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Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth - Jeffrey St. Clair
"Movement reporting on a par with Mailer's Armies of the Night"—Peter Linebaugh, author of Magna Carta Manifesto and The Many-Headed Hydra.


Hold on tight as you open the pages of Born Under a Bad Sky and follow journalist Jeffrey St. Clair as he leads you through a landscape of horrors and wonders, scenery all the more strange because the setting is our own bruise...
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Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century - Robin Hahnel (Contributor), Barbara Ehrenreich (Contributor), Michael Albert (Contributor), Noam Chomsky (Contributor), and Chris Spannos (Editor)
What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society's defining institutions-those encompassing economics, politics, kinship, culture, community, and ecology-were based not on competition, individual ownership, and coercion, but on self-management, equity, solidarity, and diversity? Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincin...
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Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States - Terence Kissack
By investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917, Terence Kissack adds a new foundation to the history of homosexuality in the United States. The anarchist position on individual freedoms was used to defend same-sex partnerships and break down taboos within their own milieu, while bringing the challenge to the rest of society.
The trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, ...
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Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today - Chris Carlsson
Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, and even the Burning Man festival are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that is redefining politics as we know it. As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small...
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Conquest of Bread, The (Working Classics Series) - Peter Kropotkin and Charles Weigl (Introduction by)
The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin's most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equitable means of satisfying them. The most important and widely read exposition of anarchist economic theory, its combination of detailed historical analysis and far-reaching utopian vision is a step-by-step guide to social revolutio...
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Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire - David Graeber
"If anthropology consists of making others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is the consumate anthropologist. Not only does he accomplish this profound feat, he redoubles it by the critical task—now more urgent than ever—of making the possibilities of other people's worlds the basis for understanding our own...
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My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us - Jessica Mills
Jessica Mills is a touring musician, artist, activist, writer, teacher, and mother of two. Disappointed by run-of-the-mill parenting books that didn't speak to her experience, she set out to write a book tackling the issues faced by a new generation of moms and dads. The result is a parenting guide like no other. Written with humor, extensive research, and much trial and error, My Mother Wears Combat Boot...
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Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights - Bob Torres
Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a Killing contains key insights into the broad nature of domination, power, and hierarchy. It explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions in re...
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Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP, Informed Revolt 1996–2007 - Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Contributor), Vandana Shiva (Interviewed), Tim Wise (Contributor), Iain Boal (Interviewed), Kari Lydersen (Contributor), Jennifer Whitney (Contributor), Lisa Jervis (Contributor), Winona LaDuke (Contributor), and Brian Awehali (Editor)
"Funny, refreshing, intelligent, and outrageous!"
—Howard Zinn


"In an era when most political magazines in the U.S. ranged from the tepid to the tedious there was LiP , fearlessly delving into the essential topics of our times and mapping the way to a revolution you'd actually want to join."
—Patrick Reinsborough, co-founder of smartMeme


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Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me - Stuart Christie
"This fascinating personal account offers a remarkable picture of the late-20th century, seen through sensitive eyes and interpreted by a compassionate, searching soul."—Noam Chomsky, author of Failed States


"Stuart Christie is the rarest of revolutionaries—a committed freedom fighter and a gentle warrior who can also spin a cracking good yarn. From the working class streets of ...
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