The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising Robert Shogan 2004 296p 6 x 9 The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history – the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and exploitation, … Continue reading The Battle of Blair Mountain →
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 →
Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! Fredy Perlman 1983 296p 5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor. Bastard Out of Carolina A Novel Dorothy Allison 1992 320p 6 x … Continue reading Recommended Reading →
The Twenty-Eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Dan Kurzman 1976 386p MMPB In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the … Continue reading The Bravest Battle →
Paul Avrich 1967 320p 5.5 x 8.5 From the nihilists of the 1870s to their anarchist, leninist and maximalist heirs, Avrich covers everything: bomb-throwers, philosophers, workers’ councils, the ukrainian makhnovtchina, the krondstadt uprising, the bolshevik betrayal, and the ordinary peasants, soldiers and workers committed to fighting for a truly free world. One of my favorite … Continue reading The Russian Anarchists →
Treatise on Living for the Younger Generations Raoul Vaneigem 1967 336p 5 x 8 ‘People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse … Continue reading The Revolution of Everyday Life →
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