Jon Krakauer 1996 207p 5 x 8 Krakauer’s version of Alexander Supertramp’s adventurous and, ultimately, tragic life. Disillusioned with his middle class life, after graduating college Supertramp drops off the map and strikes off on an ascetic adventure: hitch-hiking across the country, canoeing to mexico, train-hopping up and down … Continue reading Into the Wild
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary Ngo Van 1995 296p 6 x 9 Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people in the english-speaking world are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the … Continue reading In the Crossfire
Émile Zola 1885 400p MMPB Classic novel about a miners’ strike in northern france – the struggle for life and diginity before the arrival of formal unions. $2-5 Other works involving labor struggles, miners, france, fiction
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 Story of Class Violence in America Louis Adamic 1935 380p 5 x 8 The history of labor in the United States is a story of almost continuous violence. In Dynamite, Louis Adamic recounts one century of that history in vivid, carefully researched detail. Covering both well- and lesser-known … Continue reading Dynamite
Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists, & Provos in the 1960s Franklin Rosemont 2005 447p 6 x 9 While square critics derided them as “the left wing of the Beat Generation,” the multi-racial, working-class editorial groups of The Rebel Worker and its sister journal Heatwave in London became well known for … Continue reading Dancin’ in the Streets!
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!