LITERATURE
BOOKS
- ANARCHISM
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AT THE CAFÉ: CONVERSATIONS ON ANARCHISM Errico Malatesta Freedom Press For the first time in English, Malatesta, in his usual commonsense and matter-of-fact style, sets out and critically analyses the arguments for and against anarchism. Translated by Paul Nursey-Bray, this is a classic defence of anarchism that anticipates the rise of nationalism, fascism and communism. Pris: 100 kr |
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CENTRALISM ELLER SJÄLVFÖRVALTNING? Michail Bakunin Federativs Centralism eller självförvaltning ger en allmän inblick i Bakunins anarkistiska idéer och belyser motsättningen mellan två skilda uppfattningar om socialismen. Urvalet förmedlar Bakunins kritik av kapitalismen och staten, hans varningar för teknokratin, experternas styre, och för att statssocialismen innebär uppkomsten av en ny priviligerad, makthavande klass av byråkrater, och hans försvar för en antiauktoritär socialism, grundad på självförvaltning och federalism. Price: 50kr |
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CUBAN ANARCHISM Frank Fernándes See Sharp Press Här är historien om anarkism på Kuba före, under, och efter revolutionen. Price: 80kr |
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DISSIDENT #2 Batkogruppen Vi fortsätter vår studie av den internationella anarkistdebatten med att i detta nummer av Dissident introducera den insurrektionella anarkismen, en strömning som varit relativt okänd i Sverige. Numret innehåller både översättningar av klassiska och mer aktuella texter. Vi inkluderar också fragment ur våra interna diskussioner, samt några nya fräscha texter skrivna speciellt för denna utgivning. Dryga hundra sidor om självaktivitet och uppror. Dissident nummer 2 innehåller bland annat: introduktion till den insurrektionella anarkismen, översättningar från Insurrection och Killing King Abacus, Anti-mass av The Red Sunshine Gang, samtal med Sasha K Villion m.m. Price: 60kr |
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DREAMS OF FREEDOM, A RICARDO FLORES MAGON READER Ricardo Flores Magon, Chaz Bufe (Editor), and Mitchell Verter (Editor) AK Press The words of this Mexican-American working class hero brought to English language readers for the first time. "From the darker nations comes the vibrant and still fresh voice of the tremendous anarcho-communist Flores Ricardo Magon. In Mexico they have streets named after him. Elsewhere he is little known. Hopefully those who are illiterate in Spanish will now take this great radical into our hearts through this very powerful collection. Land and Liberty!" —Vijay Prashad Along with Emiliano Zapata, Ricardo Flores Magón (b. 1874) is regarded as one of the most important figures of the Mexican Revolution. Through his newspaper Regeneración, he boldly criticized the injustices of the country's military dictatorship and worked to build the popular movement that eventually overthrew it. Exiled to the United States, Flores Magón continued to agitate for revolution in Mexico. Transcending nationalism, he also dreamed of a world free from all forms of injustice. Both the US and Mexican governments responded with harsh repression. Leavenworth Penitentiary ultimately murdered him in 1922. This volume collects the first English translations of Flores Magón's most important writings. A lengthy historical overview, chronology, maps, images, and bibliography provide context for his work. "Mitchell Verter and Chaz Bufe have given us a great gift with this fascinating volume on Ricardo Flores Magón. He was a revolutionary from a very different time from our own, but today's activists will make an immediate and intense connection with his passion for social justice. This is a gift that will only grow as you pass it on to others!"—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch
"The life, words, and ideas of Ricardo Flores Magón are as important today as they were around 100 years ago. Bravo for this wonderful book that won't let us forget those days and those heroes. Today, as always, remembering is revolutionary"—Luis Rodriguez, author of Always Running and My Name is Hunger |
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Facing the Enemy: A History Of Anarchist Organization From Proudhon To May 1968 Alexandre Skirda AK Press The finest single volume history of European anarchism is finally available in English in Paul Sharkey's elegant translation. Drawing on decades of research, Alexandre Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Critical and engaged, he offers biting and incisive portraits of the major thinkers and, more crucially, the organizations they inspired, influenced, came out of, and were spurned by. Opinionated and witty, he is equally at home skewering the actions of the early anarchist Victor Serge as he is the Paris chief of police who organized undercover "anarchist bombers" in an attempt to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Skirda argues that the core problem for anarchists has been to create a revolutionary movement and envision a future society in which the autonomy of the individual is not compromised by the need to take collective action. How anarchists have grappled with that question in theory and practice make up the core of the book. Bakuninist secret societies; the Internationals and the clash with Marx; the Illegalists, bombers, and assassins; the mass trade unions and insurrections; and, of course, the Russian and Spanish Revolutions are all discussed through the prism of working people battling fiercely for a new world free of the shackles of Capital and the State. Price: 120kr |
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EN SVENSK ANARKIST BERÄTTAR Nisse Lätt Nisse Lätts Minnesfond Nisse Lätt (1907-1988) var en märklig man.Vid 15 års ålder gick han till sjöss. Efter att ha träffat spanska anrkosyndikalister i Bilbao anslöt han sig till SAC-Syndiklaisterna i början av 1930-talet. När det spanska inbördeskriget bröt ut i juli 1936 efter Francos kupp, så for Nisse till Spanien och anslöt sig till den legendariska Durutti-kolonnen. Han fick ena ögat förstört av granatsplitter och bodde och arbetade under ett halvår i en av de kollektiviserade byarna. Tillbaka i Sverige blev han mer eller mindre agitator på heltid under några år. Han cyklade och skidade genom landet, tog jobb i skogen, på varven eller på byggen, sålde syndikalistiska och anarkistiska tidningar och böcker. Till slut slog han sig ner i Göteborg och hans hem i Haga utvecklade sig med åren till en samlingsplats för yngre som var intresserade av anarkistiska och syndikalistiska idéer. Nisse berättade ofta mångordigt om de mest skiftande ämnen.
Denna bok, som Nisse Lätt skrev 1982, är hans politiska testamente, hans sammanfattning av sina erfarennheter från ett långt och innehållsrikt liv. |
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Anarchism, But Were Afraid To Ask Simon READ Rebel Press anarchism is not Chaos within a bloody struggle for survival. That´s what we have at the moment. The pursuit of your selfish interest over the needs of others. That´s what we have at the moment. A state of total disorganisation. That´s what we have at the moment. The triumph of the strong over the weak. That´s what we have at the moment. so what is is? Beautifully redesigned and rewritten version of the old classic pamphlet. A great introduction, accessibly written. Pris: 40kr |
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FREE WOMEN OF SPAIN: ANARCHISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN Martha A. Ackelsberg AK Press Cowards don't make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, these women mobilized over 20,000 women into an organized network during the Spanish Revolution, to strive for community, education, and equality for women and the emancipation of all. Militants in the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union, Mujeres Libres struggled against fascism, the State, and reaction; and the less than supportive attitudes and concerns of their male comrades. Martha Ackelsberg writes a comprehensive study of Mujeres Libres, intertwining interviews with the women themselves and analysis connecting them with modern feminist movements. Price: 140kr |
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FRIENDS OF DURRUTI GROUP 1937-1939 Augustin Guillamòn AK Press "Revolutions without theory fail to make progress. We of the 'Friends Of Durruti' have outlined our thinking, which may be amended as appropriate in great social upheavals but which hinges upon two essential points which cannot be avoided. A program, and rifles." —El Amigo del Pueblo, No. 5, July 20, 1937. Spain 1936–1939: This is the story of a group of anarchists engaged in the most thoroughgoing social and economic revolution of all time. Essentially street fighters with a long pedigree of militant action, they used their own experiences to arrive at the finest contemporary analysis of the Spanish Revolution. In doing so, they laid down essential markers for all future revolutionaries. This study—drawing on interviews with participants and synthesizing archival information—is THE definitive text on these unsung activists. This volume is translated, edited, and introduced by Paul Sharkey, acknowledged internationally as the foremost expert on the Friends Of Durruti Group. Price: 80kr |
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FRIHETLIG KOMMUNISM I PRAKTIKEN. Självförvaltning i Spanien 1936-1939 Britta Gröndahl Federativs Under inbördeskriget i Spanien 1936-1939 genomfördes omfattande kollektiviseringar av industri och jordbruk. I spetsen för kollektiviseringarna gick de spanska syndikalisterna som nu omsatte sina idéer om en frihetlig kommunism i praktiken. I denna bok lyfter Britta Gröndahl fram denna glömda historia med hjälp av samtida källor. Hon spårar bakgrunden till detta experiment i självförvaltning i anarkisternas och syndikalisternas idédebatt under årtiondena före inbördeskriget. Price: 50kr |
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MUJERES LIBRES: EL ANARQUISMO Y LA LUCHA POR LA EMANCIPATION DE LAS MUJERES Martha A. Ackelsberg Virus Sobre la bse de un estudio riguroso y profundo de las condiciones sociales y politicas que permitieron el surgimiento de un movimiento emancipatorio de mujeres en la Espana revolucionaria del 36, Ackelsberg realiza una cronica de los esfuerzos de Mujeres Libres por crear una organizacion constituida por y para mujeres de las clase trabajadora, con el objetivo de prepararlas para ocupar su lugar en la revolucion y en la nueva sociedad que se avecinaba. En la presente se analizan a fondo las razones que llevaron a un numeroso grupo de mujeres del ambito libertario a la creacion de Mujeres Libres—en contra de la voluntad de buena parte de los hombres e, incluso, de algunas mujeres del Movimiento Libertario-; los problemas, temas de disputa y reaciones que mantuvieron con este; y sus discusiones internas, objetivos y funcionamiento. Pero lo que la hace especialmente interesante es que no es simplemente un estudio historico, sino que, incidiendo especialmente en el analisis anarquista de las relaciones de dominacion y subordinacion y en la centralidad que ocupa en este la nocion de comunidad, Ackelsberg plantea que puede aportar el discurso y la experiencia de Mujeres Libres a la teoria y lucha feminista contemporanea. Price: 130kr |
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QUIET RUMOURS: AN ANARCHA-FEMINIST READER Various AK Press/Dark Star From consciousness-raising groups to hair-raising punk rockers, here's a fascinating window into the development of the women's movement, in the words of the women who moved it. These classic essays span the century, providing welcome context for feminism as part of a larger politics of liberation and equality. Critical analysis and biting polemic, whether it's Emma Goldman's attack on the suffrage movement or the debates of Second Wave feminists of the 1970s, connect the dots to show not just how anarchism influenced feminism but how feminism changed the political landscape around it. "With this important collection of and about anarcha-feminists over more than a century, stunning female anarchist heroes are restored to our collective memory." -Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
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Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of British Anarchisms Benjamin Franks AK Press Rebel Alliances offers an applied philosophical perspective on contemporary class-struggle anarchism in Britain. It identifies the main principles distinguishing this tradition from competing Leninist, liberal, and social-democratic groupings. From these key characteristics, Franks constructs a consistent anarchism, which both shares characteristics with politically-engaged post-structuralisms and has a distinctive ethic. The theory and practice of contemporary groups are then assessed against this "ideal-type" of anarchism. Many of the central themes of anarchism are consequently subject to original scrutiny: the nature of the revolutionary subject; workplace and community organizing; violence and pacifism; the meaning of direct action; and propaganda by the word and deed. "No one is better placed to examine the contemporary British anarchist movement than Ben Franks. Steal this book at the first opportunity."—Class War "Provides a framework for understanding, analyzing, and appreciating the myriad forms of anarchist class struggle and must be praised for its scholarly achievement and avoidance of traditional academic restrictions."—David Lamb, Birmingham University Price: 130kr |
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THE ANARCHIST QUIZ BOOK Albert Meltzer (Contributor) and Martin Howard (Editor) Freedom Press A handy, pocket-size compendium of the now infamous anarcho-quizzes that ran, first in the pages of Black Flag, under the authorship of the legendary Albert Meltzer. 350 questions (plus answers, in the back!), running the gamut from "In which city was the first anarcha-feminist paper published?" to "In 1840, the Russian government provoked riots by ordering peasants to grow what?" to "Which murdering fascist did Italy commemorate in 2005 with a postage stamp?" to the ever popular trivia gem "What inspired Sylvia Pankhurst to help open a jam factory?" Agitate, educate, and organize! All in a handy quiz format! Price: 80kr |
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THE ANARCHIST REVOLUTION Errico Malatesta Freedom Press A complement to 'His Life And Ideas', much of it previously unpublished. As fresh today as when the polemics were written. Price: 70kr |
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The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin and Charles Weigl (Introduction by) AK Press The fourth in our 'Working Classics' series, this is Kropotkin's most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equitable means of satisfying. 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 revolution: the concrete means of achieving it and the new world that humanity is capable of creating. As insightful as when it was first published over a century ago, this is essential reading for anyone interested in a pragmatic yet visionary approach to questions of economic justice. This edition includes a new introduction that historically situates and discusses the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin's ideas. Price: 100kr |
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THE CONQUEST OF BREAD Peter Kropotkin Elephant Editions One of the fundamental classics of anarchism, its validity today lies in Kropotkins vision of the revolutionary project as a totality, something that would be impossible if it were not already in act. Price: 75kr |
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