Post-Political Politics Christian Marazzi & Sylvère Lotringer 2007 340p 7 x 10 ‘Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails…. I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate … Continue reading Autonomia
Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the ‘60s Peter Doggett 2007 608p 6 x 9 Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from … Continue reading There’s A Riot Going On
The Story of Anarchism Richard Suskind 1971 200p 5 x 8 A good overview of classical anarchism in its heyday, with a focus on the era of dynamite and propaganda by the deed. Suskind is not an anarchist and not necessarily sympathetic to anarchism, which writing from the 1970s he assumes … Continue reading By Bullet, Bomb and Dagger
The Greek Revolt of December 2008 A.G.Schwarz & T. Sagris 2010 392p 9 x 6 On December 6, 2008, the city of Athens exploded as people took to the streets to demonstrate their rage over the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, bringing business as usual to a screeching, burning … Continue reading We Are An Image From the Future
The Warriors and Legacy of Oka Loreen Pindera & Geoffrey York 1991 425p 6 x 9 In 1990, after the announcement to expand the local 9-hole golf course to an 18-hole one right through a Mohawk cemetery, a small band of women blocking the development and years of disappointment, manipulation, exploitation and genocide soon inspire … Continue reading The People of the Pines
A Memoir Reinaldo Arenas 1992 336p 5 x 8 Written while dying of AIDS in New York City in the late 1980s, this is Arenas’ incredible story, told so movingly and elegantly in all its misery and beauty. Born in impoverished countryside of Cuba, Arenas ran away to join guerrillas at … Continue reading Before Night Falls
The Rose of Fire Has Returned: The Struggle for the Streets of Barcelona Anonymous 2012 75p 4 x 8 ‘In may 2011, tens of thousands occupied plazas throughout Spain in a protest movement that prefigured similar occupations around the world, including the Occupy movement in the US. On March … Continue reading ¡La rosa de foc hat tornat!