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 →

As Told to Alex Haley Malcolm X & Alex Haley 1965 460p MMPB From his childhood in Michigan to hustling on the streets of Boston and Harlem to prison where he finds allah and back to Harlem to preach for the Nation of Islam. Malcolm was eventually betrayed by the Nation of Islam, and left, … Continue reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X →

A Novel Margaret Atwood 1996 468p 5.5 x 8 Atwood takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and … Continue reading Alias Grace →

The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault 1975 333p 5 x 8 Foucault suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner’s body to his soul. The four main parts include: torture, punishment, discipline and prison. $4-12 … Continue reading Discipline and Punish →

Dennis Danvers     2002     368p     5 x 8 In 1921 Russia, a mysterious visitor from the far future comes to Peter Kropotkin’s deathbed and offers the world-renowned anarchist philosopher a new life. Kropotkin — the one-time prince who renounced wealth and privilege to embrace the cause of anarchy, the dying … Continue reading The Watch →

Jean Genet     1949     272p     5 x 8 The man Jean Cocteau dubbed France’s ‘Black Prince of Letters’ here reconstructs his early adult years — time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step … Continue reading The Thief’s Journal →

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 →

Rebel Women in Pre-War Japan Misiko Hane     1993     340p     6 x 9 As japanese court dictated, these condemned rebels wrote their biographies while awaiting execution. Hear what inspired and drove these socialists and anarchists to attack power. $5-10 Other works involving prisoners, assassination, memoirs, prisoner writings, japan, trial, executions, 1920s, 1930s

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 →

Henri Charrière     1969     576p     5 x 8 “We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to … Continue reading Papillion →