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'With the wildfire of uprisings and grassroots revolutions that shook governments and halted economies, 1968 was a year of se…
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Hardback of the second volume of Noam Chomsky and Edwar S Herman's classic writing on the relationship between the media a…
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'Disturbing and disquieting, this second volume in Herman and Chomsky's path-breaking study of American interventionism turns…
Author Arif Dirlik argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalis…
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Volume Three: The New Anarchism (1974–2012). Documents the new directions and developments in anarchist ideas and practi…
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"Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of twentieth century Korea, this book provides detail…
Ten years in the making, this magisterial work—the second in a two-volume study—provides a unique perspective on uprising…
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The main article this issue is on Class Conflicts in China, with shorter pieces on Paolo Virno's 'A Grammar of the Multitu…
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2017! Featuring: Brexit Means... What?: Hapless Ideology and Practical Consequences The Rise of Conspiracy Theorie…
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Lead articles on China, the G8 at Gleneagles, Marx and Negri.
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The essential source of news, analysis, commentary, excellent investigative research and articles on anarchist resistance.…
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Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy - a nation of 1.2 billion people where the country's 100 richest peo…
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**If you are ordering from the US, please note that copies have arrived at AK in Chico now, with a short pause while Chuang s…
In depth research reports from Corporate Watch, looking at the shadowy practice of using charter flights to deport people …
Author Nelson Rand travelled in Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand meeting and living with local people, guerilla…
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Crossing Black Waters refers to Kala Pani, the black oceans surrounding the Indian Subcontinent. To cross them was to br…
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"This volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series focuses on anti-statist critiques in ancient and modern China, s…
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Decolonizing Anarchism examines the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting…
Lead articles on Sexuality; Trident; City Academies; Bush, Bin Laden and the Clash of Civilisations; History pieces on the…
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"The Obama administration, under some pressure from its antiwar base, has begun to release carefully selected evidence c…
Examining the decline of traditional rural patriarchy, and the centrality of working-class women's exploitation and resist…
"In this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the medi…
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Thatcher's finally dead! But her legacy, sadly, lives on. Issue contains analysis of Thatcher-coverage as well as news of …
Second (2006) edition of David Chandler's acclaimed book. Takes a critical look at the way in which human rights issues ha…
'This groundbreaking new book presents the most important examples of world-changing journalism, spanning one hundred years a…
Offers an engaging account of the novel ways in which Chinese society is responding to its responding to its environmental…
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The story of the internment of Japanese civilians in California during World War Two. Seen as an extension of the Indian R…
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"Hong Kong is in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens shaking the regime. From the Umbrell…
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Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial…
The Lethal Mix of Free Trade, Famine and Fundamentalism in India. India is in desperate crisis, facing potential nuclear c…
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Collection of writings from the man who was a co-discoverer of natural selection - showing him to have been a forward thin…
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Whether or not China is now a capitalist-imperialist country is an issue on which there is some considerable disagreement,…
An introduction to the causes and consequences of the Korean War which challenges all of the presumptions about Korea favo…
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Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19…
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The first book on the revolutionary Asian American movements of the 60s & 70s. The Black Panther Party and the Brown B…
"Living with Landmines analyzes, in detail, the dangerous misconception that the world's landmine problem has been solved.…
Needs little introduction. THE investigative research/secret state magazine, without a doubt. From the far right, to far o…
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True stories of 14 ordinary men and women living in Northern Afghanistan now. In a quarter century of uninterrupted war, t…
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'Maoism and the Chinese Revolution offers a sweeping overview of five decades of Maoist revolutionary history. It covers t…
Good introduction to the paradoxes of the international movement of people: borders; workers; immigrants; economics.
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North Korea's development and testing of nuclear weapons made headlines in the Western media, but is the country really a …
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US Policy at a Time of Crisis. An attempt to dispel ignorance as war looms, this is a short, accessible book about the his…
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'In Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, written while the Vietnam War was raging, Chomsky condemns liberal ideology for s…
Noam Chomsky discussed Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. "A refres…
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New issue (Winter 2014) of the magazine of the Anarchist Federation - "Their austerity, their wars, their repression... ou…
New for Spring 2019, this is a chunky editon - spined rather than stapled. Contents:- Theory and Analysis Who’s Armi…
Theoretical discussion magazine of the Anarchist Federation/AFed. Excellent mix of articles, reviews, commentary and tub…
"Let no one kid themselves: a book is no substitute for a rifle. But it can help to train one's sights that bit better. A …
"The legacy of anarchist ideas in the Philippines was first brought to the attention of a global audience by Benedict Anderso…
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Originally delivered in 1971 as the first Cambridge lecture in memory of Bertrand Russell, this work by Noam Chomsky bri…
Articles on Bonobo 'Girl Power'; Lunarchy in the Kingdom of England; the Art of Not Being Governed and Ritual at Rhino C…
A Proletarian Current in India Confronts Third World Statism. A short history of the 20 years of struggle by Kamunist Kran…
Some 200 million workers move around China every year, looking for work. They are the most marginalized and impoverished grou…
It is almost 60 years since the Karen took up arms against the Burmese dictatorship to fight for an independent homeland…
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Essays on September 11 and Afghanistan. Analysis from the editors of Anarchist Studies and Research on Anarchism. Includes…
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Documents one of the least known and most important aspects of the Vietnam War: the rebellion among US soldiers opposed to…
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International magazine for union members and activists. This issue includes articles on:- Fostering class consciousnes…
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Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as the…
"In the 1850s and early 1860s Marx played an active part in politics, and his prolific journalism from London offered a co…
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A classic, prescient lecture from the Pakistani activist-scholar, and mentor of Edward Said, together with an interview co…
An anarchist history of upland southeast Asia. Author James C. Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Sout…
John Newsinger sets out to to uncover the neglected history of repression and resistance at the heart of the british Emp…
"In The Darker Nations, praised internationally by critics as a welcome antidote to apologists for empire, award-winning hist…
"Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.”…
"The Failure of Nonviolence examines recent major social upheavals since the end of the Cold War to establish the limits o…
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'Brings to life social movements of the 1960s, a period of world-historical struggles. With discussions of more than fifty…
"The sixth century BC was an era of personalities and uprisings. It was the time of Xenophanes, Cyrus, Solon the lawmaker,…
Most peoples's idea of the history of the world is hazy and partial. We know bits and pieces - battles in a tiny corner of…
"How many people can the planet sustain? With world population reaching 7 billion and predicted to exceed 9 billion…
"Vijay Prashad tells the tory of the Global South, a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenati…
Theoretical and discussion journal from Freedom. often with good essays from some of the Freedom regulars (Colin Ward et a…
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Ground breaking essays that give voice to contemporary Asian American activism, offering thoughtful, radical analyses on a…
"The story of contemporary China typically dates back to Mao's 1949 revolution. But in this classic work Harold Isaacs u…
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Spokesman edition of this classic tome from Noam Chomsky and Edward S Herman. Subtitled ' The Political Economy of Human R…
Combination of short essays and graphic art, examining the relationship between sex work and the garment industry, both inter…
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"In the French port town of Calais, the historic home of the lace industry, a city within a city has arisen. This new town…
An exploration of fin-de-siecle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial Europe and the South China Sea. Brill…
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I have a couple of copies that are new, but the cover is a bit rubbed so I have reduced the price to reflect that. Undoing…
To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the US formed an extraordinary anti-communist alliance with militant…
Edited by Trevor Ngwane, Luke Sinwell and Immanuel Ness this collection of case studies (with photos) looks at the current…
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"During May and June 1989, just a few months short of the 40th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China, a desperate …
Author Bill V. Mullen sites his biography of Du Bois' extraordinary life firmly in the seismic political developments of t…
Authors Lori Wallach and Patrick Woodall take a critical look at the actions and aims of the WTO, looking at the negativ…
A4 pamphlet looking at the (historical) situation of illegalized refugees and migrants, giving an overview of conditions o…
Edited by Peter Cole, David Struthers and Kenyon Zimmer, who have collected a truly international representation of the IWW's…
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