Raven’s Revenge

Freedom bookshop’s current best selling item is a hand drawn comic/graphic novel by Marlowe Chan-Reeves. Featuring the adventures of Raven as he fights his way through injustice and against the government with the help of Donald Rooum’s Wildcat, V for Vendetta and a host of anarchists and people in the pub. Will he survive the menacing government agents and ubiquitous CCTV man and get to blow up Parliament? You’ll have to order a copy and find out. (William Blake also makes an appearance as well!)

As recommended by Donald Rooum and Alan Moore.

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Breaking Free: The Adventures of Tintin
ISBN: 978-1-904491-17-0
Price: £8.00
J Daniels
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The press called him “perverted”. The police called him “sick and beneath contempt”. Even the Prime Minister was “utterly revolted”. But he’s proved them all wrong. Now Tintin’s back with all his pals, battling it out against the State and bringing the old world to its knees, in a classic full-length story of love, struggle and revolution.

Battle of Cable Street, 1936
ISBN: 978-1-907869-17-4
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The Cable Street Group
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This book describes the famous clash of 1936 between police and anti-fascists when Sir Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirt army attempted to march through largely Jewish Stepney in East London. 100,000 people crowded the streets, barricades were erected and the area successfully defended. The story is partly told through the voices of those who took part.

Targeting Israeli Apartheid: A BDS Handbook
ISBN: 978-1-907738-04-3
Price: £8.00
Tom Anderson, Georgia Clough, Jack Curry, Pete Jones,Therezia Cooper
Corporate Watch
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Taking its cue from the 2005 Palestinian call for ‘boycott, divestment and sanctions’ (BDS), the rationale behind the book is simple: to provide a tool and a compass for BDS campaigners by showing them information on Israeli and international companies complicit in Israeli apartheid, occupation and militarism.
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Savage Messiah
ISBN: 978-1-844677-47-4
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Laura Oldfield
Verso Books
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Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Oldfield Ford’s fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city’s working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in urban space.

Wind(s) from Below: Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible
ISBN: 978-1-907404-06-1
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Team Colors Collective
Natterjack Press
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The authors draw on their involvement in struggles over housing, within and against work and radical queer resistance over the last decade. They argue for a renewed emphasis on radical community organising that challenges the self-imposed limitations of activist identity and professionalised organising.

Organise magazine #77
Winter 2011
Price: £2.50
Anarchist Federation
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A special anniversary issue, celebrating 25 years of the Anarchist Federation we look at the developments in our organisation over the last 5 to 6 years. Plus local anti-cuts organising, Paris Commune, Mexican Revolution, The Great Unrest 1910-14, Anarchist sculptor HG Brzeska, book review Ghost Dancers, obituary Bob Miller. 56 pages.
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Now or Never! magazine #20
Price: £2.50
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The latest issue features…
Are you a Closet Fascist? Reactionary Punks and Rioting, Hypocrites and Rioting, Sick Children and Rioting, Ladybird Prison Activities, Riotous Boardgame, Song of the Sirens Comic Strip, Make your own Homeopathic Drugs, Wild Swimming, DSEi Arms Fair, Anti Fascist Prisoners, History in a Nutshell – Free Love, Ricks Rants – Trots vs The EDL, Dead in the Scene Photo Story, Old Whinger’s Corner. Plus the usual news, reviews and more…. Now or Never! is a twice yearly anarchist magazine, reporting on both national and international issues.
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Workmates: direct action workplace organising on the London Underground
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Solidarity Federation
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In the late 1990s, plans to outsource track maintenance on the London Underground were being pushed through by the government. Workers at one depot responded by forming a new workplace group, both inside and outside the existing union, the RMT. This pamphlet charts the highs and lows of the Workmates collective, highlighting their successes and failures, their radically democratic organising method and their creative forms of direct action. We hope it can provide an inspiration to other workers frustrated with the limits of the existing workplace organisations.

The Irish Anarchist Review #4
Winter 2011
Price: Free
Workers Solidarity Movement
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This magazine aims to provide a forum for the exploration of theories, thoughts and ideas about political struggle, and where we would like to go and how to get there from the current situation. Includes: 19th Century resistance and why it ain’t happening today, Organising to beat the Household tax, Imagining the Future: Participatory economics, Michael Foucault: An examination of power, Greece – Seeds of hope, Resisting the lure of the Freeman movement, plus reviews and more!
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Catalyst #28
Price: Free
Solidarity Federation
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With friends like these, who needs enemies? To beat the cuts, workers need to act independently of the trade union laws… and it’s already happening. Dispatches from the frontlines: Three London education workers speak about cuts, organising and casualisation in the sector. Victory for the cleaners: unofficial action by Senate House and Guildhall cleaners gets results in London. Sparks fly: electricians direct action over pay cuts. Plus: your basic rights at work, pensions, NHS privatisation, letters, international round up and much more.
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HM Prison Service: A Survival Guide
ISBN: 978-1-904491-18-1
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Carl Cattermole
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This practical and up-to-date guide is designed to do the same for anyone who is expecting to go to prison or is currently serving a sentence. It’s totally free and available in both hard copy and digital formats. Rather than being a dowdy government guide this is an unrefined, truthful and personal account written by someone who has just been released from serving nearly a year in some of Britain’s most notorious jails.
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Freedom black canvas bag
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What better way to carry around all those anarchist books and revolutionary pamphlets you’ve just purchased than this handy, sturdy and fashionable black canvas bag with the Freedom logo screen-printed on the front. Be the envy of all your lifestyle friends.

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Wildcat Keeps Going
ISBN: 978-1-904491-14-9
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Donald Rooum (coloured by Jayne Clementson)
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Another classic set of satirical political cartoons from the pen and the mind of Freedom’s longest serving comrade. This is the seventh collection of Wildcat cartoons from Freedom Press, the first was published in 1985 and still available after three re-prints. All your favourites are here including Revolting Pussycat, Free Range Egghead and the Immaculate Rodent bringing to life the issues of the day and more besides. A delight from beginning to end.

Tony Gibson in praise of Wildcat
The anarchist writer Tony Gibson (aka the eminent psychologist H.B.Gibson) original review of Wildcat

Freedom has already announced and reviewed Donald Rooum’s Wildcat Anarchist Comics, and it is stated that ‘serious argument is more or less absent since our artist believes that “a cartoon is no place for intellectual respectability”’. But can we not have serious argument, devastatingly presented, without ‘intellectual respectability’? The medium through which the message is conveyed is not intellectual, but the message is all the more powerful by being delivered as a blow in the belly. The serious argument is delivered in the guise of knockabout farce.

The generation of successful cartoons is a most difficult art, and Donald Rooum displays a rare talent. How his work will stand in the history of satirical cartoons alongside that of Rowlandson, Gillray, Low and others, cannot be assessed in the present age, but I suggest that it is outstanding and that Freedom Press enjoy a rare privilege in being allowed to publish it. His cartoons are deceptively simple and, to say the least, disturbing. True satire makes us both laugh and weep, and carry away a lingering sense of unease at the purity of our own motives and that of the causes we espouse.

Superficially these cartoons poke fun at the usual banal targets, but here is a deeper satire of anarchists and the anarchist movement. The Wildcat is anti-authoritarian, yet put in certain situations it becomes a nasty little tyrant – just like you and me. These cartoons could only have been devised by someone who has been through the mill of the anarchist movement; known all its splendours and miseries, its petty squabbles, its mis-directed enthusiasms, its ennobling moments. None of the ‘political’ movements – Trots, Commies, etc – could have produced such cartoons, for such movements are designed to preserve the illusions they foster, and they attack only targets outside themselves. Anarchism is quite different. Wildcat says, having thrown a bomb, ‘Who said anything about anybody listening? All I said was I would attract attention’.

The Free Range Egghead is a marvellous character; he and the Wildcat have maintained the anarchist movement ever since it has been in existence, and I am sure that they were prominent in the Diggers movement and among the Levellers. The Pig who rides upon a Sheep will always be with us, and sometimes we wish the sheep would run faster when our own flats are being burgled and vandalised, don’t we? These two animals are common to all lands in that relationship, yet with Rooum’s animals there is evidently quite a cosy, British relationship.

I urge you to buy this book, but do not imagine that it will give you a nice, smug glow to see all your favourite Aunt Sallies mocked at. A hearty laugh at the first reading, but at the second or perhaps the third, you will appreciate that there is more being mocked than perhaps you bargained for. It will certainly be read in Britain and abroad far more widely than in the tiny anarchist movement, and will attain an international reputation.

Tony Gibson

Some Wildcat characters
The Pussycat. Angry, impulsive, rowdy anarchist (appears in most episodes, sometimes uncharacteristically peaceable).
The Free Range Egghead. Thoughtful, analytical anarchist.
The Mystery. Easy to draw. Appears when story calls for a third anarchist.
The Butterfly. Hippo-shaped anarchist. Enthusiastic but not reliable.
The Pinhead. Highly intellectual, verbose anarchist.
The Immaculate Rodent. Conceited anarchist who belittles other anarchists.
The Kewpie Doll. Little girl whose naïve remarks are sometimes insightful.
Mr Block. Humble man who believes what he is told by the powerful. Invented by Ernest Riebe for Industrial Worker, Chicago 1912.
The Rebus. Hog-faced policeman. A rebus is a visual pun, in this case on the name of Quintin Hogg, who was British law minister in 1980.
The General. Soldier who wants wealth spent on weaponry and destroyed in warfare.
Bomb. Spherical fuse bomb with legs, symbol of weaponry and war.
The Reverend. Talks banal rubbish with air of authority.
Sheep. Nods in wise agreement at banal rubbish.
Man with hat. Argues with anarchists, but pays no attention to what they say.
The Boss. Rich, ruthless, cunning employer or ruler.

Any ideas??
Donald Rooum welcomes suggestions for Wildcat strips, and publicly acknowledges the authors of ideas which are used, on the drawings themselves.
Send them to Email: wildcat@freedompress.org.uk

Previous Wildcat’s to buy online:

• Wildcat Anarchist Comics
• Wildcat Strikes Again
  
• Wildcat ABC of Bosses

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Organise!
Anarchist Federation magazine
£3.50
Organise! is the magazine of the Anarchist Federation, published in order to develop anarchist communist ideas. It aims to give a clear anarchist viewpoint on contemporary issues, and initiate debates on areas not normally covered by agitational journals.
Latest issue #76 Summer 2011
http://www.afed.org.uk/

Direct Action
Solidarity Federation magazine
£1.50
Direct Action is more than just a quarterly magazine. The big commercial magazine chains are basically interested in selling glossy magazines with no content. Take Direct Action – stay informed, be aware, get involved.
Lastest issue #47
http://www.solfed.org.uk/

Black Flag
£3.00
Originally associated with the Anarchist Black Cross, Black Flag has been an independent magazine for some decades. It was born of a time of intense class struggle and its founders, Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer, aimed to give revolutionary anarchists a forum. That is still its aim and it is still, we think, Britain’s leading anarchist magazine.
Latest issue #233 Mid 2011
http://blackflagmagazine.blogspot.com/

Shift magazine
£2.50
Shift magazine emerged out of a desire for a space where people involved in radical politics could discuss ideas, tactics and strategies. We want to try and bridge the seeming gap between “talking theory” and “doing politics”. Shift has so far engaged with include climate change politics, anti-fascism, migration and those surrounding the emerging anti-cuts protests.
Latest issue #12
http://shiftmag.co.uk/

Now or Never
£2.50
Now or Never! is a twice yearly anarchist magazine, reporting on both national and international issues. Formally the newspaper of Norwich Anarchists, the ninth issue was the first to be published independently, and the 13th issue saw a change to the current magazine format
Latest issue #19
http://nowornever.books.officelive.com/default.aspx

325 Magazine
£2.00
International magazine of social war and anarchy, which is printed hard-copy in numerous places by nameless revolutionaries world-wide. Featured in these pages are reports, news and images from the struggle against hierarchy and capitalism and the words and ideas of prisoners, who are locked down resisting the system.
Lastest issue #8
http://325.nostate.net/

Jewish Socialist
£2.00
The Magazine of the Jewish Socialists’ Group. The Jewish Socialists’ Group is a political organisation campaigning for Jewish rights and the rights of all oppressed minorities in building a socialist future. Bumper 36-page issue marks the magazine’s 25th anniversary.
Latest issue #61
http://www.jewishsocialist.org.uk/index.html

The Cable
£3.00
Quarterly magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society which aims to raise awareness of the history and culture of London’s Jewish East End, to preserve what remains and record what has now gone. Contains a wealth of articles and photos that will interest all who wish to rediscover the rich history of our immigrant forefathers.
Latest issue #15
http://www.jeecs.org.uk/index.html

No Quarter: Ireland’s Anti-Fascist Magazine
£2.50
No Quarter is the magazine of Anti-Fascist Action Ireland.
“AFA is dedicated to confronting fascism, both physically and politi­cally, in whatever guise it might take.”
Latest issue #5
http://afaireland.yolasite.com/

The Rag
£2.50
The RAG is a magazine produced by a diverse group of anarcha-feminist women in Dublin. We are all feminists, united in our recognition that women’s subordination exists. We are all anarchists, united in our belief for the need to create alternatives to this capitalistic, patriarchal society wherein all are dominated and exploited.
Latest issue #7
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Religious Movements: Today and Yesterday

Religion may be the oldest attempt by humans to answer the fundamental questions of life. This essay briefly describes the several aspects of religion and devotes a major effort to a description of a variety of religious sects. In the end it suggests we might dispense with religion but find its significance in the principle of mutual aid.

Harold Barclay taught anthropology for many years at the University of Alberta. he has written several books, including Buurri al Lamaab: a Suburban Village in the Sudan (1964), People Without Government (1982) and The State (2005).

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Other Freedom Press titles by Harold Barclay :
» Culture and Anarchism
» The State (Currently out of print. Check our future titles page)

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Freedom #7216 Content:

• UK Summer riots – streets on fire
• Three deaths in detention centres in one month
• An Anarchist teacher’s reflections on June 30th public sector strike
• Anarchism in the Philippines
• Police tell businesses to inform on anarchists
• New anti-fracking direct action group starts up
• Dale Farm gears up for eviction fight
• Israel massive social protests
• Mass cyber hacking – by the Chinese government
• A brief history of militant trade union phone hacking in the 70s
• Freedom newspaper to go monthly and how you can help
• Dissident Island’s radical radio 4th birthday
• Bristol’s Kebele social centre need your help
• Feedback: Sun readers and Swappie leaders
• TV review:  Tom Jennings gets down and dirty with the loving grace of machines, as we watch over.
• Book review: Damned Fools in Utopia and other writings on Anarchism and war resistance by Nicolas Walter, reviewed by Mal Function
  

Regulars:

• Svartfrosk: A sideways look – far right’s flirtation with fundamentalism
• Notes from the US – prison, the environment and Murdoch’s media
• Prison news – California prison hunger strike: the fallout
• Wildcat cartoon – who judges the Judges?
• Anarchist Quiz
• What’s On

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Black Flag #233
Price: £3.00
One of Britain’s longest-running anarchist magazines providing a voice for thought-provoking theoretical, investigative and historical work.
http://blackflagmagazine.blogspot.com/
Cover story: The lessons of modern protest
In focus: The students’ fight
Analysis: Exposing neoliberal doublespeak as cuts hit the economic “recovery”
Interview: Active Distribution
Interview: Atari Teenage Riot
History: Making of a people’s song: How the Red Flag was inspired by anarchists
Radical Reprint: Remembering Kronstadt on its 90th anniversary
History: Part Two of Brian Morris’s ode to the revolutionary prince, Peter Kropotkin
Review: Iain McKay’s introduction to Mutual Aid
Review response: Dave Douglass, Ade Dimmick and Nick Heath go over the lengthy review of Douglass’s biography from last issue

Organise! #76 - Summer 2011
Price: £2.50
Magazine of the Anarchist Federation
http://www.afed.org.uk/
Editorial – UK Unmasked and the New Kids on the Bloc
“Either we will bow our heads or we will take our future in our hands”: a brief history of Greek anarchism
Throw Your TV at Your Boss! (TYTVAYB!)
The Alienation of Work and Leisure in Capitalist Society
Sabotage: The Ideas of Émile Pouget
The Tunisian Revolt
The Paris Commune of 1871 and its Impact
Maximilien Luce: Neo-impressionist painter and anarchist
Book Reviews: » The World that Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth
» Carlo Pisacane’s ‘La Rivoluzione’. Revolution: an alternative answer to the Italian question Richard Mann Roberts
» Dreams of freedom: a Ricardo Flores Magon reader Chaz Bufe

Springtime: The New Student Rebellions
Author: Clare Solomon (editor) Tania Palmieri (editor)
Price: £9.99
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 978-1844677405

A User’s Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible
Author: Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Minor Compositions
ISBN: 978-1-57027-208-0

This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.

Work: Capitalism. Economics. Resistance
Author: Crimethinc
Price: £6.99
Publisher: Crimethinc
ISBN: 978-0970910172

After so much technological progress, why do we have to work more than ever before? How is it that the harder we work, the poorer we end up compared to our bosses? When the economy crashes, why do people focus on protecting their jobs when no one likes working in the first place? Can capitalism survive another century of crises?

Our newest book, entitled Work, addresses these questions and a great many more. To answer them, we had to revisit our previous analysis of employment and develop a more nuanced understanding of the economy. We spent months studying obscure history and comparing notes about how we experience exploitation in our daily lives, slowly hammering out a grand unified theory of contemporary capitalism.

 
Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy
Author: Gabriel Kuhn
Price: £20.00
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 978-1604860528

Over the last couple of decades an ideological battle has raged over the political legacy and cultural symbolism of the “golden age” pirates who roamed the seas between the Caribbean Islands and the Indian Ocean from 1690 to 1725. They are depicted as romanticized villains on the one hand, and as genuine social rebels on the other. Life Under the Jolly Roger examines the political and cultural significance of these nomadic outlaws by relating historical accounts to a wide range of theoretical concepts — reaching from Marshall Sahlins and Pierre Clastres to Mao-Tse Tung and Eric J. Hobsbawm via Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault. The meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and disability in golden age pirate communities are analyzed and contextualized, as are the piratesʼ forms of organization, economy and ethics.

While providing an extensive catalog of scholarly references for the academic reader, this delightful and engaging study is directed at a wide audience and demands no other requirements than a love for pirates, daring theoretical speculation and passionate, yet respectful, inquiry.

Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
Author: Margaret Killjoy
Price: £8.00
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 978-1849350020

The best fiction has always been a little…dangerous. For centuries, authors have used the veil of fiction to cast a critical eye toward the larger society around them: think of Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, Issac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.G. Wells, Mary Shelley, and beyond. And now, for the first time, some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction discuss the endless possibilities of the world of fiction with a specific focus on anarchist politics.

In a series of interviews with SteamPunk Magazine founder Margaret Killjoy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Moore, Lewis Shiner, Starhawk, Derrick Jensen, Cristy C. Road, Michael Moorcock, and a variety of other up-and-coming young writers reflect on the ways in which their personal politics have shaped their work. Plus, a fantastic introduction by best-selling sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson!

Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Author: Matt Hern
Price: £12.00
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 978-1849350105

If we want to preserve what’s still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And cities are the best chance we have left for a sustainable future… but only if they remain vibrant, dynamic spaces that are unfolded by millions of people working together – and not by master plans and planners. What will it take to make our cities truly sustainable? In a world where the flow of money and jobs and people is largely determined by the whims of global capital, Matt Hern’s Common Ground in a Liquid City is a refreshingly down-to-earth look at the importance of place in the urban future.

Using his own hometown of Vancouver – the poster city for “sustainable” urban development – as a foil, Matt travels around the globe in search of the elements that make our cities livable. Each of Hern’s ten chapters focuses on a central theme of city life: diversity, street life, crime, population density, water and natural life, gentrification, and globalism. What emerges in the end is an appealing portrait of what the urban future might look like – environmentally friendly, locally focused, and governed from below. Engaging, accessible, and relentlessly original, Common Ground in a Liquid City is an appealing portrait of what the urban future.

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Property Is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology
Author Pierre-Joseph Proudhon/Iain McKay (editor)
Price: £20 (£5 off published price)
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 978-1849350242

Bakunin proclaimed “Proudhon is the master of us all,” while for Kropotkin he laid “the foundations of anarchism.” Property Is Theft! collects his most important works in one volume, making many available in English for the first time. Extensively annotated and introduced by editor Iain McKay, Property Is Theft! is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history and development of anarchist principles and practice.
Iain McKay is the author of An Anarchist FAQ.
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/pjproudhon/property-is-theft-now-published

The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents
Author: Alex Butterworth
Price: £8.99
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099551928

The last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism. Bombings and assassinations shook the great cities of Europe and America, threatening social order. Fiendish networks of anarchist conspirators were blamed and the public whipped into a frenzy of anxiety. The reality was rather different. These dramatic events were only the most visible part of a longer, clandestine struggle waged between the forces of revolution and reaction, in which little was as it seemed. Alex Butterworth interweaves group biography, cultural history and meticulous detective work to create a revelatory account of the age. Both intimate and panoramic, it is a story with uncanny resonances for today.

The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid
Author: Alexander Berkman (Contributor)
Price: £8.99
Publisher: ABSC / Kate Sharpley Library
ISBN: 9781873605905

Reprinted here for the first time, this collection of bulletins—edited through the years by Alexander Berkman, Mark Mratchny, Milly Witcop-Rocker, Rudolf Rocker, et al.—chronicle the gradual slaughter of a whole generation of Russian anarchists and revolutionists. Each recorded name or initial printed here signifies a life that often had been spent in revolutionary commitment, a life systematically and carefully destroyed by erstwhile “comrades.” To remember them is the least we can do.

The Occupation Cookbook
or the Model of the Occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
Introduction by Marc Bousquet
Translated from the Croatian by Drago Markisa
£8.00

The Occupation Cookbook is a “manual” that describes the organization of the student occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences that took place in the spring of 2009 and lasted for 35 days. It was written for two reasons: to record what happened, and to present the particular organization of this action in such a way that it may be of use to other activists and members of various collectives if they decide to undertake a similar action.

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TAL FANZINE – Issue #46
£3.00
This issue includes:
The politics of hate
Fascists not welcome
Fascism & Fundamentalism
Mojo: Injustice case study
Interview: Paul Heaton
The Corrib gas controversey
plus lots more!
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Beating The Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action

The most controversial political book of the year is now available to buy. A compelling account of the extraordinary activities of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) - by those who were there on the frontline - an organised and committed group of ordinary working class people who during the 1980s and 1990s took the fight to the far right – and won!

The book can be purchased from Freedom Bookshop, or at any good radical bookstore. Or you can order and buy direct from the website via our online shopping cart here (postage and packing free).

“Following the electoral collapse of the National Front in 1979, fascists went on the rampage. Race attacks escalated. NF/BNP gangs employed violence on the streets, on the terraces and to control the music scene. Young anti-fascists stepped up. A new hardline leadership emerged and AFA was formed in 1985. ‘A state of war’ was how one rueful BNP leader would describe what happened next.

Not only is ‘Beating the Fascists’ a meticulously researched study, it is also a much-needed piece of ‘history from below’. Throughout, the voices of working class anti-fascists come across hard, clear, and without apology. Illuminating and sometimes chilling by turn, the running commentary they provide helps ensure the tempo never flags. Gradually the reader is drawn into an outlaw world of back street idealism, paramilitary style violence and heroic self-sacrifice”.

Fore press enquiries about the book contact: press@freedompress.org.uk

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