The most prominent thing about this book is the author’s voice. As mentioned, it conjures images of a lost era and a distant version of New York City. It is also defined by a gritty, old-school sense of New York humor.It is the tale of an amazing bond between father and son that at the same time tells the story of one of the most vibrant, working-class movements the United States has seen.Sam, and his son, rubbed shoulders with luminaries of tim ...
Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support can get complicated. This collection is an indispensable guide to both preventing sexual violence and helping its survivors to heal. Includes a foreword by Kiyomi Fujikawa and Jenna Peters-Golden.“Whether or not you t ...
A guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about power. While many activists gravitate toward mere self-expression and identity-affirming rituals at the expense of serious political intervention, Smucker provides an apologia for leadership, organization, and collective power, a moral argument for its cultivation, and a discussion of dilemmas that movements must navigate in order to succeed. ...
"Magnificent."—Paul Preston, author of The Spanish Holocaust Brick maker by trade, revolutionary anarchist and historian by default; this is a study of the life of José Peirats (1908–1989) and the labor union that gave him life, the CNT. It is the biography of an individual but also of a collective agent—the working class Peirats was born into—and the affective ties of kinship, friendship, a ...
A hot topic, and one that fills newspaper columns every time another young place person is killed by the police.The question of how white radicals can and should relate to their black comrades in the streets is one of the more vexing problems activists have faced in recent years. It is also a question that police and politicians have used to divide social movements and set them bickering.Milstein’s goal here is to provide answers to that questio ...
“A much-needed collection that thinks through power, desire, and human liberation. These pieces are sure to raise the level of debate about sexuality, gender, and the ways that they tie in with struggles against our ruling institutions.”?Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman “Against the austerity of straight politics, Queering Anarchism sketches the connections between gender mutiny, queer sexualities, and anti-authori ...
Occupy Wall Street and the movement that grew out of it was one of THE news stories for 2011.Though several books on Occupy have already appeared, this collection is unique in that it does not seek to historicize the still-developing movement. Rather, it seeks to understand where Occupy came from, what it accomplished, and where it might go from here.Developed in response to a stated need for strategic frameworks to guide future action within th ...
Widely regarded as one of the best and most comprehensive surveys of Latin American social politics in the Spanish-speaking world, Zibechi's Territorios en resistencia: Cartografia politica de las periferias latinoamericanas (2008) is available here in translation for the first time. Interest in the socio-economic and political trajectory of Latin American countries continues to grow, as the economic crisis continues to threaten the so-call ...
Part literary criticism, part media analysis, and part marketing handbook, A Poetics of Resistance provides a refreshingly new take on the Zapatistas. While much has been written on the history of the Zapatista insurgency and on the communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos, very little has been said about Zapatismo: the ideologies, organizing methodologies, and communications strategies of the movement. The appeal of the Zapatistas, and thei ...
