The Revolution Will Be Hilarious

Adam Krause

In The Revolution Will Be Hilarious Adam Krause takes a look at comedy and social change, and shows that humor, democracy, and creativity are all closely related. However funny it...

Philosophy for Militants

Alain Badiou

"A philosophical guidebook for the struggles to come," it says. "An urgent and provocative account of the modern ‘militant’, a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory...

Lockdown High

When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse

Annette Fuentes

School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, Annette Fuentes finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students...

Drone Warfare

Killing By Remote Control

Medea Benjamin

Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing—and most secretive—fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than...

The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

Slavoj Zizek

Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit...

La Otra Historia De Los Estados Unidos

Howard Zinn

In lively, readable prose, Zinn's bestselling 'A People's History Of The United States' radically rethinks - and in the process reclaims for ordinary people of every race and class - an American...

Profit Over People

Neoliberalism and Global Order

Noam Chomsky

Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted...

Anarchists Against the Wall

Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle

Uri Gordon

Part of a small but growing phenomenon in Israel since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall have been boldly challenging the Segregation Barrier and generalized violence against occupied Palestine....

In the Shadow of the Sabertooth

A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene

Doug Peacock

Our climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people...