Resistance Behind Bars

The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Victoria Law

In 1974, women imprisoned at New York's maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought...

The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down

Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store, Win Big

Dana Frank

Woolworth's department store was the Walmart of the early-20th century. The women who worked the counters, cash registers, and storerooms were overworked, underpaid, and sexually harassed. This is...

Siberian Makhnovshchina

Igor Podshivalov

The Russian Civil War (1918–1924) in Asiatic Russia was like the American Wild West as one regime after another tried to establish its rule over the freedom-loving peasants and miners of the West...

The Revolt of Ghent

William Morris

William Morris's history of the revolt of Ghent is mainly a retelling of the story as originally recounted by the medieval historian Froissart. But the framework and the episodes selected are...

The Ukrainian Revolution

Nestor Makhno

The peasant anarchist Nestor Makhno (1888–1934) was a key figure of the Russian Civil War (1918–1921). Driven into exile at the end of the war, he produced several volumes of memoirs. Each of these...

Upon the Backs of Labour

Arthur Miller

Arthur J. Miller's essays, stories really, are firsthand accounts of a working person's life, in his own words, uncensored and unapologetic. For Arthur, expressing his thoughts in print is a form...

Occupying Language

The Secret Rendezvous with History and the Present

Marina Sitrin

New from Zuccotti Park Press!Occupying Language is an open conversation. Through it, Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellin invite readers to join them listen to insurgent movements that have...

My People Are Rising

Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain

Aaron Dixon

In an era of stark racial injustice and decisive action, Aaron Dixon dedicated his life to the struggle for change, founding the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968 at age nineteen....

A Secret History of Coffee, Coca and Cola

Ricardo Cortés

"This book is an incredible work of artistic journalism. Armed with color pencils and an eye for detail, Cortés has produced a beautiful and subversive history of how that bottle of Coke ended up...