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Spain 1936 & 1939.

£5.00

This volume from the Freedom Press Centenary Series contains a selection of original documents from the revolution and civil war in Spain between 1936-39. These include first hand accounts of the constructive aspects of the revolution : the collectives in town and country, in industry, in public services and in agriculture; reports on meetings and demonstrations in favour of the Spanish workers' struggle; verbatim reports of speeches made by CNT 'luminaries' justifying their compromises in accepting government positions.

Beneath the Paving Stones. Situationists and the Beach, May 1968.

Dark Star Collective.

£9.00

Paul Avrich

Anarchist Voices. An Oral History of Anarchism in America.

£16.00

Paul Avrich

The Russian Anarchists.

£11.95

Alexander Berkman

The Anti-Climax.

£ 0.45

Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman

Deportation : It's Meaning and Menace.

£ 1.00

Alexander Berkman

The Russian Tragedy.

£ 4.50

Alexander Berkman

The Blast.

£15.00

Maurice Brinton

The Bolsheviks and Workers Control.

£3.95

An excellent factual record of the experiment in workers control during the Russian revolution of 1917, and the Bolshevik reaction against it. Proof that right from the beginning that Lenin did, in deed and action, lead to Stalin.

Tom Brown

British Syndicalism Pages of Labour History.

£1.00

Tom Brown

Lenin and Workers Control.

£1.50

Danny Burns

Poll Tax Rebellion.

£4.95

Stuart Christie

We The Anarchists! : A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation 1927 :1937.

£7.95

Sacco & Vanzetti.

John Davis (ed).

£ 9.99

The Ex

1936 Spanish Revolution.

£16.95

"Against fascism, yes. But also against any kind of dictatorship because, whoever exercises it, dictatorship is also fascism" Solidaridad Obrera, CNT paper 18th July 1936. This hardback book, with two 3" CD singles by Dutch hardcore band The Ex, is a collection of 144 photos of the Spanish Revolution from CNT archives. Excellent.

Joao Freire

Freedom Fighters, Anarchist Intellectuals, Workers and Soldiers in Portugal's History.

£15.00

A well researched, if somewhat academic, history of the Anarchist movement in Portugal from its development at the beginning of the 20th century through the Spanish Revolution, the Second World War and up to Portugal's 'Carnation revolution'.

Yves Fremion

Orgasms of History : 3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection.

£12.00

L. Gambone

Syndicalism in Myth and Reality.

£1.50

An essay looking at the history of the Syndicalist and Anarcho-Syndicalist movement, with membership figures, from 1910 to 1987, with pointers for the future.

Bill Hunter

They Knew Why They Fought : Unofficial Struggles & Leadership on the Docks 1945 : 1989.

£7.95

Dockers' struggles from the end of WWII to the defeated dock strike of 1989 and the abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme. Hunter, an engineering worker, shop steward, trade union activist and member of a Trotskyist international, sets out to show us what shaped the militancy and way of life of the dockers. Tracing the fight against casualisation and harsh working conditions he gives a history of the unofficial leaders that came forward in the face of trade union bureaucracy.

Ignacio de Llorens

The CNT and the Russian Revolution.

£ 1.50

John Jordan and Jennifer Whitney

Que Se Vayan Todos : Argentina's popular Rebellion.

£ 2.50

Gregory Maximoff

Bolshevism, Promises & Reality.

£1.50

Long overdue reprint of the stunning critique of Bolshevism from someone who was there.

Errico Malatesta

The Anarchist Revolution : Polemic Articles 1924-1931.

£ 4.50

Peter McNamee and Tom Lovett

Working-Class Community in Northern Ireland.

£ 9.95

Ida Mett

The Kronstadt Commune.

£1.50

First published in 1938, this is a classic Anarchist account of Kronstadt, from the Russian class struggle Anarchist.

Mairtin O'Cathain

A Wee Black Booke of Belfast Anarchism (1867 : 1973).

£ 2.50

Juan Garcia Oliver

Wrong Steps, Errors in the Spanish Revolution.

£ 1.50

Jose Peirats

CNT in the Spanish Revolution - Volume 1.

£15.00

Malcolm Pitt

The World on Our Backs.

£2.95

A Kent miner gives an unforgettable account of the hardships and history of the Kent miners and the 1972 miners' strike. An essential piece of working class history : the seven week long strike laid the basis for the defeat of the 1974 Conservative Government.

Chanie Rosenburg

1919: Britain on the Brink of Revolution

£2.25

Beth Sims

Workers of the World Undermined : American Labor's Role in U.S. Foreign Policy.

£5.00

The book that blew the lid off the AFL-CIO's extensive international efforts to forestall the formation of a militant independent workers' movement in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Sims puts the case against the AFL-CIO betrayal of international worker solidarity and argues for a new foreign policy of labour.

Alexandre Skirda

Facing the Enemy. A History of Anarchist Organization from Proudhon to May 1968.

£12.00

Augustin Souchy

With the Peasants of Aragon.

£ 3.95

Souchy, Peirats, Bolloten, Goldman, etc.

May Days Barcelona.

£5.95

During the May Days Barcelona 500 were killed and over 1000 injured : more than in the first week of the military uprising. A range of accounts of the authoritarian counter-revolution and resistance to it.

Captain Jack White

The Meaning of Anarchism.

£ 0.50

Steve Wright

Storming Heaven, Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism.

£15.99

Anton McCabe & Francis Devine

The Stormy Petrel of the Transport Workers: Peader O'Donnell, Trade Unionist, 1917-1920 and Navigating a Lone Channel: Stephen McGonagle, Trade Unionism and Labour Politics in Derry.

£3.00

Bill McCamley

The Third James : James Fearon, 1874-1924 : An Unsung Hero of Our Struggle.

£2.00

Helga Woggon

Silent Radical : Winifred Carney, 1887-1943: A Reconstruction of Her Biography.

£3.00

Helga Woggon

Ellen Grimley (Nellie Gordon) : Reminisences of Her Work with James Connolly in Belfast.

£3.00


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