Products

Chicano Movement For Beginners

Maceo Montoya

As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance....

Conflict Is Not Abuse

Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

Sarah Schulman

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between...

Demand the Impossible!

A Radical Manifesto

Bill Ayers

A manifesto for movement-makers in extraordinary times, 

Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be

Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance

Shon Meckfessel

US social movements face many challenges. One of their most troublesome involves the question of nonviolence. Civil disobedience and symbolic protest have characterized many...

The Revolution Starts at Home

Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

This watershed collection breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the “secret” of intimate violence within social justice circles and provides practical strategies for dealing with abuse and...

Water Wars

Privatization, Pollution, and Profit

Vandana Shiva

Acclaimed author and award-winning scientist and activist Vandana Shiva lucidly details the severity of the global water shortage, calling the water crisis “the most pervasive, most...

A World to Win

Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony

William K. Carroll

In this time of economic, ecological and social crises, a diverse array of collective movements carry the possibilities of deep democratization and alternative futures. A World to Win...

Hope in the Dark

Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental,...

Keywords for Radicals

The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle

AK Thompson

Bringing together the insights of dozens of scholars and committed troublemakers, Keywords for Radicals explores a robust vocabulary of words that shape today’s political landscape. Each entry...