was eventually betrayed by the Nation of Islam, and left, at which point his views . . .
Fighting for Free Speech with the Hobo Agitators of the Industrial Workers of the World John Duda 2009 136p 5 x 8 Mass civil disobedience, train-hopping militants, insurrectionist poets, radical marching bands, and a victory for a precarious proletariat—in 1909! Published for the 100th Anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech Fight, Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane! tells . . .
A Novel Edward Abbey 1980 242p 5 x 8 In a post-apocalyptic world, a motorcycle gang turned fascist army is preparing for a long march across what used to be america in order to re-establish the great american empire. Only a group of anarchists living in the ruins of the same town and a . . .
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 . . .
Vera Figner 1920 336p 6 x 9 In this classic memoir, Figner recounts her journey from aristocrat to revolutionary, candidly relating the experiences that shaped her ideas and provoked her to political action and violence. As she reflects on her own lifelong commitment to improving the lives of ordinary Russians, she reveals much about . . .
General Franco, The Angry Brigade, and Me Stuart Christie 2004 400p 5.5 x 8 In 1964, a fresh-faced, eighteen-year-old Glaswegian named Stuart Christie became the most famous anarchist in Britain. He was arrested delivering dynamite to Madrid to be used in the assassination of Spanish dictator General Franco. After serving three of his twenty-year sentence, he was released, due to . . .
The True Story of Labor’s Martyred Pioneers in the Coalfields Anthony Bimba 1932 144p 5 x 8 A forgotten chapter in the history of American labor, revealing the true nature of the so-called Molly Maguires as pioneers and martyrs in a determined struggle of the Pennsylvania anthracite region miners to improve their miserable working conditions during the 1870s. Comprised of . . .
France, May ‘68 R. Gregoire & F. Perlman 1969 96p 5 x 8 Gregoire and Perlman recount their fascinating experiences Paris when it seemed possible that a non-bureaucratic revolution was at hand. As participants, they analyze actions and principles. They criticize passivity, leaders and the fear of change. $2-5
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 . . .
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 . . .
The Left Wing Alternative Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit 1968 272p 5.5 x 8.5 In May 68 a student protest spread to other universities, to Paris factories and in a few weeks to most of France. A million Parisians marched; ten million workers went out on strike. This is Daniel Cohn-Bendit's - launched into celebrity . . .
125th Anniversary Edition Franklin Rosemont & David Roediger 2012 272p 8 x 11 Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago’s Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, and handbills, as well as contributions by many of today’s finest labor and . . .
My Memories of Sam Doldoff Anatole Dolgoff 2016 391p 6 x 9 "Sam Dolgoff (1902–1990) was a house painter by trade and member of the IWW from the early 1920s until his death. Sam, along with his wife Esther [1905-1989], was at the center of American anarchism for seventy years, bridging the movement's generations, providing continuity between . . .
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 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 . . .
Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century Peter Linebaugh 1991 524p 6 x 9 Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it evidently served the most sinister . . .
The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall 1988 550p 6 x 9 An incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement and the American Indian Movement in general. . . .
Pino Cacucci & Paul Sharkey (Tr.) 1994, 2016 308p 6 x 9 "An explosive dramatized fiction of the life and times of Jules Bonnot, his gang (La bande à Bonnot), his associates, and the individualist anarchists of the time, including the young Victor Serge. An affectionate, fast-paced, but historically accurate account of the life of the extraordinary . . .
My Life is My Sundance Leonard Peltier 2000 272p 5 x 9 In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain . . .
Memory of Fire Vol. I Eduardo Galeano 1982 336p 5 x 8 Genesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the Galeano’s words, an attempt to 'rescue the kidnapped memory of all America.' It is . . .
Nawal El Saadawi 1975 128p MMPB 'All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face. But because I am a woman I have never had the courage to lift my hand. And because I am a prostitute, . . .
Severino Di Giovanni in Argentina, 1923-1931 Osvaldo Bayer 1970 210p 5 x 8 Originally in spanish, this reprint of the Elephant Editions translation tells the story of anarcho-banditry committed by Severino and his good friends, the brothers Scarfo. Bombings, bank robberies, and, like many of their kind, their shooting star ending. $3-10
Writings of Os Cangaceiros Vol. I Os Cangaceiros & Wolfi Landstreicher (trans.) 2006 164p 4 x 7 Os Cangaceiros was a group of delinquents caught up in the spirit of the French insurrection of 1968 who refused to let that spirit die. With nothing but contempt for the self-sacrificial ideology practiced by “specialists in armed . . .
Jeremy Brecher 1972 480p 5 x 8 Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America and tells this exciting hidden history from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. $4-10
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 . . .
General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony Concerning Some Brief flowerings of Life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and, Incidentally, Our Own Time Raoul Vaneigem 1986 302p 6 x 9 A historical reflection on the ways religious and economic forces have shaped Western culture. Within this broad frame, Vaneigem examines the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority . . .
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 . . .
Wilhelm Reich 1933 432p 5.5 x 8 In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, alive today just as much as when he wrote the book. Written while trying to find refuge from nazi germany and drawing on his medical expereinces with men and women of various classes, races, nations, and religious beliefs, Reich refutes the . . .
Osvaldo Bayer 2016 525p 5 x 8 At the very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: “Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth. A crime can never be covered up forever.” He demonstrates that principle in this moving and nuanced study of strikes led by the powerful . . .
Noel Ignatiev 1995 272p 5 x 8 The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country – a land of opportunity – they found a very different form of social hierarchy, . . .
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 . . .
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 Novel B. Traven 1927 320p 5 x 8 By the 1920s the violence of the Mexican Revolution had largely subsided, although scattered gangs of bandits continued to terrorize the countryside. The newly established post-revolution government relied on the effective but ruthless Federal Police, commonly known as the Federales, to patrol remote areas and dispose of the bandits. In this . . .
The Greek Revolt of December 2008 A.G.Schwarz & T. Sagris 2010 392p 9 x 6 On December 6, 2008, the city of Athens exploded as people took to the streets to demonstrate their rage over the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, bringing business as usual to a screeching, burning halt for three breathtaking weeks. This is the first book to . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Peter Shaffer 1964 One of Shaffer's early plays in which the Spanish expedition under Pizzaro to the land of the Incas is told in dazzling spectacle and moral chiaroscuro. After general absolution for any crimes they may commit against the pagan Incas, the conquerors set forth upon the sea. The Inca god is a sun god, ruler of . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Five Centuries of the Pillage of the Continent Eduardo Galeano 1971 317p 6 x 9 Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber . . .
The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical William Herrick 2001 280p 6 x 9 Jumping the Line offers a vivid, sobering, first-hand account of Left culture in America's heady days of the 20s through the 40s. William Herrick grew up in New York City with pictures of Lenin above his crib. He provides . . .
A Graphic Guide Donald Woods & Mike Bostock 1986 160p 5.5 x 8 An illustrated introduction and over-view of south african apartheid. From its roots in european settler culture, to the openly racist policies of the late 1800s, fascist influences in the 1920s-1930s and the eventual rise to power of the apartheid power structure. . . .
Jacques Baynac 1994 255p 5 x 8 In the shadow of the Jungfrau’s peak that towers above Interlaken, Switzerland, Tatiana Leontiev carried out her act. Historian Jacques Baynac recounts the life of russian revolutionary before and after 1906, when she assassinated the person she believed was a tsarist minister. $5-15
The Complete Collection of Alexander Berkman’s Incendiary Newspaper, 1916-1917 Alexander Berkman 2004 240p 9 x 11 After serving as an editor for Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth, Alexander Berkman moved to San Francisco and started his own newspaper. This historical reprint of the complete 29 issues features articles, letters, news and editorials by Berkman and his . . .
A Memoir Daphne Scholinski 1997 224p 6 x 9 At fifteen years old, Daphne Scholinski was committed to a mental institution and awarded the dubious diagnosis of 'Gender Identity Disorder.' She spent three years - and over a million dollars of insurance - 'treating' the problem with makeup lessons and instructions in how to walk like . . .
An Indian Woman’s Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend Phoolan Devi 1997 497p 6 x 9 Born in India to the lowest caste and sent to live with an arranged husband at the age of 12, Devi's story is one of defiance and reclamation. After running away from her abusive husband, Devi eventually lead . . .
The Columbine Coal Strike Reader Lowell May & Richard Myers (Eds.) 2005 198p 8 x 6 The state of Colorado deployed machine guns, bomber aircraft, and cannons to control the miners. Their message: we have the authority and the power; you, the out-of-control workers, must submit. But the workers were not just any workers. . . .
A Novel of Gilded Age New York Marge Piercy 2005 425p 6 x 9 Post–Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to . . .
1937-1939 Agustin Guillamón 1996 116p 6 x 9 "This is the story of a group of anarchists engaged in the most thoroughgoing social and economic revolution of all time. Essentially street fighters with a long pedigree of militant action, they used their own experiences to arrive at the finest contemporary analysis of the Spanish Revolution. In doing . . .
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 . . .
The Life Of Fred Thompson Fred Thompson & David Roediger 1994 93p 5 x 8 Fred Thompson—1900–1987—socialist, Wobbly, organizer, soapboxer, editor, class-war prisoner, educator, historian, and publisher (it was he who spearheaded the effort to get the Charles H. Kerr Company back on its feet in the 1970s). Here are lively accounts of his . . .
An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown 1970 481p 6 x 9 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian and their tenancious survival during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown . . .
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 . . .
The Sea Robberies of the Most Famous Pirate Claes G. Compaen & The Very Remarkable Travels of Jan Erasmus Reyning, Buccaneer Stephen Snelders 2005 212p 4.5 x 7 "By rebelling against hierarchical society and living under the Jolly Roger, pirates created an upside-down world of anarchist organization and festival, with violence and death ever-present. This creation was . . .
Douglas Day 1991 270p 6 x 9 Part biography and part polemic directed against the failed opportunities of the Revolution, the book takes the form of notebooks scribbled by Flores Magon in the Leavenworth (Kansas) penitentiary where he is imprisoned for having violated United States neutrality laws. Flashbacks cover Flores Magon's life from his . . .
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, . . .
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs Jean Genet 1943 272p 5 x 8 The novel tells the story of Divine, a drag queen who, when the novel opens, has died of tuberculosis and been canonised as a result. The narrator tells us that the stories he is telling are mainly to amuse himself whilst he passes his sentence in . . .
Peter Kropotkin 1887 387p 5 x 8 Nearly a century has passed since Kropotkin wrote In Russian and French Prisons, yet his criticisms of the penal system have lost none of their relevance. Prisons—far from reforming the offender, or deterring crime—are, in themselves, 'schools of crime'. Every year, thousands of prisoners are returned to society without hope, . . .
An Atlantic History of Slavery and Freedom Marcus Rediker 2012 320p 6 x 9 On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized control . . .
1860-1931 John M. Hart 1987 260p 6 x 9 The anarchist movement had a crucial impact upon the Mexican working class between 1860 and 1931. Hart shows how the ideas of European anarchist thinkers took root in Mexico, how they influenced revolutionary tendencies there, and why anarchism was ultimately unsuccessful in producing real social . . .
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 . . .
B. Traven 1936 260p 5 x 8 The fifth of Traven's six Jungle Novels which together form an epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. Set in the slave-labor mahogany plantations of tropical Mexico in 1910, at the time of the uprising against the rule of Porfirio Díaz and the beginnings of revolution, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Wilhelm Reich 1946 144p 5 x 8 Written towards the time Reich was beginning to denounce psycho-analysis, Listen, Little Man! is the physician's quiet, scathing talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 after surviving World War II and in answer to the gossip and defamation . . .
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 . . .
An Errico Malatesta Reader Errico Malatesta & Davide Turcato (ed.) 2014 550p 6 x 9 Designed as a companion volume to the ten-volume set of Malatesta's Complete Works (forthcoming from AK Press), The Method of Freedom collects Malatesta's most enduring long-form essays--including "Anarchy" and "Our Program"--together with previously untranslated articles from the numerous journals . . .
Marge Piercy 1976 384p MMPB Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today.... $1-5
The Life of Maria Nikiforova, The Anarchist Joan of Arc Malcolm Archibald 2007 32p 5.5 x 8.5 "The Ukrainian anarchist Maria Nikiforova played a prominent role in the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War as an organizer, military commander, and terrorist. A revolutionary from the age of 16, she was on . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
A Human History Marcus Rediker 2007 448p 5.5 x 8 For more than three centuries slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the ships that made it all . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary Ngo Van 1995 296p 6 x 9 Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people in the english-speaking world are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh’s Communist . . .
Love Stories from the Underground Railroad Bety DeRamus 2005 288p 5.5 x 8.5 Forbidden Fruit is a collection of largely untold tales of ordinary people who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together--and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property, and interracial love as abominable. . . .
Philip S. Foner 1977 341p 5 x 8 Labor historian Foner's take on the first generalized confrontation between labor and capital in the United States, which effectively shut down the entire railway system. $4-10
A Social History of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830 G. Rudé & E.J. Hobsbawm 1969 400p 5 x 8 Sir, Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills . . .
The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising Robert Shogan 2004 296p 6 x 9 The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history - the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and exploitation, picked up their winchesters and . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
James Joll 1964 303p 6 x 8 A good over-view of classical anarchism, focusing almost exclusively on europe. Beginning in the late 1700s with William Godwin and continuing on with Proudhon, Kropotkin and Bakunin. Details evolutions and differences in philosophy, the paris commune, russian revolution, spanish civil war, the era of dynamite, etc. $4-10
Race and the Making of the American Working Class David Roediger 1991 195p 5 x 8 Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply . . .
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 . . .
Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation Albert Meltzer 2001 386p 5.5 x 8 Albert Meltzer (1920–1996) was involved actively in class struggles since the age of 15 (without any family background in such activity.) A lively, witty account of sixty years in anarchist activism, and a unique recounting of many struggles otherwise distorted . . .
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 . . .
Henri Charrière 1969 576p 5 x 8 "We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills . . .
Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War Abel Paz & Paul Sharkey (tr.) 2011 288p 5.5 x 8 "The members of the Iron Column were among the most notorious anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. They were intransigent in the face of the fascist revolt, but also in defence of the revolution's gains. We say to . . .
The Twenty-Eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Dan Kurzman 1976 386p MMPB In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the Jews were not dying swiftly . . .
Rebels on the Plantation J.H. Franklin & L. Schweninger 1999 480p 6 x 9 From John Hope Franklin, America’s foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran . . .
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
An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War Ronald Fraser ed. 1979 628p 6.5 x 9.5 A massive oral history of the spanish civil war. $7-15
W.E.B. Du Bois 1909 304p 5 x 8 A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important black thinkers of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass . . .
The Mystical Anarchism of Gustav Landauer Charles B. Maurer 1971 218p 6 x 9 A biography of Gustav Landauer, social anarchist, spiritualist, and, along with Rosa Luxemburg, a member of the council movement in the German Revolution of 1918. Landauer was brutally murdered May 2, 1919 for his role in the councils and his . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
An Errico Malatesta Reader Phil Mailer 1977 400p 5 x 8 Though many are familiar with Franco's fascist Spain, far less know about its Portuguese counterpart and resistance to it. This is the story of the political revolution in Portugal between April 25, 1974, and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a . . .
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 . . .
SABOTAGE, DIRECT ACTION, ARMED STRUGGLE, RIOTS
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 . . .
An Autopsy of Newark Ronald Porambo 1972 425p 5 x 8 The definitive account of the buildup, chaos, and aftermath of one of the biggest urban riots in US history: the 1967 Newark riots. Forty-five years ago, Newark’s black majority erupted in revolt and were ruthlessly put down by the police and National Guard . . .
The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World Ana Siljak 2008 384p 6 x 9 "In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. “Revenge!,” she cried, . . .
The Story of Anarchism Richard Suskind 1971 200p 5 x 8 A good overview of classical anarchism in its heyday, with a focus on the era of dynamite and propaganda by the deed. Suskind is not an anarchist and not necessarily sympathetic to anarchism, which writing from the 1970s he assumes is a dead ideology. His attraction . . .
The Sea Robberies of the Most Famous Pirate Claes G. Compaen & The Very Remarkable Travels of Jan Erasmus Reyning, Buccaneer Stephen Snelders 2005 212p 4.5 x 7 "By rebelling against hierarchical society and living under the Jolly Roger, pirates created an upside-down world of anarchist organization and festival, with violence and death ever-present. This creation was . . .
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 . . .
James Joll 1964 303p 6 x 8 A good over-view of classical anarchism, focusing almost exclusively on europe. Beginning in the late 1700s with William Godwin and continuing on with Proudhon, Kropotkin and Bakunin. Details evolutions and differences in philosophy, the paris commune, russian revolution, spanish civil war, the era of dynamite, etc. $4-10
The Autobiography of Russell Means Russell Means 1996 592p 6 x 9 From one of the most controversial Indian leaders of our time comes this well-detailed, first-hand story of his up unto the mid-90s, in which he has done everything possible to dramatize and justify the Native American aim of self-determination, such as storming Mount Rushmore, seizing Plymouth Rock, running . . .
A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader Chaz Bufe 2005 452p 6 x 9 The most comprehensive anthology of the Mexican revolutionary's writings available in English. Translated, compiled, and annotated by Mitchell Verter and Chaz Bufe. Also includes a lengthy biographical preface by Verter. $11-20
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 . . .
Philip S. Foner 1977 341p 5 x 8 Labor historian Foner's take on the first generalized confrontation between labor and capital in the United States, which effectively shut down the entire railway system. $4-10
Jacques Baynac 1994 255p 5 x 8 In the shadow of the Jungfrau’s peak that towers above Interlaken, Switzerland, Tatiana Leontiev carried out her act. Historian Jacques Baynac recounts the life of russian revolutionary before and after 1906, when she assassinated the person she believed was a tsarist minister. $5-15
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, . . .
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, . . .
The Columbine Coal Strike Reader Lowell May & Richard Myers (Eds.) 2005 198p 8 x 6 The state of Colorado deployed machine guns, bomber aircraft, and cannons to control the miners. Their message: we have the authority and the power; you, the out-of-control workers, must submit. But the workers were not just any workers. . . .
Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women Martha A. Ackelsberg 1991, 2005 230p 6 x 9 Cowards don't make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, these women mobilized over 20,000 women into an organized network during the Spanish Revolution, . . .
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 . . .
A Chronology Jean Weir 1979 120p 5 x 7 An incredible anthology. Not only was there an amazing amount of armed actions in Italy at this time, but those chronicled here (and there are 100s of them) were those carried out by autonomous/ anarchist affinity groups, not by the Red Brigades and other Leninist . . .
The Mystical Anarchism of Gustav Landauer Charles B. Maurer 1971 218p 6 x 9 A biography of Gustav Landauer, social anarchist, spiritualist, and, along with Rosa Luxemburg, a member of the council movement in the German Revolution of 1918. Landauer was brutally murdered May 2, 1919 for his role in the councils and his . . .
We Are All Hooligans Youth Revolt in France, March 1994 Saul tr. 2003 52p 5 x 8 From the text, 'In March 1994, the French government wanted to give its tender young wage slaves a 20% pay cut. The State must have figured it would be good training for their future careers as exploited . . .
Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C. Smith & William E. Tautmann 2014 128p 5 x 8 The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy. Even then, the tactics of direct action and sabotage were often associated with the cartoonists’ image of the disheveled, wild-eyed anarchist . . .
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 . . .
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
1967-1984: Documents and Chronology The Angry Brigade & Jean Weir 1985 64p 4 x 5 'Sit in the drugstore, look distant, empty, bored, drinking some tasteless coffee? Or perhaps BLOW IT UP OR BURN IT DOWN. The only thing you can do with modern slave-houses — called boutiques — IS WRECK THEM. You can’t . . .
Love Stories from the Underground Railroad Bety DeRamus 2005 288p 5.5 x 8.5 Forbidden Fruit is a collection of largely untold tales of ordinary people who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together--and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property, and interracial love as abominable. . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth Peter Glassgold 2001 464p 6 x 9 Originally published between 1906-1918, this compilation spans over a decade of provocative issues ranging from anarchism to sexual freedom, militant labor struggles, birth control, liberatory education, Leon Czolgsoz's assassination of President McKinley, anarchist-feminism, anti-militarism, art, literature and including contributions from Louise . . .
The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture Franklin Rosemont 2003 650p 5 x 8 A massive and thorough take on the life of Joe Hill (1877-1915), one of the best-known figures in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World. U.S. labor’s most world-renowned martyr and celebrated song-writer, he . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
The Life of Maria Nikiforova, The Anarchist Joan of Arc Malcolm Archibald 2007 32p 5.5 x 8.5 "The Ukrainian anarchist Maria Nikiforova played a prominent role in the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War as an organizer, military commander, and terrorist. A revolutionary from the age of 16, she was on . . .
The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution Kirkpatrick Sale 1995 336p 6 x 9 Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites’ struggle to preserve their way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them and force further isolation, exploitation and alienation. ‘King Ludd’ lead anonymous groups of peasants against the new factories and loom . . .
A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth 2011 544p 6 x 9 In the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders increasingly threatened by acts of terrorism and assassination from anarchist extremists. In this riveting history of that tumultuous period, Alex Butterworth follows . . .
Jeremy Brecher 1972 480p 5 x 8 Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America and tells this exciting hidden history from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. $4-10
Pino Cacucci & Paul Sharkey (Tr.) 1994, 2016 308p 6 x 9 "An explosive dramatized fiction of the life and times of Jules Bonnot, his gang (La bande à Bonnot), his associates, and the individualist anarchists of the time, including the young Victor Serge. An affectionate, fast-paced, but historically accurate account of the life of the extraordinary . . .
Post-Political Politics Christian Marazzi & Sylvère Lotringer 2007 340p 7 x 10 'Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails.... I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate of Autonomia. The survival of . . .
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 . . .
“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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Alan Moore & David Lloyd 1989 296p 7 x 10 Remember, remember the fifth of November… A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Set . . .
Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War Abel Paz & Paul Sharkey (tr.) 2011 288p 5.5 x 8 "The members of the Iron Column were among the most notorious anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. They were intransigent in the face of the fascist revolt, but also in defence of the revolution's gains. We say to . . .
A Social History of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830 G. Rudé & E.J. Hobsbawm 1969 400p 5 x 8 Sir, Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills . . .
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
General Franco, The Angry Brigade, and Me Stuart Christie 2004 400p 5.5 x 8 In 1964, a fresh-faced, eighteen-year-old Glaswegian named Stuart Christie became the most famous anarchist in Britain. He was arrested delivering dynamite to Madrid to be used in the assassination of Spanish dictator General Franco. After serving three of his twenty-year sentence, he was released, due to . . .
Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement Dennis Banks 2004 352p 6 x 9 The autobiography of Dennis Banks and the story of the American Indian Movement (AIM), of which he was a co-founder. The warrior’s story covers ground as vast as the country itself, from the reservation to forced schooling, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical William Herrick 2001 280p 6 x 9 Jumping the Line offers a vivid, sobering, first-hand account of Left culture in America's heady days of the 20s through the 40s. William Herrick grew up in New York City with pictures of Lenin above his crib. He provides . . .
The Complete Collection of Alexander Berkman’s Incendiary Newspaper, 1916-1917 Alexander Berkman 2004 240p 9 x 11 After serving as an editor for Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth, Alexander Berkman moved to San Francisco and started his own newspaper. This historical reprint of the complete 29 issues features articles, letters, news and editorials by Berkman and his . . .
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 . . .
Rebels on the Plantation J.H. Franklin & L. Schweninger 1999 480p 6 x 9 From John Hope Franklin, America’s foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran . . .
Anecdotes of Dissatisfaction, Mischief, and Revenge T. Cox & M. Sprouse 1992 175p 9 x 11 Stories of frustration and revenge throughout all sectors of the american workplace: construction, restaurants, transportation, sex, factory, art, education, military, and more. $10-20
Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation Albert Meltzer 2001 386p 5.5 x 8 Albert Meltzer (1920–1996) was involved actively in class struggles since the age of 15 (without any family background in such activity.) A lively, witty account of sixty years in anarchist activism, and a unique recounting of many struggles otherwise distorted . . .
The True Story of Labor’s Martyred Pioneers in the Coalfields Anthony Bimba 1932 144p 5 x 8 A forgotten chapter in the history of American labor, revealing the true nature of the so-called Molly Maguires as pioneers and martyrs in a determined struggle of the Pennsylvania anthracite region miners to improve their miserable working conditions during the 1870s. Comprised of . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
A Novel Edward Abbey 1980 242p 5 x 8 In a post-apocalyptic world, a motorcycle gang turned fascist army is preparing for a long march across what used to be america in order to re-establish the great american empire. Only a group of anarchists living in the ruins of the same town and a . . .
Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936–1945) Ingrid Strobl 2002 320p 6 x 9 Common stereotypes of women during wartime relegate them to the sidelines of history—to supporting roles like dutiful munitions factory workers or devoted wives waiting for their men to return home. The truth is that much of . . .
Freedom, Equality and Solidarity: Writings and Speeches, 1878-1937 Gale Ahrens 2004 183p 5 x 8 ‘More dangerous than 1000 rioters!’ That’s what the Chicago police called Lucy Parsons – America’s most defiant and persistent anarchist agitator, whose cross-country speaking tours inspired hundreds of thousands of working people. Her friends and admirers included William Morris, . . .
Severino Di Giovanni in Argentina, 1923-1931 Osvaldo Bayer 1970 210p 5 x 8 Originally in spanish, this reprint of the Elephant Editions translation tells the story of anarcho-banditry committed by Severino and his good friends, the brothers Scarfo. Bombings, bank robberies, and, like many of their kind, their shooting star ending. $3-10
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary Ngo Van 1995 296p 6 x 9 Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people in the english-speaking world are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh’s Communist . . .
The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall 1988 550p 6 x 9 An incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement and the American Indian Movement in general. . . .
The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads Dee Brown 1977 305p 6 x 9 An often unknown and under-appreciated social history of the transcontinental railroad. Brown covers so many social tensions: from the barge workers (being displaced by railroads) and the railroad industry, to the hyper-exploitation of immigrant rail workers and the displacement, genocide . . .
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 . . .
The Left Wing Alternative Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit 1968 272p 5.5 x 8.5 In May 68 a student protest spread to other universities, to Paris factories and in a few weeks to most of France. A million Parisians marched; ten million workers went out on strike. This is Daniel Cohn-Bendit's - launched into celebrity . . .
Vera Figner 1920 336p 6 x 9 In this classic memoir, Figner recounts her journey from aristocrat to revolutionary, candidly relating the experiences that shaped her ideas and provoked her to political action and violence. As she reflects on her own lifelong commitment to improving the lives of ordinary Russians, she reveals much about . . .
The Twenty-Eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Dan Kurzman 1976 386p MMPB In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the Jews were not dying swiftly . . .
Rebel Women in Pre-War Japan Misiko Hane 1993 340p 6 x 9 As japanese court dictated, these condemned rebels wrote their biographies while awaiting execution. Hear what inspired and drove these socialists and anarchists to attack power. $5-10
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 . . .
Graham Roumieu 2007 112p 7 x 5 From the author that was brave enough and tender enough to give us the first true-to-life biography of Big foot comes this inspiring how-to picture book. $4-10
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 . . .
Marge Piercy 1996 496p 6 x 9 In this splendid, thought-provoking historical fiction, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution - as well as their more famous male counterparts. $4-10
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 . . .
The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey James Bishop 1994 272p 6 x 8 Ed Abbey became an anarchist during a time in the U.S. when few people were. Through Abbey’s own writings and personal papers, as well as interviews with friends and acquaintances, Bishop gives us a penetrating, compelling view of the life and writings of this controversial figure. . . .
The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising Robert Shogan 2004 296p 6 x 9 The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history - the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and exploitation, picked up their winchesters and . . .
An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War Ronald Fraser ed. 1979 628p 6.5 x 9.5 A massive oral history of the spanish civil war. $7-15
125th Anniversary Edition Franklin Rosemont & David Roediger 2012 272p 8 x 11 Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago’s Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, and handbills, as well as contributions by many of today’s finest labor and . . .
An Atlantic History of Slavery and Freedom Marcus Rediker 2012 320p 6 x 9 On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized control . . .
B. Traven 1936 260p 5 x 8 The fifth of Traven's six Jungle Novels which together form an epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. Set in the slave-labor mahogany plantations of tropical Mexico in 1910, at the time of the uprising against the rule of Porfirio Díaz and the beginnings of revolution, . . .
Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the ‘60s Peter Doggett 2007 608p 6 x 9 Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark, to . . .
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 . . .
Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad Betty DeRamus 2009 320p 5.5 x 8.5 Freedom by Any Means explains how African Americans resorted to using extraordinary methods to maintain their seemingly impossible personal relationships during the antebellum period. Besides running away together or raising money to buy their freedom, . . .
Herbert Aptheker 1943 428p 5 x 8 A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and were passive. Includes the major slave revolt stories of Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey Gabriel and others, but also many other lesser known instances of slaves sabotaging, running away from, stealing or attacking their masters. $10-15
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
1492 to Present Howard Zinn 1980 768p 6 x 9 In Zinn's own words, 'My history... describes the inspiring struggle of those who have fought slavery and racism (Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses), of the labor organizers who have led strikes for the rights of working people (Big Bill . . .
1860-1931 John M. Hart 1987 260p 6 x 9 The anarchist movement had a crucial impact upon the Mexican working class between 1860 and 1931. Hart shows how the ideas of European anarchist thinkers took root in Mexico, how they influenced revolutionary tendencies there, and why anarchism was ultimately unsuccessful in producing real social . . .
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 . . .
W.E.B. Du Bois 1909 304p 5 x 8 A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important black thinkers of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass . . .
1937-1939 Agustin Guillamón 1996 116p 6 x 9 "This is the story of a group of anarchists engaged in the most thoroughgoing social and economic revolution of all time. Essentially street fighters with a long pedigree of militant action, they used their own experiences to arrive at the finest contemporary analysis of the Spanish Revolution. In doing . . .
An Indian Woman’s Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend Phoolan Devi 1997 497p 6 x 9 Born in India to the lowest caste and sent to live with an arranged husband at the age of 12, Devi's story is one of defiance and reclamation. After running away from her abusive husband, Devi eventually lead . . .
And Other Stories B. Traven 1929 252p 5 x 8 Here are ten of B. Traven's remarkable short stories. Three of them are long stories: The setting of 'The Night Visitor' is a hacienda deep in the Mexican bush where a lonely American recreates in his imagination an eerie world of Indian folk legend. 'The Cattle Drive' is a vivid . . .
PEASANTS, SLAVES, SAILORS
1492 to Present Howard Zinn 1980 768p 6 x 9 In Zinn's own words, 'My history... describes the inspiring struggle of those who have fought slavery and racism (Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses), of the labor organizers who have led strikes for the rights of working people (Big Bill . . .
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 . . .
Memory of Fire Vol. II Eduardo Galeano 1984 312p 5 x 8 Galeano continues his imaginative history of the Americas. In this second volume of his Memory of Fire trilogy, he gives us crucial moments of the 18th and 19th centuries: the clash between European and native cultures, the tribulations of slavery and the . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century Peter Linebaugh 1991 524p 6 x 9 Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it evidently served the most sinister . . .
Love Stories from the Underground Railroad Bety DeRamus 2005 288p 5.5 x 8.5 Forbidden Fruit is a collection of largely untold tales of ordinary people who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together--and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property, and interracial love as abominable. . . .
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 . . .
Peter Kropotkin 1899 504p 5 x 8 Born into a wealthy family of landowners, Prince Peter Alexeivich Kropotkin (1842-1921) held prestigious diplomatic posts. But the prince renounced his life of privilege to embrace anarchism, a revolutionary alternative to Marxism. A leading theoretician of his day, Kropotkin wrote the basic books in the library of . . .
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 Graphic Guide Donald Woods & Mike Bostock 1986 160p 5.5 x 8 An illustrated introduction and over-view of south african apartheid. From its roots in european settler culture, to the openly racist policies of the late 1800s, fascist influences in the 1920s-1930s and the eventual rise to power of the apartheid power structure. . . .
Rebels on the Plantation J.H. Franklin & L. Schweninger 1999 480p 6 x 9 From John Hope Franklin, America’s foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran . . .
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 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, . . .
Herbert Aptheker 1943 428p 5 x 8 A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and were passive. Includes the major slave revolt stories of Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey Gabriel and others, but also many other lesser known instances of slaves sabotaging, running away from, stealing or attacking their masters. $10-15
The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World Ana Siljak 2008 384p 6 x 9 "In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. “Revenge!,” she cried, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
Alan Moore 2016 1,184p 6 x 9 "In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
W.E.B. Du Bois 1909 304p 5 x 8 A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important black thinkers of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass . . .
General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony Concerning Some Brief flowerings of Life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and, Incidentally, Our Own Time Raoul Vaneigem 1986 302p 6 x 9 A historical reflection on the ways religious and economic forces have shaped Western culture. Within this broad frame, Vaneigem examines the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority . . .
The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution Kirkpatrick Sale 1995 336p 6 x 9 Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites’ struggle to preserve their way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them and force further isolation, exploitation and alienation. ‘King Ludd’ lead anonymous groups of peasants against the new factories and loom . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
The Sea Robberies of the Most Famous Pirate Claes G. Compaen & The Very Remarkable Travels of Jan Erasmus Reyning, Buccaneer Stephen Snelders 2005 212p 4.5 x 7 "By rebelling against hierarchical society and living under the Jolly Roger, pirates created an upside-down world of anarchist organization and festival, with violence and death ever-present. This creation was . . .
Rebel Women in Pre-War Japan Misiko Hane 1993 340p 6 x 9 As japanese court dictated, these condemned rebels wrote their biographies while awaiting execution. Hear what inspired and drove these socialists and anarchists to attack power. $5-10
Osvaldo Bayer 2016 525p 5 x 8 At the very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: “Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth. A crime can never be covered up forever.” He demonstrates that principle in this moving and nuanced study of strikes led by the powerful . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Memory of Fire Vol. I Eduardo Galeano 1982 336p 5 x 8 Genesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the Galeano’s words, an attempt to 'rescue the kidnapped memory of all America.' It is . . .
The Life of Maria Nikiforova, The Anarchist Joan of Arc Malcolm Archibald 2007 32p 5.5 x 8.5 "The Ukrainian anarchist Maria Nikiforova played a prominent role in the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War as an organizer, military commander, and terrorist. A revolutionary from the age of 16, she was on . . .
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 . . .
Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad Betty DeRamus 2009 320p 5.5 x 8.5 Freedom by Any Means explains how African Americans resorted to using extraordinary methods to maintain their seemingly impossible personal relationships during the antebellum period. Besides running away together or raising money to buy their freedom, . . .
1860-1931 John M. Hart 1987 260p 6 x 9 The anarchist movement had a crucial impact upon the Mexican working class between 1860 and 1931. Hart shows how the ideas of European anarchist thinkers took root in Mexico, how they influenced revolutionary tendencies there, and why anarchism was ultimately unsuccessful in producing real social . . .
Race and the Making of the American Working Class David Roediger 1991 195p 5 x 8 Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Five Centuries of the Pillage of the Continent Eduardo Galeano 1971 317p 6 x 9 Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber . . .
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 . . .
A Human History Marcus Rediker 2007 448p 5.5 x 8 For more than three centuries slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the ships that made it all . . .
An Atlantic History of Slavery and Freedom Marcus Rediker 2012 320p 6 x 9 On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized control . . .
Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women Martha A. Ackelsberg 1991, 2005 230p 6 x 9 Cowards don't make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, these women mobilized over 20,000 women into an organized network during the Spanish Revolution, . . .
“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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
Vera Figner 1920 336p 6 x 9 In this classic memoir, Figner recounts her journey from aristocrat to revolutionary, candidly relating the experiences that shaped her ideas and provoked her to political action and violence. As she reflects on her own lifelong commitment to improving the lives of ordinary Russians, she reveals much about . . .
Selected Writings of Benjamin Peret Benjamin Peret 2009 148p 5 x 8 From Charles H. Kerr, "Peret's writings testify with burning clarity to his relentless devotion to the cause of breaking the social, cultural, and psychological fetters which reduce the imagination to misery and degradation. An essential collection by an essential member of the . . .
B. Traven 1936 260p 5 x 8 The fifth of Traven's six Jungle Novels which together form an epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. Set in the slave-labor mahogany plantations of tropical Mexico in 1910, at the time of the uprising against the rule of Porfirio Díaz and the beginnings of revolution, . . .
A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader Chaz Bufe 2005 452p 6 x 9 The most comprehensive anthology of the Mexican revolutionary's writings available in English. Translated, compiled, and annotated by Mitchell Verter and Chaz Bufe. Also includes a lengthy biographical preface by Verter. $11-20
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
A Social History of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830 G. Rudé & E.J. Hobsbawm 1969 400p 5 x 8 Sir, Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills . . .
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 . . .
An Indian Woman’s Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend Phoolan Devi 1997 497p 6 x 9 Born in India to the lowest caste and sent to live with an arranged husband at the age of 12, Devi's story is one of defiance and reclamation. After running away from her abusive husband, Devi eventually lead . . .
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 . . .
Henri Charrière 1969 576p 5 x 8 "We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills . . .
Noel Ignatiev 1995 272p 5 x 8 The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country – a land of opportunity – they found a very different form of social hierarchy, . . .
Deborah Hopkinson & James Ransome (Ils.) 1997 40p 8.5 x 10.5 As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara dreams of a reunion with her Momma, who lives on another plantation—and even of running away to freedom. Then she overhears two slaves talking about the Underground Railroad. In a flash of inspiration, Clara sees how . . .
B. Traven 1933 240p 5 x 8 In the third of his six Jungle Novels, set in the great mahogany plantations of southern Mexico in the years before the revolution, Traven traces the beginnings of consciousness which led to rebellion by the Indians who worked in debt slavery. $5-10
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary Ngo Van 1995 296p 6 x 9 Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people in the english-speaking world are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh’s Communist . . .
Peter Shaffer 1964 One of Shaffer's early plays in which the Spanish expedition under Pizzaro to the land of the Incas is told in dazzling spectacle and moral chiaroscuro. After general absolution for any crimes they may commit against the pagan Incas, the conquerors set forth upon the sea. The Inca god is a sun god, ruler of . . .
AUTONOMIST, MARXIST, SITUATIONIST
1492 to Present Howard Zinn 1980 768p 6 x 9 In Zinn's own words, 'My history... describes the inspiring struggle of those who have fought slavery and racism (Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses), of the labor organizers who have led strikes for the rights of working people (Big Bill . . .
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 . . .
Memory of Fire Vol. I Eduardo Galeano 1982 336p 5 x 8 Genesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the Galeano’s words, an attempt to 'rescue the kidnapped memory of all America.' It is . . .
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, . . .
Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War Abel Paz & Paul Sharkey (tr.) 2011 288p 5.5 x 8 "The members of the Iron Column were among the most notorious anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. They were intransigent in the face of the fascist revolt, but also in defence of the revolution's gains. We say to . . .
Memory of Fire Vol. II Eduardo Galeano 1984 312p 5 x 8 Galeano continues his imaginative history of the Americas. In this second volume of his Memory of Fire trilogy, he gives us crucial moments of the 18th and 19th centuries: the clash between European and native cultures, the tribulations of slavery and the . . .
Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the ‘60s Peter Doggett 2007 608p 6 x 9 Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark, to . . .
Collected Skirmishes of Ken Knabb Ken Knabb 1997 408p 6 x 9 The greatest hits, and a fine read for anyone interested in situationist ideas, anarchism, the 60s counterculture and beyond. Includes two substantial new texts—”The Joy Of Revolution” and “Autobiography,” and reprints of all his old pamphlets, co-authored work, and translations of various . . .
An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War Ronald Fraser ed. 1979 628p 6.5 x 9.5 A massive oral history of the spanish civil war. $7-15
Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992 Midnight Notes Collective 1992 340p 6 x 9 Midnight Oil is a political journey through two decades of social struggles, ranging form the oil fields of the Middle East and Africa coal fields of Appalachia and the homes and neighborhoods of America and Europe. Tracing the unifying themes of work, . . .
Jeremy Brecher 1972 480p 5 x 8 Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America and tells this exciting hidden history from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. $4-10
Wilhelm Reich 1933 432p 5.5 x 8 In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, alive today just as much as when he wrote the book. Written while trying to find refuge from nazi germany and drawing on his medical expereinces with men and women of various classes, races, nations, and religious beliefs, Reich refutes 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
A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman’s Fifty Years Lorraine Perlman 1989 200p 5 x 8 A memoir with photos written by Fredy's companion of 27 years. Fredy's life began in Czechoslavakia in 1934 and ended in Detroit in 1985. In those fifty years he lived on three continents and incorporated into his written works experience . . .
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary Ngo Van 1995 296p 6 x 9 Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people in the english-speaking world are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh’s Communist . . .
“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 . . .
The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall 1988 550p 6 x 9 An incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement and the American Indian Movement in general. . . .
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 . . .
The Life of Maria Nikiforova, The Anarchist Joan of Arc Malcolm Archibald 2007 32p 5.5 x 8.5 "The Ukrainian anarchist Maria Nikiforova played a prominent role in the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War as an organizer, military commander, and terrorist. A revolutionary from the age of 16, she was on . . .
An Atlantic History of Slavery and Freedom Marcus Rediker 2012 320p 6 x 9 On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized control . . .
A Social History of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830 G. Rudé & E.J. Hobsbawm 1969 400p 5 x 8 Sir, Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills . . .
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
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 . . .
Herbert Aptheker 1943 428p 5 x 8 A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and were passive. Includes the major slave revolt stories of Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey Gabriel and others, but also many other lesser known instances of slaves sabotaging, running away from, stealing or attacking their masters. $10-15
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 Human History Marcus Rediker 2007 448p 5.5 x 8 For more than three centuries slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the ships that made it all . . .
1967-1984: Documents and Chronology The Angry Brigade & Jean Weir 1985 64p 4 x 5 'Sit in the drugstore, look distant, empty, bored, drinking some tasteless coffee? Or perhaps BLOW IT UP OR BURN IT DOWN. The only thing you can do with modern slave-houses — called boutiques — IS WRECK THEM. You can’t . . .
Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists, & Provos in the 1960s Franklin Rosemont 2005 447p 6 x 9 While square critics derided them as “the left wing of the Beat Generation,” the multi-racial, working-class editorial groups of The Rebel Worker and its sister journal Heatwave in London became well known for their highly original revolutionary perspective, . . .
Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women Martha A. Ackelsberg 1991, 2005 230p 6 x 9 Cowards don't make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, these women mobilized over 20,000 women into an organized network during the Spanish Revolution, . . .
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 . . .
Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century Peter Linebaugh 1991 524p 6 x 9 Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it evidently served the most sinister . . .
E.P Thompson 1963 864p 5 x 8 In this classic, Thompson concentrates on the artisan and working class of England in the formative years of 1780-1832. In contrast to many historians of the same period and topic, Thompson tries to give insight into the day to day life of people, not merely treating them . . .
Class Struggle and the Crisis of Capital Henri Simon 1985 144p 5 x 8 In 1980, communism in Poland was in crisis, and change was in the air. People's resistance peaked in various ways, including swelling the ranks of the union, Solidarity. Henri Simon captures the drama, hopes, and disappointments of workers' rebellions in . . .
André Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS and the Seven Cities of Cibola Penelope Rosemont 2008 250p 5.5 x 8 Nationwide campus surveys show that students today regard the 1960s as the most attractive, creative, and effective decade of the past century. Above all, the Sixties introduced an inspiring new radicalism—in truth, many new radicalisms, . . .
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 . . .
A Graphic Biography Sabrina Jones 2008 144p 6 x 8 Myth and controversy still swirl around the dramatic figure of Isadora Duncan. The pioneering modern dancer emerged from provincial nineteenth-century America to captivate the cultural capitals of Europe, reinvent dance as a fine art, and leave a trail of scandals in her wake. From her unconventional California . . .
prole.info 2005 28p 8.5 x 11 A 28-page comic book introduction to the world as we know it and class war manifesto. $3-7
Writings of Os Cangaceiros Vol. I Os Cangaceiros & Wolfi Landstreicher (trans.) 2006 164p 4 x 7 Os Cangaceiros was a group of delinquents caught up in the spirit of the French insurrection of 1968 who refused to let that spirit die. With nothing but contempt for the self-sacrificial ideology practiced by “specialists in armed . . .
My Memories of Sam Doldoff Anatole Dolgoff 2016 391p 6 x 9 "Sam Dolgoff (1902–1990) was a house painter by trade and member of the IWW from the early 1920s until his death. Sam, along with his wife Esther [1905-1989], was at the center of American anarchism for seventy years, bridging the movement's generations, providing continuity between . . .
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 . . .
Vol. I: The Leninist Counter-Revolution G.P. Maximoff 1940 360p 5 x 8 Originally published in 1940 in two volumes, this is the (partially eyewitness) account of the Leninist terror inflicted upon Russia. Maximoff, a life-long anarchist, fought in the Russian Revolution, organized with the metal-workers, and was imprisoned by Lenin's secret police in 1920 when he refused . . .
Race and the Making of the American Working Class David Roediger 1991 195p 5 x 8 Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply . . .
125th Anniversary Edition Franklin Rosemont & David Roediger 2012 272p 8 x 11 Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago’s Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, and handbills, as well as contributions by many of today’s finest labor and . . .
1937-1939 Agustin Guillamón 1996 116p 6 x 9 "This is the story of a group of anarchists engaged in the most thoroughgoing social and economic revolution of all time. Essentially street fighters with a long pedigree of militant action, they used their own experiences to arrive at the finest contemporary analysis of the Spanish Revolution. In doing . . .
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 . . .
Chicago's Wild 20s! Franklin Rosemont & Paul Durica 2004 186p 5 x 8 What do Lucy Parsons, Clarence Darrow, Carl Sandburg, Mary MacLane, Lawrence Lipton, Elizabeth Davis (Queen of the Hoboes), Jun Fujita, Sherwood Anderson, Ralph Chaplin, Katherine Dunham, Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Rexroth, Sam Dolgoff, and Slim Brundage have in common? They were all . . .
The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical William Herrick 2001 280p 6 x 9 Jumping the Line offers a vivid, sobering, first-hand account of Left culture in America's heady days of the 20s through the 40s. William Herrick grew up in New York City with pictures of Lenin above his crib. He provides . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
And Other Essays Jacques Camatte 1995 256p 5 x 7 Challenging post-Marxist essays translated and reprinted from Jacques Camatte's journal Invariance. Camatte's writing emerges from the spirit of Paris 68, but from a less familiar perspective. Originally a follower of Italian left communist Amadeo Bordiga, Camette eventually broke with Marxism totally, reject all forms . . .
General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony Concerning Some Brief flowerings of Life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and, Incidentally, Our Own Time Raoul Vaneigem 1986 302p 6 x 9 A historical reflection on the ways religious and economic forces have shaped Western culture. Within this broad frame, Vaneigem examines the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority . . .
A Record of Childhood and Youth Richard Wright 1945 448p 5 x 8 Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a ‘drunkard,’ hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by . . .
General Franco, The Angry Brigade, and Me Stuart Christie 2004 400p 5.5 x 8 In 1964, a fresh-faced, eighteen-year-old Glaswegian named Stuart Christie became the most famous anarchist in Britain. He was arrested delivering dynamite to Madrid to be used in the assassination of Spanish dictator General Franco. After serving three of his twenty-year sentence, he was released, due to . . .
Tracts & Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the U.S., 1966-1976 Penelope Rosemont, Paul Garon & Franklin Rosemont 1997 276p 5 x 8 In 1966, the first indigenous Surrealist Group in the US was organized in Chicago. From there, it spread. This book is a compendium of collective declarations—texts in which surrealists . . .
A Chronology Jean Weir 1979 120p 5 x 7 An incredible anthology. Not only was there an amazing amount of armed actions in Italy at this time, but those chronicled here (and there are 100s of them) were those carried out by autonomous/ anarchist affinity groups, not by the Red Brigades and other Leninist . . .
The Left Wing Alternative Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit 1968 272p 5.5 x 8.5 In May 68 a student protest spread to other universities, to Paris factories and in a few weeks to most of France. A million Parisians marched; ten million workers went out on strike. This is Daniel Cohn-Bendit's - launched into celebrity . . .
Post-Political Politics Christian Marazzi & Sylvère Lotringer 2007 340p 7 x 10 'Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails.... I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate of Autonomia. The survival of . . .
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 . . .
James Joll 1964 303p 6 x 8 A good over-view of classical anarchism, focusing almost exclusively on europe. Beginning in the late 1700s with William Godwin and continuing on with Proudhon, Kropotkin and Bakunin. Details evolutions and differences in philosophy, the paris commune, russian revolution, spanish civil war, the era of dynamite, etc. $4-10
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
L’insurrection Qui Vient The Invisible Committee 2007 136p 4.5 x 7 From the beginning: "From whatever angle you approach it, the present offers no way out. This is not the least of its virtues. From those who seek hope above all, it tears away every firm ground. Those who claim to have solutions are . . .
Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life Stevphen Shukaitis 2009 256p 6 x 9 All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding of this self-institutionalizing process. But . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Five Centuries of the Pillage of the Continent Eduardo Galeano 1971 317p 6 x 9 Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber . . .
Jacques Baynac 1994 255p 5 x 8 In the shadow of the Jungfrau’s peak that towers above Interlaken, Switzerland, Tatiana Leontiev carried out her act. Historian Jacques Baynac recounts the life of russian revolutionary before and after 1906, when she assassinated the person she believed was a tsarist minister. $5-15
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 . . .
Wilhelm Reich 1946 144p 5 x 8 Written towards the time Reich was beginning to denounce psycho-analysis, Listen, Little Man! is the physician's quiet, scathing talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 after surviving World War II and in answer to the gossip and defamation . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
Philip S. Foner 1977 341p 5 x 8 Labor historian Foner's take on the first generalized confrontation between labor and capital in the United States, which effectively shut down the entire railway system. $4-10
France, May ‘68 R. Gregoire & F. Perlman 1969 96p 5 x 8 Gregoire and Perlman recount their fascinating experiences Paris when it seemed possible that a non-bureaucratic revolution was at hand. As participants, they analyze actions and principles. They criticize passivity, leaders and the fear of change. $2-5
David Roediger 2006 184p 5 x 8 In this lavishly illustrated collection of essays, articles and reviews from the late 70s to the present, the noted author of The Wages of Whiteness, Towards the Abolition of Whiteness focuses on the complex issue of miserablism in its many and invariably oppressive forms. $6-15
On Culture and Surrealism in the Manipulated World Ivan Sviták 2014 550p 6 x 9 "The surrealists postulated that art should cease to be art, and they insisted that they were not artists and were not interested in art. According to their theory, the present phase of civilization (the phase of class societies) created . . .
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 . . .
Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975 Muhammad Ahmad 2007 340p 5 x 8 Dr. Muhammad Ahmad was national field chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) during the mid-60s and founder of the African People's Party in the 1970s. He has worked closely with Malcolm X, Jesse Gray, Amiri Baraka, Stokely Carmichael, James and Grace Lee Boggs, James Forman, Robert and Mabel . . .
Max Cafard & Stephen Duplantier 2012 180p 5 x 8 Philosopher, activist, artist Max Cafard, has been steadily working his way through critiques of Anarchism, Surrealism, Situationism, Media, Cinema, and Regionalism, to arrive to his own fascinating and practicable practice of the Surregional. The still-standing techniques of all the -isms Cafard has not incinerated . . .
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 . . .
Selected Writings of Benjamin Peret Benjamin Peret 2009 148p 5 x 8 From Charles H. Kerr, "Peret's writings testify with burning clarity to his relentless devotion to the cause of breaking the social, cultural, and psychological fetters which reduce the imagination to misery and degradation. An essential collection by an essential member of the . . .
The Sexual Politics of Sickness Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English 1973 48p 5.5 x 8.5 Though in someways dated, this '70s text still has modern relevancy and a few timeless truths. "The medical system is strategic for women’s liberation. It is the guardian of reproductive technology―birth control, abortion, and the means for safe childbirth. It . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Bureau of Public Secrets 1981 532p 7 x 9 In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people’s passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. Seeking a more extreme social . . .
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 . . .
The Book of Pleasures Raoul Vaneigem 1979 210p 5 x 8 An underappreciated and hard-to-find text by one of the best situationist theorists after his SI days. In a nutshell? Food, sex, poetry, wine and rebellion are good, healthy and life-affirming; money, work, submission and exchange-value mean death. Which will the coming generations choose? Which one will . . .
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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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Eileen Myles 1991 188p 3.5 x 8 This book of poetry takes the hallowed and seamy NYC underground of the 70s and 80s and brings it to terse and visionary life. Full of short lines and rollicking city-fied images spilling into each other, ‘Not Me’ takes Myles’ charismatic queer voice on journeys of walking, . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
Angelo Quattrocchi 2010 192p 5 x 8 The Pope is Not Gay! is an irreverent history of homophobic and sexist obscurantism in the Holy Roman Church and an endoscopic examination of its greatest contemporary advocate, Pope Benedict XVI. In his inimitable style, anarchist Angelo Quattrocchi traces the evolution of Joseph Ratzinger’s life, beginning with . . .
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 . . .
On Men, Women and the Rest of Us Kate Bornstein 1995 272p 5 x 8 Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to you from the life experiences of a trans woman. $3-10
Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud & Paul Schmidt (tr.) 1967 309p 5 x 8 "One of the world's most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost all of which he produced before the age of twenty. Paul Schmidt's acclaimed collection brings together . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony Concerning Some Brief flowerings of Life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and, Incidentally, Our Own Time Raoul Vaneigem 1986 302p 6 x 9 A historical reflection on the ways religious and economic forces have shaped Western culture. Within this broad frame, Vaneigem examines the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority . . .
A Chronicle Peter Coyote 2009 383p 6 x 9 In his energetic memoir, Peter Coyote relives his fifteen-year ride through the heart of the counterculture—a journey that took him from the quiet rooms of privilege as the son of an East Coast stockbroker to the riotous life of political street theater and the self-imposed . . .
Sakae Ōsugi 1921 192p 6 x 9 In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting the oppressiveness of family and . . .
Wilhelm Reich 1946 144p 5 x 8 Written towards the time Reich was beginning to denounce psycho-analysis, Listen, Little Man! is the physician's quiet, scathing talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 after surviving World War II and in answer to the gossip and defamation . . .
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 New York Years Diane Di Prima 2001 424p 5 x 8 Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, . . .
Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago Octavia E. Butler 1987-1989 752p 5 x 8 Octavia Butler's trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago) about life on earth after nuclear armageddon and alien intervention. This sci-fi epic touches on themes of gender, race, sexuality, eugenics, and colonization. The trilogy begins with "Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the . . .
Jean Genet 1949 272p 5 x 8 The man Jean Cocteau dubbed France’s ‘Black Prince of Letters’ here reconstructs his early adult years — time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step ahead of the authorities. $5-10
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, Essays, & Interviews Cindy Crabb 2011 300p 5 x 7.5 Cindy Crabb has been writing her influential, autobiographical, feminist zine, Doris, since the early '90s. This new collection offers stories, essays, and interviews from 2001-2011, and it collects issues 19-28 as well as some never before published writings. Crabb writes with an inspiring level of . . .
Merlin Stone 1976 302p 5.5 x 8 While most readers of this book are likely familiar with the concepts in the first three chapters, starting with chapter four, 'The Northern Invaders', When God Was A Woman goes into details similar to Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! in regards to the first inklings of civilizations, but in some ways with more detail . . .
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 . . . .
Wilhelm Reich 1933 432p 5.5 x 8 In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, alive today just as much as when he wrote the book. Written while trying to find refuge from nazi germany and drawing on his medical expereinces with men and women of various classes, races, nations, and religious beliefs, Reich refutes the . . .
Cynthia Carr 2012 615p 6 x 8 Wojnarowicz ran away from his abusive family and its repressive environment to New York City when he was very young (an adolescent or teenager). He turned tricks in Times Square, hung out with other runaways and drag queens, and embraced the bohemian element of 1960s NYC. Over the years Wojnarowicz . . .
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 . . .
An Introduction: The Will to Knowledge Michel Foucault 1976 168p 5 x 8 According to Foucault, by the 19th-century, when capitalism and industrialization had allowed for the development of a dominant bourgeois social class, discourse on sex was not suppressed, but in fact proliferated. Bourgeois society ‘put into operation an entire machinery for producing . . .
Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States 1895-1917 Terrance Kissack 2008 220p 6 x 9 By investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917, Terence Kissack expands the scope of the history of queer politics in the United States. The anarchists Kissack examines—such as Emma Goldman, Benjamin Tucker, and Alexander Berkman . . .
Actor and Martyr Jean-Paul Sarte 1952 640p 6 x 9 Saint Genet is Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic biography of Jean Genet—thief, convict, queer—a character of almost legendary proportions whose influence grows stronger with time. Saint Genet is at once a compelling psychological portrait, literary criticism, and one of Sartre’s most personal and inspired philosophical creations. . . .
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 . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs Jean Genet 1943 272p 5 x 8 The novel tells the story of Divine, a drag queen who, when the novel opens, has died of tuberculosis and been canonised as a result. The narrator tells us that the stories he is telling are mainly to amuse himself whilst he passes his sentence in . . .
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 . . .
David Wojnarowicz 1997 227p 5.5 x 8 Before his death from AIDS in 1992, David Wojnarowicz became known in the 1980s as an outspoken AIDS activist, anti-censorship advocate, artist, and writer. Written as short monologues, each of these powerful, early works of autobiographical fiction is spoken in the voice of a character he stumbles upon during travels throughout America. $10-15 . . .