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Various Artists - The Fascist Groove Thing cassette
Music CDs

Various Artists - The Fascist Groove Thing cassette

Various Artists This companion to the book The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes is chock full of anarcho-punk and folk that can be enjoyed equally as a soundtrack to the book or by itself.
$10.99
The Clash: All the Albums All the Songs
Books

The Clash: All the Albums All the Songs

Martin Popoff
THE STORIES BEHIND EVERY STUDIO TRACK FROM THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS.
$39.95
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Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
Other Comrades

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

Mat Callahan
A critical study that highlights a new perspective of the long-buried and forgotten songs of resistance.
$30.00
Muse-Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes
Books

Muse-Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes

Ian Brennan
In fifty-nine concise and clear points, Brennan reveals how corporate media has constricted local culture and individual creativity, leading to a lack of diversity within “diversity.”
$14.95
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From The Garage To The Station: Stories from the Gateshead Music Collective 1980-1988
Other Comrades

From The Garage To The Station: Stories from the Gateshead Music Collective 1980-1988

Various
Stories from the Gateshead Music Collective 1980-88 by those who were there. As a social history we had something truly groundbreaking going on up here and it's about time that story was told.
$20.00
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History
Books

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History

Editors: Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, and Yony Leyser
The very first comprehensive overview of the movement that defied both the music underground and the LGBT mainstream community—queercore.
$20.00
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If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music
Books

If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music

Richard Manning
An exploration of American roots music as an art of poor, working people counter to what academics say and show how music is essential.
$26.95
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Folklore Ouvrier - Union Thugs (CD)
Vinyl and CD's

Folklore Ouvrier - Union Thugs (CD)

Union Thugs
Folklore Ouvrier is the second release of the Union Thugs – Montreal Folk’n’Oi, 100% Combat Unionist! This mini-album is part of the band’s continued effort to develop the revolutionary working class culture.
$10.00
Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom
Books

Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom

Editor: John Mink
A collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field.
$27.95
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X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety
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.
$22.95
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Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth
Books

Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth

Ian Brennan
A powerful exploration of the challenges facing art, music, and media in the digital era.
$20.00
Options
Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook
Books

Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook

Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
An organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life.
$14.95
Options
Working-Class Heroes CD
Books

Working-Class Heroes CD

Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.
$14.95
That Precious Strand of Jewishness That Challenges Authority
Books

That Precious Strand of Jewishness That Challenges Authority

Leon Rosselson
Pertinently, Rosselson questions what being a Jew means—is it adherence to Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a citizen of Israel, or someone who eats “chicken soup with knedlach”?
$5.95
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The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975
Books

The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975

Mat Callahan
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties.
$22.95
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The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!
Books

The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!

Editors: Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno
In this book, the editors have gathered songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book.
$34.95
Options
The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
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.
$16.95
Options
Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989, Second Edition
Books

Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989, Second Edition

George Hurchalla
The product of decades of work and multiple self-published editions, Going Underground, is the most comprehensive look yet at America’s nationwide underground punk scene.
$24.95
Options
A Reasonable History of Impossible Demands: The Damage to Date 1986-2013 (CD)
Spoken Word/Music CDs

A Reasonable History of Impossible Demands: The Damage to Date 1986-2013 (CD)

Robb Johnson
The life and times (so far!) of the UK’s greatest living songwriter are captured in a deluxe box set. 92 songs, on 5 CDs with a 64-page booklet.
$44.95
Options
Where Are the Barricades? (CD)
Spoken Word/Music CDs

Where Are the Barricades? (CD)

"And that’s it. At eighty-one, after some sixty years of songwriting, trying to find the story, to avoid the obvious, to shun the predictable, after hundreds of songs, numerous records and CDs, this is my final recording." —Leon Rosselson
$14.95
Looking for Freedom: A Celebration of the Music of Jon Fromer (CD)
Spoken Word/Music CDs

Looking for Freedom: A Celebration of the Music of Jon Fromer (CD)

Jon and Reed Fromer
This CD is a tribute to the San Francisco folk/blues artist whose soulful singing style and original songs about work, love, struggle, and triumph helped fuel movements for peace, human rights, and social justice.
$14.95
The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance
Books

The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance

Penny Rimbaud
The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story of his friend, Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope), who was murdered by the State while incarcerated in a mental institution.
$12.00
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One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock
Books

One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock

Dave Laing
This book argues that a significant political achievement of punk was to expose the operations of power in the British entertainment industry as they were thrown into confusion by the sound and the fury of musicians and fans.
$17.95
Options
Positive Force: More Than a Witness: 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action (DVD)
DVDs

Positive Force: More Than a Witness: 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action (DVD)

Robin Bell
Covering a span of 30 years, More Than a Witness documents the origins, activism, and musical events of the punk/activist organization Positive Force DC.
From $14.95
Options
Various Artists - The Fascist Groove Thing cassette
Music CDs

Various Artists - The Fascist Groove Thing cassette

Various Artists This companion to the book The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes is chock full of anarcho-punk and folk that can be enjoyed equally as a soundtrack to the book or by itself.
$10.99
The Clash: All the Albums All the Songs
Books

The Clash: All the Albums All the Songs

Martin Popoff
THE STORIES BEHIND EVERY STUDIO TRACK FROM THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS.
$39.95
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
Other Comrades

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

Mat Callahan
A critical study that highlights a new perspective of the long-buried and forgotten songs of resistance.
$30.00
Muse-Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes
Books

Muse-Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes

Ian Brennan
In fifty-nine concise and clear points, Brennan reveals how corporate media has constricted local culture and individual creativity, leading to a lack of diversity within “diversity.”
$14.95
From The Garage To The Station: Stories from the Gateshead Music Collective 1980-1988
Other Comrades

From The Garage To The Station: Stories from the Gateshead Music Collective 1980-1988

Various
Stories from the Gateshead Music Collective 1980-88 by those who were there. As a social history we had something truly groundbreaking going on up here and it's about time that story was told.
$20.00
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History
Books

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History

Editors: Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, and Yony Leyser
The very first comprehensive overview of the movement that defied both the music underground and the LGBT mainstream community—queercore.
$20.00
If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music
Books

If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music

Richard Manning
An exploration of American roots music as an art of poor, working people counter to what academics say and show how music is essential.
$26.95
Folklore Ouvrier - Union Thugs (CD)
Vinyl and CD's

Folklore Ouvrier - Union Thugs (CD)

Union Thugs
Folklore Ouvrier is the second release of the Union Thugs – Montreal Folk’n’Oi, 100% Combat Unionist! This mini-album is part of the band’s continued effort to develop the revolutionary working class culture.
$10.00
Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom
Books

Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom

Editor: John Mink
A collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field.
$27.95
X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety
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.
$22.95
Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth
Books

Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth

Ian Brennan
A powerful exploration of the challenges facing art, music, and media in the digital era.
$20.00
Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook
Books

Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook

Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
An organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life.
$14.95
Working-Class Heroes CD
Books

Working-Class Heroes CD

Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.
$14.95
That Precious Strand of Jewishness That Challenges Authority
Books

That Precious Strand of Jewishness That Challenges Authority

Leon Rosselson
Pertinently, Rosselson questions what being a Jew means—is it adherence to Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a citizen of Israel, or someone who eats “chicken soup with knedlach”?
$5.95
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975
Books

The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975

Mat Callahan
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties.
$22.95
The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!
Books

The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!

Editors: Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno
In this book, the editors have gathered songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book.
$34.95
The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
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.
$16.95
Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989, Second Edition
Books

Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989, Second Edition

George Hurchalla
The product of decades of work and multiple self-published editions, Going Underground, is the most comprehensive look yet at America’s nationwide underground punk scene.
$24.95
A Reasonable History of Impossible Demands: The Damage to Date 1986-2013 (CD)
Spoken Word/Music CDs

A Reasonable History of Impossible Demands: The Damage to Date 1986-2013 (CD)

Robb Johnson
The life and times (so far!) of the UK’s greatest living songwriter are captured in a deluxe box set. 92 songs, on 5 CDs with a 64-page booklet.
$44.95
Where Are the Barricades? (CD)
Spoken Word/Music CDs

Where Are the Barricades? (CD)

"And that’s it. At eighty-one, after some sixty years of songwriting, trying to find the story, to avoid the obvious, to shun the predictable, after hundreds of songs, numerous records and CDs, this is my final recording." —Leon Rosselson
$14.95
Looking for Freedom: A Celebration of the Music of Jon Fromer (CD)
Spoken Word/Music CDs

Looking for Freedom: A Celebration of the Music of Jon Fromer (CD)

Jon and Reed Fromer
This CD is a tribute to the San Francisco folk/blues artist whose soulful singing style and original songs about work, love, struggle, and triumph helped fuel movements for peace, human rights, and social justice.
$14.95
The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance
Books

The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance

Penny Rimbaud
The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story of his friend, Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope), who was murdered by the State while incarcerated in a mental institution.
$12.00
One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock
Books

One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock

Dave Laing
This book argues that a significant political achievement of punk was to expose the operations of power in the British entertainment industry as they were thrown into confusion by the sound and the fury of musicians and fans.
$17.95
Positive Force: More Than a Witness: 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action (DVD)
DVDs

Positive Force: More Than a Witness: 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action (DVD)

Robin Bell
Covering a span of 30 years, More Than a Witness documents the origins, activism, and musical events of the punk/activist organization Positive Force DC.
From $14.95