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Kairos, an editorial imprint of the Anthropology and Social Change department housed in the California Institute of Integral Studies, publishes groundbreaking works in critical social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, geography, theory of education, political ecology, political theory, and history.

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SKU: 9781629638867

Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter (HC)

James Kelman & Noam Chomsky
The State relies on our suffocation, that we cannot hope to learn “the truth.” But whether we can or not is beside “the point.” Finally, there is no “point.” We must grasp the nettle, we assume control.

$39.95

SKU: 9781629639765

The State Is the Enemy: Essays on Liberation and Racial Justice — Hardcover

James Kelman

$39.95

SKU: 9798887440347

Freedom Shall Prevail: The Struggle of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish People

Sean Michael Wilson • Illustrated by Keko
Freedom Shall Prevail is the first graphic novel exploring the life and struggle of Abdullah Öcalan, affectionately known as “Apo.”

$19.95

SKU: 9798887440057

All We Have Is the Story: Selected Interviews 1973–2022

James Kelman
Collects fifty years of interviews, both published and unpublished, revealing Kelman’s thinking on a breadth of topics.

$24.95

SKU: 9781629639703

Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World

Subcomandante Marcos • Edited and translated by Colectivo Relámpago/Lightning Collective

A gorgeous collection of allegorical stories and “an accidental archive” of the Zapatista’s struggle against neoliberalism.

$16.95

SKU: 9781629639697

Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist Anarchist Solidarity

Michael Löwy and Olivier Besancenot • Translated by David Campbell

With the urgent need for a unified front against the far right, there has never been a better time for this inspiring story.

$18.95

SKU: 9781629639680

The State Is the Enemy: Essays on Liberation and Racial Justice

James Kelman

$19.95

SKU: 9781629639444

Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS

Janet Biehl
An illustrated exploration of the Kurdish people's struggle, their revolution, and resistance to ISIS.

$27.95

SKU: 9781629639383

Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic

William I. Robinson
A big-picture contribution to understanding contemporary global society in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

$17.95

SKU: 9781629638805

Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter

$19.95

SKU: 9781629638744

Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution

Peter Kropotkin
Every page of this new edition of Mutual Aid has been beautifully illustrated by N.O. Bonzo and includes artwork by GATS and insightful commentary by David Graeber, Ruth Kinna, Andrej Grubacic, and Allan Antliff.

$30.00

SKU: 9781629638355

Crossroads: I Live Where I Like: A Graphic History

Koni Benson • Illustrators: André Trantraal, Nathan Trantraal, and Ashley E. Marais • Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
A graphic nonfiction history of women-led movements at the forefront of the struggle in Cape Town over half a century.

$20.00

SKU: 9781629638300

Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century

Bob Ostertag
Ostertag explores how we are changing as fast as the world around us—from how we make music, to how we have sex, to what we do to survive, and who we imagine ourselves to be.

$17.00

SKU: 9781629637877

Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II), Second Edition

Abdullah Öcalan
The second volume of Öcalan’s five-volume work making the convincing argument that capitalism is not a product of the last four hundred years but a continuation of classical civilization.

$26.95

SKU: 9781629637815

The Art of Freedom: A Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle

Havin Guneser
A vital introduction to the Kurdish struggle, this is the first English-language book to deliver a distillation of the ideas and sensibilities that gave rise to the most important political event of the twenty-first century.

$16.95

SKU: 9781629637150

Beyond State, Power, and Violence

Abdullah Öcalan
This book is a breathtaking reconnaissance into life without the state, an essential portrait of the PKK and the Kurdish freedom movement, and an open blueprint for leftist organizing in the twenty-first century.

$29.95

SKU: 9781629637105

The Sociology of Freedom: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume III

Abdullah Öcalan
The fascinating third volume of a five-volume work presents Öcalan's stunningly original thesis of the democratic civilization, based on his criticism of capitalist modernity.

$28.95

SKU: 9781629637068

Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism

Silvia Federici
Federici surveys the paradigms that govern how the body is conceived and the disciplinary regimes state and capital are deploying in response to mounting revolt against the daily attacks on our everyday reproduction.

$15.95

SKU: 9781629637044

Building Free Life: Dialogues with Öcalan

Editor: International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan—Peace in Kurdistan”
Featured in this extraordinary volume are over a dozen contributors whose ideas have been investigated in Öcalan’s own writings.

$20.00

SKU: 9781629636511

The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava

Thomas Schmidinger
This book gives an account of the history and the present situation of the Canton of Afrin along with interviews with the inhabitants.

$19.95

SKU: 9781629635804

Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language

Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater • Foreword: John P. Clark
Simultaneously an exposition of Tsotsil philosophy and a detailed account of Zapatista governance structures, this book is an indispensable commentary on the Zapatista movement of today.

$19.95

SKU: 9781629635798

Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples

Erica Lagalisse • Foreword: Barbara Ehrenreich
Uses primary and secondary sources to set straight the history of the Left and illustrate the relationship between revolutionism, pantheistic occult philosophy, and the clandestine fraternity.

$17.95

SKU: 9781629635699

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

Silvia Federici • Foreword: Peter Linebaugh
This collection centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions of capital.

$19.95

SKU: 9781629635156

Beyond Crisis: After the Collapse of Institutional Hope in Greece, What?

Editors: John Holloway, Katerina Nasioka, and Panagiotis Doulos
The essays in this collection reflect on the experience of the crisis in Greece and its political implications for the whole world.

$21.95

SKU: 9781629635064

Archive That, Comrade! Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance

Phil Cohen
The book explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate.

$19.95

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