Today marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Spokane Free Speech fight, one of the first, and by far, one of the most successful of the Industrial Workers of the World’s campaigns to protect and preserve the right to speak freely, and publicly, about the real conditions of the working class in the […]
While we try to steer clear of posting stuff on this blog that’s widely available elsewhere on the almighty Internet, I found this statement, written by a group called Research and Destroy and circulated during the recent University of California walkout, too interesting and compelling not to share (it’s also available here in a nifty, […]
Editor’s Note: We occasionally ask AK authors (and others) to provide a list of recommended readings on a particular topic. For today’s installment, we didn’t even have to ask. AK author Josh MacPhee, who edited Realizing the Impossible (with Erik Ruin) and the forthcoming Signs of Change (with Dara Greenwald) posted the following insanely expert […]
Although it’s several months after the fact, I thought it’d be good to alert folks to the fact that the second volume of Robert Graham’s Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas has seen the light of day. Subtitled The Emergence of the New Anarchism, Robert’s book takes readers on an informative journey through what […]
I heard a news story on the radio this morning about another two soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Driving through Oakland, I had one of those moments when the horror of daily life envelops you, like a ray of anti-sunlight through the clouds of “normal” numbness. At least 20,000 corpses in Afghanistan (most of them, of […]
Histories of radical movements tend to be either way too detailed or way too general. Typically, we’re forced to choose between the forest and trees. That may no longer be the case thanks to the appearance of The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, a massive, eight-volume work that explores the history of protest and […]
Editor’s note: As part of our ongoing “Recommended Reading” series, we asked Laura Pulido, an activist scholar and geographer at the University of Southern California, to share her thoughts with us about the best books on Los Angeles from a radical perspective. Pulido authored the very excellent Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical activism in […]
Jalan Journal is an independent journal written by a multiracial collective of activists who work toward the liberation of Asian peoples from the forces of racism, empire and neo-colonialism. Asians are Pakistani, Iraqi, Afghani, Korean, Cambodian, Chinese, Palestinians and countless other faces. We are gender-bending men and women, queer and straight. We are fierce and […]
Editor’s note: As part of our ongoing series of “Recommended Readings,” we asked AK author Chris Carlsson to share his thoughts about the best books on the history and politics of the San Francisco Bay Area. Chris is the author or editor of numerous books, including Nowtopia, Critical Mass, The Political Edge, and After the […]
Spanish readers interested in radical theory and history will welcome the news that Madrid’s oppositional bookstore and publisher, Traficantes de sueños, has decided to make all of its publications available online for free in PDF format. You can visit their entire catalog here. Some notable titles (among many others) are: Con la comida no se […]