Biography
Biography Autobiography
J T Caldwell
Severely Dealt With : Growing Up In Belfast & Glasgow.
£5.95
John Caldwell's depiction of his harsh upbringing in Belfast and Glasgow in the early decades of the last century includes vivid accounts of the troubles in back street Belfast and of his time as a page-boy in a Sauchiehall Street cinema. But it also reveals a passionate search for intellectual enlightenment : the commitment of an odyssey that was to lead hi into full-time anarchist agitation.
J T Caldwell
With Fate Conspire : Memoirs of a Glasgow Seafarer and Anarchist.
£8.95
The concluding volume of his autobiography gives a vivid account of his eleven years below decks on the Anchor Line in the Twenties and Thirties and his refusal to transport men to WWII killing fields and subsequent Anarchist activism. A powerful human story and a revealing historical document of Glasgow's rich anarchist and socialist history.
Rosemary Cullen Owens
Louie Bennett.
£ 5.00
Sam Dolgoff
Fragments.
£3.00
The memoirs of Sam Dolgoff, Anarchist, wobbly, writer, editor and life long advocate of the libertarian labour movement. A compelling personal recollection of a lifetime of activism.
Marie Fleming
The Geography of Freedom : The Odyssey of Elisee Reclus.
£9.99
Biography of the Anarchist stalwart of the First International and an insight into his life and times. The only English language study of this man and his political philosophy.
Bonnie Haaland
Emma Goldman, Sexuality and the Impurity of the State.
£11.99
Ann Hansen
Direct Action.
£15.00
Ann Hansen and the rest of Direct Action, a Canadian anarchist urban guerilla group, were responsible for a campaign of dramatic actions in the early 1980s, culminating in the bombing of the Litton Systems plant in Toronto. Litton was targeted as the manufacturer of guidance systems for the Cruise missile. Now, after seven years in prison, Hansen tells her story for the first time. Her fast paced narrative recreates the political context and culture of the period. Direct Action speaks to the rising tide of militancy within anti-capitalist movements' worldwide. A non-fiction page-turner, passionate and troubling.
Albert Meltzer
I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels.
£12.95
Published just before Albert's death these memoirs tell the story of many struggles in the “commonplace life of a worker” committed to anarchism. Emma Goldman once described him a “A young hooligan. A rascal who knows nothing of anarchism or syndicalism.”
Theresa Moritz & Albert Moritz
The Most Dangerous Woman in the World, A New Biography of Emma Goldman.
£14.95
A new biography of the "worlds most dangerous woman". A wealth of new sources have went into this book which looks at hitherto under examined aspects of Red Emma's life and activism.
Peter E. Newell
Zapata of Mexico.
£ 9.50
Alan O'Toole
With the Poor People of the Earth. A Biography of Doctor John Creaghe of Sheffield & Buenos Aires.
£ 2.00
Dr. Ben Reitman
Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha.
£11.00
The story of boxcar Bertha takes in hobo campfires, hanging out on free love commune farms and the artistic circles of Greenwich Village, working in a whorehouse, tramps, yeggs, pimps, bohemians, wobblies, anarchists and other radicals. Frank, uncensored and a great read.
Rudolf Rocker
The London Years.
£14.99
Augustin Souchy
Beware Anarchist! A Life for Freedom.
£12.95
Captain Jack White
Misfit.
£14.00