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AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes and
distributes radical books, visual and audio media, and other
mind-altering material. We’re small: a dozen people who work
long hours for short money, because we believe in what we
do. We’re anarchists, which is reflected both in the books we
provide and in the way we organize our business. Decisions at
AK Press are made collectively, from what we publish, to what
we distribute and how we structure our labor. All the work,
from sweeping floors to answering phones, is shared. When
the telemarketers call and ask “who’s in charge?” the answer is:
everyone.
Our goal isn’t profit (although we do have to pay the rent).
Our goal is supplying radical words and images to as many
people as possible. The books and other media we distribute
are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants.
We make them widely available to help you make positive (or,
hell, revolutionary) changes in the world. As you probably know,
the stuff we carry is less and less available from the corporate
publishers and chains.
The items in this catalog are available to bookstores,
infoshops, rogue tablers, and individuals. While we try
to keep all the items listed in stock, occasionally things
go in and out of print or are temporarily unavailable—
we apologize in advance for any inconvenience. All
prices were correct when we went to print, but are
subject to change. For the most current product info
and to see the newest items (we update the website with
new products weekly), check us out at www.akpress.org.
While you’re there, check out the Bookmobile to see if
AK Press will be in your neck of the woods soon, to sign
up for our mailing lists for updates on new products and
events, or to learn about Friends of AK Press.
What Do You Mean By Anarchism?”
“Like all really good ideas,” writes Clifford Harper,
“Anarchy is pretty simple when you get down to it—
human beings are at their best when they are living free
of authority, deciding things among themselves rather
than being ordered about.” Anarchism means abolishing
the state and all coercive social relations. It means a
society in which individuals create and control their own
collective organizations to meet their social and economic
needs. These organizations would federate and democratically
coordinate (rather than compete) among themselves without
any government oversight. Some say that this is impossible, that
without governmental authority we’d descend into violence,
lawlessness, and corruption. But, look around: isn’t that pretty
much what we have now? Government is a centralized force that
imposes rules from above, suppressing individual initiative in the
interests of a small minority. Capitalism is an economic system
based on exploitation, private ownership (theft) of society’s
resources, and a logic of ruthless competition. Rather than accept
these human constructions as “natural,” AK Press draws on a rich
history of folks from all over the planet and from all walks of life
who have imagined, fought for, and actually achieved something
better.
No government, “revolutionary” or otherwise, has ever
liberated its citizens from gender, racial, or class oppression. No
government has ever developed a model for an environmentally
sustainable society. With a record like that, it’s strange that
anyone still backs that particular horse. Back in the day, as socialist
ideas were developing and confronting the emerging capitalist
system, revolutionaries claimed that “the emancipation of the
working class is the task of the workers themselves.” Anarchists
still make that claim. We don’t advocate “no control,” but insist
on asking “control by whom?” We work to destroy arbitrary
power (political, economic, and social), to take decision-making
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power away from “officials,” while developing our ability to fill
that void and provide for ourselves. “People’s governments”
invariably become calcified and abandon the struggle for human
freedom.
This is why we identify with the liberatory strains within
the history of socialism—the unbroken thread of impassioned
resistance against both the terrors of capitalism and the tyranny
of government.
Anarchism doesn’t tell people what to do. It tells them
that they have the ability to make decisions about the issues
that affect them. Anarchism, and the anarchist movement, is
about emancipation, empowerment, and agency. Ask yourself
this: what would your ideal transportation system, agricultural
system, neighborhood, school, or workplace look like? Now ask
yourself how much influence you and the people around you
have over these issues? Can we afford to leave these decisions to
the same people who have been screwing up our lives thus far?
For us, anarchism is a practical framework for working out
these issues. It’s a revolutionary analysis that helps us understand
the roots of domination, both as individuals and as members of
exploited social groups. It offers a useful and instructive history
of theoretical and practical experimentation by people who have
worked to expand the definition of freedom itself by fighting
those who violently constrain and deny it.
What is a collective?
A collective is a group of individuals who work together
on a common project without relying on internal hierarchies.
Collectives can be large or small. They might exist temporarily
or over long periods, and membership in them is voluntary. Any
group—whether it’s a social club, NGO, or political organization—
that has a board of directors, boss, manager, guru, or president is
not a collective. In our current society, most formal organizations
use a system of ranking that concentrates decision-making power
in the hands of a minority that then uses this power to serve their
own interests. This is exactly what collectives are designed to
prevent.
In collectives, leadership happens naturally and fluidly. All
skills and knowledge are shared, not hoarded by an elite. This
means that duties and responsibilities can be rotated among
a collective’s members and that they can be revoked if anyone
starts abusing their power. This horizontal structure is a dynamic
and vital way to constantly increase worker-empowerment.
The AK Press collective functions with a high level of
organization and accountability. We work a minimum of forty
hours per week, plus additional nights and weekends. We have
regularly scheduled meetings to share information about the
different aspects of our business so we can make collective
decisions on a wide range of issues: the items we publish and
distribute, our overall financial health, our political direction,
the events we host and attend, the mutual aid we offer to other
groups, and whatever else comes across our desks. However,
we’re not a singularly focused or homogenous group. Right now,
we’re very different individuals working together on a common
project. That project thrives as much on our differences as on
our similarities, as well as on the spirit of constant reflection and
engagement with which we face each new challenge.
So what makes AK Press anarchist?
We operate without a corporate structure. No boss, no
managers, no bullshit. We’ve replaced hierarchy with
cooperation, accountability, and responsibility of
our individual members. New ideas aren’t generated
by specialists in air-conditioned offices, but in open
meetings—where ideas are discussed freely and a course
of action is decided democratically by everyone directly
affected by the decision. How many sick days can we
take? Should we carry the new South End Press book?
What out-of-print anarchist classic should we make
available again? Who will table at the New Orleans
Bookfair? How can we increase the diversity of our
collective and publishing list? We answer questions
like this every day—dozens a week, hundreds a month.
Sound tedious? Sound empowering? Sound exciting?
It’s all that…and more. It’s our way of developing the
skills necessary to administer our own work lives. It’s our
way of creating the better world we carry in our hearts,
and trying to live it in some small way while carrying
on the legacy of those revolutionaries who came before
us. Yes, we are continually battling the constraints of a
market economy, but we’re also learning the pathway
to autonomy, while challenging some of the most basic
structures of capitalism. Freedom is a constant struggle.
While each of us has our own definition of anarchism,
they overlap in enough ways to maintain our common project.
At the same time, we understand that the anarchist movement
is made up of many historical and contemporary strands,
whether they call themselves “anarchist,” or “socialist,” or refuse
labels altogether. We don’t have a problem spreading the ideas
of people with whom we don’t always see eye-to-eye. No idea is
so infallible that it can’t be examined, questioned, and debated.
Humans have self-organized since the dawn of recorded time,
in varying ways, with varied results. We strive to abolish the
systems that control and separate us, and try to draw important
lessons from these struggles so that we can all move forward
together.
A key component of our struggle is the sharing of
knowledge, history, and information. Through our publishing
and distribution efforts, we see ourselves as part of a long
tradition of getting the word out by any means necessary. In
many historical periods, books, pamphlets, and other forms
of written communication were clandestine, relying on
networks of individuals keeping revolutionary ideas alive with
secret printing presses, tattered facsimiles, and underground
distribution systems. Our mission is to keep circulating these
important texts, while producing new analyses and documenting
the history of our struggle as it unfolds. We’re proud to call
ourselves propagandists and hope that the materials we provide
both agitate and provoke.
—The AK Press Collective
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AK Press es un colectivo de trabajadores que publica y distribuye
libros y medios audiovisuales libertarios, y otros materiales
alteradores de la conciencia. Somos un pequeño grupo: una docena
de personas que trabajan muchas horas por poco dinero, porque
creemos en lo que hacemos. Somos anarquistas, lo que se refleja
tanto en los libros que tenemos disponibles como en el modo en
que organizamos nuestro trabajo. Las decisiones en AK Press son
tomadas colectivamente, desde lo que publicamos hasta lo que
distribuimos y cómo estructuramos nuestra labor. Todo el trabajo,
desde trapear los pisos hasta responder las llamadas telefónicas,
es compartido. Cuando los teleoperadores llaman y preguntan,
“¿quién está a cargo?” la respuesta es: todos y todas. Nuestra meta no
es el lucro (aunque sí tenemos que pagar la renta). Nuestra meta es
entregar palabras e imágenes libertarias a la mayor cantidad de gente
posible. Los libros y otros medios que distribuimos son publicados
por editoriales independientes, no por los gigantes corporativos.
Los ponemos a tu disposición para que hagas cambios positivos (o,
qué diablos, ¡revolucionarios!) en el mundo. Como probablemente
sabes, las cosas que distribuimos están cada vez menos disponibles
en las editoriales corporativas y sus cadenas comerciales.
Los materiales de este sitio web y de nuestro catálogo están
disponibles para librerías, infoshops, ferias e individuos.
Aunque intentamos mantener el catálogo actualizado,
ocasionalmente algunas cosas salen de stock y no están
disponibles por un tiempo - nos disculpamos de antemano
por cualquier inconveniente. Todos los precios están sujetos
a cambio. Para ver la información de los productos más
actuales y ver los artículos más nuevos (actualizamos el sitio
web con nuevos productos cada semana), chequea nuestra
página de Nuevas Ediciones. Mientras estés en nuestro
sitio, revisa el Bookmobile para ver si AK Press estará en
tu área pronto, apúntate en nuestras listas de correo para
recibir actualizaciones de nuevos productos y eventos, o
averigua más sobre los Amigos de AK Press.
¿A qué se refieren con Anarquismo”?
“Como todas las buenas ideas”, escribe Clifford Harper,
“la Anarquía es bastante simple cuando intentas entenderla
- lo mejor de los seres humanos surge cuando viven libres
de la autoridad, decidiendo las cosas entre ellos en vez de
recibir órdenes.” El anarquismo implica la abolición del
Estado y de todas las relaciones sociales coercitivas. Implica
una sociedad en la que los individuos crean y controlan sus
propias organizaciones colectivas para suplir sus necesidades
económicas y sociales. Estas organizaciones se federarían y
coordinarían democráticamente (en vez de competir) entre ellas
sin ningún tipo de supervisión gubernamental. Algunos dicen que
esto es imposible, que sin autoridad de gobierno todo terminaría en
violencia, corrupción e ingobernabilidad. Pero, mira a tu alrededor:
¿no es acaso eso mismo lo que tenemos hoy? El gobierno es una
fuerza centralizada que impone reglas desde arriba, suprimiendo
la iniciativa individual en beneficio de una pequeña minoría. El
capitalismo es un sistema económico basado en la explotación, la
propiedad privada (robo) de los recursos de la sociedad, y una lógica
de competencia despiadada. En vez de aceptar estas construcciones
como “naturales”, AK Press se inspira en una rica historia de gentes
que, viniendo de todos los rincones del planeta y de todos los
oficios, han imaginado y peleado por algo mejor, y que de hecho lo
han logrado.
Ningún gobierno, “revolucionario” o no, ha liberado alguna vez a
sus ciudadanos de la opresión de género, raza o clase. Ningún gobierno
ha desarrollado alguna vez un modelo de sociedad ambientalmente
sustentable. Con esos antecedentes, es extraño que alguien todavía
apueste por este caballo. En esos días en que las ideas socialistas se
desarrollaban y confrontaban el incipiente sistema capitalista, los
revolucionarios afirmaron que “la emancipación de la clase obrera
debe ser obra de los obreros mismos.” Los anarquistas todavía
afirmamos lo mismo. No abogamos por el “no control”, sino que
insistimos en preguntarnos “¿quién tiene el control?” Trabajamos
para destruir el poder arbitrario (político, económico y social),
para quitarles a los “funcionarios” el poder de tomar decisiones,
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al mismo tiempo que desarrollamos nuestra capacidad para llenar
ese vacío y abastecernos. Los “gobiernos populares” se calcifican
invariablemente y abandonan la lucha por la libertad humana.
Este es el motivo por el que nos identificamos con las tendencias
libertarias de la historia del socialismo—esa ininterrumpida línea
de resistencia apasionada contra los terrores del capitalismo y la
tiranía del gobierno.
El anarquismo no le dice a la gente lo que tiene que hacer. Le dice
que tiene la capacidad de tomar decisiones sobre los asuntos que le
conciernen. El anarquismo, y el movimiento anarquista, se tratan de
la emancipación, el empoderamiento y la capacidad de actuar. Hazte
la siguiente pregunta: ¿cómo sería tu sistema ideal de transporte
o de agricultura, tu barrio, escuela o lugar de trabajo ideal? Ahora
pregúntate ¿cuánta influencia tienes tú y la gente a tu alrededor
sobre estos temas? ¿Podemos darnos el lujo de dejar estas decisiones
a aquellos que han estado jodiendo nuestras vidas hasta ahora?
Para nosotros el anarquismo es un esquema práctico para
trabajar estos asuntos. Es un análisis revolucionario que nos ayuda
a entender las raíces de la dominación, como individuos y como
miembros de grupos sociales explotados. Nos ofrece una útil e
instructiva historia de experimentación teórica y práctica llevada a
cabo por gente que ha trabajado para expandir la definición misma
de la libertad, luchando contra aquellos que la constriñen y niegan
violentamente.
¿Qué es un colectivo?
Un colectivo es un grupo de individuos que trabajan juntos
en un proyecto común sin apoyarse en jerarquías internas.
Los colectivos pueden ser grandes o pequeños. Pueden existir
temporalmente o por largos periodos, y la participación en ellos es
voluntaria. Cualquier grupo - ya sea un club social, una ONG o una
organización política - que tenga un directorio, un jefe, un gerente,
un gurú o un presidente, no es un colectivo. En nuestra sociedad
actual, la mayoría de las organizaciones formales utilizan un sistema
de rangos que concentra el poder de decisión en las manos de una
minoría que luego usa este poder para servir a sus propios intereses.
Los colectivos están diseñados para prevenir justamente esto.
En los colectivos, el liderazgo es algo que ocurre de manera natural
y fluida. Todas las habilidades y conocimientos son compartidos,
no acumulados por una elite. Esto significa que las tareas y las
responsabilidades pueden rotar entre los miembros del colectivo y
que estas pueden ser revocadas si alguien empieza a abusar de su
poder. Esta estructura horizontal es una forma dinámica y vital para
aumentar constantemente el empoderamiento laboral.
El colectivo AK Press funciona con un alto nivel de organización
y responsabilidad. Trabajamos un mínimo de 40 horas a la semana,
además de algunas noches y fines de semana. Tenemos reuniones
regulares para compartir información acerca de los diferentes
aspectos de nuestro negocio con el fin de poder tomar decisiones
colectivas sobre un amplio rango de asuntos: los títulos que
publicamos y distribuimos, nuestra salud financiera general, nuestra
dirección política, los eventos que organizamos y a los que asistimos,
el apoyo mutuo que ofrecemos a otros grupos, y cualquier otro tema
que se ponga sobre nuestra mesa. Sin embargo, no somos un grupo
homogéneo o con un enfoque único. En este momento somos doce
individuos bastante diferentes que trabajamos en un proyecto
común. Ese proyecto prospera gracias a nuestras diferencias tanto
como a nuestras similitudes, así como gracias al espíritu de reflexión
y compromiso constante con el que enfrentamos cada nuevo
desafío.
Entonces, ¿qué es lo que hace que AK Press sea
anarquista?
Funcionamos sin una estructura corporativa. No hay jefes, no
hay gerentes, no hay esas mierdas. Hemos reemplazado la jerarquía
con la cooperación, el compromiso de responder ante los demás y
la responsabilidad de nuestros miembros. Las nuevas ideas no son
generadas por especialistas en oficinas con aire acondicionado,
sino en reuniones abiertas - en las que las ideas son discutidas
libremente y en las que todos los implicados directamente en
la decisión definen un plan de acción de manera democrática.
¿Cuántos días de licencia médica nos podemos tomar?
¿Deberíamos distribuir ese nuevo libro de South End Press?
¿Cuál clásico anarquista deberíamos volver a imprimir?
¿Quién pondrá la mesa de distribución en la feria del libro de
Nueva Orleans? ¿Cómo podemos aumentar la diversidad de
nuestro colectivo y de nuestras publicaciones? Respondemos
preguntas como estas cada día - docenas a la semana, cientos
al mes. ¿Suena tedioso? ¿Suena a empoderamiento? ¿Suena
fascinante? Es todo eso… y más. Es nuestra manera de
desarrollar las capacidades para administrar nuestras propias
condiciones laborales. Es nuestra manera de crear ese mundo
mejor que llevamos en nuestros corazones, y de intentar
vivirlo de cierto modo al tiempo que asumimos el legado
de esos revolucionarios que nos precedieron. Sí, estamos
luchando constantemente contra las limitaciones de la
economía de mercado, pero también estamos descubriendo
el camino hacia la autonomía, a la vez que desafiamos algunas
de las estructuras más básicas del capitalismo. La libertad es
una lucha constante.
Aunque cada uno de nosotros tiene su propia definición
del anarquismo, se superponen en suficientes puntos como para
hacer que el nuestro siga siendo un proyecto común. Al mismo
tiempo, comprendemos que el movimiento anarquista está hecho de
muchas corrientes históricas y contemporáneas, ya sea que se hagan
llamar “anarquistas” o “socialistas”, o se rehúsen a las etiquetas. No
tenemos problemas con difundir las ideas de personas con las que
no estamos siempre de acuerdo. Ninguna idea es tan infalible que no
puede ser examinada, cuestionada y debatida. Los humanos se han
auto-organizado desde el inicio de los tiempos, de diversas maneras,
con variados resultados. Luchamos por abolir los sistemas que nos
controlan y separan, e intentamos sacar importantes lecciones de
estas luchas de modo que podamos avanzar todos juntos.
Un componente clave de nuestra lucha está en compartir el
conocimiento, la historia y la información. Mediante nuestros
esfuerzos de publicación y distribución, nos sentimos parte de
una larga tradición de difusión de la idea por los medios que sean
necesarios. En muchos periodos históricos, los libros, panfletos y
otras formas de comunicación escrita fueron clandestinos, lo que
hacía necesaria la existencia de redes de individuos que mantuvieran
con vida las ideas revolucionarias con imprentas secretas, facsímiles
andrajosos y sistemas de distribución subterránea. Nuestra misión es
hacer que estos textos sigan circulando, produciendo a la vez nuevos
análisis, y documentando la historia de nuestra lucha a medida que
se despliega. Nos enorgullece hacernos llamar propagandistas y
esperamos que estos materiales agiten y provoquen.
Traducción: Pablo Abufom
 new titles from ak press PUBLISHING
We are an Image from the Future:
The Greek Revolt of 2008
Edited by A.G. Schwarz, Tasos
Sagris, and Void Network
9781849350198 • $17.00 • March 2010
“This book is just what Dr. Fucking An-
archy ordered. How to turn insurrection
into revolution.”
—Ian Bone, author of Bash the Rich
Brand-spanking new, from AK Press: a timely and much-needed examination
of the fabric of the Greek movements that made the December 2008 uprising
in Athens possible. We Are an Image From the Future delves into the December
insurrection and its aftermath through interviews with those who witnessed
and participated in it, alongside the communiqués and texts that circulated
through the networks of revolt. It provides the on-the-ground facts needed to
understand these historic events, and also dispels the myths activists outside of
Greece have constructed around them. What emerges is not just the intensity
of the riots, but the stories of organizing and solidarity, the questions of strat-
egy and tactics. Glenn Beck hates it, but you know you want it!
Anarchism and Its Aspirations
By Cindy Milstein
9781849350013 • $12.00 • March 2010 • IAS
“A brilliant primer of anarchist politics.”
—Matt Hern, editor of Everywhere All the Time
From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers
to the participants in the “battle of Seattle” and
the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have been in-
spired by the ideal of a free society of free individu-
als-a world without hierarchy or domination. But
what exactly would that look like, and how can we
get there? Anarchism and Its Aspirations provides an
accessible overview of an often-misunderstood political philosophy, highlight-
ing its principles and practices as well as its reconstructive vision of a liberatory
society. An ideal introduction for anyone hoping to learn (or teach) the basic
principles of anarchist praxis, in a handy pocket-sized format. The first title in
AK’s new collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies!
Anarchism and the City: Revolution and
Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937
By Chris Ealham
9781849350129 • $20.00 • March 2010
“A magnificent, revelatory history of a city of slums
and a proletariat of hope. The best book that I’ve read
in the last decade.”
—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz
Between 1898 and 1937, competing interests
from the national government, the regional indus-
trialists, and the working class, fought for control
of Barcelona. The social realities of Barcelona as
Spain’s economic, cultural, social, and political capital provided a perfect back-
drop for battle over the urban future. Chris Ealham explores these complex
and often violent relationships, utilizing an innovative blend of history, ur-
banism, sociology, and cultural studies. No other work digs this deep into the
composition of an urban working class movement and certainly not with such
a sympathetic eye for the aspirations of its anarchist denizens.
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Academic Repression: Reflections from the
Academic Industrial Complex
Edited by Anthony Nocella II, Steven Best,
and Peter McLaren
9781904859987 • $24.95 • February 2010
“Essential reading for anyone concerned about the sti-
fling of dissent and free expression in academia and
beyond.”
—Uri Gordon, author of Anarchy Alive!
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has pressured
universities to hand over faculty, staff, and student
work to be flagged for potential threats. This edit-
ed anthology brings together prominent academics writing hard-hitting essays
on free speech, culture wars, and academic freedom in a post-9/11 era. It’s a
powerful response to attacks on critical thinking in our universities by well-re-
spected scholars and academics, including Joy James, Henry Giroux, Michael
Parenti, Howard Zinn, Robert Jensen, Ward Churchill, and many more.
Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in
Defense of an Urban Future
By Matt Hern
9781849350105 • $17.95 • January 2010
“The best way to learn about your own city is to leave
it. The second best way is to read Common Ground
in a Liquid City.”—David Tracey, author of Gue-
rilla Gardening: A Manualfesto
In a world where the flow of money and jobs
and people is largely determined by the whims of
global capital, Matt Hern’s Common Ground in a
Liquid City is a refreshingly down-to-earth look at the importance of place in
the urban future. Using his own hometown of Vancouver—the poster city for
“sustainable” urban development—as a foil, Matt travels around the globe in
search of the elements that make our cities livable. Along the way, he pieces
together a very different picture of urban renewal, one in which place regains
its flavor and its funk, and cities become much more than bland investment
opportunities.
Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the
W.R. Grace Corporation Left a Montana
Town to Die (and Got Away With It)
By Andrea Peacock
9781849350174 • $15.95 • May 2010 • Counterpunch
“Andrea Peacock is an excellent reporter—the reader
trusts her quiet voice immediately.”
—Peter Matthiessen, author of Shadow Country
Wasting Libby chronicles the heart-wrenching sto-
ry of a small Montana town where the W.R. Grace
Corporation ran a vermiculite mine that supplied
the world with insulation, fireproofing, and gar-
dening materials for nearly 30 years. But Grace’s vermiculite was laced with a
virulent form of asbestos, and in its quest for profits the company betrayed this
rural community, spreading a legacy of death and disease from northwestern
Montana to the World Trade Center, through more than 35 million buildings
in the United States estimated to have been insulated with Grace’s lethal ore.
Libby’s story, which culminates in the 2009 criminal trial of the corporation’s
executives, is ultimately the tale of the families who fought Grace for justice,
who refused to sacrifice their dignity even as they lost their lives.
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Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement,
Movements, and Contemporary Radical
Currents in the United States
Edited by Team Colors Collective
9781849350167 • $19.95 • June 2010
“Roll up your sleeves and get ready for action: this
book has some mighty helpful clues about how to plan
your part of the movement.”
—The Yes Men
Uses of a Whirlwind is more than just a snapshot of
current activity, organizing, ideas, and questions
circulating among today’s radicals. It’s an opportunity for organizers, theorists,
strategists, and movement elders to share and connect, to speak honestly of
the challenges before us, to articulate new demands and possibilities in the
ongoing war against state and capital. The essays collected here come from
very different places, and their authors organize in very different ways: art and
media, mapping and research, theory and discussion, popular education, and
road blockades. Yet they are all moved by the same desire: to create new worlds
and new ways of being, and demanding nothing less. We are in the middle of
a whirlwind of struggle and opportunities for fundamental change abound; it’s
just a question of how we use them.
Dispersing Power: Social Movements as
Anti-State Forces
By Raúl Zibechi, trans. by Ramor Ryan
9781849350112 • $15.95 • June 2010
“The book is beautiful, exciting, stimulating.... Do
read it and also give it your friends.”
—John Holloway
This, Raúl Zibechi’s first book translated into Eng-
lish, is an historical analysis of social struggles in
Bolivia and the forms of community power insti-
tuted by that country’s indigenous Aymara. Dis-
persing Power, like the movements it describes,
explores new ways of doing politics beyond the state, gracefully mapping the
“how” of revolution, offering valuable lessons to activists and new theoretical
frameworks for understanding how social movements can and do operate in-
dependently of state-centered models for social change. Includes forwards by
John Holloway & Ben Dangl.
A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary
PR of the Zapatista Insurgency
By Jeff Conant
9781849350006 • $21.00 • June 2010
“Conant’s new telling of the Zapatista struggle is full
of delights.”
—Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved
The Zapatistas’ famous cry, “Ya basta!—enough
already!” was the first uttering of a new story: a
story about unbinding the ties of official history,
uncovering the buried seed of popular resistance,
and revealing the glimmerings of a truly insurgent
modernity. Combining narrative history, literary criticism, ethnography, and
media analysis, A Poetics of Resistance provides a refreshingly new take on Mex-
ico’s Zapatista movement by examining the means, meanings, and mythos
behind the Zapatista image. An important and engaging tool for organizers
and educators around the globe.
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Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution:
Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-
Petrol World
Edited by Kolya Abramsky
9781849350051 • $24.00 • July 2010
“Mother Earth calls to the grass-roots for entirely new
social relations, human and less hellish. This sober
and serious book heeds that call.”
—Peter Linebaugh, author of Magna Carta Manifesto
As the world’s energy system faces a period of un-
precedented change, a global struggle over who
controls what sector—and for what purposes—is intensifying.
Sparking unpacks the seemingly innocent terms “energy sector” and “energy
system” by situating the current energy crisis, peak oil, and the transition to a
post-petrol future within a historical understanding of the global, social, eco-
nomic, political, financial, military, and ecological relations of which energy
and technology are parts. With over 50 chapters written by contributors from
approximately 20 countries, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution forms a
collective map of the most dynamic struggles within the energy sector.
Paradoxes of Utopia: Anarchist Culture and
Politics in Buenos Aires 1890–1910
By Juan Suriano, trans. by Chuck Morse
9781849350068 • $17.95 • July 2010
Most histories of anarchism in Argentina tend to-
ward dry analyses of labor politics, lists of union
acronyms, and the like. For Juan Suriano, that’s
just one part of the story. Paradoxes of Utopia gives
us an engaging look at fin de siècle Buenos Aires
that brings to life the vibrant culture behind one
of the world’s largest anarchist movements: the
radical schools, newspapers, theaters, and social
clubs that made revolution a way of life. Cultural history in the best sense,
Paradoxes of Utopia explores how a revolutionary ideology was woven into the
ordinary lives of tens of thousands of people, creating a complex tapestry of
symbols, rituals, and daily practices that supported-and indeed created the
possibility of-the Argentine labor movement.
In the Crossfire: Adventures of a
Vietnamese Revolutionary
By Ngo Van
9781849350136 • $22.95 • July 2010
Although the Vietnam War is still well known,
few people are aware of the decades of struggles
against the French colonial regime that preceded
it, many of which had no connection with the
Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh’s Communist Party).
The Stalinists were ultimately victorious, but only
because they systematically destroyed all the other
oppositional currents.
This book is the story of those other movements and revolts, caught in
the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few
survivors. Ngo Van’s In the Crossfire is one of those rare books like Vo-
line’s The Unknown Revolution or Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia that al-
most singlehandedly unveils moments of hidden history—sublime mo-
ments when people break through the bounds of the “possible” and
strive to create a life worthy of their deepest dreams and aspirations.
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Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-globalization
and the Geneaology of Dissent
By AK Thompson
9781849350143 • $17.95 • August 2010
“Black Bloc, White Riot offers hope for the future
of freedom.”
—George Katsiaficas, author of Subversion of Politics
Scholar and activist AK Thompson revisits the
struggles against globalization in Canada and the
United States at the turn of the century, and he
explores the connection between political vio-
lence and the white middle class. Equal parts sociological study and activist
handbook, Black Bloc, White Riot engages with the key debates that arose in
the anti-globalization movement over the course of the past decade: direct or
mass action? Summit-hopping or local organizing? Pacifism or diversity of tac-
tics? Drawing on movement literature, contemporary and critical theory, and
practical investigations, Thompson outlines the effect of the anti-globalization
movement on the white, middle-class kids who were swept up in it, and he
considers how and why violence must once again become a central category
of activist politics.
Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements
and States in Latin America
By Ben Dangl
9781849350150 • $15.95 • August 2010
“Ben Dangl’s work is both informative and inspiring,
a cure for the apathy that grows from ignorance.”
—Tom Hayden, editor of The Zapatista Reader
Recent years have seen the resurgence in the US
of worker cooperatives, anti-privatization move-
ments, land occupations, and other strategies used
by Latin Americans to confront economic crises.
Using original research, lively prose, and extensive interviews with farmers,
activists, and politicians, Dangl suggests how these tactics could be applied
internationally to combat the exploitation of workers and natural resources.
He looks at movements across the Americas, drawing parallels between fac-
tory takeovers in Argentina and Chicago and battles over water rights in Bo-
livia and Detroit. At the same time, he analyzes recurring problems faced by
social movements, contextualizes them geopolitically, and points to practical
examples for building a better world now.
Signs of Change: Social Movement
Cultures 1960s to Now
By Josh MacPhee and Dara Greenwald
9781849350273 • $28.95 • August 2010
“Encyclopedic in scope and deeply moving in content.”
—Nato Thompson, Creative Time, NYC
Drawn from an exhibition at New York City’s Exit
Art, Signs of Change is a visual archive of more than
350 posters, prints, photographs, films, songs, and
ephemera from over twenty countries. From the
rise of the reproducible poster to today’s digital instantaneity, it tackles the
themes and representation of international struggles for equality, democracy,
and freedom—as well as basic human rights, like food and shelter—and il-
lustrates the incredible aesthetic range of radical movements over the past fifty
years. Long awaited, and finally available this September!
AK PRESS SUMMER 2010 New AK Press Titles
Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel
By Nunzio Pernicone
978184935003 • $19.95 • August 2010
“What comes out of this is a world that has barely
been written about and never in-depth: both sides of
the FBI’s and the American Government’s dalliances
with Italian fascism. It is not for the faint of heart. It
is a damning indictment.”
—Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
Nunzio Pernicone’s biography of Carlo Tresca
(1879–1943)—newspaper editor, labor agitator,
anarchist, anti-communist, street fighter, and op-
ponent of fascism—illuminates the lost world of Italian-American radicalism.
From his work on behalf of the IWW, the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Com-
mittee, and his assassination on the streets of New York City, Tresca’s passion
left a permanent mark on the American map.
Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance
to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of
Us All
By Tricia Shapiro
9781849350235 • $17.95 • September 2010
“This on-the-ground, insider report of a grassroots ef-
fort to end mountaintop removal in Appalachia is a
fascinating account of why building solidarity across
geographic, age, class, and philosophical lines in such
struggles is so important but so hard.”
—Steve Fisher, editor of Fighting Back in Appalachia
Mountain Justice tells a terrific set of firsthand stories about living with MTR
and offers on-the-scene—and behind-the-scenes—reporting of what people
are doing to try to stop it. Tricia Shapiro lets the victims of mountaintop re-
moval and their allies tell their own stories, allowing moments of quiet dignity
and righteous indignation to share center stage. Includes coverage of the sharp
escalation of anti-MTR civil disobedience, with more than 130 arrests in West
Virginia alone during the first year of the Obama administration.
Flash: A Novel
By Jim Miller
9781849350259 • $13.95 • September 2010
“‘This remarkable novel is nothing less than a secret
history of southern California—a radical past that
might yet redeem our future.”
—Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums
Okay, we know what you’re thinking: AK Press is
publishing fiction? What the heck? It’s true! We
loved Jim Miller’s Flash so much we decided to
take the plunge and start a new series! Every season
we’ll bring you one new novel to keep your creative juices flowing. Jim’s book
is the first in the series:
A chance encounter with a faded “Wanted!” poster in a San Diego library
sends journalist Jack Wilson on a wild adventure through southern California’s
radical past. As Jack searches for the truth about I.W.W. outlaw Bobby Flash,
he uncovers a hidden history of real-life revolutionaries … and learns a
powerful lesson about the importance of family in the
process.
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GRAEBER, David
Direct Action: An Ethnography
$25.95 • pb • 9781904859796
In the best tradition of participant-observation,
anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first
detailed ethnographic study of the global justice
movement. Starting from the assumption that, when
dealing with possibilities of global transformation
and emerging political forms, a disinterested,
“objective” perspective is impossible, he writes
as both scholar and activist. At the same time, his experiment in the
application of ethnographic methods to important ongoing political
events is a serious and unique contribution to the field of anthropology,
as well as an inquiry into anthropology’s political implications.
JAMES, CLR
You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal
Lectures of CLR James
$18.95 • pb • 9781904859932
Revolution is a serious business, and C.L.R. James
knew more than most. Our brand-new collection
presents eight never-before-published lectures
by the celebrated Marxist cultural critic, delivered
during his stay in Montreal in 1967 and 1968. Ranging
in topic from Marx and Lenin to Shakespeare and
Rousseau to Caribbean history and the Haitian Revolution, these
lectures demonstrate the staggering breadth and clarity of James’
knowledge and interest.
You Don’t Play With Revolution also includes a preface by Robert A.
Hill, co-founder of the C.L.R. James Study Circle and historical advisor
to the new James archive at Columbia University, and a lengthy
historical introduction by editor David Austin.
KILLJOY, Margaret
Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers
on Fiction
$12.00 • pb • 9780849350020
The best fiction has always been a little...
dangerous. For centuries, authors have used the
veil of fiction to cast a critical eye toward the
larger society around them: think of Emile Zola,
Victor Hugo, Issac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley, J.R.R.
Tolkien, H.G. Wells, Mary Shelley, and beyond. And now, for the first
time, some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction discuss the
endless possibilities of the world of fiction with a specific focus on
anarchist politics.
In a series of interviews with SteamPunk Magazine founder Margaret
Killjoy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Moore, Lewis Shiner, Starhawk, Derrick
Jensen, Cristy C. Road, Michael Moorcock, and a variety of other up-
and-coming young writers reflect on the ways in which their personal
politics have shaped their work. Plus, a fantastic introduction by best-
selling sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson!
MECKFESSEL, Shon
Suffled How It Gush: A North American Anarchist
in the Balkans
$16.95 • pb • 9781904859857
Shon Meckfessel appropriates the peculiar slogan
of an Albanian mineral water company as the title
for this uniquely intellectual book. Equal parts
journalism, history, and personal memoir, Suffled
How it Gush records Shon’s travels throughout
ex-Yugoslavia and the greater Balkans region,
chronicling the beauty of an area too renowned for its ugliness.
PERNICONE, Nunzio
Italian Anarchism, 1864–1892
$21.95 • pb • 9781904859970
From the First International to the 1872 Anti-
Authoritarian International, from government
suppression and anarchist insurrection to Errico
Malatesta’s prominent role in resurrecting the
anarchist movement, Nunzio Pernicone’s study
provides a critical examination of early anarchist
practices across three decades of Italian history.
Nurtured by Michael Bakunin, and expanded and refined by Errico
Malatesta, Carlo Cafiero, Andrea Costa, and Francesco Saverio
Merlino, among others, anarchist ideas and modes of action played a
central role in the development of Italian socialism, at times reigning
triumphant over Marxism and all other revolutionary doctrines.
On the basis of his own extensive research, Pernicone explores
questions of strategy and tactics, anarchism’s uneasy relationship
with the Left, government repression, internal dissension, and the
role of leadership in revolutionary movements.
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ROBERTS, Paul Craig
How the Economy Was Lost: War of the Worlds
$15.95 • pb • 9781849350075 • Counterpunch
The US economy has disintegrated, and with it
into the abyss plummet the blueprints of neoliberal
economists, whose theories about “the free
market” have now gone the way of medieval
alchemy. No voice has been stronger, no prose
more forceful, than that of Paul Craig Roberts in
predicting collapse. Now Dr. Roberts has written
the shortest, sharpest outline of economics for the twenty-first
century ever put between book covers. He traces the path to ruin and
lays out the choices that must be made. There is the “empty world”
of corporate exploitation, abetted by the vast majority of economists;
or the “full world” of responsible management and distribution of our
resources. Amid crisis, this is the guide you’ve been waiting for.
SINGER, Richard & VANNUCCI, Delfina
Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on
Collective Process Gone Awry
$10.00 • pb • 9781849350181
Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective
Process Gone Awry helps individuals navigate the
world of egalitarian, directly democratic groups.
From their experiences working with egalitarian
and anarchist organizations, Delfina Vannucci and
Richard Singer offer a street-level view of how social relationships
and power work. Whether playing a role in an anarchist organization,
horizontal social or political group, worker co-op, or trying to
incorporate egalitarian processes where they don’t already exist,
Come Hell or High Water will help keep you focused on the positives
and help in avoiding the pitfalls.
SOLNIT, David & SOLNIT, Rebecca
The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle
$12.00 • pb • 9781904859635
With the World Trade Organization in retreat
globally, do we remember the seeds of the anti-
capitalist movements that blossomed and, on
November 30, 1999, brought Seattle to a standstill?
Released just in time for the 10th anniversary of
the Seattle WTO protests, this collection confronts
the challenges of historical memory, and suggests
just how much we have to learn from (and about) the past decade of
activism against globalization. With contributions by Rebecca Solnit,
David Solnit, Chris Dixon, Anuradha Mittal, Stephanie Guilloud, and
Chris Borte.
TOBOCMAN, Seth
You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive
$20.00 • pb • 9781849350044
You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive
collects many of Tobocman’s most enduring images
in a powerhouse assemblage that cuts right to the
heart of 1980s activism. All the high (and low) points
are there: the imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal;
the rise of Reaganomics; the struggle against apartheid; the Miami
Race Riots; and, of course, the turf wars that dominated the city of
New York, as activists and low-income families alike demanded their
rights to the city’s abandoned buildings.
Now available in a brand-new twentieth anniversary edition, this
stunning and candid portrait of a decade of struggle to preserve
basic human rights and build a better world is sure to appeal to a
new generation of activists ready to demand the right to the city, and
worthy of a place on the shelf of every historian of urban struggle.
VAN DER WALT, Lucien & SCHMIDT, Michael
Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of
Anarchism and Syndicalism
$22.95 • pb • 9781904859161
Black Flame is the first of a two-volume set
examining the democratic class politics of the
worldwide anarchist movement, its vision of a
decentralized planned economy, and its impact
on popular struggles on five continents over the
course of the past 150 years. From anarchism’s first
glimmers as a nineteenth-century ideology to today’s anticapitalist
struggles, Black Flame traces anarchism’s lineage and contemporary
relevance, outlining the movement’s insights into questions of race,
gender, class, and imperialism. With Black Flame, Michael Schmidt
and Lucien van der Walt, both writers and activists in South Africa,
have begun what promises to be the definitive account of the
international anarchist tradition. Nearly exhaustive in scope, and
rigorous in its scholarly detail, this first volume significantly reframes
the work of previous historians and, especially, examines coherent
alternatives to Marxist and nationalist approaches to revolutionary
theory and practice.
Bestselling AK Backlist
CHOMSKY, Noam
Chomsky on Anarchism
$16.95 • pb • 9781904859208
Still our bestselling title, five years after
its original appearance. his collection of
Chomsky’s essays and interviews includes
numerous pieces that have never been
published before, as well as rare material
that first saw the light of day in hard-to-find
pamphlets and anarchist periodicals. Taken
together, they paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his life-
long involvement with the anarchist community, his constant
commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization,
and his hopes for a future world without rulers. A must-read for
anyone who’s been touched by Chomsky’s trenchant analysis of
our current system.
GUERIN, Daniel (editor)
No Gods, No Masters
$24.95 • pb • 9781904859253
Guérin’s classic anthology of anarchism
translated and reprinted, available for the first
time in a single volume.
It details a vast array of unpublished
documents, letters, debates, manifestos,
reports, impassioned calls-to-arms, and
reasoned analysis; the history, organization, and practice of the
movement—its theorists, advocates, and activists; the great
names and the obscure, towering legends and unsung heroes.
This definitive anthology portrays anarchism as a sophisticated
ideology whose nuances and complexities highlight the
natural desire for freedom in all of us. The classical texts will
re-establish anarchism as both an intellectual and practical
force to be reckoned with. Includes writings by Emma Goldman,
Kropotkin, Berkman, Bakunin, Proudhon, and Malatesta, among
others.
CARLSSON, Chris
Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw
Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are
Inventing the Future Today
$18.95 • pb • 9781904859772
Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture,
biofuels, free software, and even the Burning
Man festival are windows into a scarcely
visible social transformation that is redefining
politics as we know it. As capitalism continues
to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money
and markets, new practices are emerging through which
people are taking back their time and technological know-how.
In small, under-the-radar ways, they are making life better right
now, simultaneously building the foundation—technically and
socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market
life.
Nowtopia uncovers the resistance of a slowly recomposing
working class in America. Rarely defining themselves by
what they do for a living, people from all walks of life are
doing incredible amounts of labor in their “non-work” time,
creating immediate practical improvements in daily life. The
social networks they create, and the practical experience of
cooperating outside of economic regulation, become a breeding
ground for new strategies to confront the commodification to
which capitalism reduces us all.
The Working Classics Series
$45.00 • 4 X pb
What a bargain! Get all four
books (so far) in AK Press’s
popular Working Classics
series, at $15 off their combined cover price (plus save on the
cost of shipping—we’ll only apply the single-item shipping
cost)! Give this set as a gift, or use it to round out your personal
library—either way it’s a solid collection well worth reading, at a
price that can’t be beat. Or, buy ‘em separately as you please!
1. What is Anarchism, by Alexander Berkman
$13.95 • 9781902593708
2. Anarcho-Syndicalism, by Rudolf Rocker
$12.95 • 9781902593920
3. Post-Scarcity Anarchism, by Murray Bookchin
$18.95 • 9781904859062
4. The Conquest of Bread, by Peter Kropotkin
$14.95 • 9781904859109
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ALEXANDER BERKMAN SOCIAL CLUB (eds)
The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and
Russian Prisoner Aid
$12.00 • pb • ABSC / Kate Sharpley Library
9781873605905
Reprinted here for the first time, this collection of
bulletins—edited through the years by Alexander
Berkman, Mark Mratchny, Milly Witcop-Rocker,
Rudolf Rocker, et al.—chronicle the gradual slaughter of a whole
generation of Russian anarchists and revolutionists. They also
illustrate the astonishing effort of small groups of radicals who, living
often in appalling conditions themselves, attempted to both highlight
the vicious reality of the Bolshevik government and alert a wider public
to the awful situation its prisoners found themselves in. Imprisoned,
tortured, driven mad, and exiled to places so remote no contact
with the outside world was possible, the prisoners disappeared into
a totalitarian darkness. Each recorded name or initial printed here
signifies a life that often had been spent in revolutionary commitment,
a life systematically and carefully destroyed by erstwhile “comrades.”
To remember them is the least we can do.
BAKUNIN, Mikhail
God and the State
$8.75 • pb • Black Cat Press
9780973782776
“The idea of God implies the abdication of
human reason and justice; it is the most decisive
negation of human liberty, and necessarily ends
in the enslavement of mankind, both in theory and
practice.”
The best-known work of Bakunin, the founder
of collectivist anarchism. His ringing denunciation of religion and
authoritarian tyranny in all its forms is a basic text of anarchism and
has been translated into at least ten languages. This edition uses the
Mother Earth Publishing Association version of the essay, from 1916,
which is regarded as the most reliable English translation (from the
French original).
BARNSLEY, Mark
If It Was Easy, They Wouldn’t Call It “Struggle”
$3.00 • pam • Footprint Workers Co-operative
Mark Barnsley has been involved in the anarchist
movement all his adult life—spending time fighting
in Lebanon, editing The Sheffield Anarchist,
supporting striking miners, confronting fascists,
and spending ten years in prison. Held in twenty
different maximum or high security prisons, and
eighteen different segregation units, he has always
taken the fight to the Enemy in jail. Released from prison in 2002, Mark
continues to be as active as ever. This pamphlet consists of edited
portions of two talks Mark gave after his release from prison.
CHRISTIE, Stuart & MELTZER, Albert
Floodgates Of Anarchy
$15.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604861051
The floodgates holding back anarchy are constantly
under strain. The liberal would ease the pressure
by diverting some of the water; the conservative
would shore up the dykes, the totalitarian would
construct a stronger dam.
But is anarchy a destructive force? The absence of government may
alarm the authoritarian, but is a liberated people really its own worst
enemy—or is the true enemy of mankind, as the anarchists claim, the
means by which he is governed? Without government the world could
manage to end exploitation and war. Anarchy should not be confused
with weak, divided or manifold government. As Christie and Meltzer
point out, only with the total abolition of government can society
develop in freedom.
DAMIER, V.V.
Anarcho-Syndicalism in the 20th Century
$21.95 • pb • Black Cat Press
9780973782769
Anarcho-syndicalism, a theory and practice
of working class revolution, was developed
not by scholars working in libraries but by the
workers themselves. The anarcho-syndicalist
movement of the twentieth century extended to
all the industrialized countries of the world and
even agricultural regions; this was not a fringe phenomenon but
involved millions of workers. Mainstream labor unions and social-
democratic parties have become increasingly powerless to protect
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the gains of workers, and because of this, anarcho-syndicalism—the
revolutionary, non-authoritarian alternative to reformism—is again
on the agenda. This critical study of anarcho-syndicalism in the last
century reveals a history of struggle that has often been neglected
but holds many valuable lessons for the present.
DUBOVIK, Anatoly V. & RUBLYOV, D.I.
After Makhno: Hidden Histories of Anarchism in
the Ukraine
$3.00 • pam • Kate Sharpley Library
9781873605844
Nestor Makhno, the great Ukranian anarchist
peasant rebel, escaped over the border to Romania
in August 1921. He would never return, but the
struggle between Makhnovists and Bolsheviks
carried on until the mid-1920s. In the cities, too,
underground anarchist networks kept alive the
idea of stateless socialism and opposition to the party state. New
research printed here shows the extent of anarchist opposition to
Bolshevik rule in the Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s.
Includes two short pieces—”The Anarchist Underground in the
Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s: Outlines of History,” by Anatoly V.
Dubovik, and “The Story of a Leaflet and the Fate of the Anarchist
Varshavskiy” by D.I. Rublyov.
ERNESTAN
You Anarchist, You!
$3.00 • pam • Kate Sharpley Library
9781873605790
Ernestan (Ernest Tanrez, 1898–1954) was a Belgian
anarchist, and began writing for the anarchist
press in 1921. You Anarchist, You! is one of his post-
war agitational works, written in a conversational
style and aimed at convincing his readers that
anarchism, far from being strange or frightening,
actually matches what they already see and think about the world.
GOLDMAN, Emma & BERKMAN, Alexander
(eds)
Mother Earth Vol VIII No 1 (March, 1913)
$3.00 • pam
Another anarchist classic from the vaults, recently
reprinted in its entirety, in attractive pamphlet
form! This issue contains: “To Our Eighth Birthday,”
“Observations and Comments,” “In Memoriam
of John Most” by Stephen Daniels, “As It Was In
the Beginning” by Hallett Abend, “The Troubles
of Socialist Politicians” by M.B., “Victims of Morality” by Emma
Goldman, “Dialogue in Heaven” by Harry Kemp, “Anarchist Activity,”
and “Emma Goldman’s Tour.”
ILLEGALISTS
Vive l’Anarchie! Illegalist Trial Statements
$4.50 • pb • Bandit Press & Shortfuse Press
Voila! A small handy pocketbook of French Illegalist
trial statements for your delight and to keep your
anger stoked. Why? Well because they still burn
and they still point the finger at all the right places
and because it’s always worth reproducing the
fiery and well-aimed words of Ravachol, Emile
Henry, Marius Jacob, and Raymond Callemin.
Spoken from the dock of the court, that symbolic point of reckoning
and alleged justice, these speeches tell it like it was and, more or
less, how it remains, some hundred years later. That capitalism is
robbery, that work is theft of women and men’s time and life energy,
that crime is the dignified revolt against an unjust order of things. Our
friends also remain adamant that no court or democratic institution
is fit to judge the actions of any rebel. These statements are neither
apologies nor justifications but calls to revolution.
MAKHNO, Nestor
Under the Blows of the Counterrevolution (April–
June 1918)
$24.95 • pb • Black Cat Press
9780973782752
Nestor Makhno (1888–1934) was a peasant
anarcho-communist who organized an experiment
in anarchist values and practice in southeast
Ukraine during the Russian Revolution and Civil
War (1917–1921). This is the second volume of
his memoirs, originally published in France in 1936 and published in
English here for the first time. Under the Blows of the Counterrevolution
describes Makhno’s odyssey through revolutionary Russia in the
spring of 1918. Driven from his Ukrainian village by a German invasion,
he wandered through a nation torn by civil war, encountered various
remarkable personalities, and survived hair-raising adventures. This
volume contains valuable eyewitness information about a period of
Soviet history that was later almost completely rewritten in officially
sanctioned accounts.
MARSHALL, Peter
Demanding the Impossible: A History of
Anarchism
$28.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604860641
Navigating the broad “river of anarchy,” from
Taoism to Situationism, from ranters to punk
rockers, from individualists to communists, from
anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists,
Demanding the Impossible is an authoritative and
lively study of a widely misunderstood subject. It explores the key
anarchist concepts of society and the state, freedom and equality,
authority and power and investigates the successes and failure of
the anarchist movements throughout the world. While remaining
sympathetic to anarchism, it presents a balanced and critical
account. It covers not only the classic anarchist thinkers, such as
Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Reclus and Emma Goldman,
but also other libertarian figures, such as Nietzsche, Camus, Gandhi,
Foucault, and Chomsky.
RUFF, Philip (editor)
Anarchy in the USSR: A New Beginning
$8.00 • pb • ASP
9781872258065
Here’s one from the vaults! Actually here’s one
from a dusty old shelf that no one realized had not
been put in the catalog in the, oh, nineteen years
we’ve had it!
Here’s what the back says: ”Seventy years after
the death of Kropotkin, the massacre of the Kronstadt Commune and
the rout of Makhno, the Party which outlawed anarchism in Russia
has itself become a banned organization. But anarchy in the USSR
has made a new beginning. Might anarchism now fill the ideological
vacuum left by the collapse of Marxism?
“Here, with commentaries from some of their West-European
comrades, the new Russian anarchists speak for themselves about
their ideas, and of how anarchy may bring a new order, based on
freedom, to the chaos of the USSR.”
Edited and with an introduction by Philip Ruff.
SCOTT, James C.
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist
History of Upland Southeast Asia
$35.00 • hb • Yale University Press • Short discount for trade orders
9780300152289
For 2,000 years the disparate groups that now
reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of
Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian
countries) have fled the projects of the organized
state societies that surround them—slavery,
conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This
book, essentially an anarchist history, is the first-ever examination
of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why
people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among
the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless
are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that
enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic,
millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that
allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move
between and around states.
TELLEZ, Antonio
Anarchist International Action Against Francoism
From Genoa 1949 to The First of May Group
$4.00 • pam • Kate Sharpley Library
9781873605851
From the end of the Spanish Civil War the anarchist
movement fought to undermine the Francoist
dictatorship. Solidarity actions in Western Europe
aimed to isolate the regime and bring pressure
to bear in defense of militants inside Spain.
Determined to avoid casualties, their campaign of armed protests
saved many activists from the death penalty.
The pamphlet contains sections on the attack on Spain’s embassy in
Genoa in 1949; the Internal Defence agency and the FIJL’s First of May
Group; the 1962 abduction of Spain’s honorary vice-consul in Milan;
and the kidnapping of Monsignor Marcos Ussia in Rome.
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Biography/Autobiography
BUKHARI, Safiya
The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming
A Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison &
Fighting for Those Left Behind
$15.95 • pb • Feminist Press at CUNY
9781558616103
In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD
officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the
organization’s newspaper on a Harlem street
corner. The young pre-med student felt compelled to intervene
in defense of the Panther’s First Amendment right; she ended up
handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police car. The War Before
traces Bukhari’s lifelong commitment as an advocate for the rights of
the oppressed. Following her journey from middle-class student to
Black Panther to political prisoner, these writings provide an intimate
view of a woman wrestling with the issues of her time—the troubled
legacy of the Panthers, misogyny in the movement, her decision to
convert to Islam, the incarceration of outspoken radicals, and the
families left behind. Her account unfolds with immediacy and passion,
showing how the struggles of social justice movements have paved
the way for the progress of today.
DOUGLASS, Frederick & DAVIS, Angela Y (ed.)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An
American Slave, Written by Himself
$12.95 • pb • City Lights
9780872865273
A masterpiece of African American literature,
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative is the powerful
story of an enslaved youth coming into social
and moral consciousness by disobeying his white
slavemasters and secretly teaching himself to
read. Achieving literacy emboldens Douglass to resist, escape, and
ultimately achieve his freedom. After escaping slavery, Douglass
became a leader in the anti-slavery and women’s rights movements,
a bestselling author, and US diplomat.
In this new critical edition, legendary activist and feminist scholar
Angela Davis sheds new light on the legacy of Frederick Douglass. In
two philosophical lectures originally delivered at UCLA in autumn 1969,
Davis focuses on Douglass’s intellectual and spiritual awakening,
and the importance of self-knowledge in achieving freedom from all
forms of oppression. With detailed attention to Douglass’s text, she
interrogates the legacy of slavery and shares timeless lessons about
oppression, resistance, and freedom.
LEIER, Mark
Bakunin: The Creative Passion, A Biography
$17.95 • pb • Seven Stories
9781583228944
“The passion for destruction is a creative
passion,” wrote the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in
1842. Since then, the popular image of anarchism
has been one of violence and terror. Mark Leier
shows that the “passion for destruction” is a call
to build a new world free of oppression, not a cult
of violence. He argues that anarchism is a philosophy of morality and
solidarity, based not on wishful thinking or naïve beliefs about the
goodness of humanity but on a practical, radical critique of wealth
and power. By studying Bakunin, we can learn a great deal about our
own time and begin to recover a world of possibility and promise. It
is often said that we are all anarchists at heart. This book explains
why.
Highly recommended by AK Press collective members!! Now in
paperback!
NICHOLSON, C. Bríd
Emma Goldman: Still Dangerous
$19.99 • pb • Black Rose
9781551643267
Emma Goldman’s reputation during her lifetime
was in part created by her incorrectly assumed
connection with the assassination of President
McKinley, and by a young ambitious J. Edgar
Hoover. By 1919, the soon to be deported Goldman
was known as “the most dangerous woman in America.” After
her death in 1940 it has been her biographers who have continued
expanding Goldman’s reputation, seeing her as “heroic” and
“iconic,” and some have even gone so far as to describe her as a
“cult figure.”
All modern work on Goldman has included major references to her
autobiography, Living My Life; this book re-examines the creation of
this autobiography. Many other people were involved in creating this
project, and knowing these people is vital as Goldman’s work needs
to be seen not as an autobiography, and objective historical tool, but
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instead as a much influenced and highly censored
source. It was another creation of Goldman.
ROWBOTHAM, Sheila
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
$24.95 • pb • Verso
9781844674213
Challenging both capitalism and the values of
Western civilization, Edward Carpenter had an
extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the
late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. A mystic advocate of,
among other causes, free love, recycling, nudism, women’s suffrage
and prison reform, Carpenter’s work anticipated the sexual revolution
of the 1960s and placed him at the epicenter of the literary culture of
his day. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this major
new biography situates Carpenter’s life and thought in relation to the
social, aesthetic and intellectual movements of his day, and explores
his friendships with figures such as Walt Whitman, Robert Graves,
Oscar Wilde, E.M. Forster, Isadora Duncan, and Emma Goldman.
SAUL, John S.
Revolutionary Traveller: Freeze-Frames from a
Life
$26.95 • pb • Arbeiter Ring
9781920222413
In Revolutionary Traveller, John S. Saul draws on
a series of his own occasional articles written
over a span of forty years which, together with a
linking narrative, serve to trace not only his own career as an anti-
apartheid and liberation support movement activist in both Canada
and southern Africa but also help recount the history of the various
struggles in both venues in which he has been directly involved.
He thus shapes a unique memoir, capped by some longer summary
pieces on the global processes of empire and decolonization that
he has witnessed and on the reading, listening, playing and family
pleasures that have enlivened his life’s passage.
A veteran anti-apartheid and liberation support movement activist
in Canada and elsewhere, and longtime campaigner for economic
justice in Africa, John S. Saul taught at Toronto’s York University for
many years and also, cumulatively, for almost a decade, in Africa.
CDs
CHOMSKY, Noam
Iraq: The Forever War
$14.95 • CD • PM Press • 51 Minutes
9781604861006
Demonstrating how imperial powers have
historically invented fantastic reasons to sell their
wars to their people, this powerful examination illustrates the attack
on Iraq as not just a mistake but a crime, proposing that the criminals
behind it should be brought to justice. The discourse focuses on the
present US disregard for the Geneva Conventions and the dangerous
and immoral use of “anticipatory self-defense” to undermine the
United Nations Charter and international law. In spite of this dark
assessment, this argument maintains hope for democracy at home
and abroad, inspiring listeners to let political malaise fall by the
wayside and instead work to build a more egalitarian future for all.
PATEL, Raj
Stuffed and Starved
$14.95 • CD • PM Press • 50 Minutes
9781604861037
Ranging from colossal Californian supermarkets to
wrecked Indian paddy fields and bankrupt African
coffee farms, this audio edition of the bestselling book scrutinizes the
global food network. With a combination of hard-hitting investigative
journalism and personable storytelling, several questions are
explored, such as: How can starving people also be obese? Why
does everything have soy in it? How do petrochemicals and biofuels
control the price of food? Shocking evidence points to an epidemic
of farmer suicides in famine-stricken Asia and Africa, yet there is
great cause for hope as international resistance movements work to
create a more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system. Going
beyond ethical consumerism, the study explains the steps, from
seed to store to plate, to regain control of the global food economy,
stop the exploitation of both farmers and consumers, and rebalance
global sustenance.
RONDOS
A Black & White Statement: The Story of the
Rondos
$48.95 • 4 X Booklet + 2 X CD • PM Press
9781604863215
Between 1978–80, the Rondos played fifty live
shows. They released their records on their own independent label,
King Kong Records, and together with three other bands (Rode
Wig, Tändstickor Shocks, and Sovjets) formed the Rotterdam music
collective “Red Rock,” with whom they shared gigs, equipment, and
rehearsal space. Punk for the Rondos obviously meant more than
“entertainment,” hence their slogan “Punk = Resistance.” Their
independently published fanzine Raket (“Rocket”) quickly became
the mouthpiece of many Dutch youth who turned their backs on
consumerist society.
The box set contains two CDs and four books, which together tell the
story of the Rondos from the period 1978–1980.
RUIN, Erik & HERNANDEZ, Katt
Flight: The Mythic Journey of a Person Displaced
— A Narrative in Images, with a Solo Violin
Score
$15.00 • Booklet + CD • Desperate Commodities
Flight was originally performed as a shadow theater
piece depicting the picaresque journey of a youth displaced by war,
attempting to escape and transcend persecution. The wordless half-
hour show featured a unique montage-based technique of shadow
storytelling; illuminating scrolling landscapes; and intricately-cut
scenes of shipwrecks, refugee camps & burning houses. The hair-
raisingly beautiful, semi-improvised score was performed live by
violinist Katt Hernandez.
Now you can experience Flight in a compact little package! The
book/CD adaptation is an innovatively designed, hand-assembled
forty-four page booklet containing the thirty-minute solo violin score
on CD, all the art from the show (with multiple fold-out sections!),
hand-printed details, and silkscreened cardboard covers made from
reused record covers.
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Resisto 2: Rap Militante Dal Basso: Compilation
Dedicata A Davide Cesare “Dax”
$14.00 • CD • Entartete Kunst
On the night of March 16, 2003 members of a
Milan antifascist social center were leaving a club when they
were ambushed, stabbed and beaten by three neo-fascists. The
police responded by beating up the antifascists, and preventing
immediate medical attention for those injured, which resulted in the
death of Davide “Dax” Cesare. Friends were later viciously beaten
by the police as they waited for news of their injured comrades.
Later, the police actions were variously defended and covered up,
their excessive force blamed on the antifascists. There was a huge
outcry in Italy and popular protest. Contributors to this CD include
Microplatform, Drowning Dog and the EK collective, Noglobal, The
Edger, Signor K, and more!
ZINN, Howard
War and Civil Disobedience
$14.95 • CD • PM Press • 52 Minutes
9781604860993
Delivered in the context of the current war in Iraq,
this recording of a lecture and discussion from a master historian
focuses on several instances of civil disobedience in response to wars
in US history, offering models, ideas, and inspirations concerning the
reasons and ways to challenge and change the structure of power. In
this wake-up call to concerned citizens across the globe, the premise
that knowledge of history can only aid in analyzing the present and
the future is a central theme, and many questions are posed, such as
“What are citizens to do when confronted by unjust laws that embroil
them in unjust wars?”
DIY/Culture
ASTYK, Sharon
Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable
Food Storage & Preservation
$19.95 • pb • New Society Publishers
9780865716520
Hard times aren’t just coming, they are here
already. The recent economic collapse has seen
millions of North Americans move from the middle
class to being poor, and from poor to hungry.
At the same time, the idea of eating locally is shifting from being a
fringe activity for those who can afford it to an essential element of
getting by. Independence Days tackles both the nuts and bolts of
food preservation, as well as the host of broader issues tied to the
creation of local diets. It includes: how to bulk buy and store food on
the cheap, techniques from canning to dehydrating, and tools: what
you need and what you don’t. It also focuses on how to live on a
pantry diet year-round, how to preserve food on a community scale,
and how to reduce reliance on industrial agriculture by creating
vibrant local economies.

CrimethInc.
A Guide to Picking Locks, Number 2
$4.00 • pam • CrimethInc
9781934620915
Written by an experienced locksmith, and illustrated
with a nice assortment of diagrams, this giant zine
(the second in the series) will guide you through
the different types of locks one might encounter
and the best tools and techniques for picking them.
With an emphasis on making your own lock tools,
you might be surprised when this kind of practical
information comes in handy!
HALLIDAY, Ayun
Zinester’s Guide to NYC
$9.99 • pb • Microcosm Publishing
9781934620465
In the tradition of The Zinester’s Guide to Portland,
The Zinester’s Guide to NYC is a top-to-bottom, on-
the-cheap, warts-and-all exploration of the city that
never sleeps. Whether you’re looking for scam-able
coffee or a place to grab a Japanese breakfast, art supplies, volunteer
opportunities, or a four-story Korean bathhouse, the ZG2NYC has it
all. Anecdotal and opinionated, the ZG2NYC has listings from over
twenty New York-based zine publishers, toiling under the benevolent
umbrella of Ayun Halliday. “The best way to experience the city is to
really participate in it,” Halliday says. “Why watch the parade when
you can march in it? People should know that they can guest
bartend, play bike polo in Sara Roosevelt Park, create a public
park in a parking space on National Park(ing) Day,
and submit the five-minute movies they shoot
on the boardwalk to next year’s Coney Island Film
Festival.” Like the Portland guide, the pocket-sized
NYC book is divided into illustrated, user friendly
sections (Bars! Pizza! Historic buildings! Veggie
options! Open mics! Craft supplies! The keys to
low-budget NYC romance!) that give up the goods for first-
timers and native New Yorkers alike.
Available in October!
RADOSH, Daniel
Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel
Universe of Christian Pop Culture
$15.95 • pb • Soft Skull Press
9781593762810
Meticulously reported, with the perfect blend of
amusement and respect, Rapture Ready! is the story
of Daniel Radosh’s investigation into the wondrous
but deeply weird world of Christian pop culture.
This sprawling subculture—a $7 billion industry
and growing—provides crucial insight into the social, spiritual, and
political aspirations of evangelical Christians. From Christian theme
parks to Passion plays and comedy nights, Radosh combines gonzo
reporting with a keen eye for detail and just the right touch of wit.
Rapture Ready! is a revealing survey of a parallel universe, a unique
perspective on one of America’s most important social movements.
RESIST, Matte
How & Why: A Do-It-Yourself Guide for
Sustainable Living
$14.00 • pb • Microcosm Publishing
9781934620045
In the follow-up book to the award-winning Making
Stuff & Doing Things, Matte Resist (Resist Zine)
compiles practical information around bicycles,
gardening, home repair, seed-saving, and many
other sustainable crafts that will suit you well after
the coming economic collapse.
Available in October!
SPORE LIBERATION FRONT
Radical Mycology: An SLF Primer
$5.00 • pam • SLF
This new zine from the Spore Liberation Front
exploring the numerous uses for mushrooms and
their implications for ecoactivists and other Earth
friendly folk. From food to medicine to paper and
dyes to the amazing new field of mycoremediation
(the use of mushrooms to clean up oil spills and
restore damaged habitats), this zine gives a thorough
overview of the greater fungi with a novel, radical perspective.
Radical Mycology: for the fungus lover in your life!
AK PRESS SUMMER 2010 New
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order today at www.akpress.org
Z, Mickey
Self-Defense for Radicals: A–Z Guide for
Subversive Struggle
$4.95 • pam • PM Press
9781604862041
Learning how to fight and/or defend yourself
is not the same as promoting belligerent, anti-
social behavior. While talk of non-violence is
understandable and the struggle for peace has
never been more essential, let’s face it: The odds
are that sooner or later you’re going to end up in a confrontation that
may escalate into physical violence. So, why not be prepared?
Self-Defense for Radicals will get you off and running in the right
direction. From eye gouges to groin punches—you’ll find a powerful
collection of tactics with which we can fight back. Interspersed with
words of wisdom and guidance from Emma Goldman, Bruce Lee,
Angela Davis, and even Patrick Swayze, this pamphlet will inspire
readers to not only speak truth to power but also
ZIRIN, Dave
A People’s History of Sports in the United States:
250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
$18.95 • pb • New Press
9781595584779
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar
of sportswriting, Dave Zirin offers a riotously
entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting
characters and dramatic contests and what
amounts to an alternative history of the United
States as seen through the games its people played. Through Zirin’s
eyes, sports are never mere games, but a reflection of—and spur
toward—the political conflicts that shape American society. A
People’s History of Sports in the United States is replete with surprises
for seasoned sports fans, while anyone interested in history will be
amazed by the connections Zirin draws between politics and pop
flies.
Dave Zirin is also the author of What’s My Name Fool! and Welcome
to the Terrordome.
FOX, Steve; ARMENTANO, Paul; & TVERT,
Mason
Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving
People To Drink?
$14.95 • pb • Chelsea Green
9781603581448
Nationally-recognized marijuana-policy experts
compare and contrast the relative harms and
legal status of the two most popular recreational
substances in the world—marijuana and alcohol.
Through an objective examination of the two drugs and the laws and
social practices that steer people toward alcohol, the authors pose
a simple yet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults
who make the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of
alcohol? For those unfamiliar, the book provides an introduction to
the cannabis plant and its effects on the user, and debunks some of
the government’s most frequently cited marijuana myths. For current
and aspiring advocates of marijuana-law reform, as well as anyone
else who is interested in what is becoming a major political battle, the
authors spell out why the message that marijuana is safer than alcohol
must be a prominent part of the public debate over legalization.
DVDs
BIEL, Joe & AYOTTE, Eric
If It Ain’t Cheap, It Ain’t Punk
$15.00 • DVD • Microcosm • 60 min.
9781934620779
Plan-it X Records is a stalwart mainstay in the
militantly DIY punk scene. This DVD shows how
it united geographically-divided, but culturally
similar punk communities and united them under
one ethos: this is a community and we are more
interested in communication, sharing, and radical politics than
money!
Featuring original footage of This is a Pipe Bomb, Japanther,
Defiance, Ohio, Ghost Mice, One Reason, Operation: Cliff Clavin,
Sophie Nun Squad, and more!! Hours of bonus material and a sixty
minute feature!
Big Noise Films
Big Noise Dispatches 05
$14.95 • DVD • PM Press/Big Noise Films • 73 min.
9781604862171
Wars crush our humanity. Defeats splinter our
movements. Corporate media turns a blind eye
to our mounting crises and a cynical one to the
people who stand up against them. Against a tide
of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, Big Noise Dispatches take you
around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness
a shared struggle for survival and dignity in this time of violence.
Collected in Dispatches 05 are four short films: Return of the
Warlords, Curveball, Broke Down in Motor City, and The Continuing
Occupation.
KLEIN, Naomi
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
$19.95 • DVD • PM Press • 77 min.
9781604861044
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism features Naomi
Klein explaining the ideas and research behind her
bestselling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of
Disaster Capitalism. In this lecture and interview,
Klein challenges and exposes the popular myth of
the free market economy’s peaceful global victory. Around the world
there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos, exploiting
bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally implement their policies. They
are the shock doctors. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, this is the
chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting
killed.
LILLEY, Sasha
Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam
Chomsky and Howard Zinn
$19.95 • DVD • PM Press • 105 min.
9781604863055
Two of the most venerable figures on the American
Left—Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky—converse
with Sasha Lilley about their lives and political
philosophies, looking back at eight decades of
struggle and theoretical debate. Howard Zinn, interviewed shortly
before his death, reflects on the genesis of his politics, from the Civil
Rights and anti-Vietnam war movements to opposing empire today,
as well as history, art, and activism. Noam Chomsky discusses the
evolution of his libertarian socialist ideals since childhood, his vision
for a post-capitalist society, and his views on the state, science, the
Enlightenment, and the future of the planet.
POTASH, John
The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders:
DVD Based on the Book — U.S. Intelligence’s
Murderous Targeting of Tupac, MLK, Malcolm,
Panthers, Hendrix, Marley, Rappers & Linked
Ethnic Leftists
$15.00 • DVD • Progressive Left Press
New, by popular demand! The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black
Leaders contains a wealth of names, dates and events detailing the
use of COINTELPRO style tactics by the FBI against two generations
of leftist activists and political rap artists. Based on 12 years of
research; sources include over 100 interviews, FOIA-released CIA
and FBI documents, court transcripts, and many mainstream media
outlets.
The FBI War on Tupac Shakur presents evidence that U.S. Intelligence
employed similar tactics to assassinate Tupac Shakur, Robert F.
Kennedy, environmentalist Judi Bari, and Filberto Ojeda Rios. Plus
additional material including how the FBI deputized 23,000 corporate
executives, the Intelligence targeting of Richard Wright and evidence
of police intelligence cover-up around Jam Master Jay’s murder.
SHEEN, David
First Earth
$19.95 • DVD • PM Press
9781604861990
First Earth is about a massive paradigm shift for
shelter—building healthy houses in the old ways,
out of the very earth itself, and living together like in
the old days, by recreating villages. An audiovisual
manifesto filmed over four years on four continents,
it proposes that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the
world; and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, we
must transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages.
First Earth is not a how-to film, but a why-to film. It establishes the
appropriateness of earthen building in every cultural context, under
all socio-economic conditions, from third-world communities to first-
world countryside, from Arabian deserts to American urban jungles.
In the age of collapse and converging emergencies, the solution
to many of our ills might just be getting back to basics, for material
reasons and for spiritual reasons, both personal and political.
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YES MEN
The Yes Men Fix the World
$26.95 • DVD • Docudrama Films • 87 minutes
9781422978641
The true story of two conscientious mischief-
makers who pose as the representatives of
companies they despise. In this wonderfully
therapeutic film, Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and
Mike Bonanno impose cosmic (and comic) justice
by any means necessary. To a television audience of 300 million,
Andy (posing as a Dow Chemicals spokesman) announces that Dow
will finally compensate the victims of the Bhopal disaster, causing
the company’s stock to instantly plunge by $2 billion. At an oil industry
conference, the Yes Men introduce a wonderful new Exxon miracle
fuel made from the bodies of global warming losers. This hilarious
DVD follows the twisted logic of corporate capitalism to its crazy
conclusion, exposing the hilarious and awful absurdities of the
economic system that ruthlessly rules our planet.
Eco/Green
Growing Stuff: An Alternative Guide to
Gardening
$24.95 • pb • Black Dog Publishing
9781906155681
Practical yet unconventional, Growing Stuff:
An Alternative Guide to Gardening proves that
gardening can be enjoyed by all and practiced in
any space, regardless of size, location or budget.
Packed with easy-to-follow projects, useful hints
and recipes to help transform windowsills, balconies, courtyards
and gardens into urban oases, Growing Stuff puts the excitement
and accessibility back into gardening. As well as step-by-step
guides, unique insider tips and entry-level projects, this book looks
at alternative approaches to growing and landscaping, including
guerrilla gardening, growing carrots in rubber boots (weird!!), and
even how to build your own polytunnels and worm farms. This is
the perfect guide to broadening your horticultural horizons with the
minimum of effort and the maximum of pleasure.
For beginners and enthusiasts—and pretty-picture lovers—alike!
FURNESS, Zack
One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of
Automobility
$24.95 • pb • Temple University Press
9781592136131
In his original and exciting book, One Less Car,
Friend of AK (!) Zack Furness examines what it
means historically, culturally, socioeconomically,
and politically to be a bicycle transportation
advocate/activist.
Stephen Duncombe says this is the first work “that situates cycling
as a resistant culture, and it will become the standard on the subject.
As a case study of a politicized subculture, it will appeal to scholars
and students in cultural studies, communications, and social
movements.” And we believe him!
HAMILTON, Lisa M.
Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the
Age of Agribusiness
$15.95 • pb • Counterpoint
9781582435862
In this narrative nonfiction book Lisa Hamilton
tells three stories: of an African-American
dairyman in Texas who plays David to the Goliath
of agribusiness corporations; a tenth-generation
rancher in New Mexico struggling to restore agriculture as a pillar
of his community; and a modern pioneer family in North Dakota
breeding new varieties of plants to face the future’s double threat:
climate change and the patenting of life forms. In unique ways,
these “unconventional farmers” reject the passive role that modern
agriculture has insisted they accept and instead reclaim their place
as stewards of the land and leaders within society. Threads of history
and discussion weave through the tales, exploring how farmers have
been pushed to the margins of agriculture and how that has led to the
broken food system we grapple with today. These unusual characters
and their extraordinary stories make the case that in order to repair
the damage, we must bring farmers back to the table.
HEINBERG, Richard
Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy
Crisis
$18.95 • pb • New Society
9780865716568
Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity
production and provides a quarter of the country’s
total energy. China and India’s ferocious economic
growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated
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electricity. Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-
growing energy problems. However, while coal advocates are urging
full steam ahead, increasing reliance on the dirtiest of all fossil fuels
has crucial implications for the global climate, energy policy, the
world economy, and geopolitics.
Blackout goes to the heart of the tough energy questions that will
dominate every sphere of public policy throughout the first half of
this century, and is a must-read for planners, educators, and anyone
concerned about energy consumption, peak oil and climate change.
HERDA, D.J.
From Container to Kitchen: Growing Fruits and
Vegetables in Pots
$19.95 • pb • New Society
9780865716650
More and more people are recognizing the need
for nutritious, local, sustainable food, but organic
options can be costly, and the produce sections
of most supermarkets are packed with fruits and
vegetables that have racked up more frequent flier
miles than a rock band on world tour. How can urban dwellers without
ready access to fertile land enjoy the benefits of traditional gardening?
And for those with a yard, how do you maximize the harvest of fresh,
healthy edibles? In From Container to Kitchen, D.J. Herda shows that
there is a way. Written for the novice home gardener as well as the
seasoned pro, this fully illustrated, comprehensive guide will show
you how to save up to 70 percent on your produce bill by growing
fruits and vegetables in pots!
HOERGER, Michael & PARTLOW, Mia
Edible Secrets
$9.00 • pb • Microcosm Publishing
9781934620410
What do top-secret CIA assassination plots,
Black Panther arrests, and Reaganomics have in
common? Food, of course! Michael Hoerger and
Mia Partlow collect, contextualize, and graphically
narrate declassified government documents with
food as a theme! Over 500,000 declassified memos, debriefings and
transcripts were combed to uncover some of the most important and
iconic people and narratives from US history. Providing a voyeuristic
insight into the US government, these documents are like reality TV
for politicos and foodies: Assassinations by milkshake, subliminal
popcorn cravings, Reagan’s love of hydroponics, and what could
be Fred Hampton’s most radical action—giving ice cream to small
children.
Available in October!
MATHER, Cam
The All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook: Easy
Organic Vegetables and More Money in Your
Pocket
$24.95 • pb • Aztext Press
9780981013220
The North American diet uses lots of fossil fuels,
and as we run out of the easy oil we will spend
an ever-increasing percentage of our incomes on food. With many
hard hit by the economic crisis, growing your own food simply makes
good economic sense. This book examines the health benefits of
each of the vegetables listed and provides strategies for harvesting
rainwater, watering with drip irrigation, and dealing with some of the
challenges our changing climate may throw at you.
I am no expert (I should probably buy this) but it looks “appropriate”
for all North American climates. Also chapters on container growing,
pests and insects, and compost.
MCDONOUGH, Elise
Sustainable Food: How to Buy Right and Spend
Less
$7.95 • pb • Chelsea Green
9781603581417
Sustainable eating just got easier! This down-to-
earth, casual guide—small enough to be slipped
into your pocket—answers these and other
questions for the shopper: what are the differences
among organic, local, fair-trade, free-range, naturally raised, and
biodynamic foods?; how affordable is it to subscribe to a CSA farm—
and what are the advantages?; what cooking oils can be sustainably
sourced?; how can a food co-op increase access to, and affordability
of, healthier, Earth-friendly foods?; what do the distinctions between
shade-grown and trellised coffee mean?; why is the war on plastic
bags so important?; and more!
NOYES, Amy Kolb
Nontoxic Housecleaning
$7.95 • pb • Chelsea Green
9781603582032
Nontoxic Housecleaning—the latest in the
Chelsea Green Guide series (with Biking to Work
and Sustainable Food)—provides a way for people
to improve their immediate environment every day.
Pregnant women, parents of young children, pet
owners, people with health concerns, and those who simply care
about a healthy environment—and a sensible budget—can all
benefit from the recipes and tips in this guide.
PAARLBERG, Robert
Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
$16.95 • pb • Oxford University Press
9780195389593
In a lively and easy-to-navigate question-and-
answer format, Food Politics carefully examines
and explains the most important issues on today’s
global food landscape, including international food
prices, famines, the politics of chronic hunger, the
Malthusian race between food production and
population growth, international food aid, controversies surrounding
“green revolution” farming, the politics of obesity, farm subsidies and
trade, agriculture and the environment, agribusiness, supermarkets,
food safety, fast food, slow food, organic food, local food, and
genetically engineered food. Politics in each of these areas has
become polarized over the past decade by conflicting claims and
accusations from advocates on all sides. Paarlberg’s book maps this
contested terrain through the eyes of an independent scholar not
afraid to unmask myths and name names. More than a few of today’s
fashionable beliefs about farming and food are brought down a notch
under this critical scrutiny.
PETRINI, Carlo
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of
Sustainable Food Communities
$20.00 • pb • Chelsea Green
9781603582636
Large-scale industrial agriculture has run rampant
and penetrated every corner of the world. The
price of food is fixed by the rules of the market,
which have neither concern for quality nor respect
for producers. People have been forced into standardized, unnatural
diets, and aggressive, chemical-based agriculture is ravaging
ecosystems from the Great Plains to the Kalahari. Food has been
stripped of its meaning, reduced to a mere commodity, and its mass
production is contributing to injustice all over the world. In Terra
Madre, Petrini shows us a solution in the thousands of newly formed
local alliances between food producers and food consumers. And
he proposes expanding these alliances—connecting regional food
communities around the world to promote good, clean, and fair food.
SCOTT, Nicky
How to Make and Use Compost: The Ultimate
Guide
$16.95 • pb • Chelsea Green
9781900322591
Composting is easy, fun, saves you money, and
helps you to grow lovely plants. Whether you live
in an apartment with no garden or have a family
and garden that generate large amounts of food
and garden waste, this book shows you how to
compost everything that can be composted at home, work, or school,
and in spaces big and small. How to Make and Use Compost features
an A–Z guide that includes a comprehensive list of what you can
and can’t compost, concepts and techniques, compost systems, and
common problems and solutions.
SHABECOFF, Alice & SHABECOFF, Philip
Poisoned for Profit: How Toxins are Making Our
Children Chronically Ill
$17.95 • pb • Chelsea Green
9781603582568
In a landmark investigation that’s been compared
to Silent Spring, two veteran journalists
definitively show how, why, and where industrial
toxins are causing soaring rates of birth defects,
asthma, cancer, and other serious illnesses in
children. Philip and Alice Shabecoff reveal that the children of baby
boomers—the first to be raised in a truly toxified world—are the first
generation to be sicker and have shorter life expectancies than their
parents. The culprits, they say, are the companies that profit from
producing, using, and selling toxics. The authors ask the razor-sharp
question: Just why are we letting corporations commit these crimes
against our children, sabotage investigations and regulations, hire
scientists to skew data on toxic impacts, and fend off government
controls with powerful lobbying groups?

SUSTAINABLE WORLD COALITION
Sustainable World Sourcebook: Critical Issues,
Viable Solutions, Resources for Action
$11.95 • pb • New Society
9780615309804
The Sustainable World Sourcebook is designed to
support readers in finding pathways for effective
individual and group action. It cuts through the
glut of information, providing a clear, concise
overview of the most important issues and aspects of sustainability
that everyone needs to know. And it’s packed with successful models
and inspiring examples. This richly illustrated, beautifully designed,
full-color manual addresses: environmental issues and their impacts,
along with a prescription for rapid, large-scale change; energy
resources, peak oil, conservation, and emerging technologies;
the global financial crisis, economic transition, green jobs, and
sustainable business; poverty, health, education, food security, and
social justice; local, sustainable communities and engaged citizens;
and green lifestyle choices. The essential guidebook for every
concerned citizen.
WILDCAT, Daniel R.
Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous
Knowledge
$12.95 • pb • Fulcrum Publishing
9781555916374
“What the world needs today is a good dose of
Indigenous realism,” says Native American scholar
Daniel Wildcat in this thoughtful, forward-looking
book. Red Alert! seeks to debunk the modern myths
that humankind is the center of creation and that it
exerts control over the natural world.
Taking a hard look at the biggest problem we face today—the
damaging way we live on this planet, our Mother Earth—Daniel R.
Wildcat (Yuchi, Muscogee) draws upon ancient Native American
wisdom and nature-centered beliefs to advocate a modern strategy
to combat global warming. Inspiring and insightful, Red Alert! is a
stirring call to action.
Education
ANGUS, Ian
Love the Questions: University Education and
Enlightenment
$14.95 • pb • Arbeiter Ring
9781894037402
What are universities good for? This question has
generated intense debate, particularly since the
culture wars and Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the
American Mind. Where radicals once critiqued
universities’ elitism, that argument has recently been turned on is
head: many academic administrators and business leaders now
see a university education as little more than job training for the
information economy. Such pressures threaten universities’ ability to
play the critical social role that justifies them. This is a provocative
look at the central questions facing university education today.
Drawing on decades of experience in the scholarly trenches, Ian
Angus considers the future of academic freedom in an increasingly
corporate university setting, the role of technology, interdisciplinary
study, and the possibilities for critical enlightenment and solidarity.
EDU-FACTORY COLLECTIVE
Toward a Global Autonomous University:
Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge,
and Exodus from the Education Factory
$14.95 • pb • Autonomedia
9781570272042
What was once the factory is now the university.
We started off with this apparently straightforward
affirmation, not in order to assume it but to
question it; to open it, radically rethinking it,
towards theoretical and political research. University corporatization
and the rise of a global university are not unilateral impositions or
developments completely contained by capitalist rationality. Rather
they are the result—absolutely temporary and thus reversible—of a
formidable cycle of struggles. The problem is to transform the field
of tension delineated by the processes analyzed in this book into
specific forms of resistance and the organization of escape routes.
This is Edu-factory’s starting point and objective, its style and its
method.
FOLBRE, Nancy
Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher
Education
$24.95 • hb • New Press
9781595580658
In Saving State U, economist Nancy Folbre brings
the national debates of education experts down
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to the level of trying to teach—and trying to learn—at major state
universities whose budgets have repeatedly been slashed, restored,
and then slashed again. Here is a brilliant firsthand account of the
stakes involved, the politics, and the key debates raging through
public campuses today. In a passionate, accessible voice, Folbre also
offers a sobering vision of the many possible futures of public higher
education and their links to the fate of our democracy while looking
at the practical ways in which change is now possible.
Bill Ayers calls it “a must-read for faculty and students, activists and
engaged citizens!”
OLSEN, Laurie
Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our
Public Schools
$18.95 • pb • New Press
9781595583499
As the US reexamines its borders and immigration
policies, the debate over educating immigrant
students in our public schools has divided
Americans. What can teachers and immigrant
students expect from each other? Laurie Olsen,
director of a nationally recognized immigrant rights organization,
describes what it looks and feels like to go to school and to teach in
a culturally diverse environment. Through interviews with teachers,
administrators, students, and parents, Olsen explores such issues as
the complexities of bilingual education and the difficulties of dating
for students already promised in marriage at birth.
With a new introduction stressing the importance of advocacy for
immigrant students in a climate of increasing exclusion, this tenth
anniversary edition of Made in America will help a new generation
of educators recognize the impact that immigration has on their
schools.
ROSE, Mike
Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us
$19.95 • hb • New Press
9781595584670
This little book is driven by big questions. What
does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence?
How should we think about intelligence, education,
and opportunity in an open society? Why is a
commitment to the public sphere central to the
way we answer these questions?
Drawing on forty years of teaching and research, from primary
school to adult education and workplace training, award-winning
author Mike Rose reflects on these and other questions related to
public schooling in America. He answers them in beautifully written
chapters that are both rich in detail and informed by a deep and
powerful understanding of history, the psychology of learning, and
the politics of education.
Fiction
ALEXIE, Sherman
War Dances
$23.00 • hb • Grove
9780802119193
In a bi-coastal journey through the consequences
of both simple and monumental life choices, Alexie
introduces us to personal worlds as they transform
beyond return. In the title story, a famous writer
must decide how to care for his distant father
who is slowly dying a “natural Indian death” from
alcohol and diabetes, just as he learns that he himself may have a
brain tumor. Alexie dissects a vintage-clothing store owner’s failing
marriage and his subsequent courtship of a married photographer in
various airports across the country; what happens when a politician’s
son commits an unforgivable hate crime; and how a young boy learns
his self-worth while writing for the obituary department of his local
newspaper.
Brazen and wise, War Dances takes us to the heart of what it means
to be human. The new beginnings, successes, mistakes, and regrets
that make up our daily lives are laid bare in this wide-ranging and
provocative new work that is Alexie at the height of his powers.
ARNASON, Eleanor
Mammoths of the Great Plains
$12.00 • PM Press
9781604860757
Shaggy herds of mammoths still roam the Great
Plains—to the delight of President Thomas
Jefferson—in this imaginative alternative history
in which the beasts thunder over the grasslands as
living symbols of the oncoming struggle between
the Native peoples and the European invaders.
This unforgettable saga soars from the Badlands of the Dakota
Territory to the icy wastes of Siberia, from the Russian Revolution
to the American Indian Movement protests of the 1960s and one
woman’s attempt to harness DNA science to fulfill the ancient
promises of her Lakota heritage. In addition, this volume includes
the essay “Writing During World War Three,” a politically incorrect
take on multiculturalism from a science fiction point of view and an
outspoken interview with the writer of some of today’s edgiest and
most uncompromising speculative fiction.
BENEDETTI, Robert
Dynamite and Roses
$15.00 • pb • Charles H. Kerr
9780882862910
Workers’ militias, bombs, anarchists, unions, and
the struggle for the eight-hour day culminated in
the Haymarket riot set in fire-ravaged Chicago. This
is the true story of labor agitators Lucy and Albert
Parsons, the political storm that swirled around
them and the men who were hung for practicing
free speech too recklessly.
Bendetti’s narrative is both vigorous and engrossing. Presenting
Albert and Lucy Parsons’ stories in fictional style, he uses documents,
biographic materials, court records, and first person accounts to
recreate dialog and action that is history—a history that is swiftly
paced and alive with all the drama of frantic real life.
BISSON, Terry
Fire on the Mountain
$15.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604860870
It’s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is
an independent Black nation called Nova Africa.
The second Mars expedition is about to touch
down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist
is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-
great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with
John Brown and Harriet Tubman’s guerrilla army.
Long unavailable in the US (published in France as Nova Africa), Fire
on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John
Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded—and the Civil War
had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists.
BISSON, Terry
The Left Left Behind
$12.00 • pb • PM Press
9781604860863
Science fiction writer Terry Bisson is best known
for his short stories, but he is also a 1960’s New
Left vet with a history of activism and an intact (if
battered) radical ideology.
The Left Behind novels (about the so-called
“Rapture” in which all the born-agains ascend straight to heaven)
are among the bestselling Christian books in the US, describing in
lurid detail the adventures of those “left behind” to battle the Anti-
Christ. Put Bisson and the born-agains together, and what do you
get? The Left Left Behind—a sardonic, merciless, tasteless, take-
no-prisoners satire of the entire apocalyptic enterprise that spares
no one—predatory preachers, goth lingerie, Pacifica radio, Indian
casinos, gangsta rap, and even “art cars” at Burning Man.
HOSHINO, Tomoyuki
Lonely Hearts Killer
$15.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604860849
What happens when a popular and young emperor
suddenly dies, and the only person available
to succeed him is his sister? How can people
in an island country survive as climate change
and martial law are eroding more and more
opportunities for local sustainability and mutual
aid? And what can be done to challenge the rise
of a new authoritarian political leadership at a time when the general
public is obsessed with fears related to personal and national
“security”? These and other provocative questions provide the
backdrop for this powerhouse novel about young adults embroiled
in what appear to be more private matters—friendships, sex, a love
suicide, and struggles to cope with grief and work.
JENSEN, Derrick
Lives Less Valuable: A Novel
$18.00 • pb • PM Press
9781604860450
At the heart of a city, a river is dying, children have
cancer, and people are burning with despair. From
the safe distance that wealth buys, a corporation
called Vexcorp counts these lives as another
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what’s going on with the global economy? AK
Press distribution has got you covered ... a list
of great new titles below, exploring a variety of
different aspects of the current global economic
climate, and the financial crisis in the US.
ABRAMSKY, Kolya
Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in
the Transition to a Post-Petrol Economy
$24.00 • pb • AK Press
9781849350051
See Page 6 for more information.
ADLER, Moshe
Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that
Makes Life Dismal
$24.95 • hb • New Press
9781595581013
See Page 19 for more information.
ELIAS, Robert
The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball sold US Foreign Policy
and Promoted the American Way Abroad
$27.95 • hb • New Press
9781595581952
See Page 17 for more information.
FUMAGALLI, Andrea & MEZZADRA, Sandro
Crisis in the Global Economy: Financial Markets, Social
Struggles, and New Political Scenarios
$17.95 • pb • Semiotext(e)
9781584350873
See Page 24 for more information.
MAGDOFF, Fred & YATES, Michael D.
The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need
to Know
$11.95 • pb • Monthly Review
9781583671955
See Page 20 for more information.
MARRAZI, Christian
The Violence of Financial Capitalism
$12.95 • pb • Semiotext(e)
9781584350835
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MESZAROS, István
The Structural Crisis of Capital
$26.95 • pb • Monthly Review
9781583672082
See Page 20 for more information.
PANICH, Leo; GINDIN, Sam & ALBO, Greg
In And Out Of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left
Alternatives
$13.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604862126
See Page 19 for more information.
ROBERTS, Paul Craig
How the Economy Was Lost: War of the Worlds
$15.95 • pb • AK Press/Counterpunch
9781849350075
See Page 8 for more information.
RANSOM, David & BAIRD, Vanessa
People First Economics
$16.95 • pb • New Internationalist
9781906523237
See Page 20 for more information.
STALKER, Peter
The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance
$13.95 • pb • New Internationalist
9781906523183
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What more can we say? Latest fiction from Derrick Jensen!
KNIGHT, Michael Muhammad
The Taqwacores
$12.95 • pb • Soft Skull Press
9781593762292
A Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York,
inhabited by burqa-wearing riot girls, mohawked
Sufis, straightedge Sunnis, Shi’a skinheads,
Indonesian skaters, Sudanese rude boys, gay
Muslims, drunk Muslims, and feminists. Their
living room hosts parties and prayers, with a
hole smashed in the wall to indicate the direction of Mecca. Their
life together mixes sex, dope, and religion in roughly equal amounts,
expressed in devotion to an Islamo-punk subculture, “taqwacore,”
named for taqwa, an Arabic term for consciousness of the divine.
MARCOS, Subcomandante & TAIBO II, Paco
Ignacio
The Uncomfortable Dead: A Novel By Four Hands
$15.95 • pb • Akashic
9781933354897
In alternating chapters, Zapatista leader
Subcomandante Marcos and the consistently
excellent Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an
uproarious murder mystery with two intersecting
storylines. The two stories collide absurdly and
dramatically in the urban sprawl of Mexico City. The ugly history of
the city’s political violence rears its head, and both detectives find
themselves in an unpredictable dance of death with forces at once
criminal, historical, and political. Readers expecting political heavy-
handedness will be disarmed by the humility and playful self-mocking
that runs throughout the book.
This is the new, expanded edition, which features bonus materials,
including an interview with Subcomandante Marcos by Garbriel
Garcia Marquez!
NADER, Ralph
“Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!”
$27.50 • hb • Seven Stories
9781583229033
This vivid novel by three-time presidential
candidate and best-selling author Ralph Nader
asks: What if several of America’s wealthiest
individuals decided it was time to work for the
collective good? The story that unfolds returns us
to the literature of American social movements—
to Edward Bellamy, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, and Stephen
Crane. And “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” is something else
too, a reminder that real changes in America always start with the
imagination, or so they say!
PHILLIPS, Gary (editor)
Orange County Noir
$15.95 • pb • Akashic
9781936070039
Orange County, California, brings to mind the
endless summer of sand and surf, McMansion
housing tracts, a conservative stronghold, and
shopping centers. It’s a place where pilates
classes are run like boot camps, real estate
values are discussed at your weekly colonic, and
ice cream parlors on Main Street, USA, exist side-by-side with pho
shops and taquerias. Orange County Noir pulls back the veil to reveal
what lurks behind the curtain. Features brand-new stories by Susan
Straight, Robert S. Levinson, Rob Roberge, Nathan Walpow, Barbara
DeMarco-Barrett, Dan Duling, Mary Castillo, Lawrence Maddox,
Dick Lochte, Robert Ward, Gary Phillips, Gordon McAlpine, Martin J.
Smith, and Patricia McFall.
ROBINSON, Kim Stanley
The Lucky Strike
$12.00 • pb • PM Press
9781604860856
Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly
humanist vision, Kim Stanley Robinson is known
as not only one of the most literary but also one
of the most progressive (read “radical”) of today’s
top rank sci-fi authors.
The Lucky Strike begins on a lonely Pacific island,
where a crew of untested men are about to take off in an untried
aircraft with a deadly payload that will change our world forever. Until
something goes wonderfully wrong... Plus... A Sensitive Dependence
on Initial Conditions dramatically deconstructs “alternate history”
to explore what might have been if things had gone differently over
Hiroshima that day. And as a bonus, an in-depth interview that takes
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you deep into the mind and work, the history and politics of the
author.
SHEA, Pegi Deitz
Abe in Arms
$15.00 • pb • PM Press
9781604861983
Portraying the pressures of teens to live a normal
life while facing mental illness, this suspenseful
young adult novel follows the journey of success-
bound Abe, who struggles with Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder. A senior in high school, with
a loving and wealthy adoptive family and “hot
girlfriend,” Abe is on track for a big scholarship and an open future.
Suddenly, horrific flashbacks rip him back to war-torn Africa, where
five years previously he lost his mother, sister, friends, and almost
his own life to torturous violence. During therapy, he uncovers
even darker moments from his past that make him question how he
survived.
SORACCO, Sin
Low Bite
$14.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604862263
A prison novel about survival, dignity, friendship,
and insubordination. The view from inside a
women’s prison is not a pretty one; Morgan
knows that very well. White, female, twenty-six,
convicted of night-time breaking and entering,
she works in the prison law library, giving legal
counsel of more or mostly-less usefulness to other prisoners. They
are all trying to get through without getting caught or going straight,
but there is one catch-a blood stained bank account...
Sounds like summer reading to me!
WILDE, Oscar
The Complete Short Stories
$12.95 • pb • Oxford University Press
9780199535064
Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit
and raconteur when he first began to publish his
short stories in the late 1880s. Admired by George
Orwell and W. B. Yeats, the stories include poignant
fairy-tales such as “The Happy Prince” and “The
Selfish Giant,” the extravagant comedy of “Lord
Arthur Saville’s Crime” and “The Canterville Ghost,” and the daring
narrative experiments of “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.,” Wilde’s fictional
investigation into the identity of the dedicatee of Shakespeare’s
sonnets. John Sloan’s Introduction argues for Wilde’s originality and
literary achievement as a short-story writer, emphasizing his literary
skill and sophistication, and arguing for the centrality of Wilde’s
shorter fiction in his literary career.
Gender/Sexuality
AL-ALI, Nadje & PRATT, Nicola
What Kind of Liberation? Women and the
Occupation of Iraq
$17.95 • pb • University of California Press
9780520265813
In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration
assured the world that America’s interest was in
liberation—especially for women. The first book
to examine how Iraqi women have fared since the
invasion, What Kind of Liberation? reports from the
heart of the war zone with dire news of scarce resources, growing
unemployment, violence, and seclusion. Moreover, the book exposes
the gap between rhetoric that placed women center stage and the
present reality of their diminishing roles in the “new Iraq.” Based on
interviews with Iraqi women’s rights activists, international policy
makers, and NGO workers and illustrated with photographs taken by
Iraqi women, What Kind of Liberation? speaks through an astonishing
array of voices.
BYNOE, Yvonne
Who’s Your Mama?: The Unsung Voices of
Women and Mothers
$15.95 • pb • Soft Skull Press
9781593762391
Not just your average book on motherhood, Who’s
Your Mama? treads new territory, taking on the
unvarnished personal narratives of working class
women, women of color, single mothers, and gay
mothers as they explore the complexities of both
motherhood and womanhood. While most books about motherhood
focus on the conflict between mothers who work and those who stay
at home, Who’s Your Mama? focuses on the voices, perspectives,

and complexities that are most often left out of this dialogue. From
the adoption process for a gay couple, a feminist juggling the roles
of activist and mother, to a mother’s celebration of her own vibrant
sexuality, the book explores the intersection between motherhood
and the various facets of the authors’ lives. This collection of
personal narratives will illuminate the female experience of parenting
under patriarchy without exclusively defining it, and will humanize a
variety of social and economic issues that affect millions of American
women and their families.
CALIFIA, Patrick
Macho Sluts
$17.95 • pb • Arsenal Pulp Press
9781551522609
When it was first published in 1988, Pat Califia’s
Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in
San Francisco’s dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and
S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and
caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishing.
Nobody had ever written so frankly about the kinky
potential of woman-to-woman sex (and nobody has ever done it any
better). If any book is responsible for the formation of the modern
lesbian leather community, this one is it.
Despite its graceful language, imaginative scenarios, and abundant
humor, the lesbian press trashed Macho Sluts, and it became a
focal point for the infamous legal battles between Canada Customs
and Little Sister’s, the gay and lesbian bookstore in Vancouver. But
readers loved it, and to this day Macho Sluts remains a vital and
moving classic that still has the power to educate, radicalize, and
expand our notions of the body’s potential to provide us with pleasure,
pain, and love.
DES JARDINS, Julie
The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History
of Women in Science
$16.95 • pb • Feminist Press at CUNY
9781558616134
Why are the fields of science and technology still
considered to be predominantly male professions?
The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the
most common explanations—limited access to
professional training, lack of resources, exclusion
from social networks of men—to give historical context and
unexpected revelations about women’s contributions to the sciences.
Exploring the lives of Jane Goodall, Rosalind Franklin, Rosalyn
Yalow, Barbara McClintock, Rachel Carson, and the women of the
Manhattan Project, Julie Des Jardins considers their personal and
professional stories in relation to their male counterparts—Albert
Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi—to demonstrate how
the gendered culture of science molds the methods, structure, and
experience of the work. With lively anecdotes and vivid detail, The
Madame Curie Complex reveals how women scientists have often
asked different questions, used different methods, come up with
different explanations for phenomena in the natural world, and how
they have forever transformed a scientist’s role.
HAYES, Shannon
Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity
From a Consumer Culture
$23.95 • pb • Chelsea Green
9780979439117
Mother Nature has shown her hand. Faced with
climate change, dwindling resources, and species
extinctions, most Americans understand the
fundamental steps necessary to solve our global
crises—drive less, consume less, increase self-
reliance, buy locally, eat locally, rebuild our local communities. In
essence, the great work we face requires rekindling the home fires.
Radical Homemakers is about men and women across the U.S. who
focus on home and hearth as a political and ecological act, and who
have centered their lives around family and community for personal
fulfillment and cultural change. It explores what domesticity looks
like in an era that has benefited from feminism, where domination and
oppression are cast aside and where the choice to stay home is no
longer equated with mind-numbing drudgery, economic insecurity, or
relentless servitude.
HOCQUENGHEM, Guy
The Screwball Asses
$12.95 • pb • Semiotext(e)
9781584350811
In this classic underground text, queer theorist
and post-’68 provocateur Guy Hocquenghem
takes on the militant delusions of the gay liberation
movement. Hocquenghem, founder and leader of
the Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire,
vivisects not only the stifled mores of bourgeois
capitalism but the phallocratic concessions of so-called homophiles,
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and, ultimately, the very act of speaking desire (and non-desire).
Rejecting any “pure theory” of homosexuality that claims its
“otherness” as a morphology of revolution, he contends that the
ruling classes have invented homosexuality as a sexual ghetto,
splitting and mutilating desire in the process. It is only when non-
desire and the desire of desire are enacted simultaneously through
speech and body that homosexuality can finally be sublimated under
the true act of “making love.” There are thousands of sexes on earth,
according to Hocquenghem, but only one sexual desire.
JAMES, Stanlie M.; FOSTER, Frances Smith &
GUY-SHEFTALL, Beverly
Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women’s
Studies
$22.95 • pb • Feminist Press at CUNY
9781558616110
Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June
Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker—from
these pioneers of black women’s studies, among
many others, comes Still Brave, the definitive collection of race and
gender writings today. Including Alice Walker’s ground-breaking
elucidation of the term “womanist,” discussions of women’s rights as
human rights, and a piece on the Obama factor, the collection speaks
to the ways that feminism has evolved and how black women have
confronted racism within it.
LEVY, Barrie
Women and Violence
$12.95 • pb • Seal Press
9781580052443
When women decide what to wear, where to go,
how to get there, what time of day to be outdoors,
and what affects their sense of security and safety,
are they aware that they’re afraid of being sexually
assaulted? Violence against women is, on a global
scale, so common that some experts consider it a
“normal” aspect of women’s experiences—and yet research on the
issue is subjective and inconsistent.
Women and Violence is a comprehensive look at the issue of
violence against women and its many appearances, causes, costs
and consequences. Understanding that personal values, beliefs and
environment affect an individual’s response to—and acknowledgment
of—violence against women, this book addresses topics such as
global perspectives on violence, controversies and debates, and
social change strategies and activism.
LIPKIN, Elline
Girls’ Studies
$14.95 • pb • Seal Press
9781580052481
Professors and students alike are taking interest
in girls’ studies—the socialization of girls versus
boys—and beginning to analyze the impact of
media, pop culture, messaging, and more on
America’s girls. Girls’ Studies tackles socialization
and gender expectations, body image, and media
impact, and gives insight into girl empowerment and how to equip our
girls for a brighter future.
MOHANTY, Chandra Talpade
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory,
Practicing Solidarity
$23.95 • pb • Duke
9780822330219
Bringing together classic and new writings of
the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade
Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders addresses
some of the most pressing and complex issues
facing contemporary feminism. This collection
highlights the concerns running throughout Mohanty’s pioneering
work: the politics of difference and solidarity, decolonizing and
democratizing feminist practice, the crossing of borders, and the
relation of feminist knowledge and scholarship to organizing and
social movements. Mohanty offers here a sustained critique of
globalization and urges a reorientation of transnational feminist
practice toward anticapitalist struggles.
NOFZIGER, Margaret
A Cooperative Method of Natural Birth Control
$9.95 • pb • Book Publishing Co.
9780913990841
Presented here is a safe, non-invasive, and
effective method of birth control based on the
recording and interpretation of signs and signals
from a woman’s own body. Observing the natural
signs of fertility (charting temperatures, noting
cervical changes, keeping a menstrual calendar),
couples can cooperate in a safe, noninvasive, and effective
New Books on Social Movements
June 22-26 is the second United States Social
Forum in Detroit! AK Press will be there, as will
many of our authors, our friends, our fellow
publishers, and activists and organizers from
around the nation. Below you’ll find a small
sampling of the great new books AK Press
Distro has to offer on social movements and
social change. Check out www.ussf2010.org for
more info about the USSF, and see you there!
TEAM COLORS
Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and
Contemporary Social Movements in the US
$19.95 • pb • AK Press
9781849350167
See Page 6 for more information.
Uses of a Whirlwind launches at the US Social Forum!
DANGL, Ben
Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin
America
$15.95 • pb • AK Press
9781849350150
See Page 7 for more information.
PETRINI, Carlo
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable
Food Communities
$20.00 • pb • Chelsea Green
9781603582636
See Page 12 for more information.
SUSTAINABLE WORLD COALITION
Sustainable World Sourcebook: Critical Issues, Viable
Solutions, Resources for Action
$11.95 • pb • New Society
9780615309804
See Page 13 for more information.
MARTINEZ, Carlos; FOX, Michael & FARRELL, Jojo
Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots
$22.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604861082
See Page 18 for more information.
REINSBOROUGH, Patrick & CANNING, Doyle
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to
Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World
$16.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604861976
See Page 19 for more information.
EDWARDS, Andres R.
Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient
Society
$17.95 • pb • New Society
9780865716414
See Page 20 for more information.
TURBULENCE COLLECTIVE
What Would It Mean to Win?
$14.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604861105
See Page 21 for more information.
BELL, Beverly & THE OTHER WORLDS COLLABORATIVE
Who Says You Can’t Change the World? Just Economies and
Societies on an Unjust Planet
$8.00 • zine/journal • Other Worlds
See Page 21 for more information.
ALEXANDER, Michelle
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
$27.95 • hb • New Press
9781595581037
See Page 22 for more information.
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for birth control. Those who want advice on conceiving can basically
follow the advice backwards! This book has been recommended by
family planning centers for many years!
ROJAS, Maythee
Women of Color and Feminism
$14.95 • pb • Seal Press
9781580052726
Women of Color and Feminism tackles the question
of how women of color experience feminism, and
how race and socioeconomics can alter this
experience. Author and professor Maythee Rojas
explores the feminist woman of color’s identity and
how it relates to mainstream culture and feminism.
Featuring profiles of historical women of color (including Hottentot
Venus, Josefa Loaiza, and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash), a discussion
of the arts, and a vision for developing a feminist movement built
on love and community healing, Rojas examines the intersectional
nature of being a woman of color and a feminist. Covering a range
of topics, including sexuality, gender politics, violence, stereotypes,
and reproductive rights, Women of Color and Feminism offers a far-
reaching view of this multi-layered identity.
TARRANT, Shira, Ph.D.
Men and Feminism
$14.95 • pb • Seal Press
9781580052580
There’s no denying that men’s involvement and
interest in feminism is key to its continuing
relevance and importance. Addressing the
question of why men should care about feminism
in the first place, Men and Feminism lays the
foundation for a larger discussion about feminism
as a human issue, not simply a women’s issue. From “why” to “how”
to “what can men do,” Men and Feminism answers all the questions
men need to know about how and why they should get behind
feminism.
TAORMINO, Tristan
Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining
Open Relationships
$17.95 • pb • Cleis
9781573442954
Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan
Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating
loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth
interviews with over a hundred women and
men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of
all styles of open relationships—from partnered nonmonogamy to
solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp
wit, Taormino offers solutions for making an open relationship work,
including tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding
community, parenting, and time management. Woven throughout the
book are the diverse voices of real people—from a woman with two
husbands and a suburban swinger couple to polyamorous parents
and a gay male triad—who candidly share their struggles, fears,
hopes, and the secrets of their success in open relationships.
ZEISLER, Andi
Feminism and Pop Culture
$12.95 • pb • Seal Press
9781580052375
Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a
lens through which we alternately view and shape
the world around us. When it comes to feminism,
pop culture aids us in translating feminist
philosophies, issues, and concepts into everyday
language, making them relevant and relatable. In
Feminism and Pop Culture, author and cofounder of Bitch magazine,
Andi Zeisler, traces the impact of feminism on pop culture (and vice
versa) from the 1940s to the present and beyond. An ideal introduction
to discussing feminism and daily life.
Graphic/Comics/Art
BURIAN, Al
Al Burian Goes to Hell
$6.00 • pam • Microcosm
9781934620922
A loose interpretation of Dante’s Inferno; Al Burian
places himself as protagonist, journeying through
a hell based around his own personal torments at
that time: work art school, pondering the meaning
of life, grazing the bulk bins of the grocery store,
the endless pontificating on lit crit, and the concept of making a
college thesis about making a college thesis (er..?). The latest from Al
Burian. He is great. You should get this!
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COLVER, Edward
Blight at the End of the Funnel
$24.95 • pb • Last Gasp
9780867196702
A collection of Edward Colver’s captivating
photographic works. For over twenty-five years,
Colver has been one of the main documentarians
of the SoCal punk rock scene. This timeless album
is a testament to the impressive career of one of
the twentieth century’s most important underground photographers.
COMPOST, Terri (ed)
People’s Park: Still Blooming
$24.95 • pb • Slingshot
9780984120802
People’s Park in Berkeley was born when a
diverse coalition of activists seized a vacant
lot to build a park in 1969. The authorities reacted violently, leading
to riots in which police shot into crowds, killing one bystander and
wounding over a hundred people. While the dramatic story of the
park’s violent creation has been thoroughly told, no book until now
has brought the story up to date. The book features hundreds of
historical images and photographs of the park’s present uses: as a
community garden and native plant repository; as a liberated zone for
concerts and political rallies; and as one of the few places open to
all people—rich and poor, homeless and housed—in an increasingly
consumer-dominated Berkeley.
CORINNE, Tee
Cunt Coloring Book
$8.95 • pb • Last Gasp
9780867193718
Over three dozen cunts of every size and
description for you to color. Originally published
in 1975 and used for a sex-education class. A
timeless classic?
DEMBICKI, Matt (editor)
Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic
Collection
$22.95 • pb • Fulcrum
9781555917241
All cultures have tales of the trickster—a crafty
creature or being who uses cunning to get food,
steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts
the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself.
In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from
coyote or rabbit to raccoon or raven. In Trickster, more than twenty
Native American tales are cleverly adapted into comic form. Each
story is written by a different Native American storyteller who worked
closely with a selected illustrator, a combination that gives each tale
a unique and powerful voice and look.
FLAKE, Emily
Lulu Eightball: Volume 2
$14.95 • pb • Atomic Books
9780978656959
Emily Flake’s cartoons, which run in numerous
alternative weeklies around the country, deal with
a variety of subjects, including—but not limited
to—life and love and the foibles involved in both. Also drinking,
smoking, bumble bees, monkeys, and generally bad decision making.
Collecting several years’ worth of her strip, plus recently rediscovered
“lost strips” and a comic short story.
GASTMAN, Roger & TERI, Sonja
Los Angeles Graffiti
$27.95 • hb • Mark Batty
97809790486416
In the land of Hollywood, gang wars, and beach
bums, Los Angeles graffiti teems with the city’s
myriad cultural influences. From intricately
tagged walls that seem to grow out of blooming
roadside flower beds to spray-painted palm trees,
Los Angeles Graffiti illustrates how the landscape of America’s anti-
city has fomented a distinct brand of graffiti, recognized the world
over. Compiled by Roger Gastman, editor of Enamelized and Morning
Wood, this colorful book benefits from Gastman’s long-term, intimate
involvement with L.A. graffiti writers. Recruiting friends and graffiti
legends, like SABER and RETNA, Los Angeles Graffiti documents the
history of the unique, world-class graffiti scene that thrives in Los
Angeles.
Don’t forget! Friends of AK Press get 20% off
everything they buy from this catalog, or online at
akpress.org! See back cover for details....
HILL, Gord
The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book
$11.95 • pb • Arsenal Pulp Press
9781551523606
The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book is
a powerful and historically accurate graphic
portrayal of Indigenous resistance to the
European colonization of the Americas, beginning
with the Spanish invasion under Christopher
Columbus and ending with the Six Nations land
reclamation in Ontario in 2006. Gord Hill spent two years unearthing
images and researching historical information to create The 500 Years
of Resistance Comic Book, which presents the story of Aboriginal
resistance in a far-reaching format.
Other events depicted include the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico;
the Inca insurgency in Peru from the 1500s to the 1780s; Pontiac and
the 1763 Rebellion & Royal Proclamation; Geronimo and the 1860s
Seminole Wars; Crazy Horse and the 1877 War on the Plains; the rise
of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s; 1973’s Wounded Knee;
the Mohawk Oka Crisis in Quebec in 1990; and the 1995 Aazhoodena/
Stoney Point resistance.
Foreword by Ward Churchill.
KET (ed)
Graffiti Planet: The Best Graffiti From Around
the World
$15.95 • hb • Michael O’Mara Books Limited
9781843172802
Street art has been a significant art form for
more than twenty years, altering and shaping the urban landscape
from Tokyo to Paris, Los Angeles to Sydney, Belfast to Berlin. Ever-
changing and evolving, its anonymous, transient nature means it
literally can appear one day and disappear the next. Yet out of this
shifting mass of spray paint, some true stars have emerged—artists
such as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Banksy—as well
as countless unsung heroes who have taken the form to new heights.
This book is a celebration of the endless creativity of the medium,
featuring 100 glossy photos of ground-breaking graffiti from around
the world, and including an introduction by the editor, Ket. It is a
perfect introduction to the subject for anyone excited by this most
vibrant and democratic of art forms.
KUPER, Peter
Diario De Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two
Years in Mexico
$29.95 • hb • PM Press/Sexto Piso Editorial
9781604860719
When award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper
and his wife and daughter moved to the beautiful
sixteenth-century colonial town of Oaxaca in
2006, they planned to spend a quiet year or two
enjoying a different culture and taking a break from the US political
climate under the Bush administration. What they hadn’t counted on
was landing in the epicenter of Mexico’s biggest political struggle
in recent years. Timely and compelling, this extraordinary firsthand
account presents a distinct artistic vision of Oaxacan life, from
explorations of the beauty of the environment to graphic portrayals of
the fight between strikers and government troops that left more than
twenty people dead, including American journalist Brad Will.
MACPHEE, Josh (ed)
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking
Today
$24.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604860900
Based on an art exhibition which has traveled to
a dozen cities in North America, Paper Politics
features artwork by over 200 international artists;
an eclectic collection of work by both activist
and non-activist printmakers who have felt the need to respond to
the monumental trends and events of our times. Artists range from
the well established (Sue Coe, Swoon, Carlos Cortez) to the up-and-
coming (Favianna Rodriguez, Chris Stain, Nicole Schulman), from
street artists (BORF, You Are Beautiful) to rock poster makers (EMEK,
Bughouse).
MACPHEE, Josh
Pound the Pavement #12
$8.00 • cards • Just Seeds
Says Josh, “Here’s another issue of my infrequent
pet zine project, Pound the Pavement. This one is a
selection of thirteen postcards reprinting posters
and graphics I’ve made over the past decade.
Some have been very popular and used far and
wide, some are new or reworked versions, and some have barely or
never been seen. Pound the Pavement has always been a fun project
for me, so this was an opportunity to get these graphics back into

circulation and make a cool little object: a hand cut, assembled, and
stamped box.”
Thirteen postcards in a hand-cut and folded box, stamped cover,
signed/numbered edition of eighty. Can you say eBay? Just kidding,
but get one!
PAGLEN, Trevor
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be
Destroyed by Me
$15.95 • hb • Melville House
9781933633329
They’re on the shoulder of all military personnel:
patches that symbolize what a soldier’s unit does.
But what happens if it’s top secret? Shown here for
the first time, these sixty patches reveal a secret
world of military imagery and jargon, where classified projects are
known by peculiar names (“Goat Suckers,” “None of Your Fucking
Business,” “Tastes Like Chicken”) and illustrated with occult symbols
and ridiculous cartoons. Although the actual projects represented
here (such as the notorious Area 51) are classified, these patches—
which are worn by military units working on classified missions—are
precisely photographed, strangely hinting at a world about which
little is known.
PARTLOW, Mia & HOERGER, Michael
The Curious Case of the Communist Jell-O Box:
The Execution of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
$3.00 • zine/poster • Microcosm
9781934620199
This awesome “poster zine” shows the sordid
shared history between Jell-O and nuclear secrets.
Packed with espionage and intrigue, this super
sweet poster (featuring declassified documents!),
details the not-so-well-known connections between America’s
favorite jiggly fruit snack and the Manhattan project, government
propaganda campaigns, and executed spies (or were they?) Ethel
and Julius Rosenburg. It’s a little preview of Microcosm’s upcoming
book Edible Secrets!
SLIFER, Shaun & YOUNG, Bec (editors)
Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas
$10.00 • pb • Microcosm
9781934620687
Curated by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative,
Firebrands is 178 pages of art, world history,
and dangerous information. These beautifully
illustrated mini-poster pages showcase radicals,
dissidents, folk singers, and rabble-rousers, from
Emma Goldman to Tupac, Pablo Neruda to Fred Hampton. As editors
Shaun Slifer and Bec Young say in the introduction, the book “is
especially made for anyone who has sat, trembling with frustration
and disappointment in history class, or reading a text book heavily
edited of anything interesting or useful. It’s for all our ancestors,
especially for the ones left out of or misrepresented in said textbook,
because they were too brown, too female, too poor, too queer, too
uneducated, too disabled, or because they felt or thought too much.”
This is a real people’s history, a book packed with dynamite, desire,
and, above all, courage.
STRAUSS, David Levi
Between Dog & Wolf: Essays On Art and Politics,
2nd edition
$10.95 • pb • Autonomedia
9781570272196
Now in a new edition!
In these fierce and lyrical essays, David Levi
Strauss calls for an art—and implicitly for an
approach to art writing—that is passionately
experiential, intellectually grounded, and politically
fearless. He addresses the always conflicted relation between
aesthetics and politics by concentrating on specific instances—from
allopathic art to Desert Storm propaganda, from Columbus’s legacy
to Robert Smithson’s prophesies, and from new art in post-Soviet
Russia to public art in the United States—and by focusing on the
work of artists as various as Grünewald, Jean Genet, Cindy Sherman,
Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie
Miéville, Carolee Schneemann, Andrei Monastyrsky, and Daniel
Joseph Martinez.
YANG, Jeff; SHEN, Parry; CHOW, Keith; & MA,
Jerry (eds)
Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero
Anthology
$21.95 • pb • New Press
9781595583987
Appealing to both comics fans and Asian
Americans seeking to claim their place in American
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culture, Secret Identities makes brilliant use of the conventions of the
superhero comic book to expose the real face of the Asian American
experience.
This ground-breaking graphic anthology brings together leading Asian
American creators in the comics industry—including Gene Yang
(National Book Award finalist for American Born Chinese), Bernard
Chang (Wonder Woman), Greg Pak (The Hulk), and Christine Norrie
(Black Canary Wedding Special)—to craft original graphical short
stories set in a compelling “shadow history” of our country: from the
building of the railroads to the Japanese American internment, the
Vietnam airlift, the murder of Vincent Chin, and the incarceration of
Dr. Wen Ho Lee.
History
ACTION DIRECTE
Resistance Is a Duty! And Other Essays by
Comrades from Action Directe
$4.00 • pam • Kersplebedeb
9781894946339
Three essays from prisoners of the French armed
struggle group—”Short Collective Biography Of
Action Directe Prisoners,” “Political Prisoners
And The Question Of Revolutionary Violence,” and
“Resistance Is A Duty!”—explaining the history,
and giving some insight into the politics of this (originally) armed
revolutionary organization in France. Now in a new edition, and
including a short collective biography of Action Directe prisoners, as
well as a chronology of their activities.
CARR, Gordon
The Angry Brigade: A History of Britain’s First
Urban Guerilla Group
$24.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604860498
Based on extensive research, this book remains
the essential study of the Angry Brigade, a group
of urban guerillas, who, between 1970 and 1972,
used guns and bombs on embassies of repressive
regimes, police stations and army barracks,
boutiques and factories, government departments, and the homes of
cabinet ministers as well the attorney general and the commissioner
of the metropolitan police. An avalanche of police raids followed,
culminating in the “Stoke Newington 8” conspiracy trial—the longest
criminal trial in British legal history—which is thoroughly discussed
in this volume. Updated with a comprehensive chronology of the
“Angry Decade” and new illustrations, this new edition also adds a
preface by Stuart Christie and John Barker, two of the defendants,
who discuss the political and social context of the movement and its
long-term significance.
ELIAS, Robert
The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball sold US
Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way
Abroad
$27.95 • hb • New Press
9781595581952
Is the face of American baseball throughout
the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly
American? Has baseball crafted its own image
or instead been at the mercy of broader forces
shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the
sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the
export of “the American way.” From the Civil War to George W. Bush
and the Iraq War, we see baseball’s role in developing the American
empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. And from Albert
Spalding and baseball’s first World Tour to Bud Selig and the World
Baseball Classic, we witness the globalization of America’s national
pastime and baseball’s role in spreading the American dream.
FARBER, Celia
Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History
of AIDS
$12.00 • pb • Melville House
9781933633015
Celia Farber has covered the tumultuous story
of HIV and AIDS in all its facets for over twenty
years, including: disastrous National Institutes
of Health drug tests on mothers and children in
Africa, Tennessee, and New York City; extensive
interviews with blacklisted researchers and scientific dissidents such
as Berkeley’s Peter Duseberg and NIH renegade Jonathan Fishbein;
and reporting from South Africa on the influence of pharmaceutical
companies on foreign aid and policy. Farber chronicles the history of
AIDS (to 2006, anyway), its triumphs and its failures, with astonishing
research and mind-opening candor.
GAMBONE, Larry (ed)
The Impossiblists: The Socialist Party of Canada
and the One Big Union, Selected Articles
1906–1938
$12.00 • pb • Red Lion
No ISBN
The “impossiblist” Socialist Party of Canada grew
straight out of the coal mining towns of Vancouver
Island, the hard rock mines of the Kootenays, and
the Similkameen. Rough and tumble, cantankerous
and sardonic, theirs was a socialism that brooked no compromise.
Truly a firebreathing brand of socialism, but one that sought freedom
for working people and not the empowerment of the state. Ernest
Winch, Ginger Goodwin, Bill Pritchard, Wallace Lefeaux, Parker
Williams, Big Jim Hawthornthwaite, Bob Russell, and hundreds of
other lesser-known figures cut their political teeth with the SPC/OBU.
These were no simple minded ideologues. Well read, and basing
their thinking on several generations of working class experience,
in Canada and abroad, their writings still speak to us today. A useful
retrieval of revolutionary history, from the vaults of the syndicalist
and revolutionary socialists of Canada.
GARDNER, Lloyd C.
The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of US
Foreign Policy From the 1970s to the Present
$18.95 • pb • New Press
9781595584762
In this stunning new narrative of the road to
America’s “new longest war,” one of the nation’s
premier diplomatic historians excavates the deep
historical roots of the US misadventure in Iraq.
Far more disturbing than a reckless adventure
inspired by conservative ideologues or a simple conspiracy to
secure oil (though both ingredients were present in powerful doses),
Gardner’s account explains the Iraq War as the necessary outcome
of a half-century of doomed US policies. The Long Road to Baghdad is
essential reading, with sobering implications for a positive resolution
of the present quagmire.
IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR &
GLANTZ, Aaron
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan —
Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations
$16.00 • pb • Haymarket
9781931859653
In spring 2008, inspired by the Vietnam-era
Winter Soldier hearings, Iraq Veterans Against
the War gathered veterans to expose war crimes
in Afghanistan and Iraq. Here are the powerful
words, images, and documents of this historic gathering, which show
the reality of life in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicized incidents
of American brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the
massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not
the isolated incidents perpetrated by “a few bad apples,” as many
politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a
pattern, the group says, of “an increasingly bloody occupation.”
With a foreword by Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead.
ISAACS, Harold R.
The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
$24.00 • pb • Haymarket
9781931859844
The story of contemporary China typically dates
back to Mao’s 1949 revolution. But in this classic
work of Marxist scholarship, historian Harold
Isaacs uncovers how workers and peasants
struggled for a different kind of revolution, one
built from the bottom up, in the 1920s. The defeat of
their heroic efforts profoundly shaped the further course of modern
Chinese history.
Harold Isaacs was an acclaimed historian who identified with Leon
Trotsky’s critique of the Soviet Union’s degeneration under Stalinism
during the 1920s. The Tragedy, his major work, is dedicated to
the “martyrs” of the 1925–1927 revolution, who fought for a truly
democratic society.
JAMAL, Arif
Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in
Kashmir
$18.95 • hb • Melville House
9781933633596
For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have
battled over the territory of Kashmir. The two
nuclear-armed states have fought three bloody
wars in the region, but the countries have
also fought in the shadows. Based on nearly a
17

thousand interviews with militants, Arif Jamal presents a news-
breaking account of Pakistan’s secret battles with India. From the
early 1980s, when the Kashmiri conflict lurked in the background
of the CIA’s proxy war in Afghanistan, to the eruption of insurgent
violence in 1988, to recent Kashmiri connections to terrorist financing
and training, Jamal brings much to light. He reveals that the Pakistani
military has trained nearly half a million insurgents and, as a matter
of defense policy, continued the conflict at great human cost. He
also shows how CIA money destined for the Afghan mujahideen was
funneled to Kashmiri jihadis, leading to a twenty-year insurgency
rarely discussed in Western media.
KUHN, Gabriel
Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on
Golden Age Piracy
$20.00 • pb • PM Press
9781604860528
Over the last couple of decades an ideological
battle has raged over the political legacy and
cultural symbolism of the “golden age” pirates
who roamed the seas between the Caribbean
Islands and the Indian Ocean from 1690 to 1725.
They are depicted as romanticized villains on the one hand, and
as genuine social rebels on the other. Life Under the Jolly Roger
examines the political and cultural significance of these nomadic
outlaws by relating historical accounts to a wide range of theoretical
concepts—reaching from Marshall Sahlins and Pierre Clastres
to Mao-Tse Tung and Eric J. Hobsbawm via Friedrich Nietzsche
and Michel Foucault. The meanings of race, gender, sexuality
and disability in golden age pirate communities are analyzed and
contextualized, as are the pirates’ forms of organization, economy,
and ethics.
LINEBAUGH, Peter
The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and
Commons For All
$15.95 • pb • University of California Press
9780520260009
This remarkable book shines a fierce light on
the current state of liberty and shows how long-
standing restraints against tyranny—and the
rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due
process of law, and the prohibition of torture—
are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of the Magna
Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this powerful book
demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside
when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition
of empire seize a state. Peter Linebaugh draws on primary sources
to construct a wholly original history of the Great Charter and its
scarcely-known companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was
created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor.
Highly recommended!
LIPMAN, Jana K.
Guantánamo: A Working-Class History Between
Empire and Revolution
$24.95 • pb • University of California Press
9780520255401
Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has
gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo
is more than a US naval base and prison in Cuba,
it is a town, and our military occupation there has
required more than soldiers and sailors—it has
required workers. This revealing history of the women and men who
worked on the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay tells the story of
US-Cuban relations from a new perspective, and at the same time,
shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the
lives of everyday people. Opening a new window onto the history
of US imperialism in the Caribbean and labor history in the region,
Lipman’s book tells how events in Guantánamo and the base created
an ominous precedent likely to inform the functioning of US military
bases around the world.
MARTINEZ, Carlos; FOX, Michael & FARRELL,
Jojo
Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots
$22.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604861082
Venezuela Speaks! is a collection of interviews
with activists and participants from across
Venezuela’s social movements. From community
media to land reform; cooperatives to communal
councils, from the labor movement to the Afro-
Venezuelan network, Venezuela Speaks! sheds light on the complex
realities within the Bolivarian Revolution. These interviews offer a
compelling oral history of Venezuela’s democratic revolution, from
the bottom up.
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PRESTON, Paul
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution,
and Revenge
$17.95 • pb • W W Norton
9780393329872
This surging history recounts the struggles of the
1936 war, in which more than 3,000 Americans
took up arms. Tracking the emergence of
Francisco Franco’s brutal (and, ultimately,
extraordinarily durable) fascist dictatorship,
Preston assesses the ways in which the Spanish Civil War presaged
the Second World War that ensued so rapidly after it.
The attempted social revolution in Spain awakened progressive hopes
during the Depression, but the conflict quickly escalated into a new
and horrific form of warfare. As Preston shows, the unprecedented
levels of brutality were burned into the American consciousness as
never before by the revolutionary war reporting of Ernest Hemingway,
John Dos Passos, Herbert Matthews, Vincent Sheean, Louis Fischer,
and many others. Completely revised, including previously unseen
material on Franco’s treatment of women in wartime prisons, The
Spanish Civil War is a classic work on this pivotal epoch in the
twentieth century.
PRICE, Morgan Philips
Dispatches from the Revolution: Russia
1916–1918
$15.00 • pb • Duke
9780822320739
A special correspondent for the Manchester
Guardian, Morgan Philips Price was one of the
few Englishmen in Russia during all phases of the
Revolution. Although his Bolshevik sympathies
accorded him an insider’s perspective on much
of the turmoil, his reports were often heavily revised or suppressed.
In Dispatches from the Revolution, Tania Rose collects for the first
time Price’s correspondence from Russia—official and unofficial,
published and unpublished—to reveal a side of Russian life and
politics that fell largely unreported in the years before, during,
and after the Revolution. This collection includes Price’s pre-
censored observations and comments, written for a range of British
publications, as well as letters, postcards, and other writings. A
foreword by Eric Hobsbawm and introductory material by Rose place
Price’s observations in biographical and historical context.
ROY, Arundhati
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to
Grasshoppers
$20.00 • hb • Haymarket
9781608460243
Combining fierce conviction, deft political
analysis, and beautiful writing, this series of
essays examines the dark side of democracy in
contemporary India. Roy writes about how the
combination of Hindu Nationalism and India’s neo-liberal economic
reforms, which began their journey together in the early 1990s, are
now turning India into a police state. She describes the systematic
marginalization of religious and ethnic minorities, the rise of terrorism,
and the massive scale of displacement and dispossession of the
poor by predatory corporations. She also offers a brilliant account
of the August 2008 uprising of the people of Kashmir against India’s
military occupation and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks
on Mumbai.
Field Notes on Democracy tracks the fault-lines that threaten to
destroy India’s precarious democracy and send shockwaves through
the region and beyond. Essential reading.
SANDINE, Al
The Taming of the American Crowd: From
Stamp Riots to Shopping Sprees
$18.95 • pb • Monthly Review
9781583671979
Rioters on a village green, shoppers lurching
about a labyrinthine mall, slaves packed into the
dark hold of a ship, strikers assembling outside
the factory gates, all have their place in the rich
and sometimes tragic history of the American
crowd. This unique study traces that history from the days of anti-
colonial revolt to today’s passive, “colonized crowds” that fill our
sports arenas, commercial centers, and workplaces. In clear and
lively prose, Al Sandine argues for the progressive role crowds have
played in securing greater democracy, civil rights, and free speech.
But he also investigates crowds in their more dangerous forms, such
as lynch mobs and anti-immigrant riots.
STACEWICZ, Richard
Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam
Veterans Against the War
$18.00 • pb • Haymarket
9781931859608
The Vietnam War left an indelible mark on those
who took part in it and spawned an antiwar
movement more popular than any other in US
history. In all that has been written about the war,
rarely do the worlds of the Vietnam veteran and
the antiwar demonstrator come together. Yet in a small but articulate
organization known as the Vietnam Veterans Against the War
(VVAW), the two made common cause.
Winter Soldiers recovers this moving chapter in the history of the
Vietnam War era. Bringing together the voices of more than thirty
former and current members of the VVAW, oral historian Richard
Stacewicz offers an eloquent account of the impact of the war on the
lives of individuals and the nation.
TANAKA, Yuki & YOUNG, Marilyn B.
Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History
$30.00 • hb • New Press
9781595583635
From the British bombing of Iraq in the 1920s to
the most recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing Civilians analyzes
in detail the history of indiscriminate bombing,
examining the fundamental questions of how this
theory justifying mass killing originated and why
it was employed as a compelling military strategy for decades, both
before and since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Combining
historical and contemporary analysis, Bombing Civilians makes an
important argument about international law and the morality of war.
WEISSMAN, Eian
A Nation of Immigrants, A Nation of Conquerors:
A Brief History of Globalization, or How
Capitalism Makes Us All Into Immigrants
$5.00 • pam • Eian Weissman
No ISBN
Originally intended to be a short primer, this
is actually a massive (for a pamphlet, at least)
history of immigration in the US that demonstrates,
through both history and theory, how global capital displaces all of
us. Well researched yet imminently readable, and illustrated with
original drawings throughout. From the colonization of the Americas
through modern-day labor migration, this is a solid introduction to the
subject that will start your mental wheels turning.
WILLIAMS, David
Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War
$19.95 • pb • New Press
978195584755
Now in paperback! In Bitterly Divided, Civil War
historian David Williams shatters the myth of a
united Confederacy, revealing that the South was
in fact fighting two civil wars—an external one
that we hear so much about, and an internal one
about which there is scant literature and virtually
no public awareness. Williams astutely reveals just how divided
the Confederacy really was. Since the start, white Southerners
were as likely to have opposed secession as supported it, and they
undermined the Confederate war effort at nearly every turn. This is
essential reading for anyone interested in debunking the myth of a
unified Southern front, or anyone wanting to learn more real history!
David Williams is also the author of A People’s History of the Civil
War.
ZINN, Howard & ARNOVE, Anthony
Voices of a People’s History of the United
States
$22.95 • pb • Seven Stories
9781583229163
A brand-new, updated second edition, released
to coincide with the debut of the documentary
film The People Speak!
Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass,
George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough
Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark
Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices
that appear. Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living
history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who
make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—
women, workers, people of color. Voices of a People’s History is a
symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions,
the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent
wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.

Kids
NEWMAN, Lesléa
Heather Has Two Mommies
$12.95 • pb • Alyson
9781593501365
Originally published in 1989, and now in this
wonderful twentieth anniversary edition, Heather
Has Two Mommies is a classic! The simple and
straightforward story of a little girl named Heather
and her two lesbian mothers was created by
Newman and illustrator Diana Souza because children’s books that
reflected a nontraditional family did not exist, but after its publication
a firestorm of controversy ensued. Attacked by the religious right,
lambasted by Jesse Helms from the floor of the US Senate, and stolen
from library shelves, it was an uphill battle for Heather. Thanks to the
overwhelming support of booksellers, librarians, parents, and children,
however, Heather Has Two Mommies has sold over 35,000 copies,
launched a minor industry in providing books for the children of gay
and lesbian parents and has become part of the cultural lexicon.
Labor
BLIZZARD, William C.
When Miners March
$21.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604863000
In the first half of the twentieth century, strikes
and union battles, murders and frame-ups were
common in every industrial center in the US. But
none of these episodes compared in scope to the
West Virginia Mine Wars. The uprisings of coal
miners that defined the Mine Wars of the 1920s
were a direct result of the Draconian rule of the coal companies. The
climax was the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest open and armed
rebellion in US history. The battle, and union leader Bill Blizzard’s
quest for justice, was only crushed when the US Army brought guns,
poison gas, and aerial bombers to stop the 10,000 bandana-clad
miners who formed the spontaneous “Red Neck Army.”
Over half a century ago, William C. Blizzard wrote the definitive
insider’s history of the Mine Wars and the resulting trial for treason of
his father, the fearless leader of the Red Neck Army. This is a people’s
history, complete with previously unpublished family photos and
documents. If it brawls a little, and brags a little, and is angry more
than a little, well, the people in this book were that way.
DODSON, Lisa
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary
Americans Subvert An Unfair Economy
$24.95 • hb • New Press
9781595584724
“I pad their paychecks because you can’t live on
what they make.”—Supervisor of a fast-food pizza
place
Here is a book that tells the real story of the
countless unsung heroes who bend or break the rules to help those
millions of Americans with impossible schedules, paychecks, and
lives. Whether it is a nurse choosing to treat an uninsured child, a
supervisor deciding to overlook infractions, or a restaurant manager
sneaking food to a worker’s children, middle-class Americans are
secretly refusing to be complicit in a fundamentally unfair system that
puts a decent life beyond the reach of the working poor.
LYND, Staughton
From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader
$22.00 • pb • PM Press
9781604862157
From Here to There collects unpublished talks
and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist
historian Staughton Lynd. The first section collects
reminiscences and analyses of the 1960s. A second
section offers a vision of how historians might
immerse themselves in popular movements while
maintaining their obligation to tell the truth. In the last section, Lynd
explores what nonviolence, resistance to empire as a way of life, and
working class self-activity might mean in the twenty-first century.
PANICH, Leo; GINDIN, Sam & ALBO, Greg
In And Out Of Crisis: The Global Financial
Meltdown and Left Alternatives
$13.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604862126
With an unparalleled understanding of the inner
workings of capitalism, the authors of In and Out
of Crisis provocatively challenge the call by much
of the Left for a return to a largely mythical Golden
Age of economic regulation as a check on finance
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capital unbound. They deftly illuminate how the era of neoliberal free
markets has been, in practice, undergirded by state intervention on a
massive scale. With clarity and erudition, they argue persuasively that
given the current balance of social forces—as bank bailouts around
the globe make evident—regulation is not a means of fundamentally
reordering power in society, but rather a way of preserving markets.
ROSE, Nancy
Put To Work: The WPA and Public Employment in
the Great Depression
$14.95 • pb • Monthly Review
9781583672068
Put To Work tells the story of the massive
government job-creation programs of the
1930s—not only the Works Progress Administration
(WPA), but also the lesser known Federal
Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and
Civil Works Administration (CWA), which set the framework for the
ideological and policy battles that followed. Nancy E. Rose details
the development of these programs, the pressures that surrounded
them, and the resulting constraints. She analyzes both their unique
contributions and their shortcomings, especially in their treatment
of women and African-Americans. In the process, she carefully
reevaluates the charges that these were inefficient “make-work”
programs, or “boondoggles,” charges that continue to characterize
job-creation programs to this day.
Media
Equal Area Map of the United States of America
$12.95 • map • ODT
See the USA in true size! True proportion!
Do you know of any map where Alaska is shown
at it’s true size? (It’s bigger than Texas.) Have you
ever seen Puerto Rico on a USA map? (This map
includes the 4 million US citizens that live in Puerto
Rico.) Is the USA map you have now an equal area
map? This one is!
This 22-inch-wide desk map is printed in color
on one side, with a copyright-free black and white outline map on
the reverse, which features a series of questions to pique student’s
interest in, and encourage their learning from the map—you know, or
it could be a great party quiz game...
DIMAGGIO, Anthony
When Media Goes to War: Hegemonic Discourse,
Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent
$18.95 • pb • Monthly Review
9781583671993
In this fresh and provocative book, Anthony
DiMaggio uses the war in Iraq and the United
States’ confrontations with Iran as his touchstones
to probe the sometimes fine line between news
and propaganda. Using Antonio Gramsci’s concept
of hegemony and drawing upon the seminal works of Noam Chomsky,
Edward Herman, and Robert McChesney, DiMaggio combines
a rigorous empirical analysis and clear, lucid prose to enlighten
readers about issues essential to the struggle for a critical media and
a functioning democracy. If, as DiMaggio shows, our newspapers
and television news programs play a decisive role in determining
what we think, and if, as he demonstrates convincingly, what the
media give us is largely propaganda that supports an oppressive and
undemocratic status quo, then it is incumbent upon us to make sure
that they are responsive to the majority and not just the powerful and
privileged few.
KOSTELANETZ, Richard
Skeptical Essays
$15.95 • pb • Autonomedia
9781570271953
A heavyweight confronting sanctified elephants,
the impossibly prolific anarchist and libertarian
cultural critic targets, with dead-on accuracy and
quotable wit: Andy Warhol, Harold Bloom, The New
Yorker, Barack Obama, Dubya and his sidekicks,
Susan Sontag, The New York Times Book Review,
Marjorie Perloff, Charles Bernstein, the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, Victims of Literary Bullying, Pushcart Prize anthologies,
The Readers’ Catalog, the New York Yankees, Idiot-Identifiers,
Manuscript Filchers, Literary Correspondence, Paul Muldoon, and
scores more, often slash and burn.
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O’REILLY, Terry & TENNANT, Mike
The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our
Culture
$26.00 • hb • Counterpoint
9781582435800
Stop to consider the culture of the twenty-first
century: Each morning, you might hear a half-
dozen ads on the radio before your feet touch
the floor. Staggering out of bed, you’ll pass brand
logos on your clothing and in your bathroom. By
the end of the day, hundreds—perhaps thousands—of marketing
messages have targeted you. And yet so little is understood about
how marketing affects our lives, our society, and our world.
Enter Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant, the ad men behind The Age
of Persuasion, the popular radio show broadcast on CBC and Sirius
Radio, who are making it their mission to share the back-room story
of modern marketing, entertaining asides and all.
PHILLIPS, Peter & HUFF, Mickey; with
PROJECT CENSORED
Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of
2008–09
$19.95 • pb • Seven Stories
9781583228906
Censored 2010 presents the most censored stories
of 2008 and 2009. An invaluable alternative media
resource!
Read all about it: how the US Congress has sold
out to Wall Street; how US schools are more segregated now than
in the 1950s; the real story behind the Somali pirates; potentially
deadly nuclear waste being stored in North Carolina; how Europe
has rejected toxic US exports; how business is booming for lobbyists;
the corrupt past of some of Obama’s military appointees; how private
corporations are profiting from the occupation of Palestine; covert
war being waged by the US in Sudan; and more stories that you
weren’t supposed to read!
REINSBOROUGH, Patrick & CANNING, Doyle
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based
Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements,
and Change the World
$16.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604861976
Re:Imagining Change provides resources, theory,
hands-on tools and illuminating case studies for
the next generation of innovative change makers.
This unique book explores how culture, media,
memes, and narrative intertwine with social change strategies,
and offers practical methods to amplify progressive causes in the
popular culture. Re:Imagining Change is an inspirational inside look
at the trailblazing methodology developed by the non-profit strategy
and training organization, smartMeme. Founded in 2002, smartMeme
offers tools, training, and strategy support to organizations and
movements working for justice, ecological sanity and transformative
social change. This is a summary of their approach, and a call to
innovate our strategies for collectively addressing the escalating
social and ecological crisis of the twenty-first century.
RICHARDSON, Peter
A Bomb In Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life
of Ramparts Magazine Changed America
$25.95 • hb • New Press
9781595584397
A Bomb in Every Issue tells the largely untold story
of the wild ride of this hugely influential magazine
that achieved countless firsts. Deeply committed
to the civil rights and antiwar movements, its
contributors included Noam Chomsky, Cesar
Chavez, Seymour Hersh, Angela Davis, and Susan Sontag. It was in
its pages that Che Guevera’s diaries and the prison diaries of Eldridge
Cleaver (which became Soul on Ice) first appeared. But by 1975, out
of money and time, it had folded for good.
Ramparts was “the journalistic equivalent of a rock band,” Richardson
argues and, despite its early demise, it left an important journalistic
legacy, influencing a generation of reporters and editors, that is still
apparent today.
Non-Fiction
ADLER, Moshe
Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the
Science that Makes Life Dismal
$24.95 • hb • New Press
9781595581013
Filled with lively examples—from food riots in
Indonesia to eminent domain in Connecticut and
everyone from Adam Smith to Jeremy Bentham to
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Larry Summers—Economics for the Rest of Us shows how today’s
dominant economic theories evolved, how they explicitly favor the
rich over the poor, and why they’re not the only or best options.
Written for anyone with an interest in understanding contemporary
economic thinking—and why it is dead wrong—Economics for
the Rest of Us offers a foundation for a fundamentally-more just
economic system.
ANZALDÚA, Gloria & KEATING, AnaLouise (ed)
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
$23.95 • pb • Duke
9780822345640
Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas,
independent scholar and creative writer Gloria
Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural
theorist. As the author of Borderlands/La Frontera,
she played a major role in shaping contemporary
Chicano/a and lesbian/queer theories and
identities. This reader—which provides a representative sample of
the poetry, prose, fiction, and experimental autobiographical writing
that Anzaldúa produced during her thirty-year career—demonstrates
the breadth and philosophical depth of her work. This newly available
work offers fresh insights into crucial aspects of Anzaldúa’s life and
career, including her upbringing, education, teaching experiences,
writing practice and aesthetics, lifelong health struggles, and interest
in visual art, as well as her theories of disability, multiculturalism,
pedagogy, and spiritual activism.
EDGAR, Gordon
Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge
$17.95 • pb • Chelsea Green
9781603582377
Witty and irreverent, informative and provocative,
Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge is the highly
readable story of Gordon Edgar’s unlikely career
as a cheesemonger at San Francisco’s worker-
owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. A former
punk-rock political activist, Edgar bluffed his way
into his cheese job knowing almost nothing, but quickly discovered
a whole world of amazing artisan cheeses. With a refreshingly
unpretentious sensibility, Edgar intertwines his own life story with his
ongoing love affair with cheese, and offers readers an unflinching,
highly entertaining on-the-ground look at America’s growing cheese
movement. From problem customers to animal rights, business
ethics to taste epiphanies, this book offers something for everyone,
including a look at the struggles dairy farmers face in their attempts
to stay on and make their living from the land.
EDWARDS, Andres R.
Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a
Resilient Society
$17.95 • pb • New Society
9780865716414
Thriving Beyond Sustainability draws a
collective map of individuals, organizations, and
communities from around the world that are
committed to building an alternative future—one
that strives to restore ecological health; reinvent
outmoded institutions; and rejuvenate our environmental, social,
and economic systems. The projects and initiatives profiled are
meeting the challenges of the day with optimism, hope, and results,
leading the way in: relocalization, green commerce, ecological
design, environmental conservation, and social transformation. The
comprehensive resource section provides the tools for everyone to
become a catalyst for change.
FARMER, Paul & SAUSSY, Haun (editor)
Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader
$27.50 • pb • University of California Press
9780520257139
For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and
physician Paul Farmer (co-founder of Partners
in Health) has traveled to some of the most
impoverished places on earth to bring comfort
and the best possible medical care to the poorest
of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to “make
human rights substantial,” Farmer has treated patients—and worked
to address the root causes of their disease—in Haiti, Boston, Peru,
Rwanda, and elsewhere in the developing world. Partner to the Poor
collects his writings from 1988 to 2009 on anthropology, epidemiology,
health care for the global poor, and international public health policy,
providing a broad overview of his work. It illuminates the depth and
impact of Farmer’s contributions and demonstrates how, over time,
this unassuming and dedicated doctor has fundamentally changed
the way we think about health, international aid, and social justice.
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GILBY, Nicholas
The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
$13.95 • pb • New Internationalist
9781906523176
One of the few up-to-date works on the whole of
the arms trade, this No-Nonsense Guide puts the
global trade in weapons in the context of history.
Despite the cynicism, bribery, and corruption
that characterize trade, it continues to receive
government backing and UN Security Council
member states are the biggest exporters of arms,
often to repressive regimes.
Nicholas Gilby, who led Campaign Against Arms Trade’s efforts to
expose the corruption at the heart of Britain’s arms deals with Saudi
Arabia, uses the latest evidence to provide a valuable and critical
introduction to the most destructive business.
HITCHENS, Christopher
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the
Nonbeliever
$17.50 • pb • Da Capo Press
9780306816086
A provocative and entertaining guided tour of
atheist and agnostic thought through the ages—
with never-before-published pieces by Salman
Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case
for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the
influential voices—past and present—that have shaped his side of
the debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you’ll be
led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry,
including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict
de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot,
Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein,
Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-
known and lesser known.
MAGDOFF, Fred & YATES, Michael D.
The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working
People Need to Know
$11.95 • pb • Monthly Review
9781583671955
In this short, clear, and concise book, Fred
Magdoff and Michael D. Yates explain the nature
of the current economic crisis. Contrary to
conventional wisdom, the authors demonstrate
that this crisis is not some aberration from a
normally benign capitalism but rather the normal and even expected
outcome of a thoroughly irrational and destructive system. No amount
of tinkering with capitalism, whether it be discredited neoliberalism
or the return of Keynesianism and a “new” New Deal, can overcome
the core contradiction of the system: the daily exploitation and
degradation of the majority of the world’s people by a tiny minority
of business owners.
MARRAZI, Christian
The Violence of Financial Capitalism
$12.95 • pb • Semiotext(e)
9781584350835
This first English-language edition of Christian
Marazzi’s most recent book, The Violence of
Financial Capitalism, makes a ground-breaking
work on the global financial crisis available to
a new audience of readers. Marazzi shows that
individual debt and the management of financial
markets are actually techniques for governing
the transformations of immaterial labor, general intellect, and social
cooperation. The financial crisis has radically undermined the very
concept of unilateral and multilateral economico-political hegemony,
and Marazzi discusses efforts toward a new geo-monetary order
that have emerged around the globe in response. Offering a radically
new understanding of the current stage of international economics
as well as crucial post-Marxist guidance for confronting capitalism
in its newest form, The Violence of Financial Capitalism is a valuable
addition to the contemporary arsenal of postfordist thought. This
expanded edition includes a new appendix for comprehending the
esoteric neolanguage of financial capitalism—a glossary of “Words
in Crisis,” from “AAA” to “toxic asset.”
MESZAROS, István
The Structural Crisis of Capital
$26.95 • pb • Monthly Review
9781583672082
In this collection of trenchant essays and
interviews, István Mészáros, the world’s
preeminent Marxist philosopher and winner of
the Libertador Award for Critical Thought (the
Bolivar Prize) for 2008, lays bare the exploitative
structure of modern capitalism. He argues with great power that
the world’s economies are on a social and ecological precipice,
and that unless we take decisive action to radically transform our
societies we will find ourselves thrust headfirst into barbarism and
environmental catastrophe. But he believes that the multiple crises
of world capitalism will encourage the working class to demand
center stage in the construction of a new system of production and
distribution designed to meet human needs rather than serve the
relentless pursuit of profit—a struggle which is already underway in
places such as Venezuela. With a foreword by John Bellamy Foster.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pocket Oxford American Dictionary & Thesaurus
$13.95 • pb • Oxford University Press
9780199729951
I can’t believe it’s taken this long for us to get
a dictionary! The Pocket Oxford American
Dictionary & Thesaurus is the ideal, all-in-one
portable reference, with a dictionary and a
thesaurus combined in one handy, integrated
volume. A word’s meanings, synonyms, and
antonyms are given in the same entry, allowing the user access to
all this information at a glance. Over 150,000 words, synonyms, and
senses! 891 pages for just $13.95!
RANSOM, David & BAIRD, Vanessa
People First Economics
$16.95 • pb • New Internationalist
9781906523237
People First Economics looks at what recent
events mean and could mean for us all. It’s about
economics—and about a lot more. It’s about
radical changes that are social, moral, ecological,
and philosophical, too—changes that are already
beginning to happen. In a series of plain-speaking
contributions, David Ransom brings together exciting and radical
activists and thinkers, such as Naomi Klein, Walden Bello, Noam
Chomsky, Michael Albert, George Monbiot, Patrick Bond, Ann
Pettifor, and Susan George among many others, to set the agenda for
“economic democratization.”
RAWICK, George & ROEDIGER, David (ed.)
Listening to Revolt
$14.00 • pb • Charles H. Kerr
9780882863184
This volume offers the first major collection of the
wide-ranging and revolutionary writings of the late
George Rawick, a leading figure in both radical
history and Marxist sociology. Personal assistant
to C.L.R. James, comrade of Marty Glaberman and
Selma James, and friend of C. Wright Mills and
Michael Harrington, he influenced such leading scholars as Noel
Ignatiev, Robin D.G. Kelley, Peter Linebaugh, Rosemary Feurer, Huw
Beynon, Margaret Washington, Bruno Cartosio, Enoch Page, George
Lipsitz, Nando Fasce, Ferruccio Gambino, Peter Rachleff, and John
Bracey and organizations like Students for a Democratic Society and
the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Rawick was a rarity who
contributed decisively to African American history and to the study
of white workers. His exciting scholarly and activist writings are
generously represented here and put it context by David Roediger’s
extensive introductory essay on Rawick’s life, thought and politics.
STALKER, Peter
The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance
$13.95 • pb • New Internationalist
9781906523183
This little beauty explains the basic concepts of
finance, how money is created, and how decisions
by banking and other financial service corporations
are determining the fate of billions of people. Right
from the introduction the guide sets recent events
into context. It traces the origins of money, as a
source of exchange and a store of value, and the
many weird and wonderful forms it now takes, visible and invisible.
How banks, investment and retail, make money and profits, and hold
countries to ransom when they make losses. How companies finance
their operations through stocks, shares and bonds and complex
derivatives that are becoming increasingly remote from real-world
activities. It also includes chapters on global currency exchange,
alternative systems of banking, including microfinance, government
regulation or lack of it, international institutions such as the World
Bank and the IMF, and crucially a final chapter on ways of bringing
global finance under control.
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TURBULENCE COLLECTIVE
What Would It Mean to Win?
$14.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604861105
Movements become apparent as “movements”
at times of acceleration and expansion. In these
heady moments they have fuzzy boundaries, no
membership lists—everybody is too engaged in
what’s coming next, in creating the new, looking
to the horizon. But movements get blocked,
they slow down, they cease to move, or continue to move without
considering their actual effects. When this happens, they can
stifle new developments, suppress the emergence of new forms of
politics; or fail to see other possible directions. Many movements
just stop functioning as movements. They become those strange
political groups of yesteryear, arguing about history as worlds pass
by. Sometimes all it takes to get moving again is a nudge in a new
direction... We think now is a good time to ask the question: What is
winning? Or what would—or could—it mean to “win?”
JONES, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka)
Black Music
$15.95 • pb • Akashic
9781933354934
This reissue of Black Music—long out of print—
features a highly provocative and profoundly
insightful collection of essays on jazz criticism, the
creative process, and the development of a new
way forward for black artists. Black Music is a
book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the
early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette
Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. This rich
and vital collection is comprised of essays, reviews, interviews, liner
notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959–1967.
Poetry
KELLOUGH, Kaie
Maple Leaf Rag
$14.95 • pb • Arbeiter Ring
9781894037426
With rhythm and edge, Kaie Kellough’s verbal
soundscape explores belonging, dislocation and
relocation, and national identity from a black
Canadian perspective. This collection of poems
is both written word and musical score—a dictated dub replete
with references to African Canadian and African American culture
(current and dated), Canadian history and politics, and characters
ranging from dancers to piano players to boxers.
Available in June!
SIMPSON, Leanne & LADNER, Kiera L. (editors)
This is an Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the
Blockades
$19.95 • pb • Arbeiter Ring
9781894037419
This is an Honour Song is a collection of narratives,
poetry, and essays exploring the broad impact of
the 1990 resistance at Kanehsatà:ke, otherwise
known as the “Oka Crisis.” The book is written by
leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists,
scholars, activists and traditional people, and is sung as an Honour
Song celebrating the commitment, sacrifices, and achievements of
the Kanien’kehaka individuals and communities involved.
Available in June!
Politics/Current Events
ABUFARHA, Nasser
The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of
Palestinian Resistance
$23.95 • pb • Duke
9780822344391
In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha,
a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural
logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations
(suicide attacks) launched against Israel during
the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–06). In so doing, he
sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have experienced and
perceived the broader conflict.
Abufarha draws on the life histories of martyrs, interviews he
conducted with their families and members of the groups that
sponsored their operations, and examinations of Palestinian
literature, art, performance, news stories, and political commentaries.
In his analysis of Palestinian political violence, Abufarha takes into
account Palestinians’ understanding of the history of the conflict with
Israel, the effects of containment on Palestinians’ everyday lives, the
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disillusionment created by the Oslo peace process, and reactions to
specific forms of Israeli state violence. The Making of a Human Bomb
illuminates the Palestinians’ perspective on the conflict with Israel
and provides a model for ethnographers seeking to make sense of
political violence.
BELL, Beverly & THE OTHER WORLDS
COLLABORATIVE
Who Says You Can’t Change the World? Just
Economies and Societies on an Unjust Planet
$8.00 • zine/journal • Other Worlds
Who Says You Can’t Change the World? is a
ground-breaking new report from Other Worlds
that introduces nine grassroots alternatives to
the current economic and environmental (dis)
order, and gives examples of real communities and movements
who are living those alternatives every day. The report touches
on alternative education, water struggles, the right to health care,
environmental justice, and solidarity economies, among other topics,
and highlights organizing taking place on five continents and in
countless communities. Also included are lists of resources for more
information and contact info for organizations working on similar
issues in the US.
BELLO, Walden
The Food Wars
$14.95 • pb • Verso
9781844673315
The hike in global food prices has pushed hundreds
of millions more people into poverty, and sparked
riots and protests in the Middle East, Africa, and
the Americas. Walden Bello, the leading writer
and activist on the global South, provides a
penetrating analysis of the various causes: not just
the rise in energy costs, but also the IMF and WTO-led restructuring
of the worldwide agricultural system. Charting the evolution of the
current crisis, Bello also offers a way forward: the principle of food
sovereignty, allowing the developing world to protect and sustain a
diverse range of crops. The Food Wars is an impassioned, informed,
and constructive account of a critical turning point in the system of
global trade.
CHOMSKY, Noam
Hopes and Prospects
$16.00 • pb • Haymarket
9781931859967
In this urgent new book, Noam
Chomsky surveys the dangers
and prospects of our
early twenty-first century.
Exploring challenges such as
the growing gap between North
and South, American exceptionalism (including
under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and
Afghanistan, the US-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent
financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move
forward—in the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global
solidarity movements that suggest “real progress toward freedom
and justice.”
“This is a classic Chomsky work: a bonfire of myths and lies,
sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky is an enduring inspiration
all over the world—to millions, I suspect—for the simple reason that
he is a truth-teller on an epic scale. I salute him.” —John Pilger
THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL
FREEDOM
Politics is Not a Banana: The Journal of Vulgar
Discourse
$12.00 • pb • Institute for Experimental Freedom
I am at a bit of a loss as to how to describe this
(though i could read you some funny passages),
so I will quote IEF: “The book is a collection of
texts, images, and design sensibilities which
combine insurrectional theory, critical theory,
and post-structuralist inquiries about power and
subjectivization with experimental fiction, flarf poetry, Brechtian
pornography, and Swiss-influenced post-ironic typographic design.
“Contributions range from the IEF’s own Liam Sionnach and
Maxamillion Stihl, to new English translations from the collectively
written French journal Tiqqun, to a lesser known French group “The
Enlightened Avant-Garde” (aka The Movement for the Apocalypse
of Montpelier) to Parser’s Magazine’s Robert Farr flarf poetry to Wax
Poetic’s own Idris Intifada.”
JENSEN, Derrick
Resistance Against Empire: Interviews
$20.00 • pb • PM Press
9781604860467
This collection of interviews conducted by Derrick
Jensen gathers incendiary insights from ten of
today’s most experienced and knowledgeable
activists. Whether it’s Ramsey Clark describing
the long history of military invasion, Alfred McCoy
detailing the relationship between CIA activities
and the increase in the global heroin trade, Stephen Schwartz
reporting the obscene costs of nuclear armaments, or Katharine
Albrecht tracing the horrors of the modern surveillance state, this
investigation of global governance is sure to inform, engage, and
incite readers.
KAMENETZ, Anya
DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming
Transformation of Higher Education
$14.95 • pb • Chelsea Green
9781603582346
The roots of the words “university” and “college”
both mean community. In the age of constant
connectedness and social media, it’s time for the
monolithic, millennium-old, ivy-covered walls to
undergo a phase change into something much
lighter, more permeable, and fluid. The future lies in personal
learning networks and paths, learning that blends experiential and
digital approaches, and free and open-source educational models.
Increasingly, you will decide what, when, where, and with whom
you want to learn, and you will learn by doing. The university is the
cathedral of modernity and rationality, and with our whole civilization
in crisis, we are poised on the brink of Reformation.
MIDNIGHT NOTES
Toward the Last Jubilee! Midnight Notes at Thirty
Years
$4.50 • zine/journal • Autonomedia
In mid-November 2009, Midnight Notes collective
marked thirty years of collective work with a day-
long conference called MN30. The gathering was a
coming together of more than seventy comrades to
discuss and celebrate Midnight Notes Collective.
The gathering addressed the past and present
but also grappled with the future. “The short
pieces in this [long] pamphlet [seventy pages] are characteristic of
the gathering and the movements and environment around them.
Here, the authors don’t mince words—not in their celebration and
admiration of MN, nor in their presentation of the very real difficulties
of the period; not in their critiques of where the project has been and
gone, and certainly not in their raising of the real pressing political
issues we all need to grapple with. Limited to an edition of 210, this is
highly recommended.
RUPPERT, MIchael C.
Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and
Money in a Post Peak Oil World—A 25-Point
Program for Action
$15.00 • pb • Chelsea Green
9781603582643
In Confronting Collapse, author Michael C. Ruppert
details the intricate connections between money
and energy, including the ways in which oil
shortages and price spikes triggered the economic
crash that began in September 2008. Given the 96 percent correlation
between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions and the
unlikelihood of economic growth without a spike in energy use,
Ruppert argues that we are not, in fact, on the verge of economic
recovery, but on the verge of complete collapse. But there is still
hope, and Ruppert outlines a twenty-five-point plan of action.
SCHALIT, Joel
Israel vs. Utopia
$15.95 • pb • Akashic
9781933354873
Israel is a synonym for many things, the ancestral
home of the Jewish people, the hell of the
Palestinians; the realization of a centuries-old
dream of freedom, and the heart of the War
on Terror. No country inspires as much debate
about its rights and wrongs, its legitimacy and
illegitimacies, than Israel. Historically associated with Europe, such
debate finally became common in the US during the Bush era, as
America deepened its involvement in the region, and Israel fought
three wars. In his new book, Israel vs. Utopia, Israeli American
journalist Joel Schalit distinguishes between the Israel he knows, and
the image of it that exists in the imagination of Americans. Israel is a
state of mind, Schalit argues, as much as it is its own sovereign state.
Exploring this tension, in America, in Israel, employing a combination
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of personal observation, political, and cultural commentary, Schalit
defines the instability of Israel, as a metaphor, and America’s troubled
love for it, as only an Israeli American would know.
WALKER, Alice
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters
the Horrors in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and
Palestine/Israel
$9.95 • pb • Seven Stories
9781583229170
In 2006 Alice Walker, working with Women for
Women International, visited Rwanda and the
eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the
genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, Walker traveled to Palestine/
Israel three years later to view the devastation on the Gaza Strip.
Here is her testimony.
WINSLOW, Cal
Labor’s Civil War in California: The NUHW
Healthcare Workers’ Rebellion
$12.00 • pb • PM Press
978160486327
A clear analysis of tactics and politics, this
thorough account examines the dispute between
the United Healthcare Workers (UHW) union in
California and its “parent” organization the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU)—one of the
most important labor conflicts in the United States
today. It explores how the UHW rank and file took umbrage with the
SEIU’s rejection of traditional labor values of union democracy and
class struggle and their tactics of wheeling and dealing with top
management and politicians. The resulting rift and retaliation from
SEIU leadership culminated in the UHW membership being forced
to break out and form a brand new union, the National Union of
Healthcare Workers.
Prisons/Policing
ALEXANDER, Michelle
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the
Age of Colorblindness
$27.95 • hb • New Press
9781595581037
As the US celebrates the nation’s “triumph over
race” with the election of Barack Obama, the
majority of young black men in major American
cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled
felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have
been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African
American community remains trapped in a subordinate status—
much like their grandparents before them.
In this incisive critique, Michelle Alexander provocatively argues
that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply
redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and
decimating communities of color, the US criminal justice system
functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it
formally adheres to the principle of color blindness.
BLISS, Sharon; CHEN, Kevin B.; DICKISON,
Steve; JOHNSON, Mark Dean; & RODRIGUEZ,
Rebeka (eds)
Prison/Culture
$19.95 • pb • City Lights
9781931404112
Over two million individuals are behind bars in US
prisons, living in isolation from their families and
their communities. Prison/Culture investigates
the culture of incarceration as an integral part of the American
experience through a compilation of stunning and often heartrending
artwork by inmates as well as by artists on the outside, such as
Sandow Birk and Keith Antar Mason, who address incarceration,
criminal profiling, wrongful conviction, prison labor, and the death
penalty. The book also includes essays on prisons and prison art by
Angela Y. Davis and Mike Davis, and poetry by Amiri Baraka, Ericka
Huggins, Luis Rodriguez, Sesshu Foster, and more.
Punk
ANDERSEN, Mark & JENKINS, Mark
The Dance of Days : Two Decades of Punk in the
Nation’s Capital
$21.95 • pb • Akashic
9781933354996
Bad Brains, Dischord Records, Ian Mackaye, Straight-Edge, Emo,
Riot Grrl, Henry Rollins, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Revolution Summer,
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Rites Of Spring, Bikini Kill, Positive Force, Dag Nasty, No Trend,
Iron Cross, etc., etc.—it’s all here coming out of the insurgent DC
punk scene. An incredible book from the founder of Positive Force.
Illustrated throughout with more than 600 photos. Now in yet another
new, updated edition, with an extra chapter and more photos!
KUHN, Garbriel
Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk,
Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
$22.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604860511
Straight edge has persisted as a drug-free,
hardcore punk subculture for twenty-five
years. Its political legacy, however, remains
ambiguous—often associated with self-righteous
macho posturing and conservative puritanism.
While certain elements of straight edge culture do feed into such
perception, the movement’s political history is more complex.
Since straight edge’s origins in Washington, D.C. in the early 1980s, it
has been linked to radical thought and action by countless individuals,
bands, and entire scenes worldwide. This book traces its history.
Race
CURIEL, Jonathan
Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and
Islamic Roots
$16.95 • pb • New Press
9781595584816
From highbrow to pop, from lighthearted to
profound, Al’ America reveals the Islamic and Arab
influences before our eyes, under our noses, and
ringing in our ears. Curiel demonstrates that many
of America’s most celebrated places—including
the Alamo in San Antonio, the French Quarter of New Orleans, and
the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina—retain vestiges of Arab
and Islamic culture. Likewise, some of America’s most recognizable
music—the Delta Blues, the surf sounds of Dick Dale, the rock and
psychedelia of Jim Morrison and the Doors—is indebted to Arab
music. And some of America’s leading historical figures, from Ralph
Waldo Emerson to Elvis Presley, relied on Arab or Muslim culture for
intellectual sustenance.
Part travelogue, part cultural history, Al’ America confirms a
continuous pattern of give-and-take between America and the Arab-
Muslim world.
HILL, Gord
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
$10.00 • pb • PM Press
9781604861068
The history of the colonization of the Americas
by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually-
beneficial process, in which “civilization” was
brought to the Natives, who in return shared their
land and cultures. A more critical history might
present it as a genocide in which Indigenous
peoples were helpless victims, overwhelmed and awed by European
military power. In reality, neither of these views is correct. In this slim
volume, Gord Hill chronicles the resistance by Indigenous peoples,
which limited and shaped the forms and extent of colonialism. This
history encompasses North and South America, the development of
nation-states, and the resurgence of Indigenous resistance in the
post-WWII era.
Gord Hill is a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation on the
Northwest Coast. Writer, artist, and militant, he has been involved in
Indigenous resistance, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist movements
for many years.
KNIGHT, Michael Muhammad
Journey to the End of Islam
$16.95 • pb • Soft Skull Press
9781593762469
Michael Muhammad Knight is a uniquely
American Muslim with his own sources: the
modern mythologies of the Nation of Islam and
Five Percenters, as well as the arguments of
Progressive Muslim thinkers for feminism and
reform.
In 2008, after “Muslim” becomes a slur in American presidential
politics, he travels overseas to reconcile with the larger Islamic
tradition. Visiting holy sites in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Ethiopia, and
Saudi Arabia, he explores both the heretical strands of popular folk
Islam—shrines, magic, music, and drugs—and the puritanical, ultra-
orthodox Islam of Saudi globalization. His travels culminate at Islam’s
spiritual center, the holy city of Mecca.
In Journey to the End of Islam, Knight offers a record of his travels
through the personal and political, internal and external aspects of
religion, searching for a trace of the Divine beneath layers of human
construction.
LUYENDIJK, Joris
People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East
$14.95 • pb • Soft Skull Press
9781593762568
In People Like Us, Joris Luyendijk tells the story
of his five years as a reporter in the Middle East.
Extremely young for a correspondent but fluent
in Arabic, he spoke with stone throwers and
terrorists, taxi drivers and professors, victims
and aggressors, and all of their families. He
chronicles first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation, terror,
and war. The more he witnessed, the less he understood, and he
became increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he
saw on the ground and what was later reported in the media. A
tale of disillusionment and self-examination set in the world’s most
headline-grabbing regions, People Like Us (which has become a
bestseller in its native Holland) deploys powerful examples, leavened
with humor, to demonstrate the ways in which the media gives us a
filtered, altered, and manipulated image of reality in the Middle East.
NEWTON, Huey
To Die For the People
$16.95 • pb • City Lights
9780872865297
Was Huey Newton a gifted leader of his people
or a dangerous outlaw? Were the Black Panthers
heroes or terrorists? Whether Newton and the
Panthers are remembered in a positive or a
negative light, no one questions Newton’s
status as one of America’s most important
revolutionaries. Long an iconic figure for
radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by
those interested in the history of America’s social
movements. This new release of a classic collection
of his writings and speeches traces the development of
Newton’s personal and political thinking, as well as the
radical changes that took place in the formative years of the
Black Panther Party.
RODRÍGUEZ, Dylan
Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy,
Genocide, and the Filipino Condition
$25.00 • pb • Minnesota
9780816653508
Suspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative
meditation on the emergence of the Filipino
American as a subject of history. Culling from
historical, popular, and ethnographic archives,
Dylan Rodríguez provides a sophisticated analysis
of the Filipino presence in the American imaginary. Radically critiquing
current conceptions of Filipino American identity, community, and
history, he puts forth a genealogy of Filipino genocide, rooted in the
early-twentieth-century military, political, and cultural subjugation
of the Philippines by the United States. Engaging the violence and
disruption of the Filipino condition sets the stage, he argues, for the
possibility of a transformation of the political lens through which
contemporary empire might be analyzed, understood, and perhaps
even overcome.
SCHRAG, Peter
Not Fit For Our Society: Immigration and
Nativism in America
$26.95 • hb • University of California Press
9780520259782
In a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag
provides essential background for understanding
the fractious debate over immigration. Covering
the earliest days of the Republic to current
events, Schrag sets the modern immigration
controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over
the same questions about who exactly is fit for citizenship. He finds
that nativism has long colored our national history, with the fear—
and loathing—of newcomers that provides one of the faultlines of
American cultural and political life. Schrag describes the eerie
similarities between the race-based arguments for restricting Irish,
German, Slav, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese immigrants in the past
and the arguments for restricting Latinos and others today. He links
the terrible history of eugenic “science” to ideas, individuals, and
groups now at the forefront of the fight against rational immigration
policies.

SHAW, Todd C.
Now Is the Time! Detroit Black Politics and
Grassroots Activism
$23.95 • pb • Duke
9780822345084
Now Is the Time! delves into the political strategies
of post-Civil Rights Movement African American
activists in Detroit, Michigan, to discover the
conditions for effective social activism. Analyzing
a wide range of grassroots community housing
initiatives intended to revitalize Detroit’s failing urban center and
aid its impoverished population, Todd C. Shaw seeks to understand
why certain collective actions have far-reaching effects while others
fail to yield positive results. He emerges with EBAM (Effective Black
Activism Model), a detailed political model that illuminates crucial
elements of successful grassroots activism: strong alliances,
strategic advantages, and adaptive techniques. EBAM shows that to
be effective political action must happen at the right time, in the right
place, and with the right tactic. Descriptive and prescriptive, Now Is
the Time! traces the complicated legacy of community activism to
illuminate what is required for grassroots activists to be effective in
demanding public accountability to poor and marginalized citizens.
WISE, Tim
Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and
the Retreat from Racial Equity
$14.95 • pb • City Lights
9780872865082
In this powerful follow-up to Between Barack
and a Hard Place, Tim Wise argues against
“colorblindness” and for a deeper color-
consciousness in both public and private
practice. We can only begin to move toward authentic social
and economic equity through what Wise calls “illuminated
individualism”—acknowledging the diverse identities that have
shaped our perceptions, and the role that race continues to play in
the maintenance of disparities between whites and people of color in
the United States today. This is the first book to discuss the pitfalls of
“colorblindness” in the Obama era.
Situationist
LOTRINGER, Sylvère (ed)
The German Issue
$29.95 • hb • Semiotext(e)
9781584350798
The German Issue was originally conceived as
a follow-up to Semiotext(e)’s Autonomia issue,
which was published two years earlier. Like a time
capsule, The German Issue brings together all the
major “issues” that were being debated on both
sides of the Atlantic—which eventually found their
abrupt resolution in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It involved the
most important voices of the period—from writers and filmmakers
to anthropologists, activists and poets, terrorists and philosophers:
Joseph Beuys, Michel Foucault, Christo, Christa Wolf, Walter Abish,
Alexander Kluge, Paul Virilio, Ulrilke Meinhof, William Burroughs,
Jean Baudrillard, Hans Magnus Enzenberger. Opening with Christo’s
“Wrapping Up of Germany” and the celebrated dialogue between East
German dramaturge Heiner Müller and Sylvère Lotringer on the Wall
(“Mauer”), since published in many languages, The German Issue
offers a first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of
a major global mutation.
LOTRINGER, Sylvère & MARAZZI, Christian
(editors)
Autonomia: Post-Political Politics
$25.95 • hb • Semiotext(e)
9781584350538
Edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi
with the direct participation of the main leaders and
theorists of the Autonomist movement (including
Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Franco Piperno,
Oreste Scalzone, Paolo Virno, Sergio Bologna,
and Franco Berardi), this volume is the only first-hand document and
contemporaneous analysis that exists of the most innovative post-
’68 radical movement in the West. The movement itself was broken
when Autonomia members were falsely accused of (and prosecuted
for) being the intellectual masterminds of the Red Brigades; but even
after the end of Autonomia, this book remains a crucial testimony of
the way this creative, futuristic, neo-anarchistic, postideological,
and nonrepresentative political movement of young workers and
intellectuals anticipated issues that are now confronting us in the
wake of Empire.
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SHUKAITIS, Stevphen
Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-
Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life
$16.00 • pb • Minor Compositions/Autonomedia
9781570272080
All power to the imagination? Over the past forty
years to invoke the imagination as a basis for
radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical
utilization of ideas already in circulation, invoking
the mythic unfolding of this self-institutionalizing
process. But what exactly is radical imagination? Drawing from
autonomist politics, class composition analysis, and avant-garde
arts, Imaginal Machines explores the emergence, functioning, and
constant breakdown of the embodied forms of radical imagination.
“Shukaitis exhibits a remarkable theoretical breadth, bringing
together the work of Castoriadis, the Situationists, and autonomous
Marxism to define a new task for militant research: constructing
imaginal machines that escape capitalism. Imaginal Machines is
truly a book that makes a path by walking.”—Silvia Federici, author
of Caliban and the Witch
Spanish
ECHEGARAY, Patricio
Notas sobre la revolucíon latinoamericano
$19.95 • pb • Ocean
9781921438684
This is a selection of articles, interviews, and
speeches by a leading voice of the Latin American
Left, famous for his interview with Colombian
guerrillas. Here, Patricio Echegaray discusses
recent political developments in Venezuela, Cuba,
Colombia, and Argentina, as well as his reflections
on the significance of the Russian and Cuban revolutions.
Patricio Echegaray es un infatigable peregrino que hace muchos años
se lanzó al camino. Es como los griots africanos que marchaban, de
pueblo en pueblo, narrando historias y leyendas que aprende viendo
con sus propios ojos y palpando con sus propias manos.
La validez del marxismo, la situación política en Argentina, las
vivencias recientes de la Revolución cubana, entrevistas a los
más altos jefes de las FARC EP de Colombia, aproximaciones a los
procesos transformadores en Venezuela, Bolivia y Ecuador, y el triunfo
de los candidatos del FMLN a la presidencia y vicepresidencia de El
Salvador, son notas sobre temas teóricos y experiencias nacionales,
que nos ayudan a (re)aprender, a pensar y a actuar en función de la
revolución latinoamericana.
GRAU, María Isabel
La revolución negra: La rebelión de los esclavos
en Haití, 1791–1804
$12.95 • pb • Ocean
9781921438349
This is the inspiring story of the armed rebellion
in Haiti (1791–1804), when black slaves, led
by Toussaint Louverture, adopted the French
Revolution’s cry for liberty, equality, and fraternity,
leading to the island colony’s own declaration of
independence in 1804.
Haití es el país más pobre del continente. ¿Qué más sabemos de
Haití? ¿Por qué no sabemos nada más?
Este oportuno texto se suma al proceso de reescritura de la historia
de nuestros pueblos. Al conocer sobre la rebelión de los esclavos
en la antigua colonia de Saint-Domingue (1791–1804) vislumbramos
la conexión entre el crudo escenario actual y el proceso de violenta
expropiación a que ha sido sometida esta nación caribeña desde el
siglo XV hasta nuestros días.
Personajes emblemáticos como Toussaint Louverture y Jean-
Jacques Dessalines, o míticos como Mackandal, protagonizaron las
insurrecciones de negros y mulatos que abrieron el camino hacia la
independencia de la primera república de América.
PRIETO, Alberto
Procesos revolucionarios en América Latina
$21.95 • pb • Ocean
9781921438264
A comprehensive history of a continent in turmoil
and struggling for unity, this is an inspiring
journey through centuries of Latin American
revolutions, insurrections, rebellions, and armed
resistance to invasion, colonization, and imperialist
interventions.
Una inspiradora travesía por la historia de los procesos
revolucionarios de América Latina iluminada por Túpac Amaru,
Hidalgo, Martí, Bolívar, Miranda y San Martín, Mariátegui, Sandino
y el Che.
Las insurrecciones y revueltas en el siglo XVIII, la avalancha
independentista, las transformaciones democráticas y
antiimperialistas, el influjo de la Revolución cubana, el Sandinismo
y el nuevo auge revolucionario y democrático en nuestra región
quedan registrados en sus páginas.
Cierra el periplo un escenario de esperanzadoras luchas por la
unidad latinoamericana lideradas por Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez y Evo
Morales, quienes retoman el pensamiento y esfuerzos integradores
de otros próceres que lucharon por una Patria Grande en América
Latina.
PRINA, Agustin
La Guerra de Vietnam
$14.95 • pb • Ocean
9781921235795
Written by a young Latin American activist, this book
presents to a new generation an inspiring short
history of Vietnam’s long struggle for independence,
against Japan, then France, and finally the United
States, and the international solidarity that it
stirred. Part of the Ocean’s “Historias desde abajo”
(History from Below) series, edited by Nestor Kohan.
SALAZAR, Amílcar Figueroa
El Salvador: Su historia y sus luchas (1932–1985)
$13.95 • pb • Ocean
9781921438646
This short history reviews the continual upheavals,
interventions, and civil war that have wracked El
Salvador since the 1930s, explaining the FMLN’s
armed struggle in 1980s and the peace accords that
eventually led to the former guerrilla movement’s
electoral victory in March 2009.
La elección del primer gobierno de izquierda en
la historia de El Salvador, el 15 de marzo de 2009, vuelve a colocar
al país más pequeño de América Central en el foco de la atención
mundial. Este triunfo es el resultado de la larga trayectoria combativa
del pueblo salvadoreño, a la cual se deben los espacios políticos
legales arrancados a la oligarquía.
El Salvador: Su historia y sus luchas (1932–1985), de Amílcar Figueroa
Salazar, es una contribución al conocimiento de esa trayectoria. Esta
obra ofrece un documentado análisis que abarca, desde el nacimiento
de la República, hasta el momento en que la lucha armada del FMLN
llega a su punto culminante y se aprecian los atisbos del proceso
negociador, a raíz del cual se transformó de movimiento insurgente
en partido político.
Theory
AMIN, Samir
Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and
Democracy, A Critique of Eurocentrism and
Culturalism
$17.95 • pb • Monthly Review
9781583672075
Since its first publication twenty years ago,
Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical
thought. Written by one of the world’s foremost
political economists, this original and provocative
essay takes on one of the great “ideological
deformations” of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant
Eurocentric view of world history, which narrowly and incorrectly
posits a progression from the Greek and Roman classical world
to Christian feudalism and the European capitalist system, Amin
presents a sweeping reinterpretation that emphasizes the crucial
historical role played by the Arab Islamic world. Throughout the
work, Amin addresses a broad set of concerns, ranging from the
ideological nature of scholastic metaphysics to the meanings and
shortcomings of contemporary Islamic fundamentalism. This second
edition contains a new introduction and concluding chapter, both of
which make the author’s arguments even more compelling.
BECKER, Konrad
Tactical Reality Dictionary: Cultural Intelligence
and Social Control
$10.95 • pb • Autonomedia
9781570272202
Culture is not just the expression of individual
interests and orientations, manifested in
groups according to rules and habits. It also
offers identification with a system of values.
The construction of cultural memory and the
establishing of a symbolic order through setting
up mental and ideological spaces is a traditional
practice of cultural engineering. Developments in
electronic communication and digital media allows
for a global telepresence of values and behavioral
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norms, and provide increasing possibilities for controlling public
opinion by accelerating the flow of persuasive communication.
Information is increasingly indistinguishable from propaganda,
defined as “the manipulation of symbols as a means of influencing
attitudes.” Whoever controls the metaphors controls thought. in this
lexicon of culture as social control, Austrian media theorist Konrad
Becker illuminates media practices that transform conspiracy into
normative reality, and disbelief into the condition of truth.
BECKER, Konrad & FLEMING, Jim (eds)
Critical Strategies in Art and Media:
Perspectives on New Cultural Practices
$12.95 • pb • Autonomedia
9781570272141
Beyond the obsolete models of artist or author as
genius and their fetish objects, what collective and
collaborative practices are inventing new terrains
and flows? As information and communication
technologies saturate our world, how is art
giving way to new forms of cultural symbolic
manipulation? What new kinds of “virtual” spaces
are opening up for cultural practice in electronic
media? As “old media” begin to collapse under the pressures of the
virtual, what new media can we find? How are didactic illustration
and channeled dissidence giving way to new forms of surprise and
intensity? What strategies elude the creative industries’ seemingly
infinite appetite for things radical? Are there any strategies that
can elude being reduced to styles in the service of sales, or are
critical practices doomed to play cat and mouse with the forces of
consumerism? What could be insurrectional? What libratory?
DIETZGEN, Joseph
The Nature of Human Brain Work: An
Introduction to Dialectics
$20.00 • pb • PM Press
9781604860368
Joseph Dietzgen was a pioneer of dialectical
materialism. In this slim volume, he examines
what we do when we think. Dietzgen discovered
that thinking is a process involving two opposing
processes: generalization, and specialization. All
thought is therefore a dialectical process. Our
knowledge is inherently limited however, which makes truth relative
and the seeking of truth on-going. The only absolute is existence
itself, or the universe, everything else is limited or relative. Although
a philosophical materialist, he extended these concepts to include
all that was real, existing or had an impact upon the world. Thought
and matter were no longer radically separated as in older forms of
materialism. The Nature of Human Brain Work is vital for theorists
today in that it lays the basis for a non-dogmatic, flexible, non-
sectarian, yet principled socialist politics.
FUMAGALLI, Andrea & MEZZADRA, Sandro
Crisis in the Global Economy: Financial Markets,
Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios
$17.95 • pb • Semiotext(e)
9781584350873
Crisis in the Global Economy is the latest and
most innovative collective reflection on the state
of global capitalism, developed in the mobile
“multiversity” of the UniNomade network of
international researchers and activists during
the months immediately following the first signals
of the current financial and economic crisis. It constitutes the first
organic and interdisciplinary attempt to analyze a crisis that is not
merely financial in nature but implicates globalization and neoliberal
capitalism. The contributions to Crisis in the Global Economy invite
us to consider exit strategies from the current crisis—strategies
that may lead us toward a new horizon of constructing the common.
Contains Christian Marrazi’s “The Violence of Financial Capitalism”
(which we also have available as a book) and an afterword by
Antonio Negri!
JAMES, CLR
A New Notion: Two Works by CLR James
$16.95 • pb • PM Press
9781604860474
As a major contributor to Marxist and revolutionary
theory, C.L.R. James’ project was to discover,
document, and elaborate the aspects of working-
class activity that constitute the revolution in
today’s world.
“The Invading Socialist Society,” for James the
fundamental document of his political tendency, shows clearly the
power of James’ political acumen and its relevance in today’s world
with a clarity of analysis that anticipated future events to a remarkable
 Makes a great complement to You Don’t Play With
extent. “Every Cook Can Govern,” is a short and eminently readable
piece counterpoising direct with representative democracy, and
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getting to the heart of how we should relate to one another. Together
these two works represent the principal themes that run through
James’s life: implacable hostility toward all “condescending saviors”
of the working class, and undying faith in the power of ordinary
people to build a new world.
Sure to be a new classic!
MAASS, Alan
The Case for Socialism
$12.00 • pb • Haymarket
9781608460731
We live in a world of poverty, war, and
environmental devastation. A world where living
standards for working people plummet while
an elite few enjoy lives of unbelievable wealth
and power. Obviously something different—an
alternative to capitalism—is desperately needed. This book proposes
socialism. A society built from the bottom up through the struggles of
ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice—one
in which people come before profit.
Alan Maass is the editor of Socialist Worker.
PAIK, Peter Y.
From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and
the Politics of Catastrophe
$20.00 • pb • Minnesota
9780816650798
In From Utopia to Apocalypse, Peter Y. Paik shows
how science fiction generates intriguing and
profound insights into politics. He reveals that
the fantasy of putting annihilating omnipotence
to beneficial effect underlies the revolutionary
projects that have defined the collective upheavals of the modern
age. Paik traces how this political theology is expressed, and indeed
literalized, in popular superhero fiction, examining works including
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s graphic novel Watchmen, the science
fiction cinema of Jang Joon-Hwan, the manga of Hayao Miyazaki,
Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, and The Matrix Trilogy. Superhero
fantasies are usually seen as compensations for individual feelings
of weakness, victimization, and vulnerability. But Paik presents
these fantasies as social constructions concerned with questions of
political will and the disintegration of democracy rather than with the
psychology of the personal.
RAUNIG, Gerald
A Thousand Machines
$12.95 • pb • Semiotext(e)
9781584350859
In this “concise philosophy of the machine,”
Gerald Raunig provides a historical and critical
backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by
the French philosophers Félix Guattari and Gilles
Deleuze: the machine, not as a technical device
and apparatus, but as a social composition and
concatenation. This conception of the machine as an arrangement
of technical, bodily, intellectual, and social components subverts the
opposition between man and machine, organism and mechanism,
individual and community. Drawing from an unusual range of films,
literature, and performance—from the role of bicycles in Flann
O’Brien’s fiction to Vittorio de Sica’s Neorealist film The Bicycle
Thieves, and from Karl Marx’s “Fragment on Machines” to the
deus ex machina of Greek drama—Raunig arrives at an enhanced
conception of the machine as a social movement, finding its most
apt and concrete manifestation in the Euro mayday movement,
which since 2001 has become a transnational activist and discursive
practice focused upon the precarious nature of labor and lives.
ROBERT, Henry M. III; EVANS, William J.;
HONEMANN, Daniel H.; & BALCH, Thomas J.
Roberts Rules Of Order: Newly Revised In Brief
$6.95 • pb • Da Capo Press
9780306813542
Robert’s Rules of Order, originally published over
a hundred years ago, is a classic rule book for
meeting process. This concise version, a quick
and dirty guide based on the newly-revised tenth
edition of Robert’s Rules, includes a useful selection of rules and
tips for holding orderly meetings—advice we can probably all use.
Includes agendas and proposals, debates and decision-making,
referring to a committee, voting and elections, bylaws and rules,
advice for chairing meetings, and lots more advice to help you wow
your co-workers or comrades with your meeting preparedness.
Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of CLR James, out now from
AK Press! See p. 8 for details!
SAYLES, James Yaki
Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the
Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings
$20.00 • pb • Kersplebedeb
9781894946322
“This exercise is about more than our desire to
read and understand Wretched (as if it were about
some abstract world, and not our own); it’s about
more than our need to understand (the failures
of) the anti-colonial struggles on the African
continent. This exercise is also about us, and about some of the
things that We need to understand and to change in ourselves and
our world.”—James Yaki Sayles
One of those who eagerly picked up Fanon in the 60s, who carried
out armed expropriations and violence against white settlers, Sayles
reveals how, behind the image of Fanon as race thinker, there is an
underlying reality of antiracist communist thought.
TIQQUN
Introduction to Civil War
$12.95 • pb • Semiotext(e)
9781584350866
Society no longer exists, at least in the sense
of a differentiated whole. There is only a tangle
of norms and mechanisms through which they
hold together the scattered tatters of the global
biopolitical fabric, through which they prevent its
violent disintegration. Empire is the administrator
of this desolation, the supreme manager of a process of listless
implosion.
Part of the Intervention Series (with The Coming Insurrection, A
Thousand Machines, The Screwball Asses, and The Violence of
Financial Capitalism).
ZIZEK, Slavoj
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
$12.95 • pb • Verso
9781844674282
Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into
the global banking system in a frantic attempt
at financial stabilization. So why has it not been
possible to bring the same forces to bear in
addressing world poverty and environmental
crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj
Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of
the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What
he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the
righthook of farce. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce is a call for the
left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation.
The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over. (Those sound like
fighting words!!)
Vegetarian/Vegan
DAVIS, Karen
Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs (Revised
Edition)
$14.95 • pb • Book Publishing Co.
9781570672293
The original edition of this book exposed modern
poultry practices, revealing the tragedy chickens
endure through the lens of an industry that
brutally processes them without remorse. The
book also acted as a catalyst within the animal
advocacy movement, making chickens a primary focus of activists
worldwide who are demanding more humane methods of poultry
production. This revised edition looks at a world in which avian
flu, food poisoning, global warming, genetic engineering, and the
expansion of poultry production and consumption are careening to
an unsustainable point. Read the compelling argument for adopting
a compassionate, plant-based diet as an alternative to the warfare
waged on chickens!
HARPER, A. Breeze, ed.
Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on
Food, Identity, Health, and Society
$22.00 • pb • Lantern
9781590561454
Sistah Vegan is not about preaching veganism or
vegan fundamentalism. Rather, the book is about
how a group of black-identified female vegans
perceive nutrition, food, ecological sustainability, health and healing,
animal rights, parenting, social justice, spirituality, hair care, race,
gender-identification, womanism, and liberation that all go against the
(refined and bleached) grain of our dysfunctional society. Thought-
provoking for the identification and dismantling of environmental
racism, ecological devastation, and other social injustices, Sistah
Vegan is an in-your-face handbook for our time.

McCANN, Jennifer
Vegan Lunch Box Around the World
$18.95 • pb • Da Capo Press
9780738213576
With Vegan Lunch Box Around the World, it’s easy
to enjoy all your favorite international and American
dishes, now free of meat, eggs, and dairy products.
You’ll find lunches and snacks that everyone will
love, including: chick’n pot pie, pad thai, Mexican
fruit salad, Italian vegetable stromboli, Japanese tiger bento box,
Caribbean beans and rice, plantain chips, and lots more—with
special icons letting you know which recipes are especially quick
and easy, kid-friendly, and allergen-free.
MOBY & PARK, Miyun (eds)
Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety
(Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat)
$14.95 • pb • New Press
9781595581914
Musician, vegan, and social activist Moby presents
a collection of compelling, well-researched essays
that illuminate and enhance the dialogue on food
consumption in America most recently carried forth
by Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and
the documentary film Food, Inc. Brief but clear essays cover a range
of angles: Canadian marathon champion Brendan Brazier, creator of
a line of whole-food nutritional products, explores the impact of meat
and dairy consumption on health; labor activists Christine Chavez and
Julie Chavez Rodriquez account for workers’ conditions; Moby’s co-
editor Park, executive director of animal rights group Global Animal
Partnership, provides a rousing, personable call-to-action epilogue.
MOSKOWITZ, Isa Chandra & ROMERO, Terry
Hope
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-
Free Recipes for Everyone’s Favorite Treats
$17.95 • pb • Da Capo Press
9781600940484
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar includes
more than a hundred irresistible recipes for cookies, bars, biscotti,
brownies, and more. Discover festive desserts that are sure to impress
family and friends at any occasion, from birthdays to bake sales. Or
simply tempt yourself with: magical coconut cookie bars; chocolate
chip cream cheese brownies; peanut butter crisscrosses; key lime
shortbread rounds; macadamia lace cookies; and lots more.
Throughout the book, Isa and Terry (authors of Vegan Cupcakes
Take Over the World) share their best mixing, baking, and decorating
techniques and tackle age-old cookie conundrums. Learn the secrets
of vegan-izing old favorites, whipping up gluten-free batches, and
even making cookies you can eat for breakfast.
PHYO, Ani
Ani’s Raw Food Desserts
$17.95 • pb • Da Capo Press
9780738213064
From the author of the popular Ani’s Raw Food
Kitchen comes this new book of innovative,
delicious raw desserts. Chef Ani’s easy-to-make
sweets are wheat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, processed-sugar-
free, and cruelty-free. Substituting these mouth-watering desserts
for traditional baked ones will give your body much-needed nutrients
while sacrificing none of the flavor. With lists of essential tools,
key ingredients (including “superfoods” that enhance flavor and
nutrition), and full-color photos!
ROMERO, Terry Hope
Viva Vegan!: 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes
for Latin Food Lovers
$18.95 • pb • Da Capo Press
9780738212739
As coauthor of the phenomenally successful
cookbooks Veganomicon and Vegan Cupcakes
Take Over the World, Terry Hope Romero has long
been one of the most popular vegan chefs around. Now, in her first
solo cookbook, she opens the world of Latin flavor to vegans and
foodies alike. Viva Vegan! expands the palates of anyone looking
for a way to add fresh, seasonal ingredients and authentic spice to
their meals without relying on animal products. A proud Venezuelan-
American, Romero’s enthusiasm for her culture shines through every
recipe.
Viva Vegan! covers every aspect of Latin cooking across the
Americas: refreshing bebidas (drinks), vibrant ensaladas, hearty
empanadas, nourishing stews, and one-dish wonders, plus all the
basics!
Just a small sampling of our zine collection! Hundreds of other great zines are available at on our website!
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SIMPSON, Alicia C.
Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food
$17.95 • pb • Experiment Publishing
9781615190058
Here is the essential cookbook for any of America’s
more than 6 million vegans who miss the down-
home tastes they remember (or want to try), or
for vegetarians and even meat-eaters who want
to add more plant-based foods to their diets, but
don’t know where to start. Comfort-seeking cooks will find: easy-
to-prepare, animal-free versions of classics; 150 recipes and 65
delicious combinations for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with flavors
from around the world; everything you need to know to start your
vegan pantry, and why being vegan is easier, less expensive, and
more delicious than you might think.
Zines/Journals
BIEL, Joe
The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #4: A Month on the
Road with $100 and a T-Shirt
$3.00 • zine/journal • Microcosm
9781934620625
Years after the fact, here’s a zine-tour-based zine
about “Cocoon: The Road Trip” from 2004. A collection of hand-
drawn maps, photos by Dave Roche, and traveling anecdotes from
the road, the zine shows that zine tours really are not that hard to put
together and can be kind of cool. Look at all the zany things you can
experience on the road! But more than that it’s a look at friendship,
and the challenges and motivation that one experiences by pushing
oneself into trying and difficult situations.
BIEL, Joe
The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #5: Sickness and
Health
$3.00 • pam • Microcosm
9781934620144
This issue details over fifteen years of Joe Biel’s
improving and declining physical health as he
battles doctors, naturopaths, and weirdos to try
and figure out what exactly is wrong with him.
Aimed at anyone who has experienced any kind of
mysterious hardship, the story is a great metaphor
for all kinds of complicated and technical problems.
BIEL, Joe
You Can Work Any Hundred Hours Per Week You
Want (In Your Underwear)!
$3.00 • zine/journal • Microcosm
9781934620229
The history of the first ten years of Microcosm
Publishing, told in graphic detail! Join in the journey through starting
out in a bedroom, putting out records, growing, moving to Portland,
publishing books, growing, moving into an office in Liberty Hall,
amassing more zines than anyone could ever know what to do with,
and more. A fun story that will inspire you in (and give you perspective
on) your own projects.
BREIER, Davida (ed)
Xerography Debt
$3.00 • zine/journal • Microcosm
Xerography Debt is back with issue #26 featuring
more of the beloved “review zine with perzine
tendencies” wherein your favorite zine writers
become zine reviewers, columnists, and news
hounds! Fifty-one pages of new zines to fall in love
with, collect obsessively over, and tell your friends
about.
Issue #27 will be available in August!
BURIAN, Al
Burn Collector #14
$8.00 • zine/journal • Microcosm
9781934620052
The wait is over, the new issue of Burn Collector
has arrived! In #14, zine superstar Al Burian lays
down 156 pages of truth, trouble, and everyman
blues. Whether battling the cops in Chicago,
documenting the frenetic nervous breakdown of
city life, spilling the secret truth of all religions, or talking comix and
punk shows, Burian does it with class, humor, and a timeless feel
for language. Heavily illustrated, dense with stories, and ripped right
from the headlines of Burian’s hard, hilarious, and rowdy life.
COMETBUS, Aaron
Cometbus
$3.00 • zine/journal • Cometbus
Back in stock!! If you’re not familiar with this
zine, well, you should be, but here’s a probably
embarrassing description for you: “What Kerouac
was to the Beat Generation, Aaron Cometbus is to
the East Bay punk scene.” (I would blush!) It’s very
well done, political, intelligent, and personal—see
that you get a copy!
Issue #53 is the newest and is jointly written by Maddelena Polletta, a
longtime contributor and friend, with cover by Nate Powell. Issue #52
for those of you like us who want to catch up, is called “The Spirit of
St. Louis—or—How to Break Your Own Heart, A Tragedy in 24 Parts.”
CRABB, Cindy
Learning Good Consent
$3.00 • zine/journal • Microcosm
9781934620335
Curated by Doris editor Cindy Crabb, the Learning
Good Consent zine looks at the culture of
sexual consent from a standpoint both sexy and
educational. Over the course of forty-six pages,
Cindy and friends create a well-rounded consent
workshop, with all sites set on healing and helping.
In a world of shady abusers, demonized victims, and one-sided
dating rituals, Consent has your back. As says Cindy in the zine’s
intro, “Talking about our experiences with consent, our struggles,
our mistakes and how we’ve learned, these are part of a much larger
revolutionary struggle.”
GEVURTZ, Steve
Journalsong #6
$3.00 • zine/journal • Microcosm
9781934620274
Journalsong will make you fall in love with its
author. It will also make you romanticize Portland,
all while trying to deal with the bad things and
appreciate the good things in your own life. This
issue is a meditation on the nature of zine writing,
but it’s also about wishing you could believe in Jesus, conversing
with a glass of whiskey, beating up your friend’s stupid boyfriend,
contextualizing instant rice and beans, burning down Williamsburg,
overtipping tiny bartenders, deciding to fall in love with someone right
when they decide to fall out of love with you, and hanging out with
Warren G. With beautiful drawings by Nicole Georges throughout.
.IGLOO TORNADO
Henry & Glenn Forever
$4.00 • zine/journal • Cantankerous Titles
9781934620939
The premise of this Cantankerous Titles-released
comic is explained at the front of the zine: “Henry
and Glenn are very good ‘friends.’ They are also
‘roommates.’ Daryl and John live next door. They are satanists.” What
follows is ultra-metal violence and cryfest diary entries, cringing self-
doubt and mega-hilarious emo-meltdowns. Who knew Danzig was
such a vulnerable, self-conscious sweety-pie? Who knew Rollins
was such a caring spouse? Well, illustrating/writing team Igloo
Tornado did and they kicked down sixty-four fully-illustrated pages
with it. Genius on all fronts. Terrifyingly cute. Cutely terrifying. As the
real-life Rollins says, quoted on the back cover, “Has Glenn seen
this? Trust me, he would not be impressed.”
LYLE, Erick
Scam: The First Four Issues
$16.00 • pb • Microcosm
9781934620700
Scam was equal parts an introductory guide on
how to get things for free and punk memoir. Youths
experienced trainhopping, house shows, and cross
country tours that sought out swimming holes.
Community was sought and celebrated through
generator punk shows on Mission Street, hunting for cans of beer
on Easter, and Food Not Bombs. Angst was manifested while stealing
electricity from lampposts, squatting in Miami, selling plasma,
tagging freight trains, wheatpasting, spraying salt water into vending
machines, returning stolen merchandise, and dumpstering as seen
through the lens of a young punk.
MONIZ, Tomas (ed)
Rad Dad #17
$4.00 • zine/journal • Rad Dad
Finally we are carrying this fantastic parenting
zine edited by our friend Tomas Moniz, and what a
great issue to kick it off with! Issue #17 focuses on
Anarchism and radical parenting.
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