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The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K.Le Guin 2016 752p 6 x 9 "A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin—selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time." Not to be confused with Le Guin's collection of novellas, The Found and . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Clifford D. Conner 2005 568p 5 x 8 “You've probably heard the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Anthony Walent 2019 151p 5 x 8 “In the legendary tradition of the medieval bestiary, A Desert Pilgrim’s Bestiary is a compendium of animals that slither, fly, run, and dwell in the Southwest desert. Within these pages, you will discover strange and elusive beasts in the mountains, rivers, and deserts of the Southwest. Join us in . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 Secret Language of the Crossroads Daniel Cassidy 2007 303p 6 x 9 “In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that U.S. slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. “Jazz” and “poker”, “sucker” and “scam” all derive from Irish. While Demostrating this, Daniel Cassidy simultaneously traces the hidden history of how Ireland . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Kim Krans 2017 40p 9.5 x 11.5 “A stunning picture book that addresses the question: do any of us 'own' nature? When a curious cat asks the question, 'Whose moon is that?', a panoply of animals try to stake their claim. The wolf, the owl, and the starry sky all have their . . .
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 . . .
An Ambiguous Utopia Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 387p 5 x 8 “A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
Kim Krans 2018 160p 7.5 x 9 “Embark on an odyssey of reflection, self-discovery, and creative inspiration with The Wild Unknown Journal, a beautifully illustrated and hand-lettered guided journal from Kim Krans, the visionary artist and author behind the bestselling The Wild Unknown Tarot and The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit.” The journal contains 99 illustrated prompts. $6-10
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 . . .
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 Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action Sean Birchall 2010 416p 6 x 8 "The compelling account of the extraordinary activities of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA)—by those who were there on the frontline—an organised and committed group of ordinary working class people who, during the 1980s and 1990s took the fight to the far right and won! Following the . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Antonin Artaud 2001 253p 5.5 x 8 “I am the man,” wrote Artaud, “who has best charted his inmost self.” Antonin Artaud was a poet who wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
A William Godwin Reader Peter Marshall (ed.) 2017 192p 6 x 9 “William Godwin (1756–1836) was one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was not only a radical philosopher but a pioneer in libertarian education, a founder of communist economics, and an acute and powerful novelist whose literary family . . .
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 . . .
Kim Krans 2016 48p 5 x 8 “Kim Krans elevates the simple activity of counting with pen-and-ink drawings of unusual animals and scenes of natural beauty. Delicate watercolor accents and an engrossing search-and-find element make this enchanting book a collectible for all ages.” Aiden's review of 1 2 3 Dream. $5-10
Indians and Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail Matthew R. Bahar 2018 304p 6.5 x 9.5 “Narratives of cultural encounter in colonial North America often contrast traditional Indian coastal-dwellers and intrepid European seafarers. In Storm of the Sea, Matthew R. Bahar instead tells the forgotten history of Indian pirates hijacking European sailing ships on the rough . . .
The 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 . . .
La Vida de María Nikiforova Malcolm Archibald 2007 44p 5.5 x 8.5 "En este texto puede conocerse mas información acerca de la persona mas conocida tras el termino de “atamansha” -el cual recibe el nombre nuestra editorial- y que significa “líder militar”* A ella muchos la conocieron, otros no tanto, su nombre es María . . .
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 New Spelling of My Name A Biomythography Audre Lorde 1982 256p 6 x 9 “ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . .
The 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi 2017 608p 6 x 9 “Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have . . .
a 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 . . .
The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K.Le Guin 2016 832p 6 x 9 Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin collected for the first time in one volume. Not to be confused with Le Guin's collection of short stories, The Unreal and the Real. Novellas include: Vaster than Empires and More Slow Buffalo Gals, Won’t . . .
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 . . .
“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 . . .
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 . . .
An Ambiguous Utopia Alan Kaufman (ed.) 1999 685p 6 x 9 “This sizable volume, edited by Alan Kaufman and S.A. Griffin, houses a raucous gathering of Beat poets, spoken word artists, slam poets, and other revolutionaries. In forms ranging from the epistle through the manifesto to the hip-hop lyric, The Outlaw Bible presents over six hundred pages . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
RECOMMENDED READING
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 . . .
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
Lucille Clifton & Brinton Turkle 1973 32p 8.5 x 8 Everyone keeps telling King Shabazz that Spring's right around the corner, but King's never seen it before. Together with his best friend, Tony Polito, King Shabazz sets off on an adventure through New York City to find out if Spring is real. $1-10
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Maya Angelou 1969 304p MMPB Born in St. Louis and sent with her brother and no adults on a train when only a few years old to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, this is the first – and best – of Aneglou’s memoirs, spanning ages 3-17. Through Angelou’s eyes we can see . . .
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 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 . . .
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
What Mound Have Been // Some Poems, 2003-2013 2014 60p 5.5 x 8.5 A petite, personal history of the curious earthworks of North St. Louis, the text explores the mysterious origins and unexpected transformations of the city's monumental earthen mounds. From the burial grounds of Native Americans to the platforms of early St. Louis colonialists for . . .
One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II Brendan I. Koerner 2008 400p 5 x 8 This is the story of Herman Perry, a black GI during World War II, and the road he was forced to work on. The Ledo Road was a 465 mile supply road from British occupied . . .
A 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 . . .
Or, the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people Michael Ende 1973 265p 5 x 8 From the author that brought you The NeverEnding Story, this is the amazing young-adult tale of a little girl, who after discovering that representatives from the Time-Savings Bank . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
Margaret Atwood 1985 311p MMPB Written after a visit to afghanistan in the '80s, this is a dystopian tale about what could be the role of women in an american theocracy. $2-5 The Handmaid's Tale in spanish
Keiko Kasza 1993 16p 7 x 9 In this picture book, Choco is a little bird who lives all alone. He wishes he had a mother, but who could his mother be? While searching for her, Chocho is told over and over that different animals cannot be his mother because they don't look like him. Eventually, Choco . . .
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Kim Krans 2017 40p 9.5 x 11.5 “A stunning picture book that addresses the question: do any of us 'own' nature? When a curious cat asks the question, 'Whose moon is that?', a panoply of animals try to stake their claim. The wolf, the owl, and the starry sky all have their . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Dorothy Allison 1995 94p 5 x 8 "Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women—sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts—and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire . . .
A Surrealistic Novel in Collage Max Ernst 1934 208p 8 x 11 Accredited with inventing collage, this is one of Ernst’s finest example of it. All five original brochures reproduced in large, crisp and beautiful images. $14-20
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
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 . . .
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 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, . . .
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 . . .
Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker 2001 433p 6.5 x 9 Spanning an impressive 200 years, this books takes us from the early 1600s (and the years leading up to the English Civil War) through the golden age of piracy, through the tumultuous years . . .
A Novel Dorothy Allison 1992 320p 6 x 8 Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne . . .
The 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 . . .
Suzzane Collins 2008 384p 5 x 8 In retribution for a crushed uprising years before, each region of the future, dystopian United States must send its children to fight each other to the death. What will people do to survive? What will people watch to be entertained (and forget the misery and exploitation of . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
HISTORY
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
What Mound Have Been // Some Poems, 2003-2013 2014 60p 5.5 x 8.5 A petite, personal history of the curious earthworks of North St. Louis, the text explores the mysterious origins and unexpected transformations of the city's monumental earthen mounds. From the burial grounds of Native Americans to the platforms of early St. Louis colonialists for . . .
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 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 . . .
Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 Barbara Kingslover 1989 213p 5 x 8 Hundreds of families held the line in the 1983 strike against Phelps Dodge Copper in Arizona. After more than a year the strikers lost their union certification, but the battle permanently altered the social order in these small, predominantly Hispanic mining . . .
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 . . .
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
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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. . . .
Selected Ravings Of Slim Brundage - Founder & Janitor Of The College Of Complexes Slim Brundage & Franklin Rosemont 2003 140p 5 x 8 A unique combination of tavern, university and nonstop wild party, the College of Complexes (1951-1961) was for many years the city's outstanding outsider outpost -- a rare living link between the . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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 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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Vol. II: The Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi 2003 160p 6 x 9 In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt Annette Kobak 1990 258p 6 x 9 Born in switzerland to an anarchist father, Isabelle's family moved to Algeria when they were a young girl. By the time they were in their early teens, most of their immediate family had died and they set off to explore the north african desert and . . .
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 . . .
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
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations Clive Ponting 1991 400p 5 x 8 An interpretation of world history from a "green" perspective. In place of political, military and diplomatic events the author considers the fundamental environmental forces that have shaped human history and how and why humans have changed the world around . . .
The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action Sean Birchall 2010 416p 6 x 8 "The compelling account of the extraordinary activities of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA)—by those who were there on the frontline—an organised and committed group of ordinary working class people who, during the 1980s and 1990s took the fight to the far right and won! Following the . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
1603-1714 Christopher Hill 1961 368p 5 x 8 During this period modern English society and a modern state began to take shape, and England’s position in the world was transformed. Marxist historian Hill tries to delve below the familiar events to grasp what happened to ordinary english commoners as well as to kings and . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders in 1920s-30s Chicago Frank O. Beck 1956 128p 5 x 8 From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood known as Towertown was the vital center of an . . .
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 . . .
Memory of Fire Vol. III Eduardo Galeano 1986 336p 5 x 8 In 1977 a disheveled, reclusive Elvis Presley fired pistols at his six TV sets in Graceland while, a continent away, Brazil's military dictatorship banned Picasso's erotic prints and the U.S. Declaration of Independence. In this Uruguayan journalist's epic tapestry, stitched together from hundreds of . . .
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 . . .
A People's History of the United States Desde 1492 hasta hoy Howard Zinn 1980, 2011 520p 5.5 x 8 "En ésta, su más famosa obra, Howard Zinn nos presenta una perspectiva lúcida e imprescindible de la historia de los Estados Unidos. Desde el primer encuentro entre los indígenas americanos y Cristóbal Colón hasta las aposionadas protestas . . .
The 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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Economic, Social and Religious Utopias of the Nineteenth Century Charles Nordhoff 1875 439p 5.5 x 8.5 Virtually every ‘utopia’ in existence as of 1875 is described, with material on social customs, guiding philosophy, food, clothing, attitudes toward sex and more. Primary source for communes, social and sexual groups. Includes 39 illustrations. $5-10
A New Spelling of My Name A Biomythography Audre Lorde 1982 256p 6 x 9 “ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . .
The 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, . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
“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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
An Errico Malatesta Reader Marie Fleming 1987 256p 6 x 9 One of the only English-language biographies of Reclus, Fleming takes us through the life the anarchist geographer: friendships with Bakunin and Kropotkin; time in the Paris Commune; and his monumental, groundbreaking work of geography, Nouvelle giographie universelle. $10-15
Noam Chomsky 1968 141p 5 x 8 Written while the Vietnam War was raging, Chomsky condemns liberal ideology for supporting U.S. imperial adventures in Southeast Asia during the 1960's. Chomsky also shows that the same ideology distorts the work of scholars who analyze earlier conflicts. His critique of historians of the Spanish Revolution and . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Maya Angelou 1969 304p MMPB Born in St. Louis and sent with her brother and no adults on a train when only a few years old to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, this is the first – and best – of Aneglou’s memoirs, spanning ages 3-17. Through Angelou’s eyes we can see . . .
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, . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Understanding the Rising Neofascism in Cultural, Artistic, and Ecological Movements Anonymous 2014 24p 5 x 8 From the back cover: 'Across the globe, a reactionary wave has presented itself as the answer to the question posed six years ago by the militants of the global uprisings of 2011. In Greece, Ukraine, Thailand, Venezuela, Russia, . . .
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
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 . . .
A William Godwin Reader Peter Marshall (ed.) 2017 192p 6 x 9 “William Godwin (1756–1836) was one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was not only a radical philosopher but a pioneer in libertarian education, a founder of communist economics, and an acute and powerful novelist whose literary family . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
Black Hoboes and Their Songs [Including a CD of 25 original recordings!] Gene Tomko & Paul Garon 2006 296p 5 x 8 In this exciting new book, Paul Garon tells the story of African American migratory workers and the songs they sang: at work, in boxcars and hobo jungles, in jail, in country roadhouses and urban nightspots. Focused on the . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
Tales From a Sex Pistol Steve Jones 2017 344p 6 x 9 “Steve Jones's modern Dickensian tale began in the street of Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush, West London, where as a lonely, neglected boy living off his wits and petty thievery he was given purpose by the glam art rock of David Bowie and Roxy Music. He . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
Humanity’s Next Great Adventure Daniel Quinn 2000 202p 5 x 8 A sort of theoretical follow-up to Ishmael, in which Quinn studies ancient civilizations – Maya, Olmec – and gather/hunter groups. Quinn’s setting forth ideas for what a future society could look like, encouraging diversity over the nightmare of hierarchy and homogeneity in civilization. $3-10
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
The Secret Language of the Crossroads Daniel Cassidy 2007 303p 6 x 9 “In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that U.S. slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. “Jazz” and “poker”, “sucker” and “scam” all derive from Irish. While Demostrating this, Daniel Cassidy simultaneously traces the hidden history of how Ireland . . .
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 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. . . .
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Graeme S. Mount 2001 200p 6 x 9 After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler’s subsequent declaration of war upon the United States, Chile’s reluctance to sever diplomatic ties with Nazi Germany allowed Germany to maximize its opportunities there, influencing Chilean politicians, military operations, and the popular media. This is the story . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
The Rose of Fire Has Returned: The Struggle for the Streets of Barcelona Anonymous 2012 75p 4 x 8 'In may 2011, tens of thousands occupied plazas throughout Spain in a protest movement that prefigured similar occupations around the world, including the Occupy movement in the US. On March 29, 2012, a nationwide general . . .
The 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, . . .
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England William Cronon 1983 288p 5 x 8 William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists’ sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Changes in the Land provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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 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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 Life Of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater Donald P. Dulchinos 1998 320p 6 x 9 This is the never-before-told story of a true American original. Twenty-one year old Fitz Hugh Ludlow became the best-selling author of The Hasheesh Eater in the years before the Civil War. His work related his visionary experiences with . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Clifford D. Conner 2005 568p 5 x 8 “You've probably heard the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
Rose Pesotta 1944 435p 6 x 8 Rose Pesotta was an anarchist, feminist labor organizer and the vice president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Born in Ukraine in the 1890s, Pesotta’s interest in Narodnaya Volya eventually lead her to anarchism. Arriving in New York City in 1913, Pessota found work in the . . .
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 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 . . .
French Anarchists and Algeria David Porter 2011 550p 6 x 9 Eyes to the South explores important issues from the last six tumultuous decades of Algerian history, including French colonial rule, nationalist revolution, experiments in workers' self-management, the rise of radical Islamist politics, an insurgent revival of traditional decentralist resistance and political structures, conflicts . . .
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 . . .
MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHIES
Selected Ravings Of Slim Brundage - Founder & Janitor Of The College Of Complexes Slim Brundage & Franklin Rosemont 2003 140p 5 x 8 A unique combination of tavern, university and nonstop wild party, the College of Complexes (1951-1961) was for many years the city's outstanding outsider outpost -- a rare living link between the . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
A William Godwin Reader Peter Marshall (ed.) 2017 192p 6 x 9 “William Godwin (1756–1836) was one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was not only a radical philosopher but a pioneer in libertarian education, a founder of communist economics, and an acute and powerful novelist whose literary family . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 Errico Malatesta Reader Marie Fleming 1987 256p 6 x 9 One of the only English-language biographies of Reclus, Fleming takes us through the life the anarchist geographer: friendships with Bakunin and Kropotkin; time in the Paris Commune; and his monumental, groundbreaking work of geography, Nouvelle giographie universelle. $10-15
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
The Life and Writings of Leda Rafanelli Andrea Pakieser 2014 200p 5 x 8 Leda Rafanelli (1880–1971) was one of the most prolific propagandists in early twentieth century Italy. She began working as a typesetter in her teens, and went on to found and run several publishing houses. Her own body of work included . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II Brendan I. Koerner 2008 400p 5 x 8 This is the story of Herman Perry, a black GI during World War II, and the road he was forced to work on. The Ledo Road was a 465 mile supply road from British occupied . . .
A Memoir 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 . . .
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 . . .
Maya Angelou 1969 304p MMPB Born in St. Louis and sent with her brother and no adults on a train when only a few years old to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, this is the first – and best – of Aneglou’s memoirs, spanning ages 3-17. Through Angelou’s eyes we can see . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
The Life Of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater Donald P. Dulchinos 1998 320p 6 x 9 This is the never-before-told story of a true American original. Twenty-one year old Fitz Hugh Ludlow became the best-selling author of The Hasheesh Eater in the years before the Civil War. His work related his visionary experiences with . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 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, . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
Vol. II: The Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi 2003 160p 6 x 9 In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
One Man's Daring Escape From Mao's Darkest Prison Xu Hongci & Erling Hoh (tr.) 2008/2017 314p 6 x 9 "Mao Zedong’s labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet Gulag, they subjected their inmates to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought to be impossible to escape―but one man . . .
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route Saidiya Hartman 2006 288p 5 x 8 "Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate . . .
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
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
Patricia Polacco 2009 48p 8.5 x 11 "Ever since the Nazis marched into Monique's small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her, until the night Monique encounters 'the little ghost' sitting at the end of her bed. She turns out to be a girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding from the Nazis in . . .
A Novel Dorothy Allison 1992 320p 6 x 8 Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Growing Up Okie Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 1997 248p 5.5 x 8 A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the . . .
War Letters & Other Writings Franklin Rosemont & Jacques Vaché 2007 396p 5 x 8 The decade that gave the world Krazy Kat, Rube Goldberg, and Buster Keaton also marked the emergence of Jacques Vaché. A bold jaywalker at the crossroads of history, and an ardent exemplar of freedom and revolt, Vaché challenged all . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt Annette Kobak 1990 258p 6 x 9 Born in switzerland to an anarchist father, Isabelle's family moved to Algeria when they were a young girl. By the time they were in their early teens, most of their immediate family had died and they set off to explore the north african desert and . . .
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, . . .
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, . . .
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
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
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, . . .
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 . . .
Jon Krakauer 1996 207p 5 x 8 Krakauer's version of Alexander Supertramp's adventurous and, ultimately, tragic life. Disillusioned with his middle class life, after graduating college Supertramp drops off the map and strikes off on an ascetic adventure: hitch-hiking across the country, canoeing to mexico, train-hopping up and down the west coast, and eventually . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
“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 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 . . .
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 . . .
Tales From a Sex Pistol Steve Jones 2017 344p 6 x 9 “Steve Jones's modern Dickensian tale began in the street of Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush, West London, where as a lonely, neglected boy living off his wits and petty thievery he was given purpose by the glam art rock of David Bowie and Roxy Music. He . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
Italo Calvino 1990 160p 5 x 8 Composed of five strikingly elegant 'memory exercises' about his life and work. With visionary passion, the author traces pieces of his childhood and adolescence, his experiences during WWII, and more. $4-10
Rose Pesotta 1944 435p 6 x 8 Rose Pesotta was an anarchist, feminist labor organizer and the vice president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Born in Ukraine in the 1890s, Pesotta’s interest in Narodnaya Volya eventually lead her to anarchism. Arriving in New York City in 1913, Pessota found work in 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 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 . . .
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 Season in the Wilderness Edward Abbey 1968 269p 5 x 8 Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes about life in the wilderness and the nature of the desert itself by the (at the time) park ranger and conservationist, Edward Abbey. The book details the unique adventures and conflicts the author faces, from . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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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 . . .
Ursula K. Le Guin 1979 369p 6 x 9 Inspired by 19th century Russian literature, Malafrena is the story of a fictious central european nation in turmoil. From 1825 to 1830 Orsinia is ruled by the Austrian Empire. The hero is Itale Sorde, the son of the owner of an estate on a lake . . .
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 . . .
Or, the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people Michael Ende 1973 265p 5 x 8 From the author that brought you The NeverEnding Story, this is the amazing young-adult tale of a little girl, who after discovering that representatives from the Time-Savings Bank . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K.Le Guin 2016 832p 6 x 9 Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin collected for the first time in one volume. Not to be confused with Le Guin's collection of short stories, The Unreal and the Real. Novellas include: Vaster than Empires and More Slow Buffalo Gals, Won’t . . .
Italo Calvino 1957 224p 5 x 8 Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence, making himself clothes, shelter and finding food and even love. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. $4-10
Annals of the Western Shore Ursula K. Le Guin 2004 304p 6 x 9 Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability--with a glance, a gesture, a word--to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a . . .
William Blake 400p 5 x 8 Contains much of Blake's poetry and prose. $3-10
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, . . .
And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1993 288p 5 x 8 A volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and 'impossible interviews' from one of the great fantasists of the 20th century, displaying the full breadth of his vision and wit. Written between 1943 and 1984 and masterfully translated by Tim Parks, the fictions in . . .
Pa Chin 1931 329p 5 x 7 This autobiographical novel deals with internal tensions of an upper-middle class family during the New Culture Movement of 1920s China. While many contemporary radicals pay little-to-no mind of the family as a repressive institution (perhaps because of its increasing defuse or subversive forms), Pa Chin's critque made . . .
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 . . .
Confessions of a Girl Gang Joyce Carol Oates 1994 336p 5 x 8 The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them. Foxfire is . . .
Keiko Kasza 1993 16p 7 x 9 In this picture book, Choco is a little bird who lives all alone. He wishes he had a mother, but who could his mother be? While searching for her, Chocho is told over and over that different animals cannot be his mother because they don't look like him. Eventually, Choco . . .
B. Traven 1926 207p 5 x 8 The background of The Cotton-Pickers, set in Mexico in the 1920s, is the struggle of the emerging trade unions to end the exploitation of hungry laborers. Gales, a laconic American drifter, turns his hand to anything for a meal and a flea-bitten bunk—he works on a cotton . . .
A Novel Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 192p 5 x 8 In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields.
A Novel Jean Hegland 1998 241p 5 x 8 Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle . . .
Lois Lowry 1993 192p MMPB Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community, and when Jonas turns 12 he is sent to train under The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the community, the . . .
Ursula K. Le Guin 1968 320p MMPB In this first novel in the Earthsea cycle we hear how Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This . . .
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 . . .
Jean Genet 1947 288p 5 x 8 The story of a dangerous man seduced by peril, Querelle deals in a startling way with the Dostoyevskian theme of murder as an act of total liberation. $3-10
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Italo Calvino 1947 192p 5 x 8 Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a sex worker, and spends as much time . . .
Peter Shaffer 1979 160p 5 x 8 As a youth Salieri makes a deal with god that if god will make him a great composer, Salieri will lead a chaste life and devote his greatest works to him. Salieri finds success and even a place as a court composer in the Imperial court. Yet . . .
Émile Zola 1885 400p MMPB Classic novel about a miners’ strike in northern france – the struggle for life and diginity before the arrival of formal unions. $1-5
Vol. II: The Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi 2003 160p 6 x 9 In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for . . .
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 . . .
A Novel Barbara Kingslover The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously . . .
Ursula K. Le Guin 1991 208p 6 x 9 In one of her more non-linear works of fiction, Le Guin explores the dreams and sorrows of the inhabitants of Klatsand, Oregon, a beach town where ordinary people bring their dreams and sorrows for a weekend or the rest of their lives, and sometimes learn . . .
Maya Angelou 1969 304p MMPB Born in St. Louis and sent with her brother and no adults on a train when only a few years old to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, this is the first – and best – of Aneglou’s memoirs, spanning ages 3-17. Through Angelou’s eyes we can see . . .
A Surrealistic Novel in Collage Max Ernst 1934 208p 8 x 11 Accredited with inventing collage, this is one of Ernst’s finest example of it. All five original brochures reproduced in large, crisp and beautiful images. $14-20
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 . . .
Octavia Butler 1993 299p 5.5 x 8.5 Set in a future where government has all but collapsed, Parable of the Sower centers on a young woman named Lauren Olamina who possesses what Butler dubbed hyperempathy – the ability to feel the perceived pain and other sensations of others – who develops a benign philosophical . . .
Kim Krans 2016 48p 5 x 8 “Kim Krans elevates the simple activity of counting with pen-and-ink drawings of unusual animals and scenes of natural beauty. Delicate watercolor accents and an engrossing search-and-find element make this enchanting book a collectible for all ages.” Aiden's review of 1 2 3 Dream. $5-10
B. Traven 1934 60p 6 x 8 B. Traven’s picture book take on an old mexican folk tale. $4-10
Italo Calvino 1970 300p 5 x 8 Blending reality and illusion, this collection of short stories deals with love and loneliness. $5-10
Ursula K. Le Guin 1966 113p MMPB The fourth installment of the Hainish Cycle, this story is set on Werel, the third planet of the Gamma Draconis system. The planet has an orbital period of 60 Earth years, and is approaching its correspondingly long winter. The main characters belong to one of two major groups: . . .
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
B. Traven 1931 271p 5.5 x 8 In the second of his six Jungle Novels, Traven brings his remarkable narrative talents to bear on the coming of age of a young Indian oxcart driver and the oppressive world in which he must make his way. $7-15
Lucille Clifton & Brinton Turkle 1973 32p 8.5 x 8 Everyone keeps telling King Shabazz that Spring's right around the corner, but King's never seen it before. Together with his best friend, Tony Polito, King Shabazz sets off on an adventure through New York City to find out if Spring is real. $1-10
Stories Ursula K. Le Guin 1976 240p MMPB Orsinia . . . a land of medieval forests, stonewalled cities, and railways reaching into the mountains where the old gods dwell. A country where life is harsh, dreams are gentle, and people feel torn by powerful forces and fight to remain whole. $3-5
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 . . .
Dennis Danvers 2002 368p 5 x 8 In 1921 Russia, a mysterious visitor from the far future comes to Peter Kropotkin’s deathbed and offers the world-renowned anarchist philosopher a new life. Kropotkin — the one-time prince who renounced wealth and privilege to embrace the cause of anarchy, the dying humanist who long suffered the torments of prison and official scorn . . .
Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 226p MMPB In this fourth novel in the Earthsea series, we rejoin the young priestess Tenar and powerful wizard Ged. Years before, they had helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Together, they shared an adventure like no other. Tenar has since embraced the simple pleasures . . .
An Ambiguous Utopia Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 387p 5 x 8 “A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which . . .
Obenabi’s Songs Fredy Perlman 1988 389p 5 x 8 Obenabi, the narrator, sings the story of his people confronting the european invader. The tales are personal, emerging from the remembered experiences of his grandmothers. These dramas of conflict, commerce, domestication, heroism, exchange and love are set in the great lakes region of north america. Most take place in splendid natural . . .
Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 192p MMPB When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, in this second book in the Earthsea cycle, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she . . .
Margaret Atwood 2001 521p 6 x 9 The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: ‘Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.’ They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister’s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader . . .
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Daniel Quinn 1992 263p 5 x 8 The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown . . .
Margaret Atwood 1985 311p MMPB Written after a visit to afghanistan in the '80s, this is a dystopian tale about what could be the role of women in an american theocracy. $2-5 The Handmaid's Tale in spanish
Italo Calvino 1979 260p 5 x 8 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers pursue both the . . .
A Story of California Frank Norris 1901 400p MMPB Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this is the story of the waning days of the frontier West. This is the first of two books in the incomplete The Epic of Wheat trilogy. $1-5
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. . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
Marge Piercy 1978 288p 5.5 x 8 For Leslie, the cost of living and loving is getting higher and higher. She has become involved in a strange erotic triangle with Honor, a romantic young woman, and Bernie, a queer former street hustler. One reader had this to say: The book has an evocative earnestness . . .
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
Ursula K. Le Guin 2003 256p MMPB In this collection of short stories each chapter describes a different world and the society that inhabits it; these societies share similarities with Earth's cultures in some respects, but may be notably dissimilar in other respects. Many of the chapters are brief vignettes or ethnographic profiles of the societies they . . .
Ursula K. Le Guin 2001 416p 6 x 9 The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by the Earthsea novels--yet each stands on its own. It contains the novella 'The Finder,' and the short stories 'The Bones of the Earth,' 'Darkrose and Diamond,' 'On the High Marsh,' and 'Dragonfly.' Concluding . . .
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
Isabel Meredith 1903 302p 5 x 8 Originally published in 1903, this is a cracking novel, on the turn of the century British anarchist movement, and the role of women therein. The narrator, Isabel Meredith is the pseudonym of Helen and Olivia Rossetti. Their fin-de-siecle tenure as editors of the renowned British anarchist journal The Torch provided . . .
Dorothy Allison 1998 435p 5 x 8 Allison's second novel. Much like the preceeding one, Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller deals with domestic violence, friendship among women, mother-daughter bonds, and poverty in the small-town South. Although the point of view shifts throughout the novel, the story is told primarily from the perspective of Delia . . .
And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1963 192p 5 x 8 The three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Calvino. Translated by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun. $4-10
Ursula K. Le Guin 2001 288p 5 x 8 In this final book of the Earthsea Cycle, Le Guin combines her magical fantasy with a profoundly human, earthly, humble touch.The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea. Alder seeks . . .
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, . . .
Annals of the Western Shore Ursula K. Le Guin 2007 512p 6 x 9 In this third installment, Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes “remembers” things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when . . .
A Novel Jeanette Winterson 2015 273p 5 x 8 "In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale, we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia. Her story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, technology and the . . .
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 Novel Dorothy Allison 1992 320p 6 x 8 Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne . . .
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 . . .
Body of Glass Marge Piercy 1991 448p 6 x 9 A dystopian future novel in the 22nd century where corporations control scarce world resources and remain luxurious, spick and span, while independent free zones remain in squalor but free and dangerous. The story follows Shira Shipman, working at one such corp called Y-S, recently divorced and forced . . .
Umberto Eco 1980 536p 5 x 8 The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns to the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, and the empirical insights of Roger Bacon to . . .
Dorothy Allison 1988 219p 5 x 8 Allison's short stories address themes such as: strength, cycles of poverty, identity, aggression, mother/daughter relationships, survival, abuse. $3-10
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 . . .
Umberto Eco 1988 640p MMPB Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up 'the Plan', a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
Italo Calvino 1990 160p 5 x 8 Composed of five strikingly elegant 'memory exercises' about his life and work. With visionary passion, the author traces pieces of his childhood and adolescence, his experiences during WWII, and more. $4-10
Richard Wright 1938 336p MMPB Wright's first book is set in the American Deep South. Each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. $1-5
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 . . .
Italo Calvino 1972 165p 5 x 8 Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. Translated by William Weaver. Invisible Cities in Spanish $4-10
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
The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K.Le Guin 2016 752p 6 x 9 "A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin—selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time." Not to be confused with Le Guin's collection of novellas, The Found and . . .
John Steinbeck 1936 274p MMPB With only a few weeks to pick the apples before they spoil, tensions run high and boil over after migrant workers go on strike right as the apple-picking season begins. $1-5
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 . . .
Suzzane Collins 2008 384p 5 x 8 In retribution for a crushed uprising years before, each region of the future, dystopian United States must send its children to fight each other to the death. What will people do to survive? What will people watch to be entertained (and forget the misery and exploitation of . . .
Annals of the Western Shore Ursula K. Le Guin 2006 360p 6 x 9 In this second installment, Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the . . .
THEORY, PHILOSOPHY
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
Dennis Danvers 2002 368p 5 x 8 In 1921 Russia, a mysterious visitor from the far future comes to Peter Kropotkin’s deathbed and offers the world-renowned anarchist philosopher a new life. Kropotkin — the one-time prince who renounced wealth and privilege to embrace the cause of anarchy, the dying humanist who long suffered the torments of prison and official scorn . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 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 . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Preface for a Future Social Ecology David Watson 1996 247p 4.5 x 5 Though almost 20 years old, Beyond Bookchin is still one of the most comprehensive discussions of Murray Bookchin's social ecology. But David Watson goes far beyond social ecology to explore different paths of thinking about radical politics. His visionary ecology challenges . . .
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 . . .
The Rose of Fire Has Returned: The Struggle for the Streets of Barcelona Anonymous 2012 75p 4 x 8 'In may 2011, tens of thousands occupied plazas throughout Spain in a protest movement that prefigured similar occupations around the world, including the Occupy movement in the US. On March 29, 2012, a nationwide general . . .
The 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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 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
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, . . .
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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Selections From Freedom 1965–86 Various 1991 272p 5.5 x 8 Essays, articles, and commentary from London's venerable anarchist newspaper, Freedom. Looks at successive Labor and Conservative Governments in Britain over a quarter of a century, wars in Vietnam, Biafra, the Middle East and the Falklands, the May Days in Paris 1968, trade unions and . . .
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 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 . . .
Selections from the Anarchist Journals War Commentary and Freedom 1939-1950 Freedom Press (ed.) 2008 422p 5.5 x 8 Freedom Press, founded by Charlotte Wilson and Peter Kropotkin in 1886, is the oldest surviving anarchist publishing house in the English speaking world and the largest in Britain. The Press has published Freedom since its inception . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
G. Munis & John Zerzan 1975 62p 5 x 6 Unions – as well as employers – stand in the way of workers’ freedom. Labor militants who became union leaders enforce industrial discipline just as Lenin and Stalin advocated. In the pamphlet’s second essay Zerzan documents ‘The Revolt Against Work’. $2-5 OUT OF STOCK
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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. . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Capitalism. Economics. Resistance. CrimethInc. W.C. 2011 378p 5 x 7 After so much technological progress, why do we have to work more than ever before? How is it that the harder we work, the poorer we end up compared to our bosses? When the economy crashes, why do people focus on protecting their jobs when no one likes working 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
A Season in the Wilderness Edward Abbey 1968 269p 5 x 8 Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes about life in the wilderness and the nature of the desert itself by the (at the time) park ranger and conservationist, Edward Abbey. The book details the unique adventures and conflicts the author faces, from . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
A William Godwin Reader Peter Marshall (ed.) 2017 192p 6 x 9 “William Godwin (1756–1836) was one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was not only a radical philosopher but a pioneer in libertarian education, a founder of communist economics, and an acute and powerful novelist whose literary family . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action Sean Birchall 2010 416p 6 x 8 "The compelling account of the extraordinary activities of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA)—by those who were there on the frontline—an organised and committed group of ordinary working class people who, during the 1980s and 1990s took the fight to the far right and won! Following the . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Simon the Simpler 2010 28p 5.5 x 8.5 This pamphlet contains recipes, a section on wildcrafting, an essay about anarcho-herbalism, and a list of additional resources. An Herbal Medicine-Making Primer PDF ¢50-$3
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
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 . . .
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Clifford D. Conner 2005 568p 5 x 8 “You've probably heard the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein . . .
Devin Allen 2017 121p 9 x 10 "On April 18, 2015, the city of Baltimore erupted in mass protests in response to the brutal murder of Freddie Gray by police. Devin Allen was there, and his iconic photos of the Baltimore uprising became a viral sensation. In these stunning photographs, Allen documents the uprising as he strives . . .
The 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 . . .
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 . . .
Selected Ravings Of Slim Brundage - Founder & Janitor Of The College Of Complexes Slim Brundage & Franklin Rosemont 2003 140p 5 x 8 A unique combination of tavern, university and nonstop wild party, the College of Complexes (1951-1961) was for many years the city's outstanding outsider outpost -- a rare living link between the . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Mikhail Bakunin 1871 89p 5 x 8 Although it was never finished, God and the State, Bakunin's only well-known English-language text, is the torso of a giant. A basic anarchist and radical document for generations, this book makes one of the clearest statements of the anarchist philosophy of religion: by its nature it is . . .
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 . . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Memory of Fire Vol. III Eduardo Galeano 1986 336p 5 x 8 In 1977 a disheveled, reclusive Elvis Presley fired pistols at his six TV sets in Graceland while, a continent away, Brazil's military dictatorship banned Picasso's erotic prints and the U.S. Declaration of Independence. In this Uruguayan journalist's epic tapestry, stitched together from hundreds of . . .
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 . . .
Black Hoboes and Their Songs [Including a CD of 25 original recordings!] Gene Tomko & Paul Garon 2006 296p 5 x 8 In this exciting new book, Paul Garon tells the story of African American migratory workers and the songs they sang: at work, in boxcars and hobo jungles, in jail, in country roadhouses and urban nightspots. Focused on the . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Kim Krans 2017 40p 9.5 x 11.5 “A stunning picture book that addresses the question: do any of us 'own' nature? When a curious cat asks the question, 'Whose moon is that?', a panoply of animals try to stake their claim. The wolf, the owl, and the starry sky all have their . . .
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 . . .
Writings and Speeches Of Isadora Duncan Isadora Duncan & Franklin Rosemont ed. 1981 160p 5 x 8 This outstanding collection of the great dancer's heretofore uncollected writings and speeches gives us a vivid new perception of her importance as an original and radical thinker. Starting with reminiscences of her San Francisco childhood, Isadora Speaks . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Daniel Quinn 1992 263p 5 x 8 The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
“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 . . .
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 . . .
The Secret Language of the Crossroads Daniel Cassidy 2007 303p 6 x 9 “In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that U.S. slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. “Jazz” and “poker”, “sucker” and “scam” all derive from Irish. While Demostrating this, Daniel Cassidy simultaneously traces the hidden history of how Ireland . . .
Noam Chomsky 1968 141p 5 x 8 Written while the Vietnam War was raging, Chomsky condemns liberal ideology for supporting U.S. imperial adventures in Southeast Asia during the 1960's. Chomsky also shows that the same ideology distorts the work of scholars who analyze earlier conflicts. His critique of historians of the Spanish Revolution and . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England William Cronon 1983 288p 5 x 8 William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists’ sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Changes in the Land provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how . . .
War Letters & Other Writings Franklin Rosemont & Jacques Vaché 2007 396p 5 x 8 The decade that gave the world Krazy Kat, Rube Goldberg, and Buster Keaton also marked the emergence of Jacques Vaché. A bold jaywalker at the crossroads of history, and an ardent exemplar of freedom and revolt, Vaché challenged all . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Judith Malina 2001 84p 5 x 8 Judith Malina (1926-2015) and her longtime companion-comrade Julian Beck founded the Living Theatre in New York City in 1947. In these poems Judith shares her anguish at injustices inflicted by bureaucratic authority; the rewards she found in love and collaboration with Julian; and her difficulties in making . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Anthony Walent 2019 151p 5 x 8 “In the legendary tradition of the medieval bestiary, A Desert Pilgrim’s Bestiary is a compendium of animals that slither, fly, run, and dwell in the Southwest desert. Within these pages, you will discover strange and elusive beasts in the mountains, rivers, and deserts of the Southwest. Join us in . . .
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 . . .
The Life and Writings of Leda Rafanelli Andrea Pakieser 2014 200p 5 x 8 Leda Rafanelli (1880–1971) was one of the most prolific propagandists in early twentieth century Italy. She began working as a typesetter in her teens, and went on to found and run several publishing houses. Her own body of work included . . .
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 . . .
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 Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations Clive Ponting 1991 400p 5 x 8 An interpretation of world history from a "green" perspective. In place of political, military and diplomatic events the author considers the fundamental environmental forces that have shaped human history and how and why humans have changed the world around . . .
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, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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 . . .
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, . . .
A Factor of Evolution Peter Kropotkin 1902 336p 5 x 8 Kropotkin posits that the most effective human and animal communities are essentially cooperative, rather than competitive. Essential to the understanding of human evolution as well as social organization, this book offers a powerful counterpoint to the tenets of Social Darwinism. $7-12
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
Jesús Sepúlveda 2005 108p 5 x 8 Jesús Sepúlveda is a Chilean green anarchist with roots in Spain, Italy and Eugene, Oregon. This work is both critical and inspirational, a human and plant-centered antidote to the globalist technocracy. $8-12
The People's Pugilist Carl Sandburg & Matthias Regan 2009 282p 5 x 8 Carl Sandburg is widely known as the 'great' poet from Illinois, and especially remembered for his monumental three-volume biographical study of Abraham Lincoln. He was also a journalist, author of children's stories, and pathbreaking songwriter. This new collection of his writings . . .
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 . . .
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
Humanity’s Next Great Adventure Daniel Quinn 2000 202p 5 x 8 A sort of theoretical follow-up to Ishmael, in which Quinn studies ancient civilizations – Maya, Olmec – and gather/hunter groups. Quinn’s setting forth ideas for what a future society could look like, encouraging diversity over the nightmare of hierarchy and homogeneity in civilization. $3-10
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Saul Williams 2003 192p 6 x 7 Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an Incongruent mean of babble and brilliance... $4-10
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
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