Rebellions & Prisons

Editor: Jai Sen
What Makes Us Move?, the first of two volumes, provides a background and foundation for understanding the extraordinary range of uprisings around the world.

Richard Parry
The Bonnot Gang were the most notorious French anarchists ever, and as bank expropriators the inventors of the motorized “getaway.” It is the story of how the anarchist taste for illegality developed into illegalism.

Editor: Gabriel Kuhn
This is the story of the Blekingegade Group who over a period of almost two decades sent millions of dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements.

Dan Berger
The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years.

Victor Serge • Translator: Richard Greeman
Everything in this book is fictional and everything is true. I have attempted, through literary creation, to bring out the general meaning and human content of a personal experience.

Russell Maroon Shoatz • Editors: Fred Ho and Quincy Saul
This is the first published collection of Maroon's accumulated written works, and also includes new essays written expressly for this volume.

Victoria Law
Resistance examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices while documenting both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the U.S.

Editors: J. Smith and André Moncourt
The long-awaited Volume 2 studying the Red Army Faction—West Germany's most notorious urban guerillas—covers the period immediately following the organization's near-total decimation in 1977.

Oscar López Rivera • Editor: Luis Nieves Falcón
Through photographs, paintings, and graphic content, Oscar's life is made strikingly accessible—so all can understand why this man has been deemed dangerous to the U.S. government.

Robert Hillary King
This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.

Jalil A. Muntaqim
This second edition of We Are Our Own Liberators consists of the prison writings of Jalil Muntaqim, which have spanned over the nearly forty years of his imprisonment.

Setsu Shigematsu, Cameron Granadino, Jolie Chea, and Critical Resistance
Visions of Abolition is a new feature length documentary about the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement.

Clément Duval • Translator: Michael Shreve
This is more than an historical document about the anarchist movement and the penal colony. It is a remarkable story of survival through self-determination, energy, courage, loyalty, and hope.

C.L.R. James
Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance.

David Gilbert
A candid, uncompromising, yet ultimately humane autobiography by arguably one of the most celebrated political prisoners in the world.

Freedom Archives
This DVD exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the U.S. government in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.

Editor Daniel Burton-Rose
A powerful illumination of a forgotten chapter of the radical social movements of the 1970s in which diverse interests combined forces in a potent rejection of business as usual in the United States.

Staughton Lynd
A powerful story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history, with a foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Gordon Carr
Based on extensive research, this book remains the essential study of Britain's first urban guerilla group.

Klaus Viehmann
Prison Round Trip is a reflection on prison life and how to keep one's sanity and political integrity behind bars.

Linda Evans and Eve Goldberg
Follow the money and find how the prison-industrial complex fits into the New World Order of free trade and imprisoned people, the war on drugs, and capital flight.

"You can't reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it breaks."
—Angry Brigade, communique

Editor: Matt Meyer
Collecting dozens of documents from the past three decades of struggle to free US political prisoners, this resource book is designed for action!

Editors: J. Smith and André Moncourt
The first in a series, this is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction ever made available in English.

Editor: Lois Ahrens
One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher.