The Femicide Machine
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The Femicide Machine
Sergio González Rodríguez
Translated by Michael Parker-StainbackIn Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn’t just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guarantee impunity for those crimes and even legalize them. A lawless city sponsored by a State in crisis. The facts speak for themselves.
—from The Femicide MachineBest known to American readers for his cameo appearances as The Journalist in Roberto Bolano’s 2666 and as a literary detective in Javier Marías’s novel Dark Back of Time, Sergio González Rodríguez is one of Mexico’s most important contemporary writers. He is the author of Bones in the Desert, the most definitive work on the murders of women and girls in Juárez, Mexico, as well as The Headless Man, a sharp meditation on the recurrent uses of symbolic violence;...
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Recipes for Disaster
An Anarchist Cookbook
Crimethinc Ex-Workers CollectiveThree years in the making, Recipes for Disaster is the long-awaited follow-up to the CrimethInc. collective’s notorious first book, Days of War, Nights of Love. This 400-page manual complements the romance and idealism of that earlier work with practical information and instruction. Over thirty collectives collaborated in testing, composing, and editing the book’s 62 sections, which range from Affinity Groups, Coalition Building, and Mental Health to Sabotage, Squatting, and Wheatpasting. These are illustrated with extensive technical diagrams and first-hand accounts, and prefaced with a thorough discussion of the diverse roles direct action can play in social transformation. If you’re looking for a tactical handbook for revolutionary action, look no further.
This second edition, released in Fall of 2012, is comprised of the same content as the first edition, and boasts a new larger 7″ x 10″ format; photos and diagrams that are 77% and 164% larger,...
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Anarchist VoicesAn Oral History of Anarchism in AmericaPaul Avrich
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In Anarchist Voices, Avrich lets anarchists speak for themselves.
“The 180 interviewees in this oral history (mostly anarchists, but also their friends, associates, and relatives) represent diverse political tendencies—individualists, collectivists, pacifists, revolutionaries. What unites them is an optimistic faith that people will live in harmony once the impositions of government disappear. The respondents give firsthand recollections of Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Sacco and Vanzetti and other key anarchists; describe their experiences in libertarian schools and colonies; and offer trenchant observations on the dangers of authoritarian communism, bureaucracy and entrenched institutions. Among those interviewed are self-proclaimed ‘philosophical anarchist’ Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; Daniel Guerin, historian of the U.S. labor movement; Alexandra Kropotkin, English-born daughter of Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin; Albert Boni, publisher of ‘Modern Library’ classics and a socialist; and Dwight Macdonald, who launched the journal Politics in 1944. Avrich profiles a movement that continues to exercise an appeal with its calls for self-determination,...War, Journalism, and the Middle East
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War, Journalism, and the Middle East
Robert Fisk“…He’s like no reporter from the Mideast we get in the McPapers of America.”—Greg Palast
“As a war correspondent he is unrivaled.”—Financial Times
“The most famous foreign correspondent in Britain.”—New York Times
On the heels of his recent treatise on the Middle East, The Great War for Civilisation, the animated and impassioned Robert Fisk, discusses the realities, risks, and rewards of his work on this momentous CD. With unparalleled access to history-makers in the region, Fisk recounts the rise of Hizbollah, the West’s military involvement in the Middle East, his interviews with Osama Bin Laden, and the growing Iraqi insurgency. The audio program includes a lecture from Robert Fisk and an interview conducted by acclaimed radio host, David Barsamian, on Lebanese politics after Rafik Hariri’s assassination.
Also included is a printed booklet containing excerpts from a panel discussion with Fisk, in April of 2006,...
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Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
Rudolf Rocker
Preface by Noam Chomsky“The publication of Rudolf Rocker’s Anarcho-Syndicalism is an event of much importance for people who are concerned with problems of liberty and justice. Rocker expresses throughout his faith in the capacity of ordinary people to construct for themselves a world suited to their inner needs, to create and participate in an advancing culture of liberation in free communities, to discover through their own thought and engagement the institutional arrangements that can best satisfy their deeply rooted striving for freedom, justice, compassion and solidarity, at a particular historical moment. This vision remains as inspiring as when it was written a half century ago, and no less valid as a stimulus to our thinking and our constructive action.” —Noam Chomsky
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“[Rocker’s] exposition of anarcho-syndicalism at the peak of its influence is both a precious document of its time and a valuable reminder in our time of the continuing importance of an essential element in the complex ideology of anarchism.”...Dreams of Freedom
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Dreams of Freedom
A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader
Edited by Chaz Bufe and Mitchell Cowen VerterThe most comprehensive anthology of the Mexican revolutionary’s writings available in English. Translated, compiled, and annotated by Mitchell Verter and Chaz Bufe. Also includes a lengthy biographical preface by Verter.
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The words of this Mexican-American working class hero brought to English language readers for the first time.
“From the darker nations comes the vibrant and still fresh voice of the tremendous anarcho-communist Flores Ricardo Magon. In Mexico they have streets named after him. Elsewhere he is little known. Hopefully those who are illiterate in Spanish will now take this great radical into our hearts through this very powerful collection. Land and Liberty!” —Vijay Prashad
Along with Emiliano Zapata, Ricardo Flores Magón (b. 1874) is regarded as one of the most important figures of the Mexican Revolution. Through his newspaper Regeneración, he boldly criticized the injustices of the country’s military dictatorship and worked to build the popular movement that eventually overthrew it....