1860-1931 John M. Hart 1987 260p 6 x 9 The anarchist movement had a crucial impact upon the Mexican working class between 1860 and 1931. Hart shows how the ideas of European anarchist thinkers took root in Mexico, how they influenced revolutionary tendencies there, and why anarchism was ultimately … Continue reading Anarchism and the Mexican Working Class
A Novel B. Traven 1927 320p 5 x 8 By the 1920s the violence of the Mexican Revolution had largely subsided, although scattered gangs of bandits continued to terrorize the countryside. The newly established post-revolution government relied on the effective but ruthless Federal Police, commonly known as the Federales, … Continue reading The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
B. Traven 1936 260p 5 x 8 The fifth of Traven’s six Jungle Novels which together form an epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. Set in the slave-labor mahogany plantations of tropical Mexico in 1910, at the time of the uprising against the rule of Porfirio Díaz … Continue reading The Rebellion of the Hanged
Douglas Day 1991 270p 6 x 9 Part biography and part polemic directed against the failed opportunities of the Revolution, the book takes the form of notebooks scribbled by Flores Magon in the Leavenworth (Kansas) penitentiary where he is imprisoned for having violated United States neutrality laws. Flashbacks cover … Continue reading The Prison Notebooks of Ricardo Flores Magon
B. Traven 1933 240p 5 x 8 In the third of his six Jungle Novels, set in the great mahogany plantations of southern Mexico in the years before the revolution, Traven traces the beginnings of consciousness which led to rebellion by the Indians who worked in debt slavery. Other … Continue reading March to the Monteria
B. Traven 1939 285p 5 x 8 With General from the Jungle, Traven complete’s the sixth and last of the legendary Jungle Novels, telling the birth of the Mexican Revolution. In General, a masterpiece on guerrilla warfare, Traven tells the story of Juan Mendez, perhaps the youngest and greatest … Continue reading The General From the Jungle
B. Traven 1926 207p 5 x 8 The background of The Cotton-Pickers, set in Mexico in the 1920s, is the struggle of the emerging trade unions to end the exploitation of hungry laborers. Gales, a laconic American drifter, turns his hand to anything for a meal and a flea-bitten … Continue reading The Cotton-Pickers
B. Traven 1931 271p 5.5 x 8 In the second of his six Jungle Novels, Traven brings his remarkable narrative talents to bear on the coming of age of a young Indian oxcart driver and the oppressive world in which he must make his way. $7-15 Other works involving … Continue reading The Carreta
The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture Franklin Rosemont 2003 650p 5 x 8 A massive and thorough take on the life of Joe Hill (1877-1915), one of the best-known figures in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World. U.S. labor’s most world-renowned … Continue reading Joe Hill
A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader Chaz Bufe 2005 452p 6 x 9 The most comprehensive anthology of the Mexican revolutionary’s writings available in English. Translated, compiled, and annotated by Mitchell Verter and Chaz Bufe. Also includes a lengthy biographical preface by Verter. $11-20 Other works involving ricardo flores magón, … Continue reading Dreams of Freedom