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In Russian And French Prisons - George Woodcock (Introduction by) and Peter Kropotkin
Nearly a century has passed since Kropotkin wrote In Russian and French Prisons, yet his criticisms of the penal system have lost none of their relevance. Prisons- far from reforming the offender, or deterring crime- are, in themselves, "schools of crime". Every year, thousands of prisoners are returned to society without hope, without a trade, or without nay means of subsistence, and statistics show that on...
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Practicing Feminist Mothering - Fiona Joy Green
Practicing Feminist Mothering explores the realities of feminist mothering for both mothers and their children. It scrutinizes the discourse of motherhood by examining the material spaces that feminist mothers create to struggle with patriarchy. The book is based on indepth interviews of sixteen feminist mothers conducted from 1995 to 2007 and includes interviews with some of the adult children, one w...
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A People's Citizenship Guide - Adele Perry and Esyllt Jones
In 2009, Stephen Harper's Conservative government changed the contents of the official citizenship guide that is given to all recent immigrants to Canada. The new version contained a lot more military history and plenty of information about the monarchy, but little about public programs such as medicare or education, or our rich history of social justice movements. Ignoring the work and democratic struggles ...
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Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology - Franklin Rosemont (Contributor) and Joyce Kornbluh (Editor)
Originally published in 1964 and long out-of-print, Kornbluh's Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore. Besides the full text and illustrations of the original, this new and expanded edition includes 32 pages of additional material: a new introduction and updated bibliography by old-time Wobbly organizer and scholar Fred Thompson; an inform...
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Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law - Dean Spade
Brand new from South End Press!

Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and "equality" strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations—agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal access, nondiscrimination, and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the state and its legal, polic...
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Communization and its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggles - Benjamin Noys (Editor)
Can we find alternatives to the failed radical projects of the twentieth-century? What are the possible forms of struggle today? How do we fight back against the misery of our crisis-ridden present?

"Communization" is the spectre of the immediate struggle to abolish capitalism and the state, which haunts Europe, Southern California, and wherever the real abstractions of value that shape our lives are ...
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Taking My Life - Jane Rule
Jane Rule was a successful Canadian author (well, really she was born in New Jersey but…), who won many accolades for her novels, essays and short story collections, which most often featured strong lesbian characters. Her first novel, Desert of the Heart is about two women who fall in love in Reno! And with its release Rule got a flood of letters from “unhappy, and even desperate” women. She later wr...
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The Occupation Cookbook: Or the Model of the Occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
"The Occupation Cookbook is a 'manual' that describes the organization of the student occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb that took place in the spring of 2009 and lasted for 35 days. It was written for two reasons: to record what happened, and to present the particular organization of this action in such a way that it may be of use to other activists and members of v...
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Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne - Carl Nyman (Editor), Jake Smallman (Editor), and Banksy (Contributor)
Stencil graffiti has found its heart in Melbourne, Australia. No other city boasts such quantity and quality of stencil art. Through intimate interviews, dynamic layouts and a riot of examples the artists are shown in the context of world street art culture. Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne is the first book to explore the city's thought provoking, visually rich stencil graffiti scene, and the poli...
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The No-Nonsense Guide to World Population - Vanessa Baird
With world population passing seven billion and predicted to hit nine billion by 2050, we are in the grip of a number panic. This book explodes some of the common myths, looks at what the numbers really mean, and addresses nine topics, such as why women in most parts of the world have fewer children, what will happen to our societies as we all live longer, and how having babies relates to climate change. ...
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