In a time when everything seems to be regulated, controlled, and monitored, Yellowstone Drift is a refreshing and often exhilarating look at the natural wonder of Montana’s Yellowstone River.High abov
In A Living Revolution, James Horrox explores the foundations of the kibbutz movement, providing a detailed look at its early economic, social, and political organization. Based on newly translated le
From dawn to dusk on November 30, 1999, tens of thousands of people shut down the World Trade Organization meeting, facing cops firing tear gas and rubber bullets, the National Guard, and the suspens
David Berry's study is the first English-language evaluation of the development and lessons of the French anarchist movement between the wars. Using an impressive array of archival sources and persona
This collection is based on the pioneering anthology of Peret's writings that first appeared in August 1970 in the SDS journalRadical America, introduced by Franklin Rosemont. This new, expanded and i
The legacy of the Bush administration and its "War on Terror" includes a new logic of surveillance, suppressing public dissent and mobilizing both "fear" and &q
From poverty and a Yorkshire orphanage, Herbert Read went on to become the most significant cultural critic to come out of England in the twentieth century.Between 1940 and 1960 he was the most well-r
British anarchist activist and writer Christie offers a sympathetic study of the Federacion Anarquista Iberica (FAI), the Spanish anarchist grouping that was founded in 1927 for the purpose of maintai
Looking beyond the passive roles of feeding, nursing and hiding male partisans, journalist and film maker Strobel interviewed women who took an active role, in gun running, bombings and assassination.
Disaster and Resistance outlines pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century - from post 9-11 New York City to Israel and Palestine, to Iraq and New Orleans. Fans
Writer and activist Carlsson takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour of people and organizations he loosely dubs as the emergent "Nowtopian movement," by which he means those who are engaged in projec
The fourth in AK Press’ Working Classics series, The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equi-table means of satisfying
By investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917. Terence Kissack expands the scope of the history of LGBT politics in the United Stales. The anarchists Kissack ex
In the warped underworld of Uptown Chicago, two petty thieves, Jack and Vince - Dostoevskyan in their criminal use of philosophy, exalting in the stealing of art as the highest human act - meet their
“If anthropology consists of making the apparently wild thought of others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is
Using Marxism, anarchism, and social ecology to explore domination, power, and hierarchy, the author criticizes the use and abuse of animals in capitalist society and argues for the abolition of anima
Mike Topp's irreducible art consists partly of recycling expandable parts of speech and revealing their unused genius. Other parts are fixed, like the sly orthography. Topp is the Andy Warhol and Ralp
Cassidy reveals how the Gaelic of Irish immigrants to North America has infiltrated into slang and other informal and non-elite realms of English. Among the words he traces to Irish are slum, dude, an
We can no longer trust that our journalists are reporting the news without underlying corporate or governmental agendas. The US government deregulates radio and right-wing Clear Channel gobbles up ava
Militants, artists, and academics present material intended to help readers further the development of constituent power of lived imagination in order to transform the world. Among the topics are mili
This is indeed an incredible endeavor. For sure the most comprehensive collection of rebel workers' songs and poems ever compiled in English. It includes ALL the songs that appeared in the IWW's celeb
New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the “price of fire”—access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources. Though these
Perhaps the most famous and admired of the Spanish anarchists, Buenventura Durruti (1896-1936) played a central role in the events of the Spanish Revolution, the anarchist response to the dictatorship
A beautiful book full of hard numbers. Located at the intersection of the statistical and the artistic, this catalog of corporate horrors--poverty, exploitation, and injustice--is a damning indictment
December 19th and 20th, 2001, marked the beginning a popular rebellion in Argentina. After IMF policies led to economic meltdown and massive capital flight, millions of Argentinians poured into the s
In response to the perceived cooptation of traditional leftist organizations such as labor unions and working class political parties by capitalist social relations and hierarchical authority, autonom
A fascinating compendium of first person accounts of various and sundry "skateboarder meets the forces of law & order" stories. Amongst the plethora of contributors, you’ll find names like Marc Jo
Talking the Walk is an incomparable resource for learning to discuss and spin issues of race and racial justice. Its purpose is to help build the capacity of progressive activists and advocates to con
The Weather Underground emerged from splits within the Students for a Democratic Society and for a period of time in the 1970s carried out a string of bombings that placed it in the front ranks of the
In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of “direct action”—workers’ control of production, the creation of free ru
In Against the New Authoritarianism, Giroux divests Bush and America’s thinly disguised rhetoric of being the world’s defender of freedom and democracy to reveal the terrifying specter of proto-fascis
East End 1888 is essential reading for anyone interested in social history and the history of London. Professor William Fishman shows what life was like for the labouring poor in the year of Jack the
Using a synthesis of ecology, anthropology, philosophy and political theory, this book traces our society's conflicting legacies of freedom and domination, from the first emergence of human culture to
I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite! examines the historical, political and philosophical linkages between Nietzsche's transgressive thought and the transformative political vision of anarchism.
This now forgotten autobiography by an obscure German revolutionary was one of the great (and unlikely) bestsellers of 1941, selling more than a million copies in the US alone. It is one of the most w
The U.S. government's war in Asia has been the longest and most painful involvement of U.S. military in modern warfare. For nearly a decade, Noam Chomsky urged the U.S. to confront and avoid the dange
You hear the drumbeats every day: Anybody But Bush, Anybody But Bush. The rampage of the President and his gang of neo-cons and corporadoes is presented by many liberal powerbrokers as a uniquely evil
In 1937, at the behest of Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) penned this political and philosophical masterpiece as an introduction to the ideals fueling the Spanish social revolution and resist
The phenomenal life of Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) provides the framework for this breakneck account of the downfall of the tsarist empire and the civil war that convulsed and bloodie
