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About AK Press No government, “revolutionary” or otherwise, has ever AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes and liberated its citizens from gender, racial, or class oppression. No distributes radical books, visual and audio media, and other government has ever developed a model for an environmentally mind-altering material. We’re small: a dozen people who work sustainable society. With a record like that, it’s strange that anyone long hours for short money, because we believe in what we do. still backs that particular horse. Back in the day, as socialist ideas We’re anarchists, which is reflected both in the books we provide were developing and confronting the emerging capitalist system, and in the way we organize our business. Decisions at AK Press revolutionaries claimed that “the emancipation of the working are made collectively, from what we publish, to what we distribute class is the task of the workers themselves.” Anarchists still and how we structure our labor. All the work, from sweeping make that claim. We don’t advocate “no control,” but insist on floors to answering phones, is shared. When the telemarketers asking “control by whom?” We work to destroy arbitrary power call and ask “who’s in charge?” the answer is: everyone. (political, economic, and social), to take decision-making power Our goal isn’t profit (although we do have to pay the rent). Our away from “officials,” while developing our ability to fill that void goal is supplying radical words and images to as many people as and provide for ourselves. “People’s governments” invariably possible. The books and other media we distribute are published become calcified and abandon the struggle for human freedom. by independent presses, not the corporate giants. We make them This is why we identify with the liberatory strains within the widely available to help you make positive (or, hell, revolutionary) history of —the unbroken thread of impassioned changes in the world. As you probably know, the stuff we carry resistance against both the terrors of capitalism and the tyranny is less and less available from the corporate publishers and their of government. chain stores. Anarchism doesn’t tell people what to do. It tells them that The items in this catalog are available to bookstores, , they have the ability to make decisions about the issues that rogue tablers, and individuals. While we try to keep all the items affect them. Anarchism, and the anarchist movement, is about listed in stock, occasionally things go in and out of print or emancipation, empowerment, and agency. Ask yourself this: are temporarily unavailable—we apologize in advance for any what would your ideal transportation system, agricultural system, inconvenience. All prices were correct when we went to print, neighborhood, school, or workplace look like? Now ask yourself but are subject to change. For the most current product info how much influence you and the people around you have over and to see the newest items (we update the website with new these issues? Can we afford to leave these decisions to the same products weekly), check us out at www.akpress.org. While you’re people who have been screwing up our lives thus far? there, check out the Bookmobile to see if AK Press will be in Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once wrote, “I your neck of the woods soon, to sign up for our mailing lists for am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of updates on new products and events, or to learn about Friends Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal of AK Press talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” The repressive hierarchies of capitalism and the state create human What Do You Mean By “Anarchism?” beings who are mere shells of what we could be, stunting us “Like all really good ideas,” writes Clifford Harper, “ mentally, physically, and emotionally. Adding insult to injury, is pretty simple when you get down to it—human beings are at we’re then taught to blame ourselves for this situation, instead of their best when they are living free of authority, deciding things looking for the institutional roots of our problems. among themselves rather than being ordered about.” Anarchism Because destroying one form of oppression only leaves the means abolishing the state and all coercive social relations. It others to fester, anarchism tries to focus on all unequal power means a society in which individuals create and control their relations simultaneously. Capitalism and the state didn’t own collective organizations to meet their social and economic invent racism, , or gender oppression, but they use a needs. These organizations would federate and democratically variety of divisive tactics to bolster our dependence on them. coordinate (rather than compete) among themselves without Understanding how oppressions are interlinked is an important any government oversight. Some say that this is impossible, that step in overcoming them, as well as a way to practice freedom without governmental authority we’d descend into violence, here and now, rather than relegating it to some distant future. lawlessness, and corruption. But, look around: isn’t that pretty For us, anarchism is a practical framework for working out much what we have now? Government is a centralized force that these issues. It’s a revolutionary analysis that helps us understand imposes rules from above, suppressing individual initiative in the the roots of domination, both as individuals and as members of interests of a small minority. Capitalism is an economic system exploited social groups. It offers a useful and instructive history based on exploitation, private ownership (theft) of society’s of theoretical and practical experimentation by people who have resources, and a logic of ruthless competition. Rather than accept worked to expand the definition of freedom itself by fighting these human constructions as “natural,” AK Press draws on a rich those who violently constrain and deny it. history of folks from all over the planet and from all walks of life who have imagined, fought for, and actually achieved something better.

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What is a collective? So what makes AK Press “anarchist”? A collective is a group of individuals who work together We operate without a corporate structure. No boss, no on a common project without relying on internal hierarchies. managers, no bullshit. We’ve replaced hierarchy with cooperation, Collectives can be large or small. They might exist temporarily accountability, and responsibility of our individual members. New or over long periods, and membership in them is voluntary. Any ideas aren’t generated by specialists in air-conditioned offices, but group—whether it’s a social club, NGO, or political organization— in open meetings—where ideas are discussed freely and a course that has a board of directors, boss, manager, guru, or president is of action is decided democratically by everyone directly affected not a collective. In our current society, most formal organizations by the decision. How many sick days can we take? Should we carry use a system of ranking that concentrates decision-making power the new South End Press book? What out-of-print anarchist in the hands of a minority that then uses this power to serve their classic should we make available again? Who will table at the own interests. This is exactly what collectives are designed to New Orleans Bookfair? How can we increase the diversity of our prevent. collective and publishing list? We answer questions like this every In collectives, leadership happens naturally and fluidly. All skills day—dozens a week, hundreds a month. Sound tedious? Sound and knowledge are shared, not hoarded by an elite. This means empowering? Sound exciting? It’s all that…and more. It’s our way that duties and responsibilities can be rotated among a collective’s of developing the skills necessary to administer our own work members and that they can be revoked if anyone starts abusing lives. It’s our way of creating the better world we carry in our their power. This horizontal structure is a dynamic and vital way hearts, and trying to live it in some small way while carrying on to constantly increase worker-empowerment. the legacy of those revolutionaries who came before us. Yes, we The AK Press collective functions with a high level of are continually battling the constraints of a market economy, but organization and accountability. We work a minimum of forty we’re also learning the pathway to autonomy, while challenging hours per week, plus additional nights and weekends. We have some of the most basic structures of capitalism. Freedom is a regularly scheduled meetings to share information about the constant struggle. different aspects of our business so we can make collective While each of us has our own definition of anarchism, they decisions on a wide range of issues: the items we publish and overlap in enough ways to maintain our common project. At distribute, our overall financial health, our political direction, the same time, we understand that the anarchist movement is the events we host and attend, the mutual aid we offer to other made up of many historical and contemporary strands, whether groups, and whatever else comes across our desks. However, they call themselves “anarchist,” or “socialist,” or refuse labels we’re not a singularly focused or homogenous group. Right now, altogether. We don’t have a problem spreading the ideas of people we’re very different individuals working together on a common with whom we don’t always see eye-to-eye. No idea is so infallible project. That project thrives as much on our differences as on that it can’t be examined, questioned, and debated. Humans have our similarities, as well as on the spirit of constant reflection and self-organized since the dawn of recorded time, in varying ways, engagement with which we face each new challenge. with varied results. We strive to abolish the systems that control and separate us, and try to draw important lessons from these Isn’t an “anarchist business” an oxymoron? struggles so that we can all move forward together. There’s definitely something strange and contradictory about A key component of our struggle is the sharing of knowledge, the concept of an anarchist business. AK Press works hard to history, and information. Through our publishing and distribution destroy and move beyond capitalism, toward a non-exploitative, efforts, we see ourselves as part of a long tradition of getting the sustainable, and just economy. However, like it or not, capitalism word out by any means necessary. In many historical periods, is the only game in town at the moment. The paper that books books, pamphlets, and other forms of written communication are printed on, the building we work in, the packages we send and were clandestine, relying on networks of individuals keeping receive, the computers we use—all are the result of the exploited revolutionary ideas alive with secret printing presses, tattered labor of the working class. Until we take power away from private facsimiles, and underground distribution systems. Our mission economic tyrannies like corporations and investment groups, is to keep circulating these important texts, while producing until we’re in control of our creative energies, almost every good or new analyses and documenting the history of our struggle as it service we use or provide is administered by capitalism. AK Press unfolds. We’re proud to call ourselves propagandists and hope doesn’t exist to enrich its members at the expense of consumers. that the materials we provide both agitate and provoke. We’re here to provide much needed tools for intellectual self- —AK Press defense. When we call ourselves an “anarchist business” it’s with the full knowledge that the economy is not in our hands. Yet.

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AK Press es un colectivo de trabajadores que publica y distribuye Ningún gobierno, “revolucionario” o no, ha liberado alguna libros y medios audiovisuales libertarios, y otros materiales vez a sus ciudadanos de la opresión de género, raza o clase. alteradores de la conciencia. Somos un pequeño grupo: una Ningún gobierno ha desarrollado alguna vez un modelo de docena de personas que trabajan muchas horas por poco dinero, sociedad ambientalmente sustentable. Con esos antecedentes, porque creemos en lo que hacemos. Somos anarquistas, lo que es extraño que alguien todavía apueste por este caballo. En esos se refleja tanto en los libros que tenemos disponibles como en el días en que las ideas socialistas se desarrollaban y confrontaban modo en que organizamos nuestro trabajo. Las decisiones en AK el incipiente sistema capitalista, los revolucionarios afirmaron Press son tomadas colectivamente, desde lo que publicamos hasta que “la emancipación de la clase obrera debe ser obra de lo que distribuimos y cómo estructuramos nuestra labor. Todo los obreros mismos.” Los anarquistas todavía afirmamos lo el trabajo, desde trapear los pisos hasta responder las llamadas mismo. No abogamos por el “no control”, sino que insistimos telefónicas, es compartido. Cuando los teleoperadores llaman y en preguntarnos “¿quién tiene el control?” Trabajamos para preguntan, “¿quién está a cargo?” la respuesta es: todos y todas. destruir el poder arbitrario (político, económico y social), para Nuestra meta no es el lucro (aunque sí tenemos que pagar la quitarles a los “funcionarios” el poder de tomar decisiones, al renta). Nuestra meta es entregar palabras e imágenes libertarias a mismo tiempo que desarrollamos nuestra capacidad para llenar la mayor cantidad de gente posible. Los libros y otros medios que ese vacío y abastecernos. Los “gobiernos populares” se calcifican distribuimos son publicados por editoriales independientes, no invariablemente y abandonan la lucha por la libertad humana. por los gigantes corporativos. Los ponemos a tu disposición para Este es el motivo por el que nos identificamos con las tendencias que hagas cambios positivos (o, qué diablos, ¡revolucionarios!) en libertarias de la historia del socialismo—esa ininterrumpida línea el mundo. Como probablemente sabes, las cosas que distribuimos de resistencia apasionada contra los terrores del capitalismo y la están cada vez menos disponibles en las editoriales corporativas y tiranía del gobierno. sus cadenas comerciales. El anarquismo no le dice a la gente lo que tiene que hacer. Le Los materiales de este sitio web y de nuestro catálogo están dice que tiene la capacidad de tomar decisiones sobre los asuntos disponibles para librerías, infoshops, ferias e individuos. Aunque que le conciernen. El anarquismo, y el movimiento anarquista, se intentamos mantener el catálogo actualizado, ocasionalmente tratan de la emancipación, el empoderamiento y la capacidad de algunas cosas salen de stock y no están disponibles por un tiempo actuar. Hazte la siguiente pregunta: ¿cómo sería tu sistema ideal - nos disculpamos de antemano por cualquier inconveniente. de transporte o de agricultura, tu barrio, escuela o lugar de trabajo Todos los precios están sujetos a cambio. Para ver la información ideal? Ahora pregúntate ¿cuánta influencia tienes tú y la gente a de los productos más actuales y ver los artículos más nuevos tu alrededor sobre estos temas? ¿Podemos darnos el lujo de dejar (actualizamos el sitio web con nuevos productos cada semana), estas decisiones a aquellos que han estado jodiendo nuestras vidas chequea nuestra página de Nuevas Ediciones. Mientras estés en hasta ahora? nuestro sitio, revisa el Bookmobile para ver si AK Press estará en El biólogo evolucionista Stephen Jay Gould escribió una tu área pronto, apúntate en nuestras listas de correo para recibir vez, “de alguna manera, estoy menos interesado en el peso y las actualizaciones de nuevos productos y eventos, o averigua más circunvoluciones del cerebro de Einstein que en la casi certeza sobre los Amigos de AK Press. de que personas con el mismo talento han vivido y muerto en campos de algodón y talleres de explotación.” Las jerarquías ¿A qué se refieren con “Anarquismo”? represivas del capitalismo y el Estado crean seres humanos que “Como todas las buenas ideas”, escribe Clifford Harper, “la son meras cáscaras de lo que podríamos ser, aturdiéndonos Anarquía es bastante simple cuando intentas entenderla - lo mental, física y emocionalmente. Para colmo, se nos enseña luego mejor de los seres humanos surge cuando viven libres de la que debemos culparnos por esta situación, en vez de mirar hacia autoridad, decidiendo las cosas entre ellos en vez de recibir las raíces institucionales de nuestros problemas. órdenes.” El anarquismo implica la abolición del Estado y de Destruir solamente una forma de opresión sólo causa que las todas las relaciones sociales coercitivas. Implica una sociedad en otras se intensifiquen, y por eso el anarquismo intenta enfocarse la que los individuos crean y controlan sus propias organizaciones en todas las relaciones de poder desiguales al mismo tiempo. El colectivas para suplir sus necesidades económicas y sociales. Estas capitalismo y el Estado no inventaron el racismo, el patriarcado o organizaciones se federarían y coordinarían democráticamente la opresión de género, pero usan una variedad de tácticas divisivas (en vez de competir) entre ellas sin ningún tipo de supervisión para reforzar nuestra dependencia de ellos. Comprender cómo gubernamental. Algunos dicen que esto es imposible, que sin están vinculadas las opresiones es un paso importante para su autoridad de gobierno todo terminaría en violencia, corrupción superación, así como una forma de practicar la libertad aquí y e ingobernabilidad. Pero, mira a tu alrededor: ¿no es acaso ahora, en vez de relegarla a algún futuro distante. eso mismo lo que tenemos hoy? El gobierno es una fuerza Para nosotros el anarquismo es un esquema práctico para centralizada que impone reglas desde arriba, suprimiendo la trabajar estos asuntos. Es un análisis revolucionario que nos ayuda iniciativa individual en beneficio de una pequeña minoría. El a entender las raíces de la dominación, como individuos y como capitalismo es un sistema económico basado en la explotación, miembros de grupos sociales explotados. Nos ofrece una útil e la propiedad privada (robo) de los recursos de la sociedad, y instructiva historia de experimentación teórica y práctica llevada una lógica de competencia despiadada. En vez de aceptar estas a cabo por gente que ha trabajado para expandir la definición construcciones como “naturales”, AK Press se inspira en una rica misma de la libertad, luchando contra aquellos que la constriñen historia de gentes que, viniendo de todos los rincones del planeta y niegan violentamente. y de todos los oficios, han imaginado y peleado por algo mejor, y que de hecho lo han logrado.

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¿Qué es un colectivo? Entonces, ¿qué es lo que hace que AK Press sea Un colectivo es un grupo de individuos que trabajan juntos “anarquista”? en un proyecto común sin apoyarse en jerarquías internas. Funcionamos sin una estructura corporativa. No hay jefes, Los colectivos pueden ser grandes o pequeños. Pueden existir no hay gerentes, no hay esas mierdas. Hemos reemplazado temporalmente o por largos periodos, y la participación en ellos la jerarquía con la cooperación, el compromiso de responder es voluntaria. Cualquier grupo - ya sea un club social, una ONG ante los demás y la responsabilidad de nuestros miembros. Las o una organización política - que tenga un directorio, un jefe, un nuevas ideas no son generadas por especialistas en oficinas con gerente, un gurú o un presidente, no es un colectivo. En nuestra aire acondicionado, sino en reuniones abiertas - en las que las sociedad actual, la mayoría de las organizaciones formales utilizan ideas son discutidas libremente y en las que todos los implicados un sistema de rangos que concentra el poder de decisión en las directamente en la decisión definen un plan de acción de manera manos de una minoría que luego usa este poder para servir a sus democrática. ¿Cuántos días de licencia médica nos podemos propios intereses. Los colectivos están diseñados para prevenir tomar? ¿Deberíamos distribuir ese nuevo libro de South End justamente esto. Press? ¿Cuál clásico anarquista deberíamos volver a imprimir? En los colectivos, el liderazgo es algo que ocurre de manera ¿Quién pondrá la mesa de distribución en la feria del libro de natural y fluida. Todas las habilidades y conocimientos son Nueva Orleans? ¿Cómo podemos aumentar la diversidad de compartidos, no acumulados por una elite. Esto significa que las nuestro colectivo y de nuestras publicaciones? Respondemos tareas y las responsabilidades pueden rotar entre los miembros preguntas como estas cada día - docenas a la semana, cientos del colectivo y que estas pueden ser revocadas si alguien al mes. ¿Suena tedioso? ¿Suena a empoderamiento? ¿Suena empieza a abusar de su poder. Esta estructura horizontal es fascinante? Es todo eso… y más. Es nuestra manera de desarrollar una forma dinámica y vital para aumentar constantemente el las capacidades para administrar nuestras propias condiciones empoderamiento laboral. laborales. Es nuestra manera de crear ese mundo mejor que El colectivo AK Press funciona con un alto nivel de llevamos en nuestros corazones, y de intentar vivirlo de cierto organización y responsabilidad. Trabajamos un mínimo de 40 modo al tiempo que asumimos el legado de esos revolucionarios horas a la semana, además de algunas noches y fines de semana. que nos precedieron. Sí, estamos luchando constantemente Tenemos reuniones regulares para compartir información acerca contra las limitaciones de la economía de mercado, pero también de los diferentes aspectos de nuestro negocio con el fin de poder estamos descubriendo el camino hacia la autonomía, a la vez que tomar decisiones colectivas sobre un amplio rango de asuntos: los desafiamos algunas de las estructuras más básicas del capitalismo. títulos que publicamos y distribuimos, nuestra salud financiera La libertad es una lucha constante. general, nuestra dirección política, los eventos que organizamos y Aunque cada uno de nosotros tiene su propia definición del a los que asistimos, el apoyo mutuo que ofrecemos a otros grupos, anarquismo, se superponen en suficientes puntos como para y cualquier otro tema que se ponga sobre nuestra mesa. Sin hacer que el nuestro siga siendo un proyecto común. Al mismo embargo, no somos un grupo homogéneo o con un enfoque único. tiempo, comprendemos que el movimiento anarquista está En este momento somos doce individuos bastante diferentes que hecho de muchas corrientes históricas y contemporáneas, ya sea trabajamos en un proyecto común. Ese proyecto prospera gracias que se hagan llamar “anarquistas” o “socialistas”, o se rehúsen a a nuestras diferencias tanto como a nuestras similitudes, así como las etiquetas. No tenemos problemas con difundir las ideas de gracias al espíritu de reflexión y compromiso constante con el que personas con las que no estamos siempre de acuerdo. Ninguna enfrentamos cada nuevo desafío. idea es tan infalible que no puede ser examinada, cuestionada y debatida. Los humanos se han auto-organizado desde el inicio ¿No es un oxímoron hablar de “negocio anarquista”? de los tiempos, de diversas maneras, con variados resultados. Hay algo definitivamente extraño y contradictorio en el Luchamos por abolir los sistemas que nos controlan y separan, e concepto de negocio anarquista. AK Press trabaja duro para intentamos sacar importantes lecciones de estas luchas de modo destruir el capitalismo e ir más allá, hacia una economía justa, que podamos avanzar todos juntos. sustentable y no explotadora. Sin embargo, lo queramos o no, el capitalismo es el único juego en curso por el momento. El papel en Un componente clave de nuestra lucha está en compartir el el que se imprimen los libros, el edificio en el que trabajamos, los conocimiento, la historia y la información. Mediante nuestros paquetes que enviamos y recibimos, los computadores que usamos esfuerzos de publicación y distribución, nos sentimos parte de - todo es resultado del trabajo explotado de la clase obrera. Hasta una larga tradición de difusión de la idea por los medios que sean que le quitemos el poder a las tiranías económicas privadas como necesarios. En muchos periodos históricos, los libros, panfletos las corporaciones y los grupos de inversión, hasta que tengamos y otras formas de comunicación escrita fueron clandestinos, el control de nuestras energías creativas, la mayoría de los bienes lo que hacía necesaria la existencia de redes de individuos que y servicios que usemos o prestemos serán administrados por el mantuvieran con vida las ideas revolucionarias con imprentas capitalismo. AK Press no existe para enriquecer a sus miembros secretas, facsímiles andrajosos y sistemas de distribución a costa de los consumidores. Estamos aquí para entregar algunas subterránea. Nuestra misión es hacer que estos textos sigan herramientas para la auto-defensa intelectual, que hacen mucha circulando, produciendo a la vez nuevos análisis, y documentando falta. Cuando decimos que somos un “negocio anarquista”, lo la historia de nuestra lucha a medida que se despliega. Nos hacemos con plena conciencia de que la economía no está en enorgullece hacernos llamar propagandistas y esperamos que nuestras manos. Todavía. estos materiales agiten y provoquen. Traducción: Pablo Abufom

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The Green Zone The Environmental Costs of Militarism Barry Sanders

“Here’s the awful truth: even if every person, every automobile, and every factory suddenly emitted zero emissions, the earth would still be headed, head first and at full speed, toward total disaster for one major reason. The military produces enough greenhouse gases, by itself, to place the entire globe, with all its inhabitants large and small, in the most immanent danger of extinction.” —from the Introduction

This new investigation by Barry Sanders examines in detail the environmental impact of US military practices. In a period of unprecedented scrutiny of the social and economic impacts of the US defense policies, Sanders explores a completely ISBN: 9781904859949 different aspect of the situation, declaring military activity, from fuel emissions to Paperback Original radioactive waste to defoliation campaigns, as the single greatest contributor to the worldwide environmental crisis. Includes a powerful forward by Mike Davis. $14.95 160 pp Barry Sanders is a Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant recipient, has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, and is the author of eleven books, including A is for Ox: Violence, Electronic Media, and the Silencing of the Written Word and Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History.

Arm the Spirit A Woman’s Journey Underground and Back Diana Block

“In a nation like the , where history is not only forgotten, but intentionally suppressed, it is no surprise that most US residents do not understand that Puerto Rico is a colony of Washington. Consequently, it is also no surprise that very few people in the US know about the movement against Washington’s colonization and for Puerto Rican independence…. Diana Block’s Arm the Spirit will open their eyes to the reality that existed within Ronald Reagan’s morning in America.”—Ron Jacobs, author of The Way the Wind Blew

In 1985, Diana Block, her two-week-old son, and five companions were forced to flee Los Angeles after finding a surveillance device in their car. What followed ISBN: 9781904859871 was a decade spent underground, moving from city to city, changing identities, Paperback Original and staying one step ahead of a government that hoped to persecute them for their activities on behalf of the Puerto Rican independence movement. $19.95 400 pp A personal memoir and political history rolled into one, Arm the Spirit is a stunning indictment of the effects of US imperialism, and a celebration of the community-based collectives that struggled against it.

A feminist agitator and a member of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in the 1970s, Diana Block has been an activist for over forty years.

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Black Flame The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt

“This book fulfills a daunting task. Covering anarchism in all parts of the world and emphatically tying it to class struggle, the authors present a highly original and challenging account of the movement, its actions and ideas. This work is a must for everybody interested in nonauthoritarian social movements.” —Bert Altena, Rotterdam University

Black Flame (Counter-Power, Volume 1) is the first of a two-volume set examining the democratic class politics of the worldwide anarchist movement, its vision of a decentralized , and its impact on popular struggles on five continents over the course of the past 150 years. From anarchism’s first glimmers as a nineteenth-century ideology to today’s anticapitalist struggles, Black Flame ISBN: 9781904859161 traces anarchism’s lineage and contemporary relevance, outlining the movement’s Paperback Original insights into questions of race, gender, class, and imperialism. $22.95 500 pp Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, both writers and activists in South Africa, have begun what promises to be the definitive synthetic account of the international anarchist tradition. Nearly exhaustive in scope, and rigorous in its scholarly detail, this first volume significantly reframes the work of previous historians and examines coherent alternatives to Marxist and nationalist approaches to revolutionary theory and practice.

Dynamite The Story of Class Violence in America Louis Adamic

“Louis Adamic is the forgotten Boswell of early Los Angeles, perhaps the first writer to tune himself into the then-youthful city and report back…. He’s a writer who demands our attention.”—The Los Angeles Times

As its title suggests, Dynamite refuses to sugarcoat the explosive and bloody legacy of the US labor movement. Louis Adamic is clear that the causes of class violence lie with both the nature of capitalism and the specific policies of US industrialists, but he offers no apologies for the violent tactics workers employed in response. When peaceful strikes failed to yield results, working men and women fought back by any means necessary. The violent methods they used were often the only way that social injustices—from “ordinary” exploitation to massacres and judicial murder—could become visible, let alone be addressed. ISBN: 9781904859741 This AK Press edition of Adamic’s revised 1934 version of Dynamite, includes a Paperback new foreword by professor and labor organizer Jon Bekken, who offers a critical $19.95 overview of the work and underlines its contemporary relevance. 380 pp Louis Adamic emigrated from Slovenia when he was fifteen years old and quickly joined the American labor force. He went on to receive a Guggenheim fellowship, and is now recognized as a great figure in early twentieth-century American literature. He was found shot to death in a burning farmhouse in 1954.

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A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945 David Berry

“An extremely valuable resource…Berry’s history is meticulously researched and finely documented. It is a work that, while rooted in specific movements in a specific period in time speaks to contemporary and indeed ongoing concerns facing anarchists in the complexly and rapidly developing era of neo-liberal .”—

David Berry’s History of the French Anarchist Movement is the first English- language evaluation of the development of the French anarchist movement between the world wars. Utilizing an impressive array of archival sources and personal interviews, Berry’s original research explores the debates and growing pains of a ISBN: 9781904859826 large, working-class movement facing great obstacles. Focusing on the organized Paperback wings of the movement—the anarcho-communist and syndicalist groups—it offers a ringside seat to the legacy of the First International, the upheaval of the Russian $21.95 and subsequent Bolshevik treachery, as well as the fight against . 348 pp Dave Berry has been active on the Left in one way or another for over 30 years, most recently in the local branch of his union. He teaches French and politics at Loughborough University. A founding member of the Anarchist Studies Network, he is also reviews editor of the journal Anarchist Studies.

We, the Anarchists! A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927–1937

“Christie’s polemic underscores a great truth about the struggle against fascism: There is no middle ground. You may either resist fascism with all your might, or fall into the same abyss yourself.”—Rain Taxi

At last. A serious examination of the legendary FAI. And hence, by necessity, a history and analysis of the organized anarchist movement in , and its relationship with the wider labor movement. By far the best book on the subject, author and activist Stuart Christie is ruthless in his examination—from an anarchist perspective—of the theory, and practice of this loose-knit group of anarchist militants. ISBN: 9781904859758 Paperback A gripping tale and informative historical corrective, Christie’s book jumps out of history with lessons for contemporary organizations and individuals struggling for $17.95 social and economic change. 180 pp Stuart Christie is co-founder of the , Black Flag magazine, and Cienfuegos Press; author of numerous books, including Granny Made Me an Anarchist; and currently publishes books and films through Christie Books. He was imprisoned in 1964 for attempting to assassinate Spanish Dictator .

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Shutdown The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War The Sticks and Stones Video Collective

”Re-creating the fervor of the era.… Shutdown may inspire some to take to the streets again.”—SF Weekly

“Shutdown does exactly what I expect any good activist documentary to do. It gives props to our hard won victories and gives time and space to figure out our failures.”—Left Turn Magazine

March 20, 2003: The city of San Francisco grinds to a halt as thousands of activists flood the financial district to demand an end to the war in Iraq. Months of planning, outreach, organizing, and campaigning by members of SF-based Direct Action to Stop the War coaxed more than 15,000 people into the streets…but in DVD Original the end, neither DASW nor the mass resistance outlasted the occupation of Iraq. $14.95 42 min This powerful new documentary from AK Press Video and the Sticks and Stones Includes extended footage Video Collective combines detailed information on organizing for a mass action, critical interviews on organizing pitfalls, and the wisdom of hindsight. It’s a must- and an interview with the see film for those engaged in the continuous struggle for social justice. filmmakers!

An Anarchist FAQ Volume 1 Iain McKay

“An impressively thorough and ‘reader friendly’ body of work which is very highly recommended for personal, community, and academic library collections.”— Midwest Book Review

A decade after its first beginnings on the web, the exhaustive and indispensable Anarchist FAQ is now available in print form!

This new volume, the first of two, seeks to provide answers for the curious and critical about anarchist theory, history, and practice. More a reference volume than a primer, the FAQ eschews curt answers and engages with questions in a thorough, matter-of-fact style. Educational and fascinating, An Anarchist FAQ belongs ISBN: 9781902593906 on the bookshelf of every reader curious about the history and development of Paperback Original anarchist politics. $25.00 Iain McKay is former editor of Black Flag magazine and is a frequent contributor 748 pp to Anarcho-Syndicalist Review. He lives in , Scotland.

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Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex The CR10 Publications Collective

“For those of us who did not make it to Critical Resistance’s tenth anniversary conference, Abolition Now! is one way to bring the discourse and vision of Critical Resistance to our own lives and work.”—Feminist Review

“Prison-related issues are inseparable from racism, classism, , and all oppression, so the more we know about prisons, the better informed multi-issue activist strategies will be…. In working to abolish all oppression, we must also work to abolish the PIC and free all political prisoners.—Z Magazine

Published in honor of the tenth anniversary of Critical Resistance, Abolition Now! ISBN: 9781904859963 collects reflections, analysis, strategies, and organizing plans, all outlining the Paperback Original history and the future of the struggle to abolish the prison industrial complex. With contributions from INCITE co-founder Andrea Smith, professor $15.95 Julia Sudbury, activist and political prisoner David Gilbert, and former political 176 pp prisoner and George Jackson Brigade veteran Bo Brown, among others, Abolition Now! reflects the call to Dismantle, Change, and Build. It presents bold strategies to create a stronger movement of people committed to PIC abolition and build healthy communities free from surveillance, policing, and imprisonment.

Waiting for Lightning to Strike The Fundamentals of Black Politics Kevin Gray

The year that saw an African-American become President for the first time in US history also witnessed a truly remarkable silence—one that was scarcely coincidental. In all the millions of words written about a political ascent of one black man, there was virtually nothing about the descent of black leadership into well-nigh total ineffectiveness. Barack Obama’s personal itinerary was mapped in minutest detail. The larger itinerary of African Americans was mostly ignored.

In Waiting for Lightning to Strike, Kevin Gray’s take is radical…so his focus is always agile and humane. In these passionate pages, he takes his readers into areas of darkness—South Carolina’s heritage of slavery, for example—and into the ISBN: 9781904859918 vibrancy and heat of James Brown and Richard Pryor. In essays like “Why Does Paperback Original Barack Obama Hate My Family?” and “”Dixie 101,” Gray’s intellectual footwork is $15.95 as sure as Muhammad Ali’s in his prime, and the knockout is as deadly. 250 pp No one should venture a mile into the rough terrain of black politics and culture in America today without reading Gray’s Waiting for Lightning to Strike. There’s no keener mind, no sharper eye focused on the condition of black politics.

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Spell Albuquerque Memoir of a “Difficult” Student Tennessee Reed

“Reed writes with clarity, wit, and wonder—and with an open-hearted passion that disarms, refreshes, and delights.”—Al Young, author of Something About the Blues

“I’m not like them,” Tennessee Reed would tell her teachers to get them to see that the approach they used for students with “normal” brains didn’t always work for her.

The daughter of writer/choreographer Carla Blank and novelist , Tennessee was diagnosed at an early age with several language-based learning disorders. The bottom line, the experts agreed, was that she would never read or write. Within a few years, however, she published her first book of poetry. By the ISBN: 9781904859888 time she was a teenager, she was writing the text for performances Paperback Original and traveling the world to read her poems. Spell Albuquerque is an inspiring memoir of a young woman’s struggle to overcome racism and institutional authority and to $18.95 achieve what everyone said was impossible. 200 pp

Tennessee Reed is the author of five books of poetry, including City Beautiful, Airborne, and Electric Chocolate. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and has a master’s degree from Mills College.

Yellowstone Drift Floating the Past in Real Time John Holt

In a time when everything seems to be regulated, controlled, and monitored, Yellowstone Drift is a refreshing and often exhilarating look at the natural wonder of Montana’s Yellowstone River.

High above sea level in the mountains of the Yellowstone National Park plateau, the river tumbles and rushes down to the Paradise Valley just north of Livingston, Montana, before meandering through the northern high plains for well over five hundred serpentine miles to its confluence with the Missouri River in North Dakota. Each chapter of Yellowstone Drift chronicles a leg of John Holt’s journey down the river, promising that the reader doesn’t miss a single mile of natural beauty. ISBN: 9781904859895 Holt, in his customary free-form, anecdotal style and oblique vision, takes the Paperback Original reader on a wild ride down this natural treasure, examining the wildlife, the people, $18.00 the fishing, and the river itself. 275 pp John Holt is the author of fourteen books including Coyote Nowhere: In Search of America’s Last Frontier, Hunted: A Novel, and Chasing Fish Tales. He resides in Livingston, Montana with his wife, a photographer, Ginny.

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Direct Action: An Ethnography ISBN: 9781904859796 David Graeber $25.95 Paperback A magisterial new work from anarchist anthropologist David Graeber: the first Summer 2009 detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. Graeber deftly applies ethnographic methods to the analysis of social justice organizing, focusing specifically on the lead-up to the 2001 Summit of the Americas in Québec City, one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in recent years.

Suffled How It Gush: A North American Anarchist in the Balkans ISBN: 9781904859857 Shon Meckfessel $16.95 Paperback This fun and informative tour de force celebrates the complex dynamics of life in the Summer 2009 Balkans. Part travelogue, chronicling Shon Meckfessel’s encounters with the people and places of these fascinating countries, and part contemporary history of the forces acting on the region as it transitions from a collection of post-Soviet satellites to neo- liberal capitalist laboratories.

Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex ISBN: 9781904859987 Steven Best, Peter McLaren, and Anthony Nocella II, eds. $24.95 Paperback A powerful response to the modern-day McCarthyism on college campuses nation- Summer 2009 wide. Joy James, Henry Giroux, , , , , Ward Churchill, and scores of other prominent scholars and students examine the increasingly repressive academic atmosphere in the United States and engage with the broad socioeconomic determinants of academic culture.

Another Dinner Is Possible: Recipes for Food and Thought ISBN: 9781904859994 Mike and Isy $24.95 Paperback Another Dinner Is Possible is more than just a vegan cookbook—it’s a guide to Summer 2009 developing a healthier relationship with the food we eat! These recipes use easy-to- find and easy-to-prepare ingredients combined in unexpected ways, basic enough for those just starting out in the kitchen to follow along, and engaging enough to keep even the most seasoned chefs coming back for seconds.

A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement ISBN: 9781904859925 James Horrox $17.95 Paperback James Horrox explores the foundations of the kibbutz movement, providing a detailed Summer 2009 look at its early economic, social, and political organization. A Living Revolution uncovers a deep, explicitly anarchist strain running through the movement. This book illuminates a neglected aspect of Jewish history, taking serious issue with Marxists and other historians who see the kibbutzim primarily as progenitors of the Israeli State.

You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montréal Lectures of C.L.R. James ISBN: 9781904859932 David Austin, ed. $17.95 Paperback Seven never-before-published lectures by Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, Summer 2009 delivered during his stay in Montréal in 1967–1968. Ranging in topic from Marx and Lenin to Shakespeare and Rousseau to Caribbean history and the Haitian Revolution, these lectures demonstrate the staggering breadth and clarity of James’ knowledge and interest.

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Anarchism and Its Aspirations Cindy Milstein ISBN: 9781849350013 $11.95 From 19th-century newspapers to the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have long Paperback been incited to action by the ideal of a “free society of free individuals”—a transformed Fall 2009 world in which people and communities relate to each other intentionally and without hierarchy or domination. But what exactly would that look like and how can we get there? Cindy Milstein explores the history and possibilities of an anarchist future.

Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction Margaret Killjoy, ed.; with an introduction by ISBN: 9781849350020 $12.00 Sci-fi/fantasy powerhouses Ursula K. LeGuin, , Michael Moorcock, Paperback and Lewis Shiner join activist authors , Starhawk, Cristy C. Road, Fall 2009 and a variety of other up-and-coming young writers in a series of interviews that explore fiction’s deeply political roots. Edited and compiled by SteamPunk Magazine’s Margaret Killjoy, with an original introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson.

A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary PR of the Zapatista Insurgency ISBN: 9781849350006 $18.95 Jeff Conant Paperback Part literary criticism, part media analysis, and part marketing handbook, A Poetics Fall 2009 of Resistance explores the varied elements of poetics and symbolism that have helped Zapatismo emerge as something entirely new: a resolutely radical public relations campaign for human liberation.

Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World ISBN: 9781849350051 $21.95 Kolya Abramsky, ed. Paperback As the Earth’s carrying capacity continues to be stressed, the question of renewable Fall 2009 energies is no longer whether, but when and by whom. Climate change and peak oil have hit the mainstream. This new collection edited by Kolya Abramsky shows how addressing these challenges requires an analysis of our economic priorities.

War of the Worlds: How the Economy Was Lost Paul Craig Roberts ISBN: 9781849350075 $15.95 The US economy has disintegrated, and with it into the abyss plummet the blueprints Paperback of neoliberal economists, whose theories about “the ” have now gone the Fall 2009 way of medieval alchemy. And no voice has been stronger, no prose more forceful, than that of Paul Craig Roberts in predicting collapse. Amid crisis, this is the guide to the economy you’ve been waiting for.

You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive Seth Tobocman ISBN: 9781849350044 $20.00 New York, 1989: as a decade of activism around the urban housing crisis and beyond Paperback comes to a close, legendary graphic artist Seth Tobocman is there to document it all in Fall 2009 his bold comic style. You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive is a candid portrait of a decade of struggle to preserve basic human rights and build a better world, and demands a place on the shelf of every historian of urban struggle.

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Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and ISBN: 9781904859772 Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today $18.95 288 pp. Chris Carlsson Paperback With historical grounding and refreshing pragmatism, Carlsson explores new strategies in the revolution of everyday life and resistance to the commodification of capitalism. His book documents practices that challenge the basic underpinnings of modern life and offers a new ecologically-driven politics from below.

Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader ISBN: 9781904859833 Matt Hern, ed. $17.95 268 pp. This anthology presents alternatives to traditional schooling and demonstrates that Paperback children’s capacity to learn decreases as they enter bureaucratic, institutional facilities. It argues for self-directed learning, community-building and participation in the education process, critical thinking, and democratic self-governance as means to alleviate the negative effects of traditional schooling methods.

Disaster & Resistance: Comics and Landscapes for the 21st Century ISBN: 9781904859765 Seth Tobocman $20.00 200 pp. Documenting contemporary crises from post 9-11 New York, to Israel and Palestine, Paperback to Iraq and New Orleans, Tobocman skewers the individuals and institutions reaping havoc across the globe today. In his vivid style, he muses not on the chaos of instability and fear, but on the struggle against it.

Free Comrades: Anarchism & Homosexuality in the United States ISBN: 9781904859116 Terrence Kissack $17.95 220 pp. Kissack expands the history of LGBT politics in the United States by showing how Paperback anarchists such as , , and Alexander Berkman defended the right to pursue same-sex relations, often challenging the conservative beliefs of their fellow anarchists as well as those outside of the movement who condemned LGBT people.

How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads ISBN: 9781904859604 Daniel Cassidy $18.95 224 pp. Cassidy cuts through 200 years of Anglo academic “baloney” and reveals the massive, Paperback hidden influence of the Irish language on American English. He shows how Ireland fashioned America, not just linguistically, but through the gambling underworld, urban street gangs, and powerful political machines that grew out of them.

My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us ISBN: 9781904859727 Jessica Mills $16.95 260 pp. Written with humor and based on extensive research and real life experimentation, Paperback this book delivers sound advice for parents of all stripes. It provides clever, hip, and entertaining tips, anecdotes, political analyses, and factual sidebars that will help parents navigate the first years of their child’s life.

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Then, in seven appendices, he comments on Includes an introduction by parallel contemporary and near-contemporary Chomsky. movements and offers an existentialist critique of

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AK PRESS SUMMER 2009 www.akpress.org DIY 23 Dylan Williams, Chris Cilla, Carolyn Main, Malady, illustrated with botanical drawings from Gerard’s to the skiffle movement of the 1950s, mail art, Khris Soden, and more. Herbal and other early texts. Black Mountain poetry and Avant-Garde art in the 1950s, the punk scene of the 1970s and 80s, right through to the current music scene. 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It’s a true joy to see the Dispatches 01 collects seventy- ROVICS, David exaggerated illustrations while learning such a two minutes of radical Sing for your Supper: A DIY Guide to Playing useful and practical craft. Essential for people investigations, analysis and Music, Writing Songs, and Booking Your Own who don’t know how to silkscreen or those who on the ground video from the Gigs are a bit rusty. The expanded sections talk about Big Noise team working on John’s personal experience selling printed shirts $5.95 • pam • PM Press four continents. Films include 9781604860146 on the street in Berkeley and working in a t-shirt Reconstructing Jihad; World print shop. Crucial information and entertainment. Succinct and to the point, David Rovics demystifies the very Bank Famine; It’s The Oil Stupid; different skills necessary to and Mexican Election Fraud.. 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Really fascinating! white film at considerable risk Iraqi resistance and government, the US detention from speeding freight trains system in Iraq, clips from actions at the Democratic and in secret jungles and Republican National Conventions, and the CHAMEIDES, Konnie & REINHEIMER, Irit in the dogged pursuit of the suppression of the vote in the 2008 elections. 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At a time when religious allowing residents to par- streets in decades. Black and Gold puts you at the fundamentalists take power in the US and around ticipate in the allocation of city center of a complex and controversial movement the world, this documentary is an inspiration. Grab funds. Ten years later, Hugo and lets you feel the tension inside the movement your Bubbe (grandmother) and your habibi (loved Chavez was swept into power as it comes under fire from midnight police raids one) and check it out. with the promise of granting and assassination attempts. direct participation to the Venezuelan people, who have now formed tens of thousands of self- CITIZEN FISH organized communal councils. 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Bassist Jasper takes Galeano, Amy Goodman, Emir Sader, Martha the Iraqi insurgency by meeting his video camera in and out of tour vans and Harnecker, Ward Churchill, and Leonardo Avritzer, face-to-face with individuals people’s faces along the way—and this is what it as well as cooperative and community members, who are passionately engaged looks and sounds like: clips of interviews, scenery, elected representatives, academics, and activists. in the struggle against coalition gigs, people, music and “things that happen,” forces. It documents, for the meshed together to give a wide-angle picture of a first time, the sentiments band on (and off) tour. KEITH, Shannon experienced and actions Behind The Mask: The Story Of The People Who taken by a nation’s citizens when their homeland Risk Everything To Save Animals is occupied. 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Who are these “animal year history of the non-profit liberationists” and why do volunteer-run, all-ages venue they believe that breaking the CARR, Gordon in Berkeley, California and law is the best way to help : The Spectacular Rise and captures a music scene still animals? What inspires them Fall of Britain’s First Urban Guerilla Group thriving today on creativity and to challenge the status quo, fight against all odds, $19.95 • DVD • PM Press a sense of camaraderie. In 924 and endure public reproach? Behind the Mask 9781604861969 Gilman St., Curran crafts an intimate portrait of a exposes never-before-seen footage that reveals Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used small punk venue that continues to foster a vital the extent to which these individuals will go to guns and bombs in a series of symbolic attacks music scene, and most importantly, a sense of save the lives of animals. against property. A series of communiqués hope that punk principles and practices can build accompanied the actions, explaining the choice a successful, long-running community. of targets and the Angry Brigade philosophy: autonomous organization and attacks on property alongside other forms of militant working-class

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On a case against the growing Eco/Green their odyssey they encounter privatization of the world’s a cast of and runaways, dwindling fresh water supply ALLEN, Laura; COLE, Julie Oskar; & WOELFE- scallywags and castaways. Amidst run-ins with with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, ERSKINE, Cleo (eds) the law, and surviving the perils of the elements, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering Dam Nation : Dispatches from the Water Alison weaves her narrative film over beautifully world water cartel. The film introduces many of Underground shot 8mm film and digital video with an old-time the governmental and corporate culprits behind $19.95 • pb • Soft Skull Press soundtrack by Beck (think and the water grab, while begging the question, 9781932360806 Leadbelly). CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER? 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Bold and visionary, Stelton, New Jersey was an This special issue of the journal This book calls for a return to sound agricultural institution born of the anarchist Our Schools/Our Selves deals principles, and a world based on self-organization, and libertarian education specifically with the ways that community, and environmental justice. movements of the early-20th neoliberalism has ravaged our century, and inspired by the schools (including privatization, example of . cutbacks, and government TRACEY, David This Southpaw Culture edition influence on curriculum), Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto of an important historical work, and how parents, students, $19.95 • pb • New Society The Modern School of Stelton, teachers, administrators, and 9780865715837 reproduces the original text—including essays communities have struggled The term “guerrilla” may bring to mind a small by Joseph Cohen, Alexis Ferm, , and around the deeper issues of governance, band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of Leonard Abbott. 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If enough to families of people who are in prison, people people open their minds to who are inside, and to organizers and activists BANSKY what he has to say, the lies throughout the country. Wall and Piece we’ve been fed about America $22.95 • pb • Century might shatter. Chomsky For 9781844137879 Beginners outlines his work and ANDERSON, S.E. Banksy’s greatest hits, “humorizes” the man who may be—in the words The Black Holocaust for Beginners collected in one lavish, full- of one interviewer—”the smartest man on earth.” $14.95 • pb • For Beginners Books color volume. Includes all 9781934389034 the work that first appeared Virtually anyone, anywhere, knows that 6 million in the three “little” books— DANIEL, Bill Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Existencilism, Banging Your Mostly True Holocaust. 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With dramatic events happening almost every day many of which have never Featuring extensive new material explaining each in this region, and the US government increasingly been published before. This issue, including the first twenty-five years of his life becoming involved, the American public deserves is a celebration of Banksy’s in five pages! Climb inside the head of a cartoonist to hear both sides. Arabs & Israel For Beginners art in his home city of Bristol, England. It places using comics as cheap therapy. provides an intelligent, in-depth, yet humorous and Banksy in the context of 3D (Massive Attack), accessible Palestinian perspective on the struggle

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From full-color graphic arts political to abstract and purely aesthetic (and even DENNIS, Denise and grassroots voices to the official Post No Bills, anyone)—from tagging Black History for Beginners to describe the impact to public announcements—street stencils have $14.95 • pb • For Beginners of gentrification and remade the way pedestrians, artists, and even 9781934389195 development in central corporations think about public space. Whether Many misunderstandings between blacks Los Angeles, and how as part of the anti-gentrification struggles in and whites in today’s society stem from the people fight back to protect their communities. New York or as a powerful tool during the recent misconceptions about blacks that have been This book emerged from a unique collaboration uprising in Argentina, stencils are placed in their allowed to thrive throughout the ages. An effective between SAJE, Self-Help Graphics and Art, and challenging, artistic, and political context. Plus way to help abolish these stereotypes is to help the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. It of course, there’s a cut-and-spray instruction present a more complete picture of the black is a visual and written story of how grassroots manual, cardboard patterns, and the hundreds and people throughout history. Black History for organizing can both inspire and be inspired by hundreds (and hundreds) of photos. From Banksy Beginners covers a rich but often ignored history, the creation of original art and the recognition of to Tobocman, and a whole lot more. An incredible and chronicles the black struggle from capture the intermingled traditions of art and struggle on work, and collection of works. and enslavement in Africa through the Civil Rights a global level. movement to today, and the new and different kinds of struggles that black people now face, all MACPHEE, Josh & RODRIGUEZ, Favianna (eds) in the easy-to-follow graphic style we’ve come to HOWZE, Russel Reproduce and Revolt!: A Graphic Toolbox for the expect from the For Beginners series. Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art 21st Century Activist $23.00 • pb • Manic D Press $19.95 • pb • Soft Skull Press 9781933149226 9780979663611 DOCTOR, Bernard Aquina Without a doubt, stencils are the Reproduce and Revolt! Malcolm X for Beginners fastest, easiest, and cheapest is a graphic toolbox for $14.95 • pb • For Beginners method for painting an image on political activists all 9781934389041 a wall, a sidewalk, or practically over the world. The book Malcolm X for Beginners anywhere. Stencil Nation contains 300+ exciting reveals the teacher, leader, and focuses on the unexpected high quality illustrations revolutionary voice that Malcolm mix of this lively, accessible and graphics about X was and continues to be. medium—from famous artists, including Banksy, to social justice and Powerful narrative and graphics international street stencils and gallery shows—to political activism for use on flyers, posters, trace his life story, journey of reveal engaging aspects of an intentionally t-shirts, brochures, stencils, and any other graphic self-discovery, far-reaching secretive creative community. With dynamically- aspects of political campaigns. All are bold, easy ideas, martyrdom, and impact on illustrated perspectives from the niches of the to reproduce, and available to reproduce without an era. Embraced as a prophet art form, female artists, documentarians, and the permission. The book offers clear instructions of Black empowerment, damned growing online community of the international on how to best utilize the images to improve the as the voice of violence, Malcolm X emerges as scene are featured in this fresh collection of graphic qualities of political campaigns. It also a complex and brilliant figure with much to teach photographs and essays curated by StencilArchive. contains a short history of political graphics, an about the struggle for dignity. Though it is not org’s founder, Russell Howze. Stencil Nation builds archive of political flyers and posters throughout unusual to find people wearing Malcolm X t-shirts upon previous published works to give the most history, and a bibliography of further reading for all and buttons, many do not know who Malcolm extensive and up-to-date history of stencil art, as of the social justice issues the art covers. X was and how deeply he changed how we see well as how-to tips from the artists themselves. one another. Malcolm X for Beginners brings to surface little known facts about Malcolm’s life and PALMER, Rod the evolution of his ideas. INKWORKS PRESS & CUSHING, Lincoln (eds.) Street Art Chile Visions of Peace and Justice: San Francisco Bay $24.95 • pb • Gingko Press Area: 1974 –2007— Over 30 Years of Political 9781584233008 FILLINGHAM, Lydia Alix Posters from the Archives of Inkworks Press A leading Latin American Foucault for Beginners $30.00 • pb • Inkworks Press center of radical propaganda $14.95 • pb • For Beginners 9780930712013 painting since 1940—reflected 9781934389126 Over 400 full-color reproductions chiefly through public Michel Foucault’s work has of political posters from the murals—Chile is now home to profoundly affected the archives of Inkworks Press, a unique and extraordinarily teaching of such diverse a pillar of vibrant street art scene. disciplines as literary criticism, community in the San Francisco Since the end of the Pinochet criminology, gender studies, and Bay Area. They provide printing dictatorship in 1990, Chile has embraced an era of others. Arguing that definitions services to social movements, new freedoms, clearly reflected through the prism of abnormal behavior are community groups, and non- of publicly accessible art forms. In the Chile of culturally constructed, Foucault profits. This unique position has today, Latin American propagandistic traditions explored the unfair divisions allowed them to accumulate encounter the rebelliousness of worldwide graffiti; between those who meet and a comprehensive archive of beautiful political the outcome is an approachable, yet defiantly those who deviate from social norms. In Foucault posters, which are compiled for the first time in this anarchic, street art that plays a central role in the for Beginners, the reader will discover Foucault’s book. Includes artwork from the American Indian fabric of Chilean society and culture. Street Art deeply visual sense of scenes such as ritual public Movement, Latin American solidarity campaigns, Chile’s many high-quality color photos bring you executions. women’s liberation, community-based struggles up close to some of the highlights. against environmental racism, the current efforts to end the war in Iraq, a range of other post-1960s US social movements, and even the Bay Area !

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Widely regarded as OS GEMEOS, this of flyers, photos, set lists, a masterpiece of oral history, book traces the story vintage fashions and other it has now been adapted into comic book form of Argentina’s vibrant ephemera from all of your by comics legend Harvey Pekar, the blue-collar graffiti scene—from the efflorescence of graffiti favorite bands are jammed into antihero of the comic series (and the movie) in the 1990s to the underground use of tags, train this menacing volume. Punk American Splendor. Here are riveting accounts of graffiti, and political paintings to the sketches and is Dead is massive, featuring the lives of ordinary Americans—farmers, miners, designs that have come off the street to influence a wide spectrum of bands that initially catalyzed barbers, sex workers, box boys, stockbrokers— the country’s entire visual culture. the scene, and later fueled its global expansion. depicted with unsurpassed dignity and frankness. Contributing writers such as Wayne Kramer, Arturo A visual treat with a visceral impact, this book will Vega, Kid Congo, David Yow, Annie Anxiety, Duane delight Terkel fans everywhere and introduce his SNAKEPIT, Ben Peters, Marc McCoy, Tony Alva, Don Bolles, Trudie most powerful work to a new generation. Snakepit 2008 and Pat Smear, flesh out the visual assault. This $6.00 • pb • Microcosm long awaited follow-up to the highly-influential, 9781934620236 bestselling book Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant RODRIGUEZ, Spain This year, follow Ben’s life Art of the Movement also features Che: A Graphic Biography through a transitional period, hard hitting interviews. From the unknown to the $16.95 • pb • Verso starting the year off with punks infamous, they will likely be found within the pages 9781844671687 and puke and then mellowing of Punk is Dead, Punk is Everything! 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Illustrated led to his death in Bolivia, and his extraordinary , James throughout by Roberto Weil, the story follows the legacy. and Grace Lee Boggs, James life and political development of Mr. Spic—Samuel Forman, Robert and Mabel Williams, and Queen Patricio Inocencio Cardenas—as he upends the Mother Audley Moore, among others, in founding political machine by owning up to and embracing and carrying out various Black liberation projects his rough-and-tumble past, refusing to bend to and organizations. Here is a study of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the

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Includes nearly sixty photographs the 150th anniversary of Brown’s courageous Red Army Faction, looks back on and illustrations, and brief foreword from Utah uprising against slavery. his generation’s revolt, including Phillips. the lessons of the RAF, while honestly grappling with the RICHARDSON, Boyce errors committed during the BERCUSON, David Jay Strangers Devour the Land group’s history of armed struggle Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, Industrial $25.00 • pb • Chelsea Green against imperialism. Relations, and the 9781603580045 15.00 • pb • McGill-Queens First published in 1974, this work 9780773507944 is recognized as the magnum ZINN, Howard Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest opus among the numerous A People’s History of the United States: 1492– and the most complete general strike in North books, articles, and films Present American history? 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Blending daily to-do list and maybe even cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice 9781583671900 In this updated edition, Yates uses simple language, check off some tasks now and at work with a theory of dramatic social change again. Quickly make notes of from below, the authors deliver a practical guide clear data, and engaging examples to explain why workers need unions, how unions are formed, how your good dreams when you for making work better while re-invigorating the wake up—the ones you actually long not to forget. labor movement. they operate, how collective bargaining works, the role of unions in politics, and what unions have Write down the title of that book your best friend done to bring workers together across the divides just told you about, since she swore it will change JAMES, Selma of race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. your life. 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McNALLY, David Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism $28.95 • pb • 9781894037273 What are the roots of the anti-corporate globalization Arbeiter Ring Publishing movement, and where is it going? Another World Is Possible Winnipeg traces the movement’s progress since 1994 and makes the case for the continued development of its anti-capitalist analysis and activism. Drawing on the experiences of radical movements of workers, peasants, and indigenous peoples in many countries, McNally sketches out an alternative, deeply radical politics based on diversity, internationalism, and moving beyond commodification and the market. Considerably revised and updated, this second edition is almost twice the size of the original!

KULCHYSKI, Peter SIMPSON, Leanne The Red Indians: Aboriginal Resistance to Capitalism in Canada Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Now and Then Protection of Indigenous Nations $10.95 • pb • 9781894037259 $21.95 • pb • 9781894037334 The Red Indians is a theoretically nuanced, frank, and This remarkable collection of essays by leading accessible book about Aboriginal resistance in Canada, Indigenous scholars focuses on the themes of freedom, historical and contemporary. In the manner of Eduardo liberation, and Indigenous resurgence as they relate to the Galeano’s famous trilogy Memories of Fire, the book land. They analyze treaties, political culture, governance, uncovers a critical, living history of conflict. The book “environmental issues,” economy and radical social introduces readers to the history of colonial oppression movements, from an anti-colonial Indigenous perspective. in Canada, and looks at contemporary examples of Editor Leanne Simpson has solicited Indigenous writers resistance, such as that of the Anishnabwe of Grassy that place Indigenous freedom as their highest political Narrows. Kulchyski clarifies the unique and specific goal, while turning to the knowledge, traditions, and culture politics of Aboriginal resistance in Canada. of specific Indigenous nations to achieve that goal.

LESTER, David YATES, Michael D. The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism In and Out of the Working Class $10.95 • pb • 9781894037303 $24.95 • pb • 9781894037358 Located at the intersection of the statistical and the artistic, In a series of autobiographical essays written on the this catalog of corporate horrors—poverty, exploitation, border between fiction and non-fiction, a radical economist and injustice—is a damning indictment of capitalism considers what it means to live in and through the theories created with both love and rage. One in five American about class that have informed his work and teaching. children live in poverty. One hundred thirty-five million Yates seeks to bring the complexity and ambiguity of of the world’s women and girls have undergone genital class, racial, and gender identity into focus through his mutilation. In Bangladesh, an estimated 500,000 people are own life. Yates writes of the erosion of self-confidence slaves. The amount of money spent on ice cream in Europe and the anxiety caused by the everyday fears of working- would be enough to provide reproductive health for all class families. He speaks honestly of the ambivalence and women in developing countries...unfortunately, there’s a heartbreak caused by upward economic mobility, while lot more to learn. Illustrated by the author, with an introduction by his Mecca relating in a deeply personal way to the structures of class Normal bandmate Jean Smith. inequality in American life.

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BERARDI, Franco “Bifo”; JACQUEMET, Marco; & VITALI, Gianfranco Ethereal Shadows: Communications and Power in Contemporary Italy $12.95 • pb • 9781570271885 Autonomedia Focusing on Italian “videocracy,” Ethereal Shadows documents the emergence Brooklyn of the first Italian media mogul, Silvio Berlusconi, and his rises and falls from political power. It also explores Italian media activism through three case studies: a discussion of the first autonomous free radio station, Radio Alice (broadcasting in Bologna between 1977 and 1979); a review of Italian Internet activism focusing on the site Rekombinant.org (launched in 2000); and a chronicle of the emergence of OrfeoTV in 2002, the first illegal micro-TV station in Italy.

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ROSEMONT, Franklin Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism $20.00 • pb • 9780882863214 A bold jaywalker at the crossroads of history, and an ardent exemplar of Charles H. Kerr freedom and revolt, Vaché challenged all prevailing values, from church and state to white supremacy, and was Chicago especially gifted at the fine art of ridiculing the dominant ethics and aesthetics of the emerging age of imperialism. Conscripted into the French Army in World War One, he soon became not only the unsurpassed champion of “Desertion from Within,” but also the master of “Disservice with Diligence.” This book chronicles Vaché’s boundless originality, creative nonconformity, revolutionary morality, and his all-out turn-the-world-upside-down hilarity.

AHMAD, Muhammad (Maxwell Stanford, Jr.) We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations ROSEMONT, Franklin 1960 –1975 : The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Working $18.00 • pb • 9780882863146 Class Counterculture $26.00 • hb • 9780882863153 $20.00 • pb • 9780882862644 Dr. Muhammad Ahmad was national field chairman of the A monumental work, expansive in scope, and not only the Revolutionary Action Movement during the mid-60s and life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies founder of the African People’s Party in the 1970s. He has (songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr), but worked closely with Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, Stokely crucially—and in great detail—the issues that he raised Carmichael, and Robert and Mabel Williams, among others. then—capitalism, white supremacy, gender, religion, Who better to pen a major assessment of some of the most wilderness, law, prison, —and their important Black radical organizations of the 60s? Here is a enduring relevance, and impact in the century since his study of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee death. Collected too is all his art, plus scores of other (SNCC), the Black Panther Party (BPP), the Revolutionary illustrations featuring Hill-inspired art by IWWs from Ralph Action Movement (RAM), and the League of Revolutionary Chaplin to Carlos Cortez, as well as other labor artists. Black Workers (LRBW), that only he could have done.

GREEN, Archie; ROEDIGER, David; ROSEMONT, Franklin; & SINCLAIR, Upton SALERNO, Salvatore (eds.) The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America The Big Red Songbook: 250-Plus IWW Songs! $14.00 • pb • 9780882860541 $24.00 • pb • 9780882862774 The Flivver King is history as it ought to be written— $36.00 • hb • 9780882862781 from the bottom up and the top down, with monumental The most comprehensive collection of rebel workers’ sensitivity to the compromise and conflict between the songs and poems ever compiled in English, this volume two extremes. Its two stories—those of Henry Ford and includes ALL the songs that appeared in the IWW’s Ford-worker Abner Shutt, unfold side by side, indeed celebrated “little red songbook” from 1909 through 1973, plus dozens of others that never made it into the dialectically. They are, in the end, one story: the saga of songbook. Here are the songs of Joe Hill, T-Bone Slim, class and culture in “Ford America.” Originally written in Dick Brazier, Ralph Chaplin, Covington Hall, and other 1937 to aid the United Automobile Workers’ organizing Wobbly legends; for the first time anywhere, a good drive, The Flivver King answers the question “Why do we selection of songs by women Wobblies and songwriters need a union?” with quiet eloquence. from other continents; and a section on variants and parodies of IWW songs. Plus a wealth of extra material and an afterword by !

DAVIDSON, Carl GARON, Paul & TOMKO, Gene ROEDIGER, David The New Radicals in the Multiversity and Other What’s the Use of Walking If There’s a Freight History Against Misery SDS Writings on Student Syndicalism Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their $17.00 • pb • 9780882863054 $9.00 • pb • 9780882861777 Songs $22.00 • pb/CD • 9780882863061 ROSEMONT, Franklin & RADCLIFFE, Charles DEBS, Eugene V (eds) Walls & Bars: Prisons and Prison Life in the JAMES, CLR & LEE, Grace C. Dancin’ In the Streets!: Anarchists, IWWs, “Land Of The Free” Facing Reality Surrealists, Situationists & Provos In the 1960s $14.00 • pb • 9780882862484 $16.00 • pb • 9780882863088 $19.00 • pb • 9780882863016 $24.00 • hb • 9780882862491 $25.00 • hb • 9780882863023 JONES, Mother FLETCHER, Ben & COLE, Peter (ed) The Autobiography of Mother Jones ROSEMONT, Franklin Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black $6.95 • pb • 9780882861661 (The Rise and Fall of the) Dil Pickle: Jazz-Age Wobbly (Including Fellow Worker Fletcher’s $25.00 • hb • 9780882861678 Chicago’s Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Writings & Speeches) Hobohemian Nightspot $15.00 • pb • 9780882863115 PARSONS, Lucy $15.00 • pb • 9780882862743 Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity $17.00 • pb • 9780882863009

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CRIMETHINC Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethinc for Beginners $9.95 • pb • 9780970910103 Beautifully designed A–Z of the totality of revolutionary youth politics. Sort of a Situ-inspired Steal This Book for CrimethInc everyday life, love, and how to live it. Heavily illustrated with photos, cartoons, posters, and other useful accoutrements Salem for the new millennium. Believe the hype, and check out why this is an underground bestseller.

CRIMETHINC CRIMETHINC Evasion Recipes for Disaster $7.95 • pb • 9780970910110 $15.00 • pb • 9780970910141 This second offering from the CrimethInc. collective is a collection of stories This CrimethInc. book is the action guide—the and anecdotes from within and around the margins of direct action guide. Includes a lot of info, drop-out culture. One person’s travelogue of thievery and including , wheat-pasting, coalition trespassing across the country; a document of the literal building, hijacking events, mental health, pie- and metaphorical reclamation of an individual’s life and the throwing, shoplifting, stenciling, supporting spaces surrounding him as he scams, squats, dumpsters, survivors of domestic violence, surviving a felony trainhops, and shoplifts a life worth living and a world worth trial, torches, and a whole bunch more. Incredible fighting for design and lots of graphics give it that hip situ feel. Loads to read, to think about, and to do. At 650 pages, you could always throw the damn book at a suitable “Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were target. What are you waiting for? to be lived. Life serves the risk taker...”

CRIMETHINC HIB & KIKA Expect Resistance: A Field Manual Off The Map $11.95 • pb • 9780970910165 $4.95 • pb • 9780970910134 Expect Resistance is not one but three books, each of A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the which can be a complete work by itself. The first book, anarchist travel story, Off The Map is narrated by two printed in standard black ink, continues the inquiry into young women as they discard their maps, fears, anything modern life and its discontents begun in Days of War, resembling a plan, and set off to Europe. Wandering across Nights of Love. The second book, in red ink, is a composite that continent, the dozens of vignettes are the details of account, related by three narrators, of the adventures and the whole—a squatted castle surrounded by tourists tribulations that inevitably ensue when people pursuing on the Spanish coast, a philosophizing businessman their dreams enter into conflict with the world as it is. on the highways of France, a placa full of los crustos Together these comprise a third book, an exploration of the in Barcelona...Originating as a zine given out to a few complex relationship between ideals and reality. Expect friends in Prague, this has now received the Crimethinc Resistance is a field manual for a field on which all manuals are useless; a lavish production treatment, complete with photographs, meditation on individual transformation and collective resistance in disastrous illustrations, and a cover featuring original artwork by Nikki McClure. times.

ANONYMOUS CRIMETHINC CRIMETHINC The Secret World Of Terijian Rolling Thunder: An Anarchist Journal of Rolling Thunder: An Anarchist Journal of $6.00 • pb • No ISBN Dangerous Living #2 Dangerous Living #5 $6.00 • pb • No ISBN $6.00 • pb • No ISBN BUTCHER, Raegan Rusty String Quartet: Poems by Raegan Butcher CRIMETHINC CRIMETHINC $12.95 • pb • 9780970910158 Rolling Thunder: An Anarchist Journal of Rolling Thunder: An Anarchist Journal of Dangerous Living #3 Dangerous Living #6 CRIMETHINC $6.00 • pb • No ISBN $6.00 • pb • No ISBN Guerilla Film Series, Vol. 1: Pickaxe, Breaking the Spell, the Miami Model, Five Shorts CRIMETHINC $15.00 • 2xDVD • No ISBN Rolling Thunder: An Anarchist Journal of Dangerous Living #4 $6.00 • pb • No ISBN

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KROPOTKIN, Peter Fields, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow $23.00 • pb • 9780900384288 A classic vision of a new world, edited by Colin Ward. A Freedom Press series of essays on agriculture, industry, and rural life. Kropotkin emphasizes a need for local organization, local London production, and self-sufficiency—all arguments that still ring true today.

ARSHINOV, P MALATESTA, Errico History of the Makhnovist Movement Anarchy $24.95 • pb • 9780900384400 $9.00 • pb • 9780900384745 The Russian Revolution was the time when the old order Originally published as a pamphlet in 1891, this is was totally swept away. Everything was changing and Malatesta’s explanation of the fundamental tenets of Nestor Makhno and his anarchist army were able to stamp anarchism, and a persuasive argument for his version of it. out the forces of the “Whites.” But in the midst of this Still one of the best introductory texts available. revolution the Bolsheviks were growing and developing their own repression, far more brutal and totalitarian than what it replaced. Nestor Makhno stood for freedom, and his struggle to destroy both the old and the new oppressors is as powerful today as it was then. Arshinov’s history of the Makhnovists is an important piece of source work, now available in English, with a preface by Voline.

BERKMAN, Alexander MALATESTA, Errico ABC of Anarchism At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism $12.95 • pb • 9780900384035 $18.95 • pb • 9781904491064 First published in 1929, this book answers some of the In 1897, while Malatesta was hiding from the police, he charges made against the anarchist movement and presents regularly went to a café in Ancona, Italy. He had shaved off the case for communist anarchism clearly and intelligently. his usual beard, but was still taking a risk—especially as It has long been regarded as a classic statement of the this wasn’t an anarchist café, but had a variety of customers movement’s goals and methods. including the local policeman. The conversations he had in this café became the basis for the dialogs that make up this book. For the first time in English, Malatesta critically analyzes the arguments for and against anarchism.

ALLEN, Tony BOOKCHIN, PURCHASE, MORRIS et al. NEWELL, Peter A Summer In the Park: A Journal of Speakers’ & Anarchism Zapata of Mexico Corner $9.00 • pb • 9780900384677 $20.00 • pb • 9781904491057 $21.95 • pb • 9781904491040 GODWIN, William PEIRATS, Jose AVRICH, Paul The Anarchist Writings of Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution Bakunin and Nechaev $15.95 • pb • 9780900384295 $29.95 • pb • 9780900384530 $2.95 • pb • 9780900384097 KROPOTKIN, Peter ROCKER, Rudolf BARCLAY, Harold Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism Culture and Anarchism $25.95 • pb • 9780900384363 $7.95 • pb • 9780900384455 $21.95 • pb • 9780900384844 KROPOTKIN, Peter WILSON, Charlotte BARCLAY, Harold The State: Its Historic Role Anarchist Essays The State $7.95 • pb • 9780900384332 $16.95 • pb • 9780900384998 $14.00 • pb • 9781904491002

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BIEL, Joe If It Ain’t Cheap, It Ain’t Punk: 15 years of Plan-it X Records $12.99 • pb • 9781934620779 Over the last fourteen years, Plan-it X Records helped foster a huge cultural revolution—uniting geographically divided DIY punk communities under one Microcosm umbrella. With a united ethic and common goals, this scene has grown to a critical Bloomington & Portland mass while some bands flirted with mainstream success and others choose to remain firmly rooted in the basement punk scene. This original documentary climaxes in the 2006 Festival where punks from all over the world met up in Bloomington, IN for a week of music and skillsharing. Original footage of This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Japanther, Defiance, Ohio, Ghost Mice, One Reason, Operation: Cliff Clavin, Soophie Nun Squad, and more!

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PLOEG, Joshua BRAVO, Kyle (ed) In Search of the Lost Taste Making Stuff & Doing Things: A Collection of DIY Guides to $8.00 • pb • 9781934620014 Doing Just About Everything Joshua Ploeg was once the singer for such bands as $12.00 • pb • Microcosm • 9780972696791 Lords of Lightspeed, Behead the Prophet, and the Mulkiteo Kyle Bravo has assembled his HOW TO zines into Faeries. Now he is a touring vegan chef employing the a comprehensive book along with dozens of other same skills and ingenuity that he learned from punk. instructional articles that tell you how to do just about Among the many recipes in his new cookbook you will everything yourself. Topics include direct action, find: Spicy Strawberry Applesauce in Pastry Cups with gardening, homebrewing, homeschooling, fixing a toilet, Sweet and Salty Candied Hazelnuts, Roasted Garlic and silk screening, putting out records, billboard improvement, Red Bean Pate with Herb Sauce and Mushroom Crackers, basic car maintenance, natural remedies, saving money Fried Veggie Cakes with Sambuca Sauce and Fig Relish, at the post office, making posters and stencils, dumpster Straw Mushroom and Black Sesame Rolls with Spicy Mustard Sauce and diving, making a tape wallet, avoiding dangerous Sweet Black Vinegar-Soy Sauce, Curried Veggie “Chkn” Dumplings with household chemicals, and many more...plus a few pieces Orange-Tomato Chutney and Wasabi Cream Sauce, and Red Wine Sorbet with for inspiration. You can see by now why this is essential. Chocolate Crostini, Berries in Liqueur and Chocolate Balsamic Reduction.

BRIGGS, Raleigh SPLINT, Ryan & Vanessa Make Your Place: Affordable & Sustainable Nesting Skills Hot Damn and Hell Yeah / The Dirty South $7.00 • pb • 9780978866563 $6.00 • pb • 9780977055708 Raleigh Briggs collects her zines, illustrations, and thoughts Two great vegan cookbooks combined: an anthology around what it is that makes a great DIY household— of Vanessa’s “The Dirty South,” issues 1-3, and Ryan homemade cleaning solvents that aren’t made from poison, Splint’s Australian masterpiece “Hot Damn and Hell Yeah.” herbs that will heal you, and how to set up a great garden. “HD&HY” is a finely illustrated and designed collection of These tips and tricks fill in the gaps for those of us longing recipes that aren’t afraid of spices and are great for those to live this lifestyle but lacking the necessary know-how. into easy-to-find ingredients that don’t taste like sawdust. “The Dirty South” is a unique take on southern cooking, vegan style, with some tasty delectibles—especially for those not afraid of garlic or baking. A book sizzling with great cooking ideas and recipes.

BAILLIE, Liz GEORGES, Nicole J My Brain Hurts CRABB, Cindy Invincible Summer Vol. 1 • $6.00 • pb • 9781934620038 Doris: An Anthology, 1991–2001 Vol. 1 • $12.00 • pb • 9780972696760 Vol. 2 (Available Fall 2009) • $7.00 • pb • 9781934620441 $14.00 • pb • 9780972696784 Vol. 2 • $14.00 • pb • 9781934620663

BEATY, Nate & GRANTON, Shawn DAVE POWELL, Nate A Zinester’s Guide to Portland: A Low/No Budget On Subbing: The First Four Years Sounds of Your Name Guide to Visiting and Living In Portland, Oregon $5.00 • pb • 9780972696753 $18.00 • pb • 9781934620793 $5.00 • pb • 9780977055722 DAVIS, Bert & DAVIS, Holly REKLAW, Jesse (ed) BOWSTERN, Moe Dwelling Portably Series Applicant Xtra Tuf 1980 –1989 • $8.00 • pb • 9781934620083 $4.00 • pb • 9780977055760 $6.00 • pb • 9780972696777 1990 –1999 (Available Fall 2009) • $8.00 • pb • 978193462025 2000 –2008 • $8.00 • pb • 9781934620618 ROAD, Cristy BURIAN, Al Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick: Postcards Things Are Meaning Less $15.00 • pb • 9780978866517 $8.00 • pb • 9780972696739

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HARPER, Clifford (ed) Prolegomena: To a Study of the Return of the Repressed in Rebel Press History $10.95 • pb • 9780946061136 London “I don’t want to do anything subversive—I just want to destroy capitalism.” A collection of “ultra” prose and poetry from 300 years of outrage, passion, sarcasm, wit, quotes, rants, declarations, and blood-curdling war cries. This is utterly brilliant, and here it is finally reprinted (from an obscure edition first published in the 60s) ina new edition edited, introduced, and illustrated by Clifford Harper. “Death to middle-class society, and long live anarchism!”

DEBORD, Guy PARRY, Richard Society of the Spectacle The Bonnot Gang: The Story of the French Illegalists $16.95 • pb • 9780946061129 $13.95 • pb • 9780946061044 The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and This is the story of the infamous Bonnot Gang: the most the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works notorious French anarchists ever, and the inventors of the of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly motorized get-away. It is the story of how the anarchist provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals taste for illegality developed into —the theory of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this that theft is liberating. A gripping historical thriller, Parry book have decisively transformed debates on the shape narrates their lives and background—a Paris of riots, of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late strikes, savage repression, a stronghold of foreign exiles twentieth century. This edition is the Ken Knabb translation, and home-grown revolutionaries, and Victor Serge and with introduction from the translator. l’anarchie, the individualist weekly. Their robberies, daring and violent, would give them a lasting notoriety in France. Their deaths, as spectacular as their lives, would make them a legend amongst revolutionaries the world over.

GRAY, Chris (ed) Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the READ, Simon Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Anarchism, But Situationist International Were Afraid to Ask... $24.95 • pb • 9780946061150 First published in 1974, Leaving The 20th Century was the $8.00 • pb • 9780946061105 An excellent, short, contemporary introduction to first collection of Situationist writing in English. Chris Gray, anarchism, addressing both its basic ideas and some of its editor, was himself a member of the SI. Long out of print, the thornier questions in life (Don’t we need the police to it has gained an enormous reputation. This new, lavish, catch criminals? Aren’t people naturally selfish? Don’t we oversize edition keeps the original provocativeness, in need some kind of management?, etc.). easy translations, along with SI’s cut and paste graphics, poster-art, and cartoons. It stands as a remarkable, and eminently accessible, introduction to a remarkable (and oft-times superficially, at least, inaccessible) revolutionary project.

VANEIGEM, Raoul The Revolution of Everyday Life $23.95 • pb • Rebel Press • 9780946061013 The essential handbook for all of us still alienated by modern capitalism. Together with Debord, Vaneigem was the main theorist of Situationist ideas. He has the added benefit of being eminently more readable! Writing in his poetic style, Vaneigem attacks the alienation of capitalist life not only at work but also in our “free” time. An incredible work, more potent now than ever.

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MENKART, Deborah & SUNSHINE, Catherine A. Caribbean Connections: Overview Of Regional History $16.00 • pb • 9781878554062 An incredible, informative, collection of essays, oral Teaching For Change histories, poetry, fiction, analysis, interviews, primary Washington documents, beautifully illustrated timelines and maps and interactive & interdisciplinary teaching aids on the history, politics, and culture of the Caribbean. Sections include The First Caribbean Peoples; Conquest And Colonial Rule; Winning Freedom; and Building New Nations. Includes essential background reading to understand U.S./Cuban relations and the Cuban revolution, plus The Arawaks and the Caribs; Bitter Sugar; African Resistance to Slavery; India to the Caribbean; Gunboat Diplomacy; and more.

MENKART, Deborah; MURRAY, Alana D; & VIEW, Jenice L. (eds) SANTANA, Jocelyn; GLASSER, Ruth; & GALLIN, Anne(eds) Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching Caribbean Connections: The Dominican Republic $25.00 • pb • 9781878554185 $16.00 • pb • 9781878554192 As one of the most commonly taught stories of people’s An incredible, informative, collection of essays, oral struggles for social justice, the Civil Rights Movement has histories, poetry, fiction, analysis, interviews, primary the capacity to help students develop a critical analysis of documents, beautifully illustrated timelines and maps and United States history and strategies for change. However, interactive & interdisciplinary teaching aids on the history, the empowering potential is often lost in a trivial pursuit politics, and culture of the fourth largest Latino community of names and dates. Putting the Movement Back into Civil in the United States. Authors include Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Rights Teaching provides lessons and articles for K–12 Danticat, Junot Diaz, Rhina P. Espaillat, Pedro Mir, Josefina educators on how to go beyond a “heroes” approach to Baez and Sherezada Vicioso (Chiqui). the Civil Rights Movement.

MENKART, Deborah & SUNSHINE, Catherine A. WARNER, Keith Q & SUNSHINE, Catherine A. Teaching About Haiti Moving North $2.00 • pam • 9781878554109 $18.00 • pb • 9781878554123 Helps students to place in context the current political An incredible, informative, collection of essays, oral crisis of the first independent Black nation in the Americas. histories, poetry, fiction, analysis, interviews, primary Includes: Literature; Interviews; Analysis of the Roots of documents, beautifully illustrated timelines and maps and Poverty; Folktales; Vodou; Songs by Boukman Eksperyans; interactive & interdisciplinary teaching aids on the history, Teaching/Action Ideas and Bibliography. To say that it’s politics, and culture of the Caribbean, as it exists within somewhat sad and unfortunate that a (albeit superb) the U.S. today. Migration from the Caribbean is reshaping Teaching Guide produced in 1994 is still relevant today, is a the cultural landscape of many American communities. bit of an understatement…but also points to Teaching For Moving North explores this process through fiction, poetry, Change’s excellent presentation of the history, analysis and personal narratives and interviews by women and men of overview. Caribbean background living in the United States. Tracing their roots to Puerto Rico, the English-speaking West Indies, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, the writers in Moving North bring to life the migration experience and the contributions of Caribbean people to U.S. society today.

OKAZAWA-REY, Margo (ed) Beyond Heroes And Holidays: A Practical Guide To K–12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education And Staff Development $35.00 • pb • 9781878554178 An incredible, informative collection of essays, articles, analysis, interviews, primary documents and interactive & interdisciplinary teaching aids on civil rights, movement building, and what it means for all of the inhabitants of the planet. With sections on Critical Literacy, The Arts, Mathematics, Technology, Science, Geography, Language, School-Wide Activities, Holidays and Heritage, Talking Back, Early Childhood, Readings and Teaching Aids. Packed into nearly 450 oversize pages are photographs, songs, statements, and work from the likes of such great writers, historians, and activists as Bill Bigelow, James Loewen, Peggy Mcintosh, Luis Rodirguez, Kai James, Clem Marshall, Marta Urquilla, Julie Bisson, the editors and dozens more. What a treasure trove. And what a vital (and useful) tool.

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We’re here 9:30–6:00 PST, Monday–Friday, but, like everyone else, we have an answering machine and fax that work 24/7. Please list title, author, and retail price when ordering (ISBN not necessary). Please specify your shipping instructions, purchase order number if needed, full billing and shipping addresses, and telephone number. DISCOUNT SCHEDULE TO TRADE Grid discounts: 1–4 assorted titles 20% 5–99 40% 100+ 41% New Account Discount: 42% on initial order Prepaid/STOP orders: 1–4 copies 30% (always include shipping costs) Libraries: 10% discount Terms: Negotiated, but after credit is extended: 30 days net; please pay from invoice Wholesale, specialty, and other businesses: Please write or call us for terms. NEW ACCOUNTS New trade customers must pre-pay their first order. Upon receipt of a credit application and references, credit will usually be extended. Credit terms are 30 days, with initial credit equal to the amount of the first order. SHIPPING Within the US, we ship by UPS unless instructed otherwise. Please supply street address when ordering. For rush orders, specify date needed and method of shipment preferred. BACKORDERS Unavailable titles are all backordered with a 90 day cancellation date, unless you indicate otherwise. Please let us know if you would like backorders shipped as the books are received or consolidated with other backorders, or if you’d prefer they were sent with your next order. RETURNS No authorization is necessary for returns made up to one year from original invoice date. Returns older than one year must have written permission, which will be granted at our discretion (typically based on whether or not we still carry the item). All returns must be in saleable condition. Stickered, ink-priced, shop-worn, or otherwise damaged and un-resaleable books will NOT be credited. Returns damaged en route will not be credited—PLEASE PACK CAREFULLY (they shouldn’t shift around in the box). You have the option of having these unacceptable returned books returned to you. They’re still yours! Books are fully credited with invoice information, and only 50% without. It is in your interest to dig up the invoice number and pack the books carefully. Credit is applied to future purchases or current balance , and must be used within one year. We do not give cash refunds. Please ensure that the books you want to return were supplied by us. The shipping address for all returns is: AK PRESS attn: RETURNS 674-A 23rd St. OAKLAND, CA 94612 USA CLAIMS In case of damage or other fulfillment error, we accept immediate returns. Claims for shortages or mis-shipments must be made within 30 days of invoice date. Please provide invoice details on all claims. Credit will be issued, or damaged items replaced, immediately upon notification. Please email [email protected] or call (510)208-1700. MAGAZINES Magazines/periodicals/journals are all available at a discount of 30%. Standing orders are available on ALL titles listed. Front cover returns are required on all titles and are accepted for up to one year. Please check with us for periodicity of each title. FOREIGN ACCOUNTS Payment should be made in US funds drawn on US bank. Any charges for foreign checks will be billed back to you. Unless you specify preferred method, all shipments are sent by cheapest available. Please specify! DISTRIBUTION OF AK PRESS TITLES Apart from us directly (wholesale terms available), AK-published titles are available from: Consortium, Last Gasp, Small Press Distribution, Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Disticor, Microcosm, Jura Books, and Virus. We encourage you to get books locally and conveniently.

64 TRADE INFORMATION www.akpress.org AK PRESS SUMMER 2009 Order Form About AK Press

PURCHASER SHIP TO (IF DIFFERENT FROM PURCHASER)

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Address Address

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PAYMENT Daytime Phone o Credit Card o Money Order o Cash (your risk) o Check o Cashiers Check o AK Credit Slip E-mail US Funds Only—surcharge applies for payment in other currencies If paying by credit card: o o Date

This is my… o first order Card Number o most recent order (I’ve ordered before) o new address Expiration Date Signature

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$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ [Alternate] $ [Alternate] $ COMMENTS Sub-Total: $ Friends of AK Press deduct 20% (see page 1): $ Sales Tax: $ CA residents add 9.75% (Sub-Total x .0975): MD residents add 6% (Sub-Total x .06): Feel free to continue onto another sheet if you need to. Shipping (see details on page 62): $ Mail completed order form, along with payment, to: USA: o Bookpost o Priority o UPS Ground AK Press, 674-A 23rd Street, Oakland, CA 94612 Canada: o First Class Mail Rest of the world: o First Class Mail TRADE CUSTOMERS: Disregard sales tax (but include resale license number with order). Only list street address, as UPS does not ship to PO boxes. Shipping will be calculated by weight and not item count. Friends of AK discount not applicable to trade orders. And lastly, Total amount enclosed: $ please note whether you will accept backorders or if you plan to reorder out-of-stock items (check backorder info on page 64).

AK PRESS SUMMER 2009 www.akpress.org TRADE INFORMATION 65 “To Protect & Serve Who?” photo by dave id (courtesy of indybay.org) / banner by Visual Element of Eastside Arts Alliance AK Press is a worker-run book publisher

...i’m seeing rights being stripped more than cars in the ghetto and distributor organized around anarchist but folks like us are like dust that won’t settle principles. the thorn in your side that will move with the tide and has never had any reason to hide so we ride… AK draws on the rich history of folks —“Moot” by The N.O.M.A.D.S. from all over the planet and from (from the book Poets for Palestine) all walks of life who have imagined, fought for, and actually achieved something better.

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