History & Politics

Kris Hermes
This book shows how events in 2000 acted as a testing ground to develop repressive policing methods now used across the U.S., as well as providing a laboratory for radical, innovative, and confrontational forms of legal support.

Ward Churchill
Wielding Words like Weapons is a collection of acclaimed American Indian Movement activist-intellectual Ward Churchill’s essays in indigenism, selected from material written during the decade 1995–2005.

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.

Francis Dupuis-Déri • Translated by Lazer Lederhendler
This is a comprehensive view of the tactic and locates it within the anarchist tradition of direct action and includes recent actions at protests around the world.

Shin Eun-jung
A critical examination of Harvard’s monumental but disconcerting global influence and power, this book examines aspects of Harvard’s history not generally known.

J. Sakai
Settlers uncovers the collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the U.S. was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity.

Paul Krassner
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders is darkly satiric take on two of the most famous cases of our era: the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst and the shocking assassination of San Francisco gay leader Harvey Milk.

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.

Editors: Peter Kuper and Seth Tobocman
Founded in 1979, World War 3 Illustrated is a collective of artists and activists working with the unified goal of creating a home for political comics, graphics, and stirring personal stories.

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.

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.

Utah Phillips
Starlight on the Rails is the most complete collection of Utah’s songs ever released. Spanning 30 years of studio, live, and unreleased recordings this set includes Utah’s reflections about each song.

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.

scott crow
A memoir of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amid collapse, and struggling against the grain. This edition includes new discussions on disaster relief, infiltration and surveillance from the State, and new photos.

Elizabeth Morgan
Seventy-seven songs, with words and sheet music, of solidarity, revolt, humor, and revolution. Compiled from several generations in America, and from around the world.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C. Smith, and William E. Trautmann
The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy edited here and with an introduction by Salvatore Salerno.