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Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas
An old saying goes that, until lions are the storytellers, hunters will always write history to favor themselves. Countering such understandings is a fundamental aspiration to ideas like popular education as advocated by Paulo Freire.
Continue reading...Resistance Against Empire
21. July 2010
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Derrick Jensen just won't quit, that's for sure. The word “prolific” doesn't really do Jensen's output justice; this guy is like an anarcho-primitivist version of Stephen King. And much like Stephen King, he's constantly finding new ways to evoke a feeling of terror in his readers.
Continue reading...Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy
15. July 2010
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AAARRRGGGGHHHH, Matey! I was one of the kids who grew up thinking that pirates were, well, cool as shit. Swashbucklers had evil-looking flags and tattoos, they wore eyepatches, they were fearless bandits, hedonistic drunks, and nationless nomads.
Continue reading...Sober Living For The Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
22. June 2010
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The contemporary vision of straight edge is a highly westernized one, focusing on plodding metal music and alpha male attitudes, with politics largely subtracted from the equation.
Continue reading...Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward
9. June 2010
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The book focuses on eleven writers representing a spectrum from left libertarianism to fully fledged anarchism in all its diverse manifestations.
Continue reading...Anarchism and Its Aspirations
6. May 2010
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Contemporary introductions to anarchism are rare considering the veritable explosion of interest in anarchism since the Battle of Seattle (when a loose coalition of trade unionists, environmentalists, anarchists, animal advocates, and many others shut down the World Trade Organization’s conference in 1999).
Continue reading...Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
12. April 2010
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What is immediately inspiring about a work such as Bob Torres's Making a Killing is the evident amount of political terrain that has been traversed since the publication of Animals, Men and Morals, Animal Liberation and the other early examples of contemporary animal advocacy more than thirty-five years ago.
Continue reading...Direct Action: An Ethnography
14. February 2010
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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.
Continue reading...Colectivo Solidario, El anarcosindicalismo español. Una historia en imagenes
7. February 2010
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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.
Continue reading...Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms
1. February 2010
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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.”
Continue reading...The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle
21. January 2010
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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
Continue reading...Become A Friend
29. July 2010
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