Jumping the Line

The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical

William Herrick

Jumping the Line offers a vivid first-hand account of Left culture in America in the heady days of the 20s through the 40s. William Herrick grew up in New York City with pictures of Lenin above...

Prisons on Fire

George Jackson, Attica & Black Liberation

Freedom Archives

Thirty years ago, America's prisons burned. Here's how, why, and what happened. Who were the Attica Brothers? Why did 1,500 Black, Puerto Rican and white prisoners seize control of the New York...

Orgasms of History

3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection

Yves Fremion

Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated...

Artists in a Time of War

Howard Zinn

"As soon as you speak outside the boundaries, as soon as you say things that are different from what the establishment and the media and leading intellectuals are telling you to say, the question...

What is Anarchism?

Alexander Berkman

A reprint of perhaps the first and best exposition of Anarchism by one of its greatest propagandists (by both word and deed) and thinkers. In a clear conversation with the reader Berkman discusses...

Life In Occupied America

Ward Churchill

"By 1890, the census of the United States officially recorded that there were fewer than 250,000 living Native people within the borders of the 48 contiguous states of the United States. This from...

On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality

Ward Churchill

The record speaks for itself... The "Most Peace-Loving of Nations" has been engaged in brutal military campaigns in every corner of the globe, unceasingly, since its inception. In attempting to...

Language And Politics

Noam Chomsky

An enormous chronological collection of over fifty interviews conducted with Chomsky beginning with his from 1968 discussion of the US war on Vietnam and ending soon after the apearnce of his...

The People's History Project Volume One

Howard Zinn

"Howard's life and work are a persistent reminder that our own subjective judgments of the likelihood of success in engaging human problems are of little interest, to ourselves or others. What...