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Ayre, Dave et al “the Flying Pickets. The 1972 Builders' Strike and the Shrewsbury Trials” Des Warren Trust. September 2008 396pp £12.99

Catherwood, Christopher “Making War in the Name of God” Citadel. November 2008. 320pp. £9.99

Frank, Joshua and Jeffrey St Clair “Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland” (USA) AK Press. November 2008. 280pp. £13.00

Global Fire: 150 Fighting Years of International Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power Vol 2):
by Lucien Van Der Walt (Author), Michael Schmidt (Author)

RRP: £18.00
Product details

* Paperback: 500 pages
* Publisher: AK Press (1 May 2008)
* Language English
* ISBN-10: 1904859682
* ISBN-13: 978-1904859680

Against the State
An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory

Crispin Sartwell - author

$49.50 Hardcover - 124 pages
Release Date: May 2008

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7447-1

$14.95 Paperback - 124 pages
Release Date: May 2008

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7448-8

(also available in UK from amazon etc)

Summary

A new book on Herbert Read has just been published by the Freedom Press, London.

It is called Re-Reading Read: New Views on Herbert Read, and contains sixteen essays on Read's writings on anarchism, art, literature and general culture, by authors including Dana Ward, Allan Antliff and Jerry Zaslove. The book is edited by Michael Paraskos.

ChristieBooks now hangs out its digital shingle at

http://www.christiebooks.com

Please also remember that we do not carry advertising; we subsist (after a
fashion) through donations and the sale of books, prints and other media ‹
and depend, therefore, on your ongoing financial support to help maintain
and expand our multimedia library-archive project.

Anarchism and Authority
A Philosophical Introduction to Classical Anarchism
Paul McLaughlin
Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

$99.95/£55.00

ANARCHISM, REVOLUTION AND REACTION
Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923
Angel Smith

http://www.berghahnbooks.com/covers/SmithAnarchism.jpg

418 pages, 11 tables, 5 figs, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-176-9 Hb $89.95/£55.00 Published (Summer 2007)

excellent review here (in English):

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2007-4-192

Forthcoming Attractions – February 2008

Broue, Pierre and Temine, Emile “The Revolution and Civil War in Spain” Haymarket Books, Pbk, 590pp £30.00

St. Clair, Jeffrey “Born Under a Bad Sky. Notes from the dark side of the earth” AK Press, Pbk, 300pp £10.00

Forthcoming Attractions – March 2008

Anarchy Alive!

Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory

Uri Gordon

Pb / £15.99 / 9780745326832 / Published 14th January 2008
Pluto Press
www.anarchyalive.com

Unstable universalities
Poststructuralism and radical politics
Saul Newman

Manchester University Press
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9NR
+44 (0) 161 275 2310
www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

How do we think about radical politics today,
in the wake of the collapse of Marxist-Leninism
and the triumph of neo-liberal capitalism?
How should radical political theory respond

You are invited to join us at Housmans Bookshop, Caledonian Road, London to launch “The Anarchist Past and other essays” by the late Nicolas Walter, edited by David Goodway.
Free, refreshments.
Info: 0115 9693597

Forthcoming Attractions – January 2008

Deville, Nancy “Death by Supermarket. The fattening, dumbing down and poisoning of America” Barricade, 336pp. Pbk, £10.99

Doctor, Bernard Aquina “Malcolm X for beginners” For beginners, 128pp. Pbk £8.99

Beer and Revolution
The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914
Tom Goyens

Understanding an infamous political movement's grounding in festivity and defiance

New on Christiebooks (Dec 31/12/2007)

Zapata en Chinameca (1987 - Mario Hernandez ­ Feature)
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1361619853

Tenemos raices suficientes (1996 ­ Documentary)
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1360345090

Los maquis de la imposible esperanza (2003 Dominique Gautier - Documentary)
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1360345035

Forthcoming Attractions – December 2007 – Political

Some titles announced by Turnaround as being available from December 2007.

Beckstrom, Rod A. and Brafman, Ori “The Starfish and the Spider. The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations” Portfolio. Pbk. 240pp. £8.99

Boyd, Herb “African History for Beginners” For Beginners. Pbk. 127pp £8.99

The latest issue of the electronic journal Belphégor (Vol. VI, no.2) is now
available at : http://etc.dal.ca/belphegor/.

All articles are freely accessible.

Contents:

Belphégor – Popular Literature and Media Studies
Vol. VI, No. 2, Juin 2007

Anarchism and Mass Literature
Issue edited by Vittorio Frigerio

ARTICLES

Vittorio Frigerio : Présentation

Forthcoming Attractions – November 2007

Awehali, Brian (ed) “Tipping the Sacred Cow: the best of LiP: Informed revolt 1996-2007”. Pbk. 240pp. £12.00

Becker-Ho, Alice and Debord, Guy “A Game of War”. Atlas Press. Pbk (with boardgame and counters!) 160pp. £20.00

Creswell, David “Chomsky for Beginners” For Beginners. Pbk. 153pp. £8.99

Forthcoming Attractions – October 2007

Baird, Vanessa “The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity”. New Internationalist. 144pp. Pbk. £6.99

Caldicott, Helen “Nuclear Power is not the Answer”. The New Press. 240pp. Pbk. £9.99

Cox, Judy. “A Rebel's Guide to Rosa Luxemburg”. Bookmarks. 64pp. Pbk. £3.00

Short Order Frame Up

by Ron Jacobs

Mainstay Press June 2007
ISBN-0‐9774590‐9‐8
www.mainstaypress.org