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Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Contributor), Dark Star Collective (Editor), Peggy Kornegger (Contributor), and Emma Goldman (Contributor)
From consciousness-raising groups to hair-razing punk rockers, here's a fascinating window into the development of the women's movement, in the words of the women who moved it. These classic essays span the century, providing welcome context for feminism as part of a larger politics of liberation and equality. Critical analysis and biting polemic, whether it's Emma Goldman's attack on the suffrage movement o...
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Stay Solid!: A Radical Handbook for Youth - Grace Llewellyn (Contributor), Derrick Jensen (Contributor), Matt Hern (Editor), and Margaret Killjoy (Contributor)
It ain't easy being a kid these days. For the first time in generations, today's teens have worse prospects ahead of them than their parents did, and the pressure to toe the line and be a success is heavier than ever...and so is the temptation to just give up. But there are things in the world worth fighting for!

This scrapbook-style collection of essays, excerpts, explanations, and images pushes back...
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Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe - Javier Sethness-Castro
The fourth title in our Anarchist Interventions Series co-published with the Institute for Anarchist Studies!

Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster.

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Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements - Raul Zibechi and Ramor Ryan (Translator)
"Rich and complicated...[Territories in Resistance] will be a key reference point in the development of anti-systemic thought."—Gilberto López y Rivas, La Jornada

Territories in Resistance is an indispensable complement to existing literature on Latin American autonomous social movements. Explore the "other worlds" being created in the wreckage of colonialism and capi...
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Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986 - Michael Staudenmaier and John H. Bracey, Jr. (Preface by)
Founded in Chicago in 1969 from the rubble of the recently crumbled SDS, the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) brought working-class consciousness to the forefront of New Left discourse, sending radicals back into the factories and thinking through the integration of radical politics into everyday realities. Through the influence of founding members like Noel Ignatiev and Don Hamerquist, STO took a Marxist ...
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In the Shadow of State Power: CLR James, Direct Democracy, & National Liberation Struggles - Matthew Quest
This book will be available in March! Pre-order available soon!

A new scholarly analysis of the importance of direct democracy and national liberation in the work of autonomous Marxist intellectual C.L.R. James. Exploring James' perspectives on Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Haiti, Trinidad, Cuba, India, and China, Matthew Quest eschews the dominant interpretation of James as a cultural critic and ...
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The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan - Eric Laursen
"Laursen has given us a comprehensive account of the three decade long war against Social Security.... This is a fascinating history that progressives must learn, not only to protect Social Security but also to understand the dynamics behind an effective long-term strategy."—Dean Baker, author of False Profits: Recovering From the Bubble Economy

"This magnificent history documents the hyd...
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Arab Spring, Libyan Winter - Vijay Prashad
The Arab Spring captivated the planet. Mass action overthrew Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. The revolutionary wave spread to the far corners of the Arab world, from Morocco to Bahrain. It seemed as if all the authoritarian states would finally be freed, even those of the Arabian Peninsula. People's power had produced this wave, and continued to ride it out.

In Libya, though, the new worl...
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Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain - Paul Sharkey (Translator), Frank Mintz, and Chris Ealham (Preface by)
This is the first English translation of Frank Mintz's seminal study of the economic experiments put into place during the Spanish Revolution to both sustain civil society during the war and, more importantly, act as the material basis for a new society. These plans weren't developed by professional economists but grew out of a political movement that put working people at the fore and believed that the coll...
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Haymarket Scrapbook: 25th Anniversary Edition - David Roediger (Editor) and Franklin Rosemont (Editor)
This book will be available in February! Preorder now and get 25% off the list price of $23.
Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago's Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition co-published with the Charles H. Kerr Company, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, and handbills, as well as contributions by many...
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