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Maoism and the Chinese Revolution: A Critical Introduction
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Maoism and the Chinese Revolution: A Critical Introduction

Elliott Liu
Maoism and the Chinese Revolution offers the novice reader a sweeping overview of five decades of Maoist revolutionary history.
$17.95
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The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
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The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

Peter Linebaugh
A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.
$16.95
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Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed
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Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed

Editor and translator: Mitchell Abidor
Death to Bourgeois Society tells the story of four young anarchists who were guillotined in France in the 1890s: Ravachol, Auguste Vaillant, Emile Henry, and the Italian immigrant Santo Caserio.
$14.95
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Playing as if the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports
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Playing as if the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports

Gabriel Kuhn
With the help of over a hundred full-color illustrations Playing as if the World Mattered makes the political history of sports tangible.
$14.95
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To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution
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To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt
This incisive account of the centrality of the arts to the Cuban Revolution follows the polemical twists and turns of the struggle between Soviet-derived and uniquely Cuban approaches to culture under socialism.
$24.95
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Voices of the Paris Commune
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Voices of the Paris Commune

Editor: Mitchell Abidor
Voices of the Paris Commune presents the stories of those who lived through and participated in the Commune in the spring of 1871.
$14.95
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Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
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Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

Errico Malatesta · Edited by Vernon Richards
These selections showcase Malatesta’s classical anarchism: a revolutionary, nonpacifist, nonreformist vision informed by decades of engagement in struggle and study.
$23.95
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The First Socialist Schism: Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men's Association
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The First Socialist Schism: Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men's Association

Wolfgang Eckhardt
This book chronicles the conflicts in the International Working Men’s Association (First International) using source material from numerous archives and libraries that have gone unnoticed or were completely unknown.
$38.95
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Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement
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Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement

Gilles Dauvé and François Martin
Doing away with wage-labor, class, the State, and private property is possible, and can only be achieved by a historical break, it will not be a peaceful, gradual, piecemeal evolution.
$14.95
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Birth of Our Power
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Birth of Our Power

Victor Serge • Translator: Richard Greeman
This epic novel is set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. From "victory in defeat" to "defeat in victory."
$18.95
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Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938
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Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938

Victor Serge · Edited by Mitchell Abidor
Anarchists Never Surrender anthologizes Serge’s previously unavailable texts on anarchism and fleshes out the portrait of this brilliant writer and thinker.
$20.00
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"Venceremos": Víctor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement
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"Venceremos": Víctor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement

Featuring interviews from key figures and lyrical analysis, Venceremos gives insight into how the New Chilean Song Movement’s revolutionary anthems came to be.
$6.95
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Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers
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Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers

Editor: Gabriel Kuhn
This is the story of the Blekingegade Group who over a period of almost two decades sent millions of dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements.
$19.95
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Getting Up for the People: The Visual Revolution of ASAR-Oaxaca
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Getting Up for the People: The Visual Revolution of ASAR-Oaxaca

ASARO, Mike Graham de La Rosa, and Suzanne M. Schadl
Presenting, in full color, the work of ASARO covering global themes of corporate greed, genetically modified organisms, violence against women, and abuses of natural resources.
$19.95
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Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
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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.
$29.95
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Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance
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Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance

Peter Linebaugh
This majestic tour de force takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops.
$24.95
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State Capitalism and World Revolution
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State Capitalism and World Revolution

C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs
This is a pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and a reclamation of Marx.
$16.95
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The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism
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The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism

Editors: J. Smith and André Moncourt
The long-awaited Volume 2 studying the Red Army Faction—West Germany's most notorious urban guerillas—covers the period immediately following the organization's near-total decimation in 1977.
$26.95
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How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Protests, Graffiti & Political Mischief-Making from across Australia
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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.
$24.95
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Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811–12
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Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811–12

Peter Linebaugh
Linebaugh enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.
$6.95
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A History of Pan-African Revolt
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A History of Pan-African Revolt

C.L.R. James
Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance.
$17.95
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The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 3
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The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 3

José Peirats
Volume 3 tells of the CNT's last push for the anarchist revolution.
$22.95
The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 2
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The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 2

José Peirats
Volume 2 focuses on the battles raging at both the front and rear guards.
$22.95
Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947-2009
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Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947-2009

George Katsiaficas
Ten years in the making, this book provides a unique perspective on uprisings in nine Asian nations in the past five decades.
$28.95
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Maoism and the Chinese Revolution: A Critical Introduction
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Maoism and the Chinese Revolution: A Critical Introduction

Elliott Liu Maoism and the Chinese Revolution offers the novice reader a sweeping overview of five decades of Maoist revolutionary history.
$17.95
The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
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The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

Peter Linebaugh A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.
$16.95
Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed
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Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed

Editor and translator: Mitchell Abidor Death to Bourgeois Society tells the story of four young anarchists who were guillotined in France in the 1890s: Ravachol, Auguste Vaillant, Emile Henry, and the Italian immigrant Santo Caserio.
$14.95
Playing as if the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports
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Playing as if the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports

Gabriel Kuhn With the help of over a hundred full-color illustrations Playing as if the World Mattered makes the political history of sports tangible.
$14.95
To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution
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To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt This incisive account of the centrality of the arts to the Cuban Revolution follows the polemical twists and turns of the struggle between Soviet-derived and uniquely Cuban approaches to culture under socialism.
$24.95
Voices of the Paris Commune
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Voices of the Paris Commune

Editor: Mitchell Abidor Voices of the Paris Commune presents the stories of those who lived through and participated in the Commune in the spring of 1871.
$14.95
Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
Books

Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

Errico Malatesta · Edited by Vernon Richards These selections showcase Malatesta’s classical anarchism: a revolutionary, nonpacifist, nonreformist vision informed by decades of engagement in struggle and study.
$23.95
The First Socialist Schism: Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men's Association
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The First Socialist Schism: Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men's Association

Wolfgang Eckhardt This book chronicles the conflicts in the International Working Men’s Association (First International) using source material from numerous archives and libraries that have gone unnoticed or were completely unknown.
$38.95
Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement
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Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement

Gilles Dauvé and François Martin Doing away with wage-labor, class, the State, and private property is possible, and can only be achieved by a historical break, it will not be a peaceful, gradual, piecemeal evolution.
$14.95
Birth of Our Power
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Birth of Our Power

Victor Serge • Translator: Richard Greeman This epic novel is set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. From "victory in defeat" to "defeat in victory."
$18.95
Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938
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Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938

Victor Serge · Edited by Mitchell Abidor Anarchists Never Surrender anthologizes Serge’s previously unavailable texts on anarchism and fleshes out the portrait of this brilliant writer and thinker.
$20.00
"Venceremos": Víctor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement
Books

"Venceremos": Víctor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement

Featuring interviews from key figures and lyrical analysis, Venceremos gives insight into how the New Chilean Song Movement’s revolutionary anthems came to be.
$6.95
Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers
Books

Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers

Editor: Gabriel Kuhn This is the story of the Blekingegade Group who over a period of almost two decades sent millions of dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements.
$19.95
Getting Up for the People: The Visual Revolution of ASAR-Oaxaca
Books

Getting Up for the People: The Visual Revolution of ASAR-Oaxaca

ASARO, Mike Graham de La Rosa, and Suzanne M. Schadl Presenting, in full color, the work of ASARO covering global themes of corporate greed, genetically modified organisms, violence against women, and abuses of natural resources.
$19.95
Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
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
Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance
Books

Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance

Peter Linebaugh This majestic tour de force takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops.
$24.95
State Capitalism and World Revolution
Books

State Capitalism and World Revolution

C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs This is a pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and a reclamation of Marx.
$16.95
The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism
Books

The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism

Editors: J. Smith and André Moncourt The long-awaited Volume 2 studying the Red Army Faction—West Germany's most notorious urban guerillas—covers the period immediately following the organization's near-total decimation in 1977.
$26.95
How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Protests, Graffiti & Political Mischief-Making from across Australia
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
Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811–12
Books

Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811–12

Peter Linebaugh Linebaugh enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.
$6.95
A History of Pan-African Revolt
Books

A History of Pan-African Revolt

C.L.R. James Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance.
$17.95
The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 3
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The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 3

José Peirats Volume 3 tells of the CNT's last push for the anarchist revolution.
$22.95
The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 2
Books

The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 2

José Peirats Volume 2 focuses on the battles raging at both the front and rear guards.
$22.95
Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947-2009
Books

Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947-2009

George Katsiaficas Ten years in the making, this book provides a unique perspective on uprisings in nine Asian nations in the past five decades.
$28.95