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
A Novel Margaret Atwood 1996 468p 5.5 x 8 Atwood takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and … Continue reading Alias Grace
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
Attacking North Caolina’s Plantation Society in the Age of Reconstruction NC Piece Corps 2012 32p 5 x 8 On December 21st, 1864, a wealthy slaveholder and minor official of the Confederacy named James P. Barnes was ambushed on his way to the Post Office in Robeson County, North Carolina. After … Continue reading The Lowry Wars
Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975 Muhammad Ahmad 2007 340p 5 x 8 Dr. Muhammad Ahmad was national field chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) during the mid-60s and founder of the African People’s Party in the 1970s. He has worked closely with Malcolm X, Jesse Gray, Amiri Baraka, Stokely … Continue reading We Will Return in the Whirlwind
1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights Penelope Rosemont 1999 194p 5 x 8 Rosemont’s first book of articles and essays. It includes nearly two dozen texts originally published in surrealist journals from 1970 through the 90s, plus eleven that appear here for the first time. An ardent defender of all that … Continue reading Surrealist Experiences
Black Hoboes and Their Songs [Including a CD of 25 original recordings!] Gene Tomko & Paul Garon 2006 296p 5 x 8 In this exciting new book, Paul Garon tells the story of African American migratory workers and the songs they sang: at work, in boxcars and hobo jungles, … Continue reading What’s the use of walking if there’s a freight Train Going Your Way?
David Roediger 2006 184p 5 x 8 In this lavishly illustrated collection of essays, articles and reviews from the late 70s to the present, the noted author of The Wages of Whiteness, Towards the Abolition of Whiteness focuses on the complex issue of miserablism in its many and invariably … Continue reading History Against Misery
The Story of a Small, Underground 1960s Revolutionary Group in New York City Anonymous 16p 5 x 8 Former street kids and university drop-outs, this is the story of the Motherfuckers, who wanted to destroy capitalism and all things it turned to gold when it touched them: art, music, drugs, the … Continue reading Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker
The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall 1988 550p 6 x 9 An incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement and the … Continue reading Agents of Repression