An unapologetic, brutal memoir from notorious 60s career criminal James Carr. BAD covers Carr's life from his first arrest for burning down his school at age 9, through merciless stints in San Quentin, where he shared a cell with famed Soledad Brother George Jackson, through his tragic post-incarceration murder in San Jose in 1972. A savage indictment of the American penal system, this ...

No single living artist has created as many myths, rumours and legends as Banksy. Many of the tales in this book are from Bristol, some are from further afield. What they share is that they are all told with the wide eyed wonder which Banksy inspires. Collated between 2009 and 2011 some of these stories are quite old and have been told so many times they have become the stuff of legend, ...

Bloc by Bloc is a cooperative and semi-cooperative strategy game inspired by contemporary protest movements, riots, and popular uprisings. Each player controls a faction of revolutionaries - Workers, Students, Neighbors, or Prisoners - struggling together against the police in the streets of a city that changes with each game. Build barricades, clash with police, occupy districts, loot ...

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that’s wrong with our society reaches more and more people every day. His brilliant critiques of - among other things - capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression and government propaganda have become mini-publishing industries unto themselves. But, in this flood of publishing and republishing, very ...

Collection of essays on different fields of Colin Ward's writings: Peter Marshall on his anarchist writing; Pietro Di Paola on his contriution to Freedom Press; David Goodway on the New Left; Brian Morris on Ward and Kropotkin; Carissa Honeywell on Social Policy; Robert Graham on anarchism and organisation; Stuart White on social anarchism and lifestyle anarchism. Book, 144 pages

Supported of IPDJ, Oh Cristo webradio, Rokko's Adventure, Tasca Mastai and  Distroed. After having whistled quite a number of 8-bit versions of famous pop songs, and delighted his ears with chip-tune covers of black metal and classical music, Riccardo Balli thought it was about time to extend micro-music aesthetics to literature, and remix Mary Shelley's classic accordingly. ...

The book is structured in three parts: "The Conflict between Authority and Autonomy," "The Solution of Classical Democracy," "Beyond the Legitimate State," and an appendix, "Appendix: A proposal for Instant Direct Democracy."  The book opens with Part I, "The Conflict between Authority and Autonomy," which Wolff begins by positing as the essence of modern political philosophy "how ...

This story tells of a thief (Alexander Marius Jacob). A thief with egalitarian illusions. An anarchist and his dreams. But with a difference: this man, along with his comrades, really did open the safes of the rich, and by this simple fact demonstrated that an attack on social wealth, even if only partial, is possible.The description of acting beyond the levels that most people ...

La Nueve 24 August 1944: The Spanish Republicans Who Liberated ParisAuthor Evelyn Mesquida uncovers the history of 'La Nueve' - survivors of the Spanish Revolution and the civil war against Franco who, having enlisted in the Free French army, were integral to the liberation of Paris in August 1944 and went on to liberate Alsace and Lorraine, and continued to fight through Germany to ...

Featuring a new introduction by Howard Zinn, Life of an Anarchist contains Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, Berkman's account of his years in prison; The Bolshevik Myth, his eyewitness account of the early days of the Russian Revolution; and The ABCs of Anarchism, the classic text on the nature of anarchism in the twentieth century. Also included are a selection of letters ...

Carlo Cafiero (1846 - 1892) is undoubtedly one of the most important figures of the First International both in Italy, his home country, and in general throughout Europe. But this mild-mannered anarchist is all too often remembered only for some of the curious episodes in his life (his participation in the Benevento uprising, his "gift" of La Baronata to Bakunin and anarchist ...

Since the turn of the millennium, anarchism has experienced a strong upswing. In a widely read 2004 article by David Graeber and Andrej Grubacic, it was announced as the “revolutionary movement of the twenty-first century”, and in a recent book on the Occupy Wall Street movement, titled Translating Anarchy and based on interviews with numerous organizers, author Mark Bray contests that ...