The Left Wing Alternative Daniel Cohn-Bendit 1968 272p 5.5 x 8.5 In May 68 a student protest spread to other universities, to Paris factories and in a few weeks to most of France. A million Parisians marched; ten million workers went out on strike. This is Daniel Cohn-Bendit’s – … Continue reading Obsolete Communism
Bureau of Public Secrets 1981 532p 7 x 9 In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people’s passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. … Continue reading Situationist International Anthology
Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists, & Provos in the 1960s Franklin Rosemont 2005 447p 6 x 9 While square critics derided them as “the left wing of the Beat Generation,” the multi-racial, working-class editorial groups of The Rebel Worker and its sister journal Heatwave in London became well known for … Continue reading Dancin’ in the Streets!
What Mound Have Been // Some Poems, 2003-2013 2014 60p 5.5 x 8.5 A petite, personal history of the curious earthworks of North St. Louis, the text explores the mysterious origins and unexpected transformations of the city’s monumental earthen mounds. From the burial grounds of Native Americans to the platforms of … Continue reading Vacant Quarter
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
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
A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz 1991 288p 5 x 8 Written in the ’80s when Wojnarowicz and his friends were sick and dying of AIDS, this is a powerful, tragic — yet beautiful — memoirs. A collection of essays dealing with death, sickness, the sexual freedoms of queer … Continue reading Close to the Knives
Keiko Kasza 1993 16p 7 x 9 In this picture book, Choco is a little bird who lives all alone. He wishes he had a mother, but who could his mother be? While searching for her, Chocho is told over and over that different animals cannot be his mother … Continue reading A Mother for Choco
Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane! John Duda 2009 136p 5 x 8 Mass civil disobedience, train-hopping militants, insurrectionist poets, radical marching bands, and a victory for a precarious proletariat—in 1909! Published for the 100th Anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech Fight, Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails … Continue reading WANTED: