Anarchism

Anarchism and the State.

Peter Kropotkin

Ex Archeia Free Zone Calling. From 1850 to Nowadays

Nikos Koufopoulos & Nikolas Agathos

Society Despite the State. Reimagining Geographies of Order.

Anthony Ince & Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

The logic of the state has come to define social and spatial relations, embedding itself into our understanding of the world and our place in it. Anthony Ince and Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre challenge this logic as the central pivot around which knowledge and life orbit, by exposing its vulnerabilities, contradictions, and, crucially, alternatives. Society Despite the State disrupts the dominance of state-centric modes of thinking by presenting a radical political geography framework inspired by anarchist thought and practice. The book also draws on a broad range of voices that hold affinities with Western anarchism but also exceed it. The book challenges radical scholars to confront and understand the state through a gaze and set of intellectual tools that the authors have termed 'post-statism'. In de-centering the state's operational logics and rationalities, the authors incorporate a variety of threads to build a picture of an alternative way of understanding and challenging statism's effects on our spatial and political imaginations.

The Anarchist Quiz Book

Martin Howard

A handy, pocket-size compendium of the now infamous anarcho-quizzes that ran, first in the pages ofBlack Flag, under the authorship of the legendary Albert Meltzer. 350 questions (plus answers, in the back!), running the gamut from “In which city was the first anarcha-feminist paper published?” to “In 1840, the Russian government provoked riots by ordering peasants to grow what?” to “Which murdering fascist did Italy commemorate in 2005 with a postage stamp?” to the ever popular trivia gem “What inspired Sylvia Pankhurst to help open a jam factory?” Agitate, educate, and organize! All in a handy quiz format!

ABC's of Anarchy

Brian Heagney

Conviviality & Political Resistance From Below. Ivan Illich's Legacy in Mexico

Elías González Gómez

Living My Life. Volume 3

Emma Goldman

Living My Life. Volume 2

Emma Goldman

Living My Life. Volume 1.

Emma Goldman

Their Wars -- Our Dead. Anarchist Reflections on Anti-militarism.

Alex Alder & Bill Beech (eds)

Tear Down the Bastille. Voices From Inside the Walls. Hunger Strike as a Means of Struggle.

Unknown Author

Remember Kronstadt: One Hundred Years On

Unknown Author

Fighting For Ourselves. Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Class Struggle

Solidarity Federation

A Critique of State Socialism

Michael Bakunin & Richard Warren

Collectives in the Spanish Revolution

Gaston Leval

Gaston Leval's study brings together two aspects that are generally difficult to unite--analysis and testimony. He visited the towns and villages of revolutionary Spain where people had opted to live a libertarian communist lifestyle almost without precedent in history, collectivizing the land, factories, and social services. Collectives in the Spanish Revolution demonstrates clearly that the working class are perfectly capable of running farms, factories, workshops, and health and public services without bosses or managers. It proves that anarchist methods of organizing, with decisions made from the bottom up, can work effectively in large-scale industry, involving the coordination of many thousands of workers in many hundreds of places of work across numerous cities and towns, as well as broad rural areas. Leval's history of anarchy in action also gives insight into the creative and constructive power of ordinary people. The Spanish working class not only kept production going throughout the war, but in many cases managed to achieve increases in output. They improved working conditions and created new techniques. They created, out of nothing, an arms industry without which the war against fascism could not have been fought. The revolution also showed that without the competition bred by capitalism, industry can be run in a much more rational manner. Finally it demonstrated how an organized working class has the power to transform society.

God and the State

Mikhail Bakunin

This pocket book starts with the essay "A Great Thinker or A Man of action: How Did Bakunin Shape Anarchism in the 19th Century?" by Vyvian Raoul and is followed by Bakunin's best known work, the unfinished "God and the State." His denunciation of religion and authoritarian tyranny in all its forms is a basic text of anarchism.

Charlotte Wilson: Anarchist Essays.

Charlotte Wilson. Nicholas Walter (ed)

Charlotte Wilson was the principal founder of Freedom Press, and the first editor of the anarchist newspaper Freedom, in 1886. She had been writing about anarchism in the socialist press since 1884, and like the work of her better-known contemporary Peter Kropotkin, whom she invited to England to join the Freedom group, her anarchist writings are scholarly, original, thoughtful and clear. 11 short essays, together with historical and biographical notes by Nicolas Walter.

Bookchin: a Critical Appraisal

Damian F. White

This is the first comprehensive overview of the work of Murray Bookchin, the left-libertarian social theorist and political ecologist who is widely regarded as the visionary precursor of anti-corporate politics. Bookchin's writing spans fifty years and engages with a wide variety of issues: from ecology to urban planning, from environmental ethics to debates about radical democracy. Weaving insights from Hegel and Marx, Kropotkin and Mumford, Bookchin presents a critical theory whose central utopian message is 'things could be other than they are'. This accessible introduction maps the evolution of Bookchin’s project. It traces his controversial engagements with Marxism, anarchism, critical theory, postmodernism and eco-centric thought. It evaluates his attempt to develop a social ecology. Finally, it considers how his thinking relates to current debates in social theory and environmentalism, critical theory and philosophy, political ecology and urban theory. Offering a clear account of Bookchin's key themes, this book provides a critical but sympathetic account of the strengths and weaknesses of Bookchin's writing.

To Rob a Bank is an Honor. Lucio Urtubia

Paul Sharkey (trans)

For the first time in English, the life story of the revolutionary outlaw who brought Citibank to its knees. In 1981, Lucio Urtubia received a suitcase full of cash from Citibank executives, handed over the plates he'd used to forge 20 million dollars in traveler's checks, and walked away a free man. This is the true story of the most famous Robin Hood of the twentieth century, a lifelong anarchist who robbed from the rich to give to liberation struggles the world round. Born to a poor family in the Basque Country, Urtubia was conscripted into Franco's army at seventeen, where he began smuggling rations from military stores. In 1954, he fled to exile in Paris, where he learned to work as a mason, laying bricks by day and collaborating with Catalonian anarchists by night. Soon, he was planning bank heists to fund the Spanish struggle, stealing weapons, and masterminding the escape of resistance fighters. Following the uprisings of May 1968, Urtubia opened a printshop, producing political pamphlets while amassing a crew of operatives to counterfeit passports, ID cards, and workers' paychecks. By the late 70s, Urtubia hit on the plan that would make him infamous: changing the serial numbers on traveler's checks and depositing them simultaneously. Citibank's early global banking system offered the prime target, and checks spread to revolutionary movements in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. "He who robs a thief is a thousand times forgiven," Urtubia argued. Over decades, Urtubia funneled material support to groups including the Red Brigades in Italy, the Baader-Meinhof group in Germany, the Black Panthers in the US, and the ETA Basque separatists. Told with Urtubia's characteristic warmth and humor, To Rob a Bank Is an Honor collects the adventures and political convictions of this larger-than-life figure of an incendiary era.

Rethinking Anarchy

Carlos Taibo. The Autonomies Collective (trans)

A comprehensive overview of anarchism showing its continued relevance and the challenges it faces in the twenty-first century.

Luigi Galleani: the Most Dangerous Anarchist in America

Antonio Senta. Andrea Asali & Sean Sayers (trans)

The first English biography of a neglected anarchist revolutionary who was wanted by governments on two continents.

Anarchy in the USSR. A New Beginning

Philip Ruff (ed)

Seventy years after the death of Kropotkin, the massacre of the Kronstadt Commune and the rout of Makhno, the Party which outlawed anarchism in Russia has itself become a banned organization. But anarchy in the USSR has made a new beginning. Might anarchism now fill the ideological vacuum left by the collapse of Marxism? Here, with commentaries from some of their West-European comrades, the new Russian anarchists speak for themselves about their ideas, and of how anarchy may bring a new order, based on freedom, to the chaos of the USSR. Edited and with an introduction by Philip Ruff.

Anarcho-Syndicalism

Rudolph Rocker

Rudolf Rockerb's classic survey of anarcho-syndicalism was written during the Spanish Civil War to explain to the wider reading public the ideology which inspired the social revolution in Spain. It remains unsurpassed as a general introduction to anarchist thought and an authoritative account of the early history of international anarchism by one of the movement's leading figures.

Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism

Rudolph Rocker

A new edition of this classic with extensive notes. Rudolph Rocker remains one of the most important figures in the history of anarchism, from his key role organizing against sweatshop labor in London in the 1900s to being the moving spirit behind the founding of the largest ever anarchist international--the IWMA IN 1921. In his later years he tried to chronicle the rise and fall of mass, organised anarchism in Europe. Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism is Rocker's abridged version of his major work Anarcho-Syndicalism and helps to explain where organised anarchism came from. This book's lessons are a must for anyone interested in where it's going.