Books from PM Press
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Lessons of the Spanish Revolution: 1936–1939
By Vernon RichardsPolitics of Polarization in the Spanish City of Gijón, 1900–1937 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), Richard Purkiss, Democracy, Trade Unions and Political Violence in Spain: ...
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Moment of Doubt
By Jim NisbetA Moment of Doubt is at turns hilarious, thrilling, and obscene.
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Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg: I: 1918
By Farquhar McHargThe first volume of his memoirs finds him a Glasgow boy, dropped by chance into Barcelona’s revolutionary underworld at the tail end of the great imperialist war of 1914–1918, recruited by Spanish anarchists to act as a go-between with ...
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For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America
By John CurlThis second edition contains a new introduction by Ishmael Reed; a new author’s preface discussing cooperatives in the Great Recession of 2008 and their future in the 21st century; and a new chapter on the role co-ops played in the Food ...
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Birth of Our Power
By Victor SergeFrom “victory in defeat” to “defeat in victory.” The novel was composed a decade after the revolution in Leningrad, where Serge was living in semicaptivity because of his declared opposition to Stalin’s dictatorship over the ...
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Men in Prison
By Victor Serge“Everything in this book is fictional and everything is true,” wrote Victor Serge in the epigraph to Men in Prison. “I have attempted, through literary creation, to bring out the general meaning and human content of a personal ...
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Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below
By Staughton LyndIf we are to live with dignity, we must collectively resist. This book is not a prescription but reveals the lived experience of working people continuously taking risks for the common good.
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Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area
By Richard A. WalkerThe San Francisco Bay Area is currently the jewel in the crown of capitalism—the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush.
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The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival
By Louis Karoniaktajeh HallThis book contains new oral history by key figures of the Rotisken'rhakéhte's revival in the 1970s, and tells the story of the Warriors’ famous flag, their armed occupation of Ganienkeh in 1974, and the role of their constitution, the ...
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Anarchy Comics: The Complete Collection
By Jay KinneyAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection brings together the legendary four issues of Anarchy Comics (1978–1986), the underground comic that melded anarchist politics with a punk sensibility, producing a riveting mix of satire, revolt, and ...
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Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century
By Kirwin ShafferThis is the first critical, in-depth study of the anarchist movement in Cuba in the three decades after the republic’s independence from Spain in 1898.
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Wildcat Anarchist Comics
By Donald RooumThe book also includes a lively autobiographical introduction that discusses Rooum’s role in the 1963 “Challenor case,” in which a corrupt police officer planted a weapon on Rooum at a demonstration, ultimately resulting in Rooum’s ...
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Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014
By Ursula K. Le GuinAs Le Guin herself states, “science explicates, poetry implicates.” Accordingly, this immersive, tender collection implicates us (in the best sense) in a subjectivity of everyday objects and occurrences.
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Strike!
By Jeremy BrecherAn updated edition of the work that relates the history of massive and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working Americans includes revised chapters that cover the four decades since its original 1972 release.
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Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years
By Alex OggThe book uses dozens of first-hand interviews, photos, and original artwork to offer a new perspective on a group who would become mired in controversy almost from the get-go.
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Free City!: The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All
By Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, Vicki LegionSaving State U. New York: New Press, 2010. Gilmore, Ruth. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in a Globalizing California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Giroux, Henry. Neoliberalism's War on Higher ...
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Black and Gold: The Story of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation
By Big Noise FilmsFor two years they ran with the Kings and Queens in New York City, filming on the front lines of their everyday struggle for survival. Black and Gold explores a reality that is too often reduced to a stereotype or a slogan.
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Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements
By Clifton Ross, Marcy ReinThis unique collection of interviews features five dozen leaders and grassroots activists from fifteen countries presenting their work and debating pressing questions of power, organizational forms, and relations with the state.
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Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
By Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeerMoving from the fantastic to the futuristic, the subtle to the surreal, these stories will provoke thoughts and emotions about feminism like no other book available today.
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Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
By Jennifer Nez Denetdale, David Correia, Nick EstesRed Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns.