One Thousand Emotions (ed.)     2006     36p     5 x 8 Two essays–Back From Hell by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin and–and a chronology of prison revolts from 2004-2005. From the back cover: “Prisoners began… to understand in theoretical terms how racism was a way of enslaving us all – blacks and other … Continue reading Race Treason Behind Prison Walls →

Rebellion and Convict Lease in Tennessee’s Coalfields, 1891-1895 Sweet Tea     2010     32p     5 x 8 From the back cover: “Something happened in Tennessee, something almost unimaginable to the mine owners and politicians of that state. When the companies tried to intimidate their workers by bringing in convict labor to … Continue reading The Stockade Stood Burning →

The Life Of Fred Thompson Fred Thompson & David Roediger     1994     93p     5 x 8 Fred Thompson—1900–1987—socialist, Wobbly, organizer, soapboxer, editor, class-war prisoner, educator, historian, and publisher (it was he who spearheaded the effort to get the Charles H. Kerr Company back on its feet in the 1970s). Here … Continue reading Fellow Worker →

The George Jackson Brigade, Men Against Sexism, and Gay Struggle Against Prison Bo Brown & Ed Mead     2014     64p     5 x 8 Untorelli Press presents a collection of interviews and historical documents by and about the George Jackson Brigade and Men Against Sexism, focusing on the many forms of … Continue reading Queer Fire →

Jean Genet     1943     272p     5 x 8 The novel tells the story of Divine, a drag queen who, when the novel opens, has died of tuberculosis and been canonised as a result. The narrator tells us that the stories he is telling are mainly to amuse himself whilst he … Continue reading Our Lady of the Flowers →

My Life is My Sundance Leonard Peltier     2000     272p     5 x 9 In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the … Continue reading Prison Writings →

Peter Kropotkin     1899     504p     5 x 8 Born into a wealthy family of landowners, Prince Peter Alexeivich Kropotkin (1842-1921) held prestigious diplomatic posts. But the prince renounced his life of privilege to embrace anarchism, a revolutionary alternative to Marxism. A leading theoretician of his day, Kropotkin wrote the basic … Continue reading Memoirs of a Revolutionist →

Vera Figner     1920     336p     6 x 9 In this classic memoir, Figner recounts her journey from aristocrat to revolutionary, candidly relating the experiences that shaped her ideas and provoked her to political action and violence. As she reflects on her own lifelong commitment to improving the lives of ordinary … Continue reading Memoirs of a Revolutionist →

Peter Kropotkin    1887   387p   5 x 8 Nearly a century has passed since Kropotkin wrote In Russian and French Prisons, yet his criticisms of the penal system have lost none of their relevance. Prisons—far from reforming the offender, or deterring crime—are, in themselves, ‘schools of crime’. Every year, thousands of prisoners are … Continue reading In Russian and French Prisons →

Vol. I: The Leninist Counter-Revolution G.P. Maximoff    1940    360p    5 x 8 Originally published in 1940 in two volumes, this is the (partially eyewitness) account of the Leninist terror inflicted upon Russia. Maximoff, a life-long anarchist, fought in the Russian Revolution, organized with the metal-workers, and was imprisoned by Lenin’s secret police … Continue reading The Guillotine at Work →