History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-1921

Travel

Arshinov, P

Specialty Travel

Black & Red

The Bolsheviks and Workers Control is a remarkable pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization and some 40 years after the original was written this is perhaps its greatest contribution today. For this reason alone this text deserves the greatest possible circulation and we encourage you to link to it.

The Bolsheviks & Worker's Control

History

Brinton, Maurice

Russia

The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This is the original translation by Fredy Perlman, kept in print continuously for the last 30 years, keeping the flame alive when no-one else cared.

Society Of The Spectacle

Business & Money

GUY DEBORD

Economics

Excellent history, evaluation and critique, from two militants who were there. Includes a wealth of graphics and reprinted material from the events themselves.

Worker-Student Action Committees: France, May '68

F Perlman

R Gregoire

Reference

One-time lovers who share libertarian ideals find themselves on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s. They continue to seek a path to liberation and their letters record the repression and satisfactions they experience under different manifestations of the modern state. A beautiful, tender and inspiring collection. In all actuality, a collection of work from Fredy Perlman.

Letters of Insurgents

Nachalo, S

Vochek, Y.

Military

His major work, a vast study of the rise of totalitarian lifestyles and a profound affirmation of the struggle to reassert human values. One of the most significant and influential anarchic texts of the last few decades.

Against His-Story, Against Leviathan: An Essay

Biographies & Memoirs

PERLMAN, Fredy

Arts & Literature

Why do the ideas of nation and race still have such an influence even after the lessons of fascism have been so widely drawn?

The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

A lovingly crafted biography of one of the twentieth century's most significant thinkers and activists.

Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman's Fifty Years

Perlman, Lorraine

Chomsky's classic analysis of the liberal scholarship that justified American foreign policy and aggression during the 1960s. Why should a liberal intellectual be so persuaded of the virtues of a political system of four-year dictatorship? The answer seems all too plain.—from Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship is Chomsky's powerful indictment of a liberal intelligentsia that provided self-serving arguments for war in Vietnam—legitimizing US commitment to autocratic rule and intervention in Asia as the tasks of "pacification theory." Including Chomsky's analysis of the Spanish Civil War as a revolutionary war from below, this book lays bare the reluctance of scholarly elites to engage in mass movements and social change, revealing not objectivity, but its opposite—the use of ideology to mask self-interest. Hailed by The Nation as "the first significant work of social and political thought to come out of the Vietnamese catastrophe," Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship is an indispensable lens through which to consider mainstream punditry today.

Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship

CHOMSKY, Noam.

The temperature is scorching in Detroit during the summer of 1967 and so is everything happening in this fictionalized memoir by a staff member of the long-running Fifth Estate magazine. The characters are thrust into tumultuous episodes of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, anti-war demonstrations, fighting fascists, rock and roll at the Grande Ballroom, drugs, anarchism, the White Panther Party, Wilhelm Reich, and a bomb plot that provide a people's history and radical folklore of Detroit. The setting is seven weeks in a critical year that demands ethical choices by all involved, ones which mirror today's crises.

Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel

Literature & Fiction

Werbe, Peter

Genre Fiction

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