Biography & Memoir

Ezra Brett Mell
This booklet comprises several short essays about the Bonnot gang with robberies and Getaways by Albert Meltzer and others.

Bernard Thomas
The amazing story of the French illegalist named Alexander Marius Jacob (among other aliases).

Laura
An interesting and honest document of one female activist's experiences of using alcohol and giving up alcohol.

Christina V. Pacosz
A daughter of Polish parents, the poet examines her heritage of growing up in Detroit.

Judith Malina
In these poems Judith shares her anguish at injustices inflicted by bureaucratic authority and the rewards she found in love and collaboration.

Peter Werbe
The temperature is scorching in Detroit during the summer of 1967 and so is everything happening in this fictionalized memoir by a staff member of the long-running Fifth Estate magazine.

Jacques Baynac
True history of the radical militant from upper class Tsarist Russia who has come to assassinate the interior minister.

Lorraine Perlman
A memoir with photos written by Fredy’s companion of 27 years.

Fredy Perlman
Perlman's major work, a vast study of the rise of totalitarian lifestyles and a profound affirmation of the struggle to reassert human values.

Leon Rosselson
Fierce and funny, this memoir in essay and song is full of wonderful tales of art and protest.

Jon Melrod
This inspiring tale recounts Jon Melrod's thirteen-year journey to harness working-class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors.

Margrit Schiller
Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction and her story recounts her experiences with the group from founding to her her eventual prison sentence.

James W. Loewen
The intimate and often humorous memoir by the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me.

Editor: Dani Burlison
This book covers topics of justice, creativity, racism, transgender perspectives, sexuality, sex work, addiction, reproductive rights, assault, relationship dynamics, families, radical self-care, witchcraft, and more.

Ian Brennan
A powerful exploration of the challenges facing art, music, and media in the digital era.

David Ranney
David Ranney’s vivid memoir describes his work experiences between 1976 and 1982 in the factories of southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana.

Mai’a Williams • Foreword: Ariel Gore
Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife, while mothering her young daughter Aza.

Ian Bone
Ian Bone breaks his silence as one of the founders of the Class War movement and a leading militant anarchist in the UK.

Anselm Jappe • Translator: Donald Nicholson-Smith
This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International and author of The Society of the Spectacle.

Kuwasi Balagoon • Edited by Matt Meyer and Karl Kersplebedeb
Balagoon combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, and took up arms against the white-supremacist state.

Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph • Editors: Matt Meyer & déqui kioni-sadiki
The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21.

Peter Marshall
The picture of Godwin that emerges is one of a complex man and a subtle and revolutionary thinker, one whose influence was far greater than is usually assumed.

Michelle Cruz Gonzales
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.

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 Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday
Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world.