Biography & Memoir
Books about change-makers putting their minds and bodies on the line to overthrow an unjust system.
68 titles
Books
A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist, Third Edition
Kuwasi Balagoon • Edited by Matt Meyer and Karl Kersplebedeb
Balagoon combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, and took up arms against the white-supremacist state.
Balagoon combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, and took up arms against the white-supremacist state.
$21.95
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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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Guy Debord
Anselm Jappe • Translator: Donald Nicholson-Smith
This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International and author of The Society of the Spectacle.
This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International and author of The Society of the Spectacle.
$21.95
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Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions
Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph • Editors: Matt Meyer & déqui kioni-sadiki
The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21.
The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21.
$33.95
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William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary
Peter Marshall
The picture of Godwin that emerges is one of a complex man and a subtle and revolutionary thinker, one whose influence was far greater than is usually assumed.
$29.95
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The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
Michelle Cruz Gonzales
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.
$16.95
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The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, Second Edition
Miko Peled
A powerful account of a young man's transformation from growing up in Israel’s elite and serving proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis.
A powerful account of a young man's transformation from growing up in Israel’s elite and serving proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis.
From $19.99
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, Second Edition
Franklin Rosemont
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
$29.95
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Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist
David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday
Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world.
Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world.
$20.00
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Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, Second Edition
scott crow
A memoir of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amid collapse, and struggling against the grain. This edition includes new discussions on disaster relief, infiltration and surveillance from the State, and new photos.
A memoir of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amid collapse, and struggling against the grain. This edition includes new discussions on disaster relief, infiltration and surveillance from the State, and new photos.
$20.00
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Just World Books
Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between
Laila El-Haddad
Gaza Mom provides a wealth of detail (and some charming photographs) that inform readers about the daily lives of Gaza’s Palestinians, along with El-Haddad’s reporting and political analysis.
Gaza Mom provides a wealth of detail (and some charming photographs) that inform readers about the daily lives of Gaza’s Palestinians, along with El-Haddad’s reporting and political analysis.
$20.99
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Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy
Chris Crass
Towards Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change.
Towards Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change.
$20.00
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From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
Robert Hillary King
This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.
This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.
$9.95
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Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony
Clément Duval • Translator: Michael Shreve
This is more than an historical document about the anarchist movement and the penal colony. It is a remarkable story of survival through self-determination, energy, courage, loyalty, and hope.
This is more than an historical document about the anarchist movement and the penal colony. It is a remarkable story of survival through self-determination, energy, courage, loyalty, and hope.
$20.00
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Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
David Gilbert
A candid, uncompromising, yet ultimately humane autobiography by arguably one of the most celebrated political prisoners in the world.
A candid, uncompromising, yet ultimately humane autobiography by arguably one of the most celebrated political prisoners in the world.
$22.00
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Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg - I: 1918
Farquhar McHarg
A thrilling tale of adventure, treachery, and betrayal... a fascinating insight into the ideas and optimism that set the world ablaze in the first part of the twentieth century.
A thrilling tale of adventure, treachery, and betrayal... a fascinating insight into the ideas and optimism that set the world ablaze in the first part of the twentieth century.
$18.95
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Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. Brian Willson
S. Brian Willson
A guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect, and empathy.
A guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect, and empathy.
$25.00
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William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
E.P. Thompson
Two impressive figures, William Morris as subject and E.P. Thompson as author, are conjoined in this immense biographical-historical-critical study.
Two impressive figures, William Morris as subject and E.P. Thompson as author, are conjoined in this immense biographical-historical-critical study.
$32.95
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The 5th Inning
E. Ethelbert Miller
The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Now available in paperback!
The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Now available in paperback!
From $15.95
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DVDs
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (DVD)
Jimmy O'Halligan, scott crow, and Ann Harkness
Tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United States.
Tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United States.
From $14.95
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DVDs
The War of 33: Letters from Beirut (DVD)
Big Noise Films
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon.
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon.
From $14.95
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Other Comrades
Bash the Rich: True-life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK
Ian Bone
Ian Bone breaks his silence as one of the founders of the Class War movement and a leading militant anarchist in the UK.
Ian Bone breaks his silence as one of the founders of the Class War movement and a leading militant anarchist in the UK.
$15.00
Other Comrades
My Life Song By Song: The Story of Dr. Strange Records
Bill "Doc" Plaster
Bill's memoir about growing up in the 1980's So Cal punk scene and starting the legendary mail order, record label and record store: Dr. Strange Records.
Bill's memoir about growing up in the 1980's So Cal punk scene and starting the legendary mail order, record label and record store: Dr. Strange Records.
$20.00
Autonomedia
Roll Over Picasso: E.F. Higgins III, His Life, Art, Legend
Istvan Kantor
E.F. Higgins III was a founding member of the Rivington School, a gang of visionary graffiti artists, welders, noise makers, beer drinkers, ardent guerrilla fighters striving against conformist museum art.
E.F. Higgins III was a founding member of the Rivington School, a gang of visionary graffiti artists, welders, noise makers, beer drinkers, ardent guerrilla fighters striving against conformist museum art.
$19.95
Books
A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist, Third Edition
Kuwasi Balagoon • Edited by Matt Meyer and Karl Kersplebedeb
Balagoon combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, and took up arms against the white-supremacist state.
Balagoon combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, and took up arms against the white-supremacist state.
$21.95
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
Guy Debord
Anselm Jappe • Translator: Donald Nicholson-Smith
This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International and author of The Society of the Spectacle.
This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International and author of The Society of the Spectacle.
$21.95
Books
Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions
Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph • Editors: Matt Meyer & déqui kioni-sadiki
The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21.
The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21.
$33.95
Books
William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary
Peter Marshall
The picture of Godwin that emerges is one of a complex man and a subtle and revolutionary thinker, one whose influence was far greater than is usually assumed.
$29.95
Books
The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
Michelle Cruz Gonzales
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.
$16.95
Just World Books
The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, Second Edition
Miko Peled
A powerful account of a young man's transformation from growing up in Israel’s elite and serving proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis.
A powerful account of a young man's transformation from growing up in Israel’s elite and serving proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis.
From $19.99
Books
Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, Second Edition
Franklin Rosemont
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
$29.95
Books
Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist
David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday
Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world.
Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world.
$20.00
Sold Out
Books
Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, Second Edition
scott crow
A memoir of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amid collapse, and struggling against the grain. This edition includes new discussions on disaster relief, infiltration and surveillance from the State, and new photos.
A memoir of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amid collapse, and struggling against the grain. This edition includes new discussions on disaster relief, infiltration and surveillance from the State, and new photos.
$20.00
Just World Books
Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between
Laila El-Haddad
Gaza Mom provides a wealth of detail (and some charming photographs) that inform readers about the daily lives of Gaza’s Palestinians, along with El-Haddad’s reporting and political analysis.
Gaza Mom provides a wealth of detail (and some charming photographs) that inform readers about the daily lives of Gaza’s Palestinians, along with El-Haddad’s reporting and political analysis.
$20.99
Books
Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy
Chris Crass
Towards Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change.
Towards Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change.
$20.00
Books
From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
Robert Hillary King
This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.
This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.
$9.95
Books
Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony
Clément Duval • Translator: Michael Shreve
This is more than an historical document about the anarchist movement and the penal colony. It is a remarkable story of survival through self-determination, energy, courage, loyalty, and hope.
This is more than an historical document about the anarchist movement and the penal colony. It is a remarkable story of survival through self-determination, energy, courage, loyalty, and hope.
$20.00
Books
Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
David Gilbert
A candid, uncompromising, yet ultimately humane autobiography by arguably one of the most celebrated political prisoners in the world.
A candid, uncompromising, yet ultimately humane autobiography by arguably one of the most celebrated political prisoners in the world.
$22.00
Books
Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg - I: 1918
Farquhar McHarg
A thrilling tale of adventure, treachery, and betrayal... a fascinating insight into the ideas and optimism that set the world ablaze in the first part of the twentieth century.
A thrilling tale of adventure, treachery, and betrayal... a fascinating insight into the ideas and optimism that set the world ablaze in the first part of the twentieth century.
$18.95
Books
Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. Brian Willson
S. Brian Willson
A guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect, and empathy.
A guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect, and empathy.
$25.00
Books
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
E.P. Thompson
Two impressive figures, William Morris as subject and E.P. Thompson as author, are conjoined in this immense biographical-historical-critical study.
Two impressive figures, William Morris as subject and E.P. Thompson as author, are conjoined in this immense biographical-historical-critical study.
$32.95
Books
The 5th Inning
E. Ethelbert Miller
The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Now available in paperback!
The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Now available in paperback!
From $15.95
DVDs
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (DVD)
Jimmy O'Halligan, scott crow, and Ann Harkness
Tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United States.
Tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United States.
From $14.95
DVDs
The War of 33: Letters from Beirut (DVD)
Big Noise Films
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon.
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon.
From $14.95
Other Comrades
Bash the Rich: True-life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK
Ian Bone
Ian Bone breaks his silence as one of the founders of the Class War movement and a leading militant anarchist in the UK.
Ian Bone breaks his silence as one of the founders of the Class War movement and a leading militant anarchist in the UK.
$15.00
Other Comrades
My Life Song By Song: The Story of Dr. Strange Records
Bill "Doc" Plaster
Bill's memoir about growing up in the 1980's So Cal punk scene and starting the legendary mail order, record label and record store: Dr. Strange Records.
Bill's memoir about growing up in the 1980's So Cal punk scene and starting the legendary mail order, record label and record store: Dr. Strange Records.
$20.00
Autonomedia
Roll Over Picasso: E.F. Higgins III, His Life, Art, Legend
Istvan Kantor
E.F. Higgins III was a founding member of the Rivington School, a gang of visionary graffiti artists, welders, noise makers, beer drinkers, ardent guerrilla fighters striving against conformist museum art.
E.F. Higgins III was a founding member of the Rivington School, a gang of visionary graffiti artists, welders, noise makers, beer drinkers, ardent guerrilla fighters striving against conformist museum art.
$19.95