Pa Chin     1931     329p     5 x 7 This autobiographical novel deals with internal tensions of an upper-middle class family during the New Culture Movement of 1920s China. While many contemporary radicals pay little-to-no mind of the family as a repressive institution (perhaps because of its increasing defuse or subversive … Continue reading The Family →

Abel Paz     2006     800p     6 x 9 The most thorough account of Buenaventuera Durruti’s life and spain in the tumultuous and rowdy years of the 1920-1930s in English. Paz, who fought in the spanish revolution as a teenager, seamlessly weaves intimate biographical details of Durruti’s life—his progression from factory worker … Continue reading Durruti in the Spanish Revolution →

An Oral History of Anarchism in America Paul Avrich   2005   592p   6 x 9 The 180 interviewees in this oral history (mostly anarchists, but also their friends, associates and relatives) represent diverse political tendencies – individualists, collectivists, pacifists, revolutionaries. The respondents give firsthand recollections of Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Sacco and Vanzetti and other key … Continue reading Anarchist Voices →

Jules-François Dupuis     1977     131p     5 x 8 This pseudonymous account of surrealism by Raoul Vaneigem offers an answer to the question, “What was living and what was dead in Surrealism?” Though blistering  in its criticism of surrealism’s artistic and political aporias, the book identifies the “radioactive fragment of radicalism” … Continue reading A Cavalier History of Surrealism →

Severino Di Giovanni in Argentina, 1923-1931 Osvaldo Bayer   1970   210p   5 x 8 Originally in spanish, this reprint of the Elephant Editions translation tells the story of anarcho-banditry committed by Severino and his good friends, the brothers Scarfo. Bombings, bank robberies, and, like many of their kind, their shooting star ending. $3-10 … Continue reading Anarchism and Violence →