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RECOMMENDED READING                       LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL Books are new and used, and all are on a sliding scale. Books are listed with the author, when it was first published and approximate page length and size. This list is about 1/5 of available titles. Please inquire about … Continue reading Books

Having Little, Being Much

A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman’s Fifty Years Lorraine Perlman     1989     200p     5 x 8 A memoir with photos written by Fredy’s companion of 27 years. Fredy’s life began in Czechoslavakia in 1934 and ended in Detroit in 1985. In those fifty years he lived on three continents and incorporated … Continue reading Having Little, Being Much

Against His-Story, Against Leviathan

Fredy Perlman   1983   296p   5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor.  $7-15 Other works involving fredy perlman, civilization, the wild, technology, recuperation, progress, primitivism, heresy, patriarchy, first nations struggles, peasant revolts, monarchs, nature, slave … Continue reading Against His-Story, Against Leviathan

Unions Against Revolution

G. Munis & John Zerzan     1975     62p     5 x 6 Unions – as well as employers – stand in the way of workers’ freedom. Labor militants who became union leaders enforce industrial discipline just as Lenin and Stalin advocated. In the pamphlet’s second essay Zerzan documents ‘The Revolt Against … Continue reading Unions Against Revolution

The Strait

Obenabi’s Songs Fredy Perlman     1988     389p     5 x 8 Obenabi, the narrator, sings the story of his people confronting the european invader. The tales are personal, emerging from the remembered experiences of his grandmothers. These dramas of conflict, commerce, domestication, heroism, exchange and love are set in the great … Continue reading The Strait

The Story of Tatiana

Jacques Baynac     1994     255p     5 x 8 In the shadow of the Jungfrau’s peak that towers above Interlaken, Switzerland, Tatiana Leontiev carried out her act. Historian Jacques Baynac recounts the life of russian revolutionary before and after 1906, when she assassinated the person she believed was a tsarist minister. … Continue reading The Story of Tatiana

In the Crossfire

Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary Ngo Van     1995     296p     6 x 9 Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people in the english-speaking world are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the … Continue reading In the Crossfire

The Many-Headed Hydra

Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker     2001     433p     6.5 x 9 Spanning an impressive 200 years, this books takes us from the early 1600s (and the years leading up to the English Civil War) through the golden age of … Continue reading The Many-Headed Hydra