The Story of the Great San Francisco General Strike of 1934 Mike Quinn 1979 259p 5 x 7 On May 9, 1934, International Labor Association (ILA) leaders called a strike of all dockworkers on the West Coast who were joined a few days later by seamen and teamsters, effectively stopping all shipping from San Diego … Continue reading The Big Strike
Situationists and the Beach, May 1968 Dark Star Collective 2001 120p 8 x 8 An anthology of the three classic Situationist pamphlets—The Poverty of Student Life, Totality for Kids, and The Decline and Fall of the Spectacular Commodity Economy, plus an eyewitness account of the Paris May ’68 events. Much of the Situ creed was … Continue reading Beneath the Paving Stones
The Life and Times of A Black Wobbly Ben Fletcher & Peter Cole 2006 149p 5.5 x 8.5 The great African American Wobbly organizer, Benjamin Fletcher (1890-1949), was noted for his brilliant organizing ability and imaginative on-the-job strategies, as well as for his courage, humor, and excellence as a … Continue reading Ben Fletcher
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
France, May ‘68 R. Gregoire & F. Perlman 1969 96p 5 x 8 Gregoire and Perlman recount their fascinating experiences Paris when it seemed possible that a non-bureaucratic revolution was at hand. As participants, they analyze actions and principles. They criticize passivity, leaders and the fear of change. $2-5 … Continue reading Worker-Student Action Committees
G. Munis & John Zerzan 1975 62p 5 x 6 Unions – as well as employers – stand in the way of workers’ freedom. Labor militants who became union leaders enforce industrial discipline just as Lenin and Stalin advocated. In the pamphlet’s second essay Zerzan documents ‘The Revolt Against … Continue reading Unions Against Revolution
A Pictorial History of the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union H.L. Mitchell 1987 96p 8 x 11 Founded near Tyronza, Arkansas, in 1934 by 11 white and seven black workers, within five years the STFU was organizing all across the South and counting its members in the tens of thousands. Reviving old IWW traditions of workers’ … Continue reading Roll the Union On
The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution Kirkpatrick Sale 1995 336p 6 x 9 Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites’ struggle to preserve their way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them and force further isolation, exploitation and alienation. ‘King Ludd’ lead anonymous groups of peasants against … Continue reading Rebels Against the Future
Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992 Midnight Notes Collective 1992 340p 6 x 9 Midnight Oil is a political journey through two decades of social struggles, ranging form the oil fields of the Middle East and Africa coal fields of Appalachia and the homes and neighborhoods of America and Europe. Tracing … Continue reading Midnight Oil
Freedom, Equality and Solidarity: Writings and Speeches, 1878-1937 Gale Ahrens 2004 183p 5 x 8 ‘More dangerous than 1000 rioters!’ That’s what the Chicago police called Lucy Parsons – America’s most defiant and persistent anarchist agitator, whose cross-country speaking tours inspired hundreds of thousands of working people. Her friends … Continue reading Lucy Parsons