ANARCHIST LITERATURE:

NEW FROM RED LION PRESS:

Hot off the presses from Larry Gambone of Red Lion Press. New titles to grace your library. Here's the info from Larry's Porkupine Blog.

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The View From Anarchist Mountain


It has been a busy year for me, publishing wise. First The Impossibilists, with my own Red Lion Press, then Nature of Human Brainwork was brought out by PM Press. Now I have two more to offer.
The View From Anarchist Mountain, 199 pages, $16.00 is a collection of my writings over the past 20 years on anarchism, society and history. It is available from AK Press. (For Canadians, order from me at redlionpress@hotmail.com )


Bill Pritchard – Revolutionary Socialist is a 36 page pamphlet that goes for $4.00. Pritchard is best known for being jailed under a bogus conspiracy charge in the aftermath of the Winnipeg General Strike. He was also a militant of the Socialist Party of Canada, the editor of its newspaper, The Western Clarion, and a founder of the OBU. After the demise of the SPC, he was an early member of the CCF and was Reeve of Burnaby for a number of years. Later in life, he returned to the “Impossibilist” socialism of his roots.

“Bill Pritchard – Revolutionary Socialist” - was taken from a talk he gave in 1973. It describes his adventures - and often hilarious misadventures – as a pioneer Socialist on speaking tours of Western Canada more than 90 years ago. He reminisces about a host of fascinating characters and also gives crucial eye-witness evidence about the murder of Ginger Goodwin. It is available so far, only from me.

ANARCHIST BOOKS:
ANARCHISM AND SOCIALISM BY WAYNE PRICE:



There's an interesting new book now out from the good folks at Thought Crime Ink in Edmonton. 'Anarchism and Socialism: Reformism or Revolution' is a fresh perspective on anarchist organizing in the 21st century. Here's the promo.>>>
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New Book:
Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution?
by Wayne Price

From the Forward by Andrew Flood (Workers Solidarity Movement--Ireland):

"This collection of essays by Wayne Price…will hopefully play a significant part in helping us build the movement we need…..This volume represents a good foundation to this process. It revisits many of the essential basic questions and lays down a coherent position in regard to them. Wayne's insights are important to us because they are based not just on a theoretical study of revolution but on five decades of practical experience in the North American left and the anarchist movement".


In these essays grouped around common themes, Wayne Price draws on decades of extensive practical experience in antiwar and student movements, marxist tendency groups and affinity-based anarchist organizations, to make an insightful case for "pro-organizational," class-struggle anarchism.

In refreshingly accessible, non-polemical prose, Price distills the best of late 20th century marxist economic thought and anti-authoritarian organizing. This informs his coherent takes on such issues as the relation between class and non-class oppressions, productive engagement with reformist movements, technology and primitivism, and the worldwide economic crash of 2008-2009. Price's recurrent theme is how revolution can possibly be made out of our collective struggles as workers and other marginalized peoples— and how such revolution can avoid the "successes" of Leninist revolutions of China, Cuba and the Soviet Union.

Finally, Price's engagement with the trends of anti-authoritarian marxist and anarchist thought serve as a critical introduction to dozens of other essential writers in these traditions, such as Cornelius Castoradis, Ellen Wood, Hal Draper and Paul Goodman.

Contents

Part I: What is Revolutionary, Class Struggle, Anarchist-Communism?

What is Class Struggle Anarchism?
The Relationship Between the Working Class and Nonclass Oppression
Anarchist Organization, Not Leninist Vanguardism
What is Anarchist-Communism?
Industrial Capitalism and Civilization

Part II: Reformism or Revolution

Confronting the Question of Power
Our Program is the Anarchist Revolution!
Elements of a Program for Labor
Paul Goodman’s Anarchism
Hal Draper and Socialism-from-Below
The Crisis of Capitalism

Part III: The Nature of the “Communist” Countries & the Russian Revolution

What Do We Mean by Anti-Capitalism?
The Bureaucratic Ruling Class
State Capitalism
The Degeneration of the Russian Revolution

Can be ordered from the publisher for $17.50 at http://www.thoughtcrimeink.com/books/detail/anarchism_s...tion/

Note: The Abolition of the State, Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives, Price's first book, can still be ordered from www.AuthorHouse.com . A Spanish translation has been made but is not yet published.

ANARCHIST LITERATURE:

BOOKS FOR YOUR READING GROUP:

One of the traditions of the anarchist movement is the 'reading group', and the good folks at AK Press are going to make it easier for your group to get the materials needed. Here's their offer from the AK Blog.

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New Discount for Reading Groups!

There has been a lot of interest lately in using AK Press books for reading groups. We’ve had requests for Uses of a Whirlwind, Come Hell or High Water, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution, and Black Flame just to name a few. Given the interest, and to encourage others to do the same, we decided to offer a special discount for folks who want to order multiple copies of our books.

We’re offering a 30% discount off any of the titles we carry, as long as you order at least three copies of the same item (and you prepay for the order).

So if you and your friends decide that you’d like to start a Book Club or a discussion group or whatever you might call it and you’re interested in using some of the titles we carry here at AK Press please get in touch! We’ve set up a special email just for reading group orders. It’s readinggroup@akpress.org . And we’d be happy to suggest titles if you’re having a hard time deciding where to start.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

LOCAL EVENTS-WINNIPEG:

MONDRAGON LIVES ON:

I'm very happy to report that my fears about the possible closure of our local infoshop 'Mondragon' here in Winnipeg (see post yesterday) were "greatly exaggerated". Their sale is not a "clearance sale" but is rather merely a seasonal stock reduction to make way for new titles and move merchandise at a slow time of the year.

So...make sure to "drop on down to the drag" in the next two weeks to pick up the best in radical literature here in Winnipeg. That's the Mondragon at 91 Albert St., Winnipeg MB. If you are also into the whole organic sheebang (Molly isn't) be aware that Mondragon is also a great little grocery store for organic products.

Happy to be wrong,

The Mollymew