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Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth
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Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth

Ian Brennan
A powerful exploration of the challenges facing art, music, and media in the digital era.
$20.00
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All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body
Books

All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body

Editor: Dani Burlison
This book covers topics of justice, creativity, racism, transgender perspectives, sexuality, sex work, addiction, reproductive rights, assault, relationship dynamics, families, radical self-care, witchcraft, and more.
$19.95
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This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century
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This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century

Mai’a Williams • Foreword: Ariel Gore
Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife, while mothering her young daughter Aza.
$17.95
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Guy Debord
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Guy Debord

Anselm Jappe • Translator: Donald Nicholson-Smith
This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International and author of The Society of the Spectacle.
$21.95
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A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist, Third Edition
Books

A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist, Third Edition

Kuwasi Balagoon • Edited by Matt Meyer and Karl Kersplebedeb
Balagoon combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, and took up arms against the white-supremacist state.
$21.95
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Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions
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Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions

Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph • Editors: Matt Meyer & déqui kioni-sadiki
The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21.
$33.95
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William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary
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William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary

Peter Marshall
The picture of Godwin that emerges is one of a complex man and a subtle and revolutionary thinker, one whose influence was far greater than is usually assumed.
$29.95
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The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
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The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band

Michelle Cruz Gonzales
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.
$16.95
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, Second Edition
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, Second Edition

Franklin Rosemont
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
$29.95
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Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist
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Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist

David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday
Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world.
$20.00
Sold Out
Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, Second Edition
Books

Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, Second Edition

scott crow
A memoir of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amid collapse, and struggling against the grain. This edition includes new discussions on disaster relief, infiltration and surveillance from the State, and new photos.
$20.00
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Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy
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Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy

Chris Crass
Towards Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change.
$20.00
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From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
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From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King

Robert Hillary King
This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.
$0.00
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Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony
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Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony

Clément Duval • Translator: Michael Shreve
This is more than an historical document about the anarchist movement and the penal colony. It is a remarkable story of survival through self-determination, energy, courage, loyalty, and hope.
$20.00
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Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
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Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond

David Gilbert
A candid, uncompromising, yet ultimately humane autobiography by arguably one of the most celebrated political prisoners in the world.
$22.00
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Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. Brian Willson
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Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. Brian Willson

S. Brian Willson
A guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect, and empathy.
$25.00
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Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg - I: 1918
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Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg - I: 1918

Farquhar McHarg
A thrilling tale of adventure, treachery, and betrayal... a fascinating insight into the ideas and optimism that set the world ablaze in the first part of the twentieth century.
$18.95
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William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
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William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary

E.P. Thompson
Two impressive figures, William Morris as subject and E.P. Thompson as author, are conjoined in this immense biographical-historical-critical study.
$32.95
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The 5th Inning
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The 5th Inning

E. Ethelbert Miller
The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Now available in paperback!
From $9.95
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The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (DVD)
DVDs

The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (DVD)

Jimmy O'Halligan, scott crow, and Ann Harkness
Tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United States.
$0.00
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The War of 33: Letters from Beirut (DVD)
DVDs

The War of 33: Letters from Beirut (DVD)

Big Noise Films
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon.
$0.00
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In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
Distro of PM Comrades

In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary

Ngo Van
A story of movements and revolts in Vietnam that were caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors of those times.
$19.95
Letters to My FBI Agent: Notes from an Anarchist Under Surveillance
Upcoming Releases

Letters to My FBI Agent: Notes from an Anarchist Under Surveillance

Josh Fernandez
Letters to My FBI Agent is a darkly funny memoir told in the form of direct address to the federal agent who can’t stop circling the narrator’s life.
$19.95
Women Surviving Apartheid’s Prisons
Just World Books

Women Surviving Apartheid’s Prisons

Shanthini Naidoo
This book explores how women from different oppressed communities in South Africa defied traditional gender expectations and played a key role in the overthrow of Apartheid.
$22.95
Options
Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth
Books

Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth

Ian Brennan A powerful exploration of the challenges facing art, music, and media in the digital era.
$20.00
All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body
Books

All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body

Editor: Dani Burlison This book covers topics of justice, creativity, racism, transgender perspectives, sexuality, sex work, addiction, reproductive rights, assault, relationship dynamics, families, radical self-care, witchcraft, and more.
$19.95
This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century
Books

This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century

Mai’a Williams • Foreword: Ariel Gore Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife, while mothering her young daughter Aza.
$17.95
Guy Debord
Books

Guy Debord

Anselm Jappe • Translator: Donald Nicholson-Smith This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International and author of The Society of the Spectacle.
$21.95
A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist, Third Edition
Books

A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist, Third Edition

Kuwasi Balagoon • Edited by Matt Meyer and Karl Kersplebedeb Balagoon combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, and took up arms against the white-supremacist state.
$21.95
Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions
Books

Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions

Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph • Editors: Matt Meyer & déqui kioni-sadiki The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21.
$33.95
William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary
Books

William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary

Peter Marshall The picture of Godwin that emerges is one of a complex man and a subtle and revolutionary thinker, one whose influence was far greater than is usually assumed.
$29.95
The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
Books

The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band

Michelle Cruz Gonzales This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.
$16.95
Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, Second Edition
Books

Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, Second Edition

Franklin Rosemont A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
$29.95
Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist
Books

Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist

David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world.
$20.00
Sold Out
Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, Second Edition
Books

Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, Second Edition

scott crow A memoir of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amid collapse, and struggling against the grain. This edition includes new discussions on disaster relief, infiltration and surveillance from the State, and new photos.
$20.00
Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy
Books

Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy

Chris Crass Towards Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change.
$20.00
From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
Books

From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King

Robert Hillary King This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.
$0.00
Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony
Books

Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony

Clément Duval • Translator: Michael Shreve This is more than an historical document about the anarchist movement and the penal colony. It is a remarkable story of survival through self-determination, energy, courage, loyalty, and hope.
$20.00
Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
Books

Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond

David Gilbert A candid, uncompromising, yet ultimately humane autobiography by arguably one of the most celebrated political prisoners in the world.
$22.00
Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. Brian Willson
Books

Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. Brian Willson

S. Brian Willson A guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect, and empathy.
$25.00
Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg - I: 1918
Books

Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg - I: 1918

Farquhar McHarg A thrilling tale of adventure, treachery, and betrayal... a fascinating insight into the ideas and optimism that set the world ablaze in the first part of the twentieth century.
$18.95
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
Books

William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary

E.P. Thompson Two impressive figures, William Morris as subject and E.P. Thompson as author, are conjoined in this immense biographical-historical-critical study.
$32.95
The 5th Inning
Books

The 5th Inning

E. Ethelbert Miller The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Now available in paperback!
From $9.95
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (DVD)
DVDs

The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (DVD)

Jimmy O'Halligan, scott crow, and Ann Harkness Tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United States.
$0.00
The War of 33: Letters from Beirut (DVD)
DVDs

The War of 33: Letters from Beirut (DVD)

Big Noise Films The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon.
$0.00
In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
Distro of PM Comrades

In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary

Ngo Van A story of movements and revolts in Vietnam that were caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors of those times.
$19.95
Letters to My FBI Agent: Notes from an Anarchist Under Surveillance
Upcoming Releases

Letters to My FBI Agent: Notes from an Anarchist Under Surveillance

Josh Fernandez Letters to My FBI Agent is a darkly funny memoir told in the form of direct address to the federal agent who can’t stop circling the narrator’s life.
$19.95
Women Surviving Apartheid’s Prisons
Just World Books

Women Surviving Apartheid’s Prisons

Shanthini Naidoo This book explores how women from different oppressed communities in South Africa defied traditional gender expectations and played a key role in the overthrow of Apartheid.
$22.95