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The Antonio Gramsci Reader. Selected Writings 1916-1935

David Forgacs

This selection of Gramsci's writings includes his most important political, cultural and historical work. It focuses on key concepts - such as hegemony, passive revolution, civil society, common sense - and important texts on popular culture.

Clara Zetkin Selected Writings

Philip S. Foner (ed)

Essays and speeches from 1889-1933, long unavailable in the US, on women's equality, labor, peace, and socialism.

Critical Thought in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra I. Contributions by the Sixth Commission of the EZLN

EZLN

"How do we comprehend a crisis that simultaneously began over 500 years ago and yet looms on our immediate horizon? What unites the grave situation of Greece with that of the tens of thousands of killed and disappeared in Mexico? What might explain the recurring failure and seeming betrayal, in country after country, of the electoral left? How might gentrification of urban centers across the world be inextricably connected to the pipelines of an unhinged extractivism (from Bolivia to Standing Rock)? How can we explain that on a daily basis, an ever-greater proportion of humanity is expelled from production and abandoned to its fate as simple surplus? In this daring book, the Zapatistas put forth the hypothesis that a rigorous application of critical thought shows us that the inner connection of these phenomena can be found in the historically unprecedented crisis of capitalism that today gathers steam and in the near future promises to engulf all of humanity in a perfect storm. In May of 2015, the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN) hosted a seminar in Chiapas, Mexico, titled "Critical Thought in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra," in which they invited thinkers from across the world to join them in analyzing the economic instability, unceasing war, mass displacement, and ecological devastation that today characterize our world. This book presents the complete set of interventions made by the EZLN at that seminar. Rescuing critical thought from both the trendy relativism of contemporary academia and the tweets and facebook posts that now stand in for it, the EZLN outlines the contours of this crisis as well as the innovative practices of politics that have allowed Zapatismo to survive and constitute one of the few large-scale anti-capitalist struggles in the world today. Yet the Zapatistas don't offer themselves as a model to be followed, but rather insist that each of us analyze this crisis from our own locations in order to adequately confront the monumental task before us. The volume closes with poetry and art solicited by the EZLN from various artists and authors as their contribution to the seminar. This text is a translation of the book, El Pensamiento Crítico Frente a la Hidra Capitalista I, published in Mexico by the EZLN in July of 2015. That text and this English translation include several texts not publicly presented at the seminar. In addition, various theorists, intellectuals, and militants from around the world were invited to offer presentations to the more than 2,600 seminar attendees. Their contributions can be found in Spanish in Volumes II and III of this series, published in Mexico."--Publisher.

The Condition of the Working Class in England

Frederick Engels

The classic account of urban working-class life in Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, first published in English in 1892.

Bordiga Beyond The Myth

Onorato Damen

Obsolete Communism. The Left-Wing Alternative

Daniel & Gabriel Cohn-Bendit

Daniel Cohn-Bendit - aka Danny the Red - led demonstrations at the Sorbonne in Nanterre which led to disciplinary action by the university and questioning by the local police. The immediate result of this heavy-handed discipline was a huge increase in the size of the French student movement and the outbreak of rioting which brought France to the edge of revolution in May '68. Cohn-Bendit's book brings first hand reporting from the front lines of that struggle and brings an intimacy not available in other accounts. Essential reading for revolutionaries.

33 Lessons on Capital. Reading Karl Marx Politically

Harry Cleaver

This book provides an up-to-date reading of Capital Volume I, emphasizing the relevance of Marx's analysis to everyday twenty-first century struggles. Harry Cleaver's treatise outlines and critiques Marx's analysis chapter by chapter. His unique interpretation of Marx's labour theory of value reveals how every theoretical category of Capital designates aspects of class struggle in ways that help us resist and escape them. At the same time, while rooted within the tradition of workerism, he understands the working class to include not only the industrial proletariat but also unwaged peasants, housewives, children and students. A challenge to scholars and an invaluable resource for students and activists today.

Rupturing the Dialectic. The Struggle Against Work, Money, and Financialization

Harry Cleaver

Rupturing the Dialectic interprets capitalism's most recent crises and demonstrates how ordinary men and women can, and do, rupture the smooth functioning of the system that exploits them. While Cleaver's work has been central to autonomist Marxist theory for decades, he has produced very little written material. AK Press convinced him to turn a lecture he gave in 2012 into a small book, a project which then grew into a new major work. Cleaver fans, social theorists, and activists in general will now have his insights brought up to date to include our current economic and political crises.

Revolution Today

Susan Buck-Morss

Susan Buck-Morss highlights new forms of international solidarity and revolutionary subjectivity that can break the impasse of neoliberal capitalism and reactionary nationalism.

Social Reproduction Theory. Remapping Class, Recentring Oppression

Tithi Bhattacharya (ed)

Crystallizing the essential principles of social reproductive theory, this anthology provides long-overdue analysis of everyday life under capitalism. It focuses on issues such as childcare, healthcare, education, family life, and the roles of gender, race, and sexuality--all of which are central to understanding the relationship between exploitation and social oppression. Tithi Bhattacharya brings together some of the leading writers and theorists, including Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, and Susan Ferguson, in order for us to better understand social relations and how to improve them in the fight against structural oppression.

The Stalinist Legacy. It's Impact on Twentieth-Century World Politics

Traiq Ali (ed)

Tariq Ali, Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, and others analyze the nature of Stalinism, and its continuing impact on world politics.

The Unknown Revolution

Voline

The untold story of the Russian Revolution: its antecedents, its far-reaching changes, its betrayal by Bolshevik terror, and the massive resistance of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries.

The Seizure of State Power

Michael Velli

Making Sense of Anarchism. Errico Malatesta's Experiments With Revolution, 1889-1900

Davide Turcato

Davide Turcato makes the relevance of history dynamically clear. Through a biographical account of Errico Malatesta's revolutionary exploits over a decade, Making Sense of Anarchism is simultaneously a critique of how history is written and an outline of political tensions and debates that continue to this day. Taking traditional historians of anarchism to task for prejudicial characterisation of anarchism as 'irrational', Turcato shows how treating anarchists as rational can help make sense of anarchist tendencies of all eras, including today.

May Days Barcelona 1937

Augustin Souchy et. al

Eyewitness reports of the crushing counter-revolution from Augustin Souchy, Jose Peirats, Burnett Bolloten and Emma Goldman. This 'minor' incident in the Spanish Civil War claimed more casualties in the armed struggle that took place, than in the first week of the military uprising in Barcelona on July 19th 1936.

American Anarchism

Steve J. Shone

A convincing argument that the legacy of American Anarchism, far from being an antiquated relic, remains relevant to the present.

Paradoxes of Utopia. Anarchist Culture and Politics in Buenos Aires 1890-1910.

Juan Suriano. Chuck Morse (trans)

A social history of revolutionary ideas and lifestyles.

The Albert Memorial. The Anarchist Life and times of Albert Meltzer (7 January 1920 -- 7 May 1996).

Albert Meltzer

An appreciation to mark the twentieth anniversary of Albert Meltzer's death.

A Towering Flame. The Life and Times of the Elusive Latvian Anarchist Peter the Painter.

Philip Ruff

The Houndsditch murders in 1910 and the ensuing Siege of Sidney Street, in which Latvian anarchists took on Winston Churchill and the British Army, have entered into folklore. But no-one ever accounted for the mysterious Peter the Painter, supposed to be the leader of the gang and to have escaped during the battle. This book solves the mystery.

Haymarket Scrapbook Anniversary Edition

Franklin Rosemount & David Roediger. Charles H

Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago's Haymarket Square, in a revised, expanded edition, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, cartoons and handbills. It also features contributions from many of today's finest labour and radical historians, focusing on the Haymarket affair of 1886-7, its impact, and its enduring influence around the world, including the eight-hour work day.

A Beautiful Idea. History of the Freedom Press Anarchists

Rob Ray

The Machine and it's Discontents. A Freddy Perlman Anthology

Freddy Perlman. Darren Poynton (ed)

Anything Can Happen

Freddy Perlman

A Defence of Anarchist Communism

Brian Morris