Louis Adamic beschreibt in Dynamit die Klassenkämpfe in den USA zwischen 1880 uns 1930.

Nestor Makhno, the great Ukranian anarchist peasant rebel, escaped over the border to Romania in August 1921. He would never return, but the struggle between Makhnovists and Bolsheviks carried on until the mid-1920s. In the cities, too, underground anarchist networks kept alive the idea of stateless socialism and opposition to the party state.

Arschinoffs "Geschichte" ist die ausführliche Darstellung der bäuerlich-proletarischen Machno - Bewegung in der Ukraine. Das Buch legt nicht zuletzt Zeugnis davon ab, wie eine autonome Bewegung unter der "Diktatur des Proletariats" unter die Räder kam und von den Bolschewiki verraten und skrupellos zerschlagen wurde.

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.

The Ukrainian anarchist Maria Nikiforova (1885–1919) rose from the slums of industrial Alexandrovsk to become a ferocious terrorist and military commander who sacrificed everything for the cause of the Russian Revolution. A revolutionary from the age of sixteen, she fought for freedom of the oppressed on three continents, ended up on trial for her life on at least four occasions, and was sentenced to death twice...

A thoroughly researched AND extremely readable book on the two most famous anarchist illegalists in US history. Avrich is not so much concerned with the already well-discussed issue of innocence or guilt as with the men themselves, the milieu they were active in, and the police plots and subterfuge that attempted to destroy the anarchist movement. An excellent contribution to working class and class struggle history.

Nachdem der Pittburger Fabrikunternehmer Frick am 6.Juli 1892 auf eine Gruppe Streikender schießen lässt und dabei ein Blutbad anrichtet, entschließt sich der 22jährige Anarchist Alexander Berkman, Frick zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Das Attentat auf den Industriellen misslingt, Frick wird nur leicht verletzt und Berkman überwältigt. 22 Jahre heißt das Urteil nach einem politischen Prozess gegen ihn.

David Berry's study is the first English-language evaluation of the development and lessons of the French anarchist movement between the wars. Using an impressive array of archival sources and personal interviews, Berry's original research explores the debates and growing pains of a massive, working-class, revolutionary movement facing great obstacles and uncertainty.

Der "Mai 68" schlug eine Bresche ins Gebäude der herrschenden kapitalistischen Unordnung und öffnete den Weg zu einem selbstbestimmten Leben. Geblieben davon ist vor allem ein wiederkehrendes Jubiläumsspektakel. Cornelius Castoriadis hat in "Die vorweggenommene Revolution" bereits inmitten der "Ereignisse" die ambivalente Bedeutung des "Mai 68" hellsichtig analysiert: die Fluchtlinien einer autonomen Gesellschaft, die sich hier abzeichneten, aber auch die Gefahren der Vereinnahmung und Erneuerung von Herrschaft.

Stuart Christie became Britain's most famous anarchist in 1964 when he was arrested for smuggling explosives in a plot to assassinate Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco. Charged with "Banditry and Terrorism," he served three years of his twenty-year sentence before international pressure (from Bertrand Russell and Jean Paul Sartre among many others), as well as a note from his Mum, secured his release. Five years later, he stood trial in London for alleged involvement with Britain's Angry Brigade, an urban guerilla group, but was this time acquitted. He is the cofounder of Anarchist Black Cross, Black Flag magazine, and Cienfuegos Press. He currently publishes and distributes books and films through Christie Books.