English books

Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism As Americans take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump, L.A. Kauffman’s timely, trenchant history of protest offers unique insights into how past movements have won victories in times of crisis and backlash and how they can be most effective today. This deeply researched account, ...

The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience, social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus. Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent and induce new forms of civic disobedience and ...

Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth CenturyFrom the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women broke with custom and prejudice. Taking off corsets, forming free ...

Malatesta is the direct link between the demise of the First International in 1871 and the struggle against European fascism that started some forty years later. After the ruckus between Marx and Bakunin catalysed the separate development of revolutionary socialist organisations, he joined both the anarchist Federalist International and its Italian section. Spending long stretches of ...

Expect Resistance is not one but three books, each of which may be read as a complete work unto itself. The first book, printed in standard black ink, continues the inquiry into modern life and its discontents begun in Days of War, Nights of Love. Just as that book included improved versions of texts originally published between 1996 and 1999, this book draws on CrimethInc. ...

A history of anarchist organisation from Proudhon to May 1968 The finest single volume history of European anarchism is finally available in English in Paul Sharkey's elegant translation. Drawing on decades of research, Alexandre Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Critical and engaged, he offers biting and ...

Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change - these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren’t they the biggest issues for the vast majority of women around the globe? Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, this manifesto makes a simple but powerful case: feminism ...

Dieses englischsprachige Buch bietet kurze Einblicke in eine vielfältige und facettenreiche Bewegung mit Berichten von lokalen Kämpfen, Erfahrungen mit (staatlicher) Repression und Geschichten eines kollektiven Lebens, erwachsen aus den besetzten Orten verschiedener Städte und Länder weltweit, inklusive Australien und den USA. Herausgeber*innen: Sqek (squatting ...

Bearded bomb-throwers, self-indulgent nihilists, dangerous subversives - these characteristic clichés of anarchists in the popular imagination are often reproduced in the cinema. In Film and the Anarchist Imagination, the first comprehensive survey of anarchism in film, Richard Porton deconstructs such stereotypes while offering an authoritative account of films featuring ...

...here is a true story of mind-boggling feats of courage and hairbreadth escapes, of battling overwhelming evil against insurmountable odds. Here is a chance to rediscover the meaning of probably the most debased and emptied-out words in the English language: heroism. The story of the Warsaw ghetto is one of the most heartbreaking and tragic in all of recorded history. Bernard ...

Reading the ideas of Maurice Brinton for the first time proves discomforting to most - and downright insufferable to many. The most prolific contributor to the British Solidarity Group (1961-1992), he sought to inspire a mass movement based on libertarian socialist politics. Attempting to blow away the bad air of the "Old" and "New" Left alike, Brinton used the past as a guide - but ...

Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new - radical and egalitarian - phase of feminist thought and action. During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation ...