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Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag
The attempt to placate unruly youth inevitably molders into attempts to oppress unruly youth. Southern California in the late ’70s was all soft rock, cowboy fashion, and an extreme distaste for any blemishes in the sprawling whitewashed suburbs beyond Los Angeles. Hardcore punk was a perfectly placed kick to the teeth of all the authoritarian […]
Continue reading...Save the Humans: Common Preservation in Action
19. February 2012
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November 14, 2011, Jeremy Brecher delivered a talk at the CUNY Graduate Center entitled, “What the 99-Percenters Learn from the History of Social Movements.” Marina Sitrin, a friend who’s organizing links the global justice movement with Occupy Wall Street (OWS), had sent out an invitation.
Continue reading...In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
6. January 2012
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There is a sub-genre of science fiction called alternative history, which consists of works such as Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, in which Germany wins World War II, and Hitler becomes the ruler of the U.S. Works of this type offer a counterfactual version of past events
Continue reading...AK Press Working Classics Series
12. May 2011
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Anyone looking to educate themselves on the history and principles of anarchism should look no further for a starting place than the books in AK Press’s Working Classics series. The series as a whole represents some of the finest writings on anarchist theory and practice ever published
Continue reading...Atamansha
28. December 2010
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Maria Nikiforova, 'Marusya,' an early 20th century Ukrainian Anarchist is an elusive figure in the history of the Russian Revolution and the Ukrainian Civil War. As the only published book in English about Maryusa, Atamansha by Malcom Archibad is dedicated to providing her story to the English-Speaking world.
Continue reading...War and Civil Disobedience
4. November 2010
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For many, the work of academics like Howard Zinn is an invaluable resource because he manages to inform and inspire in a way that is accessible to anyone with a sympathetic ear.
Continue reading...Social Stratification in Central Mexico, 1500-2000
4. November 2010
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Class is oftentimes as much about self-identification as it is about actual ceremony and recognition from others. How one sees oneself in the class order is intoxicating for some people.
Continue reading...Signal: 01
4. September 2010
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Visually delectable and politically pointed, Signal: 01 bills itself as “an ongoing book series to documenting and sharing political graphics, creative projects and the cultural production of international resistance and liberation struggles.”
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2. April 2013
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