The fourth in AK Press’ Working Classics series, The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equi-table means of satisfying
By investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917. Terence Kissack expands the scope of the history of LGBT politics in the United Stales. The anarchists Kissack ex
Using a synthesis of ecology, anthropology, philosophy and political theory, this book traces our society's conflicting legacies of freedom and domination, from the first emergence of human culture to
New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the “price of fire”—access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources. Though these
Militants, artists, and academics present material intended to help readers further the development of constituent power of lived imagination in order to transform the world. Among the topics are mili
We can no longer trust that our journalists are reporting the news without underlying corporate or governmental agendas. The US government deregulates radio and right-wing Clear Channel gobbles up ava
Concentrating on the class-struggle tradition within anarchism, as represented by current national federations in Britain, Benjamin Franks identifies the main principles that distinguish these movemen
The Weather Underground emerged from splits within the Students for a Democratic Society and for a period of time in the 1970s carried out a string of bombings that placed it in the front ranks of the
In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of “direct action”—workers’ control of production, the creation of free ru
Looking beyond the passive roles of feeding, nursing and hiding male partisans, journalist and film maker Strobel interviewed women who took an active role, in gun running, bombings and assassination.
"Movement reporting on a par with Mailer's Armies of the Night"—Peter Linebaugh, author of Magna Carta Manifesto and The Many-Headed Hydra.Hold on tight as you open the pages of Born Under a Bad Sky a
A parenting guide like no other! Jessica Mills, a touring punk musician, artist, and political activist, gives readers a delightful, information-packed guide to having and raising kids without giving
"Dynamite harkens back to an era of American capitalism a little less glossy, a little bloodier, and with striking parallels to today."--Feminist ReviewLabor disputes have produced more violence over
British anarchist activist and writer Christie offers a sympathetic study of the Federacion Anarquista Iberica (FAI), the Spanish anarchist grouping that was founded in 1927 for the purpose of maintai
Disaster and Resistance outlines pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century - from post 9-11 New York City to Israel and Palestine, to Iraq and New Orleans. Fans
Writer and activist Carlsson takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour of people and organizations he loosely dubs as the emergent "Nowtopian movement," by which he means those who are engaged in projec
Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the
David Berry's study is the first English-language evaluation of the development and lessons of the French anarchist movement between the wars. Using an impressive array of archival sources and persona
A groundbreaking book showing a different side of this best-selling author: the anarchist principles that have guided him since he was a teenager. These essays and interviews demonstrate Noam Chomsky&
“Highly recommended . . . this is a must for anyone looking to reduce their impact on the planet and the animal kingdom. A practical, potentially life changing gift.”—Keith Mann, The Think ShopAnother
