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"An indispensable source book for anyone interested in Proudhon's ideas and the origins of the socialist and anarchist movements in nineteenth-century Europe."--Robert Graham, editor of Anarchism: A...

This is a fascinating window into the development of the women's movement in the words of those who moved it. Compiled and introduced by the UK-based anarchist-intellectual collective Dark Star,...

Dispatches from behind bars. Political prisoners speak out.The official story is that the United States has no political prisoners. The reality is that there are hundreds of people rounded up, placed...

Grief can be a catalyst for social transformation.Author: Cindy Milstein, Cindy MilsteinPublisher: Ak PressPublication Date: Sep 19, 2017Number of Pages: 408 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Moving toward an ecological utopia. According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis--a crisis he was among the first to identify--will require replacing industrial capitalism...

The theory, practice, and challenges of the feminist, anticapitalist Rojava revolution.More than a decade has passed since the revolutionary process began in Rojava, later evolving into the...

Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. This is second title in the new (and best-selling!) Nabat series that debuted with Jack Black's You Can't Win...

This book asks--and tries to answer--several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will...

The only crisis of capitalism is capitalism itself. Let's toss credit default swaps, bailouts, environmental externalities and, while we're at it, private ownership of production in the dustbin of...

A brilliant blueprint for a free society by one of anarchism's most famous theorists. The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin's most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most...

The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements And The Decolonization Of History In BoliviaAuthor: Benjamin DanglPublisher: Ak PressPublication Date: May 14, 2019Number of Pages: 220...

"Revolutions without theory fail to make progress. We of the 'Friends Of Durruti' have outlined our thinking, which may be amended as appropriate in great social upheavals but which hinges upon two...

Essential reading in Jewish labor history, culture, and radicalism. Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe once comprised the largest segment of the anarchist movement in the United States. Part...

The Modern CrisisAuthor: AK PressPublisher: AK PressPublication Date: Aug 02, 2022Number of Pages: 196 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/NatureISBN-10: 1849354464ISBN-13: 9781849354462

Based on extensive interviews with former pupils and teachers, this Pulitzer Prize-nominated work is a seminal and important investigation into the potential of educational alternatives. Between 1910...

The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and AbolitionAuthor: William C. AndersonPublisher: AK PressPublication Date: Nov 29, 2021Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory Of The Modern State - 9781849353878Author: Eric LaursenPublisher: AK PressPublication Date: May 18, 2021Number of Pages: 170 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

"Readers mystified by the yawning gulf between public opinion and current political discussion might benefit from the background provided in Eric Laursen's magisterial history, 'The People's Pension:...

Our ecological problems stem from our social problems. A framework for understanding both.Author: Murray BookchinPublisher: AK PressPublication Date: Apr 19, 2022Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage:...

Radical movements for social change are not immune to sexual assault and gendered violence. This landmark collection brings together two dozen voices, as fearless as they are compassionate, to...

At once a masterpiece of critical theory and rip-roaring radical humor, this is one of the most spirited attacks on the notion of the "work ethic" ever to be published. Featuring a revised edition of...

In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of "direct action"--workers' control of production, the creation of free...

A groundbreaking feminist text that explains our obsession with true crime as a form of sexual terror. This riveting work of feminist theory puts words to the lingering threat of sexual violence and...

The seminal history of Spanish anarchism: from its earliest inception to the organizations that claimed over two million members on the eve of the 1936 Revolution. Hailed as a masterpiece, it...

A collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. The Struggle Against the State and...

"A scholarly gem which is indispensable reading for anyone interested in how social change occurs, especially in the advanced industrial countries."--Carl Boggs, National University"This book is an...

The World We are Fighting ForAuthor: Seth Tobocman, Peter Kuper, Ethan HeitnerPublisher: AK PressPublication Date: Sep 15, 2020Number of Pages: 180 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

An exploration of the Zapatista project, from its conception to the present.On the thirtieth anniversary of the Mayan Indigenous uprising in Chiapas, The Zapatista Experience reconstructs the...

The last speeches and communiques of Subcommander Marcos, delivered before he "ceased to exist."Author: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Nick HenckPublisher: Ak PressPublication Date: Feb 06,...

In the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin places the Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements of the 1930s in the context of revolutionary worker's movements of the pre-World...