Activism & Organizing
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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942
Mitch Troutman
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania.
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania.
$24.95
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The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism, Second Edition
John P. Clark
This book offers a fresh and highly readable reformulation of anarchist social and political theory to develop a communitarian anarchist solution.
This book offers a fresh and highly readable reformulation of anarchist social and political theory to develop a communitarian anarchist solution.
$24.95
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21st Century Revolution: Through Higher Love, Racial Justice and Democratic Cooperation
Ted Glick
21st Century Revolution was written based upon the author's 53 years of continuous involvement in the movement for fundamental, justice grounded, political, social, economic and cultural change--revolution.
21st Century Revolution was written based upon the author's 53 years of continuous involvement in the movement for fundamental, justice grounded, political, social, economic and cultural change--revolution.
$10.00
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When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue and Resistance
Rebecca Subar • Illustrator: Rosi Greenberg • Forewords by Esteban Kelly and Douglas Stone
A conversation between talkers and fighters.
$22.00
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Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet
Selma James • Introduction by Margaret Prescod • Editor: Nina Lopez
The much-anticipated follow-up to Selma James's first anthology.
$17.00
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The Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook
Cynthia Kaufman
This book helps you understand the nature of the political reality we are facing and arms you with the tools you need to overcome them.
$16.95
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Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
Nick Estes, Melanie K. Yazzie, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, and David Correia • Foreword by Radmilla Cody and Brandon Benallie
Red Nation Rising investigates and explains the violent dynamics of bordertowns.
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Common Preservation: In a Time of Mutual Destruction
Jeremy Brecher
A tool kit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.
A tool kit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.
$26.95
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Free City! The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All
Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, and Vicki Legion • Foreword by Pauline Lipman
The story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US.
$20.00
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Pangayaw and Decolonizing Resistance: Anarchism in the Philippines
Bas Umali
The start of a new paradigm and a must-read for those interested in decolonization, anarchism, and social movements of the global south.
The start of a new paradigm and a must-read for those interested in decolonization, anarchism, and social movements of the global south.
$15.00
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Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry
Editors: Siobhán McGuirk & Adrienne Pine
Strikes a crucial balance of critical analyses and proposed solutions for resisting and reshaping current and emerging immigration norms.
Strikes a crucial balance of critical analyses and proposed solutions for resisting and reshaping current and emerging immigration norms.
$27.95
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Facilitating Group Learning: Strategies for Success with Diverse Learners, Second Edition
George Lakey • Foreword by Mark Leier
An essential resource designed to help educators, trainers, workshop leaders, and anyone who assists groups to learn.
$23.95
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Off with Their Heads: An Antifascist Coloring Book for Adults of All Ages
N.O. Bonzo
A coloring book that brings back the whimsy and delight of the olden days, when more often than not it was the maiden who slayed the dragon, and the heads of tyrants were carried off at the end of a pike.
A coloring book that brings back the whimsy and delight of the olden days, when more often than not it was the maiden who slayed the dragon, and the heads of tyrants were carried off at the end of a pike.
$10.00
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Strike!: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jeremy Brecher
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
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Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy
Mike Stout
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
From $24.95
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Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action
Jeremy Brecher
A unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world.
A unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world.
$20.00
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Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance
Vyvian Raoul and Matt Bonner• Introduction: Josh MacPhee
Advertising Shits in Your Head calls adverts what they are—a powerful means of control through manipulation—and highlights how people across the world are fighting back.
Advertising Shits in Your Head calls adverts what they are—a powerful means of control through manipulation—and highlights how people across the world are fighting back.
From $15.95
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X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety
Gabriel Kuhn
The highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed Sober Living for the Revolution continues the reconnaissance of straight edge culture and how it overlaps with radical politics.
The highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed Sober Living for the Revolution continues the reconnaissance of straight edge culture and how it overlaps with radical politics.
$22.95
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Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language
Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater • Foreword: John P. Clark
Simultaneously an exposition of Tsotsil philosophy and a detailed account of Zapatista governance structures, this book is an indispensable commentary on the Zapatista movement of today.
Simultaneously an exposition of Tsotsil philosophy and a detailed account of Zapatista governance structures, this book is an indispensable commentary on the Zapatista movement of today.
$23.95
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This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century
Mai’a Williams • Foreword: Ariel Gore
Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife, while mothering her young daughter Aza.
Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife, while mothering her young daughter Aza.
$17.95
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Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics, Second Edition
Gabriel Kuhn · Foreword: Boff Whalley
Both an orientation for the politically conscious football supporter and an inspiration for those who pursue the love of the game away from TVs and stadiums, bringing it to alleys and muddy pastures.
Both an orientation for the politically conscious football supporter and an inspiration for those who pursue the love of the game away from TVs and stadiums, bringing it to alleys and muddy pastures.
$20.00
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Shout Your Abortion
Editors: Amelia Bonow and Emily Nokes • Foreword: Lindy West
A collection of photos, essays, and creative work. A template for building new communities of healing. A call to action.
A collection of photos, essays, and creative work. A template for building new communities of healing. A call to action.
$24.95
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White Lives Matter Most: And Other "Little" White Lies
Matt Meyer • Foreword: Sonia Sanchez
These essays reveal the successful strategies and methods used in recent campaigns to free Puerto Rican and Black Panther political prisoners, confront neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and more.
These essays reveal the successful strategies and methods used in recent campaigns to free Puerto Rican and Black Panther political prisoners, confront neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and more.
$14.95
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Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy—All at the Same Time
Michael Fine • Foreword: Bernard Lown and Ariel Lown Lewiton
This book searches for examples of systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a system for the U.S., and creates a practical playbook for a revolution in care.
This book searches for examples of systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a system for the U.S., and creates a practical playbook for a revolution in care.
$17.95
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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942
Mitch Troutman
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania.
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania.
$24.95
Books
The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism, Second Edition
John P. Clark
This book offers a fresh and highly readable reformulation of anarchist social and political theory to develop a communitarian anarchist solution.
This book offers a fresh and highly readable reformulation of anarchist social and political theory to develop a communitarian anarchist solution.
$24.95
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21st Century Revolution: Through Higher Love, Racial Justice and Democratic Cooperation
Ted Glick
21st Century Revolution was written based upon the author's 53 years of continuous involvement in the movement for fundamental, justice grounded, political, social, economic and cultural change--revolution.
21st Century Revolution was written based upon the author's 53 years of continuous involvement in the movement for fundamental, justice grounded, political, social, economic and cultural change--revolution.
$10.00
Books
When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue and Resistance
Rebecca Subar • Illustrator: Rosi Greenberg • Forewords by Esteban Kelly and Douglas Stone
A conversation between talkers and fighters.
$22.00
Books
Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet
Selma James • Introduction by Margaret Prescod • Editor: Nina Lopez
The much-anticipated follow-up to Selma James's first anthology.
$17.00
Books
The Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook
Cynthia Kaufman
This book helps you understand the nature of the political reality we are facing and arms you with the tools you need to overcome them.
$16.95
Books
Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
Nick Estes, Melanie K. Yazzie, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, and David Correia • Foreword by Radmilla Cody and Brandon Benallie
Red Nation Rising investigates and explains the violent dynamics of bordertowns.
From $17.95
Books
Common Preservation: In a Time of Mutual Destruction
Jeremy Brecher
A tool kit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.
A tool kit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.
$26.95
Books
Free City! The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All
Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, and Vicki Legion • Foreword by Pauline Lipman
The story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US.
$20.00
Books
Pangayaw and Decolonizing Resistance: Anarchism in the Philippines
Bas Umali
The start of a new paradigm and a must-read for those interested in decolonization, anarchism, and social movements of the global south.
The start of a new paradigm and a must-read for those interested in decolonization, anarchism, and social movements of the global south.
$15.00
Books
Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry
Editors: Siobhán McGuirk & Adrienne Pine
Strikes a crucial balance of critical analyses and proposed solutions for resisting and reshaping current and emerging immigration norms.
Strikes a crucial balance of critical analyses and proposed solutions for resisting and reshaping current and emerging immigration norms.
$27.95
Books
Facilitating Group Learning: Strategies for Success with Diverse Learners, Second Edition
George Lakey • Foreword by Mark Leier
An essential resource designed to help educators, trainers, workshop leaders, and anyone who assists groups to learn.
$23.95
Books
Off with Their Heads: An Antifascist Coloring Book for Adults of All Ages
N.O. Bonzo
A coloring book that brings back the whimsy and delight of the olden days, when more often than not it was the maiden who slayed the dragon, and the heads of tyrants were carried off at the end of a pike.
A coloring book that brings back the whimsy and delight of the olden days, when more often than not it was the maiden who slayed the dragon, and the heads of tyrants were carried off at the end of a pike.
$10.00
Books
Strike!: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jeremy Brecher
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
From $28.95
Books
Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy
Mike Stout
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
From $24.95
Books
Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action
Jeremy Brecher
A unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world.
A unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world.
$20.00
Books
Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance
Vyvian Raoul and Matt Bonner• Introduction: Josh MacPhee
Advertising Shits in Your Head calls adverts what they are—a powerful means of control through manipulation—and highlights how people across the world are fighting back.
Advertising Shits in Your Head calls adverts what they are—a powerful means of control through manipulation—and highlights how people across the world are fighting back.
From $15.95
Books
X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety
Gabriel Kuhn
The highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed Sober Living for the Revolution continues the reconnaissance of straight edge culture and how it overlaps with radical politics.
The highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed Sober Living for the Revolution continues the reconnaissance of straight edge culture and how it overlaps with radical politics.
$22.95
Books
Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language
Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater • Foreword: John P. Clark
Simultaneously an exposition of Tsotsil philosophy and a detailed account of Zapatista governance structures, this book is an indispensable commentary on the Zapatista movement of today.
Simultaneously an exposition of Tsotsil philosophy and a detailed account of Zapatista governance structures, this book is an indispensable commentary on the Zapatista movement of today.
$23.95
Books
This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century
Mai’a Williams • Foreword: Ariel Gore
Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife, while mothering her young daughter Aza.
Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife, while mothering her young daughter Aza.
$17.95
Books
Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics, Second Edition
Gabriel Kuhn · Foreword: Boff Whalley
Both an orientation for the politically conscious football supporter and an inspiration for those who pursue the love of the game away from TVs and stadiums, bringing it to alleys and muddy pastures.
Both an orientation for the politically conscious football supporter and an inspiration for those who pursue the love of the game away from TVs and stadiums, bringing it to alleys and muddy pastures.
$20.00
Books
Shout Your Abortion
Editors: Amelia Bonow and Emily Nokes • Foreword: Lindy West
A collection of photos, essays, and creative work. A template for building new communities of healing. A call to action.
A collection of photos, essays, and creative work. A template for building new communities of healing. A call to action.
$24.95
Books
White Lives Matter Most: And Other "Little" White Lies
Matt Meyer • Foreword: Sonia Sanchez
These essays reveal the successful strategies and methods used in recent campaigns to free Puerto Rican and Black Panther political prisoners, confront neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and more.
These essays reveal the successful strategies and methods used in recent campaigns to free Puerto Rican and Black Panther political prisoners, confront neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and more.
$14.95
Books
Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy—All at the Same Time
Michael Fine • Foreword: Bernard Lown and Ariel Lown Lewiton
This book searches for examples of systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a system for the U.S., and creates a practical playbook for a revolution in care.
This book searches for examples of systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a system for the U.S., and creates a practical playbook for a revolution in care.
$17.95