fiction

Radical, revolutionary and working class fiction.

The man who killed Thursday - G.K Chesterton

A Scotland Yard detective goes undercover to infiltrate the European anarchist council where he finds himself under surveillance from another…

Two short stories - Nanni Balestrini

Nanni Balestrini was born in Milan in 1935. Known both as an experimental writer of prose and verse and as a cultural and political activist, he…

The unseen - Nanni Balestrini

For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant…

Buffy the anarcho-syndicalist

Buffy the anarcho-syndicalist: Capitalism bites

An excellent detourned comic from 2004 about Buffy, the anarcho-syndicalist vampire-slayer.

Examples of book covers

The death ship - B. Traven

One of B. Traven's best known and earliest novels (first written in 1923 or '24). It's the story of a sailor who loses his papers and, unable to…

Swastika night - Katherin Burdekin

Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Night is an outstanding example of dystopian fiction. Weaving a tale of feudal…

Accidental death of an anarchist - Dario Fo

Dario Fo's best known play, based on the events surrounding Giuseppe Pinelli's death.

Germinal - Émile Zola

Zola's masterpiece exposing the inhuman conditions of miners in France in 1860s. This powerful novel follows a young worker who enters a mining…

The Cotton-Pickers, book cover

The cotton pickers - B. Traven

B Traven's novel about migrant labourers, poverty, crappy jobs, and the occasional successful strike... Set in 1920s Mexico. Here presented in…

The treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven

B. Traven's best known novel about three men prospecting for gold in the mountains of Mexico, and the things it drives them to do.

Anarchy Comics

Anarchy comics

Anarchy Comics was a series of comics produced by the San Francisco based publisher Last Gasp, between 1978 and 1987. Here are all four published comics in PDF format.

The jungle - Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair's undercover journalism cum novel about the conditions of America's meat packing industry and the effect it had on those that…