250 Years of Subversion
50 titles
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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History
Editors: Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, and Yony Leyser
The very first comprehensive overview of the movement that defied both the music underground and the LGBT mainstream community—queercore.
$20.00
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X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety
Gabriel Kuhn
The highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed Sober Living for the Revolution continues the reconnaissance of straight edge culture and how it overlaps with radical politics.
The highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed Sober Living for the Revolution continues the reconnaissance of straight edge culture and how it overlaps with radical politics.
$22.95
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Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom
Editor: John Mink
A collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field.
A collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field.
$27.95
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Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980
Editors: Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre
This book tracks the changing politics and culture of the period and how it was reflected in pulp and popular fiction in the US, UK, and Australia from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.
This book tracks the changing politics and culture of the period and how it was reflected in pulp and popular fiction in the US, UK, and Australia from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.
$34.95
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Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance
Vyvian Raoul and Matt Bonner• Introduction: Josh MacPhee
Advertising Shits in Your Head calls adverts what they are—a powerful means of control through manipulation—and highlights how people across the world are fighting back.
Advertising Shits in Your Head calls adverts what they are—a powerful means of control through manipulation—and highlights how people across the world are fighting back.
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Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense
Editor: scott crow
This anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, as used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals.
This anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, as used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals.
$24.95
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Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980
Editors: Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette
The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction.
The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction.
$29.95
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The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975
Mat Callahan
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties.
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties.
$22.95
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We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States
Thomas Linzey and Anneke Campbell
We the People offers portraits of communities across the U.S. that have faced threats from environmentally destructive corporate projects and responded by banning those projects at a local level.
We the People offers portraits of communities across the U.S. that have faced threats from environmentally destructive corporate projects and responded by banning those projects at a local level.
$14.95
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The Traffic Power Structure
Planka.nu
The Traffic Power Structure argues for a different kind of traffic in a different kind of world.
The Traffic Power Structure argues for a different kind of traffic in a different kind of world.
$12.00
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The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
Michelle Cruz Gonzales
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.
$16.95
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Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989, Second Edition
George Hurchalla
The product of decades of work and multiple self-published editions, Going Underground, is the most comprehensive look yet at America’s nationwide underground punk scene.
The product of decades of work and multiple self-published editions, Going Underground, is the most comprehensive look yet at America’s nationwide underground punk scene.
$24.95
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The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance
Penny Rimbaud
The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story of his friend, Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope), who was murdered by the State while incarcerated in a mental institution.
The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story of his friend, Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope), who was murdered by the State while incarcerated in a mental institution.
$12.00
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Who's Afraid of the Black Blocs?: Anarchy in Action around the World
Francis Dupuis-Déri • Translated by Lazer Lederhendler
This is a comprehensive view of the tactic and locates it within the anarchist tradition of direct action and includes recent actions at protests around the world.
This is a comprehensive view of the tactic and locates it within the anarchist tradition of direct action and includes recent actions at protests around the world.
$19.95
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One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock
Dave Laing
This book argues that a significant political achievement of punk was to expose the operations of power in the British entertainment industry as they were thrown into confusion by the sound and the fury of musicians and fans.
This book argues that a significant political achievement of punk was to expose the operations of power in the British entertainment industry as they were thrown into confusion by the sound and the fury of musicians and fans.
$17.95
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The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984
Ian Glasper
With a backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain, punk music became self-sufficient and considerably more aggressive, blending a DIY ethos with activism to create the perfectly bleak soundtrack to the zeitgeist of a discontented youth.
With a backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain, punk music became self-sufficient and considerably more aggressive, blending a DIY ethos with activism to create the perfectly bleak soundtrack to the zeitgeist of a discontented youth.
$27.95
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Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
Ian Glasper
The true story of the UK punk scene from '80–84 told by the bands and record labels that created it; profiling bands like Vice Squad, Angelic Upstarts, Blitz, Anti-Nowhere League, Cockney Rejects, and more obscure groups.
The true story of the UK punk scene from '80–84 told by the bands and record labels that created it; profiling bands like Vice Squad, Angelic Upstarts, Blitz, Anti-Nowhere League, Cockney Rejects, and more obscure groups.
$29.95
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Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years
Alex Ogg
A celebratory—if not uncritical—examination of a group who would become mired in controversy while playing a role in transforming punk into something genuinely threatening and enormously funny.
A celebratory—if not uncritical—examination of a group who would become mired in controversy while playing a role in transforming punk into something genuinely threatening and enormously funny.
$19.95
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Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C. Smith, and William E. Trautmann
The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy edited here and with an introduction by Salvatore Salerno.
The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy edited here and with an introduction by Salvatore Salerno.
$14.95
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The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual
Editor: Strike Debt
The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual is a handbook for debtors everywhere to understand how this system really works, while providing practical tools for fighting debt in its most exploitative forms.
The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual is a handbook for debtors everywhere to understand how this system really works, while providing practical tools for fighting debt in its most exploitative forms.
$19.95
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Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education
Editor: Robert H. Haworth
"This original contribution to revolutionary praxis in education could not come at a more urgent moment. It deserves to be read and its recommendations unleashed in the battlefields of capital." —Peter McLaren
"This original contribution to revolutionary praxis in education could not come at a more urgent moment. It deserves to be read and its recommendations unleashed in the battlefields of capital." —Peter McLaren
$25.95
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Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons
David Ensminger
Left of the Dial features interviews with leading figures of the punk underground: Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Dave Dictor (MDC), and many more.
Left of the Dial features interviews with leading figures of the punk underground: Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Dave Dictor (MDC), and many more.
$20.00
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How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Protests, Graffiti & Political Mischief-Making from across Australia
Iain McIntyre
This book reveals Australia's radical past through more than 500 tales of Indigenous resistance, convict revolts and escapes, picket line hijinks, creative direct action, street art, media pranks, squatting, etc.
This book reveals Australia's radical past through more than 500 tales of Indigenous resistance, convict revolts and escapes, picket line hijinks, creative direct action, street art, media pranks, squatting, etc.
$24.95
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Barred for Life: How Black Flag's Iconic Logo became Punk Rock's Secret Handshake
Stewart Dean Ebersole
This photo documentary catalogs the legacy of American Punk pioneers Black Flag, through stories, interviews, and photographs of diehard fans who wear their iconic logo, The Bars, conspicuously tattooed upon their skin.
This photo documentary catalogs the legacy of American Punk pioneers Black Flag, through stories, interviews, and photographs of diehard fans who wear their iconic logo, The Bars, conspicuously tattooed upon their skin.
$27.95
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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History
Editors: Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, and Yony Leyser
The very first comprehensive overview of the movement that defied both the music underground and the LGBT mainstream community—queercore.
$20.00
Books
X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety
Gabriel Kuhn
The highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed Sober Living for the Revolution continues the reconnaissance of straight edge culture and how it overlaps with radical politics.
$22.95
Books
Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom
Editor: John Mink
A collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field.
$27.95
Books
Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980
Editors: Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre
This book tracks the changing politics and culture of the period and how it was reflected in pulp and popular fiction in the US, UK, and Australia from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.
$34.95
Books
Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance
Vyvian Raoul and Matt Bonner• Introduction: Josh MacPhee
Advertising Shits in Your Head calls adverts what they are—a powerful means of control through manipulation—and highlights how people across the world are fighting back.
From $9.95
Books
Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense
Editor: scott crow
This anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, as used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals.
$24.95
Books
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980
Editors: Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette
The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction.
$29.95
Books
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975
Mat Callahan
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties.
$22.95
Books
We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States
Thomas Linzey and Anneke Campbell
We the People offers portraits of communities across the U.S. that have faced threats from environmentally destructive corporate projects and responded by banning those projects at a local level.
$14.95
Books
The Traffic Power Structure
Planka.nu
The Traffic Power Structure argues for a different kind of traffic in a different kind of world.
$12.00
Books
The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
Michelle Cruz Gonzales
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.
$16.95
Books
Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989, Second Edition
George Hurchalla
The product of decades of work and multiple self-published editions, Going Underground, is the most comprehensive look yet at America’s nationwide underground punk scene.
$24.95
Books
The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance
Penny Rimbaud
The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story of his friend, Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope), who was murdered by the State while incarcerated in a mental institution.
$12.00
Books
Who's Afraid of the Black Blocs?: Anarchy in Action around the World
Francis Dupuis-Déri • Translated by Lazer Lederhendler
This is a comprehensive view of the tactic and locates it within the anarchist tradition of direct action and includes recent actions at protests around the world.
$19.95
Books
One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock
Dave Laing
This book argues that a significant political achievement of punk was to expose the operations of power in the British entertainment industry as they were thrown into confusion by the sound and the fury of musicians and fans.
$17.95
Books
The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984
Ian Glasper
With a backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain, punk music became self-sufficient and considerably more aggressive, blending a DIY ethos with activism to create the perfectly bleak soundtrack to the zeitgeist of a discontented youth.
$27.95
Books
Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
Ian Glasper
The true story of the UK punk scene from '80–84 told by the bands and record labels that created it; profiling bands like Vice Squad, Angelic Upstarts, Blitz, Anti-Nowhere League, Cockney Rejects, and more obscure groups.
$29.95
Books
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years
Alex Ogg
A celebratory—if not uncritical—examination of a group who would become mired in controversy while playing a role in transforming punk into something genuinely threatening and enormously funny.
$19.95
Books
Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C. Smith, and William E. Trautmann
The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy edited here and with an introduction by Salvatore Salerno.
$14.95
Books
The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual
Editor: Strike Debt
The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual is a handbook for debtors everywhere to understand how this system really works, while providing practical tools for fighting debt in its most exploitative forms.
$19.95
Books
Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education
Editor: Robert H. Haworth
"This original contribution to revolutionary praxis in education could not come at a more urgent moment. It deserves to be read and its recommendations unleashed in the battlefields of capital." —Peter McLaren
$25.95
Books
Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons
David Ensminger
Left of the Dial features interviews with leading figures of the punk underground: Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Dave Dictor (MDC), and many more.
$20.00
Books
How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Protests, Graffiti & Political Mischief-Making from across Australia
Iain McIntyre
This book reveals Australia's radical past through more than 500 tales of Indigenous resistance, convict revolts and escapes, picket line hijinks, creative direct action, street art, media pranks, squatting, etc.
$24.95
Books
Barred for Life: How Black Flag's Iconic Logo became Punk Rock's Secret Handshake
Stewart Dean Ebersole
This photo documentary catalogs the legacy of American Punk pioneers Black Flag, through stories, interviews, and photographs of diehard fans who wear their iconic logo, The Bars, conspicuously tattooed upon their skin.
$27.95