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Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed #63 | On its way to us. Includes articles by Wolfi Landstreicher, Brian Morris and Bob black. Plus the usual mx of reviews and columns. | £3 |
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325: Anti-Prison,
Insurrection, Autonomy |
Just out! This issue features: "Interview with 'Rebel Jill', anarchist in Japan"; "Interview with Patricio Pallares Beyona", ex-long-term prisoner of Catalonia; "Letter to the comrades of the F.A.I (Informal Anarchist Federation) from Gabriel Pombo da Silva"; "Prison Society, Reformism and Insurrection"; "Why Anti-Prison?"; "Letter from Silvia Guerin of 'Il Silvestre', Italy"; "International Resistance News", plus more... | £1 |
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Tear Down the
Walls John Bowden |
Apart from 2 years
on the run after a spectacular escape, John Bowden has been in jail since
1980, and spent most of his childhood in various forms of state institutions
prior to that. He has been at the forefront of the British prison struggle
for most of his time behind bars, and is able to describe his experiences
articulately and powerfully. 'Tear Down The Walls!' includes two texts by John, the first being autobiographical, and the second a fierce condemnation of the prison system from an abolitionist point of view. The pamphlet also features an introduction by Anarchist ex-prisoner Mark Barnsley, who served time with John in several prisons and segregation units. |
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Igniting a
Revolution - Voices in Defense of the Earth Steven Best & Anthony J. Nocella (Eds) |
Igniting a Revolution offers a fascinating and compelling look at the emerging movement of revolutionary environmentalism. Includes essays by Marilyn Buck, Robert Jensen, John Zerzan, Ashanti Alston, Jeffrey "Free" Luers, Derrick Jensen, Ann Hansen, and a preface by Bron Taylor. | £10 |
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Original Wisdom:
Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing by Robert Wolff |
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The Subversion
of Politics George Katsiaficas |
Katsiaficas presents the protagonists of social revolt—Italian feminists, squatters, disarmament and anti-nuclear activists, punk rockers, and anti-fascist street fighters—in a compelling and sympathetic light. At the same time, he offers a work of great critical depth, drawing from these political practices a new theory of freedom and autonomy that redefines the parameters of the political itself. |
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Amour Alfredo M. Bonanno |
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The Unwanted
Children of Capital Elephant Editions |
Various documents on the struggle against detention centres in Italy. | £1 |
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Insurrectionary
Ecology by Anon |
When we see history
as a series of events, or even worse perceive ourselves in an
isolated bubble of moving time disconnected from the past, we are disempowered.
Our actions, any actions, seem like pissing in the ocean in the face of
our opposition. But our actions are not isolated events, they are explosions
in a web of relations, many unforeseen. The project of liberation
has been vying with domination for thousands of years, and continues.
The ripples cast by our actions shape ourselves, our relations, and
inspire others now and in the future. Knowing the history of our
Movements and other’s attempts, gives us context beyond ethereal
slogans. History is cumulative. Re-print of discussion document from 2005 EF! Gathering |
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LIP and the
Self-Managed Counter Revolution By Negation |
In 1973, LIP, a
watchmaking company in France that went bankrupt, was 'taken over' by the
workers and quickly degenerated into an experiment in self-exploitation,
remaining trapped in the present world's 'productionism.' R e-published by re-pressed. |
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Down with the Prison Walls | A transcription of a talk given by Laudelino Iglesias Martinez at Bradfords 1in12 Club. Also includes the transcript of a talk given at the same event by a representative of the Basque prisoner support group Salhaketa, and the texts of letters written by Laudelino from prison and upon his release. Laudelino's talk details the struggle by prisoners, first against fascist repression under Franco, and then against the no less brutal repression which followed the death of the dictator. It details the activities of the prisoner resistance groups APRE and COPEL, and the struggle against the Spanish FIES isolation regime. | £1 |
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Women in Prison | 50p | |
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A Crime Called
Freedom: Writings of Os Cangaceiros Vol. I Translated by Wolfi Landstreicher |
Os Cangaceiros was a group of delinquents caught up in the spirit of the French insurrection of 1968 who refused to let that spirit die. With nothing but contempt for the self-sacrificial ideology practiced by “specialists in armed struggle”, this uncontrollable band of social rebels wreaked havoc on the French state — attacking infrastructures of oppression, supporting popular revolts, stealing and releasing secret blueprints for high-tech prisons, raiding the offices of corporate collaborators, and creating their lives in complete opposition to the world based on work. This volume, translated by Wolfi Landstreicher, is the first substantial collection of the writings of Os Cangaceiros in English. |
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Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity | Why has psychology had so little to say about the destruction of nature; and what sort of psychological understanding might help us to regenerate our relation to the natural world? In this book, David Kidner outlines a radically new form of social science that moves beyond the sterile separations between sociology, psychology, anthropology, and politics, and illustrates the sort of understanding that could successfully regenerate our relation to the nonhuman world. | £15 |
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The Current
Faces of Misery By Wolfi Landstreicher |
A Proposal for debate. | 50p |
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Summits, Counter
Summits and Social War VBP |
Analyses for discussion and debate . Includes 'Notes on Summits and Counter Summits,' 'Summits Counter Summits and Social War', 'Seattle is Quite Far Away' and more. | 75p |
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Endgame: The
Problem of Civilization v. 1 Derrick Jensen |
"Endgame" builds on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises: for example, "The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of any economic system" and "The mass of civilized people will never be on our side". Jensen invites readers to imagine a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself. | £11 |
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Endgame: Resistance
v. 2 Derrick Jensen |
Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental movement’s deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on our ability to adapt to the impending ecological revolution. | £11 |
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Without
a Glimmer of Remorse |
Dramatisation of the life of Jules Bonnot, worker, soldier, driver, robber and anarchist. | £7 |
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Incendio: a bilingual journal of Latin American theory & solidarity | New bi-lingual (Spanish/English) journal which intends to connect anarchists in English/Spanish speaking "western" capitalist-core countries to anarchist, indigenous, ecological, and social struggles occurring throughout Latin America. THis fist issue features articles on Venezuela's: ASF (alternative social forum), U.S. eco-resistance: arrests and repression, Cuba and Chile. |
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Ecocide: a
short history of the mass extinction of species By Franz J. Broswimmer |
Our society has reduced nature to an assortment of exploitable resources. Ecocide is a historical odyssey, carrying the reader from the environmental impact of pre-modern tribal societies through to the utter destructiveness of our own impoverished era. Where we find ourselves in the midst of the fastest mass extinction of species in the history of our planet, and on the brink of environmental catastrophe. A well researched and informative book that should be read, though how the author suddenly jumps to such a liberal conclusion remains a mystery. |
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The Real Split
in the International: Situationist International By Guy Debord |
First published in 1972, this new translation by John McHale is the first officially authorized in English. It sees Debord not only evaluate the Situationist International as a whole, but also signal the end of it. For him, it had become clear that the Situationist's success had produced - within it's own ranks as well as outside them - a host of fans and 'onlookers' who amounted to little more than consumers... | £8 |
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The Consul:
Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time
Ralph Rumney, Malcom Imrie (Translator) |
Ralph Rumney, an English painter, was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. His membership didn't last long – Guy Debord politely excluded him after less than a year, accusing him (wrongly) of failing to complete a projected psychogeography of Venice – but his association with radical movements in art and politics has never ended. H is travelling companions have included Félix Guattari and E. P. Thompson. All are recalled in the interviews here, which trace an extraordinary career dedicated to revolt and provide a passionate account of a work in progress by a man who has never accepted the division between art and life. | £7 |
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Indigenous
Resistance in New Guinea Solidarity South Pacific |
Compilation containing four films; Freedon for West Papua, Hell in the Pacific, Coconut Revolution and First Contact. | £5 |
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Collapse: How
Societies Choose to Fail or Survive By Jared Diamond |
In Collapse, Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the long-abandonded statues of Easter Island, the crumbling Maya pyramids of the Yucatan? All saw their cultures collapse because of environmental crises. And it looks as if those crises were self-induced. | £7 |
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Ten Days That
Shook Iraq Firestarter Press |
Reprint of an article that first appeared in '91 about the uprisings in Southern Iraq and Kurdistan, along with an interview about class struggle in Iraq. | £1 |
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Fascism/Anti-Fascism Jean Barrot |
A reprint of the essay from the French ultra-leftist. "The struggle for democracy is not a short cut allowing the workers to make a revolution without realizing it. The proletariat will destroy totalitarianism only by destroying democracy and all political forms at the same time. Until then there will be a succession of 'fascist and 'democratic' systems in times and space..." | £1 |
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Situationist
International Anthology Ken Knabb (Editor) |
The essential sourcebook for anyone wanting to pursue the SI. A vast compendium of writings from all their major works, books, journals, leaflets, etc. All the stars are here, and much more. Much of this has been translated into English for the first time. | £10 |
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Complete Cinematic
Works Guy Debord |
Ken Knabb's translation of Debord's Complete Cinematic Works accompanies the long-awaited English versions of these film.The scripts are illustrated with 62 stills, and Debord's own annotations help elucidate the subtleties of these astonishing works, which are like nothing else in cinema history. | £9 |
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Collection
of Desires |
A welcome new edition of four of Vaneigem's shorter works, largely unavailable in English. In this rather fine collection, you'll find the 'Book Of Pleasures', 'From Wildcat Strike To Total Self-Management', 'Terrorism Or Revolution', and 'A Warning To Students Of All Ages'. | £6 |
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The
London Hanged Peter Linebaugh |
Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging served the purpose of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and new forms of private property. (THIS HAS NOW ARRIVED) | £11 |
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Walking on
Water Derrick Jensen |
"Jensen takes aim at an educational system that is based on power and seeks to turn students into passive acceptors of mindless, boring tasks who silently submit to illegitimate authority - a 'nation of slaves' and clock-watchers. As a writing teacher, Jensen's lessons convey both the practicalities of learning how to write as well as the life lessons so necessary to finding one's true creative self." (taken from blurb) |
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Strangely Like
War Derrick Jensen |
With Strangely Like War, Jensen and Draffan, with a foreword from renowned ecologist Vandana Shiva, have produced a document that is essential reading for anybody even faintly interested in the fast-approaching ecological collapse of this planet, even more so for anybody interested in stopping this collapse. | £8 |
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The
Tribe: Interviews with Jean-Michel Mension Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time, Vol. 1 |
Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint- Germain-des-Prés as a member of the legendary Lettrist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular vie de bohme whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogues' gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers. The rich iconography includes many of Ed van der Elsken's celebrated photographs of 'the tribe' and a trove of Lettrist leaflets and posters. A rare, vivid tour of a moment and milieu barely noticed at the time by the tourists flocking to Saint-Germain for a glimpse of Sartre and Co. | £8 |
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The Movement
of the Free Spirit Raoul Vaneigem |
This book examines
the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical
authority in Europe from the 1200s into the 1500s.
Although Vaneigem discusses a number of different movements such as the Cathars and Joachimite millenarians, his main emphasis is on the various manifestations of the Movement of the Free Spirit in northern Europe. He sees not only resistance to the power of state and church but also the immensely creative invention of new forms of love, sexuality, community, and exchange. Vaneigem is particularly interested in the radical opposition presented by these movements to the imperatives of an emerging market-based economy, and he evokes crucial historical parallels with the antisystemic rebellions of the 1960s. |
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The Garden
of Peculiarities By Jesús Sepúlveda |
Jesús Sepúlveda is a Chilean green anarchist with roots in Spain, Italy and Eugene, Oregon. His important work is both critical and inspirational, a human- and plant-centered antidote to the globalist technocracy. | £6 |
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Where is the
Festival? Venomous Butterfly / Elephant Editions |
Includes, Notes on summits and counter-summits, Genoa is everywhere, Vultures, On the trial of the rebels of Genoa. | £1.50 |
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Society
of the Spectacle DVD Guy Debord |
The Society of the Spectacle (1973) is Debord’s film adaptation of his own 1967 book. As passages from the book are read in voiceover the text is illuminated, via direct illustration or various types of ironic contrast, by clips from Russian and Hollywood features (Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Shanghai Gesture, Johnny Guitar, Mr. Arkadin, etc.), TV commercials, publicity shots, softcore porn, street scenes, and news and documentary footage, including glimpses of Spain 1936, Hungary ’56, Watts ’65, France ’68, and other revolts of the past. Intertitle quotes from Marx, Machiavelli, Clausewitz or Tocqueville occasionally break the flow. | £5 |
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Society
Against the State |
In this landmark
text in anthropology, Clastres offers examples of South American Indian
groups that, though without hierarchical leadership, were both affluent
and complex. In so doing, he refutes the usual negative definition of tribal
society and poses its order as a radical critique of our own Western State
power. |
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T-Shirts/Hoodies We now have a
selection of t-shirts - |
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Jacques
Camatte and the New Politics of Liberation |
A good introduction to Camatte’s writings and their influence on current green anarchist ideas. Latest title published by us. Re-printed from Green Anarchy. | £1.20 |
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On
Organization Jacques Camatte |
re-pressed reprint of this classic critique of organisations as political 'rackets'. | £1.20 |
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Against
Domestication |
We've republished this classic essay as a pamphlet | £1.20 |