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Arshinov, Peter
History of the Makhnovist Movement 1918-21
Freedom 284pp ISBN: 0-900384-40-9 $17.60
The seminal work on the anarchist revolutionary movement in the Ukraine, which was crushed by the Bolshevik Red Army.

Avrich, Paul
Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
Princeton Uni 268pp ISBN: 0-691-04494-5 $25.90
Paul Avrich has collected together this selection of interviews with anarchists, gathered over 30 years. The ordinary voices of working men and women eloquently tell the story of anarchism in America this century.

Avrich, Paul
Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background
Princeton 265pp ISBN: 0-691-02604-1 $25.90
Situates these two US/Italian anarchists within the immigrant anarchist culture which they devoted their lives to advancing. An interesting and insightful read, meticulously researched.

Beale, A.
Against all War: Fifty Years of Peace News, 1936-1986
Peace News 64pp ISBN: 0-946409-07-2 $3.50
A short but detailed history of a very influential pacifist paper, Peace News, which provides an insight into its publishing achievements, as well as its impact and influence on the Peace Movement. It particularly presents a history of the development of political non-violence, as seen through reports in the pages of Peace News.

Bookchin, Murray
The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years
AK Press 316pp ISBN: 1-873176-04-X $29.90
The seminal english language history of Spanish Anarchism. Bookchin has brought his research and philosophical skills to work in accurately describing and articulating the birth and growth of anarchism in Spain.

Bookchin, Murray
The Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era Vol 1
Cassell 384pp ISBN: 0-304-33594-X $38.20
A comprehensive account of the great revolutions of the past 3 centuries. Throughout, the emphasis is on the popular movements that propelled the great revolutions to radical peaks, the little known leaders who spoke for the people, and the liberatory social forms to which the revolutions gave rise. For anyone interested in understanding the revoltionary tradition.

Bookchin, Murray
To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936
AK Press 69pp ISBN: 1-873176-87-2 $9.00
In the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin places the Spanish Anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements of the 1930's in the context of revolutionary worker's movements of the pre-World War II era. These articles describe, analyse, and evaluate the last great proletarian revolution of the past two centuries. They are invaluable for any reader concerned with the place of the Spanish Revolution in history and with the accomplishments, insights and failings of the anarcho-syndicalist movements.

Christie, Stuart
We the Anarchists! A study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937
Jura Media/Meltzer Press 136pp ISBN: 1 90117206 6 $20.00
The Spanish revolution was the first successful insurrection in a modern industrial setting. Some might call it the only industrial revolution. If you are interested in the practice of anarchist revolution, without the romantic gloss that some accounts give it, then you will be interested in this book.

De Santillan, D A
After the Revolution: Economic Reconstruction in Spain (1937)
JURA 127pp ISBN: JM-01 $7.00
Originally published in 1937, this book recounts the economic and organisational achievements of the Spanish revolution, as they were occurring. An important account of a revolution in progress.

Diggers, The
Digger Tracts
SCAM 40pp ISBN: SC-10 $2.00
This collection of six original writings and songs from 1649 to 1650 is of interest to the politically radical, the historian and the religiously radical. The Diggers, or true levellers, provide an inspiration from English history for the anti-corporate and anti-capitalist movements of today.

Dolgoff, Sam
Cuban Revolution: A Critical Perspective
Black Rose 199pp ISBN: 0-919618-35-9 $13.50
Sam Dolgoff takes us through the history of Cuba drawing forth an analysis of the revolution from a libertarian perspective. This book makes a powerful statement against leninism and the militarisation of Cuban society, railroading the social revolution into the Castro dictatorship.

Fabian, Suzanne & Loh, Morag
Left-Wing Ladies. The Union of Australian Women in Victoria 1950-1998
Hyland House 196pp ISBN: 1864470771 $20.00
A valuable history of the Union of Australian Women and their influence on Australian society through grassrooots activism.

Fremion, Yves and Volny
Orgasms of History: 3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection
AK Press 248pp ISBN: 1 902593 34 0 $28.40
Every now and then, society explodes. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all. Here's a People's History to puncture that balloon. From the Cynics & Spartacus through the Levelers, Diggers & Ranters to the Revolution of the Carnation, the San Francisco Diggers, Red Guard of Shenwulian, Brethren of the Free Spirit, Guevara, the Provos & the Metropolitan Indians. Nearly 100 episodes of revolt and utopia which popped up without a plan or a leader from the ancient Greeks to the present. Includes Volny's drawings of the participants.

Galeano, Eduardo (Preface)
One Hundred Red Hot Years: Big Moments of the 20th Century
Ocean Press 80pp ISBN: 1-876175-48-6 $9.00
A timeline of events in the people's history of the 20th century. Preface by Eduardo Galeano, with a list of USA assassination targets by William Blum.

Gardner, P.D.
Five Years of Mountain Echoes
Ngarak 64pp ISBN: 1875254323 $12.50
In these essays, written between 1995 and 2000, P.D. Gardner brings his critical eye to local, international, ongoing and past events. Subjects range from the politics of water, anarchism, world population, climate change and the timber industry, George Orwell, B Traven, Ethel Mannin, the Sydney Push, Human Rights, voting, taxation reform, and much more.

Gardner, P.D.
Gippsland Massacres: The Destruction of the Kurnai tribes 1800-1860 (3rd ed)
Ngarak 120pp ISBN: 1-875254-11-0 $18.80
Gippsland Massacres reveals the sordid details of the secret, early European history of the region that saw the population of the Kurnai tribes plummet from 3000 to less than 300 in twenty years. Gardiner examines the details of five major massacres of Aboriginal people that occurred in Gippsland before 1852, as well as other massacre sites and recent information. This is a third edition of this important enquiry into the destruction of indigenous society and cultures of Gippsland.

Gardner, P.D.
Our Founding Murdering Father: Angus McMillan and the Kurnai tribe. (2nd ed)
Ngarak 116pp ISBN: 1-875254-01-3 $11.30
Peter destroys the popular image of Angus McMillan by showing him to be a muderer of Aboriginal people, a liar, an alcoholic and a sufferer of venereal disease who misappropriated food, clothing and goods issued by the government for Gippsland Aboriginals.

Gardner, P.D.
The Language of the Kurnai Tribes of Gippsland (comp. by P.D.Gardner)
Ngarak 74pp ISBN: 1-875254-19-6 $12.00
This book is suitable for a wide range of readers from browsers and those interested in a place or house name, through to those with a general interest in local Aboriginal customs and culture and the serious student of Aboriginal language.

Gardner, P.D.
The Scab Train: Essays on the Victorian Coal Miners Association
Ngarak 28pp ISBN: 1-875254-12-9 $6.30
Peter continues his radical and exciting interpretation of Gippsland history with third collection of essays on the great coal strike of 1903.

Gardner, P.D.
Through Foreign Eyes: European Perceptions of the Kurnai Tribes of Gippsland (2nd ed)
Ngarak 126pp ISBN: 1-875254-13-7 $11.30
This book is the second of Gardiner's three volume history on the Kurnai tribes. It studies the Kurnai through the diaries and letters of various European observers including an explorer, squatters, government officials, Aboriginal protectors, missionaries, and an anthropologist.

Gardner, P.D.
Too Old to Rat: The Radical Miners of South Gippsland 1893-1904
Ngarak 48pp ISBN: 1-875254-14-5 $8.80
This is the second booklet in Peter Gardner's series on the Victorian Coal Mines, and in particular, on the miner's union - the Victorian Coal Miners Association.

Guillamon, Agustin
The Friends of Durruti Group: 1937-1939
AK Press 114pp ISBN: 1-873176-54-6 $14.90
This is the story of a group of anarchists engaged in the most thorough going 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.

Harbury, Jennifer
Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros & Companeras
Common Courage 265pp ISBN: 1-56751-016-7 $19.40
First person accounts of ordinary Guatemalans in their quest for social justice and revolution. Powerful statements of why people resist and struggle against brutal regimes and power structures. Introduction by Noam Chomsky.

Howitt, A.W.
Notes on Australian Message Sticks and Messengers
Ngarak 34pp ISBN: 1-875254-25-0 $8.30
Howitt spent nearly thirty years of his adult life as goldfields warden and Magistrate in Gippsland. First from Omeo and then from 1866 onwards in Bairnsdale, Howitt sketched, observed, collected and made notes on the specimens from the country through which he travelled. He wrote 36 geological and a number of botanical papers. But it is the recording and writing on the Kurnai people and other Aboriginal peoples that Howitt is best known, and on which subject he had published two books and many papers.

James, Bob
Anarchism & State Violence in Sydney & Melbourne
Bob James 269pp ISBN: BJ-01 $5.30
This book deals with issues related to the history of the Labor Movement at the end of the 19th Century. In particular, it aims to show that there was a substantial Anarchist presence in the Labor Movement of the time, and that this presence was not connected to the violence that occurred. Other issues addressed includes the role of the Socialist Anarchists, the formation of the Labor Party, and the impact of the Haymarket bombing and conspiracy had on marginalising Anarchism. As the only writer/editor addressing these issues, Bob James' books are an important resource for anyone wanting to understand the history and context of Anarchism in Australia.

James, Bob
Secret Societies & the Labour Movement
Bob James 32pp ISBN: MS-24 $4.00
Intriguing research on the history of the Australian labour movement., particularly its origins in secret societies such as the Freemasons and Oddfellows. Includes a display catalog of regalia, marches and banners, and two essays by Bob James.

James, Bob (ed)
What is Communism? and other Anarchist Essays by J.A. Andrews on Melbourne 1889
Bob James 190pp ISBN: 0-949300-00-4 $5.00
A collection of essays and articles from the late 1880's and the turn of the century dealing with radical questions of the time. The articles are reprints from a series originally published in Australian Radical. They provide an insight into the underclass world" of Melbourne.

Kropotkin, Peter
Great French Revolution Vol #2
Black Rose 630pp ISBN: 0-921689-38-1 $26.20
A skillful and absorbing history of the French Revolution of 1789. This is an in depth study of the first mighty revolution in the West, including much background information and analysis of the complex interplay of forces.

Magon, Ricardo Flores
Mexico: Land & Liberty - Anarchist Influences in the Mexican Revolution
Black Rose 156pp ISBN: 0-919618-30-8 $20.20
Documents the influence of anarchist ideas in the Mexican Revolution, by Ricardo Flores Magon.

McCartney, Wilf
Dare to be a Daniel (The French Cooks' Syndicate)
JURA 26pp ISBN: 0-908437-17-X $1.70
Republication of an essay by an anarchist agitator about the struggle of the catering slave workers in London's West End early this century. Originally published as The French Cooks' Syndicate in 1945 with a foreward by George Orwell, and an introduction by George Woodcock - this edition has an afterwood by Albert Meltzer on the contentious publishing history of this pamphlet.

Nettlau, Max
A Short History of Anarchism
Freedom 404pp ISBN: 0-900384-89-1 $34.90
This title has recently been translated from the French. When it was originally published in the 1930s, it was the condensation of a much larger 9 volume History of Anarchism published in German.. A detailed analytical history written by one of the participants in working class and anarchist movements. It covers the precursors of anarchism, the history of ideas like individualist anarchism, Proudhonism and revolutionary syndicalism, and the history of the world anarchist movement up to 1930.

Peace News
From Protest to Resistance
Peace News 64pp ISBN: 0-907123-02-3 $3.00
This records a selection of personal histories from people involved in Direct Action against Nuclear Weapons in the period from the mid 1950's to the mid 1960's. It provides not only a historical perspective on the U.K. peace movement, but also interesting examples of Direct Action in practice. Includes a brief list of further reading and U.K. contacts.

Peirats, Jose
Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution
Freedom 388pp ISBN: 0-900384-53-0 $41.90
Massive detail on the involvement of anarchists in the Spanish Revolution.

Richards, Vernon
Lessons of the Spanish Revolution
Freedom 260pp ISBN: 0-900384-23-9 $14.10
A critical examination of the Spanish Revolution, with an attempt to draw lessons for future anarchist social movements.

Rimbaud, Penny (CRASS)
The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance
SCAM 16pp ISBN: SC-04 $1.25
A long overdue reprint of this 1982 essay by Penny Rimbaud of the punk anarchist band, CRASS. Also available via the internet on the Spunk archive.

Rocker, Fermin
The East End Years. A Stepney Childhood
Freedom 192pp ISBN: 0-900384-92-1 $27.90
Fermin Rocker conjures a moving and colourful picture of his remarkable father, Rudolf Rocker, of anarchism and of the Jewish East End in London. A moving personal account of growing up in a political household in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Skirda, Alexandre
Facing the Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organisation from Proudhon to Paris '68
AK Press 299pp ISBN: 1-902593-19-7 $26.90

Souchy, Bolloten, Goldman
The May Days Barcelona 1937
Freedom 128pp ISBN: 0-900384-39-5 $8.80
An in depth examination of the May Days in Barcelona in 1937 and their real importance to the fate of the Spanish revolution. Based on contemporary accounts by Augustin Souchy, Burnett Bolloten and Jose Peirats. Includes an essay by Emma Goldman on the detention of political prisoners by the Republican government.

Svenson, Stuart
Industrial War. The Great strikes 1890-94
RAM press 107pp ISBN: 646227971 $10.00
An overview of the four great industrial struggles at the end of the Nineteenth century in Australia. Includes an essay on the 'Tree of Knowledge' legend on the formation of the Australian Labor Party, and another essay on the Banjo Patterson song, 'Waltzing Matilda'. Engaging labour history!

Thomas, A. & Lowe, B.
How Britain Was Sold
32pp ISBN: 0-946409-04-8 $2.50
A short history of the military relationship between U.S. and U.K. after World War Two, particularly focusing on the establishment of U.S. military bases in the U.K.

Various
British Imperialism and the Palestine crisis
Freedom 112pp ISBN: 0-900384-50-6 $6.90
An anarchist analysis of the end of overt British imperialism in Palestine in 1948.

Various
Spain 1936-1939: Social Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Freedom 269pp ISBN: 0-900384-54-9 $17.60
A wide ranging selection of articles and documents on the Spanish Revolution originally published in 'Spain and the World'. Another title in the Freedom Press, Centenary Series, and a welcome addition to the literature detailing the achievements and failures of the Spanish Revolution.

Various
World War - Cold War
Freedom 424pp ISBN: 0-900384-48-4 $24.40
Selections from War Commentary and Freedom of articles from and about the Cold War from the late 40's to the mid sixties. Freedom Press, Centenary Series title.

Vienet, Rene
Enrages and Situationists in the Occupation Movement, Paris May 1968
Rebel Press 158pp ISBN: 0-946061-05-X $17.85
An eyewitness account of the upheavals in France and Paris in May 1968. Graphics, photos, graffitti slogans and cartoons.

Voline
Unknown Revolution
Black Rose 717pp ISBN: 0-919618-25-1 $21.70
This account and analysis of the Russian revolution was originally published as 3 volumes. It is a thorough account of what happened and went wrong in the Russian Revolution by an active anarchist participant. Includes 100 pages on Kronstadt Rebellion in 1921and 180 pages on the Makhnovist movement in the Ukraine 1917 to 1921. Easy to read history, telling the story of the betrayal of the revolution by Bolshevik terror, and the massive resistance of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries.

War Commentary
The Left and World War Two
Freedom 80pp ISBN: 0-900384-51-4 $6.90
A compilation of essays from War Commentary on the role of the Left in Britain during World War Two.