World History

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.

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.

Gabriel Kuhn
With the help of over a hundred full-color illustrations Playing as if the World Mattered makes the political history of sports tangible.

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt
This incisive account of the centrality of the arts to the Cuban Revolution follows the polemical twists and turns of the struggle between Soviet-derived and uniquely Cuban approaches to culture under socialism.

Editor: Mitchell Abidor
Voices of the Paris Commune presents the stories of those who lived through and participated in the Commune in the spring of 1871.

Errico Malatesta · Edited by Vernon Richards
These selections showcase Malatesta’s classical anarchism: a revolutionary, nonpacifist, nonreformist vision informed by decades of engagement in struggle and study.

Wolfgang Eckhardt
This book chronicles the conflicts in the International Working Men’s Association (First International) using source material from numerous archives and libraries that have gone unnoticed or were completely unknown.

Gilles Dauvé and François Martin
Doing away with wage-labor, class, the State, and private property is possible, and can only be achieved by a historical break, it will not be a peaceful, gradual, piecemeal evolution.

Victor Serge • Translator: Richard Greeman
This epic novel is set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. From "victory in defeat" to "defeat in victory."

Victor Serge · Edited by Mitchell Abidor
Anarchists Never Surrender anthologizes Serge’s previously unavailable texts on anarchism and fleshes out the portrait of this brilliant writer and thinker.

Featuring interviews from key figures and lyrical analysis, Venceremos gives insight into how the New Chilean Song Movement’s revolutionary anthems came to be.

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.

ASARO, Mike Graham de La Rosa, and Suzanne M. Schadl
Presenting, in full color, the work of ASARO covering global themes of corporate greed, genetically modified organisms, violence against women, and abuses of natural resources.

Editors: Bart van der Steen, Ask Katzeff, and Leendert van Hoogenhuijze
The City Is Ours paints a broad and complex picture of Europe's squatting and autonomous movements through local movement histories of eight different cities.

Ian Glasper
The true story of the UK punk scene from '80–84 told by the bands and record labels that created it; profiling bands like Vice Squad, Angelic Upstarts, Blitz, Anti-Nowhere League, Cockney Rejects, and more obscure groups.

Peter Linebaugh
This majestic tour de force takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops.

C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs
This is a pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and a reclamation of Marx.

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.

Iain McIntyre
This book reveals Australia's radical past through more than 500 tales of Indigenous resistance, convict revolts and escapes, picket line hijinks, creative direct action, street art, media pranks, squatting, etc.

Peter Linebaugh
Linebaugh enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.

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.

José Peirats
Volume 3 tells of the CNT's last push for the anarchist revolution.

José Peirats
Volume 2 focuses on the battles raging at both the front and rear guards.