Take Back the Land e-book

Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown

Max Rameau

In October 2006, a group of housing activists called Take Back the Land seized control of a plot of public land in Miami, Florida and built an encampment that would become known as the Umoja...

Punching Out

Martin Glaberman

Martin Glaberman’s classic but hard-to-find pamphlet (CHK is doing a new edition!) is an authoritative statement about the merits of direct action in workplace organizing. Writing in the context of...

Message To The Movement

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Reflecting on the meaning of struggle, education, imperialism, and his own involvement in radical social movements, revolutionary journalist and former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal, directly...

Be Realistic

Demand the Impossible

Mike Davis

With wit, humor, and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalization of the poor and working class by the 1%, Mike Davis, a Macarthur Fellow, Lannan Literary Foundation Award winner and Isaac...

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...

History of the Civil Rights Movement

Coloring Book

Steven James Petruccio

Thirty full-page illustrations chronicle key events of one of the twentieth century's most important social movements. Informative captions accompany the dramatic scenes, from Lincoln's signing of...

How to Fire Your Boss

A Worker's Guide to Direct Action

IWW

"The indignity of working-for-a-living is well-known to anyone who ever has. Democracy, the great principle on which American society is supposedly founded, is thrown out the window as soon as we...

Occupy

Noam Chomsky

Since it’s appearance in Zuccotti Park in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds towns, cities and college campuses across the United States. To date, more than 6,700 people...

We Shut the City Down!

Six Former Student Liberation Action Movement Members Reflect on the Mass Direct Actions Agains the 2000 RNC in Philadelphia

Suzy Subways

Less than a year after the global justice movement dramatically announced its arrival in the US by shutting down the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle, thousands of activists from the...