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More "May Made Me" (Free E-book)
Additional Elements of an Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France
$0.00Gathering material for May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France, editor Mitchell Abidor wound up with more interviews than could feasibly fit in the book. They revealed...
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Whither Anarchism? e-book
$6.00 $4.50Can the contemporary anarchist scene investigate its shortcomings and mark a path toward the total transformation of society and the creation of a more just world?
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Making Spaces Safer e-book
A Pocket Guide
$6.00 $4.50Shawna Potter, lead singer of War On Women, has been a musician for over twenty years—and has been sexually harassed, discriminated against, or made to feel unsafe for just as long. This pamphlet...
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Whither Anarchism?
$6.00Can the contemporary anarchist scene investigate its shortcomings and mark a path toward the total transformation of society and the creation of a more just world?
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Making Spaces Safer
A Pocket Guide
$6.00Shawna Potter, lead singer of War On Women, has been a musician for over twenty years—and has been sexually harassed, discriminated against, or made to feel unsafe for just as long. This pamphlet...
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Test Card F
Television, Mythinformation And Social Control
$6.00Test Card F is a graphic demolition derby through the culture of a factory farmed and show-shocked society, a society whose sell-by date has long since expired. Using savage image/text cut and...
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SCUM Manifesto e-book
$9.99 $7.49A new edition of a best-selling title. For over forty years, Valerie Solanas's biting polemic has delighted and terrified readers. SCUM is an indictment of patriarchal culture, a call to action, a...
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The Duty to Stand Aside e-book
Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort
$16.00 $8.00The story of one of the most intriguing yet little-known literary-political feuds—and friendships—in 20th-century English literature.
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The Duty to Stand Aside
Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort
$16.00 $8.00The story of one of the most intriguing yet little-known literary-political feuds—and friendships—in 20th-century English literature.
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Taking Sides e-book
Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism
$11.99 $8.99Taking Sides argues not for reform of structurally brutal institutions but rather for their abolition. Its thirteen essays are sharp interventions that take particular aim at the role of...
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Anarchists Against the Wall E-book
Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle
$11.99 $8.99Part of a small but growing phenomenon in Israel since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall have been boldly challenging the Segregation Barrier and generalized violence against occupied Palestine....
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Imperiled Life e-book
Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe
$11.99 $8.99Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought...
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Anarchism and Its Aspirations e-book
$11.99 $9.00From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the participants in the "battle of Seattle" and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have been inspired by the ideal of a free society of free...
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The Anarchist Expropriators e-book
Buenaventura Durruti and Argentina's Working-Class Robin Hoods
$11.99 $9.00In early twentieth-century Argentina, anarchist expropriators employed direct, violent means to fund the production of books, newspapers, and other forms of propaganda—as well as to support the...
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Goals and Means
Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica
$19.00 $9.50Goals and Means investigates the relationship between revolutionary syndicalism and anarchism in Spain from the founding of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) in 1910 to the Second...
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Goals and Means e-book
Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica
$18.99 $9.50Goals and Means investigates the relationship between revolutionary syndicalism and anarchism in Spain from the founding of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) in 1910 to the Second...
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The Value of Radical Theory e-book
An Anarchist Introduction to Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
$12.99 $9.74The Value of Radical Theory achieves two main goals: It explains Marx’s economic theory, providing readers with a solid foundation in his critique of capitalism. Wayne Price’s political...
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Sewing Freedom E-Book
Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism
$12.99 $9.74Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early-20th century—a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare and a radical...
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One Game at a Time e-book
Why Sports Matter
$12.99 $9.75Former sportswriter and radical author Matt Hern interrogates the contemporary fascination with sports, arguing that the well-meaning progressive dismissal of sports as a legitimate place of...
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A Cavalier History of Surrealism
$9.95A down-and-dirty survey of the Surrealist movement written under a pseudonym in 1970 by leading Situationist theorist Raoul Vaneigem. Intended for a high-school readership, and dashed off in two...
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Feminisms in Motion
Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation
$20.00 $10.00Feminisms in Motion offers ideas, critique, and intersectional inspiration from diverse feminists who are pointing toward a world where all people can thrive.
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SCUM Manifesto
$10.00A new edition of a best-selling title. For over forty years, Valerie Solanas's biting polemic has delighted and terrified readers. SCUM is an indictment of patriarchal culture, a call to action, a...
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Feminisms in Motion e-book
Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation
$20.00 $10.00Feminisms in Motion offers ideas, critique, and intersectional inspiration from diverse feminists who are pointing toward a world where all people can thrive.
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Which Way For The Ecology Movement
$10.00In the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin calls for a critical social standpoint that transcends both "biocentrism" and "ecocentrism." A call for new politics and ethics of...
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Adicto a la Guerra
Por qué EEUU no puede librarse del militarismo
$10.00The first Spanish language edition of the best selling illustrated expose of U.S. military policy. AK Press's first foray into Spanish language publishing.
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Siege of Gresham
$10.00A bunch of Portland drunks are on a mission... and this time it's war. Their dark and perilous campaign ceaselessly picks up speed until it takes on a runaway life of its own, transformed by a...
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Immediatism
$10.00Immediatism is the latest tome from the insurrectionist theoretician, Hakim Bey. His incendiary words are beautifully illustrated by the renowned collage artist Freddie Baer. The result is a...
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End Time
Notes On The Apocalypse
$10.00This is a brand new edition of the prescient, near-future thriller. Written in a slashing, evocative style, 'End Time' has received rave reviews in underground and small press circles. Is it just...
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Zooicide
Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition
$20.00 $10.00Sue Coe’s uncompromising illustrations expose the inherent cruelty of the zoo industry, which treats living animals as exploitable commodities.
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Come Hell or High Water
A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry
$10.00Come 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...
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Anarchism in Latin America e-book
$20.95 $10.48This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti’s wide-ranging, country-by- country historical overview of anarchism’s social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations...
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Anarchism in Latin America
$20.95 $10.48This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti’s wide-ranging, country-by- country historical overview of anarchism’s social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations...
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Flash e-book
A Novel
$13.99 $10.49Jack Wilson is a scrappy city journalist bouncing from one alt weekly to the next, trying to eek out a living in the midst of the economic crisis and play role model to his college-aged son. A...
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Learning Good Consent e-book
On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support
$13.99 $10.50Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support...
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Controlled Flight Into Terrain
Stealworks Anthology 3.0
$10.95Controlled Flight Into Terrain is episode three in the sociopolitical graphic commentary from John Yates' Stealworks design compound. A San Francisco Bay Area independent designer, his work...
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Televisionaries
The Red Army Faction Story 1963-93
$10.95An irreverent chronological history and analysis of THE terrorist group that bombed and shot their way through the last three decades of Western capitalism. From student radicalism to Stammheim to...
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The Diamond Signature
A Novel In Four Books & The Death Of The Imagination—A Drama For Four Readers
$10.95The Diamond Signature is what Penny Rimbaud considers his most important work. It formed the basis for the band CRASS, who revolutionized both punk rock and politics in a blistering seven year...
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The Albert Memorial
The Anarchist Life and Times of Albert Meltzer (7 January 1920–7 May 1996)
$11.00Albert Meltzer was one of the most notable and influential figures in the British anarchist movement of the second half of the 20th century. From a schoolboy supporter of the Spanish Revolution, he...
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Collaboration / La colaboración e-book
The Ways We Work Together / Las Formas en que Trabajamos Juntos
$14.95 $11.21Dancing between poetry and narrative, this story rhythmically explores the myriad ways collaboration shapes our lives. Designed so that parents and children can discuss how the words and watercolor...
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Against Equality e-book
Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion
$14.99 $11.24This anthology reinvigorates the queer political imagination with contemporary radical voices critical of the gay community's embrace of single-issue “equality” politics. Centered on the holy...
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Arab Spring, Libyan Winter e-book
$14.99 $11.24This brief, timely analysis situates the assault on Libya in the context of the winds of revolt that swept through the Middle East in the Spring of 2011. Vijay Prashad explores the recent history...
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Ready for Revolution e-book
The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933–1938
$14.99 $11.24The Spanish Revolution wasn’t spontaneous. The clandestine armed wing of the anarchist workers’ movement became the building block and rampart in the fight against fascism, church, and state....
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Disassembly Required E-Book
A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism
$14.99 $11.24To imagine how we might change capitalism, we first need to understand it. To succeed in actually changing it, we need to be able to explain how it works and convince others that change is both...
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In the Shadow of the Sabertooth e-book
A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene
$14.99 $11.24Our climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people...
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Turn This World Inside Out e-book
The Emergence of Nurturance Culture
$14.99 $11.24In Turn This World Inside Out, Nora Samaran presents “Nurturance Culture” as the opposite of rape culture and suggests how alternative models of care and accountability can...
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Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs e-book
A Novel
$14.99 $11.24Wayne Foster is fed up. How long can you work in a dead-end job as a full-time burger-flipper in a small town in Scotland before you start to wonder what comes next? Add a likeable geek with a love...
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Making Spaces Safer e-book
A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather
$14.99 $11.24A clear and concise guide for public spaces of all sorts—from art galleries to bagel shops to concert halls—that want to shut down harassers wherever they show up.
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Take Back the Land e-book
Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown
$14.99 $11.24In October 2006, a group of housing activists called Take Back the Land seized control of a plot of public land in Miami, Florida and built an encampment that would become known as the Umoja...
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Freedom in Solidarity e-book
My Experiences in the May 1968 Uprising
$15.00 $11.25Naïmi's account of May ’68 is a memoir like no other. Spirited and inspiring, it manages to transmit important historical lessons amid stories of sex, student life, and street-fighting.
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Turn This World Inside Out
The Emergence of Nurturance Culture
$15.00 $11.25In Turn This World Inside Out, Nora Samaran presents “Nurturance Culture” as the opposite of rape culture and suggests how alternative models of care and accountability can...
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No More Heroes e-book
Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality
$15.00 $11.25Award-winning journalist Jordan Flaherty brings us inside the dark and politically twisted mind of the savior. Insightful and unsparing, No More Heroes is an indispensible tool for...
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Freedom in Solidarity
My Experiences in the May 1968 Uprising
$15.00 $11.25Naïmi's account of May ’68 is a memoir like no other. Spirited and inspiring, it manages to transmit important historical lessons amid stories of sex, student life, and street-fighting.
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I Am Action e-book
Literary And Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles
$15.00 $11.25Articles and poems from Ricardo Flores Magón’s trusted comrade, the Mexican revolutionary who wrote for the papers Revolucíon, Punto Rojo,...
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Animal Ingredients A–Z
Third Edition
$11.95Animal Ingredients A to Z is the bible for vegetarians, vegans, the health conscious and caring consumers. More and more we find our everyday foods containing peculiar ingredients--many of which...
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Moving Forward
Program for a Participatory Economy
$11.95If not capitalism, then what? Something's not working here, and it's pretty clear what's wrong. But there's a dearth of material on what could be right -- and more important, how to do it....
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The Realization And Suppression Of The Situationist International
An Annotated Bibliography 1972–1992
$11.95The Situationist International (1957-1972) has had a very productive afterlife. This annotated bibliography contains over 600 references that chart its rise to fame from obscurity to celebrity....
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A New World in Our Hearts
8 Years of Writings from the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation
$11.95The Love and Rage Federation was perhaps the most visible revolutionary anarchist organization in North America in the last few decades. This book keeps alive the many key political contributions...
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Fascism Today e-book
What It Is and How to End It
$15.95 $11.96A detailed map of the far right and a game plan for building the mass movement that will stop it.
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Angels with Dirty Faces e-book
Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption
$15.99 $11.99"A brave, honest search for answers regarding incarceration." People can do unimaginable things to one another—and then what? What do we as a society do? What might redemption look like?
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Undoing Border Imperialism e-book
$15.99 $11.99Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reframing immigrant rights movements...
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Dispatches Against Displacement e-book
Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars
$15.99 $11.99The true story of how gentrification, fueled by income inequality, decimated working people in San Francisco.
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Weaponizing Anthropology e-book
$15.99 $11.99In the years since September 11, 2001, David Price has been at the forefront of public debates over the ethical and political issues raised by using anthropology for America's terror wars....
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Decolonizing Anarchism e-book
An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle
$15.99 $11.99Decolonizing Anarchism examines the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. What emerges...
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Fear of the Animal Planet e-book
The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
$15.99 $11.99Until the lion has his historian," the African proverb goes, "the hunter will always be a hero." Jason Hribal fulfills this promise and turns the world upside down. Taking the reader deep inside...
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Marshall Law e-book
The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
$15.99 $11.99In 1970, the feds framed Eddie Conway for the murder of a Baltimore City Police officer. He was 24 years old. They threw him in prison, took him away from his family, his friends, and his...
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The Price of Fire e-book
Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
$15.99 $11.99New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the "price of fire"—access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources. Though these movements...
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Dispersing Power e-book
Social Movements as Anti-State Forces
$15.99 $11.99Raúl Zibechi is one of Latin America's leading political theorists. This, his first book translated into English, is an historical analysis of social struggles in Bolivia and the forms of...
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Dancing with Dynamite e-book
Social Movements and States in Latin America
$15.99 $11.99In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain...
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Alerta! Alerta! e-book
Snapshots of Europe’s Anti-Fascist Struggle
$16.00 $12.00On-the-ground profiles of the unique characters involved in anti-fascist struggles in Europe, offering historical context, explaining the roots and growth of the far-right, as well as the history...
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Sabate
Guerilla Extraordinary
$12.00A new edition of the incredible story of the life, the actions, and the death of an anarchist guerilla. Sabate was the most famous of the anarchists who never stopped - after the defeat of the...
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Taking Sides
Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism
$12.00Taking Sides argues not for reform of structurally brutal institutions but rather for their abolition. Its thirteen essays are sharp interventions that take particular aim at the role of...
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Anarchism and Its Aspirations
$12.00From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the participants in the "battle of Seattle" and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have been inspired by the ideal of a free society of free...
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As Black as Resistance e-book
Finding the Conditions for Liberation
$16.00 $12.00Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for Black Americans, one rooted in an anarchistic framework likened to the Black experience itself. This is not a...
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Anarchists Against the Wall
Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle
$12.00Part of a small but growing phenomenon in Israel since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall have been boldly challenging the Segregation Barrier and generalized violence against occupied Palestine....
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Pie Any Means Necessary
The Biotic Baking Brigade Cookbook
$12.00What do Bill Gates, Milton Freidman, William F Buckley, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Sylvester Stallone, Canadian Premier Jean Chretien, Swedish King Carl Gustaf, Ronald McDonald, Timothy...
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Addicted to War
Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism—Revised Edition
$12.00A new edition of the classic antiwar text. Updates include Barack Obama's drone wars, Chelsea Manning and wikileaks, statistics on military spending, and the ongoing costs and consequences of wars...
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Oppose and Propose
Lessons from Movement for a New Society
$12.00Where do the tactics, strategies, and lifestyles of today's activists come from? Many ways of doing radical politics pioneered by Movement for a New Society in the 1970s and 1980s have become...
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Joyful Militancy e-book
Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
$16.00 $12.00Joyful Militancy investigates how fear, self-righteousness, and moralism infiltrate and take root within liberation movements, what to do about them, and ultimately how tenderness and vulnerability...
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Imperiled Life
Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe
$12.00Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought...
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Rethinking Anarchy e-book
Direct Action, Autonomy, Self-Management
$16.00 $12.00Taibo introduces the basic tenets of anarchism while also engaging the debates around each of them, producing a book that will appeal to beginners and readers with extensive knowledge of the...
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Mythmakers & Lawbreakers
Anarchist Writers on Fiction
$12.00The 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,...
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Worshiping Power e-book
An Anarchist View of Early State Formation
$16.00 $12.00We need to stop thinking of the State as a potential vehicle for emancipation. From its origins, the State has never been anything other than a tool to accumulate power.
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Dear Sister e-book
Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence
$15.99 $12.00This muti-ethnic, multi-generational collection is written directly to and by survivors of sexual violence and allies. Intentionally written in an accessible language appealing to all populations...
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The Battle of the Story of the "Battle of Seattle"
$12.00With the World Trade Organization in retreat globally, do we remember the seeds of the anti-capitalist movements that blossomed and, in 1999, brought Seattle to a standstill? This collection...
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The Anarchist Expropriators
Buenaventura Durruti and Argentina's Working-Class Robin Hoods
$12.00In early twentieth-century Argentina, anarchist expropriators employed direct, violent means to fund the production of books, newspapers, and other forms of propaganda—as well as to support the...
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To Remember Spain
The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936
$12.00In the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin places the Spanish Anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements of the 1930's in the context of revolutionary worker's movements of the...
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Emergent Strategy e-book
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
$16.00 $12.00Self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride!
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Hegemony How-To e-book
A Roadmap for Radicals
$16.95 $12.71A conceptual guide to political struggle for a social movement and generation that is deeply ambivalent about power, Hegemony How-To makes a moral and strategic case for the intentional...
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Hopeless e-book
Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
$16.99 $12.74The election of Barack Obama sparked long-dormant tingles of optimism in even the most entrenched political cynics. But the promise of an Obama revolution fizzled out even before his inauguration,...
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Against the Fascist Creep e-book
$16.99 $12.74A terrifying tour of the history and influence of international neo-fascists, Against the Fascist Creep maps the connections and names the names, showing how infiltration is a conscious and...
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I Belong Only to Myself e-book
The Life and Writings of Leda Rafanelli
$16.99 $12.74The life and words of an Italian anarchist, feminist, and firebrand. One of the most prolific propagandists in early-twentieth-century Italy.
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Drug War Capitalism e-book
$16.99 $12.74Combining on-the-ground reporting with extensive research, Dawn Paley moves beyond the usual horror stories to follow the thread of the Drug War story throughout the entire region of Latin America...
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One Game at a Time
Why Sports Matter
$12.95Former sportwriter and radical author Matt Hern interrogates the contemporary fascination with sports, arguing that the well-meaning progressive dismissal of sports as a legitimate place of...
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An Idol Killing
$12.95All life is worthless... but some lives cost more to terminate than others. It's 2046, Britain teeters on the brink of total ecological collapse. Tonight, Empti Vee, rockstar celebrity,...
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The Value of Radical Theory
An Anarchist Introduction to Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
$12.95The Value of Radical Theory achieves two main goals: It explains Marx’s economic theory, providing readers with a solid foundation in his critique of capitalism. Wayne Price’s political...
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Sewing Freedom
Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism
$12.95Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early-20th century—a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare and a radical...
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Anarcho-Syndicalism
Theory and Practice
$12.95The publication of Rudolf Rocker's Anarcho-Syndicalism is an event of much importance for people who are concerned with problems of liberty and justice. Rocker expresses throughout his faith in...
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Seizing the Airwaves
A Free Radio Handbook
$12.95The first book to document and emphasize the myriad voices of the free radio movement, from Black Liberation Radio in Springfield, Illinois, to Free Radio Berkeley in Berkeley, California. The...
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The Conquest of Bread e-book
$12.99The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin's most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equitable means of...
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Between the Bullet and the Lie e-book
Essays on Orwell
$17.95 $13.46Not a study of sacred decrees from Orwell, but an application of his thought to political and literary questions that trouble us today.