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Zapata of Mexico
by Peter E. Newell Who was Zapata? Man, myth, inspiration or movie icon? Zapata was the leading figure of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He fought for the rights of local communities against greedy landlords, treacherous politicians and foreign-owned companies. Under the slogan ‘Land and Liberty!’ he became the purest embodiment of the Mexican Revolution. Zapata’s memory,
Writings against Power & Death
By Alex Comfort Alex Comfort, who was born in 1920, is best known nowadays as the author of the phenomenally successful Joy of Sex. But he is also a poet, novelist, critic, doctor, medical biologist, the pioneer of gerontology in Britain, a pacifist - and an anarchist. From the early 1940s he was for a
Work, Language & Education in the Industrial State
by Michael Duane Work: "The nature of work in industrial society today is such that those who stop to think about it wonder why so many millions of otherwise sane people spend so much of their lives, apparently without complaint, at work over which they have no control and from which they derive no personal
William Blake: Visionary Anarchist
by Peter Marshall William Blake (1757–1827) was a poet, painter, engraver and visionary. Considered eccentric, if not mad, in his own day, he now appears as a key figure in English Romanticism. He listened to ‘Messengers from Heaven’ but he had his feet firmly on the ground and was involved in the central issues of his revolutionary age. Throughout
Wildcat: Twenty Year Millenium
by Donald Rooum A selection celebrating 20 years of Wildcat appearances in Freedom newspaper. Freedom Press 1999 ISBN: 0-900384-97-2 48 pages Black and White
Wildcat: Health Service Wildcat
by Donald Rooum Wildcat concentrates on the health services. Freedom Press 1994 ISBN: 0-900-384-73-5 48 pages Black and White
Wildcat: Anarchists Against Bombs
by Donald Rooum For review see: Peace News Freedom Press 2003 ISBN: 1-904491-01-4 48 pages Black and White
Wildcat: ABC of Bosses
Third volume in the Wildcat series of anarchist comics. Freedom Press First Published 1991, Reprinted 2009 ISBN: 978-0900384608 48 pages Black and White
Wildcat Strikes Again
by Donald Rooum The second volume of Donald Rooum's Wildcat cartoons. Freedom Press 1989 ISBN:0-900-384-47-6 48 pages Black and White
Wildcat Keeps Going
by Donald Rooum The latest in the 'Wildcat' series of cartoons by Donald Rooum, this time in full colour! See short review in Peace News. Freedom Press 2011 ISBN: 978-1-904491-14-9 48 pages Colour Illustrations
Wildcat Anarchist Comics
by Donald Rooum The first anthology of comics culled from the pages of Freedom and other UK anarchist periodicals. Political satire at its finest. Freedom Press First Published 1985, Reprinted 1995 ISBN: 0-900384-30-1 48 pages Black and White
What Is Anarchism? An Introduction
by Donald Rooum What anarchists believe; what anarchists do; how anarchists differ. An introduction by Donald Rooum, along with some classic texts from the likes of Malatesta, Kropotkin, Rocker, Ward, Berkman, Bakunin et al. A useful primer. Freedom Press First Published 1992, Reprinted 2001 ISBN: 0-900384-66-2 74 pages Black and White
We, the Anarchists!
by Stuart Christie A detailed, scholarly study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI), a group of twentieth-century militants dedicated to keeping Spain’s largest labor union, the CNT, on a revolutionary, anarcho-syndicalist path. Stuart Christie’s analysis covers the history of Spanish anarchism and the Spanish Civil War, and provides lessons relevant to today’s largely neutered labor
Visions of Poesy: An anthology of 20th Century Anarchist Poetry
Edited by Clifford Harper, Dennis Gould and Jeff Cloves From the blurb: Shelley, the greatest of all anarchist poets, said that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". The poets in Visions of Poesy are not asking for your vote, only that you read their poems. This anthology brings together for the first time
Violence & Anarchism
In March 1960 a demonstration called by the Pan-African Congress, in protest against the pass laws, took place in Sharpeville, a township near Vereeniging. The violence used by the police against the non-violent protesters was said to have ‘shocked’ hard-bitten South African newsmen and even some of the police. Fifty six Africans – men, women
Uprooting War
by Brian Martin Uprooting War is unlike the numerous treatments of the dangers of war, the benefits of disarmament or the need for government or citizen action. It is about developing strategies for grassroots activists to challenge and replace the war system. Brian Martin presents a wide-ranging critical analysis of social institutions and as well
Undercover: The True Stories of Britain's Secret Police
Rob Evans and Paul Lewis expose the lying, stinking, double-crossing tosser pigs who inflitrated protest movements from the 1960's onwards.
The Veritable Split in the International
The Public Circular of the Situationalist International issued in 1972 when guess what - they split. Chronos Publications 1985 ISBN: 0-950-8380-2-0 138 pages Black and White
The Tradition of Workers' Control
by Geoffrey Ostergaard "Workers' control of industry”, a phrase coined by the Guild Socialists recalls the libertarian aspirations of the first rebels against the slavery inherent in the capitalist mode of production. The new socialism adopted by the Fabian Society in the 1880s, and later by the Labour Party, is sharply different from both the
The Terrace: an educational experiment in a state school
by Michael Duane Michael Duane relates an experiment in a state school set up to provide non-school education for 15 year-olds for whom school has become meaningless. The experiment ran for 2 years in Northcliffe Comprehensive School in the mining town of Conisbrough, South Yorkshire. It closed not because it had failed but because its
The State
by Peter Kropotkin This edition is a revised version of the 1969 translation with a new introduction and has been completely re-set. From the blurb: According to the author of this anarchist classic there is only one way of "really understanding the State" and that is to study its historical development. This is what Kropotkin