History & Politics

Editor: Iain McIntyre
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.

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.

Richard A. Walker
This sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases.

Photographer: Howard Epstein • Introduction: Ken Light • Editor: Grendl Löfkvist
Black and White is a book of 32 evocative images of political conflict and confrontations in the streets taken by Howard Epstein when he was a photo

Gaston Leval • Translation and Foreword by Vernon Richards
A unique account of worker-run collectives in Revolutionary Spain combining eyewitness documentation with keen analysis of a unique historical moment.

Editors: Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette
The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction.

George Katsiaficas
This book brings to life social movements of the 1960s, a period of world-historical struggles.

Editor: scott crow
This anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, as used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals.

David Pilgrim
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum and stories from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.

Editor: Wess Harris
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history.

Noam Chomsky • Edited by Davor Džalto
Through articles, public talks, and correspondence, Chomsky addresses some of the crucial political and social issues affecting both the Balkans and the international community.

Editor and translator: Mitch Abidor
This is an anthology of figures who expressed the will and wishes of this nascent revolutionary class, in all its rage, directness, and contradictoriness.

Mark Leier
Outlining the similarities between Bakunin and Marx, Leier suggests that the differences have often been exaggerated preventing activists from learning useful lessons about creating vibrant movements.

Paul Buhle and Tom Keough
This pamphlet, the first graphic treatment of Connolly’s life, is issued on the centenary of the Easter Rising.

Nobuo Nishi
Visions of Peace and Justice, Volume 2 contains the images of posters printed at Inkworks Press from 2008 to its closing in December 2015.

Lincoln Cushing
Visions of Peace & Justice Volume 1 contains over 400 full color reproductions of political posters from the archives of Inkworks Press.

Mat Callahan
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties.

Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff
Other Avenues Are Possible offers a vivid account of the dramatic rise and fall of the San Francisco People’s Food System of the 1970s.

Julius Deutsch • Editor/Translator: Gabriel Kuhn
The selected writings of Deutsch, leader of workers’ militias, president of the Socialist Workers’ Sport International, and spokesperson for the Austrian workers’ temperance movement.

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.

Elliott Liu
Maoism and the Chinese Revolution offers the novice reader a sweeping overview of five decades of Maoist revolutionary history.

Peter Linebaugh
A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.

Franklin Rosemont
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.

David Pilgrim
This book introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than ten thousand contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and intelligent discussions about race.

Editor and translator: Mitchell Abidor
Death to Bourgeois Society tells the story of four young anarchists who were guillotined in France in the 1890s: Ravachol, Auguste Vaillant, Emile Henry, and the Italian immigrant Santo Caserio.