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Love and Struggle

David Gilbert's Love and Struggle in Counterpunch


"The book, titled Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond, is certain to be included in the top tier of books having to do with the period of U.S. history known as the '60s. There is no self-pity within these pages, but lots of self-reflection. In what can only be considered a refreshing approach, Gilbert takes full responsibility for the path he has chosen and explains that path in an intelligently political manner and with a decidedly leftist understanding. Love and Struggle combines objective history, personal memory, and a critical perspective into a narrative that is at once an adventuresome tale and a political guide through the past fifty years . . .

Gilbert tells his story with a hard-learned humility. Occasionally interjecting his personal life—his loves and failures, his relationship with his family—with his political journey, it is the politics which are foremost in this memoir. A true revolutionary, every other aspect of Gilbert’s life is subsumed to the revolution."
—Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch 

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Jose Peirats's The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Vol 1


"Highlighting their accomplishments, José Peirats, the author of the best history (in three volumes) of the immense Spanish anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), states as well that, “We write for history’s sake and also for the purpose of enlightening future generations of fighters.” For this reason also, he says, “none of the mis- takes made by workers should be glossed over in silence.”

It is critical that contemporary anarchists accept his advice. This recently published first volume of the English translation of his definitive work is an excellent place to begin." —David Porter, The Fifth Estate

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Sean Stewart's On The Ground


"Sean Stewart's On the Ground is a lively 
anecdotal history of the underground press.
Amply illustrated with art, cartoons, drawings, and covers from the colorful, eye-catching papers of the '60s, it comes closer to the spirit of the in-your-face underground papers . . .  'One of the important things about the underground press was that it was a collective, communal experience,' Thorne Dreyer says. 'Everybody came in and got involved and became a part of it, and got politicized through the process.' And that same process, or something very similar to it, is taking place wherever the Occupy Wall Street movement has surfaced all across America."

—Jonah Raskin, The Rag Blog

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David McNally's Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance


"(David) McNally focuses closely on the gender and racial oppression built into capitalism. This is a major strength of his book. Further, he surveys popular resistance movements, from China to Mexico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, France and the U.S. The role of the U.S. military in enforcing the economic rule of American capital is sparse. Yet McNally has, concisely, delivered a radical description of a crippled and crippling social system. His prescription for a way of living that puts people first is clear-eyed and empowering for readers." —Seth Sandronsky,
Z Magazine

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