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 →

Daphne Scholinski     1997     224p     6 x 9 At fifteen years old, Daphne Scholinski was committed to a mental institution and awarded the dubious diagnosis of ‘Gender Identity Disorder.’ She spent three years – and over a million dollars of insurance – ‘treating’ the problem with makeup lessons and instructions in how … Continue reading Last Time I Wore A Dress →

The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture Franklin Rosemont     2003     650p     5 x 8 A massive and thorough take on the life of Joe Hill (1877-1915), one of the best-known figures in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World. U.S. labor’s most world-renowned … Continue reading Joe Hill →

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 →

Paul Avrich     1984     556p     6 x 9 Similar to most of Avrich’s work, this is the definitive take on the Haymarket bombing: the years and social tensions leading up to it, the 8 defendants including their similarities and differences, their executions and the anarchist seed that was planted by … Continue reading The Haymarket Tragedy →

125th Anniversary Edition Franklin Rosemont & David Roediger     2012     272p     8 x 11 Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago’s Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, and handbills, as well as contributions by many … Continue reading The Haymarket Scrapbook →

Sakae Ōsugi     1921     192p     6 x 9 In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting … Continue reading The Autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae →

The Story of Anarchism Richard Suskind     1971     200p     5 x 8 A good overview of classical anarchism in its heyday, with a focus on the era of dynamite and propaganda by the deed. Suskind is not an anarchist and not necessarily sympathetic to anarchism, which writing from the 1970s he assumes … Continue reading By Bullet, Bomb and Dagger →

A Compilation of Works by Rod Coronado Rod Coronado   2007   120p   5 x 8 For over 20 years, Rod Coronado has been at the forefront of the radical ecological and animal rights movements. Flaming Arrows is a compilation of his writing, with most of the chapters coming from the zine Strong Hearts, which Rod wrote while in … Continue reading Flaming Arrows →

  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 →