Nine Years of Anarchist Agitation

Nine Years of Anarchist Agitation
Author: Jake Carman
Publisher: Lucy Parsons Center
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012
Genre: Anarchism
ISBN: 9780979426414

In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and in the midst of the subsequent nationalist fervor, Boston radicals came together to form the Boston Anarchists Against Militarism (BAAM) Coalition. Through interviews and an extensive study of BAAM's public statements, activities, and publications, this history explores the evolution of BAAM from an anti-war coalition into a general union of Boston anarchists. The lessons of the past decade are useful to today's generation of activists as they grapple with the questions of political organization and activity in the struggle against global capitalism.

I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels

I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels
Author: Albert Meltzer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Anarchists
ISBN: 9781873176931

The story of the contemporary development of anarchism as told by one of the leading figures in British anarchism.

Anarchists of the Caribbean

Anarchists of the Caribbean
Author: Kirwin R. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108801110

Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, and beyond. Over three decades, anarchists migrated around the Caribbean and back and forth to the US, printed fiction and poetry promoting their projects, transferred money and information across political borders for a variety of causes, and attacked (verbally and physically) the expansion of US imperialism in the 'American Mediterranean'. In response, US security officials forged their own transnational anti-anarchist campaigns with officials across the Caribbean. In this sweeping new history, Kirwin R. Shaffer brings together research in anarchist politics, transnational networks, radical journalism and migration studies to illustrate how men and women throughout the Caribbean basin and beyond sought to shape a counter-globalization initiative to challenge the emergence of modern capitalism and US foreign policy whilst rejecting nationalist projects and Marxist state socialism.

Worse Than The Devil

Worse Than The Devil
Author: Dean A. Strang
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 075156625X

A bomb explodes in a police station, killing nine officers and a civilian. Those responsible are never caught, but police, press and public are quick to condemn a group of eleven immigrants. This story could have been ripped from today's headlines. In fact, it comes from a 1917 case in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; a miscarriage of justice examined for the first time by Dean Strang, the lawyer whose passionate defence of alleged murderer Steven Avery was at the heart of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer. Days after the explosion, the eleven suspects went to court on unrelated charges. The spectre of the larger, uncharged crime haunted the proceedings and against the backdrop of the First World War and amid a prevailing hatred and fear of immigrants, a fair trial was impossible. In its focus on a moment when patriotism and terror swept the nation, Worse than the Devil exposes broad concerns that persist today, and failures in the American justice system that will resonate with anyone who has followed the Avery trial.

The Slow Burning Fuse

The Slow Burning Fuse
Author: John Quail
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Anarchism
ISBN: 9781629635828

In the accounts of the radical movements that have shaped our history, anarchism has received a raw deal. Its visions and aims have been distorted and misunderstood, its achievements forgotten. John Quail, in this first major work, shows a history largely obscured and rewritten following 1919 and the triumph of Leninist communism. The time has arrived to resurrect the works of the early anarchist clubs, their unsung heroes, tumultuous political activities, and searing manifestos so that a truer image of radical dissent and history can be formed. Quail's story of the anarchists is one of utopias created in imagination and half-realized in practice, of individual fights and movements for freedom and self-expression--a story still being written today.

Living My Life

Living My Life
Author: Emma Goldman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1970-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780486225449

The autobiography of the early radical leader and her participation in communist, anarchist, and feminist activities

The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism

The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism
Author: Richard Bach Jensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2013-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107656699

This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, Richard Bach Jensen explores how anarchist terrorism emerged as a global phenomenon during the first great era of economic and social globalization at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries and reveals why some nations were so much more successful in combating this new threat than others. He shows how the challenge of dealing with this new form of terrorism led to the fundamental modernization of policing in many countries and also discusses its impact on criminology and international law.