English books

“Anarchism in the 21st Century” is a structured contemporary theory meant to address some of the most frequent questions that arise among people interested in anarchism. This brochure, the collective work of the Editorial Board, is a sample of Konstantinov’s lifelong inquiries into the future of humanity and his political argument for anarchism as the only possibility ...

Providing a complete picture of Victor Serge s relationship to anarchist action and doctrine, this volume contains writings going back to his teenage years in Brussels, where he became influenced by the doctrine of individualist anarchism. At the heart of the anthology are key articles written soon after his arrival in Paris in 1909, when he became editor of the newspaper "l'anarchie." ...

Anarchy in all it's glory from the free spirit mystics of the Middle Ages to the Ecology Movement today, by way of individualism and syndicalism, Nihilisms and Impressionism, the Paris Comune, propaganda by deed and punk. Bold. Inspiring. Beautyfull. Book, 206 pages

West Berlin in the 1980s, a city surrounded by a wall, razor wire and machine gun posts. Like Germany itself, it was divided into four sectors after the Second World War. The American, British and French sectors have become West Berlin, while the Russian sector has become Communist East Berlin. The Berlin Wall surrounds the American, British and French Sectors, a capitalist ...

This book is not intended for people who have spent a lifetime pondering the problems of anarchism, but for those who either had no idea of what the word implied or knew exactly what it implied and rejected it, considering that it had no relevance for the modern world. It is about the many ways in which people organise themselves in any kind of human society. Through a ...

Examples of Anarchist Ideas in Practice This book takes examples from around the world, picking through history and anthropology, showing that people have, in different ways and at different times, demonstrated mutual aid, self-organization, autonomy, horizontal decision making, and so forth--the principles that anarchy is founded on--regardless of whether they called ...

The new issue of the Balkan anarchist journal Antipoltika in English is out, and available at different distros across Europe. Soon it will be available in North America as well. The topic of issue #3 is nationalism and it contains texts written by anarchists from Zagreb, Thessaloniki, Belgrade, Athens, Ljubljana, Paris and Los Angeles. Some of the topics covered are: critiques of ...

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveals more than we might expect? Part-revisionist ...

An unapologetic, brutal memoir from notorious 60s career criminal James Carr. BAD covers Carr's life from his first arrest for burning down his school at age 9, through merciless stints in San Quentin, where he shared a cell with famed Soledad Brother George Jackson, through his tragic post-incarceration murder in San Jose in 1972. A savage indictment of the American penal system, this ...

No single living artist has created as many myths, rumours and legends as Banksy. Many of the tales in this book are from Bristol, some are from further afield. What they share is that they are all told with the wide eyed wonder which Banksy inspires. Collated between 2009 and 2011 some of these stories are quite old and have been told so many times they have become the stuff of legend, ...

Beasts of Burden was first published in October 1999. The aim of the anonymous pamphlet was to initiate a debate between animal liberationists and revolutionaries – anarchists and communists (the author uses the term ‘communist’ repeatedly and means communism in its original sense: a stateless and classless society where people live together and ‘the free ...

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the ensuing uprising, police abolition became a central demand for the black lives matter movement. Derecka Purnell’s story starts in St. Louis, where calling 911 was often the solitary and dangerous resort for any number of challenges in a deprived neighbourhood. Her political awakening follows the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the ...