'By A Flash And A Scare' - Arson, Animal Maiming, and Poaching in East Anglia 1815-1870

 ‘By a Flash and a Scare’ illuminates the darker side of rural life in the nineteenth century. Flashpoints such as t…

"To Delightful Measures Changed" Reflections on the 1978/79 Winter of Discontent

The 1978-79 Winter of Discontent, forgotten and repressed as it may be, nevertheless still haunts the memory of this socie…

"Venceremos": Victor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement

"A short cultural history, Venceremos charts the development of the movement from the years before Allende's victorious c…

"We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers

This is the history of the most significant translator, publisher, and distributor of left-wing literature in the United S…

100 Fishponds Rd: Life and Death in a Victorian Workhouse

"In 2012 some radical historians poring over old maps of East Bristol came across a disused burial ground at Rosemary Green c…

1919: Strikes, Struggles and Soviets

Slim booklet marking the centenary of 1919, a politically tumultuous year of strikes, mutinies and unrest, both in the UK and…

1968: On the Edge of World Revolution

'With the wildfire of uprisings and grassroots revolutions that shook governments and halted economies, 1968 was a year of se…

33 Lessons on Capital Reading Marx Politically

"Harry Cleaver's treatise outlines and critiques Marx's analysis chapter by chapter. His unique interpretation of Marx's labo…

A Barbarous and Ungovernable People!

 A Short History of the Miners of Kingswood Forest: #11 in the Bristol Radical Pamphleteer series. "A barbarous and u…

A Beautiful Idea: History of the Freedom Press Anarchists

Freedom Press is the oldest anarchist publishing house in the English-speaking world. Founded in 1886, the press has weathere…

A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance

"A Civil War is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who, as a young man, took part in the s…

A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture

'Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most gifted journalists of his generation. He never pulled his punches…

A Common Treasury

 At the end of the English Civil War, Gerrard Winstanley and his comrades, known as Diggers, went to St George's Hill to far…

A Critique of State Socialism

A4 sized graphic depiction of Bakunin's argument against state socialism, based on a somewhat editied version of an essay …

A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China

"The largest human migration in history is taking place in China today - incredibly, off the radar of the world’s major …

A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel

A graphic remembrance 100 years after his cruel murder during the Easter Rising. Art & story by Tom Keough; Edited and wit…

A History of the Barricade

"In the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance arises princip…

A History of the French Anarchist Movement 1917 to 1945

David Berry's study is the first English-language evaluation of the development and lessons of the French anarchist moveme…

A Living Spirit of Revolt: The Infrapolitics of Anarchism

"If at the end of the nineteenth century the network of anarchist collectives represented the first-ever global antisystem…

A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain

This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call 'the progressive…

A New Notion: Two Works by C. L. R. James

"C.L.R. James was a leading figure in the independence movement in the West Indies, and the black and working-class moveme…

A People's History of Modern Europe

'Europe provided the perfect conditions for waves of revolt from below—the radical Reformation, the political revolution…

A People's History of the French Revolution

"The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justic…

A People's History of the German Revolution 1918–1919

'In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when they were ordered to engage in one final, fruitless battle. This rev…

A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution

"On the 25th April 1974, a coup destroyed the ranks of Portugal’s fascist Estado Novo government as the Portuguese people f…

A Plea For Anarchist Communism

A re-issue of a pamphlet first issued in 1893, written by H. H. Duncan, back in the days when Aberdeen was something of a str…

A Post-Fordist Struggle: Report & Reflections on the 2009 UK Ford-Visteon Dispute

In June 2000 the Ford Motor Company outsourced the production of component parts to a new spin-off company called Visteon.…

A Shabby London Suburb? A walk around the working-class and radical history of Hammersmith

Revolting peasants...heretics...civil war agitators... chartists... suffragettes... socialists... irish republicans... anarch…

A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt

'In September 1971, the inmates of Attica, the upstate New York prison, revolted, took hostages, and forced the authoritie…

A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration

"Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly follo…

A World Growing Old

Author Jeremy Seabrook details the economic and social problems that we face as the worlds' population lives longer than e…

A Young People's History of the United States - volume two, Class Struggle to the War on Terror

 Adaptation of Zinn's Peoples History of the United States for young adults, volume two covers the wars and revolutions o…

A Young People's History of the United States

 Adaptation for young adults of Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States'. History from the point of view…

ABC of Anarchism

Swanky new 2006 edition of Alexander Berkman's classic exposition of the ideas of anarchist communism, including a short b…

Abolish Restaurants

A worker's critique of the food service industry - how it's set up, what it's like to work there, why we would be better off …

Abolish Work: An Exposition of Philisophical Ergophobia

Collection of essays around the theme of (anti) work: writing by editor Nick Ford, Kevin Carson, David Graeber, L. Susan B…

Abolishing the Borders from Below # 32

Issue from 2008, pieces on Labour Struggles and Unionism;  Squats and Autonomous Spaces; Romanian Anarchists; Reistance t…

Abolishing the Borders from Below #29

Themed on labour struggles in Eastern Europe, with the regular news, updates and calls for action. Articles and reports on…

Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex

Since 9/11, successive American administrations have pressured universities to hand over faculty, staff, and student work …

Alexander Berkman: Anarchist

As a young student in Russia, Alexander Berkman claims to have heard the bomb explode which killed Tsar Alexander II in 18…

All Power to the Councils!

A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919 Edited and translated by Gabriel Kuhn. Merlin and PM Press, 20…

All Power to the Imagination!

Revolutionary class struggle in trade unions and the petty bourgeois fetish of organisational purity. And if thats not eno…

American Anarchism

"American Anarchism by Steve J. Shone is a work of political theory and history that focuses on nineteenth-century America…

An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre

“That Voltairine de Cleyre remains a favorite historical figure of anarchists is due in large part to Paul Avrich’…

Anarchism And American Traditions

Classic essay from Voltairine de Cleyre, the famed anarcho-feminist. Pamphlet from See Sharp.

Anarchism and Anarchists: Essays by George Woodcock

For over 50 years George Woodcock was a champion of the anarchist movement, insisting that the rights of the individual ta…

Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937

Anarchism and the City is a fascinating look at four decades of tension preceding the Spanish Civil War, and the actors in c…

Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain

Frank Mintz’s classic study of collectivisation and economic experimentation during the Spanish revolution is available her…

Anarchism in America

Two fascinating documentaries on one DVD. Both are the work of Emmy and Guggenheim Award-winning filmmakers, Steven Fischl…

Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution

Author Arif Dirlik argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalis…

Anarchism: A Documentary History of Ideas, Volume 3

Volume Three: The New Anarchism (1974–2012). Documents the new directions and developments in anarchist ideas and practi…

Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas

Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300CE to 1939) is a huge collection of writings from feudal times through to the se…

Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Volume 2

Continuing where Volume One left off, this anthology of anarchist writings - broad in its geographical and intellectual sc…

Anarchist Encounters : Russian Revolution

Edited by A W Zurbrugg, this collection includes newly translated pieces by Armando Borghi, Gaston Leval, Ángel Pestaña Nú…

Anarchist Portraits

Paul Avrich's collection of mini-biographies of several well-known and less-well-known anarchists and anarchist organisati…

Anarchists of Andalusia, 1868–1903

"Andalusian anarchism was a grassroots movement of peasants and workers that flourished in Cádiz Province, the richest sh…

Anarchists, Syndicalists and the First World War

"The First World War was a painful ordeal for anarchists and revolutionary syndicalists. Preventing its onset, as they had pl…

Anarcho Syndicalism in Puerto Real

From shipyard resistance to direct democracy and community control in Southern Spain, 1987. Pamphlet published by Solidari…

Anarcho-Pessimism: the Collected Writings of Laurence Labadie

Well, with sections headed 'The Depression Years' and 'The Misanthropic Years', you couldn't accuse them of having a misle…

Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century

"Anarcho-syndicalism, a theory and practice of working class revolution, was developed not by scholars working in librarie…

Anti-Bolshevik Communism

Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of Councils, rather than a big state bur…

Anti-Capitalist Britain

Anti-Capitalist Britain is a collection of accessible and informative essays on the emerging anti-capitalist movement in the …

Anti-Mass Methods of Organisation for Collectives

Two essays, the first an argument for revolutionaries to abandon mass movements in favour of small collectives: a little b…

Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture

Selected Writings by Julius Deutsch "The Austromarxists tried to carve out a road between reformism and Bolshevism, creati…

Arms and the People: Popular Movements and the Military from the Paris Commune to the Arab Spring

'This book examines the relationship between mass movements and military institutions. Some argue that it is impossible to ac…

Art And Society: Lectures and Essays by William Morris

Edited and with an introduction by Gary Zabel, the nine lectures and essays collected in this volume represent the most im…

Asia's Unknown Uprisings, Volume 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century

"Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of twentieth century Korea, this book provides detail…

Aufheben # 15 - 2007

Edition (2007) of autonomist magazine from the Brighton posse containing articles on 'Lebanon, Iran and the "Long War' in …

Aufheben # 7 - Autumn 1998

Brilliant autonomist magazine from the Brighton posse. This issue covers: 'Social democracy: No future?' 'State of the…

Aufheben #13

In depth theoretical articles on housing and on Leopoldina Fortunati's Arcane of Reproduction, discussing the value of wor…

Aufheben #16 - 2008

The main article this issue is on Class Conflicts in China, with shorter pieces on Paolo Virno's 'A Grammar of the Multitu…

Aufheben #20 - 2011

Articles on Communities, commodities class: The August Riots; Driving the NHS to market; Going Underground: tube workers' …

Aufheben 18 - 2010 issue

 Venerable Marxist theoretical magazine from Brighton. Part 1 of an analysis of the financial crisis; recession struggles…

Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader

Widely regarded as Britain’s most influential anarchist thinker for over half a century, Colin Ward’s work ranges in s…

Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology

Huge, lavishly illustrated compilation of the best of Processed World Magazine - a must for anybody who's ever dreaded ano…

Bakunin: Selected Texts 1868-1875

Under Merlin Press' Anarres Editions imprint, a new collection of Bakunin's writing, edited and translated by A W Zurbrugg. 2…

Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America

Women banana workers in Latin America have organised themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their wor…

Basic Bakunin

A short basic introduction and outline of his main thoughts on revolutionary organisation, the state, class, Marx, unions, bo…

Battle For The East End: Jewish Respones to Fascism in the 1930s

Throughout the 1930s, Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts increased their campaign against the Jewish community, particularly in L…

Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880–1914

"Beer and Revolution examines the rollicking life and times of German immigrant anarchists in New York City from 1880 to 1914…

Ben Tillett

This booklet concerns the life of a working-class Bristolian who, though tireless and outspoken in his early days in addre…

Beyond Black and White: From Civil Rights to Barack Obama

"Highly acclaimed dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time …

Birth of Our Power

'Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917-1919. Serge's…

Black Flag # 213

The essential source of news, analysis, commentary, excellent investigative research and articles on anarchist resistance.…

Black Flag # 216

The essential source of news, analysis, commentary, excellent investigative research and articles on anarchist resistance.…

Black Flag # 219

The essential source of news, analysis, commentary, excellent investigative research and articles on anarchist resistance.…

Black Flag #230

 Leading with the new Welfare Bill and why its regressive politics must be fought, plus writing on anarchist economics; a…

Black Flag 224

In depth articles on the Miner's Strike, Zapatistas, May Day, Piquetaras among others along with reviews and comment. Our …

Black Flag 228

Feature articles on greenwash capitalism and eco-anarchism, the UK prison system, the fall of the unions, the NHS, an inve…

Black Flag 229

Lead articles on the Greek insurrection of December 2008, the economic crisis, the mainstreams preference for the caricatu…

Black Flag 232 - 2010/11

 Concentrating on the unions for this issue, a timely topic for the current economic situation. Also pieces on the UK…

Black Flag 235

Leading with the crisis in the Post Office, plus the rise of Fascism; Scottish Independance; history articles on the Pento…

Black Flag Issue 237 - 2015/16

Leading with pieces on Squats & Resistance and Scotland & Anarchism.  Also writing on polling; patriarchy and men's right…

Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective

"Black Flags and Windmills, crow's first book, focuses on Common Ground Collective, an anarchist-based relief organization he…

Black Liberation and the American Dream: The Struggle for Radical and Economic Justice

"Considering the connections between class and racial oppression, and the often marginalized role of the Left in antiracist s…

Black Women Organising

The Brixton Black Women’s Group, founded in 1973, emerged among women who had been active in the Black Power movement in Lo…

Blacklisted - The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists

Authors Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain detail the illegal strategies used by transnational construction companies to deny…

Bliss Tweed Mill Strike, 1913-14

  Eighteenth of December 2013 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the commencement of the Bliss Tweed Mill strike …

Bohemians: A Graphic History

"The countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, encompassing Walt Whitman's Brooklyn and the Folies…

Bold Defiance: The Spitalfields Silkweavers, London's Luddites?

For centuries, silkweaving was one of London’s biggest industries, employing thousands in the East End. Through the 18th…

Bosnia: Solidarity Not Charity

An account, with photos, of the trade union aid convoy to Tuzla in summer '95.

Bread or Batons: Unemployed Workers' Struggles in 1930s Bristol

  The banking crisis of 2008 and the following deep recession experienced by the world economy have led to mass unemp…

Breaking Free: The Adventures Of TinTin

Finally back in print! He's back, and he's bad! Now Tintin's back with his all his pals - Captain Haddock et al - battling…

Breaking Their Chains

Small format book on Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910, published by Bookmarks.  

Bristol and the Labour Unrest of 1910-14

1910 saw a renewed outbreak of industrial strife, as significant sections of the trade union rank-and-file began to expres…

Bristol Independent Labour Party: Men, Women and the Opposition to War

During World War One a significant minority of women and men throughout the country took part in a peace movement. They de…

Bristol's White Slave Trade: Indentured and Enforced Labour in the 17th Century

 Bristol’s role as a supplier of labour to the American and West Indian colonies in the eighteenth century is associated w…

British Labour and the Russian Revolution: The Leeds Convention of 1917

Expanded centenary edition. Edited by Janet Douglas and Christian Høgsbjerg, with Ken Coates' original introduction. …

British Syndicalism: Pages of Labour History

A collection of writings from the shop steward, and probably the clearest speaker and writer the anarcho-syndicalist movement…

By Rite: Custom, Ceremony and Community in England 1700-1880

"Political philosophers (such as Gramsci) and social historians (such as E. P. Thompson) have suggested that rural customs…

C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary

'C.L.R. James was a man of prodigious and varied accomplishments. He was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual,…

Can The Working Class Change The World?

"One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism…

Capital: Volume 1

Marx's devastating critique of bourgeois economics, and his exposé of capitalist social relations of exploitation and class …

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy - a nation of 1.2 billion people where the country's 100 richest peo…

Capitalism: What Is It And How Can We Destroy It

New book from Corporate Watch, asking the exact same question that we all have on our lips...  The first part of the …

Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel

Arriving in America in 1904, Carlo Tresca began a nearly forty-year stretch as an active revolutionary. Nunzio Pernicone's…

Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution

Dozens of full-color prints of over a hundred posters covering revolution, radical justice, women's rights, queer liberati…

Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change

"Interest in China has never been greater, but the voices of the Chinese themselves often escape notice. Here, finally, is…

Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today

"After a century of failed attempts by radical projects, the concept of revolution itself is in crisis. By asking the deepest…

Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture

"The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar…

Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain

"Global capitalism is a precarious system. Relying on the steady flow of goods across the world, trans-national companies …

Chuang Issue 1: Dead Generations

New printing of issue 1 now back in stock, (revised to make corrections and enlarged font). Chuang is a collective of com…

Chuang Issue 2: Frontiers

**If you are ordering from the US, please note that copies have arrived at AK in Chico now, with a short pause while Chuang s…

Citizens to Lords

A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages "In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Me…

City of Segregation: One Hundred Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles

"City of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through propert…

Civilization and Its Discontented

'In the three extended essays of Civilization and Its Discontented, John Laffey explores various notions of "civilization"…

Class Against Class - The Miners' Strike 1984/5

Reprint of a booklet first published back in March 1985, giving a look at the strike as it progressed and a recap of both the…

Class Cohesion versus Spurious Patriotism

A Straight Talk to British Workers by FRED BRAMLEY, Organiser, National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association In 1…

Class is Dead?

Joint pamphlet produced by the Anarcho-Syndicalist Groups of Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster. A brief pamphlet that cov…

Class Matters Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain

"Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of…

Class Struggle in a German Town

Interesting autonomist analysis of nuclear power, viewed as Capital's attempt to recompose class relations to its advantag…

Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers' Struggles in American History

'A rich collection of stories about ordinary people who resisited oppression and expoitation against all odds. Brandon Web…

Class Warfare

Continuing his best-selling interviews with Barsamian, Chomsky provides a road map to the concentration of corporate power…

Clean Coal Technology: Climate Change & The Miners

David John Douglass, 2013. From the Introduction: "Across the world and throughout the global media the 'climate chang…

Clerkenwell Scorcher

 Notes for a Clerkenwell radical history walk - includes street map and area information so you can do your own. Anon…

Coal On One Hand, Men On The Other

Subtitled "The Forest of Dean Miners' Association and the First World War 1910-1920" this is an impeccably researched look…

Collectives in the Spanish Revolution

"Revolutionary Spain came about with an explosion of social change so advanced and sweeping that it remains widely studied as…

Come And Wet This Truncheon

Subtitled "The Role of the Police Inthe Coal Strike of 1984/85". The experience of the miners at the hands of the police d…

Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry

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Common Sense # 18

Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Social Economists. This issue includes: Ed Emery on 'No Politics without Inquir…

Complicity: Human Rights and Canadian Foreign Policy

The Case of East Timor: an examination of the Canadian state's business-as-usual approach to dealing with Indonesia after …

Comrade or Brother: A History of the British Labour Movement

Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? traces the history of the British Labour Movement from its beginnings at the o…

Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It …

Corporate Watch 45/46

 Winter 2009/ 10 issue, concentrating on the UK benefits system and presenting research into the huge amount of money dol…

Cosmonauts of the Future

Large collection of texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and elsewhere. Edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen…

Crude: The Story of Oil

A weaving together of the social history, economics, science and politics of oil. There's a human drama here, discovery an…

Dancin' In The Streets! Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists & Provos in the 1960s

Bumper collection of pieces from the pages of The Rebel Worker and Heatwave, edited and introduced by Franklin Rosemont an…

Dancing With Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America

Grassroots social movements played a major role in electing new left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but sub…

Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China

"This volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series focuses on anti-statist critiques in ancient and modern China, s…

Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed

" Perhaps no period has so marked, so deformed, or so defined the anarchist movement as the three years in France from…

Debt: The First 5000 Years (updated edition)

"Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to reli…

Demanding The Impossible: A History of Anarchism

Classic title!  Demanding the Impossible is the huge tome written by Peter Marshall, this updated edition includes a new epi…

Desert Capitalism

"An improved economy, better working conditions and environmental protection – these were some of the numerous benefits …

Direct Action & Sabotage

Three classic IWW pamphlets from the 1910's.  Authors: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C Smith and William E Trautmann, ed…

Direct Action # 03 - Summer 1997

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 04 - Autumn 1997

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 08 - Autumn 1998

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 09 - Winter 1998-99

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 13 - Winter 99-2000

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 16 - Autumn 2000

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 22 - Spring 2002

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 29 - Winter 2003-4

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 31 - Summer 2004

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 33 - Winter 2004/05

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 34 - Spring 2005

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 36

Lead articles on Anarchism in South Africa; Blair's Vision of the Free Market; Education, the State and the Working Class;…

Direct Action # 39 - Summer 2007

Lead articles on the NHS; trains; capitalism and the environment; Thatcherism Down Under - along with reviews, news and up…

Direct Action # 40 - Autumn 2007

Lead articles on Sexuality; Trident; City Academies; Bush, Bin Laden and the Clash of Civilisations; History pieces on the…

Direct Action # 41 - Spring 2008

With articles on the IWA, NHS, Respect, Situationism and Supermarkets.

Direct Action # 42 - Spring 08

Articles on the Unions; Poverty; War; May Days; Sex plus an iterviw with Italian anarcho-syndicalists (USI) and an assortm…

Direct Action # 45

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action # 46 - Spring 2009

The premier Anarcho-Syndicalist magazine, with an excellent mix of news, analysis, international goings-on, and good commo…

Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism

"What happened to the American left after the sixties? This engrossing account traces the evolution of disruptive protest …

Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology

And what an anthology! This is a massive collection.   Peter Kropotkin is by far anarchism’s most influential t…

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

"Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United Stat…

Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order

"In this slim volume, Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest and challenges the domina…

Divided World, Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capialism

"Divided World Divided Class charts the history of the ‘labour aristocracy’ in the capitalist world system, from its root…

Dixie Be Damned

In 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labour to take over their jobs, workers responded …

Dodgy Development: Films and Interviews Challenging British Aid in India

Ever wondered where all the money the government gives to 'develop' poorer countries really goes? In this ground-breaking …

Doing History from the Bottom Up

On E. P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below Staughton Lynd laments the passing of Dav…

DOPE #1 Spring 2018

DOPE 1 features: ASBO, Shen Batmaz, Marco Bevilacqua, Brandalism, Double Why, Dr. D, Illustre Feccia, Stanley Donwood, Pet…

Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader

Chunky volume of Magon's writing on a wide range of topics - Class War, Feminism, Racism and Expropriation to name a few -…

East End 1888

East End 1888 is essential reading for anyone interested in social history and the history of London. Professor William Fi…

East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914

Brilliantly describes London's East End at a time of mass immigration from Eastern Europe to the shabby tenements of Stepn…

Eastenders: Glimpses of the Radical History of East London

The people of East London have a long tradition of organising themselves - to change their lives, improve their living sta…

Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement

New edition, with an essay by François Martin. "In the years following 1968, a number of people involved in the most …

Economy and Society: Money, Capitalism and Transition

"Reinterprets the history of economic thought and re-examines the idea of money as a "medium of exchange." The end of …

Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalists Reflections on the Class War at Home

 By 'home' Steve Early means the US... "Embedded With Organized Labor describes how union members have organized suc…

Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years; Volume 2: Making Speech Free, 1902–1909

"Extends many of the themes introduced in the previous volume, including Goldman's evolving attitudes toward political vio…

Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets

Kathy Ferguson's hardback edition biography of Emma Goldman.  Kathy E. Ferguson is professor of political science and…

Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life

"The conviction that revolution and the life of the senses dare not be mutually exclusive made Goldman eloquent in defense…

Emma Goldman: Still Dangerous

 New title by C Bríd Nicholson re-examining the creation of Living My Life and its influence in creating that 'most dang…

Endnotes 5

Just arrived! Long awaited Issue 5 of the Endnotes Journal:  contents list below.  The Passions and the Interests ∅…

Eugene v. Debs: A Graphic Biography

"Dynamic and beloved American radical, labor leader, and socialist Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party to federal and …

Europe in Revolt

New collection of pieces looking at anti-austerity politics across Europe, a "gripping and authoratative account of the up…

Excess – The Factory

In 1968, Leslie Kaplan, a young American poet living in France, went to work in a factory. This was the Maoist practice of…

Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and the New Scramble for Africa

'A piercing historical explanation of poverty and inequality in African societies today and the social impact of resource-dri…

Extraction!

Graphic art reportage on various forms of mineral extraction: Gold, Uranium, Bauxite and Oil.  Edited by David Widgin…

Eyes to the South: French Anarchists & Algeria

Eyes to the South explores important issues from the last six tumultuous decades of Algerian history, including French col…

Facing the Enemy:A History of Anarchist Organization from Proudhon to May 1968

The finest single volume history of Anarchism is finally avaiable in English in Paul Sharkey's elegant translation. Dr…

Family, Welfare, and the State: Between Progressivism and the New Deal

Written in the ten years following the publication of The Power of Women and the Subversion of Community (1972) and the in…

Fields of Resistance: The Struggle of Florida's Farmworkers for Justice

"Migrant farmworkers in the United States are routinely forced to live and work in unsafe, impoverished conditions. In res…

Fields, Factories and Workshops

Black Rose hardback edition of Peter Kropotkin's Fields, Factories and Workshops, edited with commentary by George Woodcoc…

Fields, Factories and Workshops

Fields, Factories and Workshops is a landmark anarchist text and arguably one of the most influential and positive statements…

Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970–1979

Finally Got the News uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical Left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements c…

Firebrands: Portraits From the Americas

 Pocket-sized book from the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, this is a collection of illustrated biographies of a whole sl…

Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto

Bernard Goldstein was born in 1889 and became a leader of the Jewish workers' organisation, the Bund and in the Jewish und…

Flash: A Novel

Jack Wilson is a scrappy city journalist bouncing from one alt weekly to the next, trying to eek out a living in the mids…

For All The People

 Subtitled "Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements and Communalism in America" author John C…

For Workers Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton

At long last, the collected works of the principle writer, translator and thinker of the Solidarity Group, one of the most…

Free Like Conduit Water? – The New River: Its Moral and Immoral Economies

"A brief dive into the murky depths of North London's New River... including an exploration of the moral economy in London…

Freedom 69/03 - 16 February 2008

Lead stories on CIA airoplanes; teachers strikes and an interview with Dave Rovics, plus much more in the way of news, upd…

Freedom 69/04 2 March 2008

Stories on the NHS; Mercenaries in Iraq; Israel (both boycotts and migrant workers); supermarkets - plus news, contacts, r…

Freedom 69/10 - 7th June 2008

With articles on police surveillance/Fit units; Projectile Film Festival and the video-link with Chomsky; drinking on the …

Freedom 69/11 21st June 2008

Leading with public sector cuts, transport, naked bike ride and an article on Crimethinc and art.,

Freedom 69/16 - 13 September 2008

Features a feature on anarchism in Scotland, as well as news on fights over Scottish council housing and reporting on riot…

Freedom 69/19 25 October 2008

Leading articles on the crackdown in Oaxaca, the struggle of sacked Amey workers in London, tube workers struggle, the mud…

Freedom 70/08 - 24 April 2009

 25/04/09 edition, lead story dealing with the Workers' Occupation of Ford's Visteon factory in Belfast.

Freedom 70/12 20th June 2009

 Leading with the occupation at the SOAS as immigration police arrest cleaners who work at the University; industrial act…

Freedom 70/13 18 July 2009

The worlds longest running anarchist newspaper. Lead stories on the suspension of the pathologist who oversaw the Ian …

Freedom 70/7 11 April 2009

Leading with the recent G20 protests and the policing of them; plus issues around health and prescription charges; workpla…

Freedom 71/04 13th March 2010

Leading with education funding and the ongoing hunger strike by women in Yarl's Wood, plus conditions at the Olympics' bui…

Freedom 71/09 8 May 2010

 Post election commentary and a new anarcha-feminist column plus lead stories on IWW work with cleaners in London; the …

Freedom 71/10 22 May 2010

 Coalition government; the cost of policing; problems with air travel; St Pauli's centenary; feature on the economy plus …

Freedom 71/22 - 20 November 2010

 Headlining with the student protests, primarily at Milbank. Articles on the Reclaim the Night marches, the Marseille gar…

Freedom 71/7 10 April 2010

 Some election commentary, along with reports of the strike at the Carlsberg brewery; Haiti; voting plus all the usual le…

Freedom 72/10 21st May 2011

 Leading with the student protests - well, the backlash against them - and updates on the postal workers struggles; Days …

Freedom 72/12 - 2 July 2011

 Report on J30 strike actions, legal aid, trade unionism, the Durham Miners Gala along with the usual history (General St…

Freedom 72/15 - 30th July 2011

 Stories on political policing; the building worker's blacklist; Wobblies; the massacre in Norway; Bash Back!; part two o…

Freedom 72/16 - 13 August 2011

 Leading - of course - with the recent riots, plus pieces on deaths at detention centres; the recent call by police to re…

Freedom 73 - October 2012

Leading with articles on Hillsborough; The Bonnot Gang; the TUC; an interview with Kent Anarchists plus the usual pictures…

Freedom 74 - April 2013

Thatcher's finally dead! But her legacy, sadly, lives on. Issue contains analysis of Thatcher-coverage as well as news of …

Freedom 74 – May 2013

News and analysis about EDL violence in response to the death of Lee Rigby, further reporting about the terrible effects o…

Freedom Fighters: Anarchist Intellectuals, Workers, and Soldiers in Portugal's History

"Anarchism emerged and developed amidst the social unrest in industrial societies. It was, in many countries, a genuinely …

Freedom May 2012

Pieces on squatting, workfare, the NHS, wildcat strikes in Poland and anarchism in Africa in the 1950s.  Plus the usual l…

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World (Vol III)

Infernos and Paradises: The Triumph of Capitalism in the 19th Century "Infernos and Paradises is the third installment…

From Here To There: The Staughton Lynd Reader

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G8: Globalisation, Sweatshops, Activist Response

Pamphlet from the No Sweat campaign giving an introduction to the G8 and it's influence on workers rights, labour organisa…

Geordies - Wa Mental

A reprint of this autobiography, first in a trilogy, of Dave Douglass. Long time anarchist and class struggle activist. …

George Brown, the Cobbler Anarchist of Philadelphia

Helms traces the life of an anarchist shoemaker from freethinking Northamptonshire to Philadelphias burgeoning anarchist m…

Ghost Dancers

 The third instalment of Dave Douglass' autobiography: a definitive history of the great coal strike of 1984/85 and the b…

Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World

'This groundbreaking new book presents the most important examples of world-changing journalism, spanning one hundred years a…

Goals and Means: Anarchism, Syndicalism and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica

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Great Anarchists #8: Lucy Parsons

#8 in this pamphlet series brings us a biographical essay on Lucy Parsons. These short introductions delve into the anarch…

Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible

“Guerrillas of Desire is an important exploration of the revolutionary possibilities of our time.” —George Caffentzi…

Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars

Tells the story of the early 20th Century coal miners' union battles, as seen my leaders, rank-and-file participants, and …

Guy Debord

'This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (19571972)…

Hard Times: An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression

'First published in 1970, Studs Terkel's bestselling Hard Times has been called "a huge anthem in praise of the American …

Haymarket Scrapbook - 25th Anniversary Edition

Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago's Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition co-publ…

Health Service Wildcat

Collection of political graphic satire, dedicated to the lunatic premise that people trained in making profits can provide…

Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals

Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of p…

Here to Stay, Here to Fight A Race Today Anthology

"From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle f…

Heroes and Martyrs - Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, and the Revolutionary Struggle

Howard Zinn takes us back a century to a newly industrialized America, the time of robber barons & tycoons, of tenements b…

History of the Paris Commune of 1871

By Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray, translated from the French by Eleanor Marx.   In 1871, the working class of Paris,…

Hobohemia

Author Frank O. Beck on Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman and other Agitators and Outsiders in 1920s/30s Chicago. Ed…

Homeland

"Homeland is Pulitzer Prize winning author Dale Maharidge's biggest and most ambitious book yet, weaving together the disp…

Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left

Details Orwell's attempts to change working-class consciousness, and considers if his attitude towards the working class w…

How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged Edition)

'The capitalist system became established through a series of social and political revolutions, and not, as is often assum…

How the Economy Was Lost

"The US economy has disintegrated, and with it into the abyss plummet the blueprints of neoliberal economists, whose theories…

How to Make Trouble and Influence People

Pranks, Protests, Graffiti & Political Mischief-Making from across Australia "This collection reveals Australia's radi…

How We Live and How We Might Live

The text of a lecture delivered by Willliam Moris to the Hammersmith Branch of the Social Democratic Federation in 1884, w…

Howard Zinn on History

A handy pocket guide on the uses of history - and the power of history when it is put to the service of the struggle for h…

Howard Zinn on Race

Beginning in 1956 as chairman of the History department of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, the nation's oldest historica…

Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left

'Published to great acclaim in hardcover and named The Progressive magazine book of the year, award-winning historian Mar…

Hungary 1930 & The Forgotten History of a Mass Protest

In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan 'Work and Bre…

I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels: Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation

"If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about?" -- Albert Meltzer Albert Meltzer (1920-1996) was involve…

I Haven't Had So Much Fun Since My Leg Fell Off: The North London Civil Servants Strike, 1987/88

An account of a strike by low-paid civil servants across North London Department of Employment offices in 1988, also invol…

I.W.W. Songs to Fan The Flames of Discontent

Facsimlie reprint of the Little (roughly A6) Red Songbook from 1923 - lyrics by Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin and many others. T…

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

'One of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James B…

Immigrants & Intellectuals: May '68 and the Rise of Anti-Racism in France

"This book tells, for the first time, the full story of the rise and fall of a cycle of protest movements for the rights of m…

In An Era Of Wars And Revolutions - American Socialist Cartoons of the Mid-twentieth Century

Reproduction of historic American cartoons on a wide range of subjects - Jim Crow racism, New Deal, Stalinism, the Civil R…

In Contempt of All Authority: Rural Artisans and Riot in the West of England, 1586-1660

 Two of the most common types of popular disorders in late Tudor and early Stuart England were the food riots and the ant…

In Letters Of Blood And Fire - Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism

"Emphasizing class struggles that have proliferated across the social body of global capitalism, Caffentzis shows how a wi…

In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire

Mike Davis attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burens in this blistering collection of radical essays.…

Industrial Worker #1703 March 2008

Articles on the Writers Guild strike; union-busting by Fresh Direct; Polish miner's strike; workers in Japan among many ot…

Industrial Worker #1705

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 105, No. 3 – May 2008.

Industrial Worker #1706

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 105, No. 4 – June 2008.

Industrial Worker #1707

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 105, No. 5 – July/August 2008. Includes a final inte…

Industrial Worker #1709

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 105, No. 7 – October 2008.

Industrial Worker #1710

Lead stories on unionised Wal-Mart stores in Quebec, economic crisis as a poduct of capitalism and the organisation of abo…

Industrial Worker #1712

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 106, No. 1 – January 2009.

Industrial Worker #1713

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 106, No. 2 – Feburary/March 2009.  

Industrial Worker #1715

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 106, No. 4 – May 2009. Lead articles on threat of st…

Industrial Worker #1716

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 106, No. 5 – June 2009.

Industrial Worker #1718

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 106, No. 7 – August/September 2009. Covers London tu…

Industrial Worker #1719

 October 2009 edition, lead stories dealing with Starbucks and also actions taken by cab drivers in Philadelphia and bus …

Industrial Worker #1720

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 106, No. 9 – November 2009.

Industrial Worker #1721

 December 2009 edition, lead stories deal with continuing Philadelphia transit workers strike, London postal workers stri…

Industrial Worker #1722

Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Vol. 107, No. 1 – January 2010.

Industrial Worker #1723

 Feb/March 2010 edition, lead stories covering the 4 female Starbucks employees in Fort Worth victory in declaring their …

Invergordon 1931- Shipshape and Mutiny Fashion: How they Fought the Pay Cuts

 10 page pamphlet essay by historian Liz Willis. "Financial crisis, national (coalition) government imposing a progra…

Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers & Threats of War

This is the first book to explore the changes taking in place in Iran from the ground up. While the world keeps its eyes r…

Is Class Still Relevant? An Anarchist Communist Perspective

"This pamphlet argues that yes, class is still relevant and is a “structural relationship between two classes…. it is not…

Jobs with Justice - 25 Years, 25 Voices

Collections of essays on the principles and history of the Jobs With Justice campaign group, who harness the power of soli…

Joe Hill / IWW Enamel badge

Red enamel with gold coloured highlights, little bit larger than 1 inch diameter. Photo is not the greatest — Joe lo…

Joe Hill: The IWW & The Making of a Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture

"A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies - songwr…

Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical

Jumping the Line offers a vivid first-hand account of Left culture in America in the heady days of the 20s through the 40s…

Just Doing It: Popular Collective Action in the Americas

Collection describing and analysing the massive protests that disrupted global summit meetings in the 1990s and early 2000s, …

Just Work? Migrant Workers' Struggles Today

"Just Work? offers a wide range of new grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organising today. From diverse worke…

Justice Denied: Friends, Foes & the Miners' Strike

"What were the issues at stake in the great miners' strike of 1984–85? This book challenges images, looks at the imp…

Justice in Everyday Life: The Way it Really Works

Explores the reality of justice, which has always stood in contrast to the rhetoric about equal rights under the law. With…

Kennington Park, The Birthplace of People's Democracy

 Pamphlet dealing with the history of Kennington Park as a public space, being the site of the great Chartist rally of 10…

Kettling the Unions

A critical guide to and analysis of the 2016 Trade Union Act. Spokesman Books, 2018.

Kropotkin: The Politics of Community

'Well-researched and wide-ranging, this volutme not only presents an important contribution to the history of anarchism, b…

Labor Law For The Rank And Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law

(This book is concerned with US workplace law and organisation, may still be useful to people elsewhere) Have you ever…

Left Americana: The Radical Heart of US History

 'Animated by the conviction that the Left is "as American as apple pie", this rich collection of essays hightlights rad…

Left For The Rising Sun, Right for Swan Hunter

The Plebs League in the North East of England 1908/1926 "One hundred years ago the North East was at the forefront of inde…

Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff

Sam Dolgoff (1902–1990) was a house painter by trade and member of the IWW from the early 1920s until his death. Sam, al…

Left-Wing Communism In Britain 1917-21: An Infantile Disorder?

How a libertarian and non-sectarian (Marxist & Anarchist) communist movement was destroyed by the formation of the Communi…

Len, A Lawyer in History

For half a century, criminal defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass defended a who’s who of the twentieth-century left in some…

Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California

"In 1971, Bruce Neuburger - young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley - took a job as a fa…

Liberating Society From The State

 "Erich Mühsam (1878-1934), poet, bohemian, revolutionary, is one of Germany's most renowned and influential anarchists.…

Life And Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Malatesta

Handy anthology of Malatesta's writings with a biography by Vernon Richards. First published in 1965 by Freedom Press; new ed…

Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy

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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

"During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women did not stand on ceremony; they simply did the work that needed to …

Like a Summer with a Thousand Julys

Collected writings of Dave and stuart Wise, 1978-2008.  Includes the title pamphlet and a lot more besides - King Mob; wo…

Lines of Work: Stories of Jobs and Resistance

Half our waking hours are spent on the job, consuming the lion's share of our time. Our years are woven with stories of work …

Lives of the Orange Men: A Biographical History of the Polish Orange Alternative Movement

"Between 1981 and 1989 in Wroclaw, Poland, in an atmosphere in which dissent was forbidden and martial law a reality, the…

Living Anarchism - José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement

A study of one man and a collective biography of the working class into which he was born. The story of José Peirats show…

Living My Life: Volume 1

Emma Goldman's classic autobiography, reprinted in three volumes. Volume 1 contains chapters 1 - 24. Active Distributi…

Living My Life: Volume 2

Emma Goldman's classic autobiography, reprinted in three volumes. Volume 2 contains chapters 25 - 46. Active Distribut…

Living My Life: Volume 3

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London Hanged

Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part…

Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions

'Amid music festivals and moon landings, the tumultuous year of 1969 included an infamous case in the annals of criminal j…

Louis Lecoin: An Anarchist Life

Anarcho-Communist, Anarcho-Syndicalist, anti-militarist, always involved in social struggles, Louis Lecoin's life presents…

Making Another World Possible

Anarchism, Anti-Capitalism and Ecology in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain "Identifies the British contributio…

Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta's Experiments with Revolution, 1889–1900

Davide Turcato makes the relevance of history dynamically clear. Through a biographical account of Errico Malatesta’s re…

Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization, Volume I – Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings

"A criticism that limits itself to capitalism is too superficial, Öcalan argues, and turns his eyes to the underlying struc…

Maoism and the Chinese Revolution: A Critical Introduction

'Maoism and the Chinese Revolution offers a sweeping overview of five decades of Maoist revolutionary history. It covers t…

Maria Nikiforova: The Revolution without Delay

'The Odyssey of an Anarchist through Ukraine (1885–1919)' Maria Nikiforova, or Marusya, was an influential anarchist…

Marx's Capital: A Student Edition (Marx 200 Anniversary Reissue)

New cover for this 2018 print run of Marx's Capital, edited and introduced by C.J. Arthur. Published by Lawrence and Wisha…

Masks of Anarchy

Graphic art book telling the story of Percy Shelley's poem ""The Masque of Anarchy" from its conception in Italy and suppr…

May 68: Spot the Workers Autonomy

 Text originally published by Mouvement Communiste, reprinted by Past Tense "because we think it flags up some interestin…

May Day: A Graphic History of Protest

The history of May Day protests in comic form. Written by Robin Folvik, Sean Carleton, and Mark Leier. Illustrated by Sam …

May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprisings in France

Q: “You threw paving stones at [the cops]?” A: “Oh yeah. I had no problem doing that. And I threw marbles as well th…

Mayday #4

 Winter 2009/10 pamphlet in support of the striking Postal workers, and the idea of Strike action in general from a Red A…

Mayday #5

 Summer 2010 edition of Mayday. Pieces on Red Anarchism; Class Struggle Today; Tolpuddle; Revolutionary Unionism, Yesterd…

Men of Fire: Work, Resistance and Organisation of Bristol Gasworkers in the Nineteenth Century

"The emergence of ‘New Unionism’ in 1889, and the accompanying outburst of strikes across the country, was one of the mos…

Menacing Language and Threats: The Anti Corn Law Riots of 1815

At the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, corn prices fell to nearly half their war level, causing panic among British fa…

Mexican Anarchism After the Revolution

Gives some early commentary on the EZLN, and provides historical context for the more recent happenings in Oaxaca and elsewhe…

Mexico's Revolution Then and Now

 "A radical scholar's guide to radical Mexico and well worth the read" - Dan La Botz, editor, Mexican Labor News and Anal…

Miguel Garcia's Story

Edited and introduced by Albert Meltzer, this pamphlet is a short autobiography of a dedicated anti-Franco anarchist. Pers…

Militarism and Anti-Militarism

"Liebknecht examines all the ways in which militarism is promoted and maintained — conscription, the drumming up of nat…

Modern Politics

"This volume provides a brilliant and accessible summation of the ideas of left Marxist giant C.L.R. James. Originally del…

Moments of Struggle: An Introduction to some Anarchist History

Short primer on anarchist history, in graphic format. Isy Morgenmuffel, 2009. A5 edition by Active Distribution.

My Disillusionment in Russia

"I had come to Russia possessed by the hope that I should find a new-born country, with its people wholly consecrated to t…

Nature for Sale: The Commons Versus Commodities

"This book uncovers the rich heritage of common ownership which existed before the dominance of capitalist social relation…

Nautical Women - Women Sailors and the Woemn of Sailortowns: A Forgotten Diaspora c.1693-1902

In Nautical Women, Rosemary Caldicott explores the stories of women whose lives were inextricably linked to the sea. She tell…

Ned Kelly's Ghost: The Tottenham IWW and the Tottenham Tragedy

  Three members of the Australian section of the Industrial Workers of the World were accused of killing a policema…

Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism and the Several Commons of 1811-12

Pamphlet essay from Peter Linebaugh, co-pub between the Retort group and PM Press, 2012.

New Forms of Worker Organization

"Bureaucratic labor unions are under assault. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-twentieth century, …

New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty

 “The project: to rescue ‘communism’ from its own disrepute. Once invoked as the liberation of work through mankind…

NGO Sector: The Trojan Horse of Capitalism

Essay from Crn Blok, a thorough critique of the role of NGOs in society. 2014.

Nicotiana Brittanica

Four centuries ago a group of farmers from the West Of England decided to see if they could make a living for themselves b…

Night-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain

"A book that should be read by anyone who gives a damn about a non-racist, non-sexist, non-homophobic future." —Bo Brown…

Nine Days in May

The General Strike in Southwark: originally published by Union Place Community Resource Centre and Southwark Trades Counci…

No Regrets: Counter-culture and Anarchism in Vancouver

What was it like running wild in the streets with the Yippies? Or invading the USA at Blaine, Washington? Imagine civil disob…

No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade And The Rights Of Garment Workers

Are you aware that the t-shirt or running shoes you are wearing may have been produced by children as young as 13, working…

No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration

Good introduction to the paradoxes of the international movement of people: borders; workers; immigrants; economics.

Northeastern Anarchist - Issue 6 Summer/Fall 2003

Class-struggle anarchist theory, history and analysis. Includes pieces on anarchist union organisers, a critique of the an…

Northeastern Anarchist #10

Magazine of class struggle theory and practice produces by a federation of anarcho-communist groups in North America. This…

Not Our War: Writings against the First World War

This anthology presents voices of people who opposed the First World War: men and women, liberals, radicals and pacifists,…

Occupational Hazards – Occupying Hospitals: some inspirations and issues from our history

"Between 1976 and 1994, more than twenty hospitals in the UK were occupied either wholly or partly by either staff who wor…

Occupational Therapy

The incomplete story of the University College Hospital strikes and occupations of 1992/3/4. Anonymously written pamph…

Occupy Everything! Reflections on why it's kicking off everywhere.

Penned after the 2010 European student unrest and before what is now commonly referred to as the “Arab spring” began t…

Occupy: Scenes from Occupied America

An unofficial record of the movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of…

On the Books: A Graphic Tale of Working Woes at NYC's Strand Bookstore

"A David and Goliath story, On the Books is the first-hand comic strip account of the 2012 labour struggle at NYC's le…

One Big Union of All the Workers: Solidarity and the Fighting IWW

"For over a decade from their foundation in 1905 in the USA, the Industrial Workers of the World (the IWW or Wobblies) fought…

One China, Many Paths

The world's largest country is now a constant topic of fascination or fear in the West, producing an ever increasing liter…

One Hundred Red Hot Years

A thrilling ride throught the 20th Century - 100 years of revolution, reaction and resistance. Written by Eduardo Gale…

One Hundred Years of Workers' Solidarity: The History of Solidaridad Obrera

Solidaridad Obrera (Workers' Solidarity), founded in Barcelona in 1907, is the voice of Spain's Anarcho-syndicalist Confe…

Order Without Power

An Introduction to Anarchism: History and Current Challenges "From the International Workingmen's Association to Haymarket…

Organise #74

Theoretical discussion magazine of the Anarchist Federation/AFed. Summer 2010 edition.  Features on casual work; youth i…

Organise #78

Leading with pieces on Greece; Hungary; Southern Europe/Austerity.  Special section on Turkey and Syria, plus a history o…

Organise 77

Theoretical discussion magazine of the Anarchist Federation/AFed. " From then until now - anniversary issue" celebrati…

Organise 79

Organise, the magazine of the Anarchist Federation. JUBILYMPICS ANTIDOTE SPECIAL ISSUE. Extended editorial reflecting on …

Organise 83

New issue (Winter 2014) of the magazine of the Anarchist Federation - "Their austerity, their wars, their repression... ou…

Organise 91

New for Spring 2019, this is a chunky editon - spined rather than stapled. Contents:- Theory and Analysis Who’s Armi…

Organise! # 61

Theoretical discussion magazine of the Anarchist Federation/AFed.  Excellent mix of articles, reviews, commentary and tub…

Organise! # 67 - Autumn 2006

Theoretical discussion magazine of the Anarchist Federation/AFed. Excellent mix of articles, reviews, commentary and tub-t…

Organise! #86

Issue 86 – Summer 2016 Includes "A Historical look at 'The Commons'"; "Transforming cities for ourselves"; "Making s…

Organization & Spontaneity: The Theory of the Vanguard Party and its Application to the Black Movement in the U.S. Today

"Kimathi Mohammed's Organization & Spontaneity was originally published in 1974 as a response to key contradictions of th…

Organize!

Grounded in struggles in Canada, the US and Aotearoa/New Zealand, as well as transnational activist networks, this book li…

Orgasms of History: 3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection

"Let no one kid themselves: a book is no substitute for a rifle. But it can help to train one's sights that bit better. A …

Our Masters Are Helpless: The Essays of George Barrett

Engineer George Barrett was one of the anarchists’ key organisers through the period of the Great Unrest of 1910-14, a synd…

Our NHS? Anarchist Communist Thoughts on Health.

The Anarchist Communist Group’s new pamphlet on the NHS. With sections on: Health and Capitalism; The NHS, Why We Should…

Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons

'Here is the inspiring story of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML). Founded in 1985 to organize against control …

Out Of The Ghetto:My Youth in the East End, Communism and Fascism, 1913-39

Superb autobiography of an East End Jewish militant's life during the General Strike, Great Depression and above all, the …

Outlaws of the Atlantic :Saiors, Pirates, and the Motley crews in the Age of Sail

"Outlaws of the Atlantic turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of seafaring adventure, not from th…

Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony

"Clément Duval (1850-1935) was an infamous French illegalist, propagandist, and anarchist who was found guilty in 1886 of…

Painting the Town Red: Politics and the Arts during the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic

'Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919 saw an eruption of intensely political activity in culture and the arts whi…

Paperboys:One man's accounts of picketing at Wapping

Picket line violence at Wapping. True tales of taking the cops on. A rivetting, inspiring account of taking the fight to t…

Paradoxes of Utopia: Anarchist Culture and Politics in Buenos Aires 1890-1910

 When the Argentine economy collapsed in 2001, many were surprised by the factory takeovers and neighborhood assemblies t…

Parecon: Life After Capitalism

"What do you want?", is a constant query put to economic and globalisation activists decrying current poverty, alienation …

Party Without Bosses

Subtitled "Lessons on Anti-Capitalism from Felix Guattari and Luis Inaciao da Silva". Features a discussion between Lula a…

Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes

A look at the Islamic pirates, and the Europeans that joined them, from the 16th - 19th centuries, with particular referen…

Pirates to Proletarians

From the earliest days of recorded history river pilots have navigated ships through the dangerous waters of the Bristol Chan…

Pit Sense Versus The State

A history of the Doncaster miners, and their struggle against the state, leftists that would usurp their militancy for the…

Pit Women: Coal Communities in Northern England in the Early Twentieth Century

"Fascinating and engaging story of mining life" from the perspective of the women whose work at home was done in even more…

Pits and Perverts: Lesbians & Gay Men Support The Miners 1984/85 Commemorative T-shirt

100% Cotton T-shirts re-issued to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of this ground-breaking campaign, immortalised in the fil…

Poaching in the South West: The Berkeley Case

"Poaching is known in some quarters as the 2nd oldest profession and defined as the taking of wild animals without the la…

Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below

'Poor Workers' Unions is a classic acount of low-wage workers' organizing since the 1960s, an essential primer to the "oth…

Power to Choose - Bangladeshi Women & Labour Market Decisions in London & Dhaka

An examination of the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers in order to shed light on the question of what constitues "fair…

Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968

"Though often remembered as a student revolt, the events of 1968 in France also saw what was up to that point the largest …

Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia

New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the "price of fire" - access to basic elements of survival like water, g…

Principia Dialectica # 2 - Autumn/Winter 2006

New magazine from Chronos Publications with articles including 'Rethinking the Critical Theory of Capatilism', 'The Metaph…

Principles of Anarchism & To Tramps

Pamphlet of two essays by Lucy Parsons. Published by Lunaria Press.

Printers Playtime

Another collection of articles from Workers Playtime which trace the changing character of the class struggle in the UK pr…

Prison Blossoms: Anarchist Voices from the American Past

Manuscripts from the clandestine prison magazine "Prison Blossoms", written by Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer and Carl Nol…

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

“Alexander Berkman’s book is vivid, candid, honest.” —New York Times “No other book discusses so frankly the…

Prisoner 155: Simón Radowitzky

A beautifully illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Simón Radowitzky (1891-1956), a gentle soul caught up in …

Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else

"In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy - rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal …

Profit Fever:The Drive to Corporatize Health Care and How to Stop it

A readable account of how medicine developed from a set of professions to a corporate sector of the economy. Clear, concis…

Proletarian Aspirations: Part Two

Subtitled Anti-Parliamentarism & Communism in Britain 1921-1945, this collects writing from Frank Maitland, Jane Hamilton …

Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Reader

 "An indispensable source book for anyone interested in Proudhon's ideas and the origins of the socialist and anarchist m…

Protest and Survival: The Historical Experience

A collection of essays 'for E.P. Thompson' - includes work by Peter Linebaugh and Sheila Rowbotham among others. Published…

Queen of the Bolsheviks: The Hidden History of Dr Marie Equi

 Now forgotten, Dr Marie Equi was a physician for working-class women and children; a lesbian; and a dynamic and flamboya…

Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow

"The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Re…

Radical Glasgow: A Skeleton Sketch of Glasgow's Radical Traditions

Author John Couzin gives a potted history of Glasgow's radical past: strikes, housing struggles, anti-war activism, femini…

Ramparts of Resistance - Why Workers Lost Their Power and How To Get It Back

Examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to offer a broad analysis of the need for …

Rank & File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers

A collection of oral testimonies documenting the trials and tribulations of firebrand union organisers, from the 1930s thr…

Rank and File - Personal Histories by Working-Class Organisers

For readers who want to see an alternative view to official U.S. trade union history.  Edited by Staughton Lynd and Alice…

Rare Doings at Camberwell

Radicals, subversion and social control: a short tour through Camberwell's underground history. Published by Past Tens…

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

"Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection…

Ready For Revolution: The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona 1933-38

The Spanish Revolution wasn’t spontaneous. The clandestine armed wing of the anarchist workers’ movement became the bu…

Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century

What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society's defining institutions - those encompassing economics…

Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies

'This edited volume reassesses the ongoing transnational turn in anarchist and syndicalist studies, a field where the inte…

Rebel Rank and File:Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s

  "From the mid-1960s to 1981, rank-and-file workers in the United States engaged in a level of sustained militancy not …

Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology

Massive collection of material spanning the history of the IWW - history, fiction, songs, art and lore - here republished …

Rebellion In Patagonia

At the very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: “Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hid…

Red & Black Revolution # 11 2006

Superb magazine from the Irish Workers Solidarity Movement. This back issue includes articles on 'Insurrection: Anarchism …

Red Banner, Green Rosette

An illustrated reflection on ethnicity, Northumbrian autonomism & the Irish in the radical politics of the mines and the regi…

Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919-1939

"This is the history of black radicals who organised as Communists between the two world wars of the twentieth century. It ex…

Red May and the Physiognomy of Social Revolution: The Story of the Chicago Martyrs.

A not often seen account of the Chicago Martyrs and the background surrounding those turbulent days in late 19th century C…

Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg

"A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist though…

Reds on the Green - A Short Tour of Clerkenwell Radicalism

Attempts ot fill a gap by providing a short sketch of the radical history of the Clerkenwell area, its characters and even…

Reds on the Green - a Short Tour of Clerkenwell Radicalism

A short sketch of the radical history of the Clerkenwell neighbourhood, its characters and events. It charts the changing …

Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side

This collection of writings and images documents the political history of NYC's Lower East Side, describing the lives and …

Resisting The State: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists

Grassroots history of Canada through the accounts of a wide range of radical political movements: anti-racism, -sexism and -p…

Restless Land

We are temporarily out of stock, but you can still get copies direct from the publisher at Calton Books. A radical journey…

Rethinking Anarchy

"Carlos Taibo has dived into vast fields of study ... In his books and lectures a mind both rational and kaleidoscopic emer…

Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come

How does a revolt come about and what does it leave behind? What impact does it have on those who participate in it and th…

Revolting Prostitutes The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

"Do you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and …

Revolution (Cafiero)

Carlo Cafiero (1846–1892) is undoubtedly one of the most important figures of the First International both in Italy, his ho…

Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory

Why did the most unruly proletariat of the Twentieth Century come to tolerate the ascendancy of a political and economic s…

Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader

 Co-published title from Merlin and PM Press, edited and translated by Gabriel Kuhn. "This is the first comprehensi…

Revolution and Reformism

Questions orthodox views about the development of the French CGT, towards reformist politics. Arguing that it retained its…

Revolution in Seattle

 "Journalist and activist Harvey O'Connor captures the courage and defiance of workers on the march against the carnage o…

Revolutionary Rehearsals

'France 1968: A general strike and factory occupations by millions of workers shake the country. Chile 1972: Workers defen…

Revolutionary Solidarity

Writings on the difference between 'aid' and genuine solidarity. Includes "A Few Notes on Sacco and Vanzetti." Work in…

Revolutionary Solidarity

 Essays on revolutionary solidarity by Daniela Carmignani, Pierleone Porcu, Aldo Perego, Alfredo M. Bonanno, and Massimo …

Revolutionary Termites in Faridabad

A Proletarian Current in India Confronts Third World Statism. A short history of the 20 years of struggle by Kamunist Kran…

Revolutionary Unionism in Latin America: The FORA in Argentina

Argentina became the destination for many radicals thrown into exile by their own countries after the Franco-Prussian war …

Revolutionary Writing: Common Sense Essays in Post-Political Politics

 "Fourteen radical essays in "open" or "autonomous" Marxism, subverting (by critiquing) the typical concept of the politi…

Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism

Explores the history of Jewish radicalism in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. First published in French in…

Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings

'Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people v…

Riot. Strike.Riot: The New Era of Uprisings

"Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people v…

Roll Down Your Window, Stories from a Forgotten America

In a series of fiery and compassionate dispatches, this founding member of the Latino revolutionary Young Lords uncovers a…

Romantic Rationalist: A William Godwin Reader

Selection of Godwin's writings. 'William Godwin (1756–1836) was one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the…

Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution (Second Edition)

"In this important and wide-ranging critique of Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) Raya Dunayevskaya examines the life, politica…

Rupturing The Dialectic: The Struggle Against Work, Money, and Financialization

Rupturing the Dialectic interprets capitalism's most recent crises and demonstrates how ordinary men and women can, and do…

Russian Anarchists

This classic text from Paul Avrich is a comprehensive history of the anarchist movement in Russia. He examined published m…

Sacco And Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background

A thoroughly researched AND extremely readable book on the two most famous anarchist illegalists in U.S. history. Author P…

Santos: The Barcelona of Brazil

Anarchism and Class Struggle in A Port City. Translated by Paul Sharkey. Through the Brazilian port of Santos went hug…

Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

"How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly …

Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense

'Decades ago, Malcolm X eloquently stated that communities have the legitimate right to defend themselves “by any means nec…

Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism

Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th centur…

Shake It And Break It: Class and Politics in Britain.

Two documents written ten years apart, in 1979 and 1989, that look at the changing face of the class struggle in Britain. …

Showbusiness/For a Free Humanity: For Anarchy

Tempted though we are to tell you that Chomsky has a great voice and does a mean turn on the drums, it wouldn't be true (w…

Siberian Makhnovshchina

"The Russian Civil War (1918–1924) in Asiatic Russia was like the Americna Wild West as one regime after another tried t…

Signs of Change: Social Movement Culture, 1960s to Present

Signs of Change is at once an art book, a political book and an inspiring collection of the striking imagery that plays a …

Silvertown

Subtitled "The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labour Movement"  In 1889, Samue…

Sin Patron

The inside story of Argentina's remarkable movement to create factories run democratically by the workers.

Situating Ourselves in Displacement: Conditions, Experiences and Subjectivity Across Neoliberalism and Precarity

Displacement is a key paradigm of our time, for who can afford not to move, to shift, to change, to develop and improve –…

Slaughter No Remedy: The life and times of Walter Ayles, Bristol Conscientious Objector

"Walter Ayles was a fighter – but a fighter who didn't believe in killing. He fought against unemployment and ruthless e…

Social Murder: And Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics

 "Corporate power is one of the strongest forces shaping our world. More than half of the top 100 economic entities …

Social Policy: an anarchist response

Colin Ward was visiting Centenary Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics during the a…

Social-Democracy & Anarchism: In the International Workers' Association 1864-1877

'Explores the history of the International Workers' Association and sheds new light on the emerging Social-Democratic and …

Socialism or Barbarism: the Selected Writings of Rosa Luxemburg

Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Helen C. Scott, this is a new edition in Pluto's 'Get Political' series. Includes Rosa Luxembu…

Socialism Or Your Money Back

Articles from the Socialist Standard, 1904-2004. All the usual topics (the Russian Revolution, the General Strike, Thatche…

Socialist and Labor Songs: An International Revolutionary Songbook

A collection of words and sheet music to several generations' worth of revolutionary songs, compiled and edited by America…

Soldiers in Revolt

Documents one of the least known and most important aspects of the Vietnam War: the rebellion among US soldiers opposed to…

Solidarity - Issue # 10 (Dec 2003)

International magazine for union members and activists. This issue includes articles on:- Women and the trades unions.…

Solidarity - Issue # 11 (May 2004)

International magazine for union members and activists. This issue includes articles on:- Where now for the RMT. T…

Solidarity - Issue # 13 (Jan-Mar 2005)

International magazine for union members and activists. This issue includes articles on:- Global Solidarity not 'socia…

Solidarity - Issue # 14 (June-Aug 2005)

International magazine for union members and activists. This issue includes articles on:- Fostering class consciousnes…

Solidarity - Issue # 9 (Aug 2003)

International magazine for union members and activists. This issue includes articles on:- Ending Labour's political mo…

Solidarity - Issue 11 (September-November 2004)

Solidarity Trade Union Magazine Issue 12, covering September to November 2004.

Solidarity Unionism - Rebuilding the Labour Movement from Below

Drawing on his experiences as a labour lawyer and activist in the Youngtown area, Lynd looks for ways that labour organisa…

Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks

"Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd  teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solida…

Solidarity With Migrant Workers

Facts, experience and debate about the nature of migrant labour, put together by the No Sweat campaign.

Some Aspects of Marxian Economics

Collection of essays on themes such as Capital Accumulation; Relative Wages; Capitalism and Work - mainly taken from the S…

Something Should Be Done: An Anarchist's Adventures in Trade Unionism

This is the true story of an anarchist’s honest attempt to work within the NHS and its Trade Unions, with the aim of improv…

Songs of Freedom (CD) The James Connolly Songs of Freedom Band CD

Songs by and about James Connolly, performed by the James Connolly Songs of Freedom Band.

Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook

"Songs of Freedom is a celebration of the life and work of James Connolly, the Irish revolutionary socialist martyred by t…

Speechless: World History Without Words

 This graphic novel starts with 9/11 and the state of the modern world but then tells the whole story from the beginning.  …

Squatting in Britain 1945–1955: Housing, Politics, and Direct Action

Britain in 1946 witnessed some extraordinary episodes of direct actin. Tens of thousands of families walked into empty arm…

Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook

Bumper collection of the man's life work – 61 songs, each introduced and put in context by Phillips, who is joined by gu…

Starving Amidst Too Much & Other IWW Writings on the Food Industry

This is a book about the irrepressible conflict between the poorly paid workers who actually feed the world and the parasi…

Staying Power The History of Black People in Britain

"Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henr…

Storm in My Heart: Memories from the Widow of Johann Most

Partner of one of the most infamous anarchists of her time, Johann Most, Helene Minkin joined the anarchist movement after…

Storm Signals: Structural Adjustment and Development Alternatives in the Caribbean

Critique of the World Bank and the IMF and the effects they had on the Caribbean in the 80s, very much a warning of what w…

Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism

"Storming Heaven is Steve Wright's unsurpassed study of Italian autonomist Marxism. This new edition remains the only book to…

Story of a Proletarian Life

The name of Vanzetti, like that of his comrade Sacco, resonates - it marks the biting point where revolutionary activism a…

Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

"The 2012 Chicago Teachers Union strike was America's most important domestic labour struggle in decades. The teachers too…

Strike!

Originally published in 1972, this expanded edition brings the story of US labour history up-to-date. Author Jeremy Breche…

Strikers, Hobblers, Conchies & Reds: A Radical History of Bristol 1880-1939

A chunky compendium of some of the Bristol Radical History Group's pamphlets, illustrated, footnoted and indexed. Full lis…

Striking Women: Struggles & Strategies of South Asian Women Workers From Grunwick to Gate Gourmet

Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as the…

Struck Out: Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What Can Be Done

 "Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes betwe…

Struggle or Starve: Stories of Everyday Heroism Between the Wars.

 Collection of writing from welsh women about life at the sharp end between the wars.  Edited by Carol White and Sian Rh…

Struggle or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots

"In October 1932, the streets of Belfast were gripped by rioting. Railing at the indignity of the state's "relief " progra…

Students Against Sweatshops

This is the story United Students Against Sweatshops which heads a wave of anti-sweatshop organising that has reached over…

Studs Terkel's Working: a graphic adaptation

"In the thirty-five years since Pulitzer Prize–winner Studs Terkel’s Working first documented American workers’ ho…

Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States

'An accessible, inspiring history of the U.S. labor movement examines the often hidden struggles of the working class from th…

Sylvia Pankhurst - A Life In Radical Politics

A long deserved reappraisal of a women whose work has been often marginalised or overlooked, from the labour movement and int…

Syndicalism and Anarcho-Syndicalism in Germany: An Introduction

Not sure we can add much to the title! Pamphlet giving an introduction to the period between 1890 and the early 1960s, but…

Syndicalism: An International and Historical Perspective

An introductory pamphlet on the history of Syndicalism, both for those who know little about this current of the workers' …

Syndicalism: What It Is

Facsimile reprint of 1913 pamphlet by Gaylord Wilshire expounding on syndicalism as a method of organising society. Copied…

Tactics and Ethics 1919–1929

Collects George Lukács' articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as De…

Taking Back Control

Neat little book giving both a history and a (then) update on the situation in Argentina. Subtitled ' A Journey Through Ar…

Taking Care of Business - Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland & the Tragedy of American Labor

How unions in the US became remote from workers, marginalized their radical members and became a conservative force in soc…

Televisionaries: The Red Army Faction Story 1963–1993

Tom Vague tells the story of the Red Army Faction from 1963 to 1993. Originally published in Vague 20, 1988; revised and …

Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs

 At a time when journalism is under attack as never before, "Tell Me No Lies" could not be more timely. It is a celebrati…

The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition... Socialism

"During the Cold War it became a dirty word in the United States, but 'socialism' runs like a red thread through the natio…

The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People

With heart-wrenching reporting and incisive analysis, In These Times magazine has charted a staggering rise in inequality …

The Albert Memorial

The Anarchist Life and Times of Albert Meltzer (7 January 1920 – 7 May 1996) Albert Meltzer was one of the most nota…

The Almost Perfect Crime

The Misrepresentation of Portuguese Anarchism. Portuguese anarchism has been overshadowed by the events in neighbouring Sp…

The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation

 The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace and …

The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book

'In this startling, politically astute graphic novel, Gord Hill (The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book) documents anti-capit…

The Antonio Gramsci Reader

The most complete one-volume collection of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of Marxism - th…

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean

What it says in the subtitle – a thoroughly researched exploration of Europe's seventeenth-century settler colonialism a…

The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting

"The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan re…

The Axe Laid to the Root: The Story of Robert Wedderburn

Robert Wedderburn was one of the key campaigners against slavery at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was born i…

The Best of Temp Slave!

A collection of on-the-job rants, tales of resignation and resistance, and cool graphics from THE 'zine for temporary work…

The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs

"In 1905, representatives from dozens of radical labour groups came together in Chicago to form One Big Union — the Industr…

The Black Panthers Speak

"From its founding by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 to contemporary attempts to censor its history and revise its…

The Blast

Complete Collection of the Incendiary San Francisco Bi-monthly Anarchist Newspaper from 1916-1917 that Gave Voice to the W…

The Bonnot Gang: The Story of the French Illegalists

"This is the story of the infamous Bonnot Gang: the most notorious French anarchists ever, and as bank expropriators the i…

The Bristol Strike Wave - part 2

Full subtitle is "Socialists, New Unionists and New Women - Part 2: Days of Doubt".   Following on from part one,…

The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-1890 Part 1

 The full subtitle is "Socialists, New Unionists and New Women - Part 1: Days of Hope"  During 1889-1890, a str…

The Burning of the Albion Mills

The Albion steam-powered mills were the first great factory in London, an industrial wonder of the time. In 1791 they burned …

The Burning of the Albion Mills (small format)

The Albion steam-powered Mills were the first great factory in London, an industrial wonder of the time. But the mills wer…

The City is Ours

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The CNT in the Spanish Revolution vol 2

Second colume of Peirats' landmark historiography of the Spanish Civil War. This is the first english language translation…

The Commune - Paris, 1871

On 18 March 1871, the Parisian working class began a rebellion that shook the foundations of European society. Labourers s…

The Communist Manifesto

Pamphlet edition of the Communist Mainfesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Translated by Samuel Moore. The Me…

The Complete Works of Malatesta, Vol. III A Long and Patient Work: The Anarchist Socialism of L’Agitazione, 1897–1898

ERRICO MALATESTA (1853–1932) is a principal figure of Italian and international anarchism. His sixty-year militancy, muc…

The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I: Economic Writings 1

'This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most import…

The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II: Economic Writings 2

'Ths second volume of Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works contains one of her most important works, The Accumulation of Capital, …

The Condition Of The Working Class In England

Still a classic historical and political work. If you think the capitalist class ever had a shred of humanity read this. T…

The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism

"Nationalism was proclaimed dead several times during the [Twentieth] century. Yet forty years after the military defeat o…

The Councilist Movement in Germany (1914-1935): A History of the AAUD-E Tendency

 It's a very self-explanatory title... Translated from an article in Igneo #7 (2006) by the Group of Council Communists o…

The Couriers Are Revolting

Starting a union can be exciting, risky, hard work and a good laugh. Here's how 'Des' and comrades scared the bosses and h…

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

"In The Darker Nations, praised internationally by critics as a welcome antidote to apologists for empire, award-winning hist…

The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber

"Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.”…

The Dirty Thirty: Heroes of the Miner's Strike

The miners’ strike of 1984-85 came to be called the "Great Strike", with good reason. It was the largest, longest trade …

The Dossier of Subject No. 1218: A Bulgarian Anarchist's Story

Of the few who managed to survive the horrors of Bulgaria's Stalinist concentration camps, Alexander Nakov is possibly the…

The East End Years: A Stepney Childhood

Fermin Rocker was born in the East End of London in 1907, the son of Rudolf Rocker, the famous anarchist theorist, activis…

The Educated Underclass: Students and the Promise of Social Mobility

"We live in a world with too many graduates fighting for too few jobs; where Deliveroo and FedEx drivers have advanced degree…

The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune

"The 1870s in France – Rimbaud’s moment, and the subject of this book – is a decade virtually ignored in most standa…

The Employment Question

A collection of essays examining the disaster that employment has become - the example, par excellence, of our over depend…

The End of Anarchism?

New edition of Luigi Galleani's classic text, as translated by Max Sitrin and Robert D'Attilio. "Anarchism rejects authori…

The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity

"The End of the Revolution shatters the myth that China's recent history has been a miracle of progress. In this original …

The End of the World As We Know It? Crisis, Resistance and the Age of Austerity

The End of the World as We Know It? explores the origins and effects of the capitalist crisis that began in 2008. It move…

The Enemy is Middle Class

This is a compilation of two essays from the founder of the Splat Collective. The authors put forward the controversial no…

The Enemy Within: MI5, Maxwell and the Scargill Affair

Rigourously researched exposé of the 1984/85 Miner's strike and the MI5 campaign to break the union. Accusations of Libya…

The Enigma of Hugh Holmes Gore: Bristol's Nineteenth Century Socialist Solicitor

"The Anglo-Catholic convert to the left, Hugh Holmes Gore, was a key figure in Bristol's labour movement during the last t…

The Essence of Capitalism: The Origins of our Future

"The Essence of Capitalism is a timely account of globalization, the consumer culture, and the historical roots of our con…

The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich

The Fair Trade Scandal takes aim at the Fair Trade consumer movement which many assume to be entirely benign. Through a razo…

The First Darwinian Left: Socialism and Darwinism 1859-1914

Stack argues that Darwinism and socialism were the two most exciting ideas of the late nineteenth century. He studies the …

The First Socialist Schism

Subtitled "Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men's Association" this is a massive tome! "The First Socia…

The General Idea of the Revolution In The Nineteenth Century

A major exposition of the theory of the 'Property is Theft' man, with attacks on authority, the state and Rousseau. Wr…

The German Revolution 1917-1923

"Germany from 1917 to 1923 was the scene of the greatest working class revolutionary upsurge ever in an advanced capitalis…

The Global Imagination of 1968: Revolution and Counterrevolution

'Brings to life social movements of the 1960s, a period of world-historical struggles. With discussions of more than fifty…

The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield

The Edwardian Durham coalfield, the second largest British coalfield at a time when coal was still king, was the scene for …

The History of Canadian Business 1867-1914

 A giant book on Canadian economic history - tells the story, often sordid, of the development of Canadian big business, …

The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Wilson

What it says in the subtitle! Graphic novel bringing Chomsky's political analysis to bear on real people's stories on the fro…

The International Anarchist Congress Amsterdam (1907)

In August 1907, Amsterdam hosted an international anarchist congress with delegates from 14 different countries. Over the …

The International Revolutionary Solidarity Movement: 1st of May Group

A study of the origins and development of the revolutionary anarchist movement in Europe 1945-73 with particular reference t…

The International Revolutionary Solidarity Movement: 1st of May Group

A study of the origins and development of the revolutionary anarchist movement in Europe 1945–73 with particular referen…

The Invention of the White Race Vol 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America

Allen explores the transformation that turned African bond-labourers into slaves and segregated them from their fellow prolet…

The Iron Heel

Pluto Press edition of Jack London's classic epic of a worker's movement brutally crushed by the rising tide of fascism - …

The Islamist Phoenix: The Islamic State and the Redrawing of the Middle East

'From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (know…

The Italian Factory Councils and the Anarchists

"The history of the Italian factory councils of 1920-1921 deserves to be more widely known outside academic circles and revol…

The James Connolly Reader

'Considered by many Ireland's most important revolutionary, James Connolly devoted his life to struggles against exploitat…

The Knights Errant of Anarchy

In The Knights Errant of Anarchy, Pietro Di Paola tells the fascinating story of the transnational diaspora of anarchist e…

The Kronstadt Uprising

New book-size printing of Ida Mett's 'The Kronstadt Uprising', a title we haven't had for ages now so it's good to see it in …

The Labor Movement in Japan

Japan's labour movement in the early-twentieth century was one of the most vibrant and tumultuous periods in global social…

The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sit-Downs

 "The rise of the American labor movement was characterized by explosive struggles for the most basic rights. From the ma…

The Last Communard: Adrien Lejeune, The Unexpected Life of a Revolutionary

'In 1871, Adrien Lejeune fought on the barricades of the Paris Commune. He was imprisoned for treason when the Commune fel…

The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-Century England

The Hernhill Rising of 1838 was the last battle fought on English soil, the last revolt against the New Poor Law, and Engl…

The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933

 Part one of Irving Bernstein's American history epic, introduced by Frances Fox Piven. "The textbook history of the …

The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg

'During the first decades of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg was the leader of the workers’ movement in Poland and…

The Letters of Joe Hill: Centenary Edition

The legendary IWW songwriter and activist, brought to life through his letters, songs, and writings. Murdered by the state…

The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg

This is quite a chunk of a book! Comprehensive collection of Luxemburg's letters - including many here translated into Eng…

The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640–1650

'From the raucous streets of London and the clattering printers' workshops that stoked the uprising to the rank and file o…

The Levellers and the English Revolution

"To our generation fell the good fortune of re-discovering the Levellers. To the classical liberal historians they meant r…

The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire: A Case Study of Bedminster Union Workhouse and Victorian Social Attitudes on Epilepsy

"During the year of 1855 rumours of murder and cover up were circulating in the small north Somerset village of Walton-in-…

The Life and Times of Warren James: Free Miners From The Forest of Dean

Authored by Ian Wright, this is #6 in the Bristol Radical History Group's series of pamphlets based on their talks and res…

The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti

An account of their lives, the crimes of which they were accused, and their arrest and murder by the state, as well as the up…

The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

"In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black working class. From the develo…

The Maltreated and Malcontents: Working in the Great Western Cotton Factory 1838–1914

"The history of Bristol's Great Western Cotton Works in Barton Hill, which opened in 1838, is little known. The story of i…

The Many-Headed Hydra

 "Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, l…

The Mayor of Garratt

Mock Elections in 18th Century South London "In the 18th Century mock elections for the fictional office of Mayor attr…

The Mental Load - A Feminist Comic

Famed for her 'Mental Load' comic about domestic labour, French cartoonist Emma has also drawn about the male gaze; women in …

The Miners' Next Step

Being a Suggested Scheme for the Reorganisation of the Federation — Issued by the Unofficial Reform Committee. First…

The Movements of Movements: Part 1: What Makes Us Move?

'Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasingly large numbers of peop…

The New Brazil: Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy

At one time, Lula's election in Brazil offered a pretense of hope to the left. Amidst a rapidly shifting global economy, B…

The New Left Legacy and Continuity

The greatest contribution of the New Left of the 1960s was its determination to build a culture and politics of popular pa…

The New Movement

Organisation, theory and practice, Solidarity style, from the prolific writer and commentator Henri Simon. 'The new moveme…

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

'How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe? In The O…

The Origins and an Account of Black Friday, 23rd December 1892

Autumn 1892 in Bristol saw a violent class war between employers, strike-breaking labour and police on one side and strike…

The Origins of Collective Decision Making

'Building on his highly original and always insightful earlier works on collective activity, in The Origins of Collective Dec…

The Paul Goodman Reader

 "A one-man think-tank for the New Left, Paul Goodman wrote over thirty books, most of them before his decade of fame as…

The People as Enemy: The Leaders' Hidden Agenda in World War II

"More than forty-six million soldiers and civilians perished in Warld War II, not counting more than five million Jews kil…

The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan

" Social Security: not for nothing do politicians call it the “third rail of American politics - touch it, and you die.…

The People's Farm: English Radical Agrarianism 1775-1840

"This book traces the development of agrarian ideas from the 1770s through to Chartism, and seeks to explain why, in an er…

The Permanent Guillotine: Writings of the Sans-Culottes

'When the Bastille was stormed on July 14, 1789, it wasn’t a crowd of breeches-wearing professionals that attacked the p…

The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation: Repression Beyond Exploitation

Author  Shir Hever on the economics of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Hever rejects the premise t…

The Poverty of Work: Selling Servant, Slave and Temporary Labor on the Free Market

'Perhaps no single human right is more cherished in Western capitalism than that of controlling one's own fate in the labor m…

The Prison Works: Occasional Texts on the Roles of Prison and Prison Labour

 Four essays: 'What Is Prison For?', 'Prison Works?' and 'Are Prisoners Slaves?' by Joe Black; 'Why Prisoner Support?' by…

The Rape of Socialism

This massive, wide ranging, darkly humorous tome explores socialist thinking through the last hundred years with particula…

The Red Flag of Anarchy

Subtitled "A History of Socialism & Anarchism in Sheffield 1874-1900". "It was an incredible time in Sheffield. Notabl…

The Revolution of Everyday Life

A new edition of Raoul Vaneigem's classic text. PM Press, 2012.

The Revolutionary Journalism of Big Bill Haywood: On the Picket Line with the IWW

"Big Bill Haywood was one of the most inspirational leaders of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobb…

The Rigged Game: Corporate America and a People Betrayed

"Using statistics from the Commerce Department and other sources, and beginning with the Great Depression, Hively traces h…

The Rights of the Horse and the Rights of Man

Draws the comparison between our equine friends and the human worker.

The Selected Works of Voltairine De Cleyre: Poems, Essays, Sketches and Stories, 1885–1911

“The most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced…a forceful personality, a brilliant mind, a ferve…

The Sheffield Workers' Committee

Rank and file trade unionism during the First World War. Pamphlet, published by Spokesman Books, written by Edd Mustill.

The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists

Long awaited reprint of John Quail's classic history of British anarchism.  Freedom's new edition includes a foreword and…

The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists

A new edition of John Quail's classic research on British anarchism, this also has an afterword by Constance Bantam and addit…

The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868 to 1936

By far the best book written in English on the Spanish Anarchists. Hailed by everyone from Howard Zinn to the CNT veterans…

The Story of a Proletarian Life

 Neat little pamphlet edition of Vanzetti's essay on his life and influences, from Black Cat Press in Canada.

The Story of a Proletarian Life

Small pamphlet edition. "What experiences shape an anarchist? What is it like to be a member of a visible minority, fo…

The Streets Of East London

The home of successive waves of immigrants, from the Huguenots in the seventeenth century to the Jews in the nineteenth an…

The Third Revolution? Peasant and worker resistance to the Bolshevik government

The Makhnovist movement of the Ukraine is the best known of the revolutionary oppositions to the Bolshevik regime. But it …

The Town That Was Murdered: The Life Story of Jarrow

"This well-researched survey of Jarrow, the town that gave its name to the Jarrow march, describes local and labour history, …

The Tradition of Workers' Control

A collection of Geoffrey Ostergaard's writing on various forms of worker control - Guild Socialism; British Syndicalism; Mana…

The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution

 "The story of contemporary China typically dates back to Mao's 1949 revolution. But in this classic work Harold Isaacs u…

The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1940

The hefty second volume of Irving Bernstein's American history: "From the birth of the CIO to the sit-down strikes tha…

The Tyranny of Theory: A Contribution to the Anarchist Critique of Marxism

Does Marxism equal totalitarianism? Are the ideas of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels somehow responsible for the horrors of Co…

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class