77 books available
Osvaldo Bayer. Paul Sharkey & Joshua Neuhouser (trans)
Adapted into an internationally acclaimed feature film in 1974, Osvaldo Bayer's popular and well regarded history Patagonia Rebelde was banned and publicly burned in Argentina during the 1970s. It is a gripping tale of struggle, strength, and tragedy. A nuanced study of strikes led by the powerful anarcho-syndicalist labour union FORA against the despotic landowners and industrialists of Argentina's Patagonia region in 1921-1922, it has come to be regarded as the definitive history of its subject. The first English translation brings the story to English speaking audiences.
Zoe Baker
An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice. A new, in-depth look at the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker, creator of a popular Youtube series on radical history and political theory, brings her trademark clarity and accessibility to this debut book. Cutting through misperceptions and historical inaccuracies, she shows how the reasons anarchists gave for supporting or opposing particular strategies were grounded in a specific theoretical framework--a theory of practice. The consistent and coherent heart of anarchism, Baker shows, is the understanding that, as people engage in activity--political or otherwise--they simultaneously change the world and themselves. Put another way, the means that revolutionaries propose to achieve social change have to involve forms of activity through which people can become individuals capable of overthrowing capitalism and the state as well as building a better society. Behind this simple premise--that anarchist ends can only be achieved through anarchist means--lies a wealth of fascinating historical and theoretical detail that Baker presents clearly and engagingly.
Peter Arshinov
It was in prison in 1911 that Peter Arshinov established a close personal and political friendship with Makhno, which continued after their release following the February Revolution in 1917. In 1919 Arshinov became Makhno’s secretary, and remained with the Makhnovists until 1921. In 1922 he settled in Berlin and published the Russian edition of his story. Arshinov’s history of the Makhnovists is undoubtedly the most important source work available. Includes an introduction by Voline, and excellent prefaces by Fredy Perlman (the original translator, and publisher, of the work in English), and Nicolas Walter (to the original Freedom Press edition). It’s about time this was available again!
Andy Anderson
The seminal history and analysis of the Hungarian Revolution and the workers' councils, perhaps the single most important revolutionary event ever, and this is simply the best book on it.
M. P. T. Acharya
The first collection of essays by India's anticolonial anarchist revolutionary, M.P.T. Acharya (1887-1954), including critical reflections on Gandhian nonviolence.
