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Our paper Comes out twice a year, copy deadlines April 1st and September 1st. For submissions see above. INTRO/INDEX wELCOME TO THE index freedom 4-20 new / front list 5-6 FREEDOM CATALOGUE top sellers 7

Anarchism is almost certainly the most interesting backlist (by category) political movement to have slipped under the radar of activism / childhood & education 8 public discourse. classic freedom press essays 9 It is rarely pulled up in today’s media as anything other culture 10-11 than a curio or a threat. But over the course of 175 years cartoons & entertainment 11 since Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s declaration “I am an history 12-15 anarchist” this philosophy of direct action and free thought housing & land 13-14 has repeatedly changed the world. From Nestor Makhno’s legendary war on both Whites introductions to 14-15 and Reds in 1920s Ukraine, to the Spanish Civil War, to science and sci-fi 15-16 transformative ideals in the 1960s and street-fought sex 16 antifascism in the 1980s, anarchism remains a vital part society 16-17 of any rounded understanding of humanity’s journey the state 17 from past to present, let alone the possibilities for its violence 19 future. work 19 For most of that time there has been Freedom Press. Founded in 1886, brilliant thinkers past and present have published through Freedom, allowing us to present today corporate watch 20-24 a kaleidoscope of classic works from across the modern about 20 age. front list 21 Featuring books from , Marie Louise Berneri, William Blake, , and introductions and guides 22 many more, this catalogue offers much of what you might middle east 23 need to understand a fascinating creed. india 24

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Freedom was founded by a group of friends including (left) and Peter Kropotkin, who were already publishing Freedom newspaper. It has operated, with short breaks, ever since and has been at its home in Tower Hamlets for the last 50 years. An independent, radical co-op controlled by its volunteers and part-time staff, Freedom runs Britain’s oldest anarchist publishing house and its largest bookshop. Alongside our own extensive back catalogue of classic works we stock thousands of books, newspapers and pamphlets on everything from history to sex, philosophy to workers’ struggles, fiction to anti-fascism, as well as the latest magazines, periodicals and newsletters from all the major anarchist and radical groups. 5 for 2019

anarchism is movement by Tomás Ibáñez

Tomás Ibáñez grew up in France as the child Freedom Press, NOV 2019 of anarchist refugees in the aftermath of the ISBN: 978-1-904491-33-0 Spanish Civil War. Joining the CNT in exile, he b&w was active through Paris 1968 and returned to further details tbc Spain as Franco’s grip loosened in 1973. After a lifetime of struggle, AIM distils his thought and predictions on anarchism in times to come. The trouble with national action by mark haYES

This short work examines the neo-nazi organisation’s emergence in Britain in 2013, Freedom Press, oct 2019 its evolution until it was proscribed by the ISBN: 978-1-904491-34-7 government in 2016 and the impact such A6 B&W reliance on State mechanisms is having on Further details tbc both far-right and left-wing politics. our masters are helpless Essays by george barrett, eDITED BY iAIN MCKAY

George Barrett was one of the anarchists’ key Freedom Press, mAY 2019 organisers through the period of the Great ISBN: 978-1-904491-32-3 Unrest, a syndicalist-led uprising which shook b&w, 148 pp Britain shortly before the first world war rrp: £7.50 began. Written mainly between 1910-1915, this selection of essays offers a unique political view from the time and remains incisive today. invisible: diary of a rough sleeper by andrew fraser

Many writers and books talk about the homeless. Andrew has direct experience. His Freedom Press, Jan 2019 writing on life as a rough sleeper, interwoven ISBN: 978-1-904491-31-6 through this scorching diary piece, offers a b&w, 208pp clear-eyed truth from the gutters of Britain’s rrp: £10 housing crisis. 6 front list a beautiful idea: History of freedom press by rob ray

Since 1886 Freedom Press has printed some of the world’s most important libertarian Freedom Press, oct 2018 thinkers. The oldest anarchist publishing ISBN: 978-1-904491-30-9 house in the English-speaking world has b&w, 300 pp survived wars, political trials, police raids, rrp: £9.50 fascist attacks and innumerable internal crises. the anarchists in london 1935-55 by

At the beginning of the 1930s British Freedom Press, may 2018 anarchism was barely clinging on as great ISBN:978-1-904491-29-3 movements happened elsewhere. By the mid- b&w, 108 pp 1960s however all that had changed, with a rrp: £7 newly invigorated movement. Meltzer tells the story of his part in those in-between years, as anarchists dealt with two world wars. the slow burning fuse by John Quail, foreword & biographies by Nick heath

John Quail’s history of the anarchist movement in Britain from the 1880s to the 1930s offers Freedom Press, oct 2017 unique insights into a force that has fascinated, ISBN: 978-1-904491-27-9 horrified and helped change the face of b&w, 404 pp modern Britain. This new edition features rrp: £13 updated foreword, biographies and full index. deep ecology & anarchism various

This collection of essays from ecology Freedom Press, oct 2017 thinkers including Brian Morris. Chris Wilbert ISBN: 978-1-904491-28-6 and Murray Bookchin offers a thoughtful b&w, 140 pp contribution to what has belatedly become that rrp: £6.50 most mainstream of questions — how do we save ourselves from the havoc we’re wreaking? 7 top sellers

why work? various, forword by nina power Freedom Press, 2016 A provocative selection of writers from the 19th ISBN: 978-1-904491-25-5 century through to today dissect work, its form under B&W, 184 PP capitalism and the possibilities for an alternative RRP: £7 society producing for our needs, rather than mere avarice.

Beating the Fascists by Sean Birchall A compelling account of Anti-Fascist Action by Freedom Press, 2010 those on the frontline. This organised group of ISBN: 978-1-904491-12-5 ordinary working class people took the fight to B&W, 412 PP the far right during the 1980s-90s. They waged a rrp: £15 nationwide street war – and won. ABC of Anarchism by Freedom Press, 2006 Alexander Berkman answers some of the charges made First Published 1929 against the political creed and presents the case for ISBN: 978-0-900384-03-4 communist anarchism. Thorough and well constructed, b&w, 147 pp it is today regarded as a classic statement of the cause’s rrp: £6 goals and methods. CLASS STRUGGLE AND MENTAL HEALTH by LIBCOM.ORG CONTRIBUTORS This thoughtful work brings together accounts Freedom Press, 2015 from anarchists around the globe about what it ISBN: 978-1-904491-24-8 means to suffer from mental illness as an activist b&w, 44 pp and what we, as individuals and a movement, can rrp: £4 do about it. At the Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism errico malatesta Freedom Press, 2005 Originally written in Italy in the 1890s, this collection ISBN: 978-1-904491-06-5 was only translated in 2005, and charts debates the &w, 157 pp a6 author had at a local cafe in which he argued the rrp: £5 corner of anarchism. Malatesta put himself at some risk to do so, as he was wanted by police. 8 activism backlist Bumping Back by L Hobley Practical ideas on how to approach a target and Niccolo Press, 2008 conduct surveillance without being seen, how to ISBN: 978-0-944061-16-5 approach and leave during an action and, if all B&W, 239 PP goes wrong, how to escape. Along the way are top RRP: £9.50 tips, essential skills and very bad puns. Protest without Illusions by Freedom Press, 1981 Contemporary account of CND marches and Committee ISBN: 978-0-300384-19-0 of 100 sit-downs that took place in the late 1950s and b&w, 168 pp early ’60s as activists struggled to counter the bellicose rrp: £3 actions of Britain’s governments. Richards took part as a protester, writer and photographer. childhood & education Child in the City by Colin Ward One of a pair of brilliantly researched pieces bedford Press, 1990 charting the use of space by children, and the ISBN: 978-0-719912-59-8 limits on their lives brought by societal attitudes. b&w, 217 pp Child in the City draws together lessons from the rrp: £7.95 slums of Bangladesh to the back streets of London. Child in the Country by Colin Ward bedford Press, 1990 Following on from Child in the City, Ward vividly ISBN: 978-0-719912-90-3 documents the realities facing children in a rural area. B&W, 208 PP The decline of public transport, closures of village shops RRP: £7.95 & schools, lack of access to fields, woods and streams, and the influx of affluent newcomers are analysed.

Talking Schools by Colin Ward Talking schools gathers together ten lectures Freedom Press, 1995 given by Ward in Britain and the United States to ISBN: 978-0-900384-81-6 teachers’ conferences, meetings of educational B&W, 144 PP progressive groups, and all those occasions where RRP: £5 schooling is on the agenda. p9 classic freedom essays

Act for Yourselves – Freedom articles1886-1907 Edited by Nicholas Walter & Heiner Becker Freedom Press, 1998 A score of articles which famed political thinker Peter ISBN: 978-0-900384-38-7 Kropotkin contributed to the anarchist paper Freedom b&w, 131 pp from 1886-1907. During the same period he was writing rrp: £5 articles in the French anarchist press which were later collected as a well-known book, The Conquest of Bread.

Charlotte Wilson: Anarchist Essays edited by A selection of political essays by Charlotte Wilson, Freedom Press, 2000 principal founder of Freedom Press. She had been ISBN: 978-0-900384-99-9 writing about anarchism in the socialist press since b&w, 95 pp 1884 before starting her own title, and she led the rrp: £5.95 anarchist fraction in the Fabian Society. A Decade of Anarchy (1961-1970) Edited by Colin Ward Freedom Press, 1987 Over the course of its run Anarchy produced some ISBN: 978-0-900384-37-9 4,000 pages of often groundbreaking work. This b&w, 283 pp selection of the very best essays, selected by editor rrp: £5 Colin Ward, is a must-read for paradigm-challenging theories that came out of the imprint.

Neither East Nor West: 1939-1948 by Marie-Louise Berneri, illustrations by john olday Perceptive analysis of the politics and policies of Freedom Press, 1988 WWII and the following witch hunts in the West, ISBN: 978-0-900384-42-5 repression in the East. Berneri was let off on a b&w,192 pp technicality in 1945 during a high-profile free speech rrp: £4.50 trial based on her trenchant wartime writings. Through the Anarchist Press by John Rety, illustrated by emily johns Freedom Press, 1996 John Rety was much beloved on the London poetry ISBN: 978-0-900384-85-9 scene for many years and a former editor of Freedom. b&w, 93 pp He undertook this book as a challenge to see how only rrp: £3.60 reading the anarchist press might impact on opinion writing, and produced a notable work. p10 culture

Culture and Anarchism by Harold Barclay Anthropology work on which types of culture give Freedom Press, 1997 more freedom to their inhabitants, looking at both ISBN: 978-0-900384-84-0 native cultures and anarchic communities which B&W, 166 PP have been deliberately created within ‘modern’ RRP: £6.95 society. A One-Man Manifesto by Freedom Press, 1994 Herbert Read (1893-1968) was a poet, literary critic, ISBN: 978-0-900384-72-7 educationalist, philosopher, art critic, historian of and B&W, 205 PP propagandist for modern art and design. He was also RRP: £6 an anarchist. This volume covers his extensive series of writings for Freedom from the 1930s-50s.

Rereading Read edited by Michael Paraskos From lowly beginnings Herbert Read grew to be Freedom Press, 2007 an important figure in the worlds of anarchism ISBN: 978-1-904491-08-1 and the arts. Paraskos’s compilation of essays with b&w, 237 pp colour illustrations explores all aspects of his work rrp: £15 and political thought. A Summer in the Park by Tony Allen, foreword by Ken Campbell Freedom Press, 2004 Nothing can prepare you for the Hyde Park speaking ISBN: 978-1-904491-04-9 experience. The close proximity of other meetings and B&W, 203 PP the robust heckling tradition make Speakers’ Corner RRP: £8.50 unlike any other forum of public performance. Allen recalls his year there talking about anarchism.

Visions of Poesy Edited by Clifford Harper, Dennis Gould and Jeff Cloves Anthology bringing together some of the best Freedom Press, 1994 anarchist poetry of the 20th century. Over ISBN: 978-0-900384-75-1 200 poems from 70 poets including Lawrence B&W, 301 pp Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Denise RRP: £8 Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, Allan Sillitoe… p11 William Blake: Visionary Anarchist by Peter Marshall Freedom Press, 1994 William Blake (1757–1827) was a poet, painter, engraver First published 1988 and visionary. Considered eccentric, if not mad, in his ISBN: 978-1-904491-09-5 own day, he now appears as a key figure in English b&w, 71 pp Romanticism. But he had his feet firmly on the ground rrp: £6 and was involved in the central issues of his time.

cartoons/entertainment

Anarchist Quiz Book compiled by Martin Howard, illustrations by paul petard Some say that it should not be the highest priority Freedom Press, 2006 of a revolutionary movement to ask itself obscure ISBN: 978-1-904491-07-3 questions, but it is fun, and if it encourages an B&W, 97 PP A6 enquiring mind, then all the better. So agitate, RRP: £5 educate and organise, all in a handy Q&A format. Breaking Free by J Daniels Freedom/attack/em, 2011 Tintin’s back with all his pals, battling it out against ISBN: 978-1-904491-17-0 the State and bringing the old world to its knees, B&W, 92 PP in a classic full-length story of love, struggle and RRP: £10 revolution. Tintin’s earlier adventures at Wapping are also included in this edition of the satirical cartoon.

wildcat comics series by Over four decades Freedom press, 1986-2011 Donald Rooum ISBNs by colour: charted the anarchist Red: 978-0-900384-30-1 | £1.95 movement, its ideals orange: 978-0-900384-60-8 | £3 and its responses Purple: 978-0-900384-73-5 | £1.95 to current events through his Wildcat L blue: 978-0-900384-97-2 | £1.95 comic strip. This blue: 978-1-904491-14-9 | £3 series collates the yellow: 978-1-904491-01-4 | £3 best of his work, with green: 978-0-900384-47-6 | £1.95 introductions and B&W, 48 pp focused collections covering the anarchist ABCs, bosses, the Millennium, anti-nuclear activism and more. p12 history

British Imperialism and the Palestine Crisis edited by Vernon Richards With contibutions from various authors, including Freedom Press, 1989 , these selections from War ISBN: 978-1-904491-17-0 Commentary and Freedom Newspaper give the B&W, 92 PP anarchist view on British dealings in Palestine and RRP: £10 the Middle East. The East End Years: A Stepney Childhood by Fermin Rocker Freedom Press, 1998 Rocker was born in London’s East End in 1907, the son ISBN: 978-0-900384-92-1 of famous anarchist theorist and activist Rudolf. In b&w, 192 pp exploring his own origins as an artist, Fermin conjures rrp: £7.95 a moving and colorful picture of his remarkable father, of anarchism and of the Jewish East End.

History of the Makhnovist Movement by Peter Arshinov The Russian Revolution was a time when the old Freedom Press, 2005 order was swept away. Everything was changing ISBN: 978-0-900384-40-9 and in Ukraine Nestor Makhno’s anarchist army b&w, 275 pp was able to break the Whites. But nearby the rrp: £9.90 Bolsheviks were growing ... The Left and World War II edited by vernon richards Freedom Press, 1998 Starting with the article Communist Party Politics First published 1987 Exposed from War Commentary in November 1939, ISBN: 978-0-900384-39-5 Richards selects a series of works savagely analysing B&W, 126 PP the Left at war. Trade Unions, Eire, Pacifism and the ILP RRP: £5.95 are all dealt with. The May Days: Barcelona 1937 by Augustin Souchy, Jose Peirats, Burnett Bolloten and Emma Goldman Most academics treat the May Days in Barcelona Freedom Press, 1998 1937 as “a minor incident in the Spanish Civil War” ISBN: 978-0-900384-39-5 in spite of the fact that casualties – 500 killed and B&W, 126 PP 1,000 wounded – were actually greater that in the RRP: £5.95 first week of the military uprising in Barcelona. p13: A Short History of Anarchism by Freedom Press, 1996 Nettlau was the most proficient, and is still a hugely ISBN: 978-0-900384-89-1 important, chronicler of anarchism. This introduction b&w, 406 pp to the history of anarchist ideas and early movements, rrp: £12 summarising the author’s monumental nine-volume history is the most reliable guide.

World War - Cold War edited by Vernon Richards This volume of selected works from Freedom Freedom Press, 1989 Newspaper is divided into two parts. The first ISBN: 978-0-900384-48-4 covers the war years, the second the Attlee Labour b&w, 422 pp government years, alongside the emergence of the rrp: £6.95 US and the USSR as world superpowers. Zapata of Mexico by Peter E Newell Freedom Press, 2005 Zapata was a leading figure of the Mexican Revolution ISBN: 978-1-904491-05-7 of 1910. He fought for local communities against b&w, 211 pp landlords, treacherous politicians and exploitative rrp: £9.50a businesses. Under the slogan “land and liberty” he became the purest embodiment of Mexico’s revolution.

housing and land

Freedom To Roam by Harold Sculthorpe These essays discuss problems encountered when Freedom Press, 1993 walking in the countryside, such as landowners ISBN: 978-0-900384-68-9 who would prefer to command exclusive use of B&W, 80 pp their land, large scale factory farmers, the MoD RRP: £3.50 and others who try and exclude walkers. The squatters handbook by the advisory Service for squatters ASS, 2017 Published by the Advisory Service for Squatters ISBN: 978-0-9507769-7-1 in London since 1976, this key guide is now in its b&w, 114 pp fourteenth edition and provides over a hundred pages rrp: £4 of detailed legal and practical information about and homelessness in England and Wales. p14 Talking Houses by Colin Ward Ten lectures on a variety of topics around housing, Freedom Press, 1990 from“An Anarchist Approach To Urban Planning,” ISBN: 978-0-900384-55-4 to “Do-It-Yourself New Towns.” Ward discusses B&W, 144 PP both the realities of the world we live in, and the RRP: £5 potential futures which they contain. Talking to Architects by Colin Ward Freedom Press, 1996 Ward gathers together addresses made to mainly ISBN: 978-0-900384-88-3 architectural audiences over 20 years extolling a less b&w, 112 pp visible stream in the world of building, ranging from rrp: £5 the 20th century Arts and Crafts movement to Hassan Fathy in Eygypt or Walter Segal in Britain.

The Terrace by Michael Duane Duane relates an experiment set up to provide Freedom Press, 1995 non-school education for 15-year-olds for whom ISBN: 978-0-900384-78-6 school has become meaningless. The experiment b&w, 80 pp ran for two years in Conisbrough and closed only rrp: £2.50 because its sponsors ran out of money.

introductions

About Anarchism by Nicolas Walter, introduction by Natasha Walter Freedom Press, 2002 Today, the word anarchism inspires both fear and First published 1969 fascination. But few people understand what anarchists ISBN: 978-0-900384-90-5 believe, what anarchists want, and what anarchists B&W, 93 PP do. This incisive essay puts the case for anarchism as a RRP: £3.50 pragmatic political philosophy. ANARCHISM & ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM by RUDOLPH ROCKER, FOREWORD BY ROB RAY A new edition of this classic with extensive notes. Freedom Press/solfed, 2014 Rocker remains one of the most important figures ISBN: 978-1-904491-22-4 in the history of anarchism, from his role organising b&w, 44 pp against sweatshop labour in 1900s London to rrp: £5 helping found the IWMA anarchist international. p15: ANARCHY by errico malatesta Freedom Press, 2009 Malatesta was a warm-hearted anarchist of widespread First published 1891 influence, who said he considered Anarchy the best ISBN: 978-0-904491-11-1 thing he had ever written. A rebuttal to the notion that B&W, 60 PP a6 anarchism equals chaos, this short but powerful series RRP: £5 of explanations about anarchist thinking is a classic. by colin ward Taking in education, urban planning, welfare, Freedom Press, 2008 the environment, workplace and family, Ward ISBN: 978-0-900384-20-2 demonstrates that anarchist practices are not so B&W, 181 PP alien as they might seem, but are rooted in the ways RRP: £7.50 people have always tended to organise themselves. people Influences – Voices of Creative Dissent by Colin Ward Freedom Press, 1991 Ward writes: “My major influences founded no ISBN: 978-1-870098-43-9 parties. None of them started wars nor took part b&w, 147 pp in governments. All were utter failures in the rrp: £7.95 entrepreneurial culture. But in my experience not a day passes when I fail to recall their influence.” science& sci-fi Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by peter kropotkin, intro by donald rouum, preface by iain mckay The classical anarchist-communist’s most Freedom Press, 2009 influential work, first published in 1902. A ISBN: 978-1-904491-10-1 challenge to classical Darwinism, Kropotkin argues B&W, 301 pP that in nature, co-operation is as important as RRP: £15 competition. Strip the Experts by Brian Martin Freedom Press, 1991 This booklet is designed for people who oppose a gang ISBN: 978-0-900384-63-8 of scientific experts and want to challenge them. The b&w, 69 pp various methods described show how a small number rrp: £1.95 of critics can mount remarkably effective challenges to a powerful scientific Establishment. p16 The Last Capitalist: A Dream of a New Utopia by Steve Cullen Anne Riordan is a fan of the hard-boiled detective Freedom Press, 1996 novels, but in a future British society they don’t ISBN: 978-0-900384-82-4 exist, swept away by the lifestyle of people living B&W, 91 pp in federated . So she undertakes a RRP: £3.50 pilgrimage to find the last of the capitalists. sex Love, Sex and Power in Later Life by tony gibson Freedom Press, 1992 The revolution in sexual mores has largely bypassed ISBN: 978-0-900384-65-4 the needs of older people, with the emancipated B&W, 101 pp young often unable to accept that the old also have a RRP: £3.50 continuing need for sexual and emotional fulfillment. Tony Gibson sets out to redress that balance. society Information Liberation by Brian Martin Power tends to corrupt, and information power is Freedom Press, 1998 no exception. This book analyses the corruptions ISBN: 978-0-900384-93-6 of power in a range of crucial areas in society and B&W, 181 pp examines radical alternatives that undermine the RRP: £7.95 control of vested interests. Social Defence, Social Change by Brian Martin Freedom Press, 1993 Making the argument for social defence as a grassroots ISBN: 978-0-900384-69-7 initiative linked to challenges to chellenges such as b&w, 157 pp patriarchy, police, and the state. The book provides a rrp: £4.95 provocative survey of radical alternatives in politics and economics.

Social Policy: An Anarchist Response by Colin Ward Ward examines the welfare road we failed to take, Freedom Press, 2000 the hidden history of housing, water and the gift ISBN: 978-0-900384-98-0 relationship and looks forward to anarchism in the B&W, 96 PP 21st Century. RRP: £5 p17: Writings against Power & Death By Alex Comfort Freedom Press, 1994 Alex Comfort, who was born in 1920, is best known ISBN: 978-0-900384-71-9 nowadays as the author of the phenomenally successful B&W, 166 PP Joy of Sex. But he was also a poet, novelist, critic, doctor, RRP: £5 medical biologist, the pioneer of gerontology in Britain, a pacifist — and an anarchist.

the state

anarchism & the state by peter kropotkin In the three essays presented here, political Freedom Press, 2017 philosopher Peter Kropotkin attempted to distil his ISBN: 979-1-904491-26-2 insights into brief but brilliant essays on The State, B&W, 100 PP Anarchism and the ideology for which he became a RRP: £6 founding name — Anarchist-Communism. The Impossibilities of Social Democracy by Vernon Richards Freedom Press, 1978 A collection of articles and essays that first appeared in ISBN: 978-0-900384-16-6 Freedom Newspaper. Topics include the Labour Party, b&w, 142 pp Socialism, Bevanism: or the Power Struggle, Trade rrp: £2 Unions call the Labour Tune and The Means: Elections and Vote Catching.

Neither Nationalisation Nor Privatisation edited by Vernon Richards Selections from Freedom 1945-1950, including Freedom Press, 1989 contributions from Tom Carlile and . ISBN: 978-0-90038-449-2 These articles demonstrate the anarchist stand B&W, 80 PP against Labour’s postwar policies in the area of RRP: £3 industry. The State is your Enemy various Freedom Press, 1991 Looking at successive Labour and Conservative ISBN: 978-0-900384-57-3 governments over a quarter of a century, at wars in B&W, 269 PP Vietnam, Biafra, the Middle East and the Falklands, and RRP: £5 at Paris 1968, this volume ends with a call to ordinary people to bypass the politicians. p18 Violence & Anarchism various Most of the essays in Violence and Anarchism deal Freedom Press, 1993 with the struggle against Apartheid in the 1960s. ISBN: 978-0-900384-70-0 Kicked off by an editorial in Freedom Newspaper, b&w, 87 pp the debate would rock pacifist circles of the time. rrp: £2.50

work

The Employment Question and other essays by Denis Pym Freedom Press, 1986 Essays examining the disaster that employment has ISBN: 978-0-900384-31-8 become – including the example, par excellence, of B&W, 68 PP our over-dependence on a range of artefacts which RRP: £2 includes writing, the print and the computer.

Fields, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow By Peter Kropotkin, edited by colin ward The political philospher’s vision of the ordering Freedom Press, 1985 of industrial society along communistic lines. This ISBN: 978-0-900384-28-8 work has been widely influential for anarchists and B&W, 205 PP non-anarchists alike, and Kropotkin’s deductions RRP: £7.95 are still controversial and revolutionary today. The Tradition of Workers’ Control by Geoffrey Ostergaard Freedom Press, 1997 Ostergaard makes the case for ISBN: 978-0-900384-91-3 in the workplace, castigating the false “managerial B&W, 154 PP revolution” brought about by social democrats. A RRP: £6.95 hopeful piece, it picks out examples of workers’ control in modern industry.

Work, Language & Education in the Industrial State by michael duane A triple look at the way our lives have evolved Freedom Press, 1991 along with the introduction of modern capitalism ISBN: 978-0-900384-59-2 and industry. B&W, 35 PP RRP: £1.20 p19: FINDING FREEDOM

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Worlds End comics | environment | anti-capitalism

With an eye on tackling some of the most difficult issues relating to the global ecological CORPORATE WATCH, 2019 crises we are faced with, World’s End is ISBN: 978-1-907738-26-5 designed to appeal to those new to the politics 48 PP of climate change, while being fresh and useful RRP: £7 to those that have spent a lifetime campaigning. Prison Island UK prisons | social policy

Prison Island shines a light on one of Corporate Watch, 2019 (2nd ed) the biggest prison building programs ISBN: 9781907738258 in generations. The Prison Estates B&W, 72pp Transformation Programme aims to create RRP: £4.50 10,000 new prison places through the construction of six mega prisons and five new ‘residential centres’ for women. The UK Border Regime borders | corporate profiteering

Analysing the UK’s system of immigration controls, the “hostile environment”, history of Corporate Watch, 2018 the border regime from 1905 through Blair’s ISBN: 9781907738241 war on refugees, the companies profiting from 336pp it, and how people fight back against raids, RRP: £12 detention, deportations and more. A-Z of Green Capitalism introduction | environment

Our guide to Green Capitalism is an Corporate Watch, 2016 introduction to the ideas surrounding green ISBN: 9781907738227 capitalism as well as the alternatives to it. B&W, 61pp We hope it will support attempts to resist the RRP: £8 threat of green capitalism and create space for real ecological alternatives. Corporate Watch p22 introductions, guides

Capitalism: What is it and how can we destroy it? introduction | anti-capitalism Corporate Watch, 2016 Accessible introduction to capitalism: an economic ISBN: 9781907738197 system built on private property, markets, exploitation B&W, 144pp and profit, enforced by state violence. But also, digging RRP: £8 deeper, a culture in which we learn to see the natural world, and even ourselves, as objects to buy and sell.

To the Ends of the Earth environment | energy From the dangers of fracking to the devastating Corporate Watch, 2014 effects of tar sands extraction, this guide brings ISBN: 9781907738142 together everything you need to know about B&W, 86pp A4 unconventional fossil fuels in one place for the RRP: £5 first time. Investigating Companies a do-it-yourself handbook Corporate Watch, 2014 Corporate Watch’s Do-It-Yourself Handbook shows ISBN: 9781907738159 you how to look into a company you’ve got an issue B&W, 100pp with, and how to find and understand key pieces of RRP: £8 information about it.

False Dilemmas: Guide to the Euro zone crisis economics | debt

For all you who care about anti-austerity Corporate Watch, 2014 arguments and debt resistance across Europe, or ISBN: 9781907738104 want to get the basics about the euro crisis but B&W, 138pp A4 don’t know where to start — this is for you! RRP: £3 (was £6) Managing Democracy Managing Dissent edited by Rebecca Fisher corporate watch, 2013 This book’s 20 essays argue that genuine democracy ISBN: 9781907738098 and capitalism exist in fundamental contradiction, B&W, 200pp and explores how this contradiction is sustained via RRP: £8 (was £10) propaganda, manipulation of public opinion, and the co-option, marginalisation and repression of dissent. p23 Corporate Watch middle east

Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan by eliza egret and tom anderson This book gathers together first-hand accounts Corporate Watch, 2016 of the struggles for a new society taking place in ISBN: 9781907738210 Bakur and Rojava — the parts of Kurdistan within B&W, 228pp the borders of Turkey and Syria. RRP: £8 Targeting Israeli Apartheid a boycott, divestment and sanctions handbook Corporate Watch, 2012 Targeting Israeli Apartheid examines the Israeli RRP: £10 economy and details the Israeli and international ISBN: 9781907738043 companies complicit in Israeli state repression, as part B&W, 384pp of informing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.

Imprisoned Voices palestine briefing This briefing collects the memories of the pain, Corporate Watch, 2015 suffering and resilience of Palestinians who have ISBN: 9781907738180 been imprisoned by Israel. B&W, 45pp, A4 RRP: £6 Gaza: Life Beneath the Drones palestine briefing Corporate Watch, 2015 Drones have become Israel’s weapon of choice in its ISBN: 9781907738173 attacks on Gaza. In 2012 drones killed more people in B&W, 31pp A4 Gaza than any other aircraft. In 2013 Corporate Watch RRP: £6 visited Gaza for two months to interview the survivors of drone attacks and human rights workers.

Besieging Health Services in Gaza palestine briefing This briefing exposes how the Israeli economy Corporate Watch, 2014 profits from the siege of health services in Gaza ISBN: 9781907738135 and highlights calls from Palestinian health B&W, 15pp A4 workers to boycott Israeli pharmaceutical RRP: £6 companies. Corporate Watch p24 india

Dodgy Development: Challenging British aid in India Richard Whittell and Eshwarappa M Corporate Watch, 2010 People affected by British aid argue that behind ISBN: 9781907738005 the pictures of smiling children and the rhetoric of B&W, 100pp + DVD development lies a different reality that seldom makes RRP: £5 the news headlines.

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