Political Media Review – PMR

Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine

Becoming the Media provides an in-depth analysis of the intersectional radical and left wing publication Clamor, which emerged with Independent Media Centre movement after the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle and was a staple read for do-it-yourself revolutionaries during its seven year run. In this concisely written case study, Clamor co-founder Jen Angel shares the inner workings of the award winning, nationally distributed magazine. She offers useful suggestions and analysis for media projects, the evolving publication landscape, and the importance of understanding how media functions within social movements for social movements.

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Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy & Planetary Crisis

As globalization penetrates the hearts and souls of many lives and as transnational capitalist interests work beyond the sovereignty of many states to weaken both socioeconomic and environmental regulations, accelerating people's impoverishment along with ecological catastrophe as a result, the world needs revised thinking and action.

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Direct Action: An Ethnography

To many anarchists, the idea of an “ethnographic study of the global justice movement” may seem problematic. Whether it be matters of security culture or the question of an outsider coming into a culture and telling the rest of the world about them, people I’ve talked to, without knowing Graeber’s work, often seemed skeptical.

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Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle Over America’s Drinking Water

In mid-January, I received a mass email asking me to donate $10 for bottled water and other supplies for participants in an important immigrant rights march in Phoenix.

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Colectivo Solidario, El anarcosindicalismo español. Una historia en imagenes

Marking the centenary of Solidaridad Obrera, this extensive graphic history of the Spanish libertarian tradition is one of the most recent books published by the Confederación Sindical Solidaridad Obrera.

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The Holocaust and the Henmaid’s Tale

Karen Davis’ The Holocaust and the Henmaid’s Tale is a heretical book in the very best of senses. Davis challenges the firmly held beliefs of a society that systematically devalues the lives of nonhuman animals as a means of justifying their exploitation

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Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms

The stated aim of Rebel Alliances is to “provide a convincing, documented account of contemporary anarchism and to critically evaluate its tactical and organisational forms through an appropriate framework.”

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The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle

David Solnit asks, "who has the power and resources to define our history and thus shape what people think?" It is a premise that shapes the awkwardly titled AK Press offering The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, a primer for activists

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Durruti in the Spanish Revolution

This is the definitive version of Diego Camacho’s (a.k.a. Abel Paz) monumental biography of Buenaventura Durruti, the celebrated activist who most embodied the heroism, resistance and spirit of sacrifice of the Spanish anarchist movement.

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Armed Madhouse

Palast’s Armed Madhouse (2007) is a witty but hard hitting critique on some of the recent political news stories in the past few years. Most of the book is spent probing the missed opportunities that occurred during President George W. Bush’s administration.

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Unstable Universalities: Poststructuralism and Radical Politics

Thanks largely to the efforts of Saul Newman, we now refer to the site where poststructuralism intersects anarchist politics as "postanarchism." The term postanarchism appears to derive from the works of Hakim Bey, via Jason Adams.

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