50% off for all my fellow monarchists!
In celebration of Canada Day (July 1),* we’re proud to offer you these little beauties at 50% off for the entire month of July! Unrelated to that, but in the spirit of giving (and because they are our featured publisher this month), through July all books published by Haymarket Books are 25% off! God save the Queen!**
Radical Priorities
By Noam Chomsky (edited by C.P. Otero)
In Radical Priorities, C.P. Otero sets out to “provide relatively easy access to Chomsky’s libertarian philosophy and political analysis.” Taken from a wide variety of sources, many never widely published—some never in a book at all—and spanning four decades, the reader is furnished with a truly comprehensive window into Chomsky’s anarchist convictions. Convictions which, while ever-present in his analysis are left largely misunderstood or worse Chomsky’s analysis, and the traditions that bore it, must not be left in obscurity. Now just $9.50!
Workers’ Councils
By Anton Pannekoek (edited by Robert Barsky)
Anton Pannekoek was the main theoretician of Left Communism. He lived and worked in workers’ councils from China to Germany over the first half of the century and militantly fought in working-class struggles all his life. He wrote Workers’ Councils while living under Nazi occupation in Holland. In this timeless text, Pannekoek provides his analysis of how we can create and sustain this practical model for social equality.
“Pannekoek’s book is a classic of radical thought. It should be read by all people who want to think beyond capitalism, beyond bureaucratic socialism, beyond opportunistic trade unionism, to the idea of direct democracy in the production and distribution of society’s enormous wealth.” —Howard Zinn
Now a mind-boggling $7.50! Get two!
Durruti in the Spanish Revolution
By Abel Paz
In this new and unabridged translation of the definitive biography of Spanish revolutionary and military strategist, Buenaventura Durruti, Abel Paz has given us much more than an account of a single man’s life. Durruti in the Spanish Revolution is as much the chronicle of an entire nation and of a tumultuous historical era. Paz seamlessly weaves intimate biographical details of Durruti’s life—his progression from factory worker and father to bank robber, political exile and, eventually, revolutionary leader—with extensive historical background, behind-the-scenes governmental intrigue, and blow-by-blow accounts of major battles and urban guerrilla warfare. Written with a thorough and sympathetic understanding of the anarchist ideals that motivated Durruti, this is an amazing and exhaustive study of an incredible man and his life-long fight against totalitarianism in both its capitalist and Stalinist forms. Now only $14.00!
Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth
By Jeffrey St. Clair
Hold on tight as you open the pages of Born Under a Bad Sky and follow journalist Jeffrey St. Clair through a landscape of horrors and wonders, scenery all the more strange because the setting is our own bruised world, in our own fraught era. These urgent dispatches are from the front lines of the war on the Earth. Gird yourself for a visit to a glowing nuclear plant in the backwoods of North Carolina, to the heart of Cancer Alley where chemical companies hide their toxic enterprise behind the dark veil of Homeland Security, and to the world’s most contaminated place, the old H-bomb factory at Hanford, which is leaking radioactive poison into the mighty Columbia River. All is not lost: a new green resistance is taking root. The fate of the grizzly and the ancient forests of Oregon hinge on the courage of these green defenders. This book is also a salute to them. Now just $10.00!
Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936–1945)
By Ingrid Strobl
Common stereotypes of women during wartime relegate them to the sidelines of history—to supporting roles like dutiful munitions factory workers or devoted wives waiting for their men to return home. The truth is that much of the armed resistance to fascism, before and during World War II, can be chalked up to women about whom official accounts have little or nothing to say. Through years of intrepid research and numerous interviews with the participants themselves, Ingrid Strobl excavates the history of the women who shouldered guns, planned assassinations, planted bombs, and were among the era’s most active antifascist fighters. Strobl’s commitment to and respect for her subjects has resulted in a work of both scholarly rigor and emotional depth. Weaving moving personal narratives into the broader history of the European resistance, Partisanas is both a detailed historical account and an investigation into what compelled women to reject their traditional roles to take up arms in a fight for a better world. Now just $11.00!
You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive
By Seth Tobocman (on tour now!)
You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive collects many of Tobocman’s most enduring images in a powerhouse assemblage that cuts right to the heart of 1980s activism. All the high (and low) points are there: the imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal; the rise of Reaganomics; the struggle against apartheid; the Miami Race Riots; and, of course, the turf wars that dominated the city of New York, as activists and low-income families alike demanded their rights to the city’s abandoned buildings. Now just $10.00!