THE ALBERT MEMORIAL. The Anarchist Life and Times of Albert Meltzer (7 January 1920 - 7 May 1996). An Appreciation by Phil Ruff, with a postscript by 'Acrata'.

THE ALBERT MEMORIAL. The Anarchist Life and Times of Albert Meltzer (7 January 1920 - 7 May 1996). An Appreciation by Phil Ruff, with a postscript by 'Acrata'.
Phil Ruff (Author)

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Albert Meltzer was one of the most notable and influential figures in the British anarchist movement of the second half of the 20th century. This commemorative appreciation of Albert’s life and work by his close friend and comrade, ‘Black Flag’ cartoonist Phil Ruff, also includes contributions from his European activist contemporaries and a response to the calumnies propagated by those who attempted for several decades to revile or belittle his indefatigable efforts in the cause of human liberation.

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• Published on: 2013-10-28
• Released on: 2013-10-28
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Philosophical Anarchism and Political Obligation (Contemporary Anarchist Studies)

Philosophical Anarchism and Political Obligation (Contemporary Anarchist Studies)
Magda Egoumenides (Author)

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Political obligation refers to the moral obligation of citizens to obey the law of their state and to the existence, nature, and justification of a special relationship between a government and its constituents. This volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series challenges this relationship, seeking to define and defend the position of critical philosophical anarchism against alternative approaches to the issue of justification of political institutions.

The book sets out to demonstrate the value of taking an anarchist approach to the problem of political authority, looking at theories of natural duty, state justification, natural duty of justice, fairness, political institutions, and more. It argues that the anarchist perspective is in fact indispensable to theorists of political obligation and can improve our views of political authority and social relations.

This accessible book builds on the works of philosophical anarchists such as John Simmons and Leslie Green, and discusses key theorists, including Rousseau, Rawls, and Horton. This key resource will make an important contribution to anarchist political theory and to anarchist studies more generally.

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• Published on: 2014-08-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive

You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive
Seth Tobocman (Author)
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New York, 1989: as a decade of activism around the urban housing crisis and beyond comes to a close, legendary graphic artist Seth Tobocman is there to document it all in his bold comic style.

You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive collects many of Tobocman’s most enduring images in a powerhouse assemblage that cuts right to the heart of 1980s activism. All the high (and low) points are there: the imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal; the rise of Reaganomics; the struggle against apartheid; the Miami Race Riots; and, of course, the turf wars that dominated the city of New York, as activists and low-income families alike demanded their rights to the city’s abandoned buildings.

It’s a candid portrait of a decade of struggle to preserve basic human rights and build a better world. Available now in a brand new twentieth-anniversary edition from AK Press, You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive is a critical historical artifact and a phenomenal read, sure to appeal to a new generation of activists ready to demand the right to the city, and worthy of a place on the shelf of every historian of urban struggle.

Seth Tobocman is an author, artist, and educator living in New York City. Perhaps best known as the co-founder and editor of the comic journal World War 3 Illustrated, Tobocman’s bold graphics have been immortalized in exhibitions, in the pages of The New York Times, and on the sides of buildings around the globe.

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• Published on: 2009-11-01
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 140 pages

WAR & REVOLUTION

WAR & REVOLUTION
Camillo Berneri (Author), Frank Mintz (Editor), Simon Bennett (Translator)

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‘To guarantee revolution, it is not enough for the mob to be armed or for them to have expropriated the bourgeoisie: it is necessary for them to destroy the capitalist system entirely and to organise their own system. They must be able to combat the ideas put forward by Stalinist and reformist leaders with the same vigour with which they attack capitalist individuals and the leaders of the bourgeois parties. As of May 1937, any revolutionary endeavour that does not remain faithful to this experience condemns itself purely and simply to not existing. Attacking the state, unhesitatingly confronting the Stalinist-reformist counter-revolution: such are the distinctive characteristics of the coming revolution.‘ These extracts from the secret republication in 1973 (in Spanish) of Berneri's writings by the Iberian Liberation Movement (whose symbolic i{not}gure is Puig Antich, garrotted on 2nd March 1974) explain the reason for the publication of these writings. Also included are Berneri's views on Marxism and the militias.

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• Published on: 2013-10-18
• Released on: 2013-10-18
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Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change

Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change
Stefania Milan (Author)

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Social Movements and their Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio stations and radical internet projects ('emancipatory communication practices') as a political subject, focusing on the sociological and cultural processes at play. It provides an overview of the relationship between social movements and technology, and investigates what is behind the communication infrastructure that made possible the main protest events of the past fifteen years. In doing so, Stefania Milan illustrates how contemporary social movements organize in order to create autonomous alternatives to communication systems and networks, and how they contribute to change the way people communicate in daily life, as well as try to change communication policy from the grassroots. She situates these efforts in a historical context in order to show the origins of contemporary communication activism, and its linkages to media reform campaigns and policy advocacy.

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• Published on: 2013-10-25
• Released on: 2013-10-25
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Dios y el Estado: Edicion del Estudiante (Spanish Edition)

Dios y el Estado: Edicion del Estudiante (Spanish Edition)
Mijail Bakunin (Author)

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En DIOS Y EL ESTADO, Mijail Bakunin presenta un argumento claro y convincente contra la religión y la autoridad divina. Bakunin analiza las formas en que la fe en lo divino apoya la autoridad temporal de los gobiernos, y condena a los dos. Por último, Bakunin se refiere a la teoría de que daría el poder del gobierno a la ciencia, lo que demuestra que la ciencia se ha dañado y se utiliza como una herramienta de poder, como el poder divino que sustituye. Dios y el Estado es una obra importante y duradera del pensamiento anarquista. "Si dios es el amo absoluto, todos los hombres son sus esclavos absolutos."

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• Published on: 2013-10-18
• Original language: Spanish
• Binding: Paperback
• 76 pages

Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman

Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
Paul Avrich (Author), Karen Avrich (Author)
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In 1889 two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and Sasha would be fast friends, fleeting lovers, and loyal comrades. This dual biography offers an unprecedented glimpse into their intertwined lives, the lasting influence of the anarchist movement they shaped, and their unyielding commitment to equality and justice.

Berkman shocked the country in 1892 with "the first terrorist act in America," the failed assassination of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick for his crimes against workers. Passionate and pitiless, gloomy yet gentle, Berkman remained Goldman's closest confidant though the two were often separated-by his fourteen-year imprisonment and by Emma's growing fame as the champion of a multitude of causes, from sexual liberation to freedom of speech. The blazing sun to Sasha's morose moon, Emma became known as "the most dangerous woman in America." Through an attempted prison breakout, multiple bombing plots, and a dramatic deportation from America, these two unrelenting activists insisted on the improbable ideal of a socially just, self-governing utopia, a vision that has shaped movements across the past century, most recently Occupy Wall Street.

Sasha and Emma is the culminating work of acclaimed historian of anarchism Paul Avrich. Before his death, Avrich asked his daughter to complete his magnum opus. The resulting collaboration, epic in scope, intimate in detail, examines the possibilities and perils of political faith and protest, through a pair who both terrified and dazzled the world.

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• Published on: 2012-11-01
• Released on: 2012-12-01
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.29" h x 6.34" w x 1.46" l, 2.13 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 528 pages

The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon

The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon
Claudio Lomnitz (Author)

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In this long-awaited book, Claudio Lomnitz tells a groundbreaking story about the experiences and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón. Drawing on extensive research in Mexico and the United States, Lomnitz explores the rich, complicated, and virtually unknown lives of Flores Magón and his comrades devoted to the "Mexican Cause." This anthropological history of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal seeks to capture the experience of dedicated militants who themselves struggled to understand their role and place at the margins of the Mexican revolution. For them, the revolution was untranslatable, a pure but deaf subversion: La revolución es la revolución -- "The Revolution is the Revolution." For Lomnitz, the experiences of Flores Magón and his comrades reveal the meaning of this phrase.

The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón tracks the lives of John Kenneth Turner, Ethel Duffy, Elizabeth Trowbridge, Ricardo Flores Magón, Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara, and others, to illuminate the reciprocal relationship between personal and collective ideology and action. It is an epic and tragic tale, never before told, about camaraderie and disillusionment in the first transnational grassroots political movement to span the U.S.-Mexican border. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón will change not only how we think about the Mexican Revolution but also how we understand revolutionary action and passion.

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• Published on: 2014-05-02
• Binding: Hardcover
• 608 pages

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
by Naomi Klein (Author), Nicola Barber (Narrator)
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The Knights Errant of Anarchy: London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora (1880-1917) (Liverpool University Press - Studies in European Regional Cultures)

The Knights Errant of Anarchy: London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora (1880-1917) (Liverpool University Press - Studies in European Regional Cultures)
Pietro Di Paola (Author)

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Late-Victorian London was home to many exiled anarchist groups who fled persecution in their home countries. In this book Pietro Di Paola looks at the lives of Italian anarchists, balancing an examination of their political organizations and activities with a study of their everyday lives as exiles and militants. Central to the book is an analysis of the processes by which the Italian anarchists created an international revolutionary network, what would be seen as an extremely dangerous threat by European and American governments. By investigating the political, social, and cultural aspects of this radical Italian group, The Knights Errant of Anarchy speaks to political radicalism within immigrant communities at large. 

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• Published on: 2013-11-15
• Original language: English
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• 256 pages

Christian Anarchism

Christian Anarchism
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Author)
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Christian anarchism has been around for at least as long as “secular” anarchism. Leo Tolstoy is its most famous proponent, but there are many others, such as Jacques Ellul, Vernard Eller, Dave Andrews or the people associated with the Catholic Worker movement. They offer a compelling critique of the state, the church and the economy based on the New Testament.

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• Published on: 2013-10-08
• Released on: 2013-10-08
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The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey

The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
Michael Huemer (Author)
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Modern states commonly deploy coercion in a wide array of circumstances in which the resort to force would clearly be wrong for any private agent. What entitles the state to behave in this manner? And why should citizens obey its commands? This book examines theories of political authority, from the social contract theory, to theories of democratic authorization, to fairness- and consequence-based theories. Ultimately, no theory of authority succeeds, and thus no government has the kind of authority often ascribed to governments.

The author goes on to discuss how voluntary and competitive institutions could provide the central goods for the sake of which the state is often deemed necessary, including law, protection from private criminals, and national security. An orderly and livable society thus does not require acquiescence in the illusion of political authority.

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• Published on: 2012-12-11
• Released on: 2012-12-11
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: .75 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 394 pages

Power and Market (LvMI)

Power and Market (LvMI)
Murray N. Rothbard (Author), Edward P. Stringham (Preface)
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What can government do to enhance social and economic well being? Nothing, says Murray N. Rothbard. Power and Market contains the proof. It will inoculate the reader against the even the slightest temptation to invoke the state as a solution to any social or economic problem. It is ultimate manual for completely de-mystifying the myth of the state.

This beautiful new edition is the first to truly do it justice.

The Rothbardian claim is perhaps the most radical made in the history of political economy. But how can it be convincing? What must an author do to back up this claim?

Here is what Rothbard did. He systematically classified every form of intervention into three types: autistic, binary, and triangular. Within each category, he discusses their ill effects, and does so with precision and insight. Free market scholars have been using and expanding on his insights for years. But in this book we have the source.

He is like an expert house inspector examining the edifice of the state. Brick by brick, nail by nail, he shows that it is fundamentally unsound. The seeming edifice is really a house of cards.

This book is the ideal answer to the person who says: "I favor free markets but…." and then proceeds to advocate some intervention they believe to be helpful. Rothbard shows that it is not helpful, no matter what it is. And he provides the logic for understanding how all forms of government aggression make society worse off.

To search for Mises Institute titles, enter a keyword and LvMI (short for Ludwig von Mises Institute); e.g., Depression LvMI

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• Published on: 2012-02-06
• Released on: 2012-02-06
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WE, THE ANARCHISTS! A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937

WE, THE ANARCHISTS! A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937
Stuart Christie (Author)

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Since the official birth of organized anarchism at the Saint Imier Congress of 1872, no anarchist organization has been held up to greater opprobrium or subjected to such gross misrepresentation than the Federación Anarquista Ibérica. Better known by its initials, the FAI, was a group of twentieth-century militants dedicated to keeping Spain’s largest labour union, the CNT, on a revolutionary, anarcho-syndicalist path.
There are two dimensions to Stuart Christie’s indispensable ‘We, The Anarchists!’ The i{not}rst is descriptive and historical: it outlines the evolution of the organised anarchist movement in Spain and its relationship with the wider labour movement, and, at the same time, it provides some insight into the main ideas that made the Spanish labour movement one of the most revolutionary of modern times.
The second is analytical, as the book addresses —from an anarchist perspective—the problem of understanding and coping with change in the contemporary world; how can ideals survive the process of institutionalisation?
Stuart Christie’s analysis covers the history of Spanish anarchism and the Spanish Civil War, the affinity group organisation of the FAI, and the misreadings and outright lies told about the FAI in numerous popular and academic accounts of the period. ‘We, The Anarchists!’ Also provides lessons relevant to today's neutered labour movement.
A gripping tale and informative historical corrective, Christie’s book jumps out of history with lessons for contemporary organizations and individuals struggling for social and economic change.
‘At last. A serious examination of the legendary FAI. And hence, by necessity, a history and analysis of the organised anarchist movement in Spain, and its relationship with the wider labor movement. By far the best book on the subject, Christie is ruthless in his examination — from an anarchist perspective - of the theory, and practice of this loose-knit group of anarchist militants. Required reading for everyone who not only wants to understand the history of Spanish anarchism, but for those that might want to see some viable form of anarchist organisation in the 21st century.’
http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/book/we-the-anarchists-a-study-of-the-iberian-anarchist-federation-fai-1927-1937/2047408/
http://libcom.org/library/we-the-anarchists-review
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/v41pt4

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• Published on: 2013-09-22
• Released on: 2013-09-22
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No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (Complete Series)

No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (Complete Series)
Lysander Spooner (Author)
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Kindle Edition Special Features:
- All three published volumes in the No Treason series
- Complete and unabridged
- Linked table of contents
- Linked footnotes
- Chapter navigation marks
- Professionally edited and formatted

Lysander Spooner's "No Treason" series, published in three volumes, is intended to address the question of whether it was treason for Southern States to secede from the United States, and how this differed from the colonies seceding from Great Britain. But along the way he touches on other important questions such as: What is meant by consent of the governed? By what right did a few men who have now passed on have to bind future generations to a government? Does voting or paying taxes imply consent to be governed? How can all the people of the United States be bound to a government when (at the time) only a small number of adult white males with property were allowed to vote? Even if you do not agree with his conclusions, the questions and discussion are thought provoking.

Original Print Length: 89 pages.

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• Published on: 2010-10-13
• Released on: 2010-10-13
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