Activism & Organizing

Aleida García Aguirre, with Molly Vine and Patrick Dexter
The story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of American higher education and set a new standard of militancy.

Gordon Simmons
Mutiny in the Mountains uses labor history to show the way forward for millions of workers struggling in an age of uncertainty.

Susan Simensky Bietila
This book is a blueprint for artists looking to engage with activist movements with a persistent longevity and a reminder that art has the power to be more dangerous than words.

Tomas Rothaus
An adventure through the outsized and unexpected remnants of the influence of anarchist ideas and practice on modern-day Argentina featuring the explosive intersection of anarchism, football, and the crisis of neoliberalism.

Bernard Marszalek
Utopianism arose in the 19th century as a response to industrialism. Today a new culture needs to address the immanent disasters of climate catastrophe and resource depletion with "radical hedonism".

Jarrod Shanahan
A decade of American society coming apart.

Renato Baruq and Cadu Passos
The book Casa Encantada the almost 20 old abandoned houses in Belo Horizonte that have been squatted and transformed into homes and social centers.

Rosa Schling
This new book charts the history of 5 Caledonian Road, which has survived as a radical oasis in central London for over 60 years.

Tomas Rothaus
A history of twentieth century anarchist mass mobilizations and the movement against capitalist globalization come to life.

Tom Juravich, Olivia Geho, and Andrew Gorry
After the labor movement faded away in the lives of most Americans, organizing is back!

Ian Brennan
A quick read covering violence prevention, crisis resolution, and anger management techniques.

Julian Langer
The task of Eco–Absurdism is not to change the world. Rather, the question is how do we live together? How might I co–exist with other living beings and embrace my life and relationship with them, with absurd and unreasonable pas

Crimethinc
From an anarchist perspective, organizational structure should maximize both freedom and voluntary coordination at every level of scale, from the smallest group up to society as a whole.

Marjolijn van Riemsdijk
The second Autonomedia title to concentrate on the Provo movement in the Netherlands, unique in the modern era for having radically reshaped the political foundations of an important Western nation virtually without vio

Roman Danyluk • Gabriel Kuhn
This is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the politics of the era and the ongoing quest to challenge the rule of the state and capital.

Starvation ArmyThis is the music of Direct Action! Music to fan the flames of discontent!

Gabriele Schafer
In the middle of the night on Thanksgiving 1990, life partners Gabriele and Nick erected a 25-foot-tall replica of a Lakota tipi in New York City’s then longest-existing shantytown in remembrance of the lives lost at the Wound

Michael Zweig
A book for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today’s social justice movements.

Richard Kempton
This book narrates the rise and fall of Provo who staged political and cultural interventions into the symbolic and everyday spaces of Holland from 1962–1967.

Edited by Alyosha Goldstein and Simón Ventura Trujillo
Explores the significance of fascism for understanding authoritarianism today and centers anti-imperialist movements of Black, Indigenous, and colonized peoples.

Situationist International and Students from Strasbourg
The manifesto that launched the Situationist International (SI) into the public eye and sparked an uprising is back—with the story of its creation and the histories of its publication.

Norman Nawrocki
A magical realist "urban legend" about a hardworking, marginalized woman and her resistance and solidarity that is fed by hope and courage. Isabelle lives the unending dream of justice for all.

Peter Werbe
This collection of over 40 essays from his writings for Fifth Estate magazine provide unique and often humorous insights into: anarchism, capitalism, technology, civilization, racism, patriarchy, music, and more.

Amanda R. Williams & Paislee House
This book truly captures what total liberation is: an interdependent global movement to fight against all forms of oppression and domination.

James Kilgore and Vic Liu
Mass incarceration is a lived, sensory experience. This book is designed to inform, enrage, and ultimately inspire the same radical hope propelling incarcerated underminers of the carceral state.