Recommended Reading
Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century—A new book from Black Cat Press
Friday, December 18th, 2009We are happy to announce another new book from Black Cat Press. Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century, translated by Malcolm Archibald, is now in stock. It’s heartening to see Vadim Damier’s book available to English-language readers. Recent titles, especially those utilizing so many archival sources, are expanding our understanding of the global anarchist movement.
We [...]
New from Black Cat Press: Under the Blows of the Counterrevolution
Friday, December 11th, 2009Black Cat Press, Canada’s foremost anarchist publisher, has had a busy year. We’ve recently received a whole new batch of books from them. Featured here is the much-anticipated second volume of Makhno’s memoirs, Under the Blows of the Counterrevolution (April–June 1918). (The first volume can be found here.) This is a first English translation of [...]
Looking back: The 100th anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech Fight
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Today marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Spokane Free Speech fight, one of the first, and by far, one of the most successful of the Industrial Workers of the World’s campaigns to protect and preserve the right to speak freely, and publicly, about the real conditions of the working class in the [...]
Recommended Reading: Twenty Poster Books of Note (by Josh MacPhee)
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Editor’s Note: We occasionally ask AK authors (and others) to provide a list of recommended readings on a particular topic. For today’s installment, we didn’t even have to ask. AK author Josh MacPhee, who edited Realizing the Impossible (with Erik Ruin) and the forthcoming Signs of Change (with Dara Greenwald) posted the following insanely expert [...]
Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas—Volume Two: The Emergence of the New Anarchism (1939–1977)
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Although it’s several months after the fact, I thought it’d be good to alert folks to the fact that the second volume of Robert Graham’s Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas has seen the light of day. Subtitled The Emergence of the New Anarchism, Robert’s book takes readers on an informative journey through what [...]
War Is the Health of the State
Friday, July 24th, 2009I heard a news story on the radio this morning about another two soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Driving through Oakland, I had one of those moments when the horror of daily life envelops you, like a ray of anti-sunlight through the clouds of “normal” numbness. At least 20,000 corpses in Afghanistan (most of them, of [...]
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
Saturday, June 20th, 2009Histories of radical movements tend to be either way too detailed or way too general. Typically, we’re forced to choose between the forest and trees.
That may no longer be the case thanks to the appearance of The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, a massive, eight-volume work that explores the history of protest and revolution [...]
Recommended Radical Readings on Los Angeles
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Editor’s note: As part of our ongoing “Recommended Reading” series, we asked Laura Pulido, an activist scholar and geographer at the University of Southern California, to share her thoughts with us about the best books on Los Angeles from a radical perspective. Pulido authored the very excellent Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical activism in [...]
Recommended Reading: Chris Carlsson on the History of the San Francisco Bay Area
Sunday, December 7th, 2008Editor’s note: As part of our ongoing series of “Recommended Readings,” we asked AK author Chris Carlsson to share his thoughts about the best books on the history and politics of the San Francisco Bay Area. Chris is the author or editor of numerous books, including Nowtopia, Critical Mass, The Political Edge, and After the [...]
Recommended Reading: The Spanish Civil War
Monday, September 29th, 2008Editor’s Introduction: The Spanish Civil War (1936–1936) was a pivotal moment in the history of anarchism and the twentieth century as a whole. It is also the subject of literally tens of thousands of studies, which can make it very difficult for someone interested in reading about the topic to know where to begin.
We asked [...]