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Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What It Says About the Economic Crisis - Kari Lydersen
December 5, 2008: It wasn't supposed to work like this. Days after getting a $45 billion bailout from the USgovernment, Bank of America shut down a line of credit that kept Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors factory operating. The bosses, who knew what was coming, had been sneaking machinery out in the middle of the night. They closed the factory and sent the workers home. Then something surprising happened:...
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Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent - Bernardine Dohrn (Foreword by) and AK Thompson
"A manifesto for individuals who seek to destroy those structurally imposed identities that limit people's full expression of their genuine needs."—George Katsiaficas, author of Subversion of Politics

With a title that's a modern-day mash-up of Frantz Fanon and The Clash, Black Bloc, White Riot revisits the struggles against globalization that marked the beginning of the twenty-fir...
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Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global - Paul Mason
The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America's Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I.

It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candleligh...
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Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World - Kolya Abramsky (Editor)
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The world's energy system is on the verge of far reaching change, and its future is up for grabs.

A worldwide struggle over who controls the sector, and for what purposes, is intensifying. "Green capitalism" is the word of the hour, and we're being told that it's finally time to "save the planet" in o...
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Upping The Anti: A Journal Of Theory And Action
An excellent attempt to engage, address, and discuss the unresolved questions and dynamics within the struggles of anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism - while moving beyond the party building of the sectarian left, and the dead end of social democracy. The debut issue comes out strong, with lengthy interviews with Grace Lee Boggs and Ward Churchill; an extended essay on autonomist Marxism;...
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Resistance Against Empire: Interviews - Derrick Jensen (Editor)
This collection of interviews gathers incendiary insights from 10 of today's most experienced and knowledgeable activists. Whether it's Ramsey Clark describing the long history of military invasion, Alfred McCoy detailing the relationship between CIA activities and the increase in the global heroin trade, Stephen Schwartz reporting the obscene costs of nuclear armaments, or Katharine Albrecht tracing the hor...
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Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know - Robert Paarlberg
The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and under-regulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push-back from environmentalists and consumer activists, and food ...
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Resistance: Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement
Resistance is published quarterly by a group of veteran earth liberation activists as a vehicle to inform, inspire, and energize the earth liberation movement and provide timely information on the direct action struggle to protect the earth. Humans have pushed the earth to the brink of catastrophe and each day that passes brings us one step closer to a planet that can no longer sustain life. The quest...
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The Yes Men Fix the World - YES MEN
A wickedly fun skewering of corporate greed, THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is the true story of two conscientious mischief-makers who pose as the representatives of companies they despise. In this wonderfully therapeutic film, Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno impose cosmic (and comic) justice by any means necessary.
To a television audience of 300 million, Andy (posing as a Dow Chemicals spokesman) ann...
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Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness - Lisa M. Hamilton
A century of industrialization has left our food system riddled with problems, yet for solutions we look to nutritionists and government agencies, scientists and chefs. Lisa M. Hamilton asks: why not look to the people who grow our food?

In this narrative nonfiction book she tells three stories, of an African-American dairyman in Texas who plays David to the Goliath of agribusiness corporations; a ten...
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